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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Early strata : of choirs and reform through the mid-nineteenth century -- The sound of German Jewry : hymnals and singing societies in Wilhelm Fischer's zemirot -- Yisrael -- Bildungsmusik : G.M. Cohen, B'nai B'rith, and the voices of American Jewish cultivation -- Musical populists : G.S. Ensel, Simon Hecht, and the quest for the singing congregation -- The 1866 Sulzerfeier : the Viennese model and the grandeur of the urban worship -- A new cantor, a new repertoire : zimrath yah -- The path to the union hymnal -- Conclusion : restoring the soundtrack of Jewish life in nineteenth-century America