- Summary
- "A sweeping history of three generations darkened by the long shadow of the Holocaust, The Cello Still Sings is a vivid, moving, and true story of personal discovery. As a child Janet is haunted by the eerie hush surrounding her parents' experiences. George and Katherine, two professional musicians and Holocaust survivors, bury the memories of who and what they were before, silencing the past in order to live. Music is their lifeline." -- Adapted from Amazon.com
- Variant Title
- Generational story of the Holocaust and of the transformative power of music
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Horvath, Janet, author.
- Published
- [Netherlands] : Amsterdam Publishers, 2023
©2023
- Contents
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Foreward
Author's note
Prologue
A concert with Leonard Bernstein in May 1948
From artist to slave laborer
A documentary takes us back in time
Paprika, prayers, and persecution
Finding the cello (and the man) of my dreams
Losing everything again
Katherine's last recital
Eichmann in Budapest, a tale of monsters as men
Envoi to atrocious times
Papa's death and notes of transcendence
A musician afraid of sound
Pilgrimage
Living in isolation
When history is revised and denied
The fear of rising antisemitism
Playing for my people in Germany (Landsberg, 2018).
- Notes
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Includes author's note, discussion questions and appendices.
Foreward -- Author's note -- Prologue -- A concert with Leonard Bernstein in May 1948 -- From artist to slave laborer -- A documentary takes us back in time -- Paprika, prayers, and persecution -- Finding the cello (and the man) of my dreams -- Losing everything again -- Katherine's last recital -- Eichmann in Budapest, a tale of monsters as men -- Envoi to atrocious times -- Papa's death and notes of transcendence -- A musician afraid of sound -- Pilgrimage -- Living in isolation -- When history is revised and denied -- The fear of rising antisemitism -- Playing for my people in Germany (Landsberg, 2018).
