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Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 32 Jews and Music-Making in the Polish Lands

Guesnet, François Matis Benjamin Polonsky Antony
Heftet / 2020 / Engelsk

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9781906764746
Publisert
2020-01-14
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The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
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234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
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Engelsk
Format
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Heftet

Redaktør
Guesnet, François
Matis Benjamin
Polonsky Antony

Biographical note

Co-editor, with Jerzy Tomaszewski, of Sources on Jewish Self-Government in the Polish Lands from Its Inception to the Present (2022). He is chair of the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies and secretary of the European Association for Jewish Studies. He has held research fellowships and visiting teaching positions at University of Pennsylvania, University of Oxford, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dartmouth College, Potsdam University, Vilnius University, and the Jagiellonian University Kraków. Benjamin Matis is the spiritual leader of Agudath Achim Synagogue in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He qualified as a cantor and a Master of Sacred Music at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Author of The Jews in Poland and Russia, 3 vols. (Littman Library, 2010–12), also published in an abridged version: The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History (2014). In 2012, The Jews in Poland and Russia was awarded the Pro Historia Polonorum prize of the Polish Senate for the best book on the history of Poland in a non-Polish language written in the previous five years. Holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014). In 2011 he was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Polonia Restituta and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania.

Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 32 Jews and Music-Making in the Polish Lands

Guesnet, François Matis Benjamin Polonsky Antony
Heftet / 2020 / Engelsk
Guesnet, François Matis Benjamin Polonsky Antony
Heftet / 2020 / Engelsk
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"The essays in <i>Jews and Music-Making in the Polish Lands</i> offer rich examinations of a vast and under-studied scholarly terrain. [...] Future scholarship that embraces both the particularity of the Polish-Jewish context and the broad resonance of its themes will best advance the admirable work of this volume’s editors and contributors."J. Mackenzie Pierce, <i>Music and Letters</i>

Reviews"This is an essential contribution to the fields of musicology, ethnomusicology, Jewish studies, cultural studies, and European studies. The publication indeed explores Jews and music-making in Poland that is engaging and accessible."<br />Mark Kligman, <i>Yearbook of Traditional Music</i>

With its five thematic sections covering genres from cantorial to classical to klezmer, this pioneering multi-disciplinary volume presents rich coverage of the work of musicians of Jewish origin in the Polish lands. It opens with the musical consequences of developments in Jewish religious practice: the spread of hasidism in the eighteenth century meant that popular melodies replaced traditional cantorial music, while the greater acculturation of Jews in the nineteenth century brought with it synagogue choirs. Jewish involvement in popular culture included performances for the wider public, Yiddish songs and the Yiddish theatre, and contributions of many different sorts---technical and commercial as well as creative---in the interwar years. Chapters on the classical music scene cover Jewish musical institutions, organizations, and education; individual composers and musicians; and a consideration of music and Jewish national identity. One section is devoted to the Holocaust as reflected in Jewish music, and the final section deals with the afterlife of Jewish musical creativity in Poland, particularly the resurgence of interest in klezmer music. The essays in this collection do not attempt to to define what may well be undefinable---what ‘Jewish music’ is. Rather, they provide an original and much-needed exploration of the activities and creativity of ‘musicians of the Jewish faith’.
CONTRIBUTORS: Eliyana R. Adler, Michael Aylward, Sławomir Dobrzański, Paula Eisenstein-Baker, Beth Holmgren, Sylwia Jakubczyk-Ślęczka, Daniel Katz, James Loeffler, Michael Lukin, Filip Mazurczak, Bożena Muszkalska, Julia Riegel, Ronald Robboy, Robert Rothstein, Joel E. Rubin, Adam J. Sacks, Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel, Eleanor Shapiro, Carla Shapreau, Tamara Sztyma, Bella Szwarcman-Czarnota, Joseph Toltz, Maja Trochimczyk, Magdalena Waligórska, Bret Werb, Akiva Zimmerman
Les mer
In the Polish lands, musicians of Jewish origin have produced an astonishing variety of music of all genres. Offering a multi-disciplinary thematic approach to this creativity, this volume considers cantorial and religious music; Jews in popular culture; Jews in the classical music scene; the Holocaust reflected in Jewish music; and klezmer in Poland today.
Les mer

Introduction

François Guesnet, Benjamin Matis, and Antony Polonsky

PART I. CANTORIAL AND RELIGIOUS MUSIC

A Chestnut, a Grape, and a Pack of Lions: A Shabbos in Płock with a Popular Synagogue Singer in the Early Nineteenth Century

