The Building and Other Songs by Daniel Kahn and Jake Shulman-Ment textbook and Jan Neruda

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The stories of over forty women’s liberationists and identified Jewish feminists―from Shulamith Firestone and Susan Brownmiller to Rabbis Laura Geller and Rebecca Alpert―illustrate how women’s liberation and Jewish feminism unfolded over the course of the lives of an extraordinary cohort of women

The Building and Other Songs by Daniel Kahn and Jake Shulman-Ment textbook and Jan NerudaDetroit born, Hamburg based troubadour and multi instrumentalist Daniel Kahn and New Yorker master fiddler Jake Shulman Ment have been playing and traveling together for nearly twenty years. Having worked in so many bands and projects (including The Painted Bird and Brothers Nazaroff), they have finally joined up to record an true analog duo record: The Building & Other Songs. It is, as Kahn says, "the most personal and intimate selection of songs