Musicologist Assaf Shelleg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) is the author of Theological Stains: Art Music and the Zionist Project (OUP 2020) and Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History (OUP 2014), which received the 2016 AJS Jordan Schnitzer Book Prize (Association for Jewish Studies) and the 2015 Joel Engel Prize for the Study of Hebrew Music. Shelleg is a music contributor for Haaretz, and has previously served as the director of the Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism, the Yishuv, and the State of Israel at The Hebrew University, and as a curator for the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.