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Transcending Dystopia - Music, Mobility, and the Jewish Community in Germany, 1945-1989 (Hardcover)
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Transcending Dystopia - Music, Mobility, and the Jewish Community in Germany, 1945-1989 (Hardcover)
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By the end of the Second World War, Germany was in ruins and its
Jewish population so gravely diminished that a rich cultural life
seemed unthinkable. And yet, as surviving Jews returned from
hiding, the camps, and their exiles abroad, so did their music.
Transcending Dystopia tells the story of the remarkable revival of
Jewish musical activity that developed in postwar Germany against
all odds. Author Tina Fruhauf provides a kaleidoscopic panorama of
musical practices in worship and social life across the country to
illuminate how music contributed to transitions and transformations
within and beyond Jewish communities in the aftermath of the
Holocaust. Drawing on newly unearthed sources from archives and
private collections, this book covers a wide spectrum of musical
activity-from its role in commemorations and community events to
synagogue concerts and its presence on the radio-across the divided
Germany until the Fall of the Wall in 1989. Fruhauf's use of
mobility as a conceptual framework reveals the myriad ways in which
the reemergence of Jewish music in Germany was shaped by cultural
transfer and exchange that often relied on the circulation of
musicians, their ideas, and practices within and between
communities. By illuminating the centrality of mobility to Jewish
experiences and highlighting how postwar Jewish musical practices
in Germany were defined by politics that reached across national
borders to the United States and Israel, this pioneering study
makes a major contribution to our understanding of Jewish life and
culture in a transnational context.
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