Chosen Voices: The Story of the American Cantorate
Mark Slobin
1989
Twenty-three Jews came to America in 1654 and some five million live in the United States today. Though this seems like a long story, it is but a short chapter in the history of Judaism. Anything Jewish-American must first be understood as something Jewish, that is, having roots millennia before there was an America. […]
[…] After all, for the past…
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