"Songs From The Jewish Vaults: Mambo Kings, Israeli Paratroopers, Korean Crooners, & other Lost Treasures," a Listening Lunch with Professor Josh Kun.
For the past 12 years, Popular Music Project director and USC Annenberg professor Josh Kun has been collecting Jewish-American LPs that have been left to vanish on the margins of history. The albums tell stories that challenge some of the most commonly held notions of Jewish life in America. His book on the subject, written with Roger Bennett, will be published by Crown in November: And You Shall Know Us By The Trail Of Our Vinyl: The Jewish Past As Told By The Records We've Loved and Lost. Listen to some of Professor Kun's favorite discoveries. October 15, 2008