"Including fresh, original, well-written, and substantive research by scholars in music, history, and Jewish studies, this volume contributes to the attempted reconstruction of a transnational, multilingual, diverse cultured Jewish musical praxis of the German-Jewish encounter. Highly Recommended." --Choice
Winner of the 2015 Ruth A. Solie Award from the American Musicological Society
"Including fresh, original, well-written, and substantive research by scholars in music, history, and Jewish studies, this volume contributes to the attempted reconstruction of a transnational, multilingual, diverse cultured Jewish musical praxis of the German-Jewish encounter. Highly Recommended." --Choice
Winner of the 2015 Ruth A. Solie Award from the American Musicological Society
"Including fresh, original, well-written, and substantive research by scholars in music, history, and Jewish studies, this volume contributes to the attempted reconstruction of a transnational, multilingual, diverse cultured Jewish musical praxis of the German-Jewish encounter. Highly Recommended." --
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Dr. Fruhauf is teaching at Columbia University and is editor at Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale in New York. She has received numerous fellowships and grants, most recently from the American Musicological Society, the Leo Baeck Institute, and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. Dr. Fruhauf has published articles in the The Musical Quarterly, usica Judaica, and TDR: The Drama Review, and contributed numerous book chapters on the German Jewish music culture. She is the author of The Organ and Its Music in German-Jewish Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009) and editor of An Anthology of German-Jewish Organ Music (A-R Editions, 2013). Dr. Fruhauf is currently conducting research for a monograph on music in the Jewish communities of Germany after 1945. Lily E. Hirsch (PhD, Duke University, 2006) is an independent scholar and current chair of the Jewish Studies and Music Study Group of the American Musicological Society. She was previously Assistant Professor of Music at Cleveland State University. She is author of the books A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany: Musical Politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League (University of Michigan Press, 2010) and Music in American Crime Prevention and Punishment (University of Michigan Press, 2012). Her research has also appeared in Rethinking Schumann (Oxford University Press), Musical Quarterly, Philomusica, the Journal of Popular Music Studies, American Music, and Popular Music & Society.