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Jew - Not a Jew.

KevinSkomsvold — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:59:45 -0800

Know your musical Jews!

Hitler's record collection

mr_crash_davis — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:48:20 -0800

Know who else liked tunes by "subhuman" Jewish and Russian musicians? That's right.

Masada: The Musical

tranquileye — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:07:37 -0800

Masada: The Musical.

Full Fathom Nine

matteo — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:09:22 -0800

Mahler performances were rare in Vienna in those days because Mahler's city had already been contaminated by the acolytes of Adolf Hitler. By their reckoning, Mahler's music was loathsome — a product of "Jewish decadence." To put Mahler's music on the program was therefore a political act. It was to protest and deny the hateful faith that blazed across the border from Germany. That much I understood quite clearly, even as a boy.
The New Yorker's Alex Ross reprints Hans Fantel's New York Times 1989 essay on Bruno Walter's 1938 performance of Mahler's Ninth Symphony -- the last performance of the Vienna Philharmonic before Hitler invaded Austria.

The Milken Archive of American Jewish Music

matteo — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 06:54:10 -0800

The Milken Archive of American Jewish Music