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Judah M. Cohen

Judah M. Cohen is the Lou & Sybil Mervis Professor of Jewish Culture and Professor of Musicology at Indiana University. He has authored The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor: Musical Authority, Cultural Investment (2009), Sounding Jewish Tradition: The Music of Central Synagogue (2011), and Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth Century America (2019). His current work explores Musical Theater, Jewish music in the 1950s, and the life of Debbie Friedman.

Articles by this author

Women, Music, and Judaism in America

This article emphasizes American Jewish women’s multivalent musical choices from the eighteenth through the twenty-first centuries. In doing so, it acknowledges that mainstream Jewish liturgical, educational, art, and “popular” music histories often exclude or minimize women’s participation—as does the very term “Jewish music.” Instead, this article focuses on Jewish-identifying women’s activities in both religious and non-religious settings, rather than seeking to classify the music they create.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Judah M. Cohen." (Viewed on March 29, 2024) <http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/cohen-judah>.