Singing the Memory: Post-Holocaust Songs in Israel

Rachel Kollender

Singing the Memory: Post-Holocaust Songs in Israel

Rachel Kollender

Department of Music

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Abstract

Richly varied, Israeli song plays an important role in the preservation of private and collective memory of the Holocaust. The repertoire ranges from popular to art songs, some are well known sung by children and adults alike, others are buried in diaries and memoirs. These songs reflect humanity, faith, hope, the moral dilemmas, and the spirit of resistance as well as Jewish identity. In this, three categories can be identified: songs composed after the Second World War in Israel by survivors; songs composed by the second-generation to texts written during the Holocaust; and songs by composers who are not descendants of Holocaust survivors, but wish to express their artistic and emotional solidarity. Songs of each category show unique musical characteristics in their melodic contour, rhythmic patterns, and tonality.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Partituren der Erinnerung
Subtitle of host publication	Der Holocaust in der Musik
Editors	Bela Rasky , Verena Pawlowsky
Place of Publication	Wien
Publisher	New Academic Press
Pages	233-250
ISBN (Print)	9783700319214
State	Published - 2015

Publication series

Name	Beitrage zur Holocaustforschung des Wiener Wiesenthal Instituts fur Holocaust-Studien / VWI
Volume	1

Keywords

28: Western art music -- History. 1910 to present (history)
song—popular and traditional -- Israel -- Holocaust as subject
song—general -- Israel -- Holocaust as subject
wars and catastrophes -- Holocaust -- Europe -- subject of Israeli songs

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Kollender, R. (2015). Singing the Memory: Post-Holocaust Songs in Israel. In B. Rasky , & V. Pawlowsky (Eds.), Partituren der Erinnerung : Der Holocaust in der Musik (pp. 233-250). ( Beitrage zur Holocaustforschung des Wiener Wiesenthal Instituts fur Holocaust-Studien / VWI; Vol. 1). New Academic Press. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,sso&db=ram&AN=A1327814&authtype=sso&custid=s5903540&site=ehost-live&scope=site

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Kollender, R 2015, Singing the Memory: Post-Holocaust Songs in Israel. in B Rasky & V Pawlowsky (eds), Partituren der Erinnerung : Der Holocaust in der Musik. Beitrage zur Holocaustforschung des Wiener Wiesenthal Instituts fur Holocaust-Studien / VWI, vol. 1, New Academic Press, Wien, pp. 233-250. <https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,sso&db=ram&AN=A1327814&authtype=sso&custid=s5903540&site=ehost-live&scope=site>

Singing the Memory: Post-Holocaust Songs in Israel. / Kollender, Rachel.
Partituren der Erinnerung : Der Holocaust in der Musik. ed. / Bela Rasky ; Verena Pawlowsky. Wien: New Academic Press, 2015. p. 233-250 ( Beitrage zur Holocaustforschung des Wiener Wiesenthal Instituts fur Holocaust-Studien / VWI; Vol. 1).

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