Father-and-son luthiers (violin makers) Amnon and Avshalom Weinstein, Israeli co-founders of Violins of Hope, brought their traveling collection of instruments retrieved and restored from the ...

Diedra Lukoff went to the Hilbert Art Museum in Orange last week for lack of any other plans on a sweltering afternoon. She expected a good time, a respite from the heat amid the gallery’s cheerful ...

A poignant reminder of the Jewish musicians who played before, during and after the Holocaust has arrived in Orange County, along with 60 of the stringed instruments they played. The “Violins of Hope” ...

(AP) When a musician plays a violin long enough, the instrument is imprinted with its owner’s way of making sound. If someone else picks it up, they learn to play it in a way that honors its history.

A new exhibition that opened Nov. 5 at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee is called 'Violins of Hope: Strings of Jewish Resistance and Resilience,' but seeing these 24 instruments - each of which has some ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Sixteen violins used by Jewish Holocaust victims -- including an instrument whose case was used to smuggle explosives that blew up a Nazi base -- will be played Wednesday in a ...