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by Ruth Hacohen


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This deeply imaginative and wide-ranging book shows how, since the first centuries of the Christian era, gentiles have associated Jews with noise. Ruth HaCohen focuses her study on a "musical libel"--a variation on the Passion story that recurs in various forms and cultures in which an innocent Christian boy is killed by a Jew in order to silence his "harmonious musicality." In paying close attention to how and where this libel surfaces, HaCohen covers a wide swath of western cultural history, showing how entrenched aesthetic-theological assumptions have persistently defined European culture and its internal moral and political orientations.

Ruth HaCohen combines in her comprehensive analysis the perspectives of musicology, literary criticism, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology, tracing the tensions between Jewish "noise" and idealized Christian "harmony" and their artistic manifestations from the high Middle Ages through Nazi Germany and beyond. She concludes her book with a passionate and moving argument for humanizing contemporary soundspaces.

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  • Title The Music Libel Against the Jews
  • Author Ruth Hacohen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 532
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn
  • Date 2013
  • ISBN 9780300194777 / 0300194773
  • Weight 1.69 lbs (0.77 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.32 x 6.1 x 1.11 in (23.67 x 15.49 x 2.82 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
  • Dewey Decimal Code 780.899

About the author

Ruth HaCohen is Arthur Rubinstein Professor of Musicology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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