Bathia Dina Churgin

Background

Churgin, Bathia Dina was born on October 9, 1928 in New York City. Daughter of Pinkhos Michael and Rosetta (Seligson) Churgin.

Education

Bachelor magna cum laude, Hunter College, l950; Master of Arts, Radcliffe College, l952; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, l963.

Career

Instructor, professor Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1952-1957, 59-71. Professor musicology Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, 1970-1996, professor emerita Israel, since 1996, founder, head department Israel, 1970-1984. Visiting assistant professor Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, summer 1963.

Visiting professor Tel Aviv University, 1972, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1973, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, summer 1976, Rubin Academy Music, Jerusalem, summer 1977, University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1977, Queens College, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York City, 1981, Indiana University, 2001. Member Committee for Israel Prize in Music, 1974, Jerusalem. Member advisory board American Beethoven Society, San Jose, California, since 1986.

Member advisory board Parnassum, since 2002.

Achievements

• Bathia Dina Churgin has been listed as a noteworthy musicology educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member American Musicological Society (council 1969-1971, journal editorial board 1969-1971), Israel Musicological Society (board directors 1972-1974, council 1972-1976, 79-86, journal editorial board 1978-1990, chair 1994-1995), International Musicological Society, American Society 18th Century Studies, International Virginia Woolf Society, Phi Beta Kappa.

Interests

• Avocations: playing chamber music, writings of Virginia Woolf.

Connections

Father:

Pinkhos Michael Churgin

Mother:

Rosetta (Seligson) Churgin