Bret Werb
Biographic Data
| ID | 6051201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bret Werb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bret |
| FAMILY NAME | Werb |
| SIGNATURE | WERB B |
| AFFILIATIONS | United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Chopin’s Żydek , and Other Apocryphal Tales
Music scholars, critics, and popular writers have for generations told and retold the same tale about Fryderyk Chopin: namely, that the teenaged composer encountered Jewish folk musicians during his visits to the Polish countryside, was fascinated by their music, and even occasionally performed it. Our article endeavors to counter this and similar misconceptions about Chopin's connections to Jews and Jewish folk music, drawing on an array of hist…
Musical Afterthoughts on Shmeruk’s ‘Mayufes’
Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis
Recent years have seen a proliferation of literature on the fate of music under National Socialism, some of it noteworthy (if arcane), some of it self-serving or sensationalistic. I am pleased to report that Michael Haas's effort is an outstanding contribution to the genre: it is superbly researched and organized, filled with original insights, and written with eloquence and real passion. Forbidden Music emerged from Haas's long career in the cla…
Auditory Snapshots From the Edges of Europe
This article presents thirty ‘auditory snapshots’ from a wide variety of geographical locations and contexts in order to elaborate several points. First, we believe that the study of history cannot be separated from the study of sound, whether in the form of ‘soundscapes’ or pieces of music. Second, we find that considerations of edges, into which we fold such things as provinces, peripheries and frontiers, can be greatly enriched by looking at a…
Shmerke Kaczerginski: The Partisan-Troubadour
From ‘Madagaskar’ to Sachsenhausen: Singing about ‘Race’ in a Nazi Camp
Stanisław Wielanek, Party na Nalewkach
Jewish Music
Jewish music: Non-liturgical, Folksongs in Jewish languages, Composed song and Yiddish theatre
Auditory Snapshots From the Edges of Europe
This article presents thirty ‘auditory snapshots’ from a wide variety of geographical locations and contexts in order to elaborate several points. First, we believe that the study of history cannot be separated from the study of sound, whether in the form of ‘soundscapes’ or pieces of music. Second, we find that considerations of edges, into which we fold such things as provinces, peripheries and frontiers, can be greatly enriched by looking at a…
Jewish Music
Jewish music: Non-liturgical, Folksongs in Jewish languages, Composed song and Yiddish theatre
From ‘Madagaskar’ to Sachsenhausen: Singing about ‘Race’ in a Nazi Camp
Stanisław Wielanek, Party na Nalewkach
Shmerke Kaczerginski: The Partisan-Troubadour
Auditory Snapshots From the Edges of Europe
This article presents thirty ‘auditory snapshots’ from a wide variety of geographical locations and contexts in order to elaborate several points. First, we believe that the study of history cannot be separated from the study of sound, whether in the form of ‘soundscapes’ or pieces of music. Second, we find that considerations of edges, into which we fold such things as provinces, peripheries and frontiers, can be greatly enriched by looking at a…
Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis
Recent years have seen a proliferation of literature on the fate of music under National Socialism, some of it noteworthy (if arcane), some of it self-serving or sensationalistic. I am pleased to report that Michael Haas's effort is an outstanding contribution to the genre: it is superbly researched and organized, filled with original insights, and written with eloquence and real passion. Forbidden Music emerged from Haas's long career in the cla…
Musical Afterthoughts on Shmeruk’s ‘Mayufes’
Chopin’s Żydek , and Other Apocryphal Tales
Music scholars, critics, and popular writers have for generations told and retold the same tale about Fryderyk Chopin: namely, that the teenaged composer encountered Jewish folk musicians during his visits to the Polish countryside, was fascinated by their music, and even occasionally performed it. Our article endeavors to counter this and similar misconceptions about Chopin's connections to Jews and Jewish folk music, drawing on an array of hist…
Art (7 works) · Judaism (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (3 works) · Acoustics (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (2 works) · German Colonialism and Identity Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works)