When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Eric Grode IRVING BERLIN New York Genius By James Kaplan Sometimes the hypersophisticated ...

Irving Berlin’s music is so much a part of American history that it can be difficult to remember he was a real person. With songs like “White Christmas” and “Cheek to Cheek,” the composer, born on ...

Kimmelman portrays the life of Irving Berlin, born Israel Isidore Baline to a Jewish family in Russia in 1888—“a bad time and place to be Jewish,” the author writes. The story begins as the family ...

Irving Berlin, the iconic composer and musician who created American musical standards including "White Christmas," "Easter Parade," "God Bless America" and "There’s No Business Like Show Business," ...

After Irving Berlin, left, penned 'White Christmas,' he pegged Bing Crosby as the ideal singer for what would become a holiday classic. Irving Haberman/IH Images via Getty Images Irving Berlin was a ...

The Musical Quarterly, founded in 1915 by Oscar Sonneck, has long been cited as the premier scholarly musical journal in the United States. Over the years it has published the writings of many ...

I knew that perhaps the best known song about lynching, “Strange Fruit,” was written by a Jewish man, Abel Meeropol, in 1939. I didn’t know that six years earlier, Irving Berlin wrote an anti-lynching ...

The soaring melodies and artful yet unpretentious lyrics from revered songwriter Irving Berlin (1888–1989) nowadays come across as refreshing alternatives to current Broadway trends, which are overrun ...

“I wrote for love. I wrote for my country. I wrote for you.” So says “Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin,” which will certainly keep the Gil Cates Theater at the Geffen Playhouse in festive, nostalgic ...

Irving Berlin was born Israel Isidor Baline on May 11, 1888 in Mogilev, Belarus, Russian Empire. Towering composer, songwriter, ("God Bless America", "Always", "Blue ...