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Resources at Penn

Section titled “Resources at Penn”

Penn Jewish Music Collections

Section titled “Penn Jewish Music Collections”

Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Sound Archive

Section titled “Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Sound Archive”

There are currently 5,923 albums in the Freedman collection. The recordings include 78, 45 and 33 rpm vinyl recordings; reel to reel and cassette tapes; video cassettes, primarily form the former Soviet Union, Israel and the U.S., one video cassette from Poland, as well as compact discs and DVDs. There are no early cylinder recordings in the collection. The vast majority of the recordings are commercially released and under copyright but there are a few field recordings, friends of the Freedmans taping songs, a documentary by Robert Freedman’s mother describing her journey to America, a tape of Camp Boiberik songs, and tapes of Molly Freedman’s mother singing songs. New sound recordings in all formats are actively collected.

Harvey Sheldon Jewish American Music Video Research Library

Section titled “Harvey Sheldon Jewish American Music Video Research Library”

A collection of video footage documenting the role of American Jews in the American entertainment industry which provides a visual window into understanding how Jews helped to create Broadway musicals, Jazz and other entertainment genres from the 1920s through the 1990s. The collection features artistic works written, directed, produced, or performed by Jews for general as well as for Jewish American audiences. It numbers approximately 2,000 video titles copied on to more than 350 DVDs.

Michael Strassfeld Jewish Music Collection

Section titled “Michael Strassfeld Jewish Music Collection”

Audio material contains a collection of over 950 sound recordings (LPs, cassettes, and CDs) of Jewish music collected by Strassfeld over the course of his life. The collection emphasizes sacred Hasidic music, but also includes examples of the Jewish folk revival, and a small amount of Klezmer instrumental music and Yiddish song.

Jerry Wasserman Collection of Jewish American Sound Recordings

Section titled “Jerry Wasserman Collection of Jewish American Sound Recordings”

The Jerry Wasserman Collection of Jewish American Sound Recordings contains 297 sound recordings—mostly LPs—of traditional Jewish and Jewish American humor and music in a variety of folk and popular styles.

Harold B. Wohl/ Sons of Jacob Synagogue Collection of American Jewish Sheet Music

Section titled “Harold B. Wohl/ Sons of Jacob Synagogue Collection of American Jewish Sheet Music”

231 pieces of American Jewish sheet music, dating from 1902-1965, with the bulk of the collection dating from before 1940.

Penn’s Music Library

Section titled “Penn’s Music Library”

Otto E. Albrecht Music Library

Section titled “Otto E. Albrecht Music Library”

The Albrecht Music Library serves the research and teaching needs of Penn’s Music Department and the Penn music community. https://www.library.upenn.edu/music

Eugene Ormandy Music and Media Center

Section titled “Eugene Ormandy Music and Media Center”

The Center is located within the Otto E. Albrecht Music Library and houses more than 40,000 sound recordings of Western music, as well as art and traditional musics of the world in LP disc, cassette, and compact disc formats. The Music Library’s video collection, also housed here, includes DVD and laser disc recordings of opera and ballet as well as a diverse collection of video tapes.

https://www.library.upenn.edu/detail/libraryspaces/ormandy-music-and-media-center

General Online Resources

Section titled “General Online Resources”

This page at the Jewish Music WebCenter at Brandeis University provides an introduction to researching Jewish Music, help with narrowing your subject, and navigating the vocabulary. It contains some information specific to Brandeis, but has plenty of useful tips to help any researcher.

An academic institution fully dedicated to the documentation, research, and publication of scholarly materials about Jewish music, founded in 1964 and based at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Their Thesaurus of Jewish Music offers biographies, lexicon, and a bibliographical database.

A bibliography assembled by Abbi Wood, outlining a range of published work concerning various aspects of Yiddish song, particularly folk song.

Lexicon

Section titled “Lexicon”

Getting a handle on the various terms associated with various traditions within Jewish music can be challenging. Here are some sites that should help you figure out Hebrew and Yiddish terminology, and the variant spellings when the terms are rendered in English.

This online resource within the Jewish Music Research Centre Thesaurus offers definitions and context for terms from Adar to Zemirot.

The Jewish Music WebCenter provides terms to use in keyword searches for catalogs, databases, and other online resources.

Academic

Section titled “Academic”

Organizations and academic departments that may be helpful to you in your research.

ASJM is a non-profit organization for all interested in Jewish music. The society publishes Musica Judaica, a scholarly journal that is unique in the field of Jewish music.

The Jewish Music Institute (JMI), based at the School of Oriental and African Studies(SOAS), University of London, encompasses the music of the Jewish people wherever they are and wherever they have been. JMI has a clear mission to preserve and develop this great heritage for the benefit of present and future generations.

The Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture, established in 2010, is under the auspices of the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies. The Institute is dedicated to studying and preserving Yiddish music and culture, teaching it to new generations, and supporting scholarship that explores it as an important facet of Jewish and American life. It is named for Sherry Mayrent, an avid collector of historical Yiddish recordings.

The Center for Jewish Studies at UW-Madison was founded in 1991 to coordinate and promote an interdisciplinary program in Jewish Studies. They maintain an events calendar, and offer information on funding opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students.

Online Collections and Archives

Section titled “Online Collections and Archives”

The Mayrent Collection of Yiddish Recordings, housed at Mills Music Library, is unique in its comprehensive scale and scope. The over 9,000 78rpm discs amassed by Sherry Mayrent include Yiddish theater, popular and traditional music, cantorial songs, klezmer music, poetry, drama, and event ballads and from locations as diverse as the United States, Eastern Europe, Latin America, South Africa and Israel.

Founded in 1990 to document, preserve, and disseminate the vast body of music that pertains to the American Jewish experience, the Milken Archive has become the largest collection of American Jewish music ever assembled. Mills Music Library has CDs from the Archive, and also provides access to them via Naxos Music Library.

The Recorded Sound Archives at Florida Atlantic University Libraries began in 2002, and now offers the largest online collection of Jewish music in the world via its Judaic Collection, using technology to ensure that this cultural heritage will be heard around the world for generations to come.

The Library’s holdings of Yiddish American popular songs include the Irene Heskes Collection of Yiddish American sheet music (drawn from the archives of the Hebrew Publishing Company during her New York project in 1980), as well as copyright deposits already in the custody of the Library and materials drawn from other sources and gleaned from other Library collections. Items are organized according to the serial numbers that Heskes laid out in her catalog.

