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Book SynopsisThe Organ and Its Music in German-Jewish Culture examines the powerful presence of the organ in synagogue music and in the general musical life of German-speaking Jewish communities in the 19th and 20th centuries. It explores the development of a new organ music repertoire as a paradigm for the changing identity of modern Jewry.
Trade ReviewThis groundbreaking and engaged study is really two books in one: the story of modern Jewry's growing interest in the organ, combined with a fresh look at music in German Jewish culture. It's solid and satisfying on both counts. * Mark Slobin, Professor of Music, Wesleyan University, and author, Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World *
Table of Contents1 The Organ, Jewish Music, and Identity ; 2 Jewish "Curiosities": The Organ in Judaism Before 1800 ; * The Jewish Literature of Early Modernity ; * Pictorial Sources of Different Cultural and Religious Provenance ; * Meshorerim as the Forerunners of Organ Accompaniment ; * The Synagogues of Prague and Venice ; 3 The Organ as a Jewish Religious Response to Modernity ; * From Liturgical Reforms to a New Musical Identity ; * The Synagogue Organ in the Context of Organ Building Traditions ; * Intermezzo: Sharing the Console-The Synagogue Organist ; * The Synagogue Organist in the Framework of Christian Traditions ; * Organists at the New Synagogue in Berlin ; * The Impact of the Organist Question ; 4 Organ Music in Jewish Communities ; * From Lewandowski to Schalit: The Stylistic Development of Jewish Organ Music ; * Departure and Destruction: Organ Music in the "Spiritual Ghetto" ; 5 The Aftermath of Emigration ; * Limitations in the "Land of Opportunity" ; * The Organ in Israeli Culture-A Bridge between East and West ; 6 Between Assimilation and Dissimilation: The Jewish Community in the Course of Modernity ; Notes, Bibliography, Index-Names, Index-Places
