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

by Irene Heskes

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313280351
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/30/1994
Series:	Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance , #33
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.94(d)
Lexile:	1460L (what's this?)

About the Author

IRENE HESKES is a music historian who specializes in Jewish music. She has written numerous articles and reviews for musicological and general jourbanal publications in America, Europe, and Israel, and has contributed to the Encyclopedia Judaica, as well as to Musical Theater in America (Greenwood, 1984), and Handbook of Holocaust Literature (Greenwood, 1993). Among her books are: Studies in Jewish Music (1971), Jews in Music (1974), Ernest Bloch: Creative Spirit (1976), The Resource Book of Jewish Music (Greenwood, 1985), The Music of Abraham Goldfaden (1990), The Golden Age of Cantors (1991), and Yiddish-American Popular Songs, 1895 to 1950 (1992).

Table of Contents

Documenting the Heritage
A Duty of Preservation and Continuity: Collectors and Collections of Jewish Music in America
Abraham Z. Idelsohn and Gershon Ephros: Creative Connection
Builders of Sacred Bridges: Scholars and Studies in Jewish Music

Bible, Liturgy, and the Cantorial Art
Jewish Music and Biblical Heritage
An Historical and Bibliographical Perspective on Jewish Liturgical Music in the Settled Areas of Eastern Europe to 1900
The Golden Age of the Cantorial Art
Melodies of Prayer: The Jewish Liturgical Calendar

The Musical Heritage of Sephardic and Oriental Jewry
Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs
Three Important Collections of Sephardic Music
Sephardic Music Conference in Jerusalem
Sephardic Traditions and Mediterranean Styles
The Music of Oriental Jewry

Music of Mysticism and Piety
The Mystics: Poet-Bards of the Liturgy
The Music of Hasidism: Melodies of Spiritual Ecstasy
Collections of Hasidic Music

The Yiddish Musical World of Eastern Europe
Music and Yiddish: Folksong Heritage
Yiddish Musical Theater: Its Origins in Europe
Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music

The Holocaust Era
The Musical Legacy of the Holocaust

America
Three Hundred Years of Jewish Music in America

Music of Zion and Israel
Hope and the Man: Hatikvah and Naphtali Herz Imber
Song and the Modern Returban to Zion
The Inspiration of Israeli Composers
Musical Festivities in Israel

Composers and Compositions
Reflections on Creativity and Heritage: [Salamone Rossi and His Era
Meyerbeer, Halevy, Offenbach: The 19th Century
Arnold Schoenberg: A 20th-Century Man
Bloch, Milhaud, Castelnuovo-Tedesco
An Emigre Sampler: Toch, Zeisl, Wolpe, Weill
Leonard Bernstein
Commissioning of Jewish Music
Some Thoughts on American Popular Song Writers: Berlin, Kern, Gershwin, Arlen]
Scripture as Creative Inspiration

Women
Miriam's Sisters: Jewish Women and Liturgical Music
Afterword
Index