Unsettling difference : music drama, the Bible, and the critique of German Jewish identity /

"Unsettling Difference examines the discourse of German Jewish difference and identity as it is expressed in biblical-themed operas, their German-language literary sources, and the aesthetic and intellectual debates that surrounded their creation in the first half of the twentieth century."...

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Dettagli Bibliografici
Autore principale: Nester, Adi, 1984- (Autore)
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Ithaca : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2024.
Serie:Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Accesso online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/jj.13168026
Sommario:
  • On Jewish difference, the Bible, and the great artwork
  • Rudolf Borchardt's Das Buch Joram and the restoration of a biblical language
  • Opening the work: the German oratorio and Paul Ben-Haim's Joram
  • Moses and Aron representing the people
  • On being superfluous: Joseph Roth's Hiob beyond integration
  • Inorganic quotations: revisiting assimilation with Eric Zeisl's Hiob.