Watch me read about Shimon Krongold’s Violin, which along with a pre-war picture of Shimon holding the instrument is the only item of Shimon’s legacy that survived the Holocaust.

Watch me talk about Shimon Krongold’s Violin. After Shimon died during the Holocaust, a survivor brought the instrument to Shimon’s brother in Jerusalem. The violin and a picture of Shimon holding the instrument are the only items of Shimon’s legacy that survived the Holocaust.

An article I wrote for the Israeli music magazine Opus has received over 1,000 likes on Facebook!

The essay is an expanded version of the end of the prologue to “Violins of Hope.” You can read that prologue at http://www.harpercollins.com/9780062246837/violins-of-hope/web-sampler