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OverviewUnsettling Difference challenges the major-minor pattern that has framed discussions of German Jewish difference, focusing on instances that fall outside traditional understandings of minority culture. Exploring expressions of Jewish identity and difference in biblical-themed musical dramas and their literary sources, Adi Nester argues that the issue of Jewish difference should be treated as an aesthetic question in the first half of the twentieth century, even amid the rise of pseudoscientific theories about race and blood. Drawing on the fraught, parallel histories of opera and the modern reception of the Hebrew Bible in Germany, both significant in debates at the time about the nature of Jewish separateness, Unsettling Difference shows how this discourse troubles concepts of Jewish marginality and (non-Jewish) German dominance. Through innovative readings of key works in this tradition—Rudolf Borchardt's poem, Das Buch Joram; Paul Ben-Haim's oratorio, Joram; Arnold Schoenberg's opera, Moses und Aron; Joseph Roth's novel, Hiob; and Eric Zeisl's opera, Hiob—Nester shows how these biblical adaptations foreground alternative notions of difference that rely on confusion, ambiguity, radical heterogeneity, excess, and repetition. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Adi NesterPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library Weight: 0.907kg ISBN: 9781501779671ISBN 10: 1501779672 Pages: 277 Publication Date: 15 January 2025 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand ![]() We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsOn Jewish Difference, the Bible, and the Great Artwork 1. Rudolf Borchardt's Das Buch Joram and the Restoration of aBiblical Language 2. Opening the Work: The German Oratorio and Paul Ben-Haim'sJoram 3. Moses and Aron Representing the People 4. On Being Superfluous 5. Inorganic Quotations AfterwordReviewsAuthor InformationAdi Nester is Assistant Professor of German and Levine-Sklut Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |