Robert Lachmann’s Letters to Henry George Farmer (from 1923 to 1938)

Israel J. Katz, Ph.D. (1967), University of California at Los Angeles, is a Research Associate at the University of California at Davis. He has published monographs, articles, and a bibliography on Spanish tradition-al folk music and dances. His latest publication dealt with Henry George Farmer and the First International Congress of Arab Music (Cairo 1932) (Brill 2015).

Contents



Foreword

Israel J. Katz

Preface

Sheila M. Craik

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations



1 The Berlin Years (1892-1935)

 1.1 Introduction

 1.2 From his Birth through his Formative Years (1892-1911)

 1.3 Graduation from the Gymnasium, Courses at Berlin Univ., Military Service, and Degree in Librarianship (1911-8)

 1.4 Return to Civilian Life, Berlin Univ., the Phonogrammarchiv, Attainment of his Doctorate, Librarianship, and Fieldwork in Algeria and Tunisia (1918-27)

 1.5 Appointment as Music Librarian at the Preussische Staatsbibliothek, and Additional Fieldwork in Tunisia and Algeria (1927-30)

 1.6 From the First Mention of the Cairo Congress of Arab Music (Feb. 1930) to his Participation (Mar.-Apr. 1932) and Egyptian Fieldwork (Apr.-May 1932)

 1.7 Post-Congress Visit of Johannes Wolf and Kurt Schindler to Jerusalem, where they met with Judah L. Magnes (April 1932)

 1.8 Dismissal from the Staatsbibliothek (Berlin 1933)

 1.9 Initial Contacts with Judah L. Magnes at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem (1934-5)

2 The Jerusalem Years (1935-1939)

 2.1 Background

 2.2 Lachmann’s Initial Academic Year at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem (1935-6) [Oct. 22–June 28]

 2.3 Second Academic Year (1936-7) [Oct. 11–June 24]

 2.4 Lachmann’s Students at the Archive for Oriental Music (Jerusalem)

 2.5 The Oriental Music Broadcasts (Nov. 1936–Apr. 1937)

 2.6 The World Centre for Jewish Music in Palestine (WCJMP) (1936-9)

 2.7 Boundary-Crossing, Brith Shalom, Stefan Wolpe, and Music Education

 2.8 Third Academic Year (1937-8) [Sept. 30–July 10]

 2.9 Fourth Academic Year (1938-9) [Oct. 8–July 17]

 2.10 Last Weeks in Jerusalem (1939)

3 Lachmann’s Letters to Henry George Farmer [FC 467/1-90]

 3.1 From his Years in Berlin (1923-35)

 3.2 From his Years in Jerusalem, Palestine (1935-8)

 3.3 Letters from Edith Gerson-Kiwi to Henry George Farmer (1945-7)



Appendix 1:  Lachmann’s Published Works, Reviews, Lectures, and Unpublished Manuscripts

 1 1923-35 (from his Berlin Years)

 2 1935-8 (from his Jerusalem Years)

 3 Lectures

 4 Posthumous Works



Appendix 2: Lachmann’s Sole Transcription of a Tunisian Wedding Song that was Included in E. Ubach and E. Rackow, Sitte und Recht in Nordafrika, Stuttgart 1923, 244-5



Appendix 3: Lachmann’s Transcriptions for Albert von Le Coq’s Von Land und Leuten in Ostturkistan. Bericht und Abenteuer der 4. Deutschen Turfanexpedition. Leipzig 1928



Appendix 4: Lachmann’s Transcription of a) Mesʿud Djemil’s Call to Prayer (adhān) and b) Instrumental Piece (Beśrew Salim Bey) from his Musik des Orients, Breslau 1929



Appendix 5: Lachmann’s Doctoral Diploma (Mar. 11, 1922)
(LA F 07)



Appendix 6: What Do We Know about Kurt Schindler?



Appendix 7: Johannes Wolf’s Letter to Friedrich Smend
(Nov. 1, 1933)



Appendix 8: Lachmann and Zionism



Appendix 9: Magnes’ October 29th Communication Published by the Jewish Telegraph Agency (Nov. 11, 1934, p. 3)



Appendix 10: News Item from the University’s June 1934 Information Bulletin Concerning Lachmann’s Archive



Appendix 11: Three Judeo-Spanish Lyric Songs, from the Lachmann Archive, National Library of Israel



Appendix 12: Stefan Wolpe: A Biographical Sketch of his European Years



Appendix 13: Letter from Yiska Idelsohn to Prof. Harry Torczyner



Bibliography

General Index