This collection of essays, written by leading scholars in the fields of East German art, film, literature, music, and museum studies, seeks to renegotiate the artistic legacy of the German Democratic Republic. Combining a range...
John Axelrod and the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, together with Nimbus Records and executive producer Michael Haas, have produced an album of three twentieth-century works, meditations upon death and mourning written by Jewish...
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...
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...
In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, Erich Korngold turned to writing two works that he hoped would serve as a bridge back to his former world of concert music. The first was his Violin Concerto, which he had...
George Rochberg often attributed his postmodern shift to the death of his son in 1964. Accordingly, the literature has described his practice of ars combinatoria (“art of combination”) as an “abrupt about-face”—a sudden...
In the fall of 1955, the young French film director, Alain Resnais, began a memorial project aimed at presenting the events of the Holocaust to a postwar generation reluctant to acknowledge the extent of such human rights...
I remember the first time I heard a Bach fugue—the Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 543—in a Music History class at Middlebury College. It was a time in my life when I identified as a singer, one whose ears were predominantly...
In the United States, current crop production often favors simplified rotations of maize and soybeans in conjunction with a heavy reliance on synthetic inputs that consequently degrade environmental health and increase...