About Jonathan L. Friedmann

Jonathan L. Friedmann, Ph.D., is Professor of Jewish Music History 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 in Los Angeles. Jonathan spends his time writing, professing, serving as a pulpit cantor, and researching the roles of music in human life. He is the author or editor of sixteen books, most recently  Music in Our Lives: Why We Listen, How It Works (McFarland, 2015) and Jews, Music and the American West: Portraits of Pioneers (Gaon, 2016).