Encyclopedia of Jews in Music

The "Encyclopedia of Jews in Music" was first published in 1940 by Herbert Gerigk and Theophil Stengel published by Bernhard Hahne field. The book, " Publications of the Institute of the NSDAP for the Study of the Jewish Question " was published as Volume 2 of the series, was compiled according subtitles "on behalf of the national leadership of the NSDAP on the basis of official, party officially certified documents ".

Musicians, musicologists, librettists, directors, music publishers and other people who had to do with music and after the anti-Semitic, Nazi definition of the Nuremberg Laws were regarded as "Jewish" or " half-Jewish ", are listed in it. Additionally, it includes a title list with " Jewish " works that were not to be listed.

By the staff of Gerigks " special bar music " of the use of the rod Reich Leader Rosenberg and informers, the lexicon has been continually updated. It appeared in five editions; the first consisted of 380, the third ( 1941) already contained 394 and the last in 1943 404 pages, it was the 12th - 14th Thousand.

The lexicon has been set in the Soviet zone of occupation on the list of proscribed literature.

A planned from the German studies Elisabeth Frenzel for the Institute for the Study of the Jewish Question corresponding lexicon of Jewish writers, which should serve as the exclusion of the recorded artist, never got beyond the planning stage.