| A Knight at the Opera: Heine, Wagner, Herzl, Peretz, and the Legacy of Der Tannhäuser Contributor(s): Garrett, Leah (Author) |
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ISBN: 1557536015 ISBN-13: 9781557536013 Publisher: Purdue University Press OUR PRICE: $39.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German - Social Science | Jewish Studies - History | Europe - Medieval |
| Dewey: 830.935 |
| LCCN: 2011023379 |
| Series: Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.55 lbs) 147 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Religious Orientation - Jewish - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A Knight at the Opera examines the remarkable and unknown role that the medieval legend (and Wagner opera) Tannh user 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 Tannh user 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 Tannh user 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. |