European Center for Jewish Music

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The Villa Seligmann in Hohenzollernstrasse 39 on the Eilenriede , seat of the EZJM.

The European Center for Jewish Music (EZJM) is an institute of the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media (HMTMH). It was founded in 1988 by Andor Izsák in cooperation with the University of Augsburg and moved to Hanover in 1992 , where it was affiliated with the then University of Music and Theater (HMT). Andor Izsák headed the EZJM until his retirement in 2012. In October 2015, Sarah M. Ross was appointed to the professorship for Jewish music studies with a special focus on synagogue music and at the same time took over the management of the center. The EZJM is located in the Villa Seligmann at Hohenzollernstrasse 39 on the Eilenriede in the eastern part of Hanover.

history

To 2012

Originally Andor Izsák had the European Center for Jewish Music in 1988 in Augsburg with the order of the documentation and reconstruction , in particular to the Kristallnacht 1938 the synagogues Europe manicured, Jewish - liturgical founded music. The tasks of the EZJM included, in addition to the expansion of a corresponding collection, the dissemination of the religious and cultural heritage primarily through concerts , exhibitions , symposiums and publications as well as the authentic presentation and scientific processing of the traditions .

After gradually building up a collection of writings, scores and sound documents, such as historical records , Izsák was able to expand the collection with a few synagogue organs that could be saved from destruction by the National Socialists .

In 1992 the EZJM moved to Hanover, where it was affiliated with the then University of Music and Theater (HMT). In 2003 Andor Izsák was appointed to the professorship for synagogue music.

In 2006 the Siegmund Seligmann Foundation , named after the Hanoverian entrepreneur Siegmund Seligmann , was founded, with the help of which the Villa Seligmann , previously owned by the city, was taken over in 2008 . Since 2011 the EZJM has been based in Villa Seligmann, which was officially opened in 2012 as the "House for Jewish Music". The villa represents one of the few Hanoverian testimonies of the Jewish bourgeoisie before the Shoah and is dedicated to the documentation, research and communication of Jewish music.

In the years between 2012 (retirement of Andor Izsák ) and October 2015, the areas of responsibility were restructured: The range of cultural events (concerts, lectures) in Villa Seligmann is organized by the Siegmund Seligmann Society, while the EZJM is an institute of the HMTMH of Dedicated to research and teaching on Jewish musical traditions.

Since October 2015

In October 2015, Sarah M. Ross took over the management of the EZJM as Professor of Jewish Music Studies.

As a sub-area of ​​musicological research and teaching at the HMTMH, the EZJM is today dedicated to the research, reconstruction, documentation and communication of Jewish music in all its manifestations: from synagogue singing to paraliturgical to secular Jewish music traditions in various cultural contexts and epochs. The comprehensive investigation of Jewish music with regard to its integration into the complexity of Jewish life in Europe and in non-European countries, past and present, is a central concern of the center, while it measures the interdisciplinary dialogue with other music and cultural studies and Jewish studies - both on the Level of research, as well as teaching - a primary importance too.

The EZJM library

The EZJM library is part of the HMTMH library. As a special library , its collection focuses on Jewish music, especially synagogue music. In addition, there is literature on related research areas such as Jewish studies, ethnology and general musicology. In addition to current research literature, an essential part of the library is the “Andor Izsák Collection” with the “Edith Gerson-Kiwi Estate” and the “Collection of Oberkantor Nathan Saretzki”.

The EZJM library has been on the second floor of Villa Seligmann since 2012.

The "Synagogal Music" database

In March 2016 the project online database “Synagogal Music: Cantors + Cantors, Composers + Composers” (working title) was started. There was a first planning meeting and the technical structure of the multimedia database is currently in the first planning phase.

The database on synagogal music is designed as a cooperation project with institutional as well as private partners. The aim of the database is to research the sacred music of Judaism not only in a closed scientific expert discourse, but to make it visible as a living tradition and to anchor it in the public consciousness. In addition, Germany is to be strengthened as a research location for synagogue music.

In addition to common (music) historical data sets on synagogal music that are to be made available in the database (such as personal data, institutions and their collections, information on the works, etc.), the simultaneous provision of music-ethnological data (such as on the  Minhagim  and the Jewish communities in which a certain musical tradition is cultivated, etc.) is the specialty of this database. At the same time, interested parties and users, especially the Jewish communities, are invited to contribute thematically relevant materials and information.

