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648 Notes, June 2019 Based on Their Musical
05_907-146_BkRevs_pp637-687 4/22/19 7:32 AM Page 648 648 Notes, June 2019 based on their musical traditions. For baroque language and references with- example, he describes the music of out cluttering the text of the translation “heathens” thus: “For just as they had itself. no true knowledge of God in that they Kimberly Beck Hieb did not recognize the Trinity in God, West Texas A&M University they also could not recognize the har- monic triad, for they did not consider the third to be a consonance, even Sara Levy’s World: Gender, Judaism, though harmony without the addition and the Bach Tradition in Enlighten - of the third is quite deficient and in- ment Berlin. Edited by Rebecca Cypess complete, yea, even lifeless” (p. 83). and Nancy Sinkoff. (Eastman Studies Finally, Werckmeister wishes to con- in Music.) Rochester, NY: University of firm the subordinate position of linear Rochester Press, 2018. [x, 292 p. ISBN staff notation in relation to its superior 9781580469210 (hardcover), $99.00.] counterpart, German organ tablature. Illustrations, music examples, appen- He spends several chapters denigrating dices, bibliography, index, online au- the linear staff system, pointing to the dio files. inconvenience of having to read all the different clefs and the confusing This well-written, insightful, interdis- process of adding sharps and flats to ciplinary, and excellent work is an ef- pitches, which to him suggests unneces- fort to explore the facets of Sara Levy’s sary chromatic semitones. The new and complex world and in so doing bring practical equal temperament tuning is that remarkable woman from the mar- central to Werckmeister’s argument gins of intellectual and cultural history. -
The New Reform Temple of Berlin: Christian Music and Jewish Identity During the Haskalah
THE NEW REFORM TEMPLE OF BERLIN: CHRISTIAN MUSIC AND JEWISH IDENTITY DURING THE HASKALAH Samuel Teeple A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate College of Bowling Green State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF MUSIC August 2018 Committee: Arne Spohr, Advisor Eftychia Papanikolaou © 2018 Samuel Teeple All Rights Reserved iii ABSTRACT Arne Spohr, Advisor During the first decades of the nineteenth century, Israel Jacobson (1768-1828) created a radically new service that drew upon forms of worship most commonly associated with the Protestant faith. After finding inspiration as a student in the ideas of the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment, Jacobson became committed to revitalizing and modernizing Judaism. Musically, Jacobson’s service was characterized by its use of songs modeled after Lutheran chorales that were sung by the congregation, organ accompaniment, choral singing, and the elimination of the traditional music of the synagogue, a custom that had developed over more than a millennium. The music of the service worked in conjunction with Protestant-style sermons, the use of both German and Hebrew, and the church- and salon-like environments in which Jacobson’s services were held. The music, liturgy, and ceremonial of this new mode of worship demonstrated an affinity with German Protestantism and bourgeois cultural values while also maintaining Judaism’s core beliefs and morals. In this thesis, I argue that Jacobson’s musical agenda enabled a new realization of German-Jewish identity among wealthy, acculturated Jews. Drawing upon contemporary reports, letters, musical collections, and similar sources, I place the music of Reform within its wider historical, political, and social context within the well-documented services at the Jacobstempel in Seesen and the New Reform Temple in Berlin. -
JEWISH WOMEN of the BERLIN SALONS the Berlin Salons Which
