Arnold Schoenberg: Language, Modernism and Jewish Identity

The essentials of the biographical narrative of Arnold Schoenberg’s idiosyncratic engagement with the fact of his Jewish identity, with the politics of anti-Semitism and Jewish nationalism, and with religion per se are reasonably familiar. 1 Schoenberg was born a Jew in Vienna in 1874. He converted to Protestantism in 1898 when he was 23. In 1933 at the age of 59, whilst living in exile in Paris, he returned officially to the Jewish community. From 1933 to his death in 1951 Schoenberg, both in public and in private, maintained a stance as a committed Jewish nationalist. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.