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Off-Ramp

The Chosen Music

About the Show

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John is sharing selections from the Off-Ramp vault to help you explore this imperfect paradise.

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Jewish music goes way beyond traditional tunes like "Dreidel" and "Hava Nagila." What about Neil Diamond? Or Barry Manilow? Josh Kuhn is a USC professor and directs the school's Popular Music Project. He, along with the Idelsohn Society have compiled a massive collection of Jewish music that spans decades of recorded music. He stopped by to chat with KPCC's Alex Cohen about his upcoming exhibition of Jewish albums at the Skirball Museum.

Listen to Alex's story from All Things Considered here.