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Chief cantor David Meisel - a Religious-cultural Transfer of Synagogue Worship in the Northern Croatia between the Two World Wars

David Meisel (Holešov, Czech Republic, 1885 - Jadovno, Croatia, 1941) completed his music education in Brno. Since 1906 he has served as the head of the Jewish community's principal chancellor and secretary in Karlovac, where he organized a reform congregation synagogue choir in Karlovac. He succeeded cantor Josip Rendi as president of the Yugoslavia Cantorial Union and was also a member of the General Board of the Jewish Communities Union (1936-1939) and publisher of the Monatsschrift Der jüdischen Kantoren 1928- 1930. He was also conductor of two public choirs in Karlovac. Recently, it has been found, privately owned, a part of the preserved David Meisel's legacy with his synagogal compositions and synagogal books which opens a new view on his synagogal composing style because until now, only Keduschah for voice and organ was known (published in 1907 in Karlovac, Croatia). This paper will analyze the style of Meisel's synagogical music, similar to Sulzer's synagogue style, which was still very popular in Croatia between the two world wars. Also, in his magazine for the Cantors, published in Karlovac, the synagogues chants from Bresslau, Subotica, Vienna, Berlin, Osijek and Zagreb were published. Analyzing 27 numbers (3 years) of Monatsschrift published in German language, this paper will show the cultural religious-Jewish transfer in central Europe and Croatia as an integral part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia after 1929.

cantor David Meisel, Synagogue chants, Monatsschrift Der jüdischen Kantoren, Croatia

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