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A Knight at the Opera - Heine, Wagner, Herzl, Peretz and the Legacy of 'Den Tannhauser' (Paperback, New)
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A Knight at the Opera - Heine, Wagner, Herzl, Peretz and the Legacy of 'Den Tannhauser' (Paperback, New)
Series: Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies
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A Knight at the Opera examines the remarkable and unknown role that
the medieval legend (and Wagner opera) Tannhauser played in Jewish
cultural life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The
book analyzes how three of the greatest Jewish thinkers of that
era, Heinrich Heine, Theodor Herzl, and I. L. Peretz, used this
central myth of Germany to strengthen Jewish culture and to attack
anti-Semitism. Readers will see how Tannhauser evolves from a
medieval knight to Peretz's pious Jewish scholar in the Land of
Israel. The book also discusses how the founder of Zionism, Theodor
Herzl, was so inspired by Wagner's opera that he wrote The Jewish
State while attending performances of it. A Knight at the Opera
uses Tannhauser as a way to examine the changing relationship
between Jews and the broader world during the advent of the modern
era, and to question if any art, even that of a prominent
anti-Semite, should be considered taboo.
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