· Sephardic Music: A Century of Recordings

This site seeks ‘to comprehensively document the entire history of recorded Sephardic music worldwide’ through discographies, artist biographies, a discussion of repertoire and performance practice, and many sound files.

· Aaron Lebedeff

Site devoted to popular Yiddish singer & actor of the ‘Golden Age of Yiddish Theater.’ Features lyrics, mp3s, biography and more.

· Ari Davidow’s Klezmer Shack

‘We have klezmer news and the latest reviews. For new musicians, we’ve added a FAQ on ‘Essential klezmer repertoire’ culled from the Jewish-music mailing list.’ Locate ongoing and single events through the calendar; also find information about and related links to bands, sheet music, record labels, instruments, and more.

· The Yosl and Chana Mlotek Yiddish Song Collection at the Workers’ Circle.

This database incorporates musical notation for 400 songs and video recordings of the songs.

· HebrewSongs.com

English translations and Hebrew transliterations (and some sound clips) of the Psalms, Jewish festival music, and other lyrics for Hebrew songs. There are links to Israeli singers and musicians and dance sites, plus a noticeboard for comments and requests.]

· European Institute of Jewish Music (IEMJ)

The first center dedicated to the documentation and the resources pertaining to Jewish music in Europe, the IEMJ was created in 2006 by the French Judaism Foundation, the Yuval association and the Henriette Halphen Foundation.

General Reference

Section titled “General Reference”

These are a few examples of books you could find by searching the Penn Library Catalog:

Broadway

Section titled “Broadway”
  • Crawford, Richard Summertime: George Gershwin’s Life in Music New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2019 Van Pelt Library ML410.G288 C73 2019
  • Fields, Armond and L. Marc Fields From the Bowery to Broadway: Lew Fields and the Roots of American Popular Theatre New York : Oxford University Press, 1993 Van Pelt Library PN2287.F44 F54 1993
  • Freedman, Harry Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius London : Bloomsbury Continuum, 2021 Van Pelt Library ML410.C734 F74 2021
  • Frühauf, Tina “Fiddling on Broadway,” pp. 75-92 in, Experiencing Jewish Music in America: A Listener’s Companion (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018) Van Pelt Library ML3776 .F88 2018
  • Gordon, Eric A. Mark the Music. The Life and Work of Marc Blitzstein New York : St. Martin’s Press, 1989 Van Pelt Library ML410.B6515 G7 1989
  • Gottlieb, Jack Funny, It Doesn’t Sound Jewish: How Yiddish Songs and Synagogue Melodies Influenced Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Hollywood Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 2004 Van Pelt Library ML3776 .G68 2004 Van Pelt - Freedman Jewish Sound Archives Folio ML3776 .G68 2004
  • Griffel, L. Michael Funny, You Don’t Look it. Jews, Non-Jews, and the Broadway Musical New York : Hunter College of the City University of New York, 2007 Library at the Katz Center ML1711 .G79 2007 Van Pelt Library ML1711 .G79 2007
  • Hecht, Stuart Joel Transposing Broadway: Jews, Assimilation, and the American Musical New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 Van Pelt Library ML1711 .H34 2011
  • Herman, Jay “Americanizing America: Irving Berlin’s Influence On His Adopted Culture,” University of Puget Sound, Sound Ideas (2010). Summer Research. Paper 54 https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1053&context=summer_research
  • Hirsch, Foster Kurt Weill on Stage: From Berlin to Broadway New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2002 Van Pelt Library ML410.W395 H57 2002
  • Horowitz, Mark Eden The Letters of Oscar Hammerstein II New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022 Van Pelt - Music Library New Book Shelf ML423.H24 A4 2022
  • Kaplan, James Irving Berlin. New York Genius New Haven : Yale University Press, 2019 Van Pelt Library ML410.B499 K37 2019
  • Lambert, Philip To Broadway, To Life! The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick New York : Oxford University Press, 2010 Van Pelt Library ML410.B661 L36 2011
  • Lane, Stewart F. Jews on Broadway: An Historical Survey of Performers, Playwrights, Composers, Lyricists and Producers Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland, 2017 Van Pelt Library PN1590.J48 L35 2017
  • Lehman, David A Fine Romance. Jewish Songwriters, American Songs New York : Nextbook/Schocken, 2009 Van Pelt Library ML3477 .L45 2009
  • Lehrman, Leonard Marc Blitzstein : a bio-bibliography Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2005 Van Pelt Library ML134.B622 L44 2005
  • Magee, Jeffrey Irving Berlin’s American Musical Theater New York : Oxford University Press, 2012 Van Pelt Library ML410.B499 M34 2012
  • Most, Andrea Theatrical liberalism : Jews and popular entertainment in America New York : New York University Press, 2013 Van Pelt Library PN1590.J48 M67 2013
  • Most, Andrea Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004 Library at the Katz Center ML1711 .M74 2004 Van Pelt Library ML1711 .M74 2004
  • Nolan, Frederick Lorenz Hart: A Poet on Broadway New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1996 Online resource
  • Oja, Carol J. Bernstein Meets Broadway. Collaborative Art in a Time of War New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014 Van Pelt Library ML410.B566 O43 2014
  • Rimler, Walter George Gershwin. An Intimate Portrait Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2009 Van Pelt Library ML410.G288 R55 2009
  • Schebera, Jürgen Kurt Weill: An Illustrated Life New Haven : Yale University Press, 1995 Van Pelt Library ML410.W395 S3513 1995
  • Sheldon, Harvey Encyclopedia of the History of Broadway-hollywood Swing and Pop Music [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2009 Library at the Katz Center ML2054 .S54 2000 Van Pelt - Freedman Jewish Sound Archives ML2054 .S54 2000
  • Sheppard, William Anthony, ed. Sondheim in Our Time and His New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2022 Online resource
  • Solomon, Alisa Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof New York : Metropolitan Books, 2013 Van Pelt Library ML410.B661 S65 2013
  • Wells, Elizabeth A. West Side Story. Cultural Perspectives on an American Musical Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2011 Van Pelt Library ML410.B566 W45 2011

