Language:
Russian
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
Вестник Еврейского университета
Angaben zur Quelle:
23 (2001) 77-118
Keywords:
Mandel'shtam, Osip,
;
Wagner, Richard,
;
Antisemitism History 1500-
;
Jewish literature History and criticism
Abstract:
Examining Mandelshtam's autobiographical work "Shum vremeni" ("The Noise of Time", 1909), finds that some of its chapters are influenced by antisemitic writings popular in his time and by attempts to respond to them. Relates, in particular, to allusions to Wagner's "Judentum in der Musik" and to the article "Estrada" ("Musical Stage"), published in 1909 by the Russian German music critic Emil Medtner (under the pseudonym Volfing). Both Wagner and Medtner believed that German-Jewish musical synthesis, e.g. through Jews performing German musical works, was impossible. Mandelshtam disputed this thesis, referring, especially, to the same musicians (Jozef Hofman, etc.) against whom Medtner wrote. Influences of Otto Weininger and anti-antisemitic writings by Nordau and Buber may also be discerned in "The Noise of Time". Shows that the chapter "Judaean Chaos", in which Mandelshtam wrote degradingly about the synagogue and rabbi, described not an ordinary visit to a synagogue, but the ceremony of dedication of the St. Petersburg synagogue in 1893, at which the city's Jewish elite was present.
Note:
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