Jews, music, and the American West
Subtitle: portraits of pioneers
By: Jonathan L. Friedmann
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9781935604822
Subjects: Jewish musicians; Music; Jews; History and criticism; Synagogue music; Biography; History
Description: "Music is not given the space it deserves in Jewish studies, and scholarship on the Western States is no exception. To help offset this trend, I offer the following stories of important, yet mostly little-known, musical pioneers"--Page 17.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Margaret Blake Alverson : gentile in a Jewish choir; title: Anna Hertzberg and the Tuesday Musical Club of San Antonio; title: Rabbi Mendel Silber and Jewish musical achievement; title: Pearle Irene Odell and the neighborhood music settlement; title: Jerome H. Bayer and the California Menorah Society; title: Cantor Reuben Rinder, Frederick Jacobi, and Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco; title: Cantors Leib Glantz and Samuel Fordis in Los Angeles; title: Allie Wrubel and "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah"; title: Wolli Kaelter : a musical rabbi; title: Chuck Feldman : music director of Wilshire Boulevard Temple, Los Angeles.