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music

Essay

Songs of Hope and Failure

On Mon­day, Chris Mori­ar­ty wrote about why she wrote The Inquisi­tor’s Appren­tice. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing.So the…
Chris Mori­ar­ty
November 30, 2011
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Non­fic­tion
George Gersh­win: His Life and Work
Howard Pollack
Cover of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue
Chil­dren’s
Gersh­win’s Rhap­sody in Blue
Anna Harwell Celenza; JoAnn E. Kitchel, illus.
Cover of Music in the Holocaust: Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps
Non­fic­tion
Music in the Holo­caust: Con­fronting Life in the Nazi Ghet­tos and Camps
Shirli Gilbert
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Non­fic­tion
Of Exile and Music: A 20th Cen­tu­ry Life
Eva Mayer Schay
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Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mys­tic, Poet
Seth Rogov­oy
Essay

Read­ing with Soundtracks

Post­ed by Alyssa BerlinObvi­ous­ly, since I work at the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil, you can fig­ure out that I am a huge bib­lio­phile. But what you might not know is…
Alyssa Berlin
September 2, 2011
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Non­fic­tion
Work­ing with Bern­stein: A Memoir
Jack Gottlieb
Cover of When Bob Met Woody
Chil­dren’s
When Bob Met Woody
Gary Golio; Marc Burckhardt, illus.
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The Most Musi­cal Nation: Jews and Cul­ture in the Late Russ­ian Empire
James Loef­fler
Cover of Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World
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Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Sym­phonies Changed Our World
Norman Lebrecht
Cover of Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein
Chil­dren’s
Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein
Susan Goldman Rubin
Cover of George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait
Non­fic­tion
George Gersh­win: An Inti­mate Portrait
Walter Rimler
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Hid­ing in the Spot­light: A Musi­cal Prodi­gy’s Sto­ry of Sur­vival, 1941 – 1946
Greg Daw­son
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Leonard Bern­stein: The Polit­i­cal Life of an Amer­i­can Musician
Barry Seldes
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A Fine Romance: Jew­ish Song­writ­ers, Amer­i­can Songs
David Lehman
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