Musical Life in the Central European Jewish Village
Philip V. Bohlman
Abstract Taking a tip from Kümmerly and Frey’s Strassen-Atlas Deutsch/and-Europa (1982), with its bright yellow emphasis on sehenswerte Orte (sites worth seeing), one enters Sulzburg in the southwestern part of German state Baden-Württemberg expecting to find village that is both picturesque rich history. The village, whose population today consists only few thousand, has fairly unpretentious location, straddling small stream as it falls Hochschwarzwald into flood plain Rhine. There are no signs leading “sites seeing,” though flow traffic through pulls first town gate-a quaint medieval portal now looking rather baroque-along main street suitable for motorized traffic, briefly across chapel St. Cyriac, Carolingian monastery church early Middle Ages, then back thoroughfare, which leads up valley Bad Sulzburg, at 1414 meters eventual goal most who pass this way.