From Wikipedia Jascha Heifetz (/ˈhaɪfɪts/; February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1901 – December 10, 1987) was a Lithuanian-born American violinist. He was born in Vilnius. As a teen, he moved with his family ...

In the new documentary “God’s Fiddler,” on the life of Jascha Heifetz, director Peter Rosen succeeds in creating the first film biography of the violin virtuoso. The film succeeds as a sort of ...

One can hear the passion in Heifetz' violin playing, even if his stance was impassive. Jascha Heifetz, a child prodigy violin player, was taught to present himself passively to better focus attention ...

To Itzhak Perlman, he was, simply, "God." He was the greatest violin virtuoso of the 20th century. He was the violinist who almost single-handedly defined the art of violin performance for an entire ...

Jascha Heifetz traveled to Japan in the fall of 1923, weeks after the earthquake on September 1 that devastated Tokyo, Yokohama and the Kanto region, with casualties near 143,000. He gave outdoor ...

"The technique was stupendous," Hoffman says about Heifetz's appeal. "Nobody had heard about a technique like [his.] And he set a completely new standard for the violin for technical excellence. But ...

Jascha Heifetz, well known Jewish violinist, was married to Mrs. Florence Vidor, a Christian, last Monday in New York City. Charles E. Kelby, former Supreme Court Justice performed the ceremony. Mr.

Peter Rosen's uninspired docu on master violinist Jascha Heifetz jogs along fairly briskly in dealing with the gifted prodigy's early years: his first public performance at age 5 in Vilna, his ...

Who attacked Heifetz 70 years ago in Jerusalem for the crime of playing Richard Strauss? A dive into an unsolved mystery. Jascha Heifetz, here in a 1933 portrait, toured Israel in April 1953. On his ...

Remarkably, there is no up-to-date biography of the preeminent violinist Jascha Heifetz (1901-1986), so this nicely written and perceptive account of the 15 years Agus spent with him at the end of his ...

Jascha Heifetz, world famous violinist, left Israel for Rome today at the conclusion of a concert tour which took him to Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa as well as Rehovoth, Beersheba and Eilath. Mr.