Cabaret

Section titled “Cabaret”
  • Arnbom, Marie-Theres and Geog Wacks, edd Jüdisches Kabarett in Wien 1889–2009 Vienna: Armin Berg Verlag, 2009 Available via BorrowDirect
  • Bayerdörfer, Hans-Peter “Jewish Cabaret Artists before 1933,” pp. 132-150 in, Jews and the Making of Modern German Theatre (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2010), edd. Freddie Rokem and Jeanette R. Malkin Van Pelt Library PN2653 .J48 2010
  • Bayerdörfer, Hans-Peter “’In eigener Sache?’ – Jüdische Stimmen im deutschen und österreichischen Kabertt der Zwischenkreigszeit: Fritz Grünbaum – Fritz Löhner – Walter Mehring,“ pp. 64-86 in, Hundert Jahre Kabarett: zur Inszenierung gesellschaftlicher Identität zwischen Protest und Propaganda. (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2003) Joanne McNally and Peter Sprengel Available via BorrowDirect
  • Edelman, Samuel M. “Singing in the Face of Death – A Study of Jewish Cabaret and Opera during the Holocaust,” pp. 125-132 in, Theatrical Performance during the Holocaust: Texts, Documents, Memoirs (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999) ed. Rebecca and Alvin Goldfarb
  • Edelman, Samuel M. “Singing in the Face of Death – A Study of Jewish Cabaret and Opera during the Holocaust,” vol. 4, pt. 2, pp. 205-213 in, Proceedings of the 9th World Congress of Jewish Studies, 1985 Library at the Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery BM30 .W6 1985
  • Ganeva, Mila “Jewish Comedians beyond Lubitsch: Siegfried Arno in Film and Cabaret,” pp. 88-110 in, Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema (New York: Berghahn Books, 2020) edd. Barbara Hales and Valerie Weinstein Online resource
  • Gross, Natan “Mordechai Gebirtig: The Folk Song and the Cabaret Song,” Polin 16 (2003) 107-118 Library at the Katz Center DS135.P6 P56
  • Holmgren, Beth, “Cabaret Nation: The Jewish Foundations of Kabaret Literacki, 1920-1939,” Polin 31 (2019) 273 288 Library at the Katz Center DS135.P6 P56
  • Jacobs, Neil G. “A Code of Many Colors: Deciphering the Language of Jewish Cabaret,” pp. 119- 168 in, EYDES (Evidence of Yiddish Documented in European Societies): The Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry (Tübingen : Max Niemeyer, 2008) edd. Andrew Sunshine, Marvin Herzog, Robert Neumann, Ulrike Kiefer, Wolfgang Putschke Online resource
  • Jacobs, Neil G. “Soirée bei Kohn. Jewish Elements in the Repertoire of Hermann Leopoldi,” Zutot (2002) 200-208 Library at the Katz Center DS101 .Z886
  • Jelavich, Peter “Cabaret in Concentration Camps,” pp 137-163 in, Theatre and War, 1933-1945: Performance in Extremis (New York: Berghahn Books, 2001) ed. Michael Balfour Van Pelt Library PN2570 .T389 2001
  • Jelavich, Peter “Performing High and Low: Jews in Modern Theater, Cabaret, Revue, and Film,” pp. 208-237 in, Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture, 1890-1918 (Berkeley, CA : University of California Press ; New York : Jewish Museum, 1999) ed. Sigrid Bauschinger Library at the Katz Center, Folio N6885 .B43 1999
  • Klösch, Christian “’Wien das fidele Graban der Donau.’ Der Beitrag von Juden zu Kabarett und Kleinkunst im Wien in der Zwischenkrieszeit,” pp. 198-208 in, Wien, Stadt der Juden: Die Welt der Tante Jolesch (Vienna: Zsolnay, 2004) ed. Joachim Riedl LIBRA DS135.A92 V585 2004
  • Korbel, Susanne Auf die Tour! Jüdinnen und Juden in Singspielhalle, Kabarett und Varieté: Zwischen Habsburger-monarchie und Amerika Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2021 Van Pelt Library PN1590.J48 K67 2021
  • Leopoldi, Elisabeth Hermann Leopoldi: Composer, Viennese Cabaret Pianist and Incurable Optimist Berlin ; Leipzig : Hentrich & Hentrich ; [Berlin] : Centrum Judaicum, 2019 Van Pelt Library ML410.L522 L48213 2019
  • Modlinger, Martin “Auf dem Karussell der Geschichte: Das Theresienstädter Kabarett zwischen Historie und Theater,” German Studies Review 33.3 (2010) 657-680 LIBRA DD1 .G382
  • Peschel, Lisa, ed. Performing Captivity, Performing Escape: Cabarets and Plays from the Terezín/Theresienstadt Ghetto London: Seagull Books, 2014 Van Pelt Library D805.5.T54 P47 2014
  • Rabe, Hannelore Die Hofers: Theresienstadt - Kabarett - Rostock Germany: Basisgruppe Rostock, 2013 Available via BorrowDirect
  • Reinwald, David Eric Cabaret Music of the Holocaust: Notes of Satire from the Stages, Cafes, and Streets of the Ghettos Dissertation, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Brookdale Center, 2006
  • Schlör, Joachim “”Da wär’s halt gut, wenn man Englisch könnt!“ Robert Gilbert, Hermann Leopoldi and the Role of Languages between Exile and Return,” pp. 153-172 in, Jewish Translation - Translating Jewishness (Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, 2018) edd. Magdalena Waligórska and Tara Kohn Van Pelt Library PJ5067 .J49 2018
  • Veigl, Hans Entwürfe für ein Grünbaum-Monument: Fritz Grünbaum und das Wiener Kabarett : zum 60. Todesjahr. Graz: Öka, 2001 Available via BorrowDirect
  • Veigl, Hans Luftmenschen spielen Theater: jüdisches Kabarett in Wien, 1890-1938 Himberg bei Wien : Kremayr & Scheriau, 1992 LIBRA PT3826.J48 L84 1992
  • Wagner-Trenkwitz, Christoph and Marie-Therese Arnbom Grüss mich Gott! Fritz Grünbaum 1880-1941 : eine Biographie Austria: Brandstätter, 2005 Available via BorrowDirect

