| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 56 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound |
| Playing Time |
Playing time: 54 min. |
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In Process Record. |
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Title from title frames. |
| Event |
Originally produced by First Run Features in 2013. |
| Summary |
Richard Wagner was notoriously anti-Semitic, and his writings on the Jews were later embraced by Hitler and the Nazis. But many of Wagner's closest associates were Jews-- young musicians who became personally devoted to him, and provided crucial help to his career. Even as Wagner called for the elimination of the Jews from German life, many of his most active supporters were Jewish, as he himself noted with surprise. They included piano prodigy Carl Tausig; Hermann Levi, a rabbi's son who conducted the premiere of Wagner's 'Parsifal'; Angelo Neumann, who produced Wagner's works throughout Europe; and Joseph Rubinstein, a pianist who lived with the Wagner family for years and committed suicide when Wagner died. Filmed on location in Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, Wagner's Jews interweaves archival sources, visual re-enactments, interviews, and performances by Wagner's Jewish colleagues -- the first such performances on film. Parallel to the historical narrative, the film explores the ongoing controversy over performing Wagner's music in Israel. In a different form, the questions dividing Wagner's Jewish acquaintances still resonate today: is it possible to separate artworks from the hatreds of their creator? Can art transcend prejudice and bigotry, and the weight of history? |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In: English |
| Indexed Term |
Documentaries |
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German Studies |
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Jewish Studies |
| Added Author |
Warshaw, Hilan, filmmaker
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Kanopy (Firm)
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| Music No. |
1155511 Kanopy |
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