The Organ and its Music in German-Jewish Culture

Contents

• 1 The Organ, Jewish Music, and Identity
• 2Jewish Curiosities: The Organ in Judaism Before 1800
• - The Jewish Literature of Early Modernity
• - Pictorial Sources of Different Cultural and Religious Provenance
• - Meshorerim as the Forerunners of Organ Accompaniment
• - The Synagogues of Prague and Venice
• 3 The Organ as a Jewish Religious Response to Modernity
• - From Liturgical Reforms to a New Musical Identity
• - The Synagogue Organ in the Context of Organ Building Traditions
• - Intermezzo: Sharing the Console-The Synagogue Organist
• - The Synagogue Organist in the Framework of Christian Traditions
• - Organists at the New Synagogue in Berlin
• - The Impact of the Organist Question
• 4 Organ Music in Jewish Communities
• - From Lewandowski to Schalit: The Stylistic Development of Jewish Organ Music
• - Departure and Destruction: Organ Music in the Spiritual Ghetto
• 5 The Aftermath of Emigration
• - Limitations in the Land of Opportunity
• - The Organ in Israeli Culture-A Bridge between East and West
• 6 Between Assimilation and Dissimilation: The Jewish Community in the Course of Modernity
• Notes, Bibliography, Index-Names, Index-Places