Out of the Depths: The First Collection of Holocaust Songs by Toltz, Joseph
Out of the Depths: The First Collection of Holocaust Songs by Toltz, Joseph

Out of the Depths: The First Collection of Holocaust Songs

Available for the first time in English translation, this collection of songs is a powerful memorial to...
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Author: Joseph Toltz
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Out of the Depths: The First Collection of Holocaust Songs by Toltz, Joseph

Out of the Depths: The First Collection of Holocaust Songs

$35.94
Out of the Depths: The First Collection of Holocaust Songs by Toltz, Joseph

Out of the Depths: The First Collection of Holocaust Songs

$35.94
Author: Joseph Toltz
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Available for the first time in English translation, this collection of songs is a powerful memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.

In June 1945, before the full devastation of the Holocaust had emerged, a team of researchers embarked on a remarkable project. While documenting the experiences of Jewish refugees, they began to collect songs composed and sung in the Nazi camps and ghettos. The resulting book, Mima'amakim (Out of the depths), was published in a short run of 500 copies. Today, only a handful survive.

Out of the depths: The first collection of Holocaust songs presents the contents of this extraordinary document for a new generation of readers. Based on a copy of Mima'amakim discovered in 2013, it contains not only the songs' melodies and lyrics, the latter in a new translation by Joseph Toltz, but also short biographies of the composers, drawn from painstaking original research. Introductory essays provide historical and musicological background, deepening our knowledge of this terrible event and the creative means by which the Jewish people responded to and endured it.

Described by the original editor, Yehuda Eismann, as a 'memorial stone for Polish Jewry', the songbook is a timeless document of a people's despair, hope and strength.

Author: Joseph Toltz,Anna Boucher
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 04/14/2026
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.81lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9781526165671


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2026

About the Author

Joseph Toltz is a Jewish music researcher and administrator at the University of Sydney. He is also a composer/arranger, Synagogue conductor and producer.

Anna Boucher is an Associate Professor of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Gender, Migration and the Global Race for Talent.
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