Episode 6: Dr. Judah Cohen (Indiana University, Bloomington)

The sixth episode of Season 3 of The Sounding Jewish Podcast features Dr. Judah Cohen. We discuss how he came to the field of Jewish music studies, and his ongoing work on and beyond the field of American Jewish music.

Dr. Judah Cohen is Lou and Sybil Mervis Professor of Jewish Culture, Professor of Musicology, and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Research, and Creative Activity at Indiana University Bloomington’s Jacobs School of Music. A scholar and administrator with both ethnographic and historical training, he has conducted fieldwork in the United States, Israel, Uganda and the Caribbean. He has written three books and several dozen articles on music in Judaism, including The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor: Musical Authority, Cultural Investment (2009), Sounding Jewish Tradition: The Music of Central Synagogue (2 ...