{"product_id":"unsettling-difference-adi-nester-9781501779671","title":"Unsettling Difference: Music Drama, the Bible, and the Critique of German Jewish Identity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnsettling Difference \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003echallenges the major-minor pattern that has framed discussions of German Jewish difference, focusing on instances that fall outside traditional understandings of minority culture. \u003c\/b\u003eExploring 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 amidst the rise of pseudo-scientific theories about race and blood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the fraught and 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, \u003ci\u003eUnsettling Difference\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eDas Buch Joram\u003c\/i\u003e; Paul Ben-Heim's oratorio, \u003ci\u003eJoram\u003c\/i\u003e; Arnold Schoenberg's opera, \u003ci\u003eMoses und Aron\u003c\/i\u003e; Joseph Roth's novel, \u003ci\u003eHiob\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eJob\u003c\/i\u003e); and Eric Zeisl's opera, \u003ci\u003eHiob\u003c\/i\u003e--Nester shows how these biblical adaptations foreground alternative notions of difference that rely on confusion, ambiguity, radical heterogeneity, excess, and repetition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adi Nester\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501779672\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501779671\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Adi Nester","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45897864151295,"sku":"9781501779671","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e6685d0e-9197-476d-9f93-8a4c59dbaa75.jpg?v=1721374937","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unsettling-difference-adi-nester-9781501779671","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}