1 JEWISH WOMEN OF THE BERLIN SALONS The Berlin salons which developed in the late eighteenth century owed both their existence and the form of their development to Jewish women. These early salons were the result of a unique interrelation between the German enlightenment and Haskalah on the one hand and, on the other, young, educated Jewish women from well-to-do families, who were searching for a new role in life outside the patriarchal structures of their families. These salons have variously been criticized as a symptom of failing Jewish tradition or welcomed as a phenomenon of emancipation and acculturation. Whatever one’s attitude, their importance as highlights of the salon culture and for the process of women’s emancipation in Germany cannot be denied. While in Paris by the mid-eighteenth century, salons had become a traditional social institution and even bourgeois ladies had advanced to be salonnières, Berlin society, in comparison, was very old-fashioned. The social classes remained strictly separated (with a very exclusive, but largely poor aristocracy at the top); Jews were discriminated against by Prussian law and socially stigmatized. It took a long time for an educated middle class to develop, especially as there was no university in Berlin until 1810. Middle-class women were not supposed to engage in cultural activities, but only in their religious and household duties. The rich but small Jewish upper class in Berlin had a protected status in exchange for their financial and economic services to the crown. Their lifestyle after the end of the Seven Years’ War (1763) became aristocratic. -
Der Leere Blütenkranz a Critical Reading of Dorothea Schlegel’S Florentin
Der leere Blütenkranz A critical reading of Dorothea Schlegel’s Florentin Elliot Sturdy Ämne: Litteraturvetenskap Nivå: Magisteruppsats Poäng: 30 hp Ventilerad: VT 2016 Handledare: Björn Sundberg Examinator: Paula Henrikson Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen Uppsatser inom litteraturvetenskap Schöne Welt, wo bist du? – Kehre wieder, Holdes Blütenalter der Natur! Ach! nur in dem Feenland der Lieder Lebt noch deine goldne Spur. Ausgestorben trauert das Gefilde, Keine Gottheit zeigt sich meinem Blick, Ach! von jenem lebenwarmen Bilde Blieb nur das Gerippe mir zurück. Friedrich Schiller, Die Götter Griechenlands (1788). Image: Georges de la Tour, The Penitent Magdalen (1640) Contents Introduction ......................................................................... 1 Theoretical Background ...................................................... 3 Hegel on German Romanticism ........................................... 10 Previous Reception and Research ........................................ 23 Desire and Romantic Subjectivity ....................................... 27 On Form and Spirit .............................................................. 47 Conclusion ........................................................................... 75 Appendix ............................................................................. 79 Bibliography ........................................................................ 82 Introduction1 [57] Wenn manche mystische Kunstliebhaber, welche jede Kritik für Zergliederung, und jede Zergliederung -
Hannah Arendt's Shared Destiny with Rahel Varnhagen
Hannah Arendt’s Shared Destiny with Rahel Varnhagen Hannah Arendt’s Shared Destiny with Rahel Varnhagen Donald J.Goldstein, Henley-Putnam University, San Jose, California, USA "All my life I considered myself Rahel and nothing else."1 ---Hannah Arendt Hannah Arendt was one of the most formidable philosophers and political commentators of the twentieth century. She left behind an enormous corpus of books that cover the range of topics of ontology, epistemology, political theory, linguistic analysis and historiography. She ignited debates that still rage on the Holocaust, civil rights, the ideal human life and the future of humankind. She was a Jew by birth and a Zionist by vocation, yet her writings transcend both characterizations. Arendt never renounced her Judaism, although she was entirely secular and distanced herself from her origins, not in rejection, but in an attempt to become an authentic actor/intellectual in the modern world. In an exchange of letters with her dissertation adviser, Karl Jaspers, Arendt explained: She was not trying to reify the “fate of Jews” by rooting Rahel in determinism of social condition and inheritance. Her work, instead, was a “preliminary” effort to indicate that a “certain possibility” which she “tentatively” called “fatefulness,” emerges in the process of conscious distancing from Jewish identity in order to recapture it more fully. It is the historical givenness of the Jewish people, which can be objectified so that it can be understood and reappropriated. This fatefulness . can occur only in a separation from Judaism.... An objectification is in fact there in a certain sense, but not an objectification of Jewish experience .. -
