Contents

• List of Figures
• Introduction: What Is Jewish Music?
• How Many Jewish Musics?
  • The Three Main Streams
    • Ashkenazi and the Klezmer
    • Sephardi
    • Mizrahi
    • Sephardi or Mizrahi?
  
  
• Genres of Liturgical Music
  • Music in Jewish Liturgy
  • Genres, Instruments and Performers
    • Generalities
    • Bible Cantillation
    • The Cantor
    • Prayer-Chant
    • Piyyutim
    • Zemirot
    • Nigunim
    • Biblical Instrumentarium
  • Usage of Musical Terms in Hebrew
  • The Biblical soggetto cavato
  • Summary of the Archaeological Aspects of Jewish Music
  
  
• Some Jewish Composers
  • Salomone Rossi (1570-1630)
  • Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
  • Fromental Halévy (1799-1862)
  • Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864)
  • Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)
  • Georges Gershwin (1898-1937)
  • Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
  • Conclusion on Jewish Composers
  
  
• Jewish Music by non-Jewish Composers
  • Max Bruch and Kol Nidrei
    • Kol Nidrei
  • Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) and Kaddish-Deux Mélodies Hébraïques
  • Sergei Prokofieff and Overture sur des Thèmes Juifs
  • Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and Babi Yar
  
  
• In The Twenty-first Century
  • Diversification
  
  
• Appendices
  • Radical Jewish Culture by John Zorn
  • Russian Society for Jewish Music
  • Jewish Music Research Centre
  • Wagner and the ``Jewness'' in Music
    • The original article of 1850
    • Reception of the 1850 article
    • 1850-1869
    • The 1869 version and after
    • The title in English
    • Wagner and the Jews
    • Recent reception
  • R. Wagner in Israel-BBC News
  • Barenboim on Wagner and Anti-Semitism
  • Schoenberg's Moses und Aron by Aaron Tugendhaft
  • Translation by Andrew Huth of the Poems of Shostakovich's 13th. Symphony Babi Yar
    • I. Babi Yar
    • II. Humor
    • III. In the Store
    • IV. Fears
    • V. A Career
  • Internet Links
  
  
• References