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Moshe Wilensky
Moshe Wilensky was born in 1910 in Warsaw, Poland. During the first World War, his…
Josef Bonime
Composer, pianist, and conductor Josef Bonime was born in Vilna in 1891, and…
Harry Von Tilzer
Harry Von Tilzer (originally Gumm or Gummblinksy), was born in Detroit in 1872. His…
Jerome Kern
Jerome Kern was born on January 27, 1885 in New York City to parents Fanny and Henry…
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Funny, it doesn’t sound Jewish : how Yiddish songs and synagogue melodies influenced Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Hollywood
An attempt to demonstrate the deep layers of 'JM' embedded in the popular American…
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Tin Pan Alley
Nickname for the popular songwriting and sheet-music publishing industry centred in New…
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Hora (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
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Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
If you have ever searched for Hatikvah online, you were surely exposed to a barrage of…
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
Introduction
It is November 15, 2016 and I am sitting in a car, driving on a mountain…
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity. New York: Routledge, 2017…