References Bibliography Philip V. Bohlman: The World Centre for Jewish Music in Palestine 1936–40 (Oxford, 1992), Peter Gradenwitz: The Music of Israel (Portland, OR, 1996), esp. 370 Jehoash Hirshberg: Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine 1880–1948: a Social History (Oxford, 1995) Jehoash Hirshberg: "Erich Walter Sternberg", Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed September 18, 2008), (subscription access) E.W. Sternberg: Shneim-Asar Shivtei Yisrael [The Twelve Tribes of Israel], Musica hebraica (1938), 1–2 E.W. Sternberg: ‘Autobiography’, Tatzlil, vii (1967), 77–8 External links Online Biography US Premiere of Sternberg's The Twelve Tribes of Israel (1938) 1891 births 1974 deaths Israeli composers Israeli opera composers Musicians from Berlin Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Mandatory Palestine University of Kiel alumni 20th-century classical composers Male classical composers Male opera composers 20th-century male musicians