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As for Klingsor, although it may be untrue that Wagner specified that he be dressed as a rabbi in stage, he fits the role perfectly in that he attempts to corrupt the knights by weaponizing sex, as they do.
>If “Heldentum” is an ex planation of “Parsifal,” and Gutman believes that it is, it then follows that the opera is an allegory. Gutman's thesis, which has aroused something of a storm in Wagnerian scholarship, is that “Parsifal” is “an allegory of the Aryan's fall and redemption.” *Klingsor represented the Jews and the Jesuits, Wagner told his wife;*
https://www.nytimes.com/1970/11/08/archives/music-what-was-parsifal-what-was-parsifal-up-to.html