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AHC interview with Greta Loebl.
No full textGreta Loebl was born in Vienna on 7/28/1917. She went to elementary school in the sixth district, and to "'Reform Realgymnasium", progressive high school. She left Austria in 1938 for the USA via Germany where she crossed the border illegally into France with her first husband, Oscar Schreyer. Both of her parents died in Theresienstadt/Auschwitz in 1944. In the USA, she worked as an artist. In 1987 she had an exhibition at the Belvedere, a famous museum in Vienna, followed by many other exhibitions in Austria.Austrian Heritage CollectionSee also Greta Loebl Collection (AR 25101
AHC Interview with Peter Georg Elmer.
No full textPeter Georg Elmer (Epstein) was born in Vienna on August 7, 1923. He left Vienna for England in 1937 to attend school there. He immigrated to the US via Switzerland and arrived in 1939. In 1945, he came to Austria with the US Army. From 1947 until 1951 he attended Columbia University where he received a B.S. at the School of General Studies. Later he worked as a salesperson in the garnment industry, and became the owner and president of Sweater Co.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Stephan Shiffers.
No full textStephan Shiffers was born 1909 in Vienna, Austria. He attended elementary school and grammar school in Vienna (18th district) and studied law at Vienna University (grad. 6/1934 (Dr. iuris)). Since he was active in Jewish athletics he got a scholarship to Bet Chaluz, a school in Stuttgart, Germany. There he was arrested on 11/12/1938 and interned in Concentration Camp Dachau until 4/1/1939. After returning to Stuttgart, he was given an agricultural permit by Hechaluz, which allowed him to emigrate to England, where he worked first on a farm and later at a nursery. In 8/1939 he was notified of his U.S. visa, and he arrived in Ellis Island in 8/26/1939. In New York he worked as an exterminator, masseur, manager of a health club, merchant, and finally as a businessman. He visited Austria about five times, and he used one of these visits to talk to students in his old school. Stephen Shiffers died on 6/30/2004 in Washington, DC.See also Stephan Shiffers' autobiography, ME 1470.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with George Strauss.
No full textGeorge Strauss was born in Vienna in 1917 where he lived at Capistrangasse 3 in the sixth Viennese district. From 1927 until 1935, he went to school at "Amerling Gymnasium". He left Vienna to Germany (Hamburg) where he boarded a ship on 09/12/1938. Two weeks later he arrived in New York, USA, where he became an engineer.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Myer Myers and the silversmith's trade in New York City, 1746--1795.
No full textMyer Myers (1723--1795) created outstanding works in silver and gold for leading members of the New York elites and was the most productive silversmith in the city during the third quarter of the eighteenth century. Many objects with his mark have long been regarded as among the most important American statements of the Rococo style, and he is perhaps best known as the maker of the only Jewish ritual silver to survive from Colonial America. These objects also provide an extraordinary amount of information about craft, patronage, and religious diversity in pre- and post-Revolutionary America. As a native American Jew, Myers was part of a small but close-knit community that provided him with patrons as well as mercantile contacts. His leadership role within the New York Jewish community mirrored and to some extent reinforced his prominence in his craft. Myers's career as a silversmith offers insights into the complexities of the often-romanticized and oversimplified subject of preindustrial craftsmanship in America. Surviving objects with his marks clearly were the product of a sizeable workshop that made both routine, less expensive forms as well as the unique, style-conscious wares for which Myers is renowned. While highlighting his outstanding works, this study also will situate them within his routine shop production, giving a more complete picture of his output. It will also highlight the interrelationships between different craftsmen in precious metals that traditionally have been interpreted as autonomous artists. Myers's finest works clearly demonstrate the importance of specialist craftsmen, such as engravers, chasers, and piercers. His routine productions apparently were marketed not only through his own establishment, but also through other silversmiths and jewelers who worked primarily as retailers. Myers's career also permits an examination of the evolving styles of London silver of fifty years as filtered through one colonial workshop.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2001.School code: 0265
The art of the klezmer: Improvisation and ornamentation in the commercial recordings of New York clarinettists Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras, 1922--1929.
