Michael P. Steinberg is director of the Cogut Center for the Humanities, the Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History, and professor of music at Brown University. His most recent book is Listening to Reason: Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music.

"Michael Steinberg is an original and powerful voice in cultural history, and virtually the only scholar who convincingly brings musical works into relationship with the cultural tensions of their time. In Judaism Musical and Unmusical, he cogently argues that there never was any such thing as a Jewish tradition free from internal complexity, tension, and complicated inter-relations with many aspects of the surrounding cultures. Steinberg's topics, impressively diverse, are woven together by a unifying set of urgent concerns." - Martha Nussbaum"

Michael P. Steinberg is director of the Cogut Center for the Humanities, the Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History, and professor of music at Brown University. His most recent book is Listening to Reason: Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music.

"Michael Steinberg is an original and powerful voice in cultural history, and virtually the only scholar who convincingly brings musical works into relationship with the cultural tensions of their time. In Judaism Musical and Unmusical, he cogently argues that there never was any such thing as a Jewish tradition free from internal complexity, tension, and complicated inter-relations with many aspects of the surrounding cultures. Steinberg's topics, impressively diverse, are woven together by a unifying set of urgent concerns." - Martha Nussbaum"