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Re: Composing on Jewish themes

>-this tells, again and again about the hate/love relationship between 
> >German and Jews. The mutual fascination/repulsion thing... A German 
> >composer writting on a Jewish theme (Ravel did the same, and so did 
> >Shostakovitch, and who else?)


Prokofiev, for one, and many others.  Only w/ Prokofiev it was a love/love 
thing--a real philo-Semite.

--Robert Cohen


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