Children of our Time – First Monday Lecture Series – James Grymes

April 4, 2022 7pm
First Monday Lecture Series – James Grymes
Coastal Theatre, Lib Jackson Student Union
Part of “Children of our Time” program series
Dr. James A. Grymes is the author of Violins of Hope: Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind’s Darkest Hour, which tells the remarkable stories of violins played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust, and of the Israeli violinmaker dedicated to bringing these inspirational instruments back to life. Composer John Williams describes Violins of Hope as “a work of research and scholarship that forms one of the most moving chronicles in the history of Western music,” and Publishers Weekly praises it for “breath[ing] new life into history.” Violins of Hope won a National Jewish Book Award and has been translated into German and Japanese.