As the world edged into World War I, Huberman initially did not share the Zionist dream of separation instead, he believed fervently in the value of Jewish assimilation in European culture and espoused liberalism, anti-communism, social responsibility, and pan-Europeanism. In 1895, he received a rare Stradivarius violin from the emperor of Austria Franz Joseph, but he eventually grew to be depressive and miserably nervous. Enduring his “childhood denied,” he was performing onstage from an early age. Born to a hot-tempered tyrant in Silesia who pushed his son to become the musical prodigy he never could be, Huberman grew up practicing his violin constantly, forced to leave home at an early age to study in Warsaw and then Berlin.
A studied re-creation of the life of a Polish-born Jewish violinist who founded the Palestine Symphony Orchestra and saved hundreds of lives from the Nazis.įorged from filmmaker and concert pianist Aronson’s PBS documentary of the same name, this work presents a lively, episodic life of Bronislaw Huberman (1882-1947) in a dialogue-rich format that reads like fiction.
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