Musical instruments connected to Jewish musicians and the Holocaust are making their way to Iowa for a series of programs.

The news that Maugein, the last accordion manufacturer in France, will cease doing business, raises the question of whether the “box of sobs,” as the French call it, is more Gallic or Jewish in its ...

Encased in glass, each violin represent a heartbreaking story. Jewish musicians played these instruments in concentration camps and ghettos during the Holocaust for survival, resistance or comfort.

When I first heard Joe Buchanan’s country music, I assumed he was a Messianic Jew. “How good, how good,” he croons with a Texas drawl over a twangy guitar. “Yeah, God I love the house where you grow.” ...