Classical Music

Section titled “Classical Music”
  • Aronson, Josh and Denise George Orchestra of Exiles. The Story of Bronislaw Huberman, the Israel Philharmonic, and the One Thousand Jews He Saved from Nazi Horrors New York: Berkley Books, 2016 Available via BorrowDirect
  • Baber, Katherine Leonard Bernstein and the Language of Jazz Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2019 Van Pelt Library ML410.B566 B23 2019
  • Botstein, Leon “Mendelssohn as Jew: Revisiting Controversy on the Occasion of the Composer’s 200th Birthday,” The Musical Quarterly 92.1-2 (2009) 1–8 https://doi.org/10.1093/musqtl/gdp015
  • Botstein, Leon and Werner Hanak, edd. Vienna: Jews and the City of Music, 1870-1938 Annandale-on-Hudson : Bard College ; [Hofheim]: Wolke Verlag, Van Pelt - Marian Anderson Study Center Reserve ML246.8.V6 Q3713 2004
  • Vienna: Jews and the City of Music, 1870-1938 Vienna : Jüdische Museum der Stadt Wien, 2004 2 audio discs Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center Jued. Muse. 4015/6 CD
  • Brown, Stephen C. “Tracing the Origins of Shostakovich’s Musical Motto,” Integral 20 (2006) 69-103 https://www.jstor.org/stable/40214029
  • Carrieri, Alessandro and Annalisa Capristo Italian Jewish Musicians and Composers Under Fascism: Let Our Music Be Played Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021 Van Pelt Library ML290.5 .I83 2021
  • Clark, Caryl Haydn’s Jews. Representation and Reception on the Operatic Stage Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 Van Pelt Library ML410.H4 C53 2009
  • Clark, Caryl “Joseph Haydn’s Judaizing of the Apothecary – Take 2,” pp. 99-121 in, Opera in a Multicultural World: Coloniality, Culture, Performance (New York, NY : Routledge, 2016) edd. Joseph So, Mary Ingraham, Roy Moodley Van Pelt Library ML1700 .O669 2016
  • Clarke, Christopher “Antisemitism in Classical Music: from Wagner to Shostakovich,” Consensus 41.2 (2020) Article 8 https://scholars.wlu.ca/consensus/vol41/iss2/8?utm_source=scholars.wlu.ca%2Fconsensus%2Fvol41%2Fiss2%2F8&utm_medium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages
  • Conway, David Jewry in Music. Entry to the Profession from the Enlightenment to Richard Wagner New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011 Van Pelt Library ML3776 .C66 2012
  • Cook, Ida Safe Passage Don Mills, Ontario: Harlequin Enterprises ULC, 2008 Available via ILL
  • Cypess, Rebecca “The Community as Ethnographer: Views of Classical Music in the English-Speaking Orthodox Jewish Community,” International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music 41.1 (2010) 117-139 Van Pelt Library ML5 .I577
  • Frühauf, Tina “On the Concert Stage: Classical Music and the Jewish Experience,” pp. 93-118 in, Experiencing Jewish Music in America: A Listener’s Companion (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018) Van Pelt Library ML3776 .F88 2018
  • Haas, Frithjof Hermann Levi From Brahms to Wagner Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2012 Van Pelt Library ML422.L66 H3313 2012
  • Haas, Michael Forbidden Music. The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013 Van Pelt Library ML3776 .H32 2013
  • Hallman, Diana R. Opera, liberalism, and antisemitism in nineteenth-century France : the politics of Halévy’s La juive Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 Van Pelt Library ML410.H17 H35 2002
  • Hirsch, Lily “Korngold and Jewish Identity in Concert,” pp. 89-110 in, Korngold and His World (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019) edd. Daniel Goldmark and Kevin C. Karnes Online resource
  • Hirsch, Lily E. A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany: Musical Politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010 Van Pelt Library ML3917.G3 H57 2010
  • Holde, Artur Jews in Music: From the Age of Enlightenment to the Mid-Twentieth Century New York : Philosophical Library, 1959 Library at the Katz Center ML3776 .H64 1959 Van Pelt Library ML3776 .H64 1974 Van Pelt - Freedman Jewish Sound Archives ML3776 .H64 1959
  • Laird, Paul R. Leonard Bernstein London : Reaktion Books, 2018 Van Pelt Library ML410.B566 L35 2018
  • List of Jewish classical musicians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Jewish_classical_musicians
  • Loeffler, James Benjamin The Most Musical Nation. Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2010 Van Pelt Library ML3776 .L64 2010 Van Pelt - Freedman Jewish Sound Archives ML3776 .L64 2010
  • Monson, Marianne The Opera Sisters Salt Lake City: Shadow Mountain Publishing, 2022 Available via ILL
  • Oja, Carol and Kay Kaufman Shelemay “Leonard Bernstein.s Jewish Boston: Cross-Disciplinary Research in the Classroom,” Journal of the Society for American Music 3.1 (2009) 3-33 Van Pelt Library ML1 .J756
  • Orzech, Rachel Constructions of Jewishness: The Reception of Halévy’s La Juive from Paris, 1835 to Tel Aviv, 2010 Australia: University of Melbourne, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, 2011
  • Pollack, Howard Aaron Copland: The Life & Work of an Uncommon Man New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1999 Van Pelt Library ML410.C756 P6 1999
  • Rapport, Evan Greeted with Smiles. Bukharian Jewish Music and Musicians in New York New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014 Van Pelt Library ML3776 .R26 2014
  • Ringer, Alexander L. Arnold Schoenberg: The Composer as Jew Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1990 Van Pelt Library ML410.S283 R55 1990
  • Schoenbaum, David The Lives of Isaac Stern New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2020 Van Pelt Library ML418.S75 S36 2020 Stevens. Lewis Composers of classical music of Jewish descent London ; Portland, OR : Vallentine Mitchell, 2003 Library at the Katz Center - Reference Room ML390 .S825 2003 Van Pelt Library ML390 .S825 2003
  • Tenster, Alexander The Jewish Experience in Classical Music. Shostakovich and Asia Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2014 Van Pelt Library ML410.S53 J49 2014
  • Todd, Larry R., ed. Mendelssohn and his World Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1991 Van Pelt Library ML410.M5 M47 1991
  • Vincent, Isabel Overture of Hope: Two Sisters’ Daring Plan that Saved Opera’s Jewish Stars from the Third Reich New York: Regnery Publishing, 2022 Available via ILL
  • Vincent, Isabel Two Against Hitler: The Daring Mission to Save Europe’s Opera Stars from the Nazis New York: Hachette Books, (n.d.).
  • Whiting, James The Life and Times of Leonard Bernstein 2019

