A Magical Meshuga Tour Guide

摘要

From the opening images of an eerily serene Barry Manilow and a pelvis-thrusting Neil Diamond, the album covers in "And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl" are so perfectly dated-and hilariously kitschy-that it's impossible to look away. The product of two men's obsessive record collecting, the book examines 20th-century Jewish history through the prism of old LPs: holiday albums ("The Moishe Oysher Chanukah Party"), comedy (Rodney Dangerfield's "The Loser"), Latin influence ("Bagels and Bongos"), even the sounds of war ("The Six Day War, Recorded Live!").