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«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… that Jewish music was a defiant response to Russian antisemitism. It was a proud form of Jewish cultural … Music is really about the strange interplay between Russian antisemitism and philosemitism, which together shaped Jewish … conditions in terms of both Russian politics and European antisemitism. Most of all, it is due to the fact that the …
Felix Mendelssohn- Gustav Mahler: Two Borderline Cases of German- Jewish Assimilation
Mendelssohn and Mahler represent the attempts of Jewish composers to assimilate into…
The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire
'No image of prerevolutionary Russian Jewish life is more iconic than the fiddler on the…
Hermann Levi's shame and Parsifal's guilt:A critique of essentialism in biography and criticism
According to revisionist readings by scholars including Hartmut Zelinsky, Rolf Schneider…
David Finko: Russkij kompozitor v Amerike. [David Finko: A Russian composer in America.]
Finko (b.1936) emigrated to the U.S. in 1979, after having grown up in Leningrad and…
The Comedian Harmonists - Documentary
… … Holocaust … Germany … German Jews … Jews … Documentary … Antisemitism … The Comedian Harmonists - Documentary …
Comedian Harmonists
… 1997 … Holocaust … Germany … German Jews … Jews … Feature … Antisemitism … Comedian Harmonists …
Chopin's controversial mazurka op. 17, no. 4
Analysis of the musical texture of the mazurka op. 17, no. 4 shows the use of material…
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco received his formal musical education at the Istituto Musicale…
Leo Levi
Leo Levi was the first scholar to devote research to the Italian Jewish oral musical…