Joy H. Calico examines the cultural history of postwar Europe through the lens of the performance and reception of Arnold Schoenberg's <i>A Survivor from Warsaw</i>—a short but powerful work, she argues, capable of irritating every exposed nerve in postwar Europe. Schoenberg, a Jewish composer whose oeuvre had been one of the Nazis’ prime exemplars of <i>entartete</i> (degenerate) music, immigrated to the United States and became an American citizen. Both admired and...
