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    May 30, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Israeli musicians plan to break Richard Wagner taboo

    A classical music event in Israel is expected to break the country's taboo on performing the music of Richard Wagner, the 19th century German composer and a well-known anti-Semite.
    A classical music event in Israel is expected to break the country's taboo on performing the music of Richard Wagner, the 19th century German composer and a well-known anti-Semite. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported this week that the event,...

    Tags: Israel, Arturo Toscanini, Tel Aviv (Israel), Daniel Barenboim, Music

    2. Jun 6, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Richard Wagner performance canceled in Israel amid dispute

    A planned performance of the music of Richard Wagner in Israel has been abruptly canceled following an apparent disagreement between the presenter and Tel Aviv University, which was supposed to host the event. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports the...

    Tags: Israel, Colleges and Universities, Tel Aviv (Israel), Education, Arts and Culture

    3. Dec 11, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Book review: 'Jerusalem' by Simon Sebag Montefiore

    Simon Sebag Montefiore's epic survey of Jerusalem's sanguinary history does not inspire confidence in the civilizing qualities of religion. The pile of corpses accumulated over millenniums from the persecutions both perpetrated and endured by all three of the faiths — Christianity, Islam and Judaism — that have contended for Jerusalem would surely be high enough to reach the celestial home of any one of them. Not that politicians come off any better than believers here. Anyone frustrated by the intractable stalemate in the contemporary Middle East peace process may take grim comfort from the knowledge that Jerusalem has been a flash point for global warfare since the time of the Egyptian pharaohs: "the desire and prize of empires," as Montefiore puts it, "yet of no strategic value."
    Special to Tribune Newspapers
    Simon Sebag Montefiore's epic survey of Jerusalem's sanguinary history does not inspire confidence in the civilizing qualities of religion. The pile of corpses accumulated over millenniums from the persecutions both perpetrated and endured by all three of...

    Tags: David Ben-Gurion, Israel, Religious Conflicts, Religion and Belief, Islam

    4. Feb 1, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  4. Q & A: How a fancy Austrian ball stirred worry about neo-Nazis

    World Now
    In Austria last week, protesters condemned a fancy ball that has been linked to extremists and neo-Nazis. The ball happens annually, but it caused extra uproar last week because it dovetailed with worldwide commemorations of the Holocaust....
    5. Dec 13, 2011 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  5. Kinsley: Middle East states of mind

    In November 1947, shortly after the United Nations voted for partition of the Holy Land into separate Arab and Jewish states, Chaim Weizmann was cited by the New York Times as saying that "the most important work now was to build Palestine."
    In November 1947, shortly after the United Nations voted for partition of the Holy Land into separate Arab and Jewish states, Chaim Weizmann was cited by the New York Times as saying that "the most important work now was to build Palestine." What? To...

    Tags: Palestinian Liberation Organization, Religious Conflicts, Israel, Culture, Religion and Belief

    6. Apr 17, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Book review: 'Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World,' by James Carroll

    Jerusalem, Jerusalem
    Special to the Los Angeles Times
    Jerusalem, Jerusalem How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World James Carroll Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 418 pp., $28 James Carroll's latest book is very ambitious. Invoking history, anthropology, social psychology, geography and theology, the...

    Tags: Religious Conflicts, Israel, Peace Corps, James Carroll, Islam

    7. Feb 7, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. No denying Wagner's complexity and divisiveness: L.A. talks again

    Among the copious anecdotes that <a href="http://hungary56.bard.edu/participants/LeonBotstein.shtml">Leon Botstein</a> likes to relate about Richard Wagner and his ugly anti-Jewish views is an ironic one involving Zionist Movement founder <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Herzl"> Theodor Herzl</a>.
    Among the copious anecdotes that Leon Botstein likes to relate about Richard Wagner and his ugly anti-Jewish views is an ironic one involving Zionist Movement founder Theodor Herzl. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Wagner and the Ring Festival: An...

    Tags: Franz Liszt, University of Chicago, Colleges and Universities, Karl Marx, Massacres

    8. May 2, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  8. Beverly Hills renames street to honor famed Zionist

    L.A. NOW
    Beverly Hills on Sunday will formally rename a street in honor of Theodor Herzl, considered a founder of Zionism. The 300 block of North Clark Drive, in front of the Temple Emanuel, will now be known as Herzl Way. The......
    9. May 16, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Critic's Notebook: L.A. gets an in-depth look at complex and contradictory Wagner

    By now you've probably gathered that Richard Wagner was opera's great maker of epics, with the singular ability to rouse emotions, amass followers and incite enmity. He was mythmaker, and he was mythologized. His operas are massive pageants of humanity,...

    Tags: Joan Crawford, University of Cambridge, James Joyce, Arts, Germany

    10. May 27, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Amos Elon dies at 82; provocative writer examined the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

    Amos Elon, whose critical explorations of Jewish history and the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict made him one of the most distinguished and provocative Israeli authors of his time, died Monday in Italy, his home for the last five years. He was 82.
    Amos Elon, whose critical explorations of Jewish history and the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict made him one of the most distinguished and provocative Israeli authors of his time, died Monday in Italy, his home for the last five years. He was...

    Tags: Religious Conflicts, Culture, Washington (U.S. state), Civil Unrest, Adolf Hitler

    11. Feb 16, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  11. Zionism, anti-Semitism, Richard Wagner and ... George Eliot?

    Culture Monster
    What could Richard Wagner, Karl Marx and British novelist George Eliot possibly have had in common relating to issues of what Marx referred to as "the Jewish question"? An attentive reader asked for some elaboration on that point after reading......
    12. Dec 21, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Tel Aviv: A modern city in an ancient land

    I expected to be transformed by my first visit to Israel, and especially Jerusalem, the cradle of three faiths, a traveler's Holy Grail. But when I returned to Rome for Christmas, I was surprised to realize that what I remember most is not ancient,...

    Tags: David Ben-Gurion, Disasters and Accidents, Politics, Civil Unrest, Migration

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