| In the Beginning...: The European Roots of Klezmer Music | p. 1 |
| Da Capo | p. 5 |
| The Vocal Tradition of Instrumental Music | p. 16 |
| Constantinople: The Vienna of the Balkans | p. 20 |
| From Shtetl to Stage | p. 21 |
| Marching Songs | p. 25 |
| Rovne: Musical Capital of Volhynia | p. 27 |
| Lebn Zol Columbus: Yiddish Music in the New World | p. 31 |
| "I Landed and Became a Vaudeville Musician" | p. 31 |
| The Rise of Yiddish Popular Culture | p. 39 |
| Broadsides, Sheets, 78s | p. 51 |
| The Golden Age of Yiddish Popular Music | p. 67 |
| Of Artists and Repertoire | p. 70 |
| The Rise of the Modern Klezmer Ensemble | p. 86 |
| George Gershwin and Jewish Jazz | p. 103 |
| Yiddish Melodies in Swing: 1930s to 1940s | p. 113 |
| "Af Der Luft": Radio to the Rescue | p. 120 |
| A Miss and a Hit | p. 128 |
| Playing American | p. 134 |
| The Sound in Europe | p. 138 |
| Yidl Mitn Fidl: Jewish Music Onscreen | p. 141 |
| Twistin' the Freilachs | p. 151 |
| Borscht Belters | p. 160 |
| From the Catskill Mountains to the Blue Ridge Mountains (and Back!) | p. 167 |
| CETA: The Woodstock-Era WPA | p. 174 |
| Generation to Generation: Finding the Veteran Players | p. 177 |
| Klezmer Pilgrimage | p. 184 |
| Der Yiddisher Caravan: Klezmer Music on the Road | p. 191 |
| Hollywood in Brookyn: Chosen for The Chosen and Over the Brooklyn Bridge | p. 193 |
| The Revival | p. 197 |
| Klezmer Goes to College: The Klezmer Conservatory | p. 198 |
| YIVO's Cultural Reclamation | p. 201 |
| Klezmer Rejoins the Club | p. 203 |
| Kapelye Does Germany | p. 210 |
| KlezKamp: The Yiddish Folk Arts Program | p. 213 |
| The Klezmer Documentaries | p. 221 |
| South of the Border: Kapelye in Mexico | p. 222 |
| The Future for a Music With a Past | p. 227 |
| By Any Other Name | p. 230 |
| The Emergence of Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Klezmer | p. 231 |
| The Holocaust Recordings | p. 236 |
| Yiddish Radio Rides Again | p. 238 |
| The Station That Spoke Your Language | p. 241 |
| The Yiddish Sgt. Pepper | p. 242 |
| KlezKamp and the Rise of the Yiddish Cultural Literacy | p. 244 |
| The Sound Heard 'Round the World | p. 247 |
| The Classical World Takes Note | p. 250 |
| The Mother Tongue, Sung | p. 253 |
| Old World 1989 | p. 256 |
| Yiddish at the Smithsonian | p. 259 |
| Rites of Passage | p. 261 |
| Modes and Scales | p. 265 |
| Melodic and Harmonic Modes | p. 266 |
| Tants Nit, Yidelekh: Dance Music With No Dancers | p. 271 |
| Dances and Dance Rhythms | p. 272 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 275 |
| End Notes | p. 277 |
| About the CD | p. 283 |
| Index | p. 285 |
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