title: Judith Cabaud
text: # Judith Cabaud
  
  Judith Cabaud (born 8 July 1941, New York City) is an American-born French writer and musicologist. She was born into a Jewish family of Polish and Russian heritage.
  
  After studying science at New York University, she went to Paris and obtained her degree in French civilization in 1960 at the Sorbonne, and converted to Catholicism.
  
  A musicologist and a professor of English, she is the author of several books on relations between Judaism and Christianity, the role of Pius XII during World War II, and the Grand Rabbi of Rome, Eugenio Zolli. She has also been a music critic at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany since 1994.
  
  