Music of another world

Author(s)

• Laks, Simon

Bibliographic Information

Music of another world

Szymon Laks ; translated from the Polish by Chester A. Kisiel

（Jewish lives）

Northwestern University Press, 2000

• : pbk

Other Title

Gry oświęcimskie

Uniform Title

Gry oświęcimskie

Note

"Three Warsaw polonaises": p. [133]-[138]

"paperback published 2000"--T.p. verso

"First published 1979 as Gry oświęcimski. English translation copyrigh c1989 by Northwestern University Press"--T.p. verso

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Compassionate yet detached, ironic yet pitilessly honest, Szymon Laks, the kapellmeister of the Auschwitz orchestra, presents a disturbing description of a phenomenon seldom mentioned in the literature of the Holocaust: the presence of music among the crematoria. His story is a testament to the human spirit and to music itself, the beauty of which Laks and others honored even as the lives of so many were destroyed.

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Details

• NCID: BA60681646
• ISBN:
  • 0810118025
• LCCN: 99088812
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: pol
• Place of Publication: Evanston, Ill.
• Pages/Volumes: 130 p., [8] p. of plates
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : D805.P7
  • DC21 : 940.53/18
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Laks, Szymon, 1901-
  • LCSH : Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  • LCSH : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives
  • LCSH : Composers -- Poland Biography
  • LCSH : Music -- Poland -- Oświęcim -- History -- 20th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA36765160