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"A Jewish Maestra and a Lady too': Reflections on Femininity in the Career of Ethel Stark
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"A Jewish Maestra and a Lady too': Reflections on Femininity in the Career of Ethel Stark
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The Montreal-born Ethel Stark (1910-2012) was a violinist and conductor who, in 1940, co-founded The Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra (MWSO) which she conducted until the 1960s. The author highlights how an Austro-Canadian Jewish woman who lived outside the constraints of conventional domesticity both navigated through and defied the ideals of the "Cult of True Womanhood" and spearheads a movement of feminism in music. The author argues that Stark's exposure to Jewish cultural traditions of social justice and womanhood in her childhood formed a critical dimension of her feminist activism later in her life, and in particular in the founding of The Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra in 1940.
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Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes
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Vol. 28
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74-103
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2019
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en
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Rachwal, Maria Noriega. “"A Jewish Maestra and a Lady Too’: Reflections on Femininity in the Career of Ethel Stark.” Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes Vol. 28 (2019): 74–103. https://cjs.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cjs/article/view/40146/36316.
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