Recent publications of his include "Modes of Tradition?: Negotiating 'Jewishness' and Modernity in the Synagogue Music of Isadore Freed and Fredrick Piket" (Jewish History and Culture), and he has forthcoming essays on music in Jewish summer camps and "The Postmodern Landscape of 'Jewish' Music." In addition, he has conducted extensive research on Jewish life and history in the Caribbean, which was the subject of his first book, Through the Sands of Time: A History of the Jewish Community of St. Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands (Brandeis University Press, 2004) as well as other forthcoming work on Jews in the Caribbean and Latin America. This fall, he will move to Indiana University to assume the Lou and Sybil Mervis Chair of Jewish Culture.