This comprehensive critical study of the nineteenth-century French
grand opera La Juive (Paris Opera, 1835) is a powerful and
successful work by the leading dramatist and librettist Eugene
Scribe, and Conservatoire-trained composer, Fromental Halevy.
Hallman explores the politically charged messages of the opera
within the context of French social and cultural history. The book
addresses the opera's portrayal of religious intolerance and
Jewish-Christian conflict in subject, setting and characterization,
viewing the anticlerical thrust of its critique as a reminder of
the historical abuses of an autocratic Church and State and as
reflection of the era's liberal ideology. It also considers the
portrayal of the central Jewish characters in light of literary
stereotypes and contradictory, antisemitic attitudes toward Jews in
French society.
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