Jewish Emancipation, Religious Individualisation, and Metropolitan Integration: a Case Study on Moses Mendelssohn and Moritz Lazarus
Sabine Sander Jewish emancipation, religious individualisation, and metropolitan integration: a case study on Moses Mendelssohn and Moritz Lazarus Beginning as a representation of the cosmos, a means of bringing heaven down to earth, the city became a symbol of the possible. (Mumford 1961, 31) Space, places and the topic of Bodenlosigkeit (homelessness, also bottomlessness) were always privileged topics in the reflections of Jewish scholars and artists – unsurprisingly, given the precarious ‘diasporic existence’ of the Jews, bonded by shared history and a shared destiny. The cities in Western Europe which had grown, prospered and served as vessels for economic, social and cultural crystal- lisation since the middle of the eighteenth century held out a particular promise for immigrant Jews. They offered them hope that they would be able to escape the physically cramped conditions and the intellectual narrowness of their shtetls and emancipate themselves step by step from the strictures of religion and tradi- tion, taking on a double identity as Jews and as Germans in the process. The path taken ‘out of the Ghetto’ (Katz 1973) by European Jews between 1750 and 1850 is closely interlinked with the emergence and development of the modern metropo- lis and with the processes of religious individualisation. The metropolis as a real and as a symbolic place creates an urban community made up of people from different social classes, professions, and geographical regions. In the light of the fact that metropolises were grasped as symbolic proxies of Utopia from an early stage onwards, it is startling that so little attention has been paid to the relationship between religious individualisation, Jewish eman- cipation, and metropolitan integration since the Haskalah. -
Ideal Sociability Friedrich Schleiermacher and the Ambivalence of Extrasocial Spaces
Ideal Sociability Friedrich Schleiermacher and the Ambivalence of Extrasocial Spaces William Rasch The Berlin salons of the 1790s have often been seen as idyllic places, almost as if they had transcended their physical locality and brought their participants to a realm in which normal social constraints and accepted segregations simply ceased to exist. Conducted predomi- nantly by well-educated and intellectually active Jewish women such as Henriette Herz and Rahel Levin, these social gatherings brought together men and women, Jews and Christians, aristocrats and com- moners in a setting where normal social conventions could be sus- pended, at least temporarily.1 Here, young, cultivated women of the emerging Jewish middle class could converse with their male, Gentile counterparts as well as with more adventurous members of the nobil- ity. Therefore, uncommon friendships could develop, such as those between Herz and brothers Alexander and Wilhem von Humboldt or between Herz and young philosopher and theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher. Moreover, if Cupid and fate happened to converge, the temporary suspensions of class and religious difference could also lead to more intimate unions, such as the affair and eventual marriage between young Friedrich Schlegel and Herz’s childhood friend, Dorothea Veit,2 for the salon served not only as a momentary respite from the affairs of business, state, and household but also as a site of illicit romance, legitimate courtship, and, perhaps most unlikely of all, lasting friendships between men and women. I will highlight this last category. Though most people at that time considered nonromantic friendships between the sexes to be impossible, Schleiermacher not only testi‹ed privately and publicly3 to its possibility, referring to his 319 320 Gender in Transition “nonpassionate” relationship with Herz, but also used male-female communicative interaction as a basis for theorizing a utopic sociability (Geselligkeit) that ironically could be found only outside of society. -
The Intersection of Gender, Religion, and Culture in Nineteenth-Century
