Music in the Holocaust : confronting life in the Nazi ghettos and camps
Shirli Gilbert has produced the first large-scale, critical account of the role of music amongst communities imprisoned under Nazism. She documents a wide scope of musical activities in Nazi internment centres, and is also concerned with exploring the ways in which music - particularly the many songs that were preserved - contribute to our broader understanding of the Holocaust and the experiences of its victims. - ;In Music in the Holocaust Shirli Gilbert provides the first large-scale, critical account of the role of music amongst communities imprisoned under Nazism. She documents a wide sco
eBook, English, 2005
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 2005
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xii, 243 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, music
9780191515477, 9780199277971, 9786610844043, 0191515477, 0199277974, 6610844046
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Introduction : redeeming music : "spiritual resistance" and beyond
"Have compassion, Jewish hearts" : music in the Warsaw ghetto
Vilna : politicians and partisans
Songs confront the past : life in Sachsenhausen
Fragments of humanity : music in Auschwitz