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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Mark Slobin

b. 1943

Born in Detroit, Mark Slobin is an ethnomusicologist, specialist in East European Jewish music, and translator, who teaches at Wesleyan University. He has served as president of the Society for Ethnomusicology and Society for Asian Music. Slobin’s projects and writings have earned him the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and a lifetime achievement award in Jewish Studies from the Foundation for Jewish Culture.

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