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9%OFFLily E. Hirsch - A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany: Musical Politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League - 9780472034970 - V9780472034970
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A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany: Musical Politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League

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Description for A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany: Musical Politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League Paperback. Examines the complicated history of a Jewish cultural organization supported by Nazi Germany Num Pages: 258 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures, printed music items. BIC Classification: 1DFG; AVA; AVC; HBJD; HBTB; JFSR1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 419.

"Offers a clear introduction to a fascinating, yet little known, phenomenon in Nazi Germany, whose very existence will be a surprise to the general public and to historians. Easily blending general history with musicology, the book provides provocative yet compelling analysis of complex issues."
---Michael Meyer, author of The Politics of Music in the Third Reich

"Hirsch poses complex questions about Jewish identity and Jewish music, and she situates these against a political background vexed by the impossibility of truly viable responses to such questions. Her thorough archival research is complemented by her extensive use of interviews, which gives voice to ... Read more

"An engaging and downright gripping history. The project is original, the research is outstanding, and the presentation lucid."
---Karen Painter, author of Symphonic Aspirations: German Music and Politics, 1900-1945

The Jewish Culture League was created in Berlin in June 1933, the only organization in Nazi Germany in which Jews were not only allowed but encouraged to participate in music, both as performers and as audience members. Lily E. Hirsch's A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany is the first book to seriously investigate and parse the complicated questions the existence of this unique organization raised, such as why the Nazis would promote Jewish music when, in the rest of Germany, it was banned. The government's insistence that the League perform only Jewish music also presented the organization's leaders and membership with perplexing conundrums: what exactly is Jewish music? Who qualifies as a Jewish composer? And, if it is true that the Nazis conceived of the League as a propaganda tool, did Jewish participation in its activities amount to collaboration?

Lily E. Hirsch is Assistant Professor of Music at Cleveland State University.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472034970
SKU
V9780472034970
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About Lily E. Hirsch
Lily E. Hirsch has a Ph.D. in musicology from Duke University and most recently taught at Cleveland State University.

Reviews for A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany: Musical Politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League
"Drawing on interviews with members of the Jewish Culture League and the memoirs of Anneliese Landau (head of the league's lecture department), Hirsch has produced and engrossing history of this Berlin-centered organization, which was created in 1933 by the Nazis to support Jewish music making and lasted until September 1941."
Choice, J Behrens, The Pennsylvania Academy of Music ... Read more

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