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The Unfortunate Bride
Directed by Maurice Schwartz
This 1926 silent film was re-edited and had dialogue and…

The World Centre for Jewish Music in Palestine, 1936–1940: Jewish Musical Life on the Eve of World War II
A survey of the history and personalities of an ambitions pre-World War II attempt to…

Musiques liturgiques juives: parcours et escales
Published in 1998 by Actes Sud in collaboration with the Cité de la Musique, this 174-…

Jüdische Musiktraditionen
A general introduction geared to undergraduate college students offering a panoramic…

Music of the Ghetto and the Bible
Written as a memoire of the musical encounters of the author, composer and conductor…

Music in Jewish History and Culture
A survey of Jewish music from Biblical times to the present that compiles a great amount…

Music of Israel: From the Biblical Era to Modern Times
A survey first published in 1949 covering Jewish music from patriarch Abraham to…

Was heisst “jüdische Musik”? Grundzüge eines Diskurses im 20. Jahrhundert.
A programmatic article including a very valuable critique of most of definitions of…

Ten Paradoxes and Four Dilemmas of Studying Jewish Music
Emphasizes the vastness of Jewish music in terms of time and place and therefore the…

Mythologies and Realities in the Study of Jewish Music
Contrasts between the internal Jewish music narratives of continuity (“myths”) and the…