THE INTERSECTION OF GENDER, RELIGION, AND CULTURE IN NINETEENTH‐ CENTURY GERMANIC SALONS Jennifer Lauren Psujek A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate College of Bowling Green State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF MUSIC August: 2010 Committee: Mary Natvig, Advisor Eftychia Papanikolaou ii ABSTRACT Mary Natvig, Advisor Modern salons began as gatherings for conversation among the French aristocracy in the seventeenth century. By the eighteenth century it had become a bourgeois tradition, with its importance cumulating in the French Revolution. The French salon moved to Germany and Austria in the late eighteenth century, however, its heyday in those lands was in the nineteenth century. The salon became a place where women in both France and the Germanic lands could gain an education and power. What has yet to be discussed in scholarship is the extent to which the salon in the Germanic lands moved away from its French roots and Became its own unique tradition. First, purely musical salons began during the Biedermeier period, as will be seen when examining the German salons of Sara Levy, Amalie Beer, Lea Mendelssohn, Fanny Mendelssohn‐Hensel, and Clara Wieck‐Schumann. Second, Germany and Austria saw the first salons hosted by Jewish women. This thesis highlights those of Henriette Herz, Rahel Levin‐Varnhagen, Fanny von Arnstein, Sara Levy, Amalie Beer, Lea Mendelssohn, Fanny Mendelssohn‐Hensel, Berta Zuckerkandl, and Salka Viertel. Finally, to demonstrate the benefits of Germanic salon culture, the last chapter focuses on Johanna Kinkel’s involvement with the Berlin salon tradition. Kinkel was a composer, writer, and political activist. -
Henriette Herz Und Louis Baruch, Jeanette Wohl Und Ludwig Börne. In: Ludwig Börne 1786–1837
Bibliographie - Henriette Herz Altenhofer, Norbert: Henriette Herz und Louis Baruch, Jeanette Wohl und Ludwig Börne. In: Ludwig Börne 1786–1837. Hrsg. von Alfred Estermann. Frankfurt a. M. 1986, S. 211–221. Altenhofer, Norbert: „Der Geist des Weibes soll Blüten tragen und nicht Früchte“. Börnes Beziehung zu Henriette Herz und Jeanette Wohl. In: Jahrbuch. Archiv Bibliographia Judaica 2 (1990), H. 3, S. 141–155. Arendt, Hannah: Rahel Varnhagen. The Life of a Jewess. Baltimore [u. a.] 1997. Awerbuch, Marianne u. Stefi Jersch-Jenzel (Hrsg.): Bild und Selbstbild der Juden Berlins zwischen Aufklärung und Romantik. Beiträge zu einer Tagung. Berlin 1992 (Einzelveröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission zu Berlin Bd. 75). Balet, Leo u. Eberhard Rebling: Die Verbürgerlichung der deutschen Kunst, Literatur und Musik im 18. Jahrhundert. Hrsg. und eingel. von Gert Mattenklott. Wien u. Frankfurt a. M. 1973. Barner, Wilfried: Von Rahel Varnhagen bis Friedrich Gundolf. Juden als deutsche Goethe- Verehrer. Göttingen 1992. Becker-Cantarino, Barbara: Die „andere Akademie“. Juden, Frauen und Berliner literarische Gesellschaften 1770–1806. In: Europäische Sozietätsbewegung und demokratische Tradition. Die europäischen Akademien der frühen Neuzeit zwischen Frührenaissance und Spätaufklärung. Hrsg. von Klaus Garber. Tübingen 1996, S. 1478–1505. Becker-Cantarino, Barbara: Schriftstellerinnen der Romantik. Epoche – Werke – Wirkung. München 2000. Berghahn, Klaus L.: Gesellige Assimilation. Die jüdischen Salons in Berlin 1780–1806. In: Ablehnung – Duldung – Anerkennung. Toleranz in den Niederlanden und in Deutschland. Ein historischer und aktueller Vergleich. Hrsg. von Renate Loos, Horst Lademacher u. Simon Groenveld. Münster 2004 (Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur Nordwesteuropas Bd. 9), S. 380–399. Bilski, Emily D. u. Emily Braun: The Romance of Emancipation. -
The Origins of the Modern Jews: by Michael A. Meyer
THE ORIGINS OF THE MODERN JEWS: JEWISH IDENTITY AND EUROPEAN CULTURE IN GERMANY, 1749- 1824, BY MICHAEL A. MEYER, (Wayne State University Press ; Detroit, 1967), 249pp. $ 8.50. DESPITE THE ABUNDANCE OF MATERIAL written about it, the Berlin Haskalah still remains a puzzling topic, attracting the attention of scholars both here and in Israel. No doubt there are quite a number of questions that have not been answered concerning the Berlin Haskalah; yet it seems that some essential questions have not even been asked. It is heartening, therefore, to read a thorough study such as Michael A. Meyer's. "This historical study," to state Meyer's objective, "presents an ana lysis of the question of Jewish identity as it manifested itself initially within German Jewry. My central concern has been to probe the