Music From A Broken Violin: A Memoir by Tikvah Feinstein
Subtitle: A world of secrets and discovery, generations of a family, Christian and Jewish from Pre-Holocaust Europe to post World War II merge in the 1940s Pittsburgh, PA and a family is changed forever.
Publisher: Taproot Press Publishing Company
Published: November 2011
Place of publication: Ambridge, PA USA
Format: Trade Paperback
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781890269135
Table of contents: title: Part 1; title: Chapter 1; title: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1944; title: A birth that would change everything, mine.; title: Chapter 2; title: David Horowitz, my Jewish biological father.; title: Chapter 3 -  4; title: Europe 1907, Rudy Dobsch, and  parents Sophie and Nietzsch Franz; title: Chapter 5; title: Olga and Frank Gregg, Charleroi, Pennsylvania  1912; title: Chapter 6 - 7; title: Rudy, a German, as a young man during the Great Depression North Side of Pittsburgh meets Ruth Gregg, the inflicted girl who will become my mother, as a young woman.; title: Chapter 8 - 9 - 10 - 11- 12; title: The story continues as the couple faces The Great Flood on PIttsburgh's North Side 1936, becomes a struggling family of ten with moves to Freedom, PA, then Esplen, while there a sexual assault by a rabbi at age three, then to Michigan, where dreams of Judiasm are dashed, and back to our only refuge, an unfinished cottage on Elco Hill, Washington County, PA. There a violin that I find as a child in a case, broken and silent, will again play music and I vow if a broken violin can be fixed, certainly a child can also.