Eastern Europe

Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies Introduction and overview of music in the Third Reich and the Holocaust, from the Nazi attempts to "purify" music in the 1930s to the impact of the ghettos and camps on Jewish musical traditions of Eastern Europe. Includes a bibliography of secondary literature on the subject as well as listings of songbooks from the ghettos and music in commemoration of the Holocaust.

The first volume of a projected multi-volume anthology of Jewish folklore

Special issue on Jewish music Establishing a conceptual framework for the discussion of the liturgical music of the East Ashkenazi Jews cannot apply the commonly accepted notions of prayer, speech, sacred, music, and art as separate categories.

Outline of the article:
Klezmer music
Classification of the Klezmer Genres
Bulgareasca, Bulgarish, Bulgar
The Bulgareasca/ Bulgarish in Eastern Europe
The Bulgarish in America
Conclusion
Notes

The original book was published by.... New York, 1963. (from the back cover of the book:) The seminal work of Ruth Rubin, a pioneering collector, singer, folklorist, writer, and crusader for the vanishing legacy of the Yiddish world, Voices of a People remains the only general introduction to Yiddish folksong.

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