Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America

This study of synagogue music in the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century “sets a high standard for historical musicology” ( Musica Judaica ). In Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack, Judah M. Cohen demonstrates that Jews constructed a robust religious musical conversation in the United States during the mid- to late-nineteenth century. While previous studies of American Jewish music history have looked to Europe as a sour