12/26 | Premiere of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, 1936
Today in Yiddishkayt… December 26 75th Anniversary of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra Premiere In 1933, confronted with the mass discrimination against Jewish cultural figures and their eventual dismissal from all German institutions (and later from elsewhere in Europe), the Polish Jewish violin virtuoso, Bronisław Huberman conceived of the creation of a new orchestra. He recruited 75 great musicians from around Europe, brought them to Palestine to form what would become the Palestine Symphony Orchestra. Although an internationalist and rather anti-Zionist, Huberman resigned from...
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