About Jonathan L. Friedmann

Jonathan L. Friedmann, Ph.D., is Professor of Jewish Music History and Associate Dean of the Master of Jewish Studies Program at the Academy for Jewish Religion California, Adjunct Professor of Hebrew Bible at Claremont School of Theology, Extraordinary Associate Professor of Theology at North-West University (NWU), South Africa, and a Research Fellow at NWU in Musical Arts in South Africa: Resources and Applications. He is also Community Leader and Education Director of Adat Chaverim – Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles, President of the Western States Jewish History Association, and Director of the Jewish Museum of the American West. Jonathan is the author or editor of twenty books, including Music in Our Lives: Why We Listen, How It Works (McFarland, 2015),  Jews, Music and the American West: Portraits of Pioneers (Gaon, 2016), A City Haphazard: Jewish Musicians in Los Angeles, 1887-1927 (Academica, 2017), Qol Tamid: The Shofar in Ritual, History, and Culture (Claremont School of Theology Press, 2017), Musical Aesthetics: An Introduction to Concepts, Theories, and Functions (Cambridge Scholars, 2018), and Cantor William Sharlin: Musical Revolutionary of Reform Judaism (McFarland, 2019).