The Most Musical Nation
December 06, 2012
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7878778-the-most-musical-nation The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire by James Loeffler …
James Loeffler
Fields & Specialties: Jewish history; European history; history of human rights Education, B.A. Harvard University, 1996, M.A. Columbia University, 2000, Ph.D. Columbia University, 2006. His work broadly on the intersection of Jewish culture, politics, and identity in modern Eastern Europe, Israel, and the United States. His first book, The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire (Yale University Press, 2010), examines the role of music in the formation of modern Jewish national identity in nineteenth and twentieth-century Russia. Related articles include studies of antisemitism's impact on modern Jewish culture and the place of music in Zionist and Israeli culture. My new book project looks at Jewish participation in the modern human rights movement after World War II, focusing on American and East European Jewish political activity in international legal circles and at the United Nations in the 1940s and 1950s. A related side project reexamines the history of Jewish nationalism in America and its relationship to East European Jewish politics. A sample of this new work can be found here. I also have published extensively in the field of Jewish musical studies, with a specialization in the history of Jewish folk and classical music traditions in Eastern Europe. The artistic fruits of this academic research can be seen in my work with the Pro Musica Hebraica concert series at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.
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