The most musical nation: jews and culture in the Late Russian Empire

The most musical nation: jews and culture in the Late Russian Empire

Loeffler, James

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No image of prerevolutionary Russian Jewish life is more iconic than the fiddler on the roof. But in the half century before 1917, Jewish musicians were actually descending from their shtetl roofs and streaming in dazzling numbers toRussia’s new classical conservatories. At a time of both rising anti-Semitismand burgeoning Jewish nationalism, how and why did Russian music become the gateway to Jewish modernity in music?

  • ISBN: 978-0-300-13713-2
  • Editorial: Yale University
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 256
  • Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2010
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés