Joe's Violin Explained

Joe's Violin is a 2016 American short documentary film directed by Kahane Cooperman, and produced by Kahane Cooperman and Raphaela Neihausen, that follows a moment in the life of a Polish survivor of the Holocaust from the time he decides to drop off his 70-year-old violin during a local instrument drive through the violin's acquisition by a new owner, a 12-year-old girl from the Bronx, and recounts how the experience changes both their lives.

Cast

• Joe Feingold – as himself. Holocaust survivor.^[1]
• Regina Feingold
• Brianna Perez – as herself. School girl.
• Kathleen Drohan

Reception

The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on 14 April 2016.^{[2] [3]}

Awards

• 2017: Academy Awards Best Documentary Short Subject – Nominated^{[4] [5]}

External links

• Official website
  • Joe's Violin at The New Yorker
• Joe's Violin on Kickstarter

Notes and References

1. News: Joseph Feingold, survivor and documentary subject, dies at 97. Grisar. 17 April 2020. P. J.. The Forward. en-US. 22 April 2020. Joseph Feingold, a Holocaust survivor, architect and memoirist whose gift of music brought a unique friendship to a South Bronx community died April 15 of pneumonia and COVID-19. He was 97. Jozef Fajngold was born to socialist parents on March 23, 1923 in Warsaw. His father, Aron, a carpenter, and mother Ruchele (nee Jakubowski), a polyglot homemaker, encouraged his musical education by purchasing him a violin when he was five and paying for lessons with a local teacher..
2. Web site: Joe's Violin: a Holocaust survivor, a schoolgirl and an unlikely friendship . The Guardian. Amber Janieson. 26 April 2016.
3. Web site: When Music Restores Faith in Humanity. Nicholas Alexander Brown . Huffington Post. 29 May 2016.
4. News: Variety . Staff . Oscar Nominations: Complete List . . 2017-01-24 . 2017-01-24 .
5. Web site: Oscar Nominations 2017: See the Full List. 24 January 2017. 24 January 2017. Vanity Fair.