Daniel Katz

Moshe Koussevitzky (1899–1966) in Vilna, Warsaw, and Russia

Akiva Zimmerman

The Art of Cantorial Singing in the Polish Territories

Bożena Muszkalska

PART II. JEWS IN POPULAR MUSICAL CULTURE IN POLAND

Musical Afterthoughts on Shmeruk’s Mayufes

Bret Werb

Servant Romances: Eighteenth-Century Yiddish Lyric and Narrative Folk Songs

Michael Lukin

Broder Singers: Forerunners of the Yiddish Theatre

Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel

Gimpel’s Theatre, Lwów: The Sounds of a Popular Yiddish Theatre Preserved on Gramophone Records, 1904–1913

Michael Aylward

The Polish Tin Pan Alley—A Jewish Street

Robert Rothstein

On the Dance Floor, on the Screen, on the Stage. Popular Music in the Interwar Period: Polish, Jewish, Shared

Tamara Sztyma

The Jews in the Band: Anders Army’s Special Troupes

Beth Holmgren

Szpilman, Bajgelman, and Barsht: The Legacy of an Extended Polish Jewish Klezmer Family

Joel E. Rubin

Władysław Szpilman’s Post-War Career in Poland

Filip Mazurczak

Abraham Ellstein’s Film Scores: Some Less Obvious Sources

Ronald Robboy

PART III. JEWS IN THE POLISH CLASSICAL MUSIC SCENE

The ‘Lust Machine’: Recording and Selling the Jewish Nation in the Late Russian Empire

James Loeffler

Leo Zeitlin and the Flourishing of Jewish Art Music in Early 1920s Vilna

Paula Eisenstein-Baker

‘Jewish musicians are the crowning achievements of foreign nations’: Jewish Identity and Yiddish Nationalism in the Writings of Menachem Kipnis

Julia Riegel

Ostbahnhof Berlin: Jewish Music Students of East European Origin at the Berlin Conservatory, 1918–1933

Adam J. Sacks

Jewish Music Institutions and Organizations in Interwar Galicia

Sylwia Jakubczyk-Ślęczka

Jewish Composers of Polish Music after 1939: A Story in Lists and Numbers

Maja Trochimczyk

Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern’s American Years

Sławomir Dobrzański

PART IV. THE HOLOCAUST REFLECTED IN JEWISH MUSIC

‘My song, you are my strength’: Personal Repertories of Polish and Yiddish Songs from Young Survivors of the Łódź Ghetto

Joseph Toltz

Singing Their Way Home

Eliyana R. Adler

The Nazi-Era Confiscation of Wanda Landowska’s Musical Collection and Its Aftermath

Carla Shapreau

Music as a ‘Paper Bridge’ between Generations before and after the Holocaust

Bella Szwarcman-Czarnota

PART V. KLEZMER IN POLAND TODAY

The Klezmer Revival in Poland as a Contact Zone

Magdalena Waligórska

The Sound of Change: Performing ‘Jewishness’ in Small Polish Towns

Ellie Shapiro

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"The essays in <i>Jews and Music-Making in the Polish Lands</i> offer rich examinations of a vast and under-studied scholarly terrain. [...] Future scholarship that embraces both the particularity of the Polish-Jewish context and the broad resonance of its themes will best advance the admirable work of this volume’s editors and contributors."J. Mackenzie Pierce, <i>Music and Letters</i>

Reviews"This is an essential contribution to the fields of musicology, ethnomusicology, Jewish studies, cultural studies, and European studies. The publication indeed explores Jews and music-making in Poland that is engaging and accessible."<br />Mark Kligman, <i>Yearbook of Traditional Music</i>

With its five thematic sections covering genres from cantorial to classical to klezmer, this pioneering multi-disciplinary volume presents rich coverage of the work of musicians of Jewish origin in the Polish lands. It opens with the musical consequences of developments in Jewish religious practice: the spread of hasidism in the eighteenth century meant that popular melodies replaced traditional cantorial music, while the greater acculturation of Jews in the nineteenth century brought with it synagogue choirs. Jewish involvement in popular culture included performances for the wider public, Yiddish songs and the Yiddish theatre, and contributions of many different sorts---technical and commercial as well as creative---in the interwar years. Chapters on the classical music scene cover Jewish musical institutions, organizations, and education; individual composers and musicians; and a consideration of music and Jewish national identity. One section is devoted to the Holocaust as reflected in Jewish music, and the final section deals with the afterlife of Jewish musical creativity in Poland, particularly the resurgence of interest in klezmer music. The essays in this collection do not attempt to to define what may well be undefinable---what ‘Jewish music’ is. Rather, they provide an original and much-needed exploration of the activities and creativity of ‘musicians of the Jewish faith’.
CONTRIBUTORS: Eliyana R. Adler, Michael Aylward, Sławomir Dobrzański, Paula Eisenstein-Baker, Beth Holmgren, Sylwia Jakubczyk-Ślęczka, Daniel Katz, James Loeffler, Michael Lukin, Filip Mazurczak, Bożena Muszkalska, Julia Riegel, Ronald Robboy, Robert Rothstein, Joel E. Rubin, Adam J. Sacks, Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel, Eleanor Shapiro, Carla Shapreau, Tamara Sztyma, Bella Szwarcman-Czarnota, Joseph Toltz, Maja Trochimczyk, Magdalena Waligórska, Bret Werb, Akiva Zimmerman
Les mer
In the Polish lands, musicians of Jewish origin have produced an astonishing variety of music of all genres. Offering a multi-disciplinary thematic approach to this creativity, this volume considers cantorial and religious music; Jews in popular culture; Jews in the classical music scene; the Holocaust reflected in Jewish music; and klezmer in Poland today.
Les mer

