Word: jisroel
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...heard a story ("partly true") of a group of Jews, marked to die in a Nazi gas chamber, who, with their powerful singing of the Shema Jisroel (Hear, 0 Israel), had unnerved, then frenzied, their executioners into bludgeoning them to death. Schoenberg fashioned a text for a cantata, with a sole survivor as narrator, then poured out the music in three weeks ("Oh, yes, I compose very fast...
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