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"Systématiquement confondu avec les Strauss de Vienne, l'arrière-grand-père de Claude Lévi-Strauss est surtout connu aujourd'hui pour sa collection de judaïcas, à l'origine du musée d'Art et d'Histoire du judaïsme à Paris. C'est pourtant lui qui fut chargé des somptueux bals donnés tout au long du Second-Empire et qui fut le premier directeur du casino de Vichy. Violoniste, chef d'orchestre et entrepreneur infatigable, il dirigea également les bals masqués donnés à l'Opéra pendant le Carnaval, et publia près de 500 danses--quadrilles, valses et polkas--, dédiés aux membres les plus influents de la société. En retraçant les étapes qui ont mené Isaac Strauss (1806-1888), fils d'un modeste violoneux et barbier alsacien, à diriger les bals de la Cour et organiser le faste de Napoléon III, ce livre nous plonge dans les bals et leur musique, négligés des historiens et des musicologues, tout en montrant comment, après l'Émancipation, la musique a offert aux juifs une voie privilégiée pour s'intégrer à la société française."--Back cover.

Jewish musicians. --- Strauss, Isaac,

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Jewish musicians --- Jews --- Composers, Jewish

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"Born into a Jewish family in Lvov, Poland in the early-1930s, Nelly Ben-Or was to experience, at a very young age, the trauma of the Holocaust. This narrative of her life's journey describes the survival of Nelly, her mother and her older sister. With help from family and friends, Nelly and her mother were smuggled out of the Ghetto in Lvov and escaped to Warsaw with false identity papers where they were under constant threat of discovery. Miraculously, they survived being taken on a train to Auschwitz, deported not, in fact, because they were Jews, but as citizens of Warsaw following the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis. After the end of the war, Nelly's musical talent was free to flourish, at first in Poland and then in the recently-created State of Israel, where Nelly completed her musical studies as a scholarship student at the Music Academy in Jerusalem. Following her move to England she carried out a full concert career and also discovered the Alexander Technique for piano playing, which had a profound influence on her. Today Nelly Ben-Or is internationally regarded as the leading exponent of the application of principles of the Alexander Technique - she teaches in the keyboard department of London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama, runs Alexander Technique masterclasses and regularly gives talks about her Holocaust experience. This unique memoir is testimony to an extraordinary life and illustrates the strength of the human condition when faced with adversity."--Provided by publisher.

Holocaust survivors --- Jewish musicians --- Pianists --- Piano teachers --- Ben-Or, Nelly.

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Americans --- Antisemitism --- Jewish musicians --- Jewish women --- Jews --- Journalists --- Lindheim, Elisa (Fictitious character) --- Women musicians --- Vienna (Austria)

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A biographical essay which explores the origins and influences of Charlemagne Palestine, as well as themes related to his life and artistic practice-spirituality, music, performance, avant-gardism-together with an acute analysis of his main works. The study is followed by an interview with the artist, which provides a clever balance between personal anecdotes and reflection.

Avant-garde (Music) --- Jewish artists --- Jewish musicians --- Multimedia (Art) --- Performance art --- Palestine, Charlemagne --- Avant-garde (Music) - United States --- Jewish artists - United States --- Jewish musicians - United States --- Multimedia (Art) - United States --- Performance art - United States