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Jascha Nemtsov
The New Jewish School in music

  Preface
Chapter I: Historic and ideological premises: from the Haskala to "Auto-Emancipation“
I.1. The beginning of the Haskala (Jewish Enlightenment) in Russia (1800-1855)
I.2. The Haskala at the time of the Great Reforms (1855-1881)
I.3. The end of the Haskala and Auto-Emancipation (1881-1900)
I.4. Spiritual Zionism (Achad Haam)
I.5. “Autonomism” (Simon Dubnow)
I.6. About the term “Jewish nation”
Chapter II: The Jewish cultural Renaissance in Russia
II.1. The new spiritual elite
II.2. Jewish cultural institutions
II.3. The Jewish Historic-Ethnographical Society and The Jewish Ethnographical Expedition
II.4. Ethic aspects of the ethnographical research
II.5. The national Renaissance in the visual arts
Chapter III: The Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg (1908-1919)
III.1. The founding
III.2. Legends and reality
III.3. The activities of the Society until 1913
III.4. Who was the father of modern Jewish music?
III.5. Music of the ghetto – music of the Bible
III.6. The activities of the Society until 1919
Chapter IV: The Moscow division of the Society for Jewish Folk Music (1913-1919)
Chapter V: The musical publishing houses Jibneh (1922-1943) and Juwal (1923-1927)
V.1. Beginnings of the Hebrew music research
V.2. Faivel Shapiro, an idealist of Jewish modern music
V.3. Ham’nagen and Jibneh: the underground Jewish musical activities in the Soviet Russia
V.4. Joseph Achron and Jibneh
V.5. Michail Gnesin and Jibneh
V.6. The founding of Juwal in Berlin
V.7. The activities of Juwal
V.8. Jibneh and Juwal: two Jewish music publishing houses in the same city
V.9. Jibneh in Vienna
V.10. Yibneh in New York
Chapter VI: The New Jewish School in Petrograd / Leningrad in the 1920s
VI.1. The decay of the Society for Jewish Folk Music
VI.2. Jewish music in the time of the „new economic policy“ (NEP)
VI.3. Jewish musical folklore in Leningrad in the 1920s and the founding of the Music Section
VI.4. „The revision of these materials is very problematic“
VI.5. Expeditions
VI.6. The publications of the Music Section
VI.7. The dissolution of the Jewish Historic-Ethnographical Society
Chapter VII: The Society for Jewish Music in Moscow (1923-1931)
VII.1. From Ham’nagen to the Society for Jewish Music
VII.1. The time of foundation
VII.1. The concerts of the Society
VII.1. The „Bolshevisation“
Chapter VIII: The New Jewish School in Vienna (1919-1938)
VIII.1. Vienna as a new center of Jewish music
VIII.2. The foundation of the Society for the Promotion of Jewish Music
VIII.3. Concerts with new Jewish music
VIII.4. Israel Brandmann, a forgotten genius
VIII.5. Joachim Stutschewsky on new Jewish music
VIII.6. Vienna as an international center of Jewish music
VIII.7. Postlude
Epilogue: “I hope we will be able to break out of our musical ghetto soon”
Supplement I: Biographies of composers of the New Jewish School
Supplement II: List of publications of the music publishing house "Jibneh"
Supplement III: List of archives and explanations of document codes
Bibliography

Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2004


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Jascha Nemtsov (ed.)
Jewish Art Music in the 20th Century:
the History of Its Development, Sources, Analyses

  Svetlana Martynova:
The archive of Grigory and Yulian Krejn at the Glinka State Central Museum of Musical Culture
Olga Brainin:
Das umfangreiche Archiv von Joachim Stutschewsky in Tel Aviv
Eliott Kahn:
The Solomon Rosowsky Collection and the Solomon Rosowsky Addendum at the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary
Gina Genova:
The estate of Lazare Saminsky at the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music
Neil W. Levin:
The Russians are coming! – The Russians have stayed! A little known episode in the history of the New Jewish National Music School: the tour of the Palestine Chamber Music Ensemble “Zimro”
Jascha Nemtsov:
Neue jüdische Musik in Polen in den 1920er–30er Jahren
Per Skans:
Ein Anfang nach dem Ende. Jüdische Kompositionen von Mieczyslaw Weinberg und Dmitrij Schostakowitsch
Jascha Nemtsov:
Eine Berliner Vorreiterin der Neuen Jüdischen Schule: Alice Jacob-Loewenson
Andreas Sperlich:
„S’ is nito kein Nechten“: Notizen zu Juliusz Wolfsohn
Rita Flomenboim:
The work of Michail Gnesin during the 1920s: an opera – a play score – a vocal song cycle
Elvira Grözinger:
Jiddische Volkslieder in Werken der Neuen Jüdischen Schule: der kulturhistorische Hintergrund
Beate Schröder-Nauenburg:
Die osteuropäische jüdische Musik im Schaffen von Lazare Saminsky
Beate Schröder-Nauenburg:
Zur Definition jüdischer Kunstmusik
Lyudmila Sholokhova:
Jewish Musical Ethnography in Russian Empire: Ideology and Chronology
Geraldine Auerbach:
The Jewish Music Institute, London comes of age: twenty one years of work in Jewish music
Evgeni Khazdan:
The first national Jewish school in music und the contemporary Jewish music in St. Petersburg: historical und musical parallels

Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2006


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Jascha Nemtsov et al. (ed.)
Jewish Music in the Soviet Russia. The "Jewish National School" in the 1920s

Ernst Kuhn Verlag, Berlin 2002

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Friedrich Geiger (ed.)
Composers under Stalin. Alexandr Veprik (1899-1958) and the New Jewish School

Hannah-Arendt-Institut, Dresden 2000



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