How Three Holocaust Era Jewish Refugees Built Iceland’s Classical Music Scene From Scratch

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How three Holocaust era Jewish refugees built Iceland’s classical music scene from scratch

Iceland’s prime minister closed the borders to Jews, but three men who slipped in changed the country’s history.

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

(JTA) — REYKJAVIK, Iceland —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…

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

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