Hadas Bram

Hadas H. Bram is an aspiring scholar, artist, and musician born in Jerusalem.
She holds a B.A. and M.A., both summa cum laude, in Arabic Language and Literature and Musicology, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her work bridges ethnomusicology, sociolinguistics, philology, critical theory, and comparative religion. She is interested in the intersections of cultural production, sound, language, and transcendence—especially in Muslim and Jewish contexts.

Her M.A. thesis examined emotional Qur’ānic recitation (tajwīd), tracing its aesthetic and theological foundations in the Qur’ān, ḥadīth, sīra nabawiyya, and medieval Sufi literature, and analyzing how these themes reemerge in contemporary viral tajwīd performances on YouTube. Additionally, she has conducted extensive research on Persian Jewish music, focusing on Jewish-Muslim interfaith encounters in twentieth-century Iran.

From 2023 to 2025, Hadas has served as a research affiliate at the Jewish Music Research Center at the Hebrew University. Under the supervision of Prof. Edwin Seroussi and Dr. Nili Belkind, she contributed to the interdisciplinary project Music, Muslims, and Jews. As part of this work, she is co-authoring a monograph on the Iraqi-Jewish musician ‘Azūrī Effendi (Ezra Aharon). Her contribution focuses on musical interfaith encounters within the Palestine Broadcasting Service (PBS), the Islamicate identities of Jews, and the convergence of Arabic dialectology and musical style.

Beyond academia, Hadas is a player of the Persian Santur and vocalist. She has studied Radīf under masters Faraz Minooie and Keyhan Neʿman, and has also studied Arabic, Turkish, and Greek music traditions around the world. Her work as an independent music producer brings traditional sounds from the Middle East and Central Asia into dialogue with hip-hop, house, and experimental electronics. She has released two albums: Chibegum and JerusAlquds.