No image of prerevolutionary Russian Jewish life is more iconic than the fiddler on the roof. But in the half century before 1917, Jewish musicians were actually descending from their shtetl roofs and streaming in dazzling numbers to Russia's new classical conservatories. At a time of both rising anti-Semitism and burgeoning Jewish nationalism, how and why did Russian music become the gateway to Jewish modernity in music? Drawing on previously unavailable archives, this book offers an insightful new perspective on the emergence of Russian Jewish culture and identity.
- ISBN10 0300137133
- ISBN13 9780300137132
- Publish Date 13 July 2010
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 March 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English