The Vanished Musicians

Jewish Refugees in Australia

By: Albrecht Dumling, Diana K. Weekes (Translator)

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Paperback | 28 March 2016

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604 Pages

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15.3 x 22.7 x 4.1

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About 9,000 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany settled in Australia between 1933 and 1945, a small fraction of the hundreds of thousands who fled. Although initially greeted with a mixed reception as <<enemy aliens>>, some of these refugees remained and made a significant impact on multicultural Australia. This book traces the difficult journey of the orchestral performers, virtuoso soloists, singers, conductors and composers who sought refuge on a distant continent. A few were famous artists who toured Australia and stayed, most notably the piano virtuoso Jascha Spivakovsky and the members of the Weintraubs Syncopators, one of the most successful jazz bands of the Weimar Republic. Drawing on extensive primary sources - including correspondence, travel documents and interviews with the refugees themselves or their descendants - the author depicts in vivid detail the lives of nearly a hundred displaced musicians. Available for the first time in English, this volume brings to light a wealth of Jewish, exilic and musical history that was hitherto unknown.

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Praise for the German edition:
Dumling has traced a web of connections between yesterday's Germany and today's Australia, a history of disgrace, culpability, neglect, unlikely twists of fate and even the occasional happy end. (Shirley Apthorp, The Australian)
Dumling is probably best known as the curator of Degenerate Music, an important exhibition about Nazi propaganda in music. In The Vanished Musicians his approach is like that of a curator who brings neglected historical exhibits to light. (Glenn Nicholls, Inside Story)
The liveliness Dumling manages to transmit in his stories [...] makes the book a compelling read.(Andrea Bandhauer, Shofar)

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