Introduction

François Guesnet, Benjamin Matis, and Antony Polonsky

PART I. CANTORIAL AND RELIGIOUS MUSIC

A Chestnut, a Grape, and a Pack of Lions: A Shabbos in Płock with a Popular Synagogue Singer in the Early Nineteenth Century

Daniel Katz

Moshe Koussevitzky (1899–1966) in Vilna, Warsaw, and Russia

Akiva Zimmerman

The Art of Cantorial Singing in the Polish Territories

Bożena Muszkalska

PART II. JEWS IN POPULAR MUSICAL CULTURE IN POLAND

Musical Afterthoughts on Shmeruk’s Mayufes

Bret Werb

Servant Romances: Eighteenth-Century Yiddish Lyric and Narrative Folk Songs

Michael Lukin

Broder Singers: Forerunners of the Yiddish Theatre

Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel

Gimpel’s Theatre, Lwów: The Sounds of a Popular Yiddish Theatre Preserved on Gramophone Records, 1904–1913

Michael Aylward

The Polish Tin Pan Alley—A Jewish Street

Robert Rothstein

On the Dance Floor, on the Screen, on the Stage. Popular Music in the Interwar Period: Polish, Jewish, Shared

Tamara Sztyma

The Jews in the Band: Anders Army’s Special Troupes

Beth Holmgren

Szpilman, Bajgelman, and Barsht: The Legacy of an Extended Polish Jewish Klezmer Family

Joel E. Rubin

Władysław Szpilman’s Post-War Career in Poland

Filip Mazurczak

Abraham Ellstein’s Film Scores: Some Less Obvious Sources

Ronald Robboy

PART III. JEWS IN THE POLISH CLASSICAL MUSIC SCENE

The ‘Lust Machine’: Recording and Selling the Jewish Nation in the Late Russian Empire

James Loeffler

Leo Zeitlin and the Flourishing of Jewish Art Music in Early 1920s Vilna

Paula Eisenstein-Baker

‘Jewish musicians are the crowning achievements of foreign nations’: Jewish Identity and Yiddish Nationalism in the Writings of Menachem Kipnis

Julia Riegel

Ostbahnhof Berlin: Jewish Music Students of East European Origin at the Berlin Conservatory, 1918–1933

Adam J. Sacks

Jewish Music Institutions and Organizations in Interwar Galicia

Sylwia Jakubczyk-Ślęczka

Jewish Composers of Polish Music after 1939: A Story in Lists and Numbers

Maja Trochimczyk

Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern’s American Years

Sławomir Dobrzański

PART IV. THE HOLOCAUST REFLECTED IN JEWISH MUSIC

‘My song, you are my strength’: Personal Repertories of Polish and Yiddish Songs from Young Survivors of the Łódź Ghetto

Joseph Toltz

Singing Their Way Home

Eliyana R. Adler

The Nazi-Era Confiscation of Wanda Landowska’s Musical Collection and Its Aftermath

Carla Shapreau

Music as a ‘Paper Bridge’ between Generations before and after the Holocaust

Bella Szwarcman-Czarnota

PART V. KLEZMER IN POLAND TODAY

The Klezmer Revival in Poland as a Contact Zone

Magdalena Waligórska

The Sound of Change: Performing ‘Jewishness’ in Small Polish Towns

Ellie Shapiro

Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781906764746
Publisert
2020-01-14
Utgiver
Vendor
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Redaktør
Guesnet, François
Matis Benjamin
Polonsky Antony

Biographical note

Co-editor, with Jerzy Tomaszewski, of Sources on Jewish Self-Government in the Polish Lands from Its Inception to the Present (2022). He is chair of the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies and secretary of the European Association for Jewish Studies. He has held research fellowships and visiting teaching positions at University of Pennsylvania, University of Oxford, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dartmouth College, Potsdam University, Vilnius University, and the Jagiellonian University Kraków. Benjamin Matis is the spiritual leader of Agudath Achim Synagogue in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He qualified as a cantor and a Master of Sacred Music at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Author of The Jews in Poland and Russia, 3 vols. (Littman Library, 2010–12), also published in an abridged version: The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History (2014). In 2012, The Jews in Poland and Russia was awarded the Pro Historia Polonorum prize of the Polish Senate for the best book on the history of Poland in a non-Polish language written in the previous five years. Holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014). In 2011 he was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Polonia Restituta and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania.

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