"[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." —
"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.")
