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12. Josef Koller, Das Wiener Volkssängertum in alter und neuer Zeit. Nacherzähltes und Selb-
sterlebtes (Vienna: Gerlach and Wiedling, 1931), 8.
13. For more on “Judenlisi,” see IWE 77 (19 March 1903): 12.
14. Gertraud Pressler, “Jüdisches und Antisemitisches in der Wiener Volksunterhaltung,”
Musicologica Austriaca 17 (1998): 78.
15. If this is true, historians who do not adhere to an essentialist interpretation of Jewishness
must ask whether they can reference the artists listed in this register within the frame-
work of a study of Jews in popular culture. How did their Jewishness manifest itself to
legitimize such an approach? Did they identify with Jewish culture or religion, or did
they show special solidarity with the Jewish community? Perhaps they were indiff
erent or
even hostile to Judaism? Did they perceive themselves as Jewish artists? For more on this
controversial point, see Ernst H. Gombrich, Jüdische Identität und jüdisches Schicksal:
Eine Diskussionsbemerkung (Vienna: Passagen, 1997).
16. Th
eophil Stengel and Herbert Gerigk’s Lexikon der Juden in der Musik: mit einem Titel-
verzeichnis jüdischer Werke (Berlin: B. Hahnefeld, 1940) serves as an important reference
source.
17. For more on Emanuel Müller’s activities as the artistic director of the Halls of Nestroy
(Nestroy-Säle), see chapter 2.
18. “Ein totgesagter und ein wirklich gestorbener Volkssänger,” Die Bühne 2, no. 13 (5 Feb-
ruary 1925): 35.
19. Koller, Volkssängertum, 96.
20. Ernst Weber, “Die Wienermusik der Jahrhundertwende bis 1914,” in Wien: Musikge-
schichte I (Volksmusik und Wienerlied), ed. Elisabeth Th
. Fritz and Helmut Kretschmer
(Vienna: LIT, 2006), 260.
21. Pressler, “Jüdisches,” 63–82. Th
e author provided personal confi
rmation that she works
from the assumption that Kriebaum was Jewish.
22. See Felix Czeike, Historisches Lexikon Wien, vol. 3 (Vienna: Kremayr & Scheriau, 1994),
614.
23. Hans Pemmer, “Volkssänger F. Kriebaum 50 Jahre tot,” Wiener Zeitung 166 (20 July
1950): 5. My own inquiries at the Vienna Israelite (Jewish) Community as well as an in-
dependent search of records of past conversions have not produced any contrary results.
24. On this, see Eddy Portnoy, “Superman Is a Glatt Goy,” Marginalia Review of Books,
https://marginalia.lareviewofbooks.org/superman-is-a-glatt-goy/ (accessed 12 January
2019). A particularly illustrative example of this phenomenon appeared on 3 November
2016 in Forward magazine. In it, the author of the article attempts to demonstrate that
the Swedish pop group ABBA has a special closeness to Judaism, expressed, among other
things, in the group’s name (Hebrew for “father”). See Seth Rogovoy, “Th e Secret Jewish
History of Abba,” Forward, 3 November 2016, http://forward.com/culture/353049/
the-secret-jewish-history-of-abba/?utm_content=culture_Newsletter_MainList_Title_P
osition-1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Automated%
20Culture%202016-11-05&utm_term=Arts (accessed 12 January 2019).
25. Andrew Ross, No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture (New York: Routledge, 1989),
231.
26. See Amalie Kraftner, “Von der Budapester Orpheum-Gesellschaft,” Oesterreichische Wo-
chenschrift [OW in subsequent citations] 1 (6 January 1899): 9.
27. IWE 42 (12 February 1907): 6.
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Entangled Entertainers
Jews and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
- Titel
- Entangled Entertainers
- Untertitel
- Jews and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
- Autor
- Klaus Hödl
- Verlag
- Berghahn Books
- Datum
- 2019
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-1-78920-031-7
- Abmessungen
- 14.86 x 23.2 cm
- Seiten
- 196
- Kategorien
- Geschichte Vor 1918
- International
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction 1
- 1. Jews in Viennese Popular Culture around 1900 as Research Topic 13
- 2. Jewish Volkssänger and Musical Performers in Vienna around 1900 44
- 3. Jewishness and the Viennese Volkssänger 78
- 4. Jewish Spaces of Retreat at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 121
- 5. From Difference to Similarity 148
- Conclusion 163
- Bibliography 166
- Index 179