BBC uses antisemitic caricature in Proms programme
The official programme for the BBC’s flagship Proms summer music festival contained an antisemitic caricature. Leopold Auer was a famous Hungarian Jewish violinist to who numerous pieces of music were dedicated, including a piece by Tchaikovsky. The BBC Proms programme included Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto and to illustrate it, the BBC used a caricature of Auer […]