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Adler, Jacob. A Life on the Stage: A Memoir. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.

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Bassan, Jacqueline. From Shul to Cool: The Romantic Jewish Roots of American Popular Music. New York: Jay Street Publishers, 2002.

Beregovski, Moshe. Jewish Instrumental Folk Music: The Collections and Writings of Moshe Beregovski. Translated and edited by Mark Slobin, Robert Rothstein, and Michael Alpert. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2001.

Billig, Michael. Rock 'n' Roll Jews. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2001.

Bing, Anthony G. Israeli Pacifist: The Life of Joseph Abileah. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1990

Blunt, Wilfrid. On Wings of Song: A Biography of Felix Mendelssohn. New York: Scribner, 1974.

Bohlman, Philip. The World Centre for Jewish Music in Palestine, 1936-1940: Jewish Musical Life on the Eve of World War II. Oxford [England]: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Bohlman, Philip. The Land Where Two Streams Flow: Music in the German-Jewish Community of Israel. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.

Braun, Joachim. Music in Ancient Israel/Palestine: Archaeological, Written, and Comparative Sources. Translated by Douglas W. Stott. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans, 2002.

Brickmann, Reinhold and Chritoph Wolff, eds., Driven into Paradise: The Musical Migration from Nazi Germany to the United States. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 1999.

Brown, Clive. A Portrait of Mendelssohn. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.


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Chapin, Schuyler. Leonard Bernstein: Notes From a Friend . New York: Walker, 1992.


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Drake, James A. Richard Tucker: A Biography. by Luciano Pavarotti; afterword by George Jellinek; discography by Patricia Ann Kiser. New York: Dutton, 1984.


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Ewen, David. George Gershwin: His Journey to Greatness. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1977.


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Faris, Alex. Jacques Offenbach. New York: Scribner, 1981.

Flam, Gila. Singing for Survival: Songs of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940-45. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.

Fleisher, Robert. Twenty Israeli Composers: Voices of a Culture. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997.

Fliegel, Hyman J. Zavel Zilberts, His Life and Works. New York: Printed by Shulsinger, 1971.

Frisch, Walter. Schoenberg and His World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Fromm, Herbert. On Jewish Music: A Composer's View . New York: Bloch, 1978.

Furia, Philip.Irving Berlin: A Life in Song . songography compiled by Ken Bloom. New York: Schirmer Books, 1998.


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Gavoty, Bernard. Bruno Walter. Geneva,Switzerland: R. Kister, 1956.

Gradenwitz, Peter.Leonard Bernstein: The Infinite Variety of a Musician. New York: Distributed by St. Martin's Press, 1987.

Gradenwitz, Peter. The Music of Israel: From the Biblical Era to Modern Times. Porteland, Oregon: Amadeus Press: 1996.

Greenberg, Rodney. George Gershwin. London: Phaidon, 1998.


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Hamm, Charles. Irving Berlin: Songs from the Melting Pot: the Formative Years, 1907-1914. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Harding, James. Jacques Offenbach: A Biography. New York: Riverrun Press, 1980.

Harrán, Don. Salamone Rossi : Jewish Musician in Late Renaissance Mantua. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Hirsch, Foster. Kurt Weill On Stage: From Berlin to Broadway. New York: Alfred A. Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 2002.

Hirshberg, Jehoash. Paul Ben-Haim, His Life and Works. Jerusalem, Israel: Israeli Music Publications, 1990.

Heskes, Irene. Passport to Jewish Music: Its History, Traditions and Culture. pbk. ed. Milwaukee, Wis.: Hal Leonard; London: Omnibus, 2002.

Holde, Artur. Jews in Music: From the Age of Enlightenment to the Mid-Twentieth Century, orig. pub. 1959; rev ed. by Irene Heskes. New York: Bloch Publishing, 1974.


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Isaacs, Ronald H. Jewish Music: Its History, People, and Song. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, Inc., 1997.
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Jablonski,Edward. Harold Arlen: Happy with the Blues. Garden City: Doubleday, 1961.

Jacobson, Joshua R. Chanting the Hebrew Bible: The Complete Guide to the Art of Cantillation. companion CD. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2002.

Jarman, Douglas . Kurt Weill, An Illustrated Biography. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982.


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Kalib, Sholom. The Musical Tradition of the Eastern European Synagogue. vol. 1. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2002.

Kanter, Kenneth A. The Jews on Tin Pan Alley: the Jewish contribution to American Popular Music, 1830-1940 . New York: Ktav Pub. House; Cincinnati: American Jewish Archives, 1982.

