The Price of Assimilation : Felix Mendelssohn and the Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitic Tradition.

Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. New Christians -- The Mendelssohns and the Synagogue -- Reinventing Mendelssohn -- Mendelssohn's Evolving Relationship with Judaism -- 2. The St. Matthew Passion Revival -- Judicious Cuts -- The St. Matthew Passion Chorales and the Berlin Hymn Tradition -- The St. Matthew Passion and the Theology of Friedrich Schleiermacher -- Other Performances of the St. Matthew Passion -- 3. Moses -- Christology, Anti-Semitism, and Moses -- Mendelssohn, Marx, and the Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitic Tradition -- 4. Paulus -- A Textual History of Paulus -- Paulus and the Influences of Carl Loewe, Louis Spohr, and Abraham Mendelssohn -- Paulus and Philo-Heathenism -- The Evolution of the Anti-Semitic Image in Paulus -- Lessons from Paulus: A Reevaluation of Die erste Walpurgisnacht -- 5. Elias -- A Textual History of Elias -- Christology in Elias -- The Jewish Image in Elias -- 6. Christus -- The Genesis of Christus -- The Jewish Image in Christus -- The Universality of Das Volk -- Conclusion: Matters of Perspective -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

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