General CJH Inquiries
Lillian Goldman Reading Room
Ackman and Ziff Genealogy Institute
Liturgical & Religious Music
Maqām and Liturgy: Ritual, Music, and Aesthetics of Syrian Jews in Brooklyn / Mark L. Kligman. Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009.
Mixing Musics: Turkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of a Sacred Song / Maureen Jackson. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture, 2013.
Romemu-exalt: the Music of the Sephardic Jews of Curaçao / edited & annotated by Norman P. Swerling. New York: Tara Publications, 1997.
Sounding Jewish Tradition: The Music of Central Synagogue / Judah M. Cohen. New York, New York: Central Synagogue, 2011.
Music in America
Experiencing Jewish Music in America: A Listener's Companion / Tina Frühauf. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
The Heebie Jeebies at CBGB's: A Secret History of Jewish Punk / Steven Lee Beeber. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2006.
The Joy of Music / Leonard Bernstein. New York: s.n., 1959.
Motor City Music: A Detroiter Looks Back / Mark Slobin. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Sephardic Music & Musicians
Let Jasmine Rain Down: Song and Remembrance Among Syrian Jews / Kay Kaufman Shelemay. Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Moroccan Sephardic Romancero: Anthology of an oral tradition / Susana Weich-Shahak., 2013.
The Music of the Mountain Jews, Eastern and Northern Caucasus / transcriptions and commentaries by Piris Eliyahu. Yuval Music Series 5. Jerusalem: Jewish Music Research Centre, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1999.
Post-Ottoman Turkey: Classical European Music & Opera / Arnold Reisman. Charleston, S.C.: BookSurge Publishing, 2008.
War & Exile
Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis / Michael Haas. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.
Music and Exile: From 1933 to the Present Day / edited by Malcolm Miller, Jutta Raab-Hansen. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023.
Sounds of Apocalypse: Music in Poland under German Occupation / Katarzyna Naliwajek. Berlin; New York: Peter Lang, 2022.
A windfall of musicians: Hitler's émigrés and exiles in southern California / Dorothy Lamb Crawford. New Haven: London: Yale University Press, 2009.
Music History & General Reference:
The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Music / edited by Joshua S. Walden. Cambridge Companions to Music, 2015.
The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Music Studies / edited by Tina Frühauf. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2023.
The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire / James Loeffler. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
Music in Jewish History and Culture / by Emanuel Rubin and John H. Baron. Sterling Heights, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 2006.
Voices of a People: The Story of Yiddish Folksong / Ruth Rubin; foreword by Mark Slobin. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.
American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots / edited by Mark Slobin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
The Book of Klezmer: The History, the Music, the Folklore / Yale Strom. 1st ed. Chicago: A Cappella, 2002.
Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World / Mark Slobin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Klezmer's Afterlife: An Ethnography of the Jewish Music revival in Poland and Germany / Magdalena Waligórska., 2013.
Klezmer! Jewish Music from Old World to Our World / Henry Sapoznik. New York: Schirmer Books, 1999.
Klezmer: Music, History and Memory / Walter Zev Feldman. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth-Century Jewish Philadelphia / Hankus Netsky., 2015.
Sounding Jewish in Berlin: Klezmer Music and the Contemporary City / Phil Alexander. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021.