Koskoff, Ellen. Music in Lubavitcher Life. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.

Katz, Mickey and Hannibal Coons. Papa, Play for Me: The Autobiography of Mickey Katz. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan U. Press, Intro by Josh Kun, Forward by Joel Grey, 2002.


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Landman, Leo. The Cantor: An Historic Perspective: A Study of the Origin, Communal Position, and Function of the Hazzan. New York: Yeshiva University, 1972.

Levine, Joseph A. Synagogue Song in America. Northvale, NJ : Jason Aronson, 2000.

Liptzin, Solomon. Eliakum Zunser, Poet of his People. New York: Behrman House, 1950.
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Magidoff, Robert. Yehudi Menuhin: The Story of the Man and the Musician. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1973, (c1955).

Melnick, Jeffrey Paul. A Right to Sing the Blues: African Americans, Jews and American Popular Song. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Meltzoff, Nathan G. My Life's Story. New York: Congregation Rodeph Sholom, 1966.

Meyers, Paul. Leonard Bernstein. London: Phaidon Press, 1998.

Milhaud, Darius. Ma vie heureuse. (My Happy Life). Translated from the French by Donald Evans, George Hall and Christopher Palmer. London, New York: M. Boyars, 1995.

Milhaud, Darius. Notes sans musique. (Notes Without Music). New York: Da Capo Press, 1970.

Moddel, Philip. Joseph Achron. Foreword by Alfred Sendrey. Tel Aviv: Israeli Music Publications, 1966.

Moddel, Philip. Max Helfman: A Biographical Sketch. Berkeley, Calif.: Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum, 1974.

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Peyser, Joan. The Memory of All That: The Life of George Gershwin. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1998.


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Ringer, Alexander L. Arnold Schoenberg: the Composer as Jew . Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Rosenblatt, Samuel. Yossele Rosenblatt, The Story of His Life as Told by His Son. New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, [1954].

Rubin, Ruth. Voices of A People : The Story of Yiddish Folksong. Reprint, Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1979. With new introduction. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.

Ryding, Erik, and Rebecca Pechefsky. Bruno Walter: A World Elsewhere. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001.


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Sandrow, Nahma. Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1996.

Sapoznik, Henry. Klezmer!: Jewish Music from Old World to Our World. New York: Schirmer Books, 1999.

Schalit, Michael. Heinrich Schalit: The Man and His Music. Livermore, Calif.: [M. Schalit] 1979.

Schebera, Jürgen. Kurt Weill: An Illustrated Life . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.

Schiller, David. Bloch, Schoenberg and Bernstein: Assimilating Jewish Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Schneider, Gertrude, ed. Mordechai Gebirtig: His Poetic and Musical Legacy. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2000.

Secunda, Victoria. Bei mir bist du schön: The Life of Sholom Secunda. Weston, Conn : Magic Circle Press; New York: Distributed by Walker, c1982.

Seiler, Thomas R. Leonard Bernstein: The Last 10 Years: A Personal Portrait. Thalwil/Zürich New York: Edition Stemmle, 1999.

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. Let Jasmine Rain Down: Song and Remembrance Among Syrian Jews. CD Included. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Shiloah, Amnon. The Dimension of Music in Islamic and Jewish Culture. Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain; Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Variorum, 2000.

Silverman, Jerry. The Undying Flame: Ballads and Songs of the Holocaust. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2002.

Slobin, Mark. American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Slobin, Mark. Chosen Voices: The Story of the American Cantorate . Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Slobin, Mark. Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World. American Musicspheres. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Soltes, Avraham. Off the Willows: the Rebirth of Modern Jewish Music. New York: Bloch, 1970.

Stern, Isaac. My First 79 Years. written with Chaim Potok. New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1999.

Strassburg, Robert. Ernest Bloch, Voice in the Wilderness: A Biographical Study . Los Angeles: Trident Shop, California State University, 1977.

Strom, Yale. The Book of Klezmer: The History, the Music, the Folklore. Chicago, Ill.: A Cappella Books, 2002.

Summit, Jeffrey A. The Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship. American Musicspheres. New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.


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Weisgall, Deborah. A Joyful Noise: Claiming the Songs of My Fathers. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999.

Weisser, Albert. The Modern Renaissance of Jewish Music, Events and Figures, Eastern Europe and America. New York:Bloch Pub. Co., 1954.

Whitfield, Stephen J. In Search of American Jewish Culture. Hanover: University Press of New England, 2002.