IRENE HESKES is a music historian who specializes in Jewish music. She has written numerous articles and reviews for musicological and general journal publications in America, Europe, and Israel, and has contributed to the Encyclopedia Judaica, as well as to Musical Theater in America (Greenwood, 1984), and Handbook of Holocaust Literature (Greenwood, 1993). Among her books are: Studies in Jewish Music (1971), Jews in Music (1974), Ernest Bloch: Creative Spirit (1976), The Resource Book of Jewish Music (Greenwood, 1985), The Music of Abraham Goldfaden (1990), The Golden Age of Cantors (1991), and Yiddish-American Popular Songs, 1895 to 1950 (1992).

• Documenting the Heritage A Duty of Preservation and Continuity: Collectors and Collections of Jewish Music in America Abraham Z. Idelsohn and Gershon Ephros: Creative Connection Builders of Sacred Bridges: Scholars and Studies in Jewish Music Bible, Liturgy, and the Cantorial Art Jewish Music and Biblical Heritage An Historical and Bibliographical Perspective on Jewish Liturgical Music in the Settled Areas of Eastern Europe to 1900 The Golden Age of the Cantorial Art Melodies of Prayer: The Jewish Liturgical Calendar The Musical Heritage of Sephardic and Oriental Jewry Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs Three Important Collections of Sephardic Music Sephardic Music Conference in Jerusalem Sephardic Traditions and Mediterranean Styles The Music of Oriental Jewry Music of Mysticism and Piety The Mystics: Poet-Bards of the Liturgy The Music of Hasidism: Melodies of Spiritual Ecstasy Collections of Hasidic Music The Yiddish Musical World of Eastern Europe Music and Yiddish: Folksong Heritage Yiddish Musical Theater: Its Origins in Europe Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music The Holocaust Era The Musical Legacy of the Holocaust America Three Hundred Years of Jewish Music in America Music of Zion and Israel Hope and the Man: Hatikvah and Naphtali Herz Imber Song and the Modern Return to Zion The Inspiration of Israeli Composers Musical Festivities in Israel Composers and Compositions Reflections on Creativity and Heritage: [Salamone Rossi and His Era Meyerbeer, Halevy, Offenbach: The 19th Century Arnold Schoenberg: A 20th-Century Man Bloch, Milhaud, Castelnuovo-Tedesco An Emigre Sampler: Toch, Zeisl, Wolpe, Weill Leonard Bernstein Commissioning of Jewish Music Some Thoughts on American Popular Song Writers: Berlin, Kern, Gershwin, Arlen] Scripture as Creative Inspiration Women Miriam's Sisters: Jewish Women and Liturgical Music Afterword Index