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Winner of the Otto Kinkeldey Award for the most distinguished book in musicology published in 2011 given by the American Musicological Society. Otto Kinkeldey Award
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Ruth HaCohen's Music Libel Against the Jews is the winner of the 2012 Polonsky First Prize in the research category for creativity and originality in the humanistic disciplines. The Polonsky Prizes are given to faculty at The Hebrew University. American Musicological Society
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Shortlisted for the 2012 Academy of Religion Book Awards in the Historical Study of Religion category. Polonsky Prize - Hebrew University
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“This book is path-breaking in the construct of its subject, brilliant in its theoretical framework, and original in its insight and use of diverse avenues of historical inquiry--music history, the history of anti-Semitism, the history of Jewish thought, and the interrelationship between politics and culture.”—Leon Botstein, President of Bard College Leon Botstein, President of Bard College
Synopsis
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 and#8220;musical libel"and#8212;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 and#8220;harmonious musicality.and#8221;
About the Author
Ruth HaCohen is Arthur Rubinsteinand#160;Professor of Musicology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.