Jewish religious music in nineteenth-century America : restoring the synagogue soundtrack / Judah M. Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Judah M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--United States--Music--History and criticism.

Jews.

Synagogue music.

United States.

Synagogue music--United States--19th century--History and criticism.

Jews--Music.

Genre:

Music.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiii, 209 pages :b illustrations, scores ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2019.

Contents:

Early strata : of choirs and reform through the mid-nineteenth century

The sound of German Jewry : hymnals and singing societies in Wilhelm Fischer's zemirot

Yisrael

Bildungsmusik : G.M. Cohen, B'nai B'rith, and the voices of American Jewish cultivation

Musical populists : G.S. Ensel, Simon Hecht, and the quest for the singing congregation

The 1866 Sulzerfeier : the Viennese model and the grandeur of the urban worship

A new cantor, a new repertoire : zimrath yah

The path to the union hymnal

Conclusion : restoring the soundtrack of Jewish life in nineteenth-century America.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Cohen, Judah M., author. Jewish religious music in nineteenth-century America

ISBN:

9780253040206

0253040205

9780253040213

0253040213

OCLC:

1035749128