Jews and the Wagner problem.(Wagner: The Terrible Man and His Truthful Art)(Book Review)

Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought | January 1, 2004| | Copyright

Wagner: The Terrible Man and His Truthful Art. By M. OWEN LEE. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999

On May 31, 2001, as part of his musical contribution to the Israel Festival, Daniel Barenboim conducted the Berlin Staatskapelle Orchestra in a selection from the opera Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner. (1) A firestorm erupted. Ehud Olmert, the mayor of Jerusalem, characterized Barenboim's action as "brazen, arrogant, uncivilized, and insensitive." A lengthy article in an August issue of The New Yorker relates that, in Berlin, where Barenboim is conductor and ...

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