BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS/EDITIONS

Transcending Dystopia: Music, Mobility, and the Jewish Community in Germany, 1945–1989

New York: Oxford University Press, 2021

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Postmodernity’s Musical Pasts

Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2020

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Jüdische Musik im süddeutschen Raum / Mapping Jewish Music of Southern Germany

Munich: Allitera, 2021

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Dislocated Memories: Jews, Music, and Postwar German Culture

New York: Oxford University Press, 2014

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Experiencing Jewish Music in America: A Listener’s Companion

Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018

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The Organ and Its Music in German-Jewish Culture

New York: Oxford University Press, 2009

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Orgeln und Orgelmusik in deutsch-jüdischer Kultur

Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2005/2017

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German-Jewish Organ Music: An Anthology of Works from the 1820s to the 1960s

Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2013

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Werner Sander: A Vital Exponent of Jewish Music in the GDR / Ein großer Vertreter der jüdischen Musik in der DDR

Teetz: Hentrich & Hentrich, 2017

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Salomon Sulzer: Reformer, Cantor, Icon / Reformer, Kantor, Kultfigur

Berlin: Hentrich & Hentrich, 2012

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Referencing Music in the Twenty-first Century: Encyclopedias of the Past, Present, and Future

Fontes Artis Musicae 63, no. 3, (2016)

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Hans Samuel: Selected Piano Works

Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2013

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RECENT ARTICLES (Selection)

2023
“The Dialectics of Nationalism: Jaromír Weinberger’s Schwanda the Bagpiper and Anti-Semitism in Interwar Europe.” Cambridge Opera Journal, https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S0954586722000337.

2022
“(Un-)Jewish Musical Spaces in Munich – Past and Present.”  In German-Jewish Studies: Next Generations, edited by Aya Elyada and Kerry Wallach. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 248–268.

“Music, Mobility, and Cold War Politics: The Jewish Community in East Berlin.”  In Musique et politique culturelle sous le nazisme et le stalinisme: 1945 – Europe année zéro, edited by Philippe Olivier and Amaury du Closel. Paris: L’Harmattan, 167–183.

2021
“The Organ in Jewish Culture during the Long Renaissance.” Early Music 49, no. 4: 553–564.

“Ontological Reflections on ‘Contemporary Jewish Music in America’.” Journal of Synagogue Music 46, no. 1: 52–54.

“Etwas Unerhörtes bis dahin …”: Orgel und Orgelmusik in jüdischer Kultur,“ Singende Kirche 68, no. 4: 252–257.

2020
“Stereotypes and Jewish Musical Topics in East German Film: Ambiguities and Allosemitism in Hotel Polan und seine Gäste.” Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 65, no. 1: 153–85.

“Songs of Exile: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895–1968) and The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra.” In Exile and Creativity, edited by Alessandro Cassin. New York: CPL EDITIONS, 50–81.

2019
“Jüdische Musikforschung in den Akten der Stasi – Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Recherche.” Forum Musikbibliothek 40, no. 1: 18–23.

2018
“Jewish Vestiges on the Banks of the Danube: Synagogue Music in ‘Pannonia’.” In Music Cultures
in Sounds, Words and Images: Essays in Honor of Zdravko Blažeković
, edited by Antonio Baldassarre
and Tatjana Markovic. Vienna: Hollitzer Verlag, 277–311.

“Jüdisches Wirken im Schatten des Kanons: Hermann Zivi – Kantor, Komponist und Theoretiker.” Musik in Baden-Württemberg 24–25: 173–86.

2016
“Ein Instrument und seine Folgen: Die Orgel in der deutsch-jüdischen Kultur.” In Jüdischer
Almanach Musik
, edited by Gisela Dachs. Berlin: Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag, 64–80.

“Belly Dance Goes Goth: Distortions, Layers, Overlaps.” In Schichten, Geschichte, System:
Geologische Metaphern und Denkformen in den Kunstwissenschaften
, edited by Hanns-Werner Heister. Berlin: Weidler, 55–75.

2015
“Reform of Synagogue Music in the Nineteenth Century.” In Cambridge Companion to Jewish Music, edited by Joshua Walden. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 187–200.

“After the Holocaust: Jewish Music and the Canon in German Intellectual History.” In Partituren
der Erinnerung: Der Holocaust in der Musik
, edited by the Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust
Studien. Vienna: new academic press, 12–40.

2013
“Five Days in Berlin: The ‘Menuhin Affair’ of 1947 – A Chapter in the History of Postwar
Germany.” Musical Quarterly 96, no. 1: 14–49.