Jewish music in Germany after the Holocaust

Tina Frühauf
Transcending Dystopia: Music, Mobility, and the Jewish Community in Germany, 1945-1989
Oxford University Press, 2021, 644 pp.

Immediately after World War II, the German rabbi Leo Baeck, who had survived the war in the concentration camp Terezin, declared: “The history of German Jews has ended once and for all.” These words stand at the beginning of a new book, “Transcending Dystopia: Music, Mobility, and the Jewish Community in Germany, 1945-1989,” by the American music historian, Tina Frühauf.