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A Jewish orchestra in Nazi Germany :

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0472025406

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661269761X

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9780472025404

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9786612697616

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0472117106

Erroneous ISBN

1282697617

Erroneous ISBN

9780472117109

Erroneous ISBN

9781282697614

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b718783

Title Proper

A Jewish orchestra in Nazi Germany :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

musical politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League /

First Statement of Responsibility

Lily E. Hirsch.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Ann Arbor :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Michigan Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2010.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (viii, 258 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, music

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-239) and index.

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Introduction -- Why the league? -- What is Jewish music? the League and the dilemmas of musical identity -- Performing a "Jewish repertoire" : Weill, Schoenberg, and Bloch -- "German music," lieder, and the Austrian Franz Schubert -- Handel, Verdi, and national pride -- Beyond ethnic loyalties -- The legacy of the League.

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"Offers a clear introduction to a fascinating, yet little known, phenomenon in Nazi Germany, whose very existence will be a surprise to the general public and to historians. Easily blending general history with musicology, the book provides provocative yet compelling analysis of complex issues."--Michael Meyer, author of The Politics of Music in the Third Reich "Hirsch poses complex questions about Jewish identity and Jewish music, and she situates these against a political background vexed by the impossibility of truly viable responses to such questions. Her thorough archival research is complemented by her extensive use of interviews, which gives voice to those swept up in the Holocaust. A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany is a book filled with the stories of real lives, a collective biography in modern music history that must no longer remain in silence."--Philip V. Bohlman, author of Jewish Music and Modernity "An engaging and downright gripping history. The project is original, the research is outstanding, and the presentation lucid."--Karen Painter, author of Symphonic Aspirations: German Music and Politics, 1900-1945 The Jewish Culture League was created in Berlin in June 1933, the only organization in Nazi Germany in which Jews were not only allowed but encouraged to participate in music, both as performers and as audience members. Lily E. Hirsch's A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany is the first book to seriously investigate and parse the complicated questions the existence of this unique organization raised, such as why the Nazis would promote Jewish music when, in the rest of Germany, it was banned. The government's insistence that the League perform only Jewish music also presented the organization's leaders and membership with perplexing conundrums: what exactly is Jewish music? Who qualifies as a Jewish composer? And, if it is true that the Nazis conceived of the League as a propaganda tool, did Jewish participation in its activities amount to collaboration? Lily E. Hirsch is Assistant Professor of Music at Cleveland State University.

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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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JSTOR

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22573/ctt1d3ktzr

Title

Jewish orchestra in Nazi Germany.

International Standard Book Number

9780472117109

Jüdischer Kulturbund.

Jüdischer Kulturbund.

Music-- Political aspects-- Germany-- History-- 20th century.

National socialism and music.

HISTORY-- General.

MUSIC-- Ethnomusicology.

Music-- Political aspects.

National socialism and music.

Germany.

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Book number

Hirsch, Lily E.,1979-

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20201208105133.0

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