From Szatmar to the New World is the story of Max Wohlberg's odyssey from a yeshiva in Hungary to the pinnacle of the American cantorate. Wohlberg's influential career as a cantor and educator is depicted against a background of social and cultural ferment. Readers are given a behind-the-scenes tour of rarely explored areas of American Jewish musical life: cantorial organizations at war w...
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Charles Davidson ---
Charles Davidson is the Nathan Cummings Professor of Nusah he-Tefillah at the H. L. Miller Cantorial School of the Jewish Theological Seminary.
He also serves as hazzan of Congregation Adath Jeshurun in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. He is a composer of note, his works including the song cycle “I Never Saw Another Butterfly,” based on poems by the children of Terezin. The father of four, he lives with his wife, Frances, in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
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