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    Jewish Musical Modernism, Old and New
    Jewish Musical Modernism, Old and New
    Jewish Musical Modernism, Old and New
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    Jewish Musical Modernism, Old and New

    By Philip V. Bohlman and Sander L. Gilman

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    Tackling the myriad issues raised by Sander Gilman’s provocative opening salvo—”Are Jews Musical?”—this volume’s distinguished contributors present a series of essays that trace the intersections of Jewish history and music from the late nineteenth century to the present.

    Covering the sacred and the secular, the European and the non-European, and all the arenas where these realms converge, these essays recast the established history of Jewish culture and its influences on modernity. Mitchell Ash explores the relationship of Jewish scientists to modernist artists and musicians, while Edwin Seroussi looks at the creation of Jewish sacred music in nineteenth-century Vienna. Discussing Jewish musicologists in Austria and Germany, Pamela Potter details their contributions to the “science of music” as a modern phenomenon. Kay Kaufman Shelemay investigates European influence in the music of an Ethiopian Jewish community, and Michael P. Steinberg traces the life and works of Charlotte Salomon, whose paintings staged the destruction of the Holocaust. Bolstered by Philip V. Bohlman’s wide-ranging introduction and epilogue, and featuring lush color illustrations and a complementary CD of the period’s music, this volume is a lavish tribute to Jewish contributions to modernity.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
    Release dateNov 15, 2008
    ISBN9780226063270
    Jewish Musical Modernism, Old and New
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    Sander L. Gilman

    Sander L. Gilman is Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University and the author or editor of more than ninety books. Helen King is Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at the Open University. Roy Porter was Professor of Social Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and the author of London: A Social History.G. S. Rousseau is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, former Regius Professor at King’s College Aberdeen, and the author of many books, including a trilogy about Enlightenment culture. Elaine Showalter is Professor Emerita of English at Princeton and the author of A Jury of Her Peers: Celebrating American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet  to Annie Proulx.

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