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AMERICAN

JEWISH

MUSIC
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0202 SENILEDIUG DNARB FM
POPULAR AMERICAN JEWISH

MUSICIANS

Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand is an American


Neil Leslie Diamond is an American William Martin Joel is an American
singer, actress, and filmmaker. With a career
singer-songwriter and actor. He has musician, singer-songwriter, and spanning over six decades, she has achieved
sold more than 100 million records composer. Commonly nicknamed the success in multiple fields of entertainment, and is
worldwide, making him one of the "Piano Man" among the few performers awarded an Emmy,
best-selling musicians of all time. Grammy, Oscar, and Tony.
Famous American Christmas Songs Written by Jews
– “White Christmas” by Irving Berlin
– “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” by Johnny Marks
– “Let It, Snow, Let It, Snow, Let It Snow” by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne
– “Silver Bells” by Livingston and Evans
– “The Christmas Song” (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) by Mel Torme

According to a study of American musicians


published in 1933, at a time when Jews comprised
less than 4 percent of the total United States
population, 36 percent of the players in American
“amusement orchestras” were Jews. And in the SIMON AND
string sections, the numbers were twice as high! In GARFUNKEL
the world of arts and entertainment, superior talent
sometimes overcame racial prejudice.

IRVING BERLIN

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