The Significance of Meier Leon's Yigdal Melody as a Link between Jewish and Christian Hymnody in Eighteenth-Century London

Knapp, Alexander. "The Significance of Meier Leon's Yigdal Melody as a Link between Jewish and Christian Hymnody in Eighteenth-Century London," Jewish Historical Studies, 45 (2013), 79-102.

Mr. Knapp's essay enters into lamentably underexplored territory: "the Jewish life of London in the second half of the eighteenth century," more specifically "the musical life, and the Jewish life." The essay reads much like a case study. Tidily organized and keenly probing, it pursues the singular example of Jewish singer and composer Meier Leon before describing Leon's contexts...