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When is a Jewish star just a pattern?
Recently, violins inlaid with mother-of-pearl six-pointed stars have been showing up in the antiques market, advertised as having some sort of Jewish connection—perhaps having been played by a Klezmer band, or having belonged to a victim of the Holocaust, or, in at least one case, having been played in a Nazi concentration camp. But, writes Dina Gold, there is no evidence backing up these claims, nor is there reason to believe that the symbol on the violins, described by sellers as a Star of David or Jewish star, has any Jewish significance at all:
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When is a Jewish star just a pattern?
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Recently, violins inlaid with mother-of-pearl six-pointed stars have been showing up in the antiques market, advertised as having some sort of Jewish connection—perhaps having been played by a Klezmer band, or having belonged to a victim of the Holocaust, or, in at least one case, having been played in a Nazi concentration camp. But, writes Dina Gold, there is no evidence backing up these claims, nor is there reason to believe that the symbol on the violins, described by sellers as a Star of David or Jewish star, has any Jewish significance at all:
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