Jewish music
Stalin made the Shoah a taboo subject.
Ḥasidic songs, and much else, will be known to the world thanks to his work.
Documents and wax cylinders nearly destroyed by the KGB.
Remedying the impoverishment of the American Jewish imagination.
Untouched for decades in England.
The brothers who wrote two of the best-known Jewish melodies early in the last century.
Featuring some Rosh Hashanah classics.
“An egg that was laid on a holiday . . .”
And the story of its repression.
Jan Peerce in Moscow.
The two cultures of Moroccan Jewry.
Wandering Stars.
It was popular music then, and can be now.
Jerzy Fitelberg was a favorite of Aaron Copland and Arthur Rubinstein. Then he was lost to history. Now, sixty years after his death, his music is being played again.
