Re: Non-Jewish Composers of "Jewish music"

[Weisman <weisman...>]

In article <4fgl77$lb3 (at) maureen(dot)teleport(dot)com>, znmeb (at) 
teleport(dot)com () wrote:

> Dan Kazez (kazez (at) Wittenberg(dot)EDU) wrote:
> 
 His song cycle "From
> Jewish Folk Poetry" was composed around a book of Russian Jewish poems he
> picked up in a book store; the melodies sound as though they were
> obtained from Jewish sources as well -- almost klezmer, in fact.  It is,
> to my ears at least, as much a piece of Jewish music as anything written
> by Jews.
> 
I thought Shostakovich was Jewish--or at least of Jewish descent.