The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Music - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-vii

Music examples and figure

pp viii-viii

Contributors

pp ix-xii

Acknowledgements

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-8

Part One - Conceptions of Jewish music

pp 9-72

1 - Ontologies of Jewish music

pp 11-26

2 - Jewish music and diaspora

pp 27-40

3 - The institutions of Jewish musical meaning

pp 41-55

4 - Jewish music and media of sound reproduction

pp 56-72

Part Two - Jewish music in religious, folk, and popular contexts

pp 73-140

5 - The music of Israel during the Iron Age

pp 75-83

6 - Jewish liturgical music

pp 84-103

7 - The traditional performance of Sephardic songs, then and now

pp 104-118

8 - Klezmer music – a historical overview to the present

pp 119-140

Part Three - Periods, places, and genres of Jewish music composition

pp 141-257

9 - Art music and Jewish culture before the Jewish Enlightenment

pp 143-155

10 - A new song

pp 156-166

11 - From biblical antiquarianism to revolutionary modernism

pp 167-186

12 - The reform of synagogue music in the nineteenth century

pp 187-200

13 - Under pressure

pp 201-214

14 - Music in the Yiddish theater and cinema, 1880–1950

pp 215-227

15 - Art music in the Yishuv and in Israel

pp 228-243

16 - Cavernous impossibilities

pp 244-257

Bibliography

pp 258-279

Index

pp 280-292