Continuities and Ruptures

Continuities and Ruptures: Artistic Responses to Jewish Migration, Internment and Exile in the Long Twentieth Century

6-8 July 2014 – School of Music, University of Leeds

Keynote Speakers:

• Lydia Goehr (Columbia University): ‘How to Paint a People out of the Picture: From the Passage of the Red Sea to La Bohème‘
• Alan Rosen (International School for Holocaust Studies): ‘Transforming Exilic Time (Day by Day)’

Conference theme

Displacement has been an integral part of the twentieth-century Jewish experience.  Whether forced due to Nazi persecution, compelled by other oppressive factors, or entered into voluntarily in the hope of a new start, migration, internment and exile have affected musical, theatrical and literary output by Jewish artists in myriad ways.

This conference seeks to interrogate these phenomena through academic papers, public lectures, performances, workshops and other types of session.

Conference committee

• Michael Beckerman (New York University)
• David Fligg (Leeds College of Music)
• Helen Finch (University of Leeds)
• Hilton Lorie (former President of the Leeds Jewish Representative Council)
• Stephen Muir (University of Leeds)
• Lisa Peschel (University of York)
• Joseph Toltz (Sydney Conservatorium, University of Sydney)
• Bret Werb (Music Curator, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC)

• Project & Conference Assistant: Tenley Martin