Passport to Jewish Music: Its History, Traditions, and Culture

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface ix
• Part I - Documenting the Heritage 1
• 1 - A Duty of Preservation and Continuity: Collectors and Collections of Jewish Music in America 3
• NOTES 10
• 2 - Abraham Z. Idelsohn and Gershon Ephros: Creative Connection. 12
• NOTES 20
• 3 Builders of Sacred Bridges: Scholars And Studies in Jewish Music 23
• NOTES 31
• Part II - Bible, Liturgy, and Cantorial Art 35
• 4 - Jewish Music and Biblical Heritage 37
• NOTES 43
• 5 - A Historical and Bibliographical Perspective on Jewish Liturgical Music in Eastern Europe to 1900 46
• NOTES 53
• 6 - The Golden Age of the Cantorial Art 56
• NOTES 67
• 7 - Melodies of Prayer: The Jewish Liturgical Calendar 69
• NOTES 84
• Part III - The Musical Heritage of Sephardic and Oriental Jewry 87
• 8 - Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs 89
• NOTES 92
• 9 - Three Important Collections of Sephardic Music 94
• NOTES 96
• 10 - Sephardic Music Conference in Jerusalem 97
• NOTES 99
• 11 - Sephardic Traditions and Mediterranean Styles 100
• NOTES 104
• 12 - The Music of Oriental Jewry 105
• NOTES 107
• Part IV - Music of Mysticism and Piety 109
• 13 - The Mystics: Poet-Bards of the Liturgy 111
• NOTES 115
• 14 - The Music of Hasidism: Melodies of Spiritual Ecstasy 117
• NOTES 120
• 15 - Collections of Hasidic Music 122
• NOTES 125
• Part V - The Yiddish Musical World of Eastern Europe 127
• 16 - Music and Yiddish 129
• NOTES 131
• 17 - Yiddish Musical Theater: Its Origins in Europe 132
• NOTES 143
• 18 - Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music 145
• NOTES 150
• Part VI - The Holocaust Era 153
• 19 - The Musical Legacy of the Holocaust 155
• NOTES 168
• Part VII - America 175
• 20 - Three Hundred Years of Jewish Music in America 177
• NOTES 221
• Part VIII - The Music of Zion and Israel 227
• 21 - Hope and the Man: Hatikvah and Naphtali Herz Imber 229
• NOTES 233
• 22 - Song and the Modern Return to Zion 235
• NOTES 245
• 23 - The Inspiration of Israeli Composers 247
• NOTES 250
• 24 - Musical Festivities in Israel 251
• NOTES 256
• Part IX - Composers and Compositions 257
• 25 - Reflections on Creativity and Heritage: Salomone Rossi and His Era 259
• NOTES 262
• 26 - Meyerbeer, Halévy, and Offenbach: The Nineteenth Century 264
• NOTES 270
• 27 - Arnold Schoenberg: Shaper of Twentieth-Century Music Creativity 273
• NOTES 280
• 28 - Bloch, Milhaud, and Castelnuovo-Tedesco 283
• NOTES 290
• 29 - An Emigré Sampler: Toch, Zeisl, Wolpe, and Weill 292
• NOTES 296
• 30 - Leonard Bernstein 298
• NOTES 303
• 31 - Commissioning of Jewish Music 305
• NOTES 307
• 32 - Some Thoughts on American Popular Songwriters: Berlin, Kern, Gershwin, and Arlen 309
• NOTES 313
• 33 - Scripture as Creative Inspiration 315
• NOTES 321
• Part X - Women 323
• 34 - Miriam's Sisters: Jewish Women and Liturgical Music 325
• NOTES 332
• Afterword 335
• NOTES 337
• Index 339
• About the Author *

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