GHila Flam was born in Haifa, Israel. She earned her master's degree at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Musicology, with the thesis "The Musical Activity of
Bracha Zefira in the 1930s and 1940s in Palestine". Her Ph.D. thesis (1988,
University of California, Los Angeles) was published as a book in 1992. Her work and positions include the founder of the Ethnomusicology Archives and director of the ethnomusicology department at the
US Holocaust Memorial Museum (from 1989 to 1992) and director of the music department and sound archive at the
National Library of Israel (since 1994). She also lectures at various conferences and teaches classes on Yiddish song and music of the Holocaust at Tel Aviv University, the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Bar-Ilan University, , and the
Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. She also performs songs she researches. ==Works==