Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 32

François Guesnet is Professor of Modern Jewish History in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London. Benjamin Matis is the spiritual leader of Agudath Achim Synagogue in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He qualified as a cantor and a Master of Sacred Music at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Antony Polonsky is Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University and Chief Historian of the Global Outreach Educational Project of the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw.

• IntroductionFrançois Guesnet, Benjamin Matis,and Antony PolonskyPART I. CANTORIAL AND RELIGIOUS MUSICA Chestnut, a Grape, and a Pack of Lions: AShabbos in Płock with a Popular Synagogue Singer in the Early NineteenthCenturyDaniel KatzMosheKoussevitzky (1899–1966) in Vilna, Warsaw, and RussiaAkiva ZimmermanTheArt of Cantorial Singing in the Polish TerritoriesBożena MuszkalskaPART II. JEWS IN POPULAR MUSICAL CULTURE INPOLANDMusicalAfterthoughts on Shmeruk’s MayufesBret WerbServant Romances: Eighteenth-Century YiddishLyric and Narrative Folk SongsMichael LukinBroderSingers: Forerunners of the Yiddish TheatreAmanda (Miryem-Khaye) SeigelGimpel’s Theatre, Lwów: The Sounds of aPopular Yiddish Theatre Preserved on Gramophone Records, 1904–1913Michael AylwardThe Polish Tin Pan Alley—A Jewish StreetRobert RothsteinOnthe Dance Floor, on the Screen, on the Stage. Popular Music in the InterwarPeriod: Polish, Jewish, SharedTamara SztymaTheJews in the Band: Anders Army’s Special TroupesBeth HolmgrenSzpilman, Bajgelman, and Barsht: The Legacy of an Extended Polish JewishKlezmer FamilyJoel E. RubinWładysławSzpilman’s Post-War Career in PolandFilip MazurczakAbraham Ellstein’s Film Scores: Some LessObvious SourcesRonald RobboyPARTIII. JEWS IN THE POLISH CLASSICAL MUSIC SCENEThe ‘Lust Machine’: Recording and Selling theJewish Nation in the Late Russian Empire JamesLoefflerLeoZeitlin and the Flourishing of Jewish Art Music in Early 1920s VilnaPaula Eisenstein-Baker‘Jewish musiciansare the crowning achievements of foreign nations’: Jewish Identity and Yiddish Nationalism in the Writings ofMenachem KipnisJulia RiegelOstbahnhofBerlin: Jewish Music Students of East European Origin at the Berlin Conservatory,1918–1933Adam J. SacksJewish Music Institutions andOrganizations in Interwar GaliciaSylwia Jakubczyk-ŚlęczkaJewish Composers of Polish Musicafter 1939: A Story in Lists and NumbersMaja TrochimczykTadeusz Zygfryd Kassern’sAmerican YearsSławomir DobrzańskiPART IV. THE HOLOCAUST REFLECTED IN JEWISHMUSIC‘My song,you are my strength’: Personal Repertories of Polish and Yiddish Songs from YoungSurvivors of the Łódź GhettoJoseph ToltzSingingTheir Way HomeEliyana R. AdlerThe Nazi-Era Confiscation of WandaLandowska’s Musical Collection and Its AftermathCarlaShapreauMusic as a ‘Paper Bridge’ between Generationsbefore and after the HolocaustBellaSzwarcman-CzarnotaPARTV. KLEZMER IN POLAND TODAYThe Klezmer Revival in Poland as a Contact ZoneMagdalena WaligórskaThe Sound of Change: Performing‘Jewishness’ in Small Polish TownsEllie Shapiro

"The essays in Jews and Music-Making in the Polish Lands offer rich examinations of a vast and under-studied scholarly terrain. [...] Future scholarship that embraces both the particularity of the Polish-Jewish context and the broad resonance of its themes will best advance the admirable work of this volume’s editors and contributors."J. Mackenzie Pierce, Music and Letters