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Violinist Bronislaw Huberman performed for nearly his entire life. These Bronislaw Huberman photos include archival photographs from Palestine Symphony Orchestra performances as well as re-enactment stills from the film, Orchestra of Exiles, premiering Sunday, April 14 at 10 pm on PBS (check local listings).

Bronislaw Huberman in later years. He died in 1947 in Switzerland. Photo courtesy of the Felicja Blumental Music Center Library/Huberman Archive.

Bronislaw Huberman, Arturo Toscanini, and German conductor William Steinberg. Photo courtesy the Felicja Blumental Music Center Library/Huberman Archive.

Bronislaw Huberman was famous for his right hand. Photo Courtesy of the Felicja Blumental Music Center Library/Huberman Archive

Arturo Toscanini and Bronislaw Huberman in Tel Aviv in December 1936. Photo courtesy of the Felicja Blumental Music Center Library/The Bronislaw Huberman Archives

Arturo Toscanini and Bronislaw Huberman at the first Palestine Symphony concert in Tel Aviv in December 1936. Courtesy of the Felicja Blumental Music Center Library/Huberman Archive.

Bronislaw Huberman as a young boy. By nine he moved away from his family, but with his father, to Berlin to study. Photo courtesy of the Felicja Blumental Music Center Library/Huberman Archive.

Bronislaw Huberman standing, with violin. Courtesy of the Murray S. Katz Photo Archives of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

Young Bronislaw Huberman at the height of his career. Photo courtesy the Murray S. Katz Photo Archives of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

Bronislaw Huberman. Photo courtesy of the National Austrian Archives.

Bronislaw Huberman as a youth. Photo courtesy of the National Austrian Archives.

Renactment of Bronislaw Huberman filling Palestine Symphony Orchestra slots. Film still from Orchestra of Exiles.

Bronislaw Huberman (played by Thomas Kornmann) holds a blind audition in Poland for the Palestine Symphony, assisted by Jacob Surowicz (Wolfgang Ronfeldt). Photo by Irina Dabo.
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"[Huberman] stepped out in front with all of his stardom and fameā¦to show that the threat of Nazism would not destroy the cultural achievement of the Jewish people." —
"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." —
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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Discussion & Comments
"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.")
"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.")