Word: kulturbund
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...Steinberg found his dismissal notice scrawled on the blackboard of the Frankfurt Opera House. All about him were other Jewish musicians discharged from opera and symphony orchestras. Steinberg organized the best of them into a Jüdische Kulturbund orchestra, which he conducted for two years before Jewish audiences...
When the Nazis ordered the Kulturbund to perform only in secluded synagogues, Steinberg took its best musicians to Palestine, where he and Polish Violinist Bronislaw Hubermann formed the Palestine Symphony Orchestra. Hubermann invited Arturo Toscanini to conduct the first public concert in Tel Aviv. Toscanini listened to a few well-rehearsed bars, nodded his approval and mumbled: "Molto bene [very good...
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