Arno Nadel Explained

Arno Nadel
Birth Date:5 October 1878
Birth Place:Vilnius, Russian Empire
(now Vilnius, Lithuania)
Death Place:Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland
Occupation:Musicologist, Composer, Playwright, Poet, Artist

Arno Nadel (October 5, 1878 – March 1943) was a Lithuanian musicologist, composer, playwright, poet, and painter.

Early life

Nadel was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, at the time of his birth, part of the Russian Empire, to an Orthodox Jewish family.

Career

In 1890, Nadel moved from Lithuania to Germany. At the age of 12, Nadel studied in Königsberg, Germany, under the cantor Eduard Birnbaum. He also studied with conductor and composer Robert Schwalm.[1]

In 1895, when he was 17 years old,[2] he moved to Berlin and enrolled in the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums. He studied with composer Ludwig Mendelssohn and Max Lowengard.

After graduating he worked at the Kottbusser Ufer Synagogue (Synagoge am Kottbusser Ufer) as an educator and choirmaster. In 1916, he became choir director of the Jewish community of Berlin which included the supervision of music at all Berlin synagogues.[3]

Nadel was also a very prolific playwright and poet. Starting in 1918, Nadel took up painting as well, painting several self-portraits and biblical scenes.

In 1922, at the request of Jewish leadership, Nadel worked for years on an anthology of synagogue music, Kompendium Hallelujah! Gesänge für den jüdischen Gottesdienst, which he finished in 1938 and intended to publish in seven volumes.[4] [5] [6]

Before he was deported, Nadel was able to leave his large collection of old Jewish liturgical materials with a non-Jewish neighbor,[7] some of which survived and were purchased by his friend Eric Mandell. What remains of these materials is held at Gratz College in Philadelphia.[8]

Personal life

Nadel was married to Beate Anna Nadel.[9] [10]

He was a resident of Schöneberg quarter of Berlin. In November 1938, he was sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.[11] Although Nadel was lucky enough to get papers to leave for England, he was too frail to make the trip. In March 1943, he and his wife were deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp. He died there the same year.

Published works

As editor

Translations

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Schipperge. Thomas. Arno Nadel. Universität Hamburg. 27 July 2015. 23 November 2010.
  2. Web site: Wasserman. Martin. Arlo Nadel and His Taoist Poetry. Palo Alto Review. Palo Alto College. 27 July 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20010911000615/http://www.accd.edu/pac/english/pareview/arlo.htm. 11 September 2001.
  3. Book: Frühauf. Tina. German-Jewish Organ Music: An Anthology of Works from the 1820s to the 1960s. 2013. A-R Editions, Inc.. Middleton, Wisconsin. 978-0-895-79761-2. 27 July 2015. xviii-xix. 830812812.
  4. Book: Eric Mandell Collection, 1963-1964, AR 4408. Leo Baeck Institute. 1963. 27 July 2015.
  5. Web site: Eric Mandell Collection. Internet Archive. 1963. 27 July 2015. 40.
  6. Web site: Arno Nadel. Jewish Music Research Centre. Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 22 July 2015.
  7. Book: Heskes. Irene. Passport to Jewish Music: Its History, Traditions, and Culture. 1994. Greenwood Press. Westport, Conn.. 978-0-313-38911-5. registration. nadel.. 7–8. 27 July 2015. 615600454.
  8. Web site: Frühauf. Tina. Arno Nadel. Music and the Holocaust. World ORT. 22 July 2015.
  9. Web site: Nadel, Beate Anna – Memorial Book: Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933–1945. Bundesarchiv. 27 July 2015. 4 February 2015.
  10. Web site: Lowey. Ester. Page of Testimony: Arno Nadel. Yad Vashem. 27 July 2015. 5 November 1998.
  11. Web site: Nadel, Arno – Memorial Book: Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933–1945. Bundesarchiv. 27 July 2015. 4 February 2015.
  12. Web site: Bell. Lenore. The Children's Haggadah (Curators Corner #24). United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 27 July 2015. 16 April 2014.

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