Key to the International Language of Jewish Music by Dr. Tina Frühauf

The Work of Dr. Tina Frühauf Offers A New Perspective On The Remarkably Diverse Landscape That Comprises Jewish Music Dedicated To Immigrants Of All Faiths, Cultures, And All Walks Of Life

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Music is as old as human existence and Jewish music has always been an integral part of Jewish life, from synagogue services, traditional celebratory tunes through to more secular and current genres. Jews have dispersed over the generations and Jewish music has evolved, adapted and developed. In America, unsurprisingly, Jewish music has been diverse and varied. Beginning with the arrival of the first Jewish immigrants in the sixteenth century and the chanting of the Torah, through Klezmer music that came with the early waves of immigration to the United States at the turn of the 20th century, to the more current and secular sounds of pop and rock music.ng or Christmas Song?

In January Oxford University Press will release "Transcending Dystopia: Music, Mobility, and the Jewish Community in Germany, 1945-1989", a major academic work on music in the Jewish community in post-war Germany

By the end of the Second World War, Germany was in ruins and its Jewish population so gravely diminished that a rich cultural life seemed unthinkable. And yet, as surviving Jews returned from hiding, the camps, and their exiles abroad, so did their music. Transcending Dystopia tells the story of the remarkable revival of Jewish musical activity that developed in postwar Germany against all odds. Author Tina Frühauf provides a kaleidoscopic panorama of musical practices in worship and social life across the country to illuminate how music contributed to transitions and transformations within and beyond Jewish communities in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Drawing on newly unearthed sources from archives and private collections, this book covers a wide spectrum of musical activity—from its role in commemorations and community events to synagogue concerts and its presence on the radio—across the divided Germany until the Fall of the Wall in 1989.

Frühauf’s use of mobility as a conceptual framework reveals the myriad ways in which the reemergence of Jewish music in Germany was shaped by cultural transfer and exchange that often relied on the circulation of musicians, their ideas, and practices within and between communities. By illuminating the centrality of mobility to Jewish experiences and highlighting how postwar Jewish musical practices in Germany were defined by politics that reached across national borders to the United States and Israel, this pioneering study makes a major contribution to our understanding of Jewish life and culture in a transnational context.

Tina Frühauf is Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University in New York and serves on the doctoral faculty of the Graduate Center, CUNY. The study of Jewish music in modernity has been her primary research focus for two decades, culminating in monographs from Orgel und Orgelmusik in deutsch-jüdischer Kultur (Georg Olms Verlag, 2005) to Transcending Dystopia: Music, Mobility, and the Jewish Community in Germany, 1945–1989 (Oxford University Press, 2021). Among Dr. Frühauf’s recent editions is Dislocated Memories: Jews, Music, and Postwar German Culture (Oxford University Press, 2014, with Lily E. Hirsch), which won the Ruth A. Solie Award and the Jewish Studies and Music Award of the American Musicological Society, and the collection of essays, Postmodernity’s Musical Pasts (Boydell Press, 2020). Her current work focuses on the historiography of music scholarship and migration, examining the mass dislocation of peoples in the twentieth century and the conditions of globalization, genocide, exile, and minority experience.?

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