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How does Paul Johnson explain the rise of Jewish composers in the 20th century?
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Paul Johnson explains the rise of Jewish composers in the 20th century by saying that the feeling of cultural outrage was much more important than anti-Semitism as such; or rather, it turned into anti-Semites, at any rate for the moment, people who normally never expressed such feelings. It was he Jew-as-Iconoclast which aroused the really deep rage. Mahler had begun it; Schönberg carried it on; both were Jews, and they corrupted young A