Jewish European Emigre Musicians during and After the Holocaust by DBL
German Jewish musical culture (i.e. (1) music made by Jews,(2) music in Jewish style, (3) music with Jewish content, etc.) was displaced to Israel in the 5th or German Aliyah represented by musicians such as Paul Ben-Haim, Haim Alexander, Tzvi Avni, Paul Ben-Haim, Yehezkel Braun, Abel Ehrlich, Robert Lachmann, Ben-Zion Orgad, Erich Walter Sternberg, Josef Tal , that drew from Central Europe to build a modern musical culture after 1948, as the result of Nazi persecutions between 1933-1945, an attempt to annihilate (vernichtung) the Jewish cultural presence, known as the Shoah constituting the break-fissure-caesura-rupture between modernity and post-modernity. This transnational dislodgment of émigré musicians also fractured in resettlement in America as represented by the works of Nazi discriminated against musicians such as Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schoenberg, Kurt Weill, etc. This rif considers some of the contributions of this Jewish émigré musical culture (Bildung) after the Holocaust conceived by some as "Stunde nulle" (zero hour) in history and the Beginning of the End (Der Anfang des Ende). This rif suggests that despite the tribulations of the unique persecutions these Jewish émigré musicians suffered from, they continued historically traditions from past European Jewish vibrant musical expressions.
