Seeing Is Understanding

From: The Jerusalem Report | Date: August 20, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

The Torah portion of Re'eh (Deuteronomy 11: 26-16:17) is read on Shabbat, August 11

Can we Jews be said to be a visual people? On top of declaring that music produced by Jewish composers was "sweet and tinkling without depth," Richard Wagner claimed in "Das Judenthum in der Musik" (1850) that Jews' sensory capacities did not allow them to produce visual artists. This attitude was absorbed by Martin Buber, who in his 1903 book on Jewish artists, "Juedische Kuenstler," wrote: "The Jew of antiquity was more of an aural being [Ohrenmensch] than a visual one [Augenmensch] and felt more in terms ...

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