This year to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Online Library is sharing a few books from our International Cultural Collections below:
The Cambridge companion to Jewish music
From Klezmer to Canters and Yiddish all the way back to the Yishuv, readers won't find the usual Mendelsohns and Meyerbeers in this thorough compendium but a surprisingly complete history of the musical life of the Temple in all it's forms.
Driven to darkness : Jewish emigre directors and the rise of film noir
An easy and fascinating fun, read peeking into the real life behind the scenes of many Jewish Émigré Hollywood film directors including Billy Wilder and Fritz Lang. This book sheds a spotlight on the untold stories of the 'new Americans' who made what we call Old Hollywood.
The Jewish Intellectual Tradition: A History of Learning and Achievement
Covering an almost impossibly broad topic, this book does an amazing job of documenting the importance and value of learning and education in the European Jewish tradition.
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