Out of the Depths
Complexity, Subjectivity and Materiality in the Earliest Accounts of Holocaust Song-Making
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12523919 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph Toltz (0000-0002-5406-9631, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, corresponding author), Anna Boucher (0000-0002-6200-8951, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 309-330 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | East European Jewish Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-1674 • E-ISSN: 1743-971X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13501674.2018.1559695 |
| OpenAlex | W2946683342 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 14 |
This paper focuses on two collections of immediate post-Holocaust Yiddish songs: Mima’amakim: folkslider fun lagers un getos in poyln, compiled by Yehuda Eismann in Bucharest in April/May 1945, a copy of which recently appeared in a private collection in Sydney, Australia and song session recordings made by Dr. David Boder in displaced persons (DP) camps in 1946, archived in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Library of Congress. Mima’amakim is a tiny pamphlet containing twelve compositions that would become part of the continuing repertoire of Holocaust songs, alongside eight compositions that disappeared from all other written accounts. Boder's preserved song sessions with Yiddish speakers occurred at displaced persons homes in France, Switzerland and Italy. Both items accompany some of the earliest recorded testimony of Holocaust survivors. The song-spools and the song book are extraordinarily fragile objects, containing material that opens conversations on the place of music inside and outside testimony. Their place at the margin of our understanding of musical experience in the Holocaust prompts the question: how does the affordance of material objects inform our understanding of the construction of repertories, determining exclusion and inclusion of one song over another
Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Materiality (auditing · Media studies · Musical · Political science · Repertoire · Sociology · Subjectivity · The Holocaust · Visual arts · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Law · Music History and Culture · Musicology and Musical Analysis
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
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| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |