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Tin Pan Alley
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beginner
Jews and Jazz: A Musical Bond That Shaped American Sound
From George Gershwin to Benny Goodman, Jewish musicians helped create, perform, and popularize jazz. The Jazz Singer launched the talkies. Tin Pan Alley gave America its songbook. Explore the deep Jewish-jazz connection.
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intermediate
George Gershwin: The Man Who Gave America Its Sound
A Brooklyn boy from a Russian-Jewish immigrant family fused classical music, jazz, and the rhythms of the street into something entirely new. George Gershwin invented the sound of America — and died at thirty-eight, leaving the world wondering what he would have done next.
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