SINGING FOR SURVIVAL

"SONGS OF THE LODZ GHETTO, 1940-45"

By: Gila Flam

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Hardcover | 1 December 1991

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Gila Flam offers a penetrating insider's look at a musical culture previously unexplored---the song repertoire created and performed in the Lodz ghetto of Poland. Drawing on interviews with survivors and on library and archival materials, the author illustrates the general themes of the Lodz repertoire and explores the nature of Holocaust song. Most of the songs are presented here for the first time.

"An extremely accurate and valuable work. There is nothing like it in either the extensive holocaust literature or the ethnomusicology literature."
-- Mark Slobin, author of Chosen Voices: The Story of the American Cantorate

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Preface	p. ix
A Note on Transliteration and Translation	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
The Historical Context	p. 9
Lodz: The Ghetto	p. 9
Lodz: The Culture	p. 16
Chaim Rumkowski: The Man and the Song	p. 30
The Man: King of the Ghetto	p. 30
The Song: A "Hit"	p. 34
Yaakov and the Street Songs	p. 49
Yaakov's Story	p. 49
The Street Songs	p. 55
Domestic Songs	p. 105
Miriam's Story	p. 105
Other Contexts for Singing	p. 128
The Theater	p. 128
The Youth Organization	p. 153
The Workplace	p. 162
The Contemporary Context: Commemoration Ceremonies	p. 170
Yizkor	p. 170
Epilogue	p. 179
Glossary	p. 187
Selected Bibliography	p. 191
General Index	p. 201
Index of Songs	p. 205
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SINGING FOR SURVIVAL

"SONGS OF THE LODZ GHETTO, 1940-45"

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