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Music in the Holocaust : confronting life in the Nazi ghettos and camps / Shirli Gilbert.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: ML3776 .G54 2005

Overview

Series: Oxford historical monographs
Oxford historical monographs.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Gilbert, Shirli.
Published: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005
Locale: Poland
Germany
Contents: Introduction : redeeming music : "spiritual resistance" and beyond
"Have compassion, Jewish hearts" : music in the Warsaw ghetto
Vilna : politicians and partisans
Songs confront the past : life in Sachsenhausen
Fragments of humanity : music in Auschwitz.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-228) and index.

Introduction : redeeming music : "spiritual resistance" and beyond -- "Have compassion, Jewish hearts" : music in the Warsaw ghetto -- Vilna : politicians and partisans -- Songs confront the past : life in Sachsenhausen -- Fragments of humanity : music in Auschwitz.

Physical Details

Language: English
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ISBN: 0199277974
Physical Description: xii, 243 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Jews--Poland--Music--History and criticism. Music--Poland--20th century--History and criticism. Jews--Germany--Music--History and criticism. Music--Germany--20th century--History and criticism. National socialism and music. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

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