No full textThis thesis is an investigation into the instrumental social music of the Eastern European Jewish immigrant community in New York during the early decades of the twentieth century. A professional tradition with roots in medieval Germany, klezmer music had developed in the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe during the course of several centuries and was brought to North America by immigrants beginning in the late nineteenth century. European klezmorim had formed a socio-economic group which fulfilled a ritual function within traditional Jewish society at weddings and other celebrations. Like Yiddish culture in general, the Jewish instrumentalists adapted to the New York environment, creating a synthesis during the period 1880--1950 which contained both Eastern European and American attributes.This study begins with the hypothesis that there is a unique style and repertoire created and interpreted by the klezmorim, of which key stylistic aspects can be identified. Utilising a three-prong approach---historical, ethnographic and musicological---it provides a focused study based on the recordings of the clarinettists Naftule Brandwein (1884--1963) and Dave Tarras (1895--1989) made during the years 1922--1929 and, at the same time, places their music within a larger socio-cultural context. Drawing on musical parallels to Harshav's theory of polylingualism in Yiddish, the study treats the various genres within the overall category of metric dance tunes as a single field, investigating key stylistic elements at the syntactical and improvisational levels. It focuses in particular on issues of modality, compositional process, improvisation and ornamentataion. A dynamic approach to modality presents a new way of looking at oral musical traditions which contain elements of both modal systems and Western tonality. The study both confirms the importance of ornamentation as being crucial in defining style in oral traditions and suggests that certain categories of ornaments may also serve a structural function. Building upon Nettl's concept of a "point of departure" upon which musicians base their improvisations, those of Brandwein and Tarras may be regarded as being based on a myriad of points of departure at every level of detail which, when aggregated, made up the performance. Finally, through investigating the interface between syntactical and improvisational elements, a new way of looking at improvisation is suggested---one which blurs the boundary between the compositional and the performative.Thesis (Ph.D.)--The City University (London) (United Kingdom), 2001.School code: 0919
AHC interview with Emanuel Fuchs.
No full textEmanuel (Mendel) Fuchs was born on 4/1/1918 in Vienna, Austria. He lived with his parents and his seven siblings in the second district in Vienna. After he finished school he worked in the fur-business. During Reichskristallnacht he was taken to Kenyongassse in Vienna and was tortured there. After a week he was sent to Dachau, where he had to stay several weeks. Because he had a stamp in his passport, he was able to leave Dachau and went back to Vienna. From there he fled to Holland and Belgium and immigrated to the US in 1939. He served in the US Army for one year. After his discharge he started a new life in the jewelry business. Emmanuel Fuchs lived in Cliffside, NJ, with his wife Judith (née Kirschenbaum) , their daughter and their son.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Christians and Jews in Pomerania 1815-1914 : the mobilisation of antisemitic prejudice in rural communities /
No full textDoctoral thesisNeustettin (Germany)
Lost in America? Raphael Soyer and the search for modern Jewish art.
No full textThis dissertation examines the work of the Jewish-American, immigrant artist Raphael Soyer (1899--1987). Soyer's negotiations of his difference and Jewish identity in changing ways over his lifetime drive this analysis, and his artistic choices are understood in relation to different aspects of his ethnicity and position as an Other in the Diaspora. At the same time, this project questions and analyzes the assumptions and methodologies scholars employ when studying modern Jewish art. Many scholars have made unsubstantiated arguments about Jewish art, and have categorized as "Jewish" the work by artists who were born Jews without adequately exploring their assertions. Each chapter looks at "Jewish art" differently, but considers the concept through Soyer's art. The five chapters that comprise the main body of this study discuss Soyer's work as "Jewish" through iconography, theme, form, and style. Soyer is an interesting candidate for this kind of inquiry because he depicts Jewish themes and also embraces the subjects and forms of more mainstream American artists, and his art covers many categories, both in media and genre: he was a watercolorist etcher, lithographer, book illustrator, and painter, and created artworks ranging from self-portraits to still-lifes. Moreover, Soyer's life spans almost the entire twentieth century and his long, productive career reflects some of the vicissitudes of the Jewish-American immigrant experience. I conclude that although his art did not always deal explicitly with Jewish themes, the actuality behind the self-image Soyer projected reveals the strong influence of his Jewishness.Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001.School code: 0153