Music in Jewish Thought

Jonathan L. Friedmann is a professor of Jewish music history at the Academy for Jewish Religion California, extraordinary professor of theology at North-West University (NWU), South Africa, and a research fellow at NWU in musical arts in South Africa: resources and applications. He is the author, editor, or compiler of 19 books on music and religion. Visit his website at jonathanfriedmann.com.

Table of Contents



Preface     

Introduction: Sulzer, Idelsohn, and the Revival of Jewish Music     



PART I: JEWISH SACRED MUSIC     

1. The Music of the Jews (1898)

Sam L. Jacobson     

2. Synagogal Music (1906)

Francis L. Cohen     

3. Jewish Music (1917)

Francis L. Cohen     

4. Music of the Synagog (1915)

Jacob Singer     

5. Hebrew Music (1919)

Lewis M. Isaacs     

6. The Music of the Synagogue (1917)

David de Sola Pool     



PART II: STUDIES IN JEWISH MUSIC     

7. The Music of the Psalms (1894)

Naphtali Herz Imber     

8. The Music of the Ghetto (1898)

Naphtali Herz Imber     

9. Jewish Singers (1910)

Mendel Silber     

10. Composers and Players (1910)

Mendel Silber     

11. The Russian Jewish Folk-Song (1917)

Kurt Schindler     

12. Hazzanim and Hazzanut (1920)

Pinchos Jassinowsky     



PART III: REVIVING JEWISH MUSIC     

13. Solomon Sulzer: Reminiscences of Vienna (1890)

Benjamin Franklin Peixotto     

14. The Life of Salomon Sulzer (1903)

Adolph Guttman     

15. Music of the Synagogue (1895)

Gustav Karpeles     

16. Secular Currents in the Synagogal Chant in America (1918)

Joseph Reider     

17. A Revival of Jewish Music (1919)

Joseph Reider     

18. The Future of Jewish Music (1919)

Jerome H. Bayer     

19. Music in the Religious School (1919)

Louis Grossman     



Sources of Selections     

Bibliography     

Index