Judaism In Music And Other Essays

Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803297661
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judaism in Music and Other Essays written by Richard Wagner and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musical genius, polemicist, explosive personality-that was the nineteenth-century German composer Richard Wagner, who paid as much attention to his reputation as to his genius. Often maddening, and sometimes called mad, Wagner wrote with the same intensity that characterized his music. The letters and essays collected in Judaism in Music and Other Essays were published during the 1850s and 1860s, the period when he was chiefly occupied with the creation of The Ring of the Nibelung. Highlighting this collection is the notorious 1850 article "Judaism in Music, " which caused such a firestorm that nearly twenty years later Wagner published an unapologetic appendix. Other prose pieces include "On the Performing of Tannhauser, " written while he was in political exile; "On Musical Criticism, " an appeal for a more vital approach to art undivorced from life; and "Music of the Future." This volume concludes with letters to friends about the intent and performance of his great operas; estimations of Liszt, Beethoven, Mozart, Gluck, Berlioz, and others; and suggestions for the reform of opera houses in Vienna, Paris, and Zurich. The Bison Book edition includes the full text of volume 3 of William Ashton Ellis's 1894 translation commissioned by the London Wagner Society.

Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781479227938
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judaism in Music written by Richard Wagner and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Support Public Domain: like and share http: //facebook.com/BookLiberationFront Das Judenthum in der Musik (German: "Jewishness in Music," but normally translated Judaism in Music; spelled after its first publications as Judentum) is an essay by Richard Wagner which attacks Jews in general and the composers Giacomo Meyerbeer and Felix Mendelssohn in particular. It was published under a pseudonym in the Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik (NZM) of Leipzig in September 1850 and was reissued in a greatly expanded version under Wagners name in 1869. It is regarded by many as an important landmark in the history of German antisemitism. The first version of the article appeared in the NZM under the pseudonym of K. Freigedank ("K. Freethought"). In an April 1851 letter to Franz Liszt, Wagner gave the excuse that he used a pseudonym "to prevent the question being dragged down by the Jews to a purely personal level." At the time Wagner was living in exile in Zurich, on the run after his role in the 1849 revolution in Dresden. His article followed a series of essays in the NZM by his disciple Theodor Uhlig, attacking the music of Meyerbeer's opera Le prophete. Wagner was particularly enraged by the success of Le prophete in Paris, all the more so because he had earlier been a slavish admirer of Meyerbeer, who had given him financial support and used his influence to get Wagners early opera Rienzi, his first real success, staged in Dresden in 1841. Wagner was also emboldened by the death of Mendelssohn in 1847, the popularity of whose conservative style he felt was cramping the potential of German music. Although Wagner had shown virtually no sign of anti-Jewish prejudice previously (despite the claims by Rose in his book Wagner, Race and Revolution, and others), he was determined to build on Uhligs articles and prepare a broadside that would attack his artistic enemies, embedded in what he took to be a populist Judaeophobic context.

Author : Isaac Deutscher
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786630842
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Non-Jewish Jew written by Isaac Deutscher and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on Judaism in the modern world, from philosophy and history to art and politics In these essays Deutscher speaks of the emotional heritage of the European Jew with a calm clear-sightedness. As a historian he writes without religious belief, but with a generous breadth of understanding; as a philosopher he writes of some of the great Jews of Europe: Spinoza, Heine, Marx, Trotsky, Luxemburg, and Freud. He explores the Jewish imagination through the painter Chagall. He writes of the Jews under Stalin and of the “remnants of a race“ after Hitler, as well as of the Zionist ideal, of the establishment of the state of Israel, of the Six-Day War, and of the perils ahead.

Author : Eliezer Berkovits
Publisher : Shalem Press
ISBN 13 : 9789657052037
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essential Essays on Judaism written by Eliezer Berkovits and published by Shalem Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essay "Faith after the Holocaust" (pp. 315-332) is an excerpt from his book "Faith after the Holocaust" (New York: Ktav, 1973).

Author : Milton E. Brener
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786491388
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Richard Wagner and the Jews written by Milton E. Brener and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is well known that Richard Wagner, the renowned and controversial 19th century composer, exhibited intense anti-Semitism. The evidence is everywhere in his writings as well as in conversations his second wife recorded in her diaries. In his infamous essay "Judaism in Music," Wagner forever cemented his unpleasant reputation with his assertion that Jews were incapable of either creating or appreciating great art. Wagner's close ties with many talented Jews, then, are surprising. Most writers have dismissed these connections as cynical manipulations and rank hypocrisy. Examination of the original sources, however, reveals something different: unmistakeable, undeniable empathy and friendship between Wagner and the Jews in his life. Indeed, the composer had warm relationships with numerous individual Jews. Two of them resided frequently over extended periods in his home. One of these, the rabbi's son Hermann Levi, conducted Wagner's final opera--Parsifal, based on Christian legend--at Wagner's request; no one, Wagner declared, understood his work so well. Even in death his Jewish friends were by his side; two were among his twelve pallbearers. The contradictions between Wagner's antipathy toward the amorphous entity "The Jews" and his genuine friendships with individual Jews are the subject of this book. Drawing on extensive sources in both German and English, including Wagner's autobiography and diary and the diaries of his second wife, this comprehensive treatment of Wagner's anti-Semitism is the first to place it in perspective with his life and work. Included in the text are portions of unpublished letters exchanged between Wagner and Hermann Levi. Altogether, the book reveals astonishing complexities in a man long known as much for his prejudice as for his epic contributions to opera.

Author : Daniel C. Harlow
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802866255
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The "Other" in Second Temple Judaism written by Daniel C. Harlow and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a conference held Apr. 4-5, 2008 at Amherst College.

Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judaism in Music written by Richard Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 : 9780464900054
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judaism in Music written by Richard Wagner and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous "Ring" Trilogy composer Richard Wagner argues in this essay that Jewish involvement in European culture always had a negative and distorting impact. Jews, Wagner wrote, did not have the European "folkish soul" required to create genuinely European art, and, as a result, were only imitators who crassly deformed all that they produced. As a result, he said, all art-be it musical or otherwise-from Jewish sources was always shallow and a mockery of true art. Along the way, he discusses the Jewish type, and their broader influence in society. First published in 1850, "Judaism in Music" created a storm which forever earned him the hatred of the Jewish lobby in Germany and elsewhere. Originally issued under a pseudonym, Wagner republished the book in 1869, along with a supplement, under his own name. In the supplement, Wagner discusses the reaction to the original essay's publication, and goes on to discuss how the Jews controlled the major newspapers and theaters of his day, and how the media turned against him after the 1850 essay saw the light of day. This edition also contains Wagner's 1878 essay "What is German," which contains further remarks on Jewish activities within Germany.

Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781684183074
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judaism in Music written by Richard Wagner and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous "Ring" Trilogy composer Richard Wagner's anti-Jewish tract in which he argues that Jewish involvement in European culture always had a negative and distorting impact. Along the way, he discusses the Jewish type, and their broader influence in society.

Author : Gillian Rose
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786630907
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judaism and Modernity written by Gillian Rose and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reinterpretation of thinkers from Benjamin and Rosenzweig to Simone Weil and Derrida Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays challenges the philosophical presentation of Judaism as the sublime ‘other’ of modernity. Here, Gillian Rose develops a philosophical alternative to deconstruction and post-modernism by critically re-engaging the social and political issues at stake in every reconstruction.