James A Grymes - Violins Of Hope - 2014 [EN]

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"Violins of Hope by James A. Grymes" is a Fiction > General Fiction/Classics title in English, distributed as a EPUB file (0.9 MB). Written by James A. Grymes. The book spans approximately 229 pages with 73,429 words. A stirring testament to the strength of the human spirit and the power of music, Violins of Hope tells the remarkable stories of violins played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust, and the Israeli violin maker dedicated to bringing these inspirational instruments back to life. The violin has formed an important aspect of Jewish culture for centuries, both as a popular instrument with classical Jewish musicians—Jascha Heifetz, Yehudi Menuhin, Itzhak Perlman—and also a central factor of social life as part of the enduring Klezmer tradition. But during the Holocaust, the violin assumed ex...

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CategoryBooks

LanguageEnglish (EN)

GenreNonfiction, History

QualityEPUB

Size0.9 MB

Pages229

ArchivedAug 4, 2026

Synopsis

Moshe was a violinist, a violin teacher, and a violin repairman. Since there were no suitable violin teachers in Brest-Litovsk, Moshe traveled to Vilna, a Lithuanian city that was a capital of Jewish culture. There Moshe attended the same conservatory that Vilna native and violin virtuoso Jascha Heifetz had attended just a few years earlier. Their four hundred relatives remained behind in Europe. Knowing that he would not be able to make a living as a violinist in Palestine, Moshe decided to bec