Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue SoundtrackIn Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack, Judah M. Cohen demonstrates that Jews constructed a robust religious musical conversation in the United States during the mid to late 19th century. While previous studies of American Jewish music history have looked to Europe as a source of innovation during this time, Cohen's careful analysis of primary archival sources tells a different story. Far from