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<br> This groundbreaking and engaged study is really two books in one: the story of modern Jewry's growing interest in the organ, combined with a fresh look at music in German Jewish culture. It's solid and satisfying on both counts. --Mark Slobin, Professor of Music, Wesleyan University, and author, Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World<p><br> Not often for either the general or specialized reader does such a book appear, drawing for the first time a rich, authoritative and unrivalled picture of a musical culture distinct from yet close to the western mainstream. As Dr. Fr hauf shows, why the organ appeared in the western Diaspora's synagogues is much clearer than why it appeared in Christian churches, and it forms the basis here for a wonderfully broad account of a society and its religious practices, music and composers. Focusing on the dominant German context -- with all that this involved, from the fruitful nineteenth century to the horrible 1930s -- itself contributes to many another topic of deep interest today. --Peter Williams, author of The Organ in Western Culture 750-1250<p><br> With the elegance of both scholar and performer, and the insight garnered through years of archival study and hours at the organ console, Tina Fr hauf 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, Fr hauf's book deftly poses questions about Jewish identity and musical identity alike, where they meet and where they depart. Upon encountering the marvelous case studies in this book, readers may never again experience Jewish music in the same way. --Philip V. Bohlman, Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of the Humanities and of Music, University of Chicago, and author, Jewish Music and Modernity<p><br> This groundbreaking and engaged study

This groundbreaking and engaged study is really two books in one: the story of modern Jewry's growing interest in the organ, combined with a fresh look at music in German Jewish culture. It's solid and satisfying on both counts. --Mark Slobin, Professor of Music, Wesleyan University, and author, Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World Not often for either the general or specialized reader does such a book appear, drawing for the first time a rich, authoritative and unrivalled picture of a musical culture distinct from yet close to the western mainstream. As Dr. Fruhauf shows, why the organ appeared in the western Diaspora's synagogues is much clearer than why it appeared in Christian churches, and it forms the basis here for a wonderfully broad account of a society and its religious practices, music and composers. Focusing on the dominant German context -- with all that this involved, from the fruitful nineteenth century to the horrible 1930s -- itself contributes to many another topic of deep interest today. --Peter Williams, author of The Organ in Western Culture 750-1250 With the elegance of both scholar and performer, and the insight garnered through years of archival study and hours at the organ console, Tina Fruhauf 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, Fruhauf's book deftly poses questions about Jewish identity and musical identity alike, where they meet and where they depart. Upon encountering the marvelous case studies in this book, readers may never again experience Jewish music in the same way. --Philip V. Bohlman, Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of the Humanities and of Music, University of Chicago, and author, Jewish Music and Modernity This groundbreaking and engaged study

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Tina Fruhauf is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music at Brooklyn College and Editor at Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale in New York. In addition to her works as a scholar, she is an organist and church musician. Her German and English publications include articles in the Journal of Jewish Music and Liturgy and Orgel International, numerous book chapters and encyclopaedia contributions on the German-Jewish music culture, organs and organ music, the piano and the violin.

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