Jewlia Eisenberg is a composer, extended-technique vocalist, and founder of the nerdy-sexy-commie-girly group Charming Hostess. Her work explores the intersection of voice, text and diaspora consciousness.   Recent recordings for Tzadik’s Radical Jewish Culture series include Sarajevo Blues, settings of Bosnian resistance poetry, and Trilectic, a look at the political-erotic world of Walter Benjamin.  She is now at work on The Bowls Project, an immersive performance installation based on sex and magic in Babylonian Jewish amulets.  Her work has been curated into the Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco and the Prague Bienalle. Jewlia has been an Artist-in-Residence at MIT and the University of Denver; she studied at Pardes and has degrees in Music and History from UC Berkeley.  She has sung services at Chochmat Ha-Lev in Berkeley, Congregation Beth Sholom in San Francisco, and B'nai Israel in Vallejo.  Brooklyn born and bred, she now lives in San Francisco.