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Preface
Glossary of Political Parties
1 An End that Marked a Beginning
2 Legends, Tribes, and Anti-Semitism: Ideas
and Issues in Wagner’s Work
3 Racism, Music, and Power: The Nazification
of Wagner
4 Music, Politics, and Morality: The Beginning
of the Boycott in Palestine
5 Toward Germany, Away from Germans
6 The 1960s: An End to Forgetting – The Establishment
of Symbols
7 The 1970s: Political Furor, Musical Calm
8 The 1980s: Xenophobia and Overt Political
Intervention
9 The 1990s: The Last Round
10 Epilogue: The Commemoration of Wagner
in Israel – Problems and Puzzles
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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“Sheffi concludes that the choice of Wagner as the target for all their abhorrance of Nazism and the Holocaust ‘both sins against the man and obscures the significance of the Holocaust’.” Choice
“Does an excellent job of showing the historical evolution of the debate, and linking this to the political and ideological evolution of the State of Israel.” H-Net; H-Genocide
“The reception of German culture in general and Wagner’s music in particular is traced to show how the taboo developed alongside the collective memory of the Holocaust... For Sheffi, the dilemma around Wagner reflects the situation of the state of Israel as a whole... She takes the musical debate... and uses it as a mirror to reflect Israeli society today. [The book] shows a profound understanding of how Israeli society emerged and how it functions today.” The Jewish Quarterly Review |