reactions of individual Jews . .. to the circumstance of their Jewishness. Thus I continually applied a single question to a wide variety of source materials: What does being a Jew mean to this individual?" (pp. 8-9). To Mendelssohn being a Jew meant, as Meyer points out, an almost complete adherence to the Jewish law. Mendelssohn attempted a syn thesis between Judaism and the philosophy of the Enlightenment in order to show the compatibility of the former with the philosophy of reason. To Friedlander, being a Jew meant an adherence to the ideas and ideals of natural, universal religion as found in the original sources of ancient Israel. To lose his identity as a Jew was not an unacceptable proposition to Friedlander as long as the elements of natural religion remained intact. -
Powerful Women: an Analysis of Dorothea Schlegel's
POWERFUL WOMEN: AN ANALYSIS OF DOROTHEA SCHLEGEL’S FLORENTIN by KATHERINE SNOW (Under the Direction of Marjanne Goozé) ABSTRACT The purpose of this thesis is to examine the roles of female characters in Dorothea Schlegel’s Florentin. Dorothea Schlegel, who exhibited feminist behavior in her own life, created a strongly feminist work. The critical responses for Florentin explore the novel from many different approaches, including biographical, intertextual, genre, historical, and feminist. None of the previous literature examines the female characters in Florentin topically or determines the amount of power female characters hold as this thesis does. First, there is a review of Friedrich Schlegel’s novel, Lucinde, because Dorothea Schlegel wrote Florentin as a response to Lucinde. A chronological report of the critical response to Florentin follows. Finally, the thesis analyses the text of Florentin, concentrating on the female characters and their authority. Index Words: Dorothea Veit, Dorothea Schlegel, Dorothea Veit-Schlegel, Dorothea Mendelssohn, Florentin, Clementina, and Eleonora POWERFUL WOMEN: AN ANALYSIS OF DOROTHEA SCHLEGEL’S FLORENTIN by KATHERINE SNOW B.S., Furman University, 2005 A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of The University of Georgia in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTERS OF ARTS ATHENS, GEORGIA 2007 © 2007 Katherine Snow All Rights Reserved POWERFUL WOMEN: AN ANALYSIS OF DOROTHEA SCHLEGEL’S FLORENTIN by KATHERINE SNOW Major Professor: Marjanne Goozé Committee: Martin Kagel Alexander Sager Electronic Version Approved: Maureen Grasso Dean of the Graduate School The University of Georgia December 2007 DEDICATION This is for strong women, for strong characters. I dedicate this thesis to the two women in my life who inspire me the most: my mother and Virginia. -
Guide to the Immanuel Bekker Papers 1806-1853
University of Chicago Library Guide to the Immanuel Bekker Papers 1806-1853 © 2006 University of Chicago Library Table of Contents Descriptive Summary 3 Information on Use 3 Access 3 Digital Images 3 Citation 4 Biographical Note 4 Scope Note 6 Related Resources 7 Subject Headings 7 INVENTORY 7 Descriptive Summary Identifier ICU.SPCL.BEKKER Title Bekker, Immanuel. Papers Date 1806-1853 Size 0.5 linear feet (1 box) Repository Special Collections Research Center University of Chicago Library 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A. Abstract Immanuel Bekker (1785-1871) Philologist. The Papers consist entirely of correspondence addressed to Bekker. Some are semi-official communications (Niebuhr, W.V.Humboldt); many are of a scholarly nature, occasionally with extensive Greek quotations. Those written by Bekker's closer intimates are often typical of the need felt in the Romantic era to open one's heart to a friend, while a few are no more than short invitations (Reimer). The letters cover the period 1806 to 1853. Information on Use Access The collection is open for research. Digital Images Original documents, texts, and images represented by digital images linked to this finding aid are subject to U. S. copyright law. It is the user's sole responsibility to secure any necessary copyright permission to reproduce or publish documents, texts, and images from any holders of rights in the original materials. The University of Chicago Library, in its capacity as owner of the physical property represented by the digital images linked to this finding aid, encourages the use of these materials for educational and scholarly purposes.