Media
“Jews, Muslims & Music | Conversations,” The afikra Podcast, interviewed by Mikey Muhanna, November 19, 2022.
“A dive into the newest Canadian Jewish non-fiction—from Moshe Safdie on architecture to Christopher Silver on music in North Africa,” The Canadian Jewish News, Hannah Srour-Zackon, October 21, 2022.
“Missing Notes,” Matti Friedman for Jewish Review of Books, Fall 2022.
“Muslims and Jews in the Maghreb: A whispered history,” Qantara.de, interview by Tugrul von Mende, September 7, 2022.
“The recording industry in North Africa,” Borderlines presents History Sounds, interviewed by Olga Verlato, July 7, 2022.
“Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth-Century North Africa,” New Books Network, interviewed by Avery Weinman, July 4, 2022.
“Faculty Publication Spotlight: Dr. Christopher Silver’s ‘Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth-Century North Africa’” McGill Arts Life, May 11, 2022.
“I Sing and I Pray,” The Dybbukast, interviewed by Aaron Henne, November 11, 2021.
“One Montrealer giving new life to old tunes,” CBC’s Let’s Go, interviewed by Sabrina Marandola, March 30, 2021.
“The Maghreb in the Gramophone Era,” Ottoman History Podcast, interviewed by Chris Gratien, March 22, 2021.
“This historian is preserving North African Jewish music from a bygone era,” JTA, Asaf Shalev, March 12, 2021.
“Jews, Music, & the Maghreb: An Interview with Dr. Chris Silver,” Sephardi Ideas Monthly, American Sephardi Federation, November 4, 2019.
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