Can I read Rebuilding with or without Organ on EtoBox?

Rebuilding with or without Organ by Tina Frühauf is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Rebuilding with or without Organ about?

Supported by government funds, many Jewish communities were able to renovate or build new synagogues beginning in the 1950s, a development that peaked around 1960. The organ, however, once a visual and aural symbol of Reform and acculturation could hardly be found in the new sacred spaces and was even removed from existing ones. With regard to the organ in the synagogue, cultural mobility’s obliqueness between change and persistence or continuity does not quite apply in the postwar era. Change had already occurred with the pogroms of November 1938, when the vast majority of instruments were destroyed. As one of the least fixed elements of Jewish musical practice, the organ still left its mark in postwar Germany in different ways: absence, silent presence, and adapted or modified presence. While being a nearly immovable artifact and a constituent of Jewish culture in later modernity, in the postwar era it embodied the near absence of liberal Judaism.

Author

Tina Frühauf

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN