A concert in Joseph Roth’s synagogue

A concert in Joseph Roth’s synagogue

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norman lebrecht

August 05, 2019

This is what remains of the Great Synagogue in Brody, once a thriving mainly-Jewish town on the Austrian-Russian border, birthplace of the great writer, Joseph Roth.

The Nazis wrecked the building, the Soviets neglected it.

This week, the Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv led a performance of part of Leonard Bernstein’s Kaddish to mark the 125th anniversary of Joseph Roth’s birth.

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