And You Shall Know Us By The Trail Of Our Vinyl
The Jewish Past as Told by the Records We Have Loved and Lost

By Roger Bennett & Josh Kun

What started as a mutual affinity for kitschy Jewish album covers (think Barbara Streisand in hot pants, knee socks, and a Superman T-shirt on the cover of Streisand Superman or any Jewish Folk or Yiddish album), soon became a quest for identity, history, and culture between the grooves of LPs.

Authors Roger Bennett and Josh Kun embarked on a thrilling journey scouring the world to collect thousands of vinyl LP's from attics, garage sales, dusty archives to piece together the history of Jewish recording from the 1940's to the 1980's.

Though much of the music is no longer available in any format, it is brought to life through commentary from writers Aimee Bender, Etgar Keret, Michael Wex, Shalom Auslander; performer Sandra Bernhard; music critics Oliver Wang and Anne Powers; and TV pioneer Norman Lear.

Full or color photos, this book is a gateway to a forgotten kingdom of sounds, the good, the bad, and ugly of Jewish vinyl gives this aspect of Jewish culture the attention it so richly deserves.

Crown Publishers.

Hardcover.