Comprehensive, authoritative, highly readable, insightful, and ground-breaking, Tina Frühauf’s book enriches our understanding of the varied fate of postwar German Jews — east and west — through music, a powerful expression of Jewish resilience, identity, and belief.
Mark Slobin, Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music Emeritus, Wesleyan University
Frühauf gives a picture of a community grappling with how to transition in a post-Holocaust world, and the role music plays in this transition. It is a masterful interdisciplinary work on a little-studied time period in Jewish musical history, and provides an important framework for looking at the musical life of other postwar Jewish communities.
Karen Uslin, Defiant Requiem Foundation
An essential record of both strength and fragility in the rebuilding of a transnational and multilingual Jewish musical practice and knowledge from the edge of extinction to a diverse culture of memory and meaning.
Michael P. Steinberg, Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History, and Professor of Music and German Studies
This first-ever, one-volume introduction to the large and fascinating subject of Jewish music in America is innovative, thorough, and lively.
Mark Slobin, Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music Emeritus, Wesleyan University
Tina Frühauf opens new chapters in the history of Jewish music in modern Central Europe. This book makes a major contribution to studies of Jews and modernity, but no less challenges the reader to rethink the very nature of Jewish musical tradition before modernity. As cultural history, Frühauf's book deftly poses questions about Jewish identity and musical identity alike, where they meet and where they depart.
Philip Vilas Bohlman, Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago
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