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The Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 2009 54(1):297-320; doi:10.1093/lbyb/ybp003
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Jewish Music, German Musicians: Cultural Appropriation and the Representation of a Minority in the German Klezmer Scene

Michael Birnbaum

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As the sun dipped below the elegant classical buildings of Weimar, three German women stood on a makeshift stage at the front of a packed hall, belting out a Yiddish song. They occasionally stumbled over their words, and were glancing down at sheet music. It was the final workshop recital of the 2007 Yiddish Summer Weimar festival. The song ended to whistles and applause. Audience members chattered with each other in German while the next group came on stage. Another Yiddish song began. But something didn’t fit. Weimar is the city of Goethe and Schiller, after all, and not of the Yiddish-speaking Eastern European Jews. In fact, if there was ever a time and a place for Yiddish in the area, it would have been during the war, in nearby Buchenwald.

Many Yiddish speakers died in Buchenwald, but their music—klezmer and Yiddish song—is alive and well in Germany. Every weekend, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   A BRIEF HISTORY OF KLEZMER AND YIDDISH SONG
 

   THE ARRIVAL OF YIDDISH SONG IN POST-WAR GERMANY
 
Lin Jaldati: Communist First, Jewish Second
Hai Frankl: A Yiddish-Learning Survivor

   1979: ZUPFGEIGENHANSEL AND THE BREAKING OF HOLOCAUST SILENCE
 

   GHETTO, GIORA FEIDMAN, AND THE FIRST SOUNDS OF KLEZMER IN GERMANY
 

   THE SEARCH FOR AUTHENTIC MUSIC: NATIONALISM AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRADITION
 
Baltic Nationalism: Self-Conception through Folksong
Folk Song
Nationalist Musical Projects in Germany
German-Jewish "National" Music

   KLEZMER IN THE NEW WORLD: TRADITION AND TRANSFORMATION
 
The Challenges of Assimilation
The Klezmer Revival

   NEW MUSIC IN THE OLD WORLD: GERMAN APPROACHES TO KLEZMER
 

   HOW THE GERMAN KLEZMER MOVEMENT SEES ITSELF
 
Taking on Cultural Markers

   JEWS AS COSMOPOLITANS
 

   THE MODERN-DAY JEWISH COMMUNITY IN GERMANY
 

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