Amnon Weinstein, an Israeli master luthier (violin maker), began a
project more than years ago that may be one of the most creative,
effective, and magnificent approaches to education on the topic of
the Holocaust. Trained by three of the most revered Cremona,
Italian luthiers of the twentieth century, Weinstein's vision was
to restore violins that survived the concentration camps and the
ghettos, even when their owners often did not. To date, more than
seventy violins have been restored to their highest playable
condition. Following restoration, these hauntingly beautiful
instruments have been used in performances by symphonies in Berlin,
Cleveland, Istanbul, London, Quebec, Paris, San Francisco, and many
other cities across the world. Purposefully, Weinstein makes
certain that young musicians as well as members of some of the
world's most famed orchestras perform on them to packed concert
halls. In doing so, it's as if the past owners of the instruments
return to fill the listener-observer's mind and body. In Violins
and Hope, Daniel Levin has made the most compelling and beautiful
series of photographs documenting Weinstein's collection of
violins, his workshop in Tel Aviv, and his processes for
restoration. This book is not a document of place, as much as it is
a document of the ethereal. For what Weinstein has done with these
lost violins has been to transform tragic loss into triumph in the
most inciteful and powerful way imaginable. The care that Levin has
taken to hone in on the idiosyncrasies of Amnon's workshop, and his
uncanny ability to celebrate the beauty of light, is nothing short
of remarkable. The book's foreword is written by arguably the most
well-suited individual anywhere. Born in Austria, Franz
Welser-Moest is one of the most acclaimed conductors of the
twenty-first century. He has been Music Director of the Cleveland
Orchestra since 2002, and, under his direction, The Cleveland, as
it has been fondly named by The New York Times, has had twenty
international tours, with shimmering reviews. All too aware of his
ancestry, Welser-Moest takes on our mutual history as no one else
could. And the book concludes with Levin's interview with Assi
Weinstein, Amnon's wife, who talks about the Violins of Hope
project and its enduring legacy.
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