| #1420198 in Books | Grove Press | 1994-02-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.81 x5.51l,1.03 | File type: PDF | 368 pages | Great product!||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Customer|Beautiful!!!!!!|7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| A must read|By Gilead Jacobson|Displaced Jewish musicians from Germany, not suspeced of Zionism, find themselves in the ideologically zealous Palestine of 1937. With the prospects of going back to Germany becoming slimmer, and the fu|From Publishers Weekly|Israeli writer and dramatist Shaham uses a string quartet of German Jewish refugees playing in the Palestine of 1936-1938 as the vehicle for ruminations on Zionism and the creation of a uniquely Israeli culture, the nature of exile and the
Four German Jews , all refugees from Nazi Germany, and all first-rate musicians, arrive in Palestine in the 1930s. There they join a symphony orchestra, which although made up of Europeans serves as a propaganda vehicle for the Zionist state-in-the-making. Unable to express themselves within this melting-pot orchestra, they join together to form The Rosendorf Quartet. In this compelling and provocative novel, awarded Israel’s prestigious Bialik Prize for Liter...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Rosendorf Quartet | Nathan Shaham. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
