Catherine Madsen

Catherine Madsen is the author of The Bones Reassemble: Reconstituting Liturgical Speech; In Medias Res: Liturgy for the Estranged ; and a novel, A Portable Egypt. She is librettist for Robert Stern's oratorio "Shofar" (on the CD Awakenings, Navona Records NV5878), and bibliographer at the Yiddish Book Center. She contributed to May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism-- Yizkor, Who by Fire, Who by Water --Un'taneh Tokef, All These Vows --Kol Nidre, and We Have Sinned: Sin and...See more

Catherine Madsen is the author of The Bones Reassemble: Reconstituting Liturgical Speech; In Medias Res: Liturgy for the Estranged ; and a novel, A Portable Egypt. She is librettist for Robert Stern's oratorio "Shofar" (on the CD Awakenings, Navona Records NV5878), and bibliographer at the Yiddish Book Center. She contributed to May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism-- Yizkor, Who by Fire, Who by Water --Un'taneh Tokef, All These Vows --Kol Nidre, and We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism --Ashamnu and Al Chet (all Jewish Lights). See less