Day Two of The Musical Worlds of Polish Jews, 1920-1960: Identity, Politics & Culture

Day 1 | Day 2 | Concert | Acknowledgments | Locations

November 18, 2013 University Club on the ASU Tempe campus

9:45 a.m. - noon Session 3 Moderator: Bret Werb | United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

“Jewish Composers are the Crowning Achievements of Foreign Nations”: Jewish Identity and Yiddish Nationalism in the Writings of Menachem Kipnis Julia Riegel | Indiana University

Moja pieśni tyś moja moc (“My song, you are my strength”): Personal Repertories of Polish and Yiddish Songs from Youth Survivors of the Łódź Ghetto Joseph D. Toltz | Sydney Conservatorium of Music

Szpilman, Baigelman, and Barsh: The Legacy of an Extended Polish-Jewish Musical Family on Three Continents Joel Rubin | University of Virginia

noon - 1 p.m. Lunch Break

1:15 - 3 p.m. Session 4 Moderator: Sabine Feisst | Arizona State University

Singing Their Way Home Eliyana R. Adler | University of Maryland

The Theft of Culture, Persecution, and the Identity of Wanda Landowska Carla Shapreau | University of California, Berkeley

3 - 3:15 p.m. Coffee Break

3:15 - 4 p.m. Recital of Music by Wanda Landowska

Introduction and Commentary Bret Werb | United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Kolędy Oj chmielu Mazur Whitsunday polonaise Wędrowali krawczycy

Berceuse for piano

Performers from the School of Music at Arizona State University Jordan Sera flute | Wilson Harmon oboe | Ryan Cerullo bassoon | Oswaldo Zapata Correa trumpet | Joshua Coffey trumpet | Ye Rim Kim violin | Artur Tumayjan violin | DaeMin Kim viola | Sungjin Park viola | Elizabeth Weser cello | Tyler Smith double bass | Qianyao Zheng piano

4 - 4:30 p.m. Roundtable Discussion with Presenters