Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-275) and index.
Contents
The organ, Jewish music, and identity : preliminary remarks -- Jewish "curiosities" : the organ in Judaism before 1800 -- The organ as a Jewish religious response to modernity -- Sharing the console : the synagogue organist -- Organ music in Jewish communities -- The aftermath of emigration -- Between assimilation and dissimilation : the Jewish community in the course of modernity.