Description
Book SynopsisJewish Difference and the Arts in Vienna explores how Jewish writers and composers sought, through their engagement with musical forms and styles, to capture Jewish voices and their dynamic expression of compassion and otherness.
Trade ReviewGiven the variety of artistic works examined, this will surely be useful to the likely graduate students who will use this work.
* Association of Jewish Libraries *
In her epilogue, Kita makes a convincing case for the continued need for compas- sionate art in our own time, as the works explored in this volume serve as testaments of the transformative potential of such art, ultimately "offering hope and comfort in our shared humanity" (166). In addition to serving as a valuable contribution to German Jewish studies, Jewish Difference and the Arts in Vienna offers a new framework for reading fin-de-siècle Viennese literature and culture and will thus be of interest to Germanists and musicologists alike.
* German Studies Review *
This book is a true testament to the idea that the musical notes on a page are the result of a human story. In this case, the human story behind the works of these composers is both complicated and compassionate in a variety of ways.
-- Karen L. Uslin - Rowan University * AJS Review *
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgements
Note on Translation
Introduction
1. A Case for Compassion: Siegfried Lipiner's Adam
2. Voicing Compassion: Gustav Mahler's Second and Third Symphonies
3. Polyphony as a Poetics of Compassion: Arnold Schoenberg's Die Jakobsleiter
4. Dialogues of Compassion: Richard Beer-Hofmann's Jaákobs Traum
5. Compassion as Communal Song: Stefan Zweig's Jeremias
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
