Amnon Weinstein
Israeli luthier
Amnon Weinstein (Hebrew: אמנון ויינשטיין; 21 July 1939 – 4 March 2024) was an Israeli luthier. He was the founder and promoter of the Violins-of-Hope Collection.
Early life
Amnon Weinstein was born in Tel Aviv during the Mandate era. He was married to the journalist Assaela Weinstein who was the daughter of Asael Bielski, one of the anti-Nazi Bielski partisans immortalized in the movie, Defiance.
Weinstein's father, Moshe Weinstein who was born in 1909 in Poland, had studied the violin at the conservatoire in Vilnius, Lithuania, which was a part of Poland at that time. He trained as a violin maker with Yaakov Zimmermann in Warsaw. In 1938 he emigrated to British Palestine and founded the luthier business of Weinstein in Tel Aviv. One of his first works was servicing the Palestine Symphony Orchestra that had just been created by Bronislaw Huberman. When the news of the persecution of the Jews in Germany reached Palestine, the musicians who had been fond of their German violins before, either broke them or burned them and some told Moshe that they would throw them away if he did not buy them. So Weinstein's father started to collect violins.
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