Amy Wlodarski is a professor of Music at Dickinson College., Classical composers have used the Holocaust as subject matter since the immediate post-war years. Their artistic representations and memorials not only commemorate...
Drawing on testimonies preserves at the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testemonies, this chapter challenges the representation of Terezín as a place of solely positive musical memories. To that end, it explores postwar...
This is the first musicological study entirely devoted to a comprehensive analysis of musical Holocaust representations in the Western art music tradition. Through a series of chronological case studies grounded in primary...
The tracing of collective memory in postwar Germany has proven difficult for scholars of all disciplines due to the division of the state into the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR)....
Arnold Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw (1947) should not be understood as a historical account of the Warsaw ghetto; it contains inaccurate information about the Warsaw ghetto (the most infamous being the mention of gas...
Often praised as an exceptional artistic response to the Holocaust, Steve Reich's Different Trains adopts a documentary approach to Holocaust representation in which Reich assembled short excerpts from three survivor...