Music: Not by Hate

In Germany, Yehudi Menuhin had fiddled for an all Allied audience, and for an all German one. He had also played a charity concert with Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler, who has only recently been pronounced de-Nazified. But Yehudi wanted to play also for his own people.

At Tempelhof in Berlin, arrangements were made to seat 2,000 Jewish D.P.s. But when Yehudi showed up, he found only 600 in the audience. He demanded an investigation, learned that the camp paper at Dueppel Center had carried a long attack on him, signed by its editor, a man called Jonas of Lemberg:

"When I read of your...

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