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Tango of Death: The Creation of a Holocaust Legend

Tango of Death: The Creation of a Holocaust Legend

De Haan, Willem

Hardcover

Series: Jews, Judaism, and the Arts, Book 3

Music CompositionMusic Theory

ISBN10: 9004525068
ISBN13: 9789004525061
Publisher: Brill
Published: Oct 27 2022
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
A legend that captures the imagination of audiences and shapes representations of the Holocaust is that in Nazi concentration camps Jewish musicians were forced to play a Tango of Death as men, women and children made their way to the gas chambers. This book traces the origins of this legend to a little known concentration camp in Ukraine where musicians were forced to perform a Jewish tango at executions before they themselves were murdered. By reconstructing the creation of this legend, the book shows how the actual history is hidden, distorted, or even lost altogether.

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