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Article: Lomir ale singn: Die Musik der Juden Osteuropas.(Book Review)
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Lomir ale singn: Die Musik der Juden Osteuropas, by Francois Lilienfeld. Zurich: Chronos, 2002. 178 pp., compact disc. [euro]29.90.
In present-day Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, the discourse around the field of Yiddish music and Yiddish music research has become one of ethnicity and race. At a time when the role of Jews in Germany is marginalized--yet expected to be drawn upon whenever needed as part of the constituting of the new German Self--it is "Jewish" music that fills the space. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, especially the music of the main targets of the German Endlosung, the Eastern European Jews, has been turned into a ritualistic remedy, and ...