Acknowledgements

Accessing Supplemental Materials

Introduction

1. Early Strata: Of Choirs and Reform through the Mid-Nineteenth Century

2. The Sound of German Jewry: Hymnals and Singing Societies in Wilhelm Fischer's Zemirot Yisrael

3. Bildungsmusik: G. M. Cohen, B'nai B'rith, and the Voices of American Jewish Cultivation

4. Musical Populists: G. S. Ensel, Simon Hecht, and the Quest for the Singing Congregation

5. The 1866 Sulzerfeier: the Viennese Model and the Grandeur of the Urban Worship

6. A New Cantor, A New Repertoire: Zimrath Yah

7. The Path to The Union Hymnal

Conclusion: Restoring the Soundtrack of Jewish Life in Nineteenth Century America

Works Cited

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