Writing on water / Judit Niran Frigyesi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frigyesi, Judit, author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Standardized Title:

Jelek a vizen. English

Language:

English

Hungarian

Subjects (All):

Judaism.

Jews.

Orthodox Judaism.

History.

Hungary.

Jews--Hungary--Interviews.

Orthodox Judaism--Hungary--History--20th century.

Jews--Hungary--Music.

Judaism--Hungary--Customs and practices.

Judaism--Customs and practices.

Genre:

History.

Interviews.

Music.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 269 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Central European University Press, [2018]

Summary:

""Writing on Water" is a first-hand account of the thoughts, lives and rituals of the secretly practicing strictly religious Jews during the era of Communism in Eastern Europe (primarily in Budapest) with especial focus on their traditional ritual chant as part of a total acoustic experience ("soundscape"). The book is based on extensive fieldwork and analysis of orally transmitted material. The subject matter is unique both in the choice of the communities and its focus on sound. I attempt to explain how melodies and soundscapes become the sustaining/protective "environment", as well as the vehicle, for the expression of world-orientation - in a situation when open speech is inconceivable. The first part of the book is a journey toward the lives/sounds of these communities, the second contains documentary interviews, and the third describes the communities' disintegration after 1990. The book conveys scholarly results through poetry, prose-poems and art-photos"-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9789633862575

9633862574

OCLC:

1007508075