The instrument’s holders refuse to compensate the heirs of a Jewish music dealer, jeopardizing a system for restitution that has been in place for nearly two decades. By Catherine Hickley BERLIN — No ...

In the 1930s, as Hitler rose to power, tens of thousands of Jewish people fled Germany, and 13-year-old Eva Black was one of them. She escaped to the United States with few possessions, but one — her ...

Mittenwald, Germany, July 13, 1956: As violins hang in the window to dry after varnishing, another is worked on at the shop of Johann Reiter, one of the few masters of the trade left in a city whose ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This violin was made in ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This violin was made in Mittenwald, ...

NPR's Emily Harris reports from the Bavarian town of Mittenwald, where German craftsmen are continuing a centuries-old tradition of violin making. There's a bit of a feud going on between craftsmen ...

(JTA) — NEW YORK (Forward via JTA) — Joseph Feingold, a Holocaust survivor, architect and memoirist whose gift of music brought a unique friendship to a South Bronx community died April 15 of ...