A Knight at the Opera: Heine, Wagner, Herzl, Peretz, and the Legacy of Der Tannhäuser

by Leah Garrett

A Knight at the Opera examines the remarkable and unknown role that the medieval legend (and Wagner opera) Tannh user played in Jewish cultural life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book analyzes how three of the greatest Jewish thinkers of that era, Heinrich Heine, Theodor Herzl, and I. L. Peretz, used this central myth of Germany to strengthen Jewish culture and to attack anti-Semitism. In the original medieval myth, a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557536015
• ISBN13: 9781557536013
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 147 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"