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The price of assimilation : Felix Mendelssohn and the nineteenth-century anti-semitic tradition / Jeffrey S. Sposato.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sposato, Jeffrey S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847--Religion.
- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix.
- Jewish Christians--Germany--History--19th century.
- Jewish Christians.
- Antisemitism--Germany--History--19th century.
- Antisemitism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Sposato offers a revisionist account of Mendelssohn's relationship to his Jewish roots. He challenges the notion that the composer's identity was strongly informed by a sense of Jewishness & argues that for much of his career Mendelssohn consciously attempted to distance himself from his Jewish heritage.
- Contents:
- Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. New Christians; The Mendelssohns and the Synagogue; Reinventing Mendelssohn; Mendelssohn's Evolving Relationship with Judaism; 2. The St. Matthew Passion Revival; Judicious Cuts; The St. Matthew Passion Chorales and the Berlin Hymn Tradition; The St. Matthew Passion and the Theology of Friedrich Schleiermacher; Other Performances of the St. Matthew Passion; 3. Moses; Christology, Anti-Semitism, and Moses; Mendelssohn, Marx, and the Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitic Tradition; 4. Paulus; A Textual History of Paulus
- Paulus and the Influences of Carl Loewe, Louis Spohr, and Abraham MendelssohnPaulus and Philo-Heathenism; The Evolution of the Anti-Semitic Image in Paulus; Lessons from Paulus: A Reevaluation of Die erste Walpurgisnacht; 5. Elias; A Textual History of Elias; Christology in Elias; The Jewish Image in Elias; 6. Christus; The Genesis of Christus; The Jewish Image in Christus; The Universality of Das Volk; Conclusion: Matters of Perspective; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-538689-2
- 0-19-534879-6
- 9786610482054
- 1-280-48205-2
- 1-60256-906-1
- 1-4237-3378-9
- OCLC:
- 567937026
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