Just as music has shaped Jewish history and Jewish identity, Jews have influenced the course of music in all its forms.

In a revelatory and defiant performance, the pianist Evgeny Kissin has evoked, through music and Yiddish verse, the modern ordeal of the Jewish people. 

The Nazis alleged that Jews possessed no music of their own. A recent musical vogue traduces the memory both of the Holocaust and of the. . .

The music and poems composed in the concentration camps enabled Jews to assert their humanity even as it was forcibly stripped away.

By persecuting the “degenerate” art of Jewish musicians and composers, Hitler sought to enshrine the supremacy of Austro-German musical culture.  Instead, he destroyed it.