The second episode of Season 3 of The Sounding Jewish Podcast features Dr. Joseph Toltz. We discuss how he came to the field of Jewish music studies, and his ongoing work collecting the musical experiences of Holocaust survivors, and early German Jewish musical life in Australia.

Dr. Joseph Toltz is a Jewish music researcher, composer and performer affiliated to the University of Sydney. Formerly Cantor and Director of Music at Emanuel Synagogue (1995-2008) he has just produced a documentary film with Tim Slade, Singing up the Past: the songs of Guta Goldstein which premiered at the International Jewish Film Festival in Australia in November 2024. His first large orchestral commission, an arrangement of Boaz Bischofswerder’s Phantasia Judaica was premiered by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra on 31 October 2024. His first book, Out of the Depths: the first collection of Holocaust songs will be released by Manchester University Press in January 2025. For more information on Dr. Joseph Toltz, please visit: https://www.josephtoltz.com/