| Contents |
Prophecy and solitude -- The quest for language: 'oh word ... that I lack' -- Creation, unity, and law -- Relevance and the future of opera: Arnold Schoenberg and Kurt Weill -- Dance on a volcano: Von heute auf morgen -- Unity and strength: the politics of Jewish survival -- The composer and the rabbi -- Prague and Jerusalem -- Faith and symbol -- Jewish music and a Jew's music -- Postscript, music, race and purity -- Appendix A. 'Arnold Schönberg, Prussian teacher of composition' / Alfred Heuss -- Appendix B. Der Biblische Weg, conclusion of Act I -- Appendix C. A Four-Point Program for Jewry / Arnold Schoenberg -- Appendix D. Arnold Schoenberg on the sacredness of art (letter to Oedon Partosh, Jerusalem). |
| Abstract |
Essays (most of them published previously) on the Biblical and Jewish aspects of Schoenberg's work and public activities. "Unity and Strength: The Politics of Jewish Survival" summarizes Schoenberg's involvement in Jewish policy in reaction to the Nazi rise to power. From 1933, he conceived and supported projects for the gradual emigration of the Jews from Germany. In his "Four-Point Program," completed in 1938 after his emigration to the U.S., Schoenberg pleaded for the creation of a United Jewish Party to fight for emigration and for an independent Jewish state. The struggle against antisemitism and the Jewish anti-Nazi boycott he considered inadequate and a waste of energy. "Postscript: Music, Race, and Purity," surveys the Nazi policy of Aryanization of German music institutions and the banning of Jewish composers. Appendix C reprints "A Four-Point Program for Jewry." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-252) and index. |
| LCCN | 89023030 |
| ISBN | 0193154668 : |
