Yiddish and Hebrew Art Songs by Arie Ben Erez Abrahamson (1904-1992) Music in the Shadow of the Shoah 

Authors

  • Hannah Abrahamson Bar-Ilan University Author

Keywords:

Yiddish and Hebrew Art Songs, Arie Ben Erez Abrahamson, Music Shoah, Music Holocaust

Abstract

 A survivor of three concentration camps in Vichy France, Arie Ben Erez Abrahamson fled his native Czechoslovakia in 1939.  Heir to a long line of cantors and composers—at least 16 have been identified, his creative process was nourished at once by the ancient modes of Jewish liturgy, and the legacy of musical traditions of  Austro-Hungary.  His songs, set to classical Jewish texts and modern Yiddish and Hebrew poetry, embody much of Jewish history from the anxieties of survival in the diaspora to exhilaration at the renaissance of Jewish national life in the ancient homeland. 

Author Biography

  • Hannah Abrahamson, Bar-Ilan University

    Art historian Hannah Abrahamson was trained at Columbia University where she studied with Meyer Schapiro, Julius Held, David Rosand, and Theodore Reff.   She served as Curator of Museum Collections at the Jewish Museum in New York and was a Theodore Rousseau Fellow in the Department of European Painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Awarded a French Government fellowship for research on Delacroix, she did research in museums and private collections in France, Belgium, and England.  In Israel, she taught at the Technion Faculty of Architecture, the University of Haifa, and Bar-Ilan University.  An iconographer, her fields of specialization are Delacroix and tradition, Franco-Flemish fifteenth-century painting, and Judaic themes in Western Art.  

     

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Published

2024-04-23

Issue

Vol. 13 (2016)

Section

Articles