Knight at the opera, a: heine, wagner, herzl, peretz and the legacy of 'den tannhauser'
Auteur :
Garrett, Leah
Éditeur :
Purdue University Press
ISBN :
9781557536013
Date de publication :
15 août 2011
Dimensions :
22,8 x 15,2 x 1,2 cm
Poids :
280 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Examines the remarkable and unknown role that the medieval legend (and Wagner opera) Tannhäuser played in Jewish cultural life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It analyses 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.