Judaism Musical and Unmusical

Name: Judaism Musical and Unmusical
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ISBN: 9780226771946

ISBN-10: 0226771946

ISBN-13: 9780226771946

Edition: 2007

Authors: Michael P. Steinberg

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Modernity gave rise to a Jewish consciousness that has increasingly distanced itself from the sacred in favor of worldliness and secularity.Judaism Musical and Unmusicaltraces the formulation of this secular Jewishness from its Enlightenment roots through the twentieth century to explore the infinite variations of modern Jewish experience in Central Europe and beyond. Engaging the work of such figures as Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Charlotte Salomon, Arnaldo Momigliano, Leonard Bernstein, and Daniel Libeskind, Michael Steinberg shows how modern Jews advanced cosmopolitanism and multiplicity by helping to loosen—whether by choice or by necessity—the ties that bind any…

Book details

List price: $59.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/31/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



List of illustrations


Introduction



The House and the World: On Jewish Experience and the Critique of Identity



The Family Romances of Sigmund Freud



Broken Vessels: Aestheticism and Modernity in Henry James and Walter Benjamin



Walter Benjamin and Eduard Fuchs: The Collector as Allegorist



Charlotte Salomon: History, Memory, Modernism



Arnaldo Momigliano and the Facts



Leonard Bernstein in Vienna



Grounds Zero: History, Memory, and the New Sacredness in Berlin and Beyond


Afterword


Of Jews, Music, and Scholarship


Notes


Index