literary history

While looking for books from our past, we came across a great guide on the Google Answers pages. Someone asked for recommendations for a young child and got back a world of information. Here is the great answer, and it’s broken down by age group. Scroll down past the disclosure part and begin at “The Preschool Part”. Great books.

A different part of our past is the music of a people. Recently,  PBS ran a “Great Performances” show called From Shtetl to Swing. It an excellent compendium of the history of the influence of first-generation Jews on popular music, using Irving Berlin as its main frame.