Jazz

Section titled “Jazz”
  • Alexander, Michael Jazz Age Jews Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2018 Library at the Katz Center E184.37.A13 2001 Van Pelt Library E184.37.A13 2001
  • Baber, Katherine Leonard Bernstein and the Language of Jazz Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019 Van Pelt Library ML410.B566 B23 2019
  • Damon, Maria “Jazz-Jews, Jive, and Gender: The Ethnic Politics of Jazz Argot,” pp. 150-175 in, Jews and Other Differences: The New Jewish Cultural Studies (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997) edd. Daniel Boyarin and Jonathan Boyarin Available via BorrowDirect
  • Gerber, Mike Jazz Jews Nottingham: Five Leaves, 2009 Van Pelt Library ML394 .G43 2009
  • Hecht, Stuart J. “Jazz, Jews, and Modernism on Broadway: From Lady, be Good! to Showboat (1924-1927),” pp. 34-48 in, Experiments in Democracy: Interracial and Cross-Cultural Exchange in American Theatre, 1912-1945 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2016) edd. Cheryl Black and Jonathan Shandell Van Pelt Library PN2266.3 .E94 2016
  • Helgert, Lars “Songs from Leonard Bernstein’s Stage Works as Jazz Repertoire,” American Music 27.3 (2009) 356-368 LIBRA ML1 .A497
  • Hersch, Charles B. “Swinging Hava Nagila: Jewish Jazz and Jewish Identity,” Shofar 33.3 (2915) 1-26 Library at the Katz Center Periodicals B1
  • Hersch, Charles B. Jews and Jazz: Improvising Ethnicity New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2017 Van Pelt Library ML3776 .H45 2017
  • Hersch, Charles B. “‘Every Time I Try to Play Black, It Comes Out Sounding Jewish’: Jewish Jazz Musicians and Racial Identity,” American Jewish History 97.3 (2013) 259-282 https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/23887619.pdf
  • Katorza, Ari “Someone to Watch Over Me – Jerome Kern, George Gershwin and the Jazz Journey in the Musical Comedy,” pp. 75-97 in, Stairway to Paradise: Jews, Blacks, and the American Music Revolution. (München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021) Online resource
  • Kelly, Barbara L. Tradition and Style in the Works of Darius Milhad 1912-1939 Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003
  • Khiterer, Victoria “Seekers of Happiness: Jews and Jazz in the Soviet Union,” Kultura Popularna (2017) nr 1 (51) 26-50 Online resource
  • Marin, Reva (December 2015). “Representations of Identity in Jewish Jazz Autobiography,” Canadian Review of American Studies. 45 (3): 323–353 Online resource Also available, pp. 82-121 in, Reva Marin, Outside and Inside: Race and Identity in White Jazz Autobiography (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2020) Online resource
  • Merwin, Ted In Their Own Image: New York Jews in Jazz Age Popular Culture New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2006 Van Pelt Library PN1590.J48 M47 2006
  • Morgenstern, Dan “Jazz - The Jewish-Black Connection,” pp. 95-112 in, Creators and Disturbers: Reminiscences by Jewish Intellectuals of New York (New York: Columbia University Press, 1982) edd. Bernard Rosenberg and Ernest Goldstein LIBRA F128.9.J5 C77
  • Rogin, Michael
    “Blackface, White Noise: The Jewish Jazz Singer Finds His Voice,” Critical Inquiry 18.3 (1992) 417–53 Online resource Also pp. 73—120 in, Rogin, Michael Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996 Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.N4 R64 1996
  • Sapoznik, Henry Jews and Jazz: Before the Beginning Yiddish Book Center’s Virtual Public Programs (2021) https://archive.org/details/nybc-ybcr-1020
  • Schumann, Coco Coco Schumann, der Ghetto-Swinger : eine Jazzlegende erzählt München : Deutscher Taschenbuch, 1999 Van Pelt Library ML419.S33 A3 1999
  • Sonn, Richard D.. “Jews in Jazz Age Paris: The Symbiosis of Music and Art,” pp. 187-222 in, Modernist Diaspora: Immigrant Jewish Artists in Paris, 1900-1945 London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022 Online resource
  • Sutherland, Jon The Bunny Hop: The Harvey Sheldon Story and the Bandstand Years West Hills, Calif. : Donalsie Walker, 2001 Van Pelt Library PN1991.4.S48 S88 2001 Van Pelt - Judaica/Ancient Near East Resource Room (401) PN1991.4.S48 S88 2001
  • Pollack, Jonathan Z. S. “”Ovoutie Slanguage is Absolutely Kosher”: Yiddish in Scat-singing, Jazz Jargon and Black Music,” pp. 71-88 in, The Song is Not the Same: Jews and American Popular Music (United States: Purdue University Press for the USC Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life, 2011) ed. Bruce Zuckerman, Josh Kun, and Lisa Ansell Available via BorrowDirect

