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The Price of Assimilation: Felix Mendelssohn and the Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitic Tradition Jeffrey Sposato
The Price of Assimilation: Felix Mendelssohn and the Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitic Tradition
Jeffrey Sposato
In The Price of Assimilation, Jeffrey Sposato offers a bold, revisionist account of Mendelssohn's relationship to his Jewish roots. Challenging the notion that Mendelssohn's identity was strongly informed by a sense of Jewishness, a view that came into currency after World War II, Sposato argues instead that for much of his career, Mendelssohn consciously attempted to distance himself from his Jewish heritage.
240 pages, 3 half tones, 20 line illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | December 18, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195386899 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 244 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 235 × 14 mm · 360 g |
| Language | English |