Acclaimed Broadway musicologist, performer, and music director Michael Lavine will take you on an in-depth journey to meet the songwriters who wrote songs for radio, film, and Broadway during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. Some of these composers grew up in the Lower East Side and oftentimes you can hear the Jewish influence in the writing of their music. Join Michael Lavine for a stroll down memory lane and learn about the songwriters behind the music. Each session in this course, we will explore the music from the following eras:

• The Roaring Decades
• The Enthralling Thirties
• The Fabulous Forties

  Links to the stories and the recordings will be sent to you once you purchase this class.

A four-week course exploring 4 classic Jewish short stories with Dr. Michael Krasny.

• Eli the Fanatic by Philip Roth
• A Silver Dish by Saul Bellow
• Envy, or Yiddish in America by Cynthia Ozick

Links to the stories and the recordings will be sent to you once you purchase this class. Dr. Michael Krasny is professor emeritus of literature at San Francisco State University and an award-winning broadcast journalist and popular keynote speaker. A widely published scholar, he is presently teaching a course on fiction writers of the past century at Stanford University and has taught courses on Jewish writers at Lehrhaus Judaica.  A recipient of many honors, including The S.Y. Agnon Gold Medal for Intellectual Distinction from Hebrew University and The Koret Foundation Israel Prize, he is author of a number of books, including a widely praised book on Jewish humor, Let There Be Laughter. .