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Author Djerassi, Carl

Title Four Jews on Parnassus : a conversation : Benjamin, Adorno, Scholem, Schönberg / Carl Djerassi ; illustrations by Gabriele Seethaler
Published New York : Columbia University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 203 pages) : illustrations (some color), music
Contents Four men -- Four wives -- One angel (by Paul Klee) -- Four Jews -- Benjamin's grip
Summary Theodor W. Adorno was the prototypical German Jewish non-Jew, Walter Benjamin vacillated between German Jew and Jewish German, Gershom Scholem was a committed Zionist, and Arnold Schönberg converted to Protestantism for professional reasons but later returned to Judaism. Carl Djerassi, himself a refugee from Hitler's Austria, dramatizes a dialogue between these four men in which they discuss fraternity, religious identity, and legacy as well as reveal aspects of their lives-notably their relations with their wives-that many have ignored, underemphasized, or misrepresented. The desi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Subject Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Drama
Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969 -- Drama
Scholem, Gershom, 1897-1982 -- Drama
Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951 -- Drama
SUBJECT Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969 fast
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 fast
Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951 fast
Scholem, Gershom, 1897-1982 fast
Subject Jewish philosophy -- Germany -- Drama
Imaginary conversations.
DRAMA -- American.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Jewish Studies.
Imaginary conversations
Jewish philosophy
SUBJECT Parnassus, Mount (Greece) -- Drama
Subject Germany
Greece -- Mount Parnassus
Genre/Form Drama
Form Electronic book
Author Seethaler, Gabriele
LC no. 2008021186
ISBN 9780231518307
0231518307
1322529531
9781322529530
023114654X
9780231146548