
Music in the Holocaust
Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps
Shirli Gilbert(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 17. March 2005
Book
Hardback
266 pages
978-0-19-927797-1 (ISBN)
Description
In Music in the Holocaust Shirli Gilbert provides the first large-scale, critical account of the role of music amongst communities imprisoned under Nazism. She documents a wide scope of musical activities, ranging from orchestras and chamber groups to choirs, theatres, communal sing-songs, and cabarets, in some of the most important internment centres in Nazi-occupied Europe, including Auschwitz and the Warsaw and Vilna ghettos. Gilbert is also concerned with exploring the ways in which music - particularly the many songs that were preserved - contribute to our broader understanding of the Holocaust and the experiences of its victims. Music in the Holocaust is, at its core, a social history, taking as its focus the lives of individuals and communities imprisoned under Nazism. Music opens a unique window on to the internal world of those communities, offering insight into how they understood, interpreted, and responded to their experiences at the time.
Reviews / Votes
Shirli Gilbert offers the first detailed, scholarly account in English of the role of music among the communities imprisoned under Nazism...[her work] provides a rich overview of music in the Holocaust based on world-wide research. Her enthusiastic study highlights the important role of music. * Emily Thwaite EHR 494 *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Scholars and students of Nazi Germany, the holocaust and Jewish Studies, cultural historians, musicologists.
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
numerous music examples, 4pp halftone plates
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
549 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-927797-1 (9780199277971)
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Book
12/2006
Oxford University Press
€79.20
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Person
Shirli Gilbert, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Michigan
Content
1. Redeeming Music: 'Spiritual resistance' and beyond ; 2. 'Have compassion, Jewish hearts': Music in the Warsaw Ghetto ; 3. Vilna: Politicians and Partisans ; 4. Songs Confront the Past: Life in the Sachsenhausen ; 5. Fragments of Humanity: Music in Auschwitz ; 6. Epilogue ; Appendices ; Bibliography ; Index