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9780195149746
Sposato offers a revisionist account of Mendelssohn's relationship to his Jewish roots. He challenges the notion that the composer's identity was strongly informed by a sense of Jewishness & argues that for much of his career Mendelssohn consciously attempted to distance himself from his Jewish heritage.Sposato, Jeffrey S. is the author of 'Price of Assimilation Felix Mendelssohn and the Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitic Tradition', published 2005 under ISBN 9780195149746 and ISBN 0195149742.
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