Projektnummer

N000628

Zusammenfassung

This project traces the history of Gerson-Kiwi's groundbreaking ideas and the processes through which they came into being through an in-depth analysis of her prolific correspondence spanning multiple decades of the twentieth century. Berlin-born Edith Gerson-Kiwi (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology, a prolific German-Jewish pioneer of music research and education. Edith Gerson-Kiwi was not only influential in the developing of musicology in Israel, but also helped to reformulate German musicology after World War II. The latter contribution was mainly ma...