Richard Wagner and the anti-semitic imagination - Marc A. Weiner

"Nobody in their right mind denies that Wagner was an anti-Semite, and a virulent one at that. But is there actual evidence of anti-Semitism in the works themselves? ... Weiner's brilliant book gathers the evidence more meticulously and comprehensively than any has done before, and is essential reading." - Barry Millington, "Opera". "A serious attempt to place Wagner's dramatic work into proper context both in the field of music and in the repertoire of antisemitic literature - and it deserves to be studied carefully." - Cecil Bloom, "Judaism Today". "A tremendous advance in the study of Wagner and the cultural influences that informed his work." - Hillary Hope Herzog, "Modern Language Notes." "An immensely informative cultural history." - "German Life". "Certainly the most important work on Wagner that I have read in the last decade. It opens up fresh approaches and is likely - no, certain - to have a major impact on Wagner studies as well as the history of antisemitic mentality." - Paul Lawrence Rose, author of "Wagner: Race, Revolution and Redemption." Marc A.;Weiner is a professor of Germanic studies and film studies at Indiana University and the author of "Undertones of Insurrection (Nebraska 1993)".