Organ and Its Music in German-Jewish Culture

Name: Organ and Its Music in German-Jewish Culture
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ISBN: 9780195337068

ISBN-10: 0195337069

ISBN-13: 9780195337068

Edition: 2008

Authors: Tina ï¿½hauf

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The Organ and Its Music in German-Jewish Culture examines the powerful but often overlooked presence of the organ in synagogue music and the musical life of German-speaking Jewish communities. Tina Fruhauf expertly chronicles the history of the organ in Jewish culture from the earliest references in the Talmud through the 19th century, when it had established a firm and lasting presence in Jewish sacred and secular spaces in central Europe. Fruhauf demonstrates how the introduction of the organ into German synagogues was part of the significant changes which took place in Judaism after the Enlightenment, and posits the organ as a symbol of the division of the Jewish community into Orthodox…

Book details

List price: $145.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/15/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 296
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.18" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English




The Organ, Jewish Music, and Identity



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



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



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"



The Aftermath of Emigration


Limitations in the "Land of Opportunity"


The Organ in Israeli Culture--A Bridge between East and West



Between Assimilation and Dissimilation: The Jewish Community in the Course of Modernity


Notes


Bibliography


Index--Names


Index--Places