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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jewish resistance groups which continue to oper ate in Palestine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz, Mar. 3, 1947 | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

Berlin alone has four opera houses, two of which (the Stadtische Oper and the Staatsoper) are open the year round. At a conservative estimate they produce about ten times as much opera per annum as is seen at the Metropolitan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Continent In Travail: EUROPE'S LIFE: (Sergeant's Report) | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...later years, Wagner was one of Germany's prime anti-Semites. He wrote Das Judenthum in der Musik (Judaism in Music), in Oper und Drama attacked a Jewish composer-Giacomo Meyerbeer (born Jakob Beer, of a Berlin banking family). But in the 18405, his letters now reveal, Wagner licked Jewish boots and liked it. Meyerbeer, whose brassy, spectacular operas influenced Wagner's early work, was a power not only in Berlin but in Paris, whose musical tastes he formed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wagner, Bootlicker | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

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