Target groups are not only information specialists and scientists, but also music practitioners, Jewish communities and other interested parties. By collecting, documenting, informing and sharing knowledge about synagogue music in all its manifestations, a dialogue between research on Jewish music and Jewish music practice should be made possible with the aim of anchoring the topic in public perception.

A feedback tool, on the other hand, is intended to inform the EZJM whether and in what way cultural bearers have returned forgotten synagogue music traditions to their community life or introduced them creatively into public cultural life. Metadiscourses on cultural sustainability in the sense of applied research are to be promoted.

Further research projects (selection)

  • Cultural sustainability as an applied research strategy in Jewish music studies
  • Musical Time Landscapes: Considerations on a Music Ethnology of Sustainability
  • On the Liturgical Periphery: Music, Gender, Power, and Intercultural Negotiations in Women's Rosh Chodesh Services
  • Edith Gerson Kiwi
  • CD project: "Synagogal Music of the Romaniotic Jews of Greece"

New study opportunity at the HMTMH

In the 2016/17 winter semester, the focus subject “Jewish Music Studies” was offered for the first time in the “Music Research and Music Education” master’s course at the University of Music, Drama and Media (HMTMH).

  • How was and is Jewish music integrated into different cultures from the past to the present?
  • How is Jewish music visible in constantly newly constructed images and ideas?
  • In what ways is Jewish music transmitted, transformed and interpreted?
  • The aim of the main subject is to acquire in-depth knowledge of practice and the results of previous and current research in the field of Jewish music as well as the ability to independently work on topics related to Jewish music in musicological / ethnological terms. But also the conception, organization, implementation and mediation of artistic-scientific projects on Jewish music and much more are part of the qualification goals.

Publications (incomplete)

  • Festschrift for the 10th anniversary of the European Center for Jewish Music at the Hanover University of Music and Drama , 2002
  • In the series of publications of the European Center for Jewish Music / Hanover University of Music and Theater , published from 1993:
    • Volume 5: Documentation for the exhibition "Nobody wanted to hear me ..." Magrepha, the organ in the synagogue , accompanying document for the exhibition shown from November 1999 to April 2000 in the forum of the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover , an exhibition by the European Center for Jewish Music in Cooperation with the Lower Saxony State Museum , ed. by Andor Izsák with support from Susanne Borchers,
    • Main volume partly in German and English, 1999
    • Supplementary volume, 2000
    • Volume 6: Stephan Stompor : Jewish music and theater life under the Nazi state , ed. by Andor Izsák with the assistance of Susanne Borchers, 2001
  • PaRDeS. Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies V. Heft 20 (2014): "A prayer without song is like a body without a soul." Aspects of synagogue music.
  • Martha Stellmacher, with the assistance of Barbara Burghardt: "Orgel ad libitum". Insights into the music of the reform synagogues using the example of the "Collection Oberkantor Nathan Saretzki", 2015
  • Sarah M. Ross: A Season of Singing. Creating Feminist Jewish Music in the United States, 2016

See also

Media coverage (selection)

  • dapd , KIZ: Federal President Wulff opens European Center for Jewish Music in Hanover , in: Neue Musikzeitung from January 17th, 2012; last accessed online on 29.06.16
  • Susanne Schrammar: Musical treasure chest ... , presentation of the EZJM with an interview with Andor Izsák on the Deutschlandradio Kultur website on January 17th, 2012, last accessed on August 3rd, 2014
  • Stefan Arndt: Sarah Maria Ross is the new voice of Jewish music in the HAZ from December 9th, 2016; last accessed online on 29.06.16
  • Almut Engelien: Interview with Sarah Maria Ross. The director of the European Center for Jewish Music, broadcast by NDR Kultur on June 25th, 2016, 6 p.m., online , last accessed on June 29th, 2016

literature

  • Peter Schulze , Jens Peter Thiessen: History and Vision. 100 years of Villa Seligmann , ed. by Andor Izsák, Hanover: Siegmund Seligmann Foundation, 2006
  • Hugo Thielen : European Center for Jewish Music , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 167

Web links

Commons : European Center for Jewish Music  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen: Hohenzollernstraße 39 , in: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 152
  2. ^ A b Hugo Thielen: European Center for Jewish Music . In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Hannover. From the beginning to the present . Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hanover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 167 .
  3. ^ European Center for Jewish Music Hanover: EZJM Hanover: Working meeting online database. In: www.ezjm.hmtm-hannover.de. Retrieved July 27, 2016 .
  4. ^ European Center for Jewish Music Hanover: EZJM Hanover: Cultural Sustainability. In: www.nachhaltigkeit-ezjm.de. Retrieved July 11, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library

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