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Edited by Philip V. Bohlman

Jewish Musical Modernism, Old and New

With a Foreword by Sander L. Gilman
224 pages, 19 color plates, 8 halftones, 1 line drawing, 4 musical examples, 1 cd  8-1/4 x 9-1/4  © 2008

Cloth $35.00

ISBN: 9780226063263   Published March 2009

Contents
 
Foreword: Are Jews Musical? Historical Notes on the Question of Jewish Musical Modernism
            Sander L. Gilman
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Transcendent Moment of Jewish Modernism
            Philip V. Bohlman
1. Multiple Modernisms? Episodes from the Sciences as Cultures, 1900–1945
            Mitchell G. Ash
2. Sephardic Fins des Siècles: The Liturgical Music of Vienna’s Türkisch-Israelitische Community on the Threshold of Modernity
            Edwin Seroussi
3. Jewish Music and German Science
            Pamela M. Potter
4. Echoes from beyond Europe: Music and the Beta Israel Transformation
            Kay Kaufman Shelemay
5. Charlotte Salomon’s Modernism
            Michael P. Steinberg
Epilogue: Beyond Jewish Modernism
            Philip V. Bohlman
 
Appendix 1. Moments musicaux et modernes: Jewish Modernism in Popular and Political Music: Accompanying CD by the New Budapest Orpheum Society   
Appendix 2. CD Texts and Translations
Contributors
Index
Subjects



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