Hatikvah Israel National Anthem by Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Zubin Mehta conducting

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Hatikvah (“The Hope”), the Israel national anthem. Performed by Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Zubin Mehta conducting. Recorded with the Philharmonia Singers and The Ankor Children’s Choir on November 15, 2004. From the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra 70th Anniversary collection. Helicon Records, 2006.

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"[Huberman] stepped out in front with all of his stardom and fame…to show that the threat of Nazism would not destroy the cultural achievement of the Jewish people." —

Leon Botstein, president, Bard College

"One has to build a fist against anti-Semitism—a first class orchestra will be this fist." —

Bronislaw Huberman, Palestine Symphony Orchestra founder

"The seeds of culture that Huberman planted here, that he brought from Central Europe, we are reaping its rewards today." —

Zubin Mehta, music director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

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"I have a further story about another theft of this famous violin."—Leon Weintraub, Stockholm, Sweden
April 16, 2013
Leon Weintraub, originally from Lodz, Poland, shares a Bronislaw Huberman story from a book published in Warsaw in 1988. It recounts how a king of the underworld in Lodz, "Blind Maks," came to Huberman's aid when his Stradivarius violin disappeared there. (Click here to read more in Comments section of "The Stolen Stradivarius.")