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„Na skrzydłach estetycznego piękna ku świetlanym sferom Nieskończoności”. Muzyka i żydowscy reformatorzy w XIX-wiecznej Warszawie
Halina Goldberg
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„On the Wings of Aesthetic Beauty Toward the Radiant Spheres of the Infinite”: Music and Jewish Reformers in Nineteenth-Century Warsaw This article outlines musical life of progressive Warsaw Jews during the nineteenth century. Starting around 1800, Haskala (the Jewish Enlightenment movement) helped to modernize the existence of Jews inhabiting Polish lands. The changes concerned both the music accompanying the Jewish liturgy in progressive Warsaw synagogues and also the participation of the maskilim (advocates of religious and social reforms) in the city’s musical life. Studying those changes through the prism of the debate over the use of organs in Jewish worship that took place on the pages of the periodical Izraelita, the author explores four issues which were often addressed by its editors. The first is the importance of secular music in the Jewish Bildung for the process of emancipation and integration. The second concerns liturgical reforms, which included the introduction of new music and instruments into worship. The third focusses on how aesthetic views expressed in the periodical were suffused with the notions of Romantic idealism that encouraged the blurring of boundaries between secular and sacred functions of music. The last represents the role of music in the efforts made by Izraelita to combat theories of Jewish racial inferiority.
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haskala and music, music in progressive synagogues, Izraelita, Samuel Henryk (Hirsz) Peltyn (Pełtyn), Jakub Leopold Weiss, organs and synagogues, Jews and musicMost read articles by the same author(s)
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