University of Heidelberg
Jews, Music, and Society. A Study in the Social and Cultural History of Music (1750–1900)
My dissertation is an attempt to offer a fuller understanding and, to some extent, a reinterpretation of modern Jewish history through the lens of music history. By studying the practice and notion of music among Jews in Central Europe, especially Germany and Austria, I hope to introduce new perspectives on the process of Jewish embourgeoisement and acculturation. In other words, the project does not deal with the “contribution” of Jews to music, but rather with the contribution of music to the making and transformation of modern European Jewry.
Daniel Jütte is a historian of early modern and modern Europe. He is now a professor of history at New York University. He earned his PhD from the University of Heidelberg in 2010. Jütte was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. He has also been the recipient of various other fellowships, including from the German Research Foundation (DFG), the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung), the Leo Baeck Institute New York, and the Daimler Benz Foundation. He was named an Honorary Starr Fellow at Harvard’s Center for Jewish Studies in 2013.