Jewish musical modernism, old and new / edited by Philip V. Bohlman ; with a foreword by Sander L. Gilman.

Songs on accompanying CD performed by the New Budapest Orpheum Society; title on CD: Moments musicaux et modernes : Jewish modernism in popular and political music.

Contents of CD, explanatory notes, texts (in Hebrew or German), and English translations (p. 179-204).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- Multiple modernisms? Episodes from the sciences as cultures, 1900-1945 / Mitchell G. Ash -- Sephardic fins des siècles : the liturgical music of Vienna's Türkisch-Israelitische community on the threshold of modernity / Edwin Seroussi -- Jewish music and German science / Pamela M. Potter -- Echoes from beyond Europe : music and the Beta Israel transformation / Kay Kaufman Shelemay -- 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.