Lexicon of Jews in Music

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The Lexicon of Jews in Music was first published in 1940 by Herbert Gerigk and Theophil Stengel in Verlag Bernhard Hahnefeld. The book, which appeared as volume 2 of the series of publications of the institute of the NSDAP for researching the Jewish question , was put together according to the subtitle "on behalf of the Reich leadership of the NSDAP on the basis of official, party-checked documents".

Musicians, musicologists, librettists, directors, music publishers and other people who had anything to do with music and who were considered "Jewish" or " half-Jewish " according to the anti-Semitic , National Socialist definition of the Nuremberg Laws , are listed here. In addition, it contains a list of titles with "Jewish" works that were not allowed to be listed.

The lexicon was constantly updated by the staff of Gerigks Special Staff Music of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg and by informers. It appeared in five editions; the first contained 380, the third (1941) already contained 394 and the last (1943) 404 columns.

The lexicon was placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet zone of occupation .

A corresponding lexicon of Jewish writers planned by the Germanist Elisabeth Frenzel for the Institute for Researching the Jewish Question, which was also intended to serve to exclude the artists who were accepted, did not get beyond the planning phase.

expenditure

  • Theo Stengel, Herbert Gerigk: Lexicon of Jews in Music . With a list of titles of Jewish works. Compiled on behalf of the Reich leadership of the NSDAP on the basis of official, party-checked documents (= publications of the Institute of the NSDAP for research into the Jewish question, vol. 2), Berlin: Bernhard Hahnefeld, 1941, (1st edition 1940).

literature

  • Eva Weissweiler : Eliminated! The Lexicon of the Jews in Music and its Murderous Consequences . Dittrich, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-920862-25-2 (In addition to a history of its origins and effects, the book also contains a facsimile edition of the 1st edition of the lexicon).
  • Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933-1945 . CD-ROM lexicon, Kiel 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Administration for National Education in the Soviet Occupation Zone, List of the literature to be sorted out In: polunbi.de , accessed on May 21, 2019.