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Indeed, the composer had warm relationships with numerous individual Jews. Two of them resided frequently over extended periods in his home. One of these, the rabbi's son Hermann Levi, conducted Wagner's final opera--Parsifal, based on Christian legend--at Wagner's request; no one, Wagner declared, understood his work so well. Even in death his Jewish friends were by his side; two were among his twelve pallbearers.     The contradictions between Wagner's antipathy toward the amorphous entity \"The Jews\" and his genuine friendships with individual Jews are the subject of this book. Drawing on extensive sources in both German and English, including Wagner's autobiography and diary and the diaries of his second wife, this comprehensive treatment of Wagner's anti-Semitism is the first to place it in perspective with his life and work. Included in the text are portions of unpublished letters exchanged between Wagner and Hermann Levi. 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The books deal on the other hand with many facts about atoms, the tiny particles, which are the structural basis for all of the apparently solid objects we see every day all around us. Though those two subjects seem literally worlds apart and having nothing to do with each other, our two volumes show in great detail the possibility that they have everything to do with each other. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are many things about these tiny objects, though not well known by the general public. The potential significance of such inherent traits is unfortunately not grasped by many scientists. 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