Michael Fassbender on “Shame,” sadism, playing a Jewish supervillain and why he’s not in therapy

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on December 6, 2011

Keira Knightley on (early 20th Century) Jews and Aryans in Love

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on November 26, 2011

The genesis of psychoanalysis [VIDEO]

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on November 23, 2011

For many Jews, it’s a hate-love relationship with the anti-Semitic composer

By Rick Schultz
Published on April 6, 2010

“Amoral, hedonistic, selfish, virulently racist, arrogant, filled with gospels of the superman ... and the superiority of the German race, he stands for all that is unpleasant in human character,” The New York Times music critic Harold Schonberg wrote about Richard Wagner in “The Lives of the Great Composers.”

Let Wagner Be Heard?

Published on August 26, 2009

Why is it I simply cannot condone the presentation and celebration of Richard Wagner’s “Ring Cycle” in Los Angeles, arriving with much fanfare this coming spring?

Wagner Soap Opera

By Eric Silver
Published on July 12, 2001

It was meant to be the "not Wagner" concert: Daniel Barenboim, the pride of Israeli music-lovers, conducting his Berlin orchestra, the Staatskapelle, on the last night of this year's Israel Festival. Little did we know.

Israel’s Wagner Taboo

By Larry Derfner
Published on May 17, 2001

After strenuous protests by Holocaust survivor groups, backed by virtually the entire Israeli political spectrum, the decision was taken last week to look for an alternative to the Wagner concert that had been scheduled for this summer's Israel Festival, the country's annual international cultural showcase.