Re: Edward Said, Daniel BArenboim

[Alex J. Lubet <lubet001...>]

What makes their coverage of Jewish music a 'non-issue'?  What makes this
thread 'flailing'?

BTW, among those of us who do work around Wagner's anti-Semitism, Barenboim
has quite a reputation as an apologist.  In Israel (according to Naama
Sheffi, an Israeli historian who has an essay on Wagner in Israel in the book
I'm editing), he has a reputation for making a larger claim of Israeli
identity than he deserves and using it only to criticize Israel in ways that
even a leftist like my colleague Naama find disturbing.  I don't suppose this
negates this project with Said (there have been others), but it goes on the
balance with everything else, a lot of which doesn't provoke the senses in a
positive way.





Judith R Cohen wrote:

> Speaking of the New York Times (and truly, I think their coverage or
> non-coverage of Jewish music is pretty much a non-issue, though I expect
> it will be flailed about here for a while); anyway, speaking of the NYT,
> their obit of Edward Said
> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/25/obituaries/25CND-SAID.html?hp
>
> - like other obituaries I've seen so far - omits his  recent (1999)
> collaboration with Daniel Barenboim, creating an orchestra , The East
> West Divan, of talented young Israeli and Arab musicians. It was based
> in Seville this past year,  and received a lot of very POSITIVE
> attention in the Spansh press, in fact won the prestifious Prince of
> Asturias prize, at a time when coverage of anything Jewish was anything
> but positive. So, whatever else one feels about his writings and
> activities, I think this work with Barenboim was fantastic.
> among other places, read Barenboim and Said's comments at:
> http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/rad-green/2003-September/010061.html
>
> Judith
>

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