A graduate of the Jerusalem Music Academy and the Hebrew University, Dr. Michael Lukin is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Mandel Scholion Center. His research interests are the traditional culture of Yiddish speakers, musical semiotics, Jewish music, and European ethnomusicology. He has taught courses on Jewish music, Hassidic musical thought, and Yiddish folklore at Sapir College and Bar-Ilan University. During his stay as a Polonsky Fellow at Oxford University, he explored the so-called “mediaeval” Yiddish ballads. His current project addresses the application of digital tools to the study of Hassidic nigunim.