A Knight at the Opera: Heine, Wagner, Herzl, Peretz, and the Legacy of Der Tannhäuser
(Part of the Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies Series)
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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. In the original medieval myth, a...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1557536015
ISBN13:9781557536013
Release Date:August 2011
Publisher:Purdue University Press
Length:147 Pages
Weight:0.55 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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