Language:
English
Year of publication:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
Disseminating German Tradition
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2009) 123-144
Keywords:
Jüdischer Kulturbund
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Jewish musicians
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Jewish musicians
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Jews Music
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Jews Music
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Jews History 1933-1945
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Jews History 1938-1945
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in music
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Germany Emigration and immigration 1933-1945
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History
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Austria Emigration and immigration 20th century
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History
Abstract:
Before 1933 Jews were predominant in the German musical culture. Nazi measures for ousting Jews from music led to the ghettoization of Jewish musicians in the framework of the Jüdischer Kulturbund, and to the emigration of many Jewish German and Austrian musicians to the USA, Britain, Eretz Israel, and elsewhere. The Kulturbund experienced increasing restrictions and anti-Jewish measures, and was disbanded in September 1941. Those affiliated with it were sent to Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and other camps, where most of them perished. Dwells on the fate of prominent (Arnold Schoenberg, Otto Klemperer, Bruno Walter, Kurt Weill) and less prominent musicians who emigrated. Their fruitful careers in their new countries serve as monuments to an unabated Jewish musical creativity. This creativity might have been much greater had their colleagues who remained in Germany and Austria survived.
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