Italian Jewish Musicians and Composers Under Fascism: Let Our Music Be Played

ISBN-13: 9783030529307 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 210 str.

Alessandro Carrieri; Annalisa Capristo

Spis treści

Introduction.- Alessandro Carrieri.- Part I.- Music, Antisemitism and Persecution.- 2. Italian Jews and the Race Laws of 1938 by Michele Sarfatti.- 3. La Scala, the Jews and Erich Kleiber. An Anti-Semitic Episode of December 1938 by Annalisa Capristo.- 4. Antisemitism and Propaganda at the Teatro La Fenice Between 1937 and 1943 by Luca Lévi Sala.- 5.- Exiled Italian Jewish Musicians and Composers by Alessandro Carrieri.- Part II.- Music, Memories and Cultural Relations.- 6. Aldo Finzi (1897-1945), Witness of the Culture and Contradictions of the Fascist Period by Eleonora Carapella.- 7. Wir treffen uns am Schluss – We Shall Meet at the End. Kurt Sonnenfeld (1921-1997), His Music During His Imprisonment in the Concentration Camp of Ferramonti, Calabria by Raffaele Deluca.- 8. An Expedient Alliance? Musical Relationships Between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in the Period Between 1933 and 1945 by Erik Levi

O autorze

Annalisa Capristo is a librarian at the Center for American Studies in Rome, Italy. Her research focuses on anti-Semitic and racial laws in Fascist Italy, on which she has published several books and papers. In 2019, she co-edited a special issue of The Journal of Modern Italian Studies on the eightieth anniversary of the Racial Laws.

Alessandro Carrieri is an independent scholar. He was previously Visiting Research Fellow in Holocaust Studies at the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He has also held a research position at the University of Trieste, Italy, and an honorary research position at the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies, Australia.