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Unsettling Difference

Unsettling Difference

Music Drama, the Bible, and the Critique of German Jewish Identity

by Adi Nester
Hardback
Publication Date: 15/01/2025

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Unsettling Difference challenges the major-minor pattern that has framed discussions of German Jewish difference, focusing on instances that fall outside traditional understandings of minority culture. Exploring expressions of Jewish identity and difference in biblical-themed musical dramas and their literary sources, Adi Nester argues that the issue of Jewish difference should be treated as an aesthetic question in the first half of the twentieth century, even amidst the rise of pseudo-scientific theories about race and blood.

Drawing on the fraught and parallel histories of opera and the modern reception of the Hebrew Bible in Germany, both significant in debates at the time about the nature of Jewish separateness, Unsettling Difference shows how this discourse troubles concepts of Jewish marginality and (non-Jewish) German dominance. Through innovative readings of key works in this tradition--Rudolf Borchardt's poem, Das Buch Joram; Paul Ben-Heim's oratorio, Joram; Arnold Schoenberg's opera, Moses und Aron; Joseph Roth's novel, Hiob (Job); and Eric Zeisl's opera, Hiob--Nester shows how these biblical adaptations foreground alternative notions of difference that rely on confusion, ambiguity, radical heterogeneity, excess, and repetition.

ISBN:
9781501779671
9781501779671
Category:
Jewish studies
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
15-01-2025
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cornell University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x15mm
Weight:
0.91kg

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