Unsettling Difference: Music Drama, the Bible, and the Critique of German Jewish Identity

by Adi Nester

Unsettling 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501779680
• ISBN13: 9781501779688
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher