Silences and Secrets
The Australian Experience of the Weintraub Syncopators
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Word Count
65,000 words, Guess
Page Count
260 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781921867804
- ISBN-101921867809
- Library of Congress Control Number2014567172
- OCLC Control Number828488942
- Better World Books9781921867804
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL30155800M
Classifications
- LCCML3509.A92D74 2015
- LCCML3509.A92 D74 2013
- LCCML3509.A9 D778 2013
Description
The Weintraubs Syncopators, international musical celebrities of the 1930s, embarked on a four-year journey across Europe, Russia and the Far East in exile from the antisemitic ideologies of the German Third Reich. This band of mainly Jewish musicians arrived in Sydney, Australia, in 1937. The decision of some of them to stay brought them into conflict with the aggressively protectionist Musicians' Union of Australia. They gained employment at a high-end Sydney nightclub but when war came, were forced to come to terms with a change in their status - from celebrities to enemy aliens. Denounced for alleged espionage activities in Russia, three were interned and the band broke up. In this major recounting of the experience of the Weintraubs Syncopators, Kay Dreyfus pieces together the complex personal, social and political forces at work in this story of migration at a time of insecurity, fear and dramatic conflict.
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