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A collection of essays, all of them published previously. "Neskonchayemaya spornost (Rikhard Vagner)" ["Endless Questionableness (Richard Wagner)"] (pp. 161-191) discusses, mainly, Wagner's antisemitism and his popularity in Nazi Germany. Notes that despite his ideas on Jewry, Wagner had good relations with actual Jews and many of them were his admirers. Paradoxically, he himself suffered from gossip regarding his Jewish origins and from antisemitic mockery and cartoons. Wagner was Hitler's favorite composer, but some other German composers (among them Beethoven and Johann Straus) enjoyed no less a following among the Nazis. Holds that the boycott of Wagner's music in Israel is hardly justifiable; Wagner cannot bear responsibility for the Nazis' affection for his music. Contends that music has no "program" and the views of the composer do not effect his works; musical works cannot be judged by the composer's ideology. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)