Heskes, Irene

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 o...