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Ladislav Mose Blum an audio document of chant in a Prague synagogue.

Publication: Czech Music
Publication Date: 01-JAN-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Ladislav Mose Blum an audio document of chant in a Prague synagogue.(document)

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Jewish culture found itself in a strange position in post-war Czechoslovakia. While in the 1950s the communist authorities made it very clear that they were scarcely less antisemitic than the Nazis, in subsequent decades they did not express this attitude so unambiguously. Not that their basic attitude had changed much. The Jewish community was allowed to function, but it was always under the vigilant surveillance of the state and the party. Yet even under these unfavourable circumstances the members of the community continued to maintain their traditions, among which liturgical music played an important role. This remarkable document published by the Jewish Museum in Prague gives us an idea of the musical side of Jewish religious life at the turn of the 1970s/1980s through a portrait of one important figure.

In this double CD and attached Czech-English booklet, the editor--the musicologist...

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