The Palestine Orchestra was founded in Palestine in 1936 on the initiative of the Polish-Jewish violinist Bronisław Huberman (1882–1947). It was mainly comprised of musicians who had emigrated from the countries of Central and Eastern Europe after 1933. What connected them were the conventions, the norms, and the values of the musical world as they had emerged i…
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Ziemer, Hansjakob, “Palestine Orchestra”, in: Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture Online, Original German Language Edition: Enzyklopädie Jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur. Im Auftrag der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig herausgegeben von Dan Diner. © J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart/Springer-Verlag GmbH Deutschland 2011–2017. Consulted online on 30 May 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2468-8894_ejhc_COM_0615>
First published online: 2017
First print edition: 20210312
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