Israeli orchestra performs Wagner in Germany

26 July 2011 Last updated at 20:51 ET Help

The Israeli Chamber Orchestra has broken a taboo by performing a work by the German composer, Richard Wagner, on German soil for the first time.

Wagner's anti-Semitic views led to his work being widely shunned in Israel.

The BBC's Jonathan Josephs reports.

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