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Title: On target
Review: Weiner did a great job. wagnerites normally dismiss the allegations of anti-semitism, using the old hat about music as pure art. wagner is a proto-nazi and racist when writing, but a genial artist while composing. Weiner simply organizes a catalogue of music figures, showing their relation to the traditional images of the Jew in German and Slavic culture: the oriental, the black, the clubfoot, the strange and so on. He even makes the most embarassing question: is wagner heard today in spite of his proto-nazi musical ideas or because of them?
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