The Ring of Myths by Na'ama Sheffi

Author:Na'ama Sheffi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Published: 2013-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 On the place of cultural attributes as identifiers of Israeliness, see B. Kimmerling, The Invention and Decline of Israeliness: State, Society, and the Military (Berkeley, 2001), especially pp. 89–111, 173–207.

2 Zertal, Israel’s Holocaust, pp. 52–90.

3 Minutes of meeting of the public board of the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerusalem, 8 Jan. 1963, IPO Archives, internal affairs file.

4 Ibid.

5 U. Toeplitz, “On the Importance of Wagner,” IPO program, June, 1966.

6 Protocol of the meeting of the orchestra management, 3 June 1966, IPO Archives, internal affairs file.

7 Ibid.

8 B. Halevi to P. Rosen, telegram, 17 June 1966.

9 Minutes of the meeting of 3 June 1966.

10 The contents of this telegram were reported in a letter sent by an orchestra member, W. Levi, to the management chairman, Attorney H. Korngold, 10 June 1966, IPO Archives, Wagner and Strauss file.

11 Z. Mehta, lecture at the IPO guesthouse, June 1966 (exact date not noted), IPO Archives, Wagner and Strauss file.

12 “The Philharmonic Has Decided to Play Works by Wagner and Strauss [Hebrew],” Davar, 19 June 1966; “The Orchestra Will Play the Works of Wagner and Strauss [Hebrew],” and “First Column [Hebrew]” (editorial), Lamerhav, 19 June 1966; “Wagner und Richard Strauss wieder in IPO-Programm,” Jediot Hadashot, 19 June 1966; and “The Philharmonic Will Play Works by Wagner and Strauss Next Season [Hebrew],” Haaretz, 19 June 1966.

13 “The Philharmonic Has Decided to Perform Works by Wagner and Richard Strauss [Hebrew],” Maariv, 17 June 1966.

14 H. Korngold to editor of Maariv, 20 June 1966, IPO Archives, local press file.

15 On the process of forming diplomatic relations, see Vogel, The German Path, pp. 159–79.

16 A notable example of the Israelis’ continued opposition to Germany was the refusal by a Voice of Israel radio announcer, Yael Ben-Yehuda, to read a commercial for Volkswagen in February 1966. Ben-Yehuda described this incident in the television series Tkuma (“Resurrection”), in the episode “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: 1948–1966,” which was broadcast on the state television Channel 1 in the winter of 1998.

17 On the relationship established in the mid-1960s between the Social Democratic Party and Israeli politicians, see S. Shafir, An Outstretched Hand: German Social Democrats, Jews, and Israel 1945–1967 [Hebrew] (Tel Aviv, 1986), esp. pp. 195–6. On the warm relations with Willi Brandt and Helmut Schmidt, the future social democratic chancellor, see also the autobiography of the Israeli ambassador to Germany, Y. Meroz, In schwieriger Mission (Berlin, 1986). On Brandt’s attitude toward Jews, see W. Brandt, “Germany, Israel, and the Jews,” lecture delivered by the mayor of Berlin at the Theodor Herzl Institute in New York City, 19 March [1961], Berlin, 1961.

18 “The Orchestra’s Decision to Play Works by Wagner and Strauss to Be Reviewed [Hebrew],” Hatzofeh, 20 June 1966; “Visiting Conductors Opposed Ban on Wagner and Strauss,” The Jerusalem Post, 20 June 1966; and letter in response from H. Korngold to the editor of The Jerusalem Post, 22 June 1966, IPO Archives, local press file.

19 “‘Musical Education’ or Insensitivity [Hebrew],” Lamerhav, 20 June 1966.

20 “Nazification of the Orchestra of Shame [Hebrew],” Hayom, 20 June 1966.

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