Music From A Broken Violin: A Memoir by Tikvah Feinstein

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.

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

People: David Horowitz,  Adolf Hitler (1889-1945),  Moses Guibbory,  Tikvah Feinstein,  Ruth Gregg,  Rudy Dobsch

Places: Pittsburgh,  Europe,  Esplen,  Elco Hill,  Freedom,  Michigan,  Ohio,  Jerusalem,  Palestine,  Pennsylvania,  Sweden,  Sudeten,  Germany,  Czechoslovakia

Times: 1944-1953 Post World War II United States,  early 1900s Europe and Washington County,  PA