A chat with a rock star
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR A theme running through many music biz memoirs is internecine rivalry. Put another way, band members occasionally ...
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Famous Jews in American music — from Irving Berlin to Matisyahu
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR It’s hard to imagine American popular song without the contributions of Jewish composers and lyricists. Names like ...
Yiddish Farbrengen to be held Jan. 31
The next gathering of Yiddish Farbrengen will take place 1 p.m. Monday, Jan. 31 at the Shaller Family Sholom Home ...
Jews wrote a big chunk of the Great American Songbook
David Lehman, the author of seven volumes of poetry, examines what is Jewish about American popular song, and how Jewish ...
