Abstract
An historical and cultural examination of the figure of the Wandering Jew provides a springboard for a reassessment of the impact of Richard Wagner's anti-Semitism on his music dramas. In the case of Der fliegende Holländer , an easy equation of the title character with the anti-Semitic legend of the Wandering Jew is problematic, given a Wagnerian counter discourse of self-identification and empathy with the figure. In the end, it is reductive to reduce any Wagnerian work to a single interpretation.
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