Richard Wagner and the Jews

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"The contradictions between Wagner's antipathy toward the amorphous entity "The Jews" and his genuine friendships with individual Jews are the subject of this book. Drawing on sources, including his autobiography and diary and the diaries of his second wife, this treatment of Wagner's anti-Semitism is the first to place it in perspective with his life and work"--Provided by publisher.;Zurich. The Asyl ; The fugitive ; Minna ; The Paris Jews ; The essay ; Tausig -- Paris and Vienna. The break with Minna -- Tristan und Isolde -- Tannhäuser in Paris ; Vienna ; Penury ; Biebrich on the Rhine ; The Vienna Jews ; Flight from creditors -- Munich. King Ludwig ; Cosima ; The first Tristan ; Exile from Munich -- Lucerne. Triebschen ; Die Meistersinger ; Cosima's diaries ; "Judaism in music" : the second publication ; Das Rheingold brouhaha ; The turn of Die Walküre ; Wagner and the French ; Death of Tausig -- Bayreuth I : the first festival ; Rubinstein and preparations for The Ring ; The scapegoats ; The first festival ; Neumann -- Bayreuth II : Levi and Neumann. The young Hermann Levi ; The Brahms-Levi friendship ; The breach with Brahms ; A study in malice ; Declining health : worsening temperament ; The strangest synagogue ; Distance from Porges, closeness to Rubinstein ; Neumann and the Berlin Ring ; Neumann and the traveling Wagner Opera Company -- Bayreuth III : the second festival. Levi and Parsifal ; Lichtenberg and the Knieses ; Wagnerphobia ; Glimpses of the other side ; The final days.