Amalia Kedem is the Music Curator and an archivist of the music collection at the National Library of Israel. She earned her M.A. and PhD degrees in Ethnomusicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with her field-work based research on contemporary practices of cantillation (MA) and liturgical music (PhD) and the ways in which they express Israeli and Ashkenazi identity. She taught Jewish music at the Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem, the Open University and Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, and lectures on liturgical music in various venues. At the JMRC she coordinated some early stages in the development of its website, as well as the Ashkenaz Research Group and the music sessions of the 2005 and 2009 WCJS. Since 2008 she's been part of the Music staff at the National Library of Israel, where she coordinated its Sound Archive Preservation and Digitization Project (funded by Legacy Heritage, 2009-2014) and catalogs archival collections, both written and recorded. In September 2023 she was appointed Curator of the National Library's Music Collection.