Hermann Levi’s split loyalties in the Dreyfus affair
OperaThe Wagnerian conductor visited Paris in the 1890s to catch up with family and frinds.
A new essay by Susanne Reber on the Mannheim Levi site, shows that Levin’s nephew, Gaston Moch, was a close friend of the imprisoned Alfred Dreyfus. On the other side his cousin’s brother-in-law, General Charles Arthur Gonse, was deputy chief of staff and a leader of the military conspiracy against the innocent Jewish officer.
How did Levi, who objected to Wagner’s anti-semitism, deal with these family splits?
Read the essay here.
Peter Gay has a very interesting study of Hermann Levi. You can find it in his “Freud, Jews and Other Germans.”
Merci to you for a very interesting article and to Google for the translation 🙂
this is a pdf file; the link is at the bottom of the website.
The essay is at the very bottom of a list of footnotes and related links.
Does the essay have a title?
The above link just goes to a web 1.0 page with a zillion other links, all in German.