Music and Jews

From lute to flute to electric guitar, books for adults and children on Jews, music, and the music industry.

Bob Dylan's Christmas Album: What Good is it? by Seth Rogovoy

Saved by Leonard Cohen by Liel Leibovitz


Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet

The B-Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song

You Fascinate Me So: The Life and Times of Cy Coleman

Madeline Kahn: Being the Music: A Life

Oy Oy Oy Gevalt!

The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley & the Unlikely Ascent of “Hallelujah”

A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption and the Life of Leonard Cohen

Music in Jewish History and Culture

There Was A Fire: Jews, Music and the American Dream

Hound Dog: The Leiber and Stoller Autobiography

George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait

Irving Berlin’s American Musical Theater

New York Noise: Radical Jewish Music and the Downtown Scene

The Heebie Jeebies at CBGB: A Secret History of Jewish Punk

Up All Night: My Life and Times in Rock Radio

Strings Attached: One Tough Teacher and the Gift of Great Expectations

Alice's Piano: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer

A Ship Without A Sail: The Life of Lorenz Hart

Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue: A Novel of Pastry, Guilt, and Music

Ellington Boulevard: A Novel in A-Flat

A Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World’s Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor

I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen

In our Hearts we were Giants: The Remarkable Story of the Lilliput Troupe-A Dwarf Family's Survival of the Holocaust

Klezmer: Book One: Tales of the Wild East

Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician

Leonard Bernstein and American Music

Mixing Musics: Turkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of a Sacred Song

Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets

Music in the Holocaust: Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps

Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust—Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind's Darkest Hour

Of Exile and Music: A 20th Century Life

Rock and Roll Stories

Tainted Glory in Handel's Messiah: The Unsettling History of the World's Most Beloved Choral Work

The Gershwins and Me

The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess: A 75th Anniversary Edition

Telegraph Avenue

The Late Starters Orchestra

Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World

You're Not Much Use to Anyone

The Lost Cellos of Lev Aronson

Three Chords for Beauty's Sake: The Life of Artie Shaw

Vivaldi's Virgins

Working with Bernstein: A Memoir


Children's Books


Music For the End of Time

When Bob Met Woody

Playing Dad's Song

B.U.G. (Big Ugly Guy)

Broken Song

Playing for the Commandant

Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue

Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein

The Man With the Violin


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