Language:
German
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Jüdischer Almanach
Angaben zur Quelle:
1995 (1994) 104-120
Keywords:
Mahler, Gustav,
;
Jews Music
Abstract:
Discusses Mahler's suffering from the disability (as he saw it) of his Jewish origins. Not only did they hinder his advancement until he was baptized, he was also repelled by the Jews he saw, especially the Eastern European Jews. From Judaism and Christianity alike he fled to universalism. His works contain many Christian motifs (altered in accordance with this universalism) but no Jewish ones. Their Jewish character lies in the complexities and paradoxes, the clash of emotions, the criticism and tendency to parody, which express the situation of the isolated individual in mass society, the stranger and exile, the Jew.
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