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What's on the Wall
Photographs of
Music's Jewish
Icon's Through
The Lense of
Photojournalist
Janet Macoska
The Official JEWS ROCK! Website
Photojournalist Janet Macoska - photo by Jean Schnell
Rabbi Brian Leiken
photo by Sara Augenbraun
Janet Macoska Bio:
If rock and roll has been the soundtrack of your life, photojournalist Janet Macoska has provided many of the visuals. Since 1974, Janet Macoska has been capturing rock’s greatest on film…and now in pixels (digital). Among the publications who have used her photos are Rolling Stone, People, US, Vogue, American Photo, Creem, 16, Teen Beat, MOJO, NY Times ,and London Times . VH1, Bravo and A&E regularly uses Macoska’s vast rock archive in their “rockumentaries.” Her work is in the permanent collection of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, The National Portrait Gallery in London and in Hard Rock Café restaurants, hotels and casinos all around the planet. David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, The Clash, AC/DC, and The Kinks are just some of the artists who have used her work on their cds.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum presented a retrospective exhibition of her photography in 2003 and 2004 entitled “It’s Only Rock and Roll.” This exhibition was featured at The Women’s Museum in Dallas in 2009 and in 2010 at the Canadian Exposition in Toronto.
Presently, Macoska is primary photographer for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and also shoots freelance for corporate and music clients.
Rabbi Brian Leiken’s Bio
Rabbi Brian Leiken graduated from Brandeis University in 1998 and was ordained by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 2006.
Rabbi Leiken has a passion for history and has spent considerable time researching Jewish songwriting in the United States, the unique backgrounds of a variety of Jewish rock and roll performers, and the ways in which Judaism is now being embraced by many popular Jewish musicians.
Rabbi Leiken has spoken about his research at the Maltz Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, the Mandell Jewish Community Center in West Hartford, Connecticut, the JCC of Central New Jersey and a variety of other locations. He has been the subject of articles in the Stamford Advocate, the Norwalk Hour and the Connecticut Jewish Ledger and is currently working on a book about the spirituality of popular culture. He serves as a Rabbi at Temple Shalom in Norwalk, CT.
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JEWS ROCK! reveals and celebrates Jewish musicians, record industry executives, concert promoters, songwriters and innovators who were the cornerstone of the birth and growth of rock and roll music.
In 2008, photojournalist Janet Macoska and Rabbi Brian Leiken collaborated on the book, JEWS ROCK! A CELEBRATION OF ROCK AND ROLL'S JEWISH HERITAGE. Since then, they have toured a photography exhibition to JCC's throughout the U.S., and have done talks and presentations -- all of which continue, with a larger, more expansive museum exhibition on the drawing board.
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