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July 5, 2024

The British Roots of the U.S. Cantorate

Readers, Ministers, and Teachers.

Today’s newsletter began by discussing America’s rabbinic seminaries, and it will end with them as well. Matt Austerklein examines the unique status of cantors in 19th-century Britain, and argues that these attitudes did much to shape the cantorial profession, and cantorial training, in the U.S.

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