Yale Journal of Music & Religion Volume 6 Number 2 Sound and Secularity Article 2 2020 Assimilating to Art-Religion: Jewish Secularity and Edgar Zilsel’s Geniereligion (1918) Abigail Fine University of Oregon Follow this and additional works at: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/yjmr Part of the Cultural History Commons, German Language and Literature Commons, Jewish Studies Commons, Musicology Commons, and the Other Religion Commons Recommended Citation Fine, Abigail (2020) "Assimilating to Art-Religion: Jewish Secularity and Edgar Zilsel’s Geniereligion (1918)," Yale Journal of Music & Religion: Vol. 6: No. 2, Article 2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17132/2377-231X.1169 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by EliScholar – A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at Yale. It has been accepted for inclusion in Yale Journal of Music & Religion by an authorized editor of EliScholar – A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at Yale. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Assimilating to Art-Religion: Jewish Secularity and Edgar Zilsel’s Geniereligion (1918) Cover Page Footnote I wish to thank August Sheehy and Margarethe Adams for organizing the symposium that was the impetus for this project. This article was greatly enriched by incisive commentary from three anonymous reviewers who engaged with the work in detail. I am further indebted to Roy Chan for his thoughtful comments on a draft of this article. This article is available in Yale Journal of Music & Religion: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/yjmr/vol6/iss2/2 Assimilating to Art-Religion Jewish Secularity and Edgar Zilsel’s Geniereligion (1918) Abigail Fine After fleeing the Nazis, many European From its first pages, Zilsel’s treatise set Jewish and Marxist scholars were fortunate out to destroy the Geniereligion—that is, the to find a new sense of belonging abroad, at parareligious cults of veneration that form institutions like the New School for Social around artists, scientists, pedagogues, and Research in New York City or among the other secular figures.