{"id":2726,"date":"2013-06-10T14:04:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T12:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/statensmusikverk.se\/svensktvisarkiv\/?page_id=2726"},"modified":"2016-03-09T10:42:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T09:42:04","slug":"a-prayer-for-modernity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/musikverket-old.test.consids5.se\/svensktvisarkiv\/publikationer\/onlinepublikationer\/a-prayer-for-modernity\/","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for Modernity"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Prayer for Modernity<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Politics and Culture in the World of Abraham Baer (1834–1894)<\/h2>\n

By Anders Hammarlund<\/em><\/p>\n

This book presents the interaction between two reform movements in Europe during the 1800s – the Swedish and the Jewish. In 1857, a young Abraham Baer took a position as cantor of the newly founded synagogue in Gothenburg. Twenty years later, he produced one of the century’s most remarkable Swedish publications, a handbook of Jewish music for worship services, Baal t’fillah<\/em>. This work was the most ambitious documentation of synagogical music tradition in Europe during the 1800s and, a milestone in Jewish cultural history.<\/p>\n

Born and raised in the German-Polish borderland, Baer was greatly influenced by the stormy love-encounter between Jewish traditional learning and modern science, a relationship whose child was named Kulturwissenschaft<\/em>, nurtured in Berlin’s intellectual greenhouse. In Jewish Gothenburg, which became a virtual cultural suburb of Berlin, Abraham Baer met Swedish radicals who were willing to dismantle the class-bound society in order to, instead, build a nation. They believed in progress, education, and freedom. They wanted to liberate the individual and embrace modernity, while still revering tradition.<\/p>\n

But what is a nation, and what is the basis for belonging? What unites these liberated citizens in an emancipated society, where religion becomes solely private, and not a matter for the state? Can religious worship be rationalized? What makes society possible?<\/p>\n

This book is the final report for the research project, funded by the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Gestaltning, identitet, integration <\/em><\/a>(Gestaltung, identity, integration<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Download A Prayer for Modernity<\/em><\/a> (Pdf, ca 9 MB)<\/p>\n

Download Baal t’fillah oder Der practische Vorbeter<\/em><\/a> by Abraham Baer (scanned original, pdf, ca 83 MB)<\/p>\n

This book is also published in a Swedish printed version by Carlssons bokförlag. Read more about it here (in Swedish<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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By Anders Hammarlund. About the interaction between two reform movements in Europe during the 1800s \u2013 the Swedish and the Jewish \u2013 with cantor Abraham Baer (1834\u20131894) in focus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n