November 21-27     Music of Peace in Places of Jewish Life in Germany

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 A meeting was held in New York on November 14, with experts in   Jewish music and culture including  Dr. Leon Botstein, President of Bard College, Bret Werb of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and Dr. Frank Mecklenburg from the Leo Baeck Institue, as well as prominent WQXR radio hosts Elliott Forrest and Fred Child of American Public Media, among 20 other scholars and music lovers.  This exclusive gathering was devised by Thomas Hummel, to help alert the alarming rise in anti-Semitism and to establish and further expand  "Jewish Music Days" in Germany, in the hopes that more people will unite to fight racism of all kinds. Dr. Hummel, who resides in Hamburg, Germany stated:  "We must increase every day."

Llife needs peace, culture needs diversity. And Jewish music is the key to discovering the diversity of Jewish life. Because no matter how scattered the Jews had to live all over the world, no matter how much they suffered from persecution, expulsion and murder, music was and is a source of strength, the elixir of life and sounding resistance. We would like to show you this in our international music week at the most beautiful places of Jewish life throughout Germany. From Berlin to Würzburg, from Potsdam to Stavenhagen, from Görlitz to the island of Usedom, the musicality of Jewish musicians can be seen everywhere. Join Ilja Richter in search of clues in German-Jewish Jerusalem. Experience songs from the Warsaw ghetto with the Kammersängerin Helene Schneiderman as well as Leonard Bernstein's declarations of love for life cast in music. Roman Grinberg brings you lively klezmer and Yiddish songs full of wit and charm. Whether it's Norman Lebrecht's poignant novel and film Song of Names or the Israeli Nigun Quartet at the opening, discover the songs, stories and music of a people who helped overcome the greatest of catastrophes. Let yourself be taken and inspired into this world of diversity, peace and confidence. Whether it's Norman Lebrecht's poignant novel and film Song of Names or the Israeli Nigun Quartet at the opening, discover the songs, stories and music of a people who helped overcome the greatest of catastrophes. Let yourself be taken and inspired into this world of diversity, peace and confidence. Whether it's Norman Lebrecht's poignant novel and film Song of Names or the Israeli Nigun Quartet at the opening, discover the songs, stories and music of a people who helped overcome the greatest of catastrophes. Let yourself be taken and inspired into this world of diversity, peace and confidence.

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