Born in Slovakia and living in Tel Aviv, Zack’s writing, and lectures, focus on two main topics; Women in Music and the Arts based on her research projects on the one hand, and research and documentation of Slovak women’s lives Pre and Post Holocaust. Nowadays she is involved in a project that centres on commemorating Jews who lived in Slovakia all their lives, were taken to the concentration camps, and were murdered.   

 

Zack holds a PhD in musicology (summa cum laude) from Bar Ilan University supervised by Professor Raymond Monelle from the University of Edinburgh. She was granted the Bar Ilan Rector list recognition, and the Ministry of Education award for establishing a model of Interdisciplinary studies in the Arts in senior high schools. 

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She was a lecturer in the music department at Bar-Ilan University, in the NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program of Tel Aviv University, and in the Interdisciplinary Program of the faculty of education in Beit Berl College. As an interdisciplinary scholar, and educator, she has extensive experience in leading pedagogical change processes in Art departments of senior high schools. She also founded a music department in Ben Zvi senior high school in Kiriat Ono and chaired it. 

 

Alongside these activities Zack has published articles in major professional journals, a chapter in a book, and an entry (about the composer Amy Beach) in the Encyclopaedia of Women and American Politics. She has been invited to lecture at international conferences at institutions such as; University of Oxford, the Sorbonne, the State of the Vatican City & Donne in Musica, Rome, Queen's University at Northern Ireland, Belfast, Swansea College at the University of Wales, The International Semiotics Institute (ISI), Imatra, Finland, the University of Turku, Finland, Boise State University, Idaho, the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, The Interdisciplinary Institute of the Arts in Poznan, Poland, and more. 

 

In her autobiographical novel 'Travels with Vera' issues of cultural and personal identities are presented; the life of children who, like her, were born to holocaust survivors, and of their mothers who move between being survivors and becoming immigrants in their own land. Zack deals delicately with the gap between the generations on the one hand and examines Resilience in both groups, the ability to mature, and prosper in the face of adverse circumstances in general and post-trauma in particular. 

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Love of the Sirens contains 20 mini biographies of women composers who were famous in their days alas forgotten by history; their lives, their family, and their work. Thus, each biography moves between private and public on the one hand, and social capital, governance and gender on the other. Within the text questions arise: Does acquaintance with Her-story serve as catalyst for women artists nowadays? Do creative life and happiness go hand in hand for women? How does family life influence women’s art? Are women artists these days happier than women who dealt with the arts in the far, and nearer past? The answers, or part of them, are weaved in the book.