Passport to Jewish Music: Its History, Traditions, and Culture by Heskes, Irene

Passport to Jewish Music: Its History, Traditions, and Culture (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313280351)

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Passport to Jewish Music: Its History, Traditions, and Culture by Heskes, Irene

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

$95.00
Passport to Jewish Music: Its History, Traditions, and Culture by Heskes, Irene

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

$95.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.



Author: Irene Heskes
ISBN-10: 0313280355
ISBN-13: 9780313280351
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 06/30/1994
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.92h x 5.99w x 0.75d
By Irene Heskes
By Irene Heskes
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IRENE HESKES is a music historian who specializes in Jewish music. She has written numerous articles and reviews for musicological and general journal 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)

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