Pavel Haas: Leben und Werk des Komponisten
Author
Translated from the Czech original (Brno: Muzejni a vlastivedna spolecnost, 1993) by Thomas Mandl.
Material Type:
Books
Year:
1996
Violonist in Auschwitz: from Salonica to Jerusalem, 1913-1967
Originally in German "Geiger in Auschwitz". Personal narratives of Jacques Stroumsa, a violonist from Salonica who miraculously survived Auschwitz concentration camp, rebuilt his life in Paris and currently lives in Israel.
Material Type:
Books
Year:
1996
Singing for Survival: Songs of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940-45
Author
Explores the repertoire of songs created or performed by prisoners in the Lodz ghetto. Provides a brief history and overview of the ghetto and its music culture as well as analysis, lyrics, and music of dozens of compositions from the ghetto.
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Books
Year:
1992
Materialien
26 Kritiken uber musikalische Veranstaltungen in Theresienstadt
Author
Editor
Mit einem Geleitwort von Thomas Mandl ; hrsg. und kommentiert von Ingo Schultz.
Material Type:
Books
Year:
1993
Ess firt kejn weg zurik-- :Geschichte und Lieder des Ghettos von Wilna, 1941-1943
Text in German, with texts of songs in Yiddish transliteration and German. Introduction by Simon Wiesenthal.
Material Type:
Books
Year:
1992
Music in Terezin, 1941-1945
The effect of the Holocaust on the study of East-European Jewish music
Author
On the difficulties of conducting research on Jewish liturgical music after the Holocaust. Another version appeared in "Studia Judaica" 9 (2000)
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Articles in Books
Year:
1997
Viktor Ullmann. A brief biography and appreciation
Author
Born in Jan. 1898 in Teschen, Czechoslovakia, Ullmann studied in Vienna; in 1918-19, he was a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg. From 1920-27 he served as conducting assistant to Alexander Zemlinsky in Prague, and also worked as free-lance composer and teacher. He continued as a composer and a music critic in Theresienstadt, where he had been deported in 1942. In Oct. 1944 Ullmann was sent to his death in Auschwitz.
Material Type:
Articles in Journals
Year:
1979
Viktor Ullmann
Composer
Viktor Ullmann was born in Teschen (now Český Těšín), Czech Republic on January 1, 1898. Ullmann’s father was an officer in the Austrian Imperial Army stationed in Teschen. In 1909, the Ullmann family moved to Vienna, and Viktor began studying music theory with Dr. Josef Pohlaneur.
1898-1944
- A Polka Mazurka
- Niggun of the Meggid of Mezerich From the album, "The Hasidic Niggun as Sung by the Hasidim." This dance niggun is the seventh and last in a series of niggunim sung by Bratslav Hasidim as they dance after the Shabbat evening service on Friday night. Some have attributed the niggun to R. Dov Ber, the meggid of Mezerich.
- Kol B'ru'ei (Padua, Italy) From the album, "Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection (1954-1961)." The poem depicts "all creatures" singing and praising the unity of God, and was recited in the Italian rite during the daily morning prayer. This melody was sung only on Rosh Hashanah (New Year) in the Italian tradition of Padua.
- Yigdal From the album, "Judeo-Carribean Currents, Music of the Mikve Israel-Emanuel Synagogue in Curaçao," performed by Gideon Zelermyer. The Yigdal is part of the ceremonial section of the liturgical order of Shabbat and the Holy Days in the Curaçao synagogue. It is one of the ending hymns of the service.
- Eres Chiquita y Bonita From the album, "Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle," sung by Alicia Bendayan from Tetuan. This is a song about courtship, related to the Jewish rituals that mark the events of the life cycle.
- Sweet Shalt Be My Chant From the album, "Kulmus Hanefesh," performed by Yair Harel on voice and tar, and Matti Kovler on voice and piano. A sacred hymn attributed to Rabbi Yehuda ha-Chasid, this is a Chabad tune with a near-Eastern arrangement.
- Lyr II From the album, "The Music of the Mountain Jews." Lyr is a genre found among all Turkish peoples, consisting of long, complex compositions usually comprised of three parts.
- Gilu ha-Galilim (Rejoice Galileans) From the album, "Nights in Canaan, Early Songs of the Land of Israel (1882-1946)." This is a Second Aliyah (1904-1914) song which became an integral part of the historical repertoire of Hebrew song. Both native-born and newly arrived pioneers sang this song in all circumstances.
- Saperi Tama From the album, "With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen." This is a girdle poem by Se'adia ben Amram. Saperi Tama is sung to many melodies and is one of Yemenite Jewry's most common poems.