Chosen Voices: The Story of the American Cantorate by Mark Slobin non-media human rights

human rights

unblinking and unafraid

Stranded by war in a children's home in Russia

Archival material

and American assimilation

Chosen Voices: The Story of the American Cantorate by Mark Slobin non-media human rightsWeek after week, year after year, Jews turn to sacred singers for spiritual and emotional support. At the same time, the job of the hazzan, or cantor, is deeply embedded in the cultural, social, and religious symbolism negotiated between a congregation and its sacred singers. Chosen Voices is a definitive look at a profession that is also a vocation. Drawing on archival sources, interviews with cantors, and photographs, Mark Slobin traces the