Carol Matz's Famous & Fun Jewish Songs, Book 4 is filled with well-known, beloved Hebrew melodies. The collection contains songs for various Jewish holidays, Israeli and Yiddish folk songs, as well as treasured traditional pieces. The arrangements can be used to supplement any method. Titles: * Adir Hu * Ani Purim * Chanukah Candle Blessings * Chag Purim * Dayeinu * Dodi Li * Heveinu Shalom Aleichem * L'Shana Tova * My Dreidel * Oseh Shalom * Raisins and Almonds * Shabbat Shalom (Bim Bam) * Siman Tov * S'vivon * V'Taheir Libeinu
Carol Matz's Famous & Fun Jewish Songs, Book 3 is filled with well-known, beloved Hebrew melodies. The collection contains songs for various Jewish holidays, Israeli and Yiddish folk songs, as well as treasured traditional pieces. The arrangements can be used to supplement any method and have optional duet parts for teacher or parent. Titles: * Adon Olam * Chad Gadya * Chanukah * Eiliyahu Hanavi * Haman, A Wicked Man * Hamotzi * Hatikva * Ma Nishtana? * My Dreidel * Rock of Ages (Ma'oz Tzur) * Sh'ma Yisrael * Zum Gali Gali
Carol Matz's Famous & Fun Jewish Songs, Book 5 is filled with well-known, beloved Hebrew melodies. The collection contains songs for various Jewish holidays, Israeli and Yiddish folk songs, as well as treasured traditional pieces. The arrangements can be used to supplement any method. Titles: * Artza Alinu * Avinu Malkeinu * Chad Gadya * Chanukah * Eiliyahu Hanavi * Haman, A Wicked Man * Hatikva * Hava Nagila * Hinei Ma Tov * Lama Sukkah Zu? * O Chanukah, O Chanukah * Oif'n Pripetshik * Rock of Ages (Ma'oz Tzur) * Shabbat Blessings
Carol Matz's Famous & Fun Jewish Songs, Book 1 is filled with well-known, beloved Hebrew melodies. The collection contains songs for various Jewish holidays, Israeli and Yiddish folk songs, as well as treasured traditional pieces. The arrangements can be used to supplement any method and have optional duet parts for teacher or parent. Titles: * Chag Purim * Chanukah * Dayeinu * Ein Keloheinu * Go Down, Moses * Hatikva * Heveinu Shalom Aleichem * Hinei Ma Tov * My Dreidel * Shabbat Candle Blessing * Siman Tov
Carol Matz's Famous & Fun Jewish Songs, Book 2 is filled with well-known, beloved Hebrew melodies. The collection contains songs for various Jewish holidays, Israeli and Yiddish folk songs, as well as treasured traditional pieces. The arrangements can be used to supplement any method and have optional duet parts for teacher or parent. Titles: * Ani Purim * Chanukah Candle Blessings * Dayeinu * Hava Nagila * Lama Sukkah Zu? * Lo Yisa Goy * O Chanukah, O Chanukah * Oseh Shalom * Shabbat Shalom (Bim Bam) * Shalom Aleichem * S'vivon * Tum-Balalaika
(Willis). A piano series for the early beginner combining rote and note approach. The melodies are written with careful thought and are kept as simple as possible, yet they are refreshingly delightful. All the music lies within the grasp of the child's small hands.
In A Fine Romance, David Lehman looks at the formation of the American songbook—the timeless numbers that became jazz standards, iconic love songs, and sound tracks to famous movies—and explores the extraordinary fact that this songbook was written almost exclusively by Jews. An acclaimed poet, editor, and cultural critic, David Lehman hears America singing—with a Yiddish accent. He guides us through America in the golden age of song, when “Embraceable You,” “White Christmas,” “Easter Parade,” “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered,” “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man,” “My Romance,” “Cheek to Cheek,” “Stormy Weather,” and countless others became nothing less than the American sound track. The stories behind these songs, the shows from which many of them came, and the shows from which many of them came, and the composers and lyricists who wrote them give voice to a specifically American saga of love, longing, assimilation, and transformation. Lehman’s analytical skills, wit, and exuberance infuse this book with an energy and a tone like no other: at once sharply observant, personally searching, and attuned to the songs that all of us love. He helps us understand how natural it should be that Wizard of Oz composer Harold Arlen was the son of a cantor who incorporated “Over the Rainbow” into his Sabbath liturgy, and why Cole Porter—the rare non-Jew in this pantheon of musicians who wrote these classic songs shaped America even as America was shaping them. (Part of the Jewish Encounter series)
A collection of essays by today's preeminent writers on significant Jewish figures in sports, told with humor, heart, and an eye toward the ever elusive question of Jewish identity. Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame is a timeless collection of biographical musings, sociological riffs about assimilation, first-person reflections, and, above all, great writing on some of the most influential and unexpected pioneers in the world of sports. Featuring work by today's preeminent writers, these essays explore significant Jewish athletes, coaches, broadcasters, trainers, and even team owners (in the finite universe of Jewish Jocks, they count!). Contributors include some of today's most celebrated writers covering a vast assortment of topics, including David Remnick on the biggest mouth in sports, Howard Cosell; Jonathan Safran Foer on the prodigious and pugnacious Bobby Fischer; Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson writing elegantly on Marty Reisman, America's greatest ping-pong player and the sport's ultimate showman. Deborah Lipstadt examines the continuing legacy of the Munich Massacre, the fortieth anniversary of which coincided with the 2012 London Olympics. Jane Leavy reveals why Sandy Koufax agreed to attend her daughter's bat mitzvah. And we learn how Don Lerman single-handedly thrust competitive eating into the public eye with three pounds of butter and 120 jalapeño peppers. These essays are supplemented by a cover design and illustrations throughout by Mark Ulriksen. From settlement houses to stadiums and everywhere in between, Jewish Jock features men and women who do not always fit the standard athletic mold. Rather, they utilized talents long prized by a people of the book (and a people of commerce) to game these games to their advantage, in turn forcing the rest of the world to either copy their methods -- or be left in their dust.
