Writing on water : the sounds of Jewish prayer / Judit Niran Frigyesi.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Hungarian Publisher: Budapest, Hungary ; New York, NY : Central European University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (ix, 269 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- 9789633862582
- 9633862582
- Sounds of Jewish prayer
- Jelek a vizen. English
- Jews -- Europe, Central -- Interviews
- Orthodox Judaism -- Europe, Central -- History -- 20th century
- Jews -- Europe, Central -- Music
- Judaism -- Europe, Central -- Customs and practices
- Music -- Performance -- Europe, Central -- 20th century
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Europe, Central
- Juifs -- Europe centrale -- Entretiens
- Judaïsme orthodoxe -- Europe centrale -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Juifs -- Europe centrale -- Musique
- Judaïsme -- Europe centrale -- Coutumes et pratiques
- Musique -- Exécution -- Europe centrale -- 20e siècle
- Holocauste, 1939-1945 -- Europe centrale
- RELIGION -- Judaism -- General
- PHILOSOPHY -- General
- Music -- Performance
- Jews
- Judaism -- Customs and practices
- Orthodox Judaism
- Central Europe
- Hungary
- Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945)
- 1900-1999
- 296.4/509439 23
- DS135.H9 F7413 2018
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Originally published in Hungarian.
Based on the author's fieldwork during the era of communism in Budapest and Prague.
""Writing on Water" is a first-hand account of the thoughts, lives and rituals of the secretly practicing strictly religious Jews during the era of Communism in Eastern Europe (primarily in Budapest) with especial focus on their traditional ritual chant as part of a total acoustic experience ("soundscape"). The book is based on extensive fieldwork and analysis of orally transmitted material. The subject matter is unique both in the choice of the communities and its focus on sound. I attempt to explain how melodies and soundscapes become the sustaining/protective "environment", as well as the vehicle, for the expression of world-orientation - in a situation when open speech is inconceivable. The first part of the book is a journey toward the lives/sounds of these communities, the second contains documentary interviews, and the third describes the communities' disintegration after 1990. The book conveys scholarly results through poetry, prose-poems and art-photos"-- Provided by publisher
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