The Most Musical Nation
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The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire by James Loeffler
Drawing on a mass of unpublished writings and archival sources from prerevolutionary Russian conservatories, this book offers an insightful account of the Jewish search for a modern identity in Russia through music, rather than politics or religion.