Klezmer

Section titled “Klezmer”
  • Alexander, Phil Sounding Jewish in Berlin. Klezmer Music and the Contemporary City New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2021 Online resource
  • Beregovski, M. “Yidishe klezmer, zeyer shafn un shteyger”. Literarisher Alamanakh “Sovetish” (in Yiddish). Moscow: Melukhe-farlag “Der Emes” 12 (1941) 412–450
  • Feldman, Walter Klezmer: music, history and memory New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016 Van Pelt Library ML3528.8 .F45 2016
  • Feldman, Walter “Klezmer Tunes For The Christian Bride: The Interface of Jewish and Romanian Exptressive Cultures in the Wedding Table Repertoire from Northern Bessarabia,” Revista de Etnografii și Folclor, new series (1-2/2020) 5-35
  • Freedman, Jonathan Klezmer America. Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity New York : Columbia University Press, 2008 Van Pelt Library E184.36.I58 F74 2008
  • Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara “Sounds of sensibility,” Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought. 47.1 (1998) 49–79 Online resource
  • The Klezmer Institute https://klezmerinstitute.org
  • Loeffler, James “Di Rusishe Progresiv Muzikal Yunyon No. 1 fun Amerike. The First Klezmer Union in America,” pp. 35-51 in, American Klezmer : its roots and offshoots (University of California Press, 2002) ed. Mark Slobin Library at the Katz Center ML3528.8 .K54 2002 Van Pelt Library ML3528.8 .K54 2002
  • Netsky, Hankus Klezmer. Music and Community in Twentieth-Century Jewish Philadelphia Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2015 Van Pelt Library ML3528.8 .N48 2015 Van Pelt - Freedman Jewish Sound Archives ML3528.8 .N48 2015
  • Rogovoy, Seth The Essential Klezmer. a music lover’s guide to Jewish roots and soul music, from the Old World to the Jazz Age to the downtown avant-garde Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonguin Books of Chapel Hill, 2000 Van Pelt Library ML3528.8 .R64 2000 Van Pelt - Freedman Jewish Sound Archives ML3528.8 .R64 2000
  • Rubin, Joel E. New York klezmer in the early twentieth century: the music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras. Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press,, 2020 Van Pelt Library ML3528.8 .R83 2020
  • Rubin, Joel E. “’Like a String of Pearls’: Reflections on the Role of Brass Instrumentalists in Jewish Instrumental Klezmer Music and the Trope of ‘Jewish Jazz,’” pp. 77-102 in, Early Twentieth-Century Brass Idioms: art, jazz, and other popular traditions : proceedings of the international conference presented by the Institute of Jazz Studies of Rutgers University and the Historic Brass Society, November 4-5, 2005 (Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2009) ed. Howard T. Weiner Van Pelt Library ML3505.9.E27 2009
  • Rubin, Joel E. “Klezmer music – a historical overview to the present,” pp. 119-142 in, The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Music (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015) ed. Joshua S. Walden
  • Sapoznik, Henry “Klezmer Music: The First 1000 Years,” pp. 54-70 in, The music of multicultural America: performance, identity, and community in the United States (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2016) edd. Kip Lornell and Anne Rusmussen Van Pelt Library ML3477 .M85 2016
  • Sapoznik, Henry Klezmer! : Jewish music from Old World to our world New York: Schirmer Books, 2006 Van Pelt Library ML3528.8 .S26 2006
  • Sholokhova, Lyudmila “Yehiel Goyzman (Alter Chudnover, 1849-1913): A Klezmer Violinist in Transition From Folk Music To Classical Style Performance,” pp. 43-58 in, Jüdische Musik als Dialog der Kulturen (Jewish Music as a Dialogue of Cultures), Jüdische Musik Band 12 (Weisbaden: Harraswitz Verlag, 2013) ed. Jascha Nemtsov LIBRA ML3776 .J824 2013
  • Sholokhova, Lyudmila (2004). “Zinoviy Kiselhof as a Founder of Jewish Musical Folklore Studies in the Russian Empire at the Beginning of the 20th Century,” pp. 63-72 in, Klesmer, Klassik, jiddisches Lied: jüdische Musikkultur in Osteuropa (Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2004) ed. Karl-Erich Grözinger Van Pelt Library ML3776 .K57 2004
  • Slobin, Mark Fiddler on the move : exploring the klezmer world Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000 Van Pelt Library ML3528.8 .S58 2000
  • Slobin, Mark, ed. American Klezmer. Its Roots and Offshoots University of California Press, 2002 Library at the Katz Center ML3528.8 .K54 2002 Van Pelt Library ML3528.8 .K54 2002
  • Strom, Yale Shpil: The Art of Playing Klezmer Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2012 Van Pelt Library ML3528.8 .S53 2012
  • Strom, Yale The Book of Klezmer. The History, the Music, the Folklore Chicago : Chicago Review Press, 2002 Van Pelt Library ML3528.8 .S77 2002
  • Waligorska, Magdalena Klezmer’s Afterlife. An Ethnography of the Jewish Music Revival in Poland and Germany New York : Oxford University Press, 2013 Van Pelt Library ML3776 .W35 2013
  • Waligorska, Magdalena “The Klezmer Revival in Poland as a Contact Zone,” pp. 461-476 in, Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 32: Jews and Music-Making in the Polish Lands (2020) edd. Antony Polonsky, Benjamin Matis, François Guesnet
  • Zaagsma, Gerben (2000) “The Klezmorim of Prague: About a Jewish Musicians’ Guild,” East European Meetings in Ethnomusicology 7 (2000) 41–47 Van Pelt Library ML3797.6 .E278

Litugical

Section titled “Litugical”

  • Aloni, Aminadav, 1928-1999. Sheva b’rachot: Seven blessings: for solo voice and keyboard New York: Transcontinental Music, 1996 Katz Center - Stacks M2017.6.A5 S7 1996

  • Baer, Abraham Baal t’fillah; oder Der practische Vorbeter. Vollständige Sammlung der gottesdienstlichen Gesänge und Recitative der Israeliten nach polnischen, deutschen (aschk’nasischen) und portugiesischen (sephardischen) Weisen nebst allen den Gottesdienst betreffenden rituellen Vorschriften und Gebräuchen (Dinim u-minhagim) New York: Sacred Music Press, pref. 1953 Van Pelt Library M2186.O84 no.1

  • Cohn, Judah M. The making of a Reform Jewish cantor: musical authority, cultural investment Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009 Van Pelt Library MT.N45 H439 2009

  • Finzi, Graciane Kaddish: sur un texte de la liturgie juive : original pour voix, violoncelle et piano = on a Jewish liturgical text : original for voice, cello and piano : pour voix, violoncelle solo et quatuor de violoncelles = for voice, cello solo and cello quartet Paris: Billaudot, 2018 LIBRA M2103.3.F56 K3 2018

  • Friedmann, Jonathan L. and Brad Stetson Jewish sacred music and Jewish identity: continuity and fragmentation St. Paul, Minn.: Paragon House, 2008 Van Pelt Library ML3195.J58 2008

  • Friedmann, Jonathan L. Perspectives on Jewish music: secular and sacred Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009 Van Pelt Library ML3776.P47 2009

  • Friedmann, Jonathan L., 1980- Synagogue song: an introduction to concepts, theories and customs Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2012 Van Pelt Library ML3195.F74 2012

  • Gerovitsch, Elieser ben Jizchok Shire tefilah: Sinagogen-Gesänge für Cantor und gemischten Chor New York: Sacred Music Press, pref. 1953 Van Pelt Library M2186.O84 no.2-3

  • Gerovitsch, Elieser ben Jizchok Shire zimrah: Schirej Simroh; Synagogen Recitative und Chöre New York: Sacred Music Press: sold by Bloch Pub. Co., 1953-1954? Van Pelt Library M2186.O84 no.4-5

  • Glanz, Leib The Leib Glantz project: forty-three new arrangements of the compositions of cantor and composer Leib Glantz Tel Aviv, Israel: Published by The Tel Aviv Institute for Jewish Liturgical Music, 2013 Van Pelt - Freedman Jewish Sound Archives M2186.G53 L45 2013 LIBRA M2186.G53 L45 2013

