Judith Cabaud is an American-born French writer and musicologist. She was born into a Jewish family of Polish and Russian heritage.

After studying science at the University of New York

University of New York

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, she went to Paris and obtained her degree in French civilization in 1960 at the Sorbonne

Sorbonne

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, and converted to Roman Catholicism.

A musicologist and a professor of English, she is the author of several books on relations between Judaism

Judaism

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 and Christianity

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, the role of Pius XII during World War II

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, and the Grand Rabbi of Rome, Eugenio Zolli. She has also been a music critic at the Bayreuth Festival

Bayreuth Festival

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in Germany since 1994.

Translations

• Eugenio Zolli, Avant l'aube : Autobiographie spirituelle, François-Xavier de Guibert, 2002
• Roy H. Schoeman, Le Salut vient des Juifs : Le rôle du Judaïsme dans l'histoire du salut depuis Abraham jusqu'au Second, Francois-Xavier De Guibert, 2006
• Roy H. Schoeman, Le miel du rocher. Seize témoignages d'accomplissement de la foi d'Israël dans le Christ, Francois-Xavier De Guibert, 2008