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Sounds of Survival: Polish Music and the Holocaust

Event Type: Lecture
Sponsor: Russian, East European and Eurasian Center
Location: 220 Smith Memorial Hall (805 S Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801)
Date: Apr 2, 2025 10:00
Contact: Sarah Pierson
E-Mail: schess@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar: Campus Humanities Calendar; Musicologist Mackenzie Pierce examines the role of Polish Jewish musicians in shaping concert music amid antisemitism, Nazi occupation, and postwar rebuilding in his forthcoming book. Reconstructing their lives from the 1920s to the 1950s, he reveals how music became both a means of cultural preservation and a tool for reinvention.