  • Guthrie, Harvey H. Israel’s sacred songs a study of dominant themes New York: Seabury Press, 1966 Katz Center - Stacks BS1430.2 .G88 1966

  • Jacobsohn, Hanns John Sabbathklang und Festessang: ein musikalischer wegweiser für die häusliche Sabbath- und Festesfeier Berlin: Philo, 1937 Katz Center - Stacks M2186.J27 S3 1937

  • Janowski, Max Psalm 131: Lord, my heart is not haughty: for solo, choir and organ Chicago: Friends of Jewish Music, 1963 Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection M1495 .A64 Box 47, Fol 18 –

  • Journal of Jewish music and liturgy Katz Center - Stacks ML3195.J69 - v.8 (1985/86), v.14 (1991/92)-v.34 (2018)

  • Kahn, Eliott An inventory of the Samuel Rosenbaum collection New York, NY: Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 2002 LIBRA ML136.N5 J49 2002 –

  • Kellogg, Daniel Sim shalom: SATB a cappella New York, NY: G. Schirmer, Inc., 2010 LIBRA M2092.K45 S5 2010

  • Kessler, Minuetta Confirmation Prayer New York: Transcontinental Music Publications, 1957 Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection M1495 .A64 Box 100A, Folder 22

  • Manasseh, Sara Shbahoth: songs of praise in the Babylonian Jewish tradition from Baghdad to Bombay and London Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Pub., 2012 Van Pelt Library ML3758.I7 M36 2012

  • Nulman, Macy Nulman, Macy Concepts of Jewish music and prayer New York: Cantorial Council of America at Yeshiva University, 1985 Van Pelt Library ML3195.N84 1985

  • Podda, Marco and Shai Misan Canti di rito ebraico triestino: musiche del tempio maggiore di Trieste e di Gorizia Udine: Pizzicato, 1998 Van Pelt Library M2079.5.C357 1998

  • Ross, Sarah, Gabriel Levy, and Soham Al-Suadi Judaism and emotion: texts, performance, experience New York: Peter Lang, 2013 Penn Museum Library BM645.E46 J83 2013

  • Schleiffer, Eliyahu and Edwin Seroussi Studies in honour of Israel Adler Yerushalayim: Hotsaʾat sefarim ʻa. sh. Y.L. Magnes, ha-Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit, 2002 Van Pelt Library ML3776.M45 2002

  • Seroussi, Edwin Jewish Music New York: Oxford University Press, 2014- Oxford Bibliographies Online

  • Seroussi, Edwin מזמרת קדם : חייו ויצירתו המוסיקאלית של הרב יצחק אלגאזי מתורכיה / אדוין סרוסי. Yerushalayim: Renanot, Makhon le-musiḳah Yehudit, 1989 Van Pelt Library BM658.2.A45 S47 1989

  • Seroussi, Edwin לבוש ותוך : המוסיקה בחוויית היהדות / עורכים איתן אביצור, מרינה ריצרב, אדוין סרוסי Ramat-Gan: Universiṭat Bar-Ilan, 2012 Van Pelt Library ML3195.L488 2012

  • Seroussi, Edwin Spanish-Portuguese synagogue music: in nineteenth-century Reform sources from Hamburg: ancient tradition in the dawn of modernity Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1996 Van Pelt Library ML3195.S37 1996

  • Seroussi, Edwin Diversity within unity: some historical aspects of Dutch synagogue music Amsterdam : Menasseh ben Israel Institute, 2008 Van Pelt Library ML3195.S42 D5 2008

  • Strassfeld, Michael Michael Strassfeld papers, 1901-2015 (bulk: 1968-2015) Online finding aid, http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/pacscl/UPENN_RBML_MsColl1218 Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 1218 -

  • Wernick, Richard “And on the seventh day …” a service for Sabbath Eve: for cantor and percussion (three players and a timpanist) King of Prussia, Pennsylvania: Theodore Presser Company, 2020 Van Pelt Library M2017.6.W47 A53 2020

