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Document Details : Title: Natan Shaham's The Rosendorf Quartet Subtitle: A Microcosm of the German Jewish Experience Author(s): SHAVITSKY, Ziva Journal: Ancient Near Eastern Studies Volume: 35 Date: 1998 Pages: 135-144 DOI: 10.2143/ANES.35.0.525775 Abstract : The Rosendorf Quartet was published in 1987, and later translated by Dalya Bilu. Shaham returns to German Jewry after its depiction in his earlier novel First Person Plural (1968), that portrays the acclimatization of the German immigration into the kibbutz community. The Rosendorf Quartet deals with five exiled German immigrants from Berin, living in Tel Aviv in the 1930s. They are four musicians in the Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra who form a chamber music string quartet, and a German immigrant author. They need to reinvent culture in their land of exile and have to find a new definition of home. |
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