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.

“I made this violin for my loyal friend Shimon Krongold,” which he signed and dated. Whatever type of music Krongold actually played, Weinstein said the Jewish star was characteristic of ...

In 2008, German Jewish violinist Liv Migdal was visiting Tel Aviv, participating in a project dedicated to the music of Paul Ben ... I played Ben-Haim’s Yizkor for Violin and Orchestra ...

Each violin has a story. Some made it through concentration camps, even when their owners did not. Others were hidden by musicians who never returned. One was thrown out the window of an ...

A Nuremberg-based foundation for music students was hoping to find descendants of Felix Hildesheimer of Speyer — a musical instrument dealer who bought the violin in 1938 and took his own life ...

Halévy's seminal work is the opera The Jewess (La Juive), which became one of the cornerstones of the French repertoire for a ...