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Jewish Music in Germany After the Holocaust: A Colloquium
Schedule of Events
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2011
2:30 p.m.
Stern 102, Stern Center for Global Education
Memory and Trauma
Chair: Barbara Milewski (Swarthmore College)
“The Jewish Kulturbund between Past and Present”
Lily Hirsch (Cleveland State University)
“German Memories of Terezín: A Trans-traumatic Approach”
Amy Lynn Wlodarski (Dickinson College)
4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Lobby, Stern Center
Coffee Break
4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Stern Great Room, Stern Center for Global Education
Opening Keynote Address: "Some for Laughs, Some for Tears: Toward a History of Represence in the Post-Holocaust Germanys"
Dr. Philip V. Bohlman (University of Chicago)
Mark Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities
Artistic Director, The New Budapest Orpheum Society
6:00 p.m.
Asbell Center for Jewish Life
Shabbat Service and Dinner
All Conference Participants are Welcome
8:30 p.m.
Weiss 235 (second floor), Weiss Center for the Arts
Film Screening: Long is the Road (1948)
Directed by Herbert B. Fredersdorf and Marek Goldstein, Long is the Road was shot on location at Landsberg, the largest displaced persons camp in U.S.-occupied Germany. The film follows a Polish Jew and his family from the thriving Jewish community of prewar Warsaw to the frustrations and instability of refugee life in the DP camps.
This film will be discussed in Joshua Walden’s presentation, to take place on Saturday morning, February 26, 2011.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2011
10:00 a.m.
Stern 102, Stern Center for Global Education
Music in DP Camps
Chair: Wilson Bell (Dickinson College)
“‘Where Shall I Go?’: Music of Jewish Displaced Persons”
Bret Werb (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC)
“Driven from their Home:
Musical Signs of Jewish Identity and Displacement in the soundtrack of the 1948 Movie Long is the Road”
Joshua Walden (Merton College, University of Oxford)
12:00 p.m.
Asbell Center for Jewish Life
Lunch for Conference Participants
2:00 p.m.
Stern 102, Stern Center for Global Education
Commemoration and Composition
Co-Chairs: Joy Calico and Sabine Feisst
“Secularizing Loss, Privatizing Faith: Jewish Mourning Practices in Paul Dessau’s Memorial Works”
Martha Sprigge (University of Chicago)
“Commemorating the Holocaust in Music: Case Studies of Three German Composers”
Sabine Feisst (Arizona State University)
“Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw in East Germany (1958)
Joy Calico (Vanderbilt University)
5:00 p.m.
Stern Great Room, Stern Center for Global Education
Reception and Dinner
Invitation Only
7:30 p.m.
Weiss 235 (second floor), Weiss Center for the Arts
Film Screening: A Foreign Affair (1948)
Directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, and John Lund, the film is set in occupied Berlin just after the war. An army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her role in the war.
The film is the subject of Philip Bohlman’s keynote address, to take place on Friday, February 25, 2011 at 4:30 p.m.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2011
9:30 a.m.
Stern 102, Stern Center for Global Education
Jewish Music at the Turn of the 21st Century
Chair: Joel Rubin
“The Vinal Solution: Klezmer as a Palimpsest for German Culture”
Raysh Weiss (University of Minnesota)
“Contemporary Klezmer in Germany: Some Preliminary Thoughts for the 21st Century”
Joel Rubin (University of Virginia)
“Creating Cantors in Germany Today”
Daniel S. Katz (Abraham Geiger College, Berlin)
12:00 p.m.
Asbell Center for Jewish Life
Lunch for Conference Participants
1:00 p.m.
Stern 102, Stern Center for Global Education
Writings on Jewish Music
Chair: Ronit Seter (Independent Scholar, Washington DC)
“The Dialectic of Enlightenment, Dr. Faustus, Minima Moralia,
and Adorno’s Post-Holocaust Sociologies of Jewish and non-Jewish Musics”
Judah Matras (University of Haifa & Carleton University, Ottawa)
“Jewish Music and German Intellectual History, 1945-1989”
Tina Frühauf (Columbia University & CUNY)