SHANTEL & OZ ALMOG : Kosher Nostra: Jewish Gangsters Greatest Hits - CD - ESSAY RECORDINGS - Forced Exposure
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Connie Francis - Anniversary Song Your browser does not support the audio element. 02. Tom Jones - My Yiddishe Mamme Your browser does not support the audio element. 03. The Andrews Sisters - Bei Mir Bist Du Schön Your browser does not support the audio element. 04. Chubby Checker - Misirlou Your browser does not support the audio element. 05. Solomon Schwartz Et Son Orchestra - Hava Nagila Your browser does not support the audio element. 06. The Bagelmann Sisters With Abe Ellstein Orchester - A Vaibele, A Tsnie Your browser does not support the audio element. 07. Leonid Utjossow - Mu Mu Your browser does not support the audio element. 08. Al Jolson & Andrews Sisters - The Old Piano Roll Blues Your browser does not support the audio element. 09. Connie Francis - Shein Vi De Levone Your browser does not support the audio element. 10. Barry Sisters - Zug Es Meir Noch Amool Your browser does not support the audio element. 11. Molly Picon - Es Fehlt Ihr Die Rozinke Your browser does not support the audio element. 12. Aaron Lebedeff & Alexander Olshanetzky's Orchestra - What Can You Mach? -- S'is America Your browser does not support the audio element. 13. Sophie Tucker - My Yiddishe Mamme Your browser does not support the audio element. 14. Yiddish Swing Orchestra - The Bridegroom Special Your browser does not support the audio element. 15. Vyoch Tyoch Tyoch - The Barry Sisters Your browser does not support the audio element. 16. The Gilt Edged Four - Yiddisher Charleston Your browser does not support the audio element. 17. Cleo Brown - When Hollywood Goes Black And Tan Your browser does not support the audio element. 18. Sophie Tucker - Some Of These Days Your browser does not support the audio element. 19. Wilmoth Houdini - Black But Sweet Your browser does not support the audio element. 20. Connie Francis - O Mein Papa Your browser does not support the audio element. 21. Roza Eskenazy - Hariklaki Your browser does not support the audio element. ARTIST SHANTEL & OZ ALMOG TITLE Kosher Nostra: Jewish Gangsters Greatest Hits FORMAT CD LABEL ESSAY RECORDINGS CATALOG # AY 013CD AY 013CD GENRE ROCK RELEASE DATE 5/10/2011 Shantel presents Kosher Nostra, an unparalleled journey back in time to the music clubs, vaudeville theaters and gambling casinos in the U.S.A. The sound can be described as a wild mix of swing, jazz, twist, Charleston and the adorable charm of Yiddish songs and ballads. The idea of Jewish gangsters in America is not something that is deeply engrained in the popular imagination. Yet nobody who looks into the history of the American mafia can deny the extent to which such figures as Meyer Lansky, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, Dutch Schultz or Louis "Lepke" Buchalter shaped the machinations of the underworld, along with the classic Sicilian godfathers. The artist Oz Almog, who is also a curator at the Jewish Museum in Vienna, addressed the issue in a high-profile exhibition featuring his own paintings together with police photographs, crime-scene sketches, newspaper articles and the biographies of the gangsters themselves. Shantel, who actually wrote his undergraduate thesis at Frankfurt University on the topic of organized crime, has thoroughly researched the Kosher Nostra and its influence on American musical culture, going to great and sometimes quite adventurous lengths to put together this anthology charting the hidden history of organized crime in America. The myth of Kosher Nostra seems to be closely interwoven with the musical history of the USA in a rich and fascinating tapestry of diverse musical genres: in such hot-spots as New York, Chicago, Detroit and later Las Vegas, the music of Eastern European Jews fused with African-American jazz to create a new sound. The tracks on this anthology represent a parallel society made up of various ethnic scenes, all with their own media and an open-minded curiosity for new and exotic input from the WASP community on the one hand and the predominantly Catholic Irish and Itali...
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