Yiddish Theatre

Section titled “Yiddish Theatre”
  • Adler, Jacob P. A Life on the Stage : a Memoir New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1999 Van Pelt Library PN2287.A43 A3 1999 Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Storage PN2287.A43 A3 1999
  • Aptroot, Marion Yiddish Theater Amsterdam : Menasseh ben Israel Institute, 2020 Van Pelt Library PN3035 .Y5335 2020
  • Beck, Evelyn Kafka and the Yiddish Theater: Its Impact on His Work Madison ; Milwaukee ; London : The University of Wisconsin Press, 1971 Library at the Katz Center PT2621.A26 Z585 1971 Van Pelt Library PT2621.A26 Z585
  • Berkovitsh, Yisrael Hundert yor yidish teater in Rumenye, 1876-1976 Bucharest: Criterion, 1976
  • Berkowitz, Joel and Barbara J. Henry, edd. Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, 2012 Van Pelt Library PN3035 .I59 2012
  • Berkowitz, Joel Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2005 Van Pelt Library PR3105 .B47 2002 Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR3105 .B47 2002
  • Berkowitz, Joel, ed. Yiddish Theatre: New Approaches London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2003 Library at the Katz Center PN3035.Y475 2003 Van Pelt Library PN3035.Y475 2003
  • Berkowitz, Joel “Avrom Goldfaden and the Modern Yiddish Theater: The Bard of Old Constantine,” Pakn Treger, no. 44 (Winter 2004) 10–19 https://web.archive.org/web/20150704133019/http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/files/pt-articles/PT44_goldfaden.pdf
  • Brenner, David A. German-Jewish Popular Culture Before the Holocaust: Kafka’s Kitsch London ; New York : Routledge: Taylor & Francis, 2008 Van Pelt Library DS134.255 .B74 2008
  • Caplan, Debra Yiddish Empire. The Vilna Troupe, Jewish Theater, and the Art of Itinerancy Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2018 Van Pelt Library PN3035 .C37 2018
  • Epstein, Lawrence J. “Yiddish Theatre,” pp. 205-220 in, At the Edge of a Dream: The Story of Jewish Immigrants on New York’s Lower East Side, 1880-1920 (San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 2007) Library at the Katz Center - Stacks F128.9.J5 E67 2007 Van Pelt Library F128.9.J5 E67 2007
  • Frühauf, Tina “The Yiddish Stage,” pp. 39-56 in, Experiencing Jewish Music in America: A Listener’s Companion (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018) Van Pelt Library ML3776 .F88 2018
  • Furnish, Ben Nostalgia in Jewish-American Theatre and Film, 1979-2004 New York : P. Lang, 2005 Online resource
  • Guarrera-Ashkenazy, Mariel Voices of Second Avenue: Yiddish Theater of the Lower East Side 1880’s to 1920’s Dissertation, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, 2019 Available via ILL
  • Harshav, Benjamin The Moscow Yiddish Theater: Art on Stage in the Time of Revolution New Haven : Yale University Press, 2008 Library at the Katz Center PN3035 .H38 2008 Van Pelt Library PN3035 .H38 2008
  • Henry, Barbara J. Rewriting Russia: Jacob Gordin’s Yiddish Drama Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011 LIBRA PJ5129.G6 Z65 2011 Online resource
  • JewishGen Yiddish Theater and Vaudeville Research Group https://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/ytheatre.htm
  • Kadison, Luba and Joseph Buloff On stage, off stage : memories of a lifetime in the Yiddish theatre Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Library, 1992 Van Pelt Library PN3035 .K26 1992 Van Pelt - Freedman Jewish Sound Archives PN3035 .K26 1992
  • Kanfer, Stefan Stardust Lost: The Triumph, Tragedy, and Mishugas of the Yiddish Theater in America New York : Knopf, 2009 Van Pelt Library PN3035 .K36 2006
  • Kaplan, Beth Finding the Jewish Shakespeare: The Life and Legacy of Jacob Gordin Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2012 Library at the Katz Center - Stacks PJ5129.G6 Z73 2007 Van Pelt Library PJ5129.G6 Z73 2007
  • Kaufman, Rhoda Helfman The Yiddish Theater in New York and the Immigrant Jewish Community: Theater as Secular Ritual Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1986 Available via ILL
  • Klier, John “‘Exit, Pursued by a Bear’: Russian Administrators and the Ban on Yiddish Theater in Imperial Russia,” pp. 159-174 in, Yiddish Theatre: New Approaches, ed. Joel Berkowitz London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2003 Library at the Katz Center PN3035.Y475 2003 Van Pelt Library PN3035.Y475 2003
  • Leiter, Cary Yiddish theatre, modern American theatre the importance of the Yiddish theatre in the evolution of the modern American theatre DM-Verl. Müller, Saarbrücken, 2010
  • Leiter, Cary The Importance of the Yiddish Theatre in the Evolution of the Modern American Theatre Dissertation: Wayne State University, 2008 https://books.google.com/books?id=3gyTPwBba2AC&q=%22edward+g.+robinson%22+yiddish&pg=PA134
  • Manger, Itsik, Jonas Turkow, and Moyshe Perenson, edd. Yidisher teater in Eyrope tsvishn beyde velt-milkhomes Nyu-Yarḳ : Alṿelṭlekhn Yidishn ḳulṭur-ḳongres, 1968-1971 Van Pelt - Freedman Jewish Sound Archives PN3035 .Y54 1968 Van Pelt Library PN3035 .M28 1968
  • Levy, Daniela Smolov “Parsifal in Yiddish? Why Not?,” The Musical Quarterly 97.2 (2014) 140-180 https://www.jstor.org/stable/43865510
  • Miller, James The Detroit Yiddish Theater, 1920 to 1937 Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1967 Library at the Katz Center PN3035 .M5 1967 Van Pelt Library PN3035 .M5
  • Museum of the Yiddish Theatre https://www.moyt.org/
  • Nahshon, Edna, ed. New York’s Yiddish Theater: From Bowery to Broadway New York: Columbia University Press, 2016) Fine Arts Library PN3035 .N48 2016 Van Pelt Library PN3035 .N48 2016
  • Nahshon, Edna Jewish Theatre: A Global View Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009 Library at the Katz Center PN3035 .J496 2009
  • Nahshon, Edna Yiddish proletarian theatre : the art and politics of the Artef, 1925-1940 Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998 Van Pelt Library PN3035 .N28 1998
  • Pollack, Deborah “Molly Picon: The Petite Darling of Yiddish Musical Theatre” https://jewishstudiescolumbia.com/myny/arts/molly-picon/
  • Portnoy, Edward “Modicut Puppet Theatre: Modernism, Satire, and Yiddish Culture,” The Drama Review 43.3 (1999) 105-124 Online resource
  • Quint, Alyssa The Rise of Modern Yiddish Theater Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019 Van Pelt Library PJ5129.G55 Z78 2019
  • Rotman, Diego The Yiddish Stage as a Temporary Home. Dzigan and Shumacher’s Satirical Theater (1927-1980) Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg ; Jerusalem : Magnes, 2021 Online resource
  • Sandrow, Nahma Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater Harper & Row, 1977; reissued by Syracuse University Press, 1995 Library at the Katz Center PN3035 .S25 1996
  • Sandrow, Nahma, “The Father of Yiddish Theater,” Zamir (Autumn, 2003) http://zamir.org/wp-content/notes/2003f.pdf
  • Steinlauf, Michael C. “Fear of Purim: Y. L. Peretz and the Canonization of Yiddish Theater,” Jewish Social Studies 1.3 (1995) 44–65 Library at the Katz Center, Periodicals B1 DS101 .J555
  • Tearney, Thomas The Fraydele Oysher Yiddish Theater Collection: Contents and Highlights in Context Senior Honors Thesis, The Ohio State University, 2010 https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/45691/FraydeleOysherYiddishTheater.pdf?sequence=1
  • Veidlinger, Jeffrey The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2000 Van Pelt Library PN3035 .V45 2000
  • Warnke, Nina “Going East: the impact of American Yiddish plays and players on the Yiddish stage in Czarist Russia, 1890–1914,” American Jewish History 92.1 (2004) 1-29 Online resource
  • Warnke, Bettina Reforming the New York Yiddish Theater: The Cultural Politics of Immigrant Intellectuals and the Yiddish Press, 1887-1910 Thesis (Ph. D.)—Columbia University, 2001 https://www.proquest.com/docview/304688147?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true
  • Yiddish Theater. Bibliography and Discography https://www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/art/thea-bib.htm
  • Zylbercweig (Zilbertsvayg), Zalmen Leksikon fun yidishn teater, 6 vols. Nyu-York : Farlag Elisheva, 1931-1967 Library at the Katz Center, Folio PN3035 .Z895 1931 - v.1-3 Van Pelt - Freedman Jewish Sound Archives Folio PN3035 .Z895 1931 - v.1-6