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Streicker Center: Violins and Hope Book Discussion with Daniel Levin

Join us for a book discussion with photographer Daniel Levin.

Violins and Hope: From the Holocaust to Symphony Hall is a photograph exhibition and a book by Cleveland, Ohio based photographer Daniel Levin. Levin was the first photographer to depict Amnon Weinstein’s workshop in Tel Aviv, where he lovingly has repaired dozens of violins that survived the Holocaust. Many of those violins are on view in the Bernard Museum until March 28, 2023.

Through hauntingly beautiful photographs and compelling text, Violin and Hope becomes both an artful rendering of a very special man and a revelation of the ethereal, as we see how Amnon fulfills his dream of transforming tragedy into triumph in the most incisive and powerful way imaginable: bringing violins of the Holocaust back to life.

Violins and Hope: From the Holocaust to Symphony Hall was awarded the gold medal in 2022 by the Independent Publishers National Book Awards in the category of “History – large format.”

Daniel Levin is a Cleveland Ohio based conceptual artist, documentarian, filmmaker, professor and award-winning author. He holds an MFA in Visual Art from the Vermont College of Fine Art and a BFA in Documentary Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he earned the Institute’s Purchase Prize.

Levin is currently working on a multi-year project entitled Kindness Repeated, a highly provocative series of high-resolution large-scale tableau self-portraits created across America that address unethical choices made by some contemporary elected officials who are oppressing their own populations. Without preaching and framed in beauty, each of the ten tableau photographs will reference the importance of knowing one’s history so that oppressive historical events are never repeated. History matters.

An In-Person Event.