למה אין מוזיקה יהודית מקורית ???

Once such an essentialising logic is unleashed, the ironies entailed in this commonplace of German cultural criticism become virtually endless. Martin Heidegger's mammoth and engaged efforts to formulate the outlines of an authentic "German spirit" are well known - although his explicit linking of this with the "Jewish Question" is far less so. This becomes apparent in a letter (written to Viktor Schwoerer on 2nd October 1929) in which he states: " . . . what is at stake here is nothing less than the need to recognize without delay that we face a choice between sustaining our German intellectual life through a renewed infusion of genuine, native teachers and educators, or abandoning it once and for all to the growing Jewish influence — in both the wider and the narrower sense . . . ." But obviously the respective German and Jewish "spirits" possessed remarkable flexibility and protean qualities, at times within the same person. Thus while in 1929 Heidegger championed Eduard Baumgarten as the "great white hope of German intellectual life, a bulwark against the rising tide of Jewish influence", by 1933 he described him as "a Jewish protege". Clearly here was a casuistic tool of political , labelling that could easily boomerang against its user. Thus Erich Jaensch, a Nazi philosopher opposed to Heidegger, wrote in a report to the National-Socialist authorities that Heidegger obsessively indulged in the same "hairsplitting distinctions as Talmudic thought", a fact that inevitably attracted Jews to him. If Heidegger were to acquire influence, "our universities and intellectual life will favour those of Jewish stock... These people, even if the non-Aryan blood entered their family a long time ago, will invariably take up this hairsplitting nonsense with alacrity . . . their academic  careers will prosper accordingly, while our fine young Germans cannot compete because their minds are too healthy and they have too much common sense
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