‘Эстрада’ Эмиля Метнера и пианисты ‘Шума Времени’ Осипа Мандельштама

This article is dedicated to a comparison of the images of two famous musicians, Josef Hofmann (of Jewish origin) and Jan Kubelik (of Czech origin), as they are reflected in Osip Mandel'shtam's memoir ‘The Noise of Time’ and in Emil Medtner's critical writings. It is demonstrated that the Russian poet of Jewish origin Mandel'shtam responded to anti-Semitic articles in Medtner's cycle ‘Estrada’, concerned with the role of Jewish virtuosos on the Russian concert stages at the turn of the century.