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Zion covenant ; 1Sidran, Ben.
Summary: A comprehensive examination of Jewish influence and participation in the American popular music business, that weaves together cultural, political, musical and economic history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nardis Books, an imprint of Unlimited Media Ltd. 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780 SIDThoene, Bodie
Summary: Her own identity was safely disguised. But what about those she loved most. They would soon disappear with all the others unless... .
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 1989
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC THOENESummary: Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PIACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PIACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE Pianist 2003Szpilman, Władysław.
Summary: A Jewish pianist's real-life account of survival in World War II Warsaw. Separated in a mêlée, he fights to rejoin his family as they board the death train, but police block him. "Papa!" he cries. The father waves, "as if I were setting out into life and he was already greeting me from beyond the grave."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 SZPILMAN, WLADYSLAW SZPHuberman, Bronislaw
Summary: Tells the story of violinst Bronislaw Huberman and his attempts during Hitler's rise to power to relocate Jewish musicians to Palestine to form what would later become the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ORCGoldsmith, Martin
Summary: Set amid the growing tyranny of German's Third Reich, here is the riveting and emotional tale of Gunther Goldschmidt and Rosemarie Gumpert, two courageous jewish musicians who strugged to perform under unimaginable circumstances - and found themselves falling in love in a country bent on destoying them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: J. Wiley & Sons 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 GOLMuller, Melissa
Summary: Chronicles the life of the oldest living Holocaust survivor, a classically trained pianist who used her love of music to provide hope to her fellow sufferers at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 HERZ-SOMMER, ALICE MULSummary: Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he hears the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris has invited the Bolshoi orchestra to play there. He gathers together his former musicians and a young solo violin virtuoso to perform in Paris in the place of the current Bolshoi orchestra. If they...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: ARC Entertainment 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CONMorris, Mary
Summary: The son of a grieving Jewish family in jazz age Chicago impresses patrons of a mob-controlled saloon with his piano talents, which become subject to a changing music era, his need to survive, and exacting mob demands.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MORHood, Susan
Summary: "An inspirational nonfiction novel-in-verse about Zhanna Arshanskaya, a young Ukrainian Jewish girl using the alias Anna, whose phenomenal piano-playing skills saved her life and the life of her sister, Frina, during the Holocaust-from award-winning author Susan Hood, with Zhanna's son, Greg Dawson"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ARSMorris, Mary
Summary: "In the midst of boomtown Chicago, two Jewish families have suffered terrible blows. The Lehrmans, who run a small hat factory, lost their beloved son Harold in a blizzard. The Chimbrovas, who run a saloon, lost three of their boys on the SS Eastland when it sank in 1915. Each family holds out hope that one of their remaining children will rise to carry on the family business. But Benny Lehrman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Morris 2015Rosen, Renée
Summary: "The bestselling author of White Collar Girl and What the Lady Wants explores one woman's journey of self-discovery set against the backdrop of a musical and social revolution. In the middle of the twentieth century, the music of the Mississippi Delta arrived in Chicago, drawing the attention of entrepreneurs like the Chess brothers. Their label, Chess Records, helped shape that music into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSMargolis, Sue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delta Trade Paperbacks 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARSummary: Narrated by Tony-and Academy Award-winner Joel Grey, this entertaining documentary mingles cultural history with illuminating perspectives on the origins and meanings of some of Broadway's most beloved songs, stories, and shows. With performances by Matthew Broderick, Kelli O'Hara, Zero Mostel, Nathan Lane, Barbra Streisand, Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth, and many more!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BROLee, Geddy
Summary: "The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Rush bassist, and bestselling author of Geddy Lee's Big Beautiful Book of Bass. Geddy Lee is one of rock and roll's most respected bassists. For nearly five decades, his playing and work as co-writer, vocalist and keyboardist has been an essential part of the success...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023