Julie Rosewald Julie Rosewald, America's first woman cantor. Photo from: A Hundred Years of Music in America: an Account of Musical Effort in America during the Past Century, William Smythe Babcock Mathews, ed. (Chicago, G.L. Howe, 1889), p. 201. Print Full Image Rights JWA use only on jwa.org Related contentBlog: Julie Rosewald: America's first woman cantor