Sgt. Mordechai Shenvald, 34, of Israel's Defense Forces (IDF), was one of the performers at a Jerusalem Theatre concert on July 7, 2024 — and played the "Theme from Schindler’s List" on the restored ...

WARSAW, Poland – The Polish city of Czestochowa is renaming its orchestra to honor a native son: Bronislaw Huberman, a Polish-Jewish violin virtuoso who helped save hundreds of German Jews from the ...

A musical instrument known as the violin of hope, which was made during World War II, has revealed a long buried secret after art dealers discovered a handwritten message left inside by its maker ...

The FBI returned the rare 300-year-old Stradivarius to the Totenberg daughters 35 years after it was stolen from their father. Jewish violin virtuoso Roman Totenberg enjoyed a long life, making it to ...

The sounds of a Jewish violin that survived the Holocaust moved audiences at two sold out performances of the concert Unsilenced, that took place recently at Nova Southeastern University’s Alvin ...

A filmmaker with a faltering career receives a grant to make a documentary about his father, a famous Jewish author and therapist for Holocaust survivors. When the discovery of a mysterious violin ...

In the death camps and ghettos of Nazi Germany, prisoners performed orchestral works as others were being beaten or led to their deaths. Most of them are now gone, but nearly 100 of their instruments ...

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Here's a look at the past. Items have been culled from The Chronicle's archives of 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago. May 13: A vandal slashed and virtually ruined five abstract paintings by Mark Rothko on ...

(JTA) — “The Song of Names” is a heartwarming film about a Jewish violin virtuoso who renounces his faith in the aftermath of the Holocaust, only to rediscover it when he hears a song of remembrance.

“Do you believe in the literal truth of the resurrection of Jesus Christ?” We had just tuned our instruments, the way we did at the beginning of every lesson, when my violin teacher abruptly asked me ...