Jewish Identities: Nationalism, Racism, and Utopianism in Twentieth-Century Music Volume 8

by Moricz Klara and Klara Moricz

Jewish Identities mounts a formidable challenge to prevailing essentialist assumptions about "Jewish music," which maintain that ethnic groups, nations, or religious communities possess an essence that must manifest itself in art created by members of that group. Kl?ra M?ricz scrutinizes concepts of Jewish identity and reorders ideas about twentieth-century "Jewish music" in three case studies: first, Russian Jewish composers of the first two...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520250885
• ISBN13: 9780520250888
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.1" x 6.3"