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How 3 Jewish refugees from the Nazis built Iceland’s classical music scene from scratch

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By Jenna Gottlieb
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REYKJAVIK, Iceland (JTA) — This city in the autumn of 1935 was a small fishing port of corrugated-iron houses battered by high winds, cod trawlers idling in the harbor, and geothermal steam curling up from hot springs that would one day heat the whole city. Fewer than 30,000 people lived there. There was no concert hall, no real orchestra, and no conservatory worth the name. Onto this isolated island, in late 1935, stepped a 22-year-old pianist from Berlin named Robert Abraham.
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How 3 Jewish refugees from the Nazis built Iceland’s classical music scene from scratch

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By Jenna Gottlieb
| The Times of Israel Verified
Closed borders and antisemitism made the country’s musical genesis story all the more unlikely, but as a newly translated book shows, perseverance and luck helped make history See more Times of Israel on Google - add us as a Preferred Source Victor Urbancic conducts a makeshift orchestra in Reykjavik, Iceland, sometime after World War II.
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How three Jewish refugees from the Nazis built Iceland’s classical music scene from scratch

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By Jenna Gottlieb
| Jewish Report -(South Africa) Verified
Victor Urbancic conducts a makeshift orchestra in Reykjavik, Iceland, sometime after World War II. (Courtesy Árni Heimir Ingólfsson) JTA – Reykjavik in the autumn of 1935 was a small fishing port of corrugated-iron houses battered by high winds, cod trawlers idling in the harbour, and geothermal steam curling up from hot springs that would one day heat the whole city. Fewer than 30 000 people lived there. There was no concert hall, no real orchestra, and no conservatory worth the name.
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