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"The St. Petersburg School: The Music of Leo Zeitlin (1884-1930)" by Paula Eisenstein Baker
Paula Eisenstein Baker with YIVO’s Sidney Krum Young Artists.
Leo Zeitlin belonged to a group of early 20th- century young Russian-Jewish
composers--mostly students of the St. Petersburg Conservatory and members
of the Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg--who were united
by the idea of creating a Jewish national music movement. Fascinated by
Zeitlin’s masterpiece “Eli Zion,” cellist Paula Eisenstein Baker started
to investigate the life and works of this remarkable, but almost unknown,
composer. The result was an important volume of chamber music coinciding
with growing international interest in Jewish art music from early
20th-century Russia.
Paula Eisenstein Baker, Houston cellist and musicologist, is an authority
on the early twentieth-century Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg,
Russia. She has published articles on composer and society member Leo Zeitlin
(1884–1930) in the YIVO Annual, the International Journal of Musicology and
Shofar, and is co-editor of the volume of Zeitlin’s chamber music that will
be published by A-R Editions, Inc. She has spoken about and performed works
by members of the society for audiences throughout the United States, as
well as in St. Petersburg, Vilnius, and London.
Michael C. Steinlauf, Ph.D., is associate professor of history at Gratz College.
He writes and teaches about Jewish history and culture in Eastern Europe and about
Polish-Jewish relations. Steinlauf holds a master’s degree in English and comparative
literature from Columbia University and a doctorate in Judaic studies from Brandeis
University. Fluent in Yiddish and Polish, he has been to Poland as a Fulbright fellow
and as project director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In addition,
he has been a senior research fellow at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
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