Przemiany żydowskich tradycji muzycznych a przemiany żydowskich instytucji muzycznych na przykładzie przedwojennej Galicji
The Transformation of Jewish Musical Traditions and the Evolution of Jewish Musical Institutions Based on the Example of Pre-War Galicia

Summary/Abstract: In this article, the transformation of Jewish musical traditions are traced in relation to those of traditional Jewish musical institutions operating in the 50 years before the outbreak of World War II in Galicia. The basis for this study is primarily source material from the interwar period. The author discusses the roles and functions of traditional Jewish musicians such as the chazzan (cantor), the folk singer and the folk instrumentalist (klezmer), as well as showing their new roles and ways of functioning on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. Afterwards, the impact of these institutional transformations on the musical repertoire of Galician Jews is presented.This text sketches out the continuum of the Jewish musical tradition from the end of the 19th century to the second half of the 20th century and describes the smooth transition between the so-called folk music and contemporary Jewish art and popular music. At the centre of all of these changes stands the human being – the creator, performer and recipient of the arts of chazzanut, folk songs and instrumental music, and the main cause of the changes occurring within this “human-organised sound”.

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