One of the great writers of Yiddish fiction, and the only one to date to have received the Nobel Prize in literature (1978), Isaac Bashevis Singer's writings have provided inspiration for a number of modern Jewish musical and dramatic works.

Illustration of the golem by Philippe Semeria. The Hebrew letters, aleph, mem, thet, spell the word emet (truth). Removal of the aleph, which renders the word met (death), is one means of disabling the golem.

Photo still from the 1915 silent film, Der Golem, one of three golem films by German writer and director Paul Wegener.

Soviet Yiddish writer Itsik Fefer, singer/actor/activist Paul Robeson, and the legendary Soviet Yiddish actor Solomon Mikhoels at the Soviet Consulate, 1943.

Itsik Fefer, Albert Einstein, and Solomon Mikhoels.

Joseph Papp (left), producer of the New York Shakespeare Festival, and David Amram during King John rehearsals at the Public Theater, 1967. Longtime collaborators, Amram composed scores for 25 of the Festival's productions.

David Amram. 1967.

David Amram. Philadelphia, 1960.

David Amram and Leonard Bernstein. 1967. Bernstein appointed Amram as the first composer-in-residence at the New York Philharmonic.

A New Beginning: Ten-year-old Samuel Adler (center) arrives in the United States on the SS Manhattan, January 22, 1939. The family fled Germany during the Nazi regime and eventually settled in Worchester, Massachusetts.

Corporal Samuel Adler conducts the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra. Kassel, Germany. 1952.

Samuel Adler. Shown here as a young child in his birthplace, Mannheim, Germany.

David Amram oversees the recording of his The Final Ingredient. Milken Archive recording session, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Dave Brubeck. The Gates of Justice recording session, Goucher College. Baltimore, Maryland.

Producer David Frost with Dave Brubeck. Frost received a Grammy Award for producer of the year for his work on Brubeck's The Gates of Justice and four other Milken Archive recordings.

Dave Brubeck. The Gates of Justice recording session, Goucher College. Baltimore, Maryland.

Dave Brubeck. The Gates of Justice recording session, Goucher College. Baltimore, Maryland.

Charles Davidson. Milken Archive Editorial Board Meeting. Santa Monica, California.

Charles Davidson and Ofer Ben-Amots. Milken Archive Editorial Board Meeting. Santa Monica, California.

Charles Davidson talks with Barry Serota. Milken Archive Editorial Board Meeting. Santa Monica, California.