Passport to Jewish Music

The purpose of this book is to present a survey of Jewish music to illuminate its special role as a mirror of history, tradition, and cultural heritage. The 27 topical chapters have been placed within a modified chronological perspective to present a historic picture of virtually every important development in Jewish music. The book represents a culmination of several decades of the author's dedicated labor and scholarly study in this field.

A roughly chronological survey of virtually every important development in the history of Jewish music, organized in topical chapters.

Documenting the HeritageA Duty of Preservation and Continuity: Collectors and Collections of Jewish Music in AmericaAbraham Z. Idelsohn and Gershon Ephros: Creative ConnectionBuilders of Sacred Bridges: Scholars and Studies in Jewish MusicBible, Liturgy, and the Cantorial ArtJewish Music and Biblical HeritageAn Historical and Bibliographical Perspective on Jewish Liturgical Music in the Settled Areas of Eastern Europe to 1900The Golden Age of the Cantorial ArtMelodies of Prayer: The Jewish Liturgical CalendarThe Musical Heritage of Sephardic and Oriental JewryJudeo-Spanish Moroccan SongsThree Important Collections of Sephardic MusicSephardic Music Conference in JerusalemSephardic Traditions and Mediterranean StylesThe Music of Oriental JewryMusic of Mysticism and PietyThe Mystics: Poet-Bards of the LiturgyThe Music of Hasidism: Melodies of Spiritual EcstasyCollections of Hasidic MusicThe Yiddish Musical World of Eastern EuropeMusic and Yiddish: Folksong HeritageYiddish Musical Theater: Its Origins in EuropeRussian Nationalism and Jewish MusicThe Holocaust EraThe Musical Legacy of the HolocaustAmericaThree Hundred Years of Jewish Music in AmericaMusic of Zion and IsraelHope and the Man: Hatikvah and Naphtali Herz ImberSong and the Modern Return to ZionThe Inspiration of Israeli ComposersMusical Festivities in IsraelComposers and CompositionsReflections on Creativity and Heritage: [Salamone Rossi and His EraMeyerbeer, Halevy, Offenbach: The 19th CenturyArnold Schoenberg: A 20th-Century ManBloch, Milhaud, Castelnuovo-TedescoAn Emigre Sampler: Toch, Zeisl, Wolpe, WeillLeonard BernsteinCommissioning of Jewish MusicSome Thoughts on American Popular Song Writers: Berlin, Kern, Gershwin, Arlen]Scripture as Creative InspirationWomenMiriam's Sisters: Jewish Women and Liturgical MusicAfterwordIndex