Avshi Weinstein, a third-generation violinmaker, travels the world with violins that belonged to victims of the Holocaust.
Played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust, these instruments urge us to reflect on what binds us together rather than what divides us.
Jewish violin virtuoso Roman Totenberg enjoyed a long life, making it to the ripe old age of 101. But that wasn’t quite long enough to be reunited with the prized instrument that was stolen ...
Motele Schlein carried explosives hidden in his violin case. At 12 years old, he ignited the explosion which killed hundreds ...
Michael Guttman, a violin virtuoso and the curator of the POLIN Music Festival talks about Jewish music, the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the Eastern European roots of the tango.
He is universally hailed as one of the world's finest violinists, if not the greatest living string player in the world today. Born into a Jewish family with musical tradition Vengerov began learning ...
Jack Benny (February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974) was an American entertainer who evolved from a modest success playing the ...
Ben-Haim described his Yizkor (Poem for Violin and Orchestra, 1942) as a “composition dedicated to the memory of the dead, a requiem without words,” all the more poignant considering the growing ...
The choir will be joined by Jewish youth choir HaZamir Cleveland and accompanied by violinists Phaik Tzhi Chua and Abigail Hakel-Garcia, cellist Jane Leggiero, organist Natalie Mealey, harpist Anna ...