Songs of the Jewish-American Jet Set is a proud collection of the dizzying catalog of Tikva Records, the flagship independent Jewish record label of 20th century America. Founded in 1947, Tikva s catalog was wide-ranging everything from Israeli folk songs to Jewish-American swing, from klezmer pop to cantorial singing, from Catskills comedy to key political speeches of Jewish leaders and it became something of a Jewish Motown, home to the Jewish music world s biggest names. Despite the fact that Tikva s releases were a direct reflection of the major social themes and cultural shifts of Jewish America in the 50s and 60s, its contributions to American popular music, and Jewish musical and cultural history, have been largely forgotten.