Leah Garrett

A Knight at the Opera

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ISBN 13:
9781557536013
author:
Leah Garrett
format:
Paperback
publisher:
Purdue University Press
language:
English
Publication Year:
2011
Pages:
147
Dimensions:
5.90 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.40 (d)
Genre:
Historical Biography - General & Miscellaneous, General & Miscellaneous European Literature - Literary Criticism, Judaism - History, European Fiction & Literature Classics
Condition:
New
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£27.96

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A Knight at the Opera examines the role that the medieval legend Tannhäuser played in Jewish cultural life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book analyzes how three great Jewish thinkers, Heinrich Heine, Theodor Herzl, and I. L. Peretz, used this central myth to strengthen Jewish culture and attack anti-Semitism. Through its exploration of Tannhäuser's evolution from medieval knight to cultural icon, the book questions whether any art, even that of a prominent anti-Semite, should be considered taboo.

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