Jerry Silverman, Date of Birth
TweetJerry Silverman
American singer
Date of Birth: 26-Mar-1931
Profession: music journalist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Jerry Silverman
- Jerry Silverman is an American folksinger, guitar teacher and author of music books.
- He has had over 200 books published, which have sold in the millions, including folk song collections, anthologies and method books for the guitar, banjo and fiddle.
- He has taught guitar to hundreds of students.
- He has presented concerts and lectures at schools, universities and concert halls in the U.S.
- and abroad.Among his notable books are The Undying Flame: Ballads and Songs of the Holocaust’’, which contains 110 songs in 16 languages - Yiddish, German, Hebrew,Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian, Ladino, Serbo-Croatian, Greek, Norwegian, Czech, Polish, Russian, Hungarian and English.
- The songs include the works of concentration camp prisoners and inhabitants of the ghettos of Eastern Europe as well anti-Fascistanthems inspired by the Spanish Civil War, Red Army songs and songs of Resistance fighters; “New York Sings – 400 Years of the Empire State in Song” (reviewed by his friend and colleague Pete Seeger).
- Seeger and Silverman were both editors at Sing Out! A Folk Music Magazine in the 1960s.; “The Baseball Songbook – Songs and Images from the Early Years of America’s Favorite Pastime”; “The Folk Song Encyclopedia (a two volume compilation of over 1,000 folk songs; words, music and guitar chords); “The Complete Book of Bach Chorales” (translated into English); Ballads and Songs of the Civil War (piano-vocal with guitar chords); The Guitar Player's Guide and Almanac (a combined method book and survey of musical, technical and anecdotal information); Of Thee I Sing (patriotic American songs from the Revolutionary War to the present).
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