Music From A Broken Violin

By Tikvah Feinstein

Subjects: music, Ohio River, Biography, kosher, Czechoslovakia, biblical, Palestine, river boat, Michigan, syphilis, spirituality, Allegheny County, conflict, Families, betrayal, Washington County, Holocaust, Esplen, Family, World War II, Childhood and youth, Sweden, disease, flood, childhood, romance, Hebrew, violin, Jerusalem, Freedom, biography, Pittsburgh, 1950s, United States, prophet, obsession, family, Germony, Sudeten, Judaism, perversion, Christianity, rabbi, secrets, altar, Pennsylvania, Elco HIll, Europe, childhood sexual assault, Authors, Beaver County, adultery, 1940s, United Israel World Union

Description: A gripping memoir written in literary style, as in Roots, that brings to life the author's parents and their parents and places them in the historically accurate, critical era of pre-Holocaust Europe to post World War II in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Secrets are revealed in a shocking, rich, honest and authentic story of love, betrayal, survival and, finally, hope in the form of music from a broken violin. Tikvah reveals the unusual circumstances of her beginnings and her life as a child in an impoverished family.