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© 2017, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107217 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007214 myfatherknewanythingabouthim.IthinkheleftPraguein’89.In1885, hewrote thatarticleandthenwent toPrague;hewasnotyetaprofessor, rather an außerordentlicher Professor.Hewas there until close to 1898, that’s the year,HeinrichRietsch (1860–1927), came in. So, this all hap- penedwhilemy fatherwasaroundtenyearsold.36 The JewishQuestion [BN]: IthinkithadmoretodowiththeJewishbackgroundandthefactthatmy fatherwasinterestedinsomeofthekindsofthingsthatAdlerwouldhave foundinteresting,thehistoryofinstrumentaldancemusicinViennaand so forth. Or maybe they just hit it off. On the other hand, my father describedAdler as, in someways,being ratherdifficult.Describinghim asbeingrabbinical,meaning–whatdoesrabbinicalmean?–dictatorial. PVB: Using scripture. BN: In any event, I lookedup someof the “biggies” among the immigrants who came to the United States among themusicologists, and not too many actually went to school inVienna.Morewent to Berlin andHei- delberg. PVB: Leipzig?Leipzignot somuch,butBerlinandHeidelberg. BN: There is, of course, one other person I shouldmention: IdaHalpern37 (1910–1987). I think shemay have been too young to be a student of Adler’spersonally,althoughI’mnotsure.SheworkedonsomeEuropean stuff.Shehadenoughofabroadviewofmusicology torealize thatwhen shecametoCanada,whereshelived,herbestbetmightbetogointosome kindofcomparativemusicology. PVB: Is sheoriginally fromAustria? BN: Yes, fromVienna. PVB: You raised the Jewish Question. Not Marx’s Jewish Question, but the AdlerianJewishQuestion.Diditplayarole?Ourdiscussionpreparations containmyobservationthatAdler’s JewishQuestionisnotaninfluenceI can find in Israel. BN: Oh,Adler’s influence.No. PVB: Either in the later connections, like the return of students like Bathja Bayer38 (1928–1995). 36 Guido Adler succeeded EdwardHanslick as Professor ofMusicology at the University of Vienna in1898. 37 IdaHalpernwasaCanadianethnomusicologistofAustrianheritage. She studied largely at theUniversityofVienna,whereshewasastudentofGuidoAdler.ShefledAustriatoescape Nazism,travelingfirsttoShanghai.HerrecordingsofandwritingsonFirstNationsmusicin Canadaarewidely influential. 38 BathjaBayerwasanIsraelimusicologistwhosefamilyemigratedfromGermanytoJerusalem PhilipV.Bohlman/BrunoNettl214 Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0