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  Album Release: Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations

  September 14th, 2010 | Black Sabbath, Past Events | admin | No Comments

  The Idelsohn Society is thrilled to announce that our latest album, Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations, will be released on September 14. Hear Johnny Mathis croon Yom Kippur songs and the Temptations groove out on “Fiddler on the Roof”. Also featuring Aretha Franklin, Lena Horne, Cab Calloway, and others, …

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  Black Sabbath: Musical History of Jews, Blacks

  September 2nd, 2010 | Black Sabbath, Blog, Press | admin | No Comments

  The alternately fraught and affectionate history of Jews and African Americans is one of those cultural intersections that seems so well traversed there can’t be much new to say on the topic. But hearing Johnny Mathis croon “Kol Nidre,” the lamenting Aramaic prayer that opens Judaism’s most solemn and holy service on Yom Kippur, suddenly …

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  Johnny Mathis’ Jewish Covers Strike Chord for Idelsohn Society

  August 19th, 2010 | Black Sabbath, Blog, Press | admin | No Comments

  At a time when the relationship between African Americans and American Jews seems largely irrelevant to the national conversation, the Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation is directing its gaze back at a different era. Not the early 1990s, when tensions between the two communities exploded into riots in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights, but to the days …

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  Black Sabbath on the Examiner

  July 20th, 2010 | Black Sabbath, Blog | admin | No Comments

  We’re less than two months away from the official release of Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations, coming out September 14, and the reviews are starting to come in. Sonya Alexander of Examiner.com calls Black Sabbath “the first compilation of its kind . . a jewel of a musical fervor,” and …

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  Black Sabbath Coming Out This September

  June 29th, 2010 | Black Sabbath, Blog | admin | No Comments

  The Idelsohn Society is thrilled to announce that our latest album,Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations, will be released on September 14. Hear Johnny Mathis croon Yom Kippur songs and the Temptations groove out on “Fiddler on the Roof”. Also featuring Aretha Franklin, Lena Horne, Cab Calloway, and others, …

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