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Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… Forgotten Conductor: Heinz Unger and His Search for Jewish Meaning, 1895−1965 . Toronto: University of Toronto … and the Worms (1980 [1976]) — which explores popular culture in sixteenth-century Italy through the eyes of a … Shortly after his career took off, he was forced to leave Germany yet did not develop any long-lasting position in any …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to … a curiosity of European music. Also studying this musical culture against the backdrop of more general tendencies in … Following recent scholarly attention to German Jewry in Germany after World War II (Brenner 1997; Geller 2005; …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … far beyond this constricting narrative to recover Jewish culture, economics, politics, and society. Yet something of … as he experienced it across the Baltic region, urban Germany, Ottoman and early British Palestine, Lithuanian …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… 1930s, appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one … variant. Although, Libau was a modern city with German culture, my father picked for me a Lithuanian teacher in a … even Lewandowski seemed Germanized. The life of the Jews in Germany, too, was Germanized. This was not only true of the …