Print Price: $375.00

Format:
Hardback
262 pp.
numerous music examples, 4pp halftone plates, 156 mm x 234 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199277971

Publication date:
February 2005

Imprint: OUP UK

Music in the Holocaust

Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps

Shirli Gilbert

Series : Oxford Historical Monographs

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.

Readership : Scholars and students of Nazi Germany, the holocaust and Jewish Studies; cultural historians; musicologists.