How Jewish Musicians Escaped Nazi Europe by Joining an Orchestra in Palestine

Providence | by Merv Islip | Volume 19, Issue 4 | July – August 2013

Over a decade before the State of Israel  was established, the Palestine Symphony  Orchestra gave its inaugural concert in Tel  Aviv on 26 December, 1936. With the Orchestra’s  first note a new era opened for the Jewish people,  and marked the start of their impact on the international  musi...