More in ‘Reboot Stereophonic’

The hip kids at the Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation are reissuing the 1961’s Mazel Tov, Mis Amigos. Marketed as a recording by the fictitiously named Juan Calle and His Latin Lantzmen, the album offered Yiddish standards, including “Bei Mir Bist Du Shein” and “Papirossen,” in a Latin dance style. To celebrate the release, there will be a one night only performance of the album by Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro-Cuban Sextet.

Irving Berlin, the man responsible for “God Bless America,” was also the brains behind “Cohen Owes Me 97 Dollar,” a 1916 number which sent up the stereotype of the tight-fisted Jew. It was one in a slew of Tin Pan Alley minstrel songs that made fun, often affectionately, of greenhorns and their slightly savvier predecessors. ...