Bach in Auschwitz
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(Video Collection) Retrieved from: The United States.
Eleven members of the prisoner orchestra in Auschwitz reunite in 1999 to share their experiences.
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Films
Year:
2000
Brundibár: A Children’s Opera in Two Acts
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(Compact Disc) Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies New recording of the children’s opera performed for representatives of the Red Cross by prisoners in the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1943. Includes a booklet with the libretto in English, Czech, French, and German.
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Recordings
Year:
1996
Sonderstab Musik: Music Confiscations by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg under the Nazi Occupation of Western Europe
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Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies Details the plunder of French, Belgian, and Dutch orchestras and music halls under the direction of Alfred Rosenberg, including the theft of instruments, rare sheet music, and recordings.
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Books
Year:
1996
Alma Rosé: Vienna to Auschwitz
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Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies Traces the life of violinist Alma Rosé, a niece of Gustav Mahler. Recounts her childhood and early musical career in Vienna, her experiences in occupied Holland, and her time as music master of the women’s orchestra in Auschwitz.
Material Type:
Books
Year:
2000
My Voice Saved Me: Auschwitz 180046
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Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies Memoir of an Italian Jewish tenor who was arrested and imprisoned in the Via Tasso, Regina Coeli, and Fossoli prisons in Italy, and who later performed with the prisoner orchestra in Auschwitz.
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Books
Year:
1961
Dachau Song: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper
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Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies Traces the life of Herbert Zipper, a Viennese conductor and composer sent to Dachau in 1938. Describes his efforts to create a secret orchestra in the camp, his transfer to Buchenwald, and his eventual release in 1939.
Material Type:
Books
Year:
1992
Report from Israel
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Report from the 10th Congress of the International Assenbly of Music Libraries in Jerusalem 1974.
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Articles in Journals
Year:
1975
Knowledge Is the Beginning, Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
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Films
Year:
2005
Inherit the Truth, 1939–45
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Memoir of a member of the women's orchestra in Auschwitz. Includes a translated section from the book Elf Frauen: Leben in Wahrheit: eine ִrztin berichtet aus Auschwitz-Birkenau 1942-1945 by Margita Schwalbova that discusses Dr. Schwalbova's experiences with Alma Rosé and the women's orchestra.
Material Type:
Books
Year:
1995
Music of Another World
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Memoir by the music director of the prisoner orchestra in Auschwitz. Recounts the author's daily existence including performances for SS officers of the camp.
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Books
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1989
- 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.