Thelma Yellin: Pioneer Musician.
[Judaica]. Bentwich, Margery. Thelma Yellin: Pioneer Musician. Jerusalem: Rubin Mass Publisher, 1964.
8vo.; blue cloth, spine bumped; cream dust-jacket, rubbed, top edge worn, a small closed tear to top of spine.
First edition of the biography of another remarkable Bentwich sister. Thelma Yellin (1895-1959) was only sixteen when she started to study cello with the renowned conductor Pablo Casals. She brought her great talent to Palestine, where she helped found a national musical life while raising her children. A colleague later wrote at the founding of a musical secondary school in her name that, “The young Israeli musician should try to live up to her expectations, and honour her name—the name of one who loved music and the youth that was dedicated to it” (p. 127). Her sister’s biography preserves not only her personal and professional life, but the dramatic story of the early Jewish settlements in Israel and the great artists who followed Yellin there.
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