Joe's Violin

2016 documentary film directed by Kahane Cooperman

April 14, 2016 (2016-04-14) (Tribeca)

Running time

24 MinutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Joe's Violin is a 2016 American short documentary film directed by Kahane Cooperman, and produced by Kahane Cooperman and Raphaela Neihausen, that follows a moment in the life of a Polish survivor of the Holocaust from the time he decides to drop off his 70-year-old violin during a local instrument drive through the violin's acquisition by a new owner, a 12-year-old girl from the Bronx, and recounts how the experience changes both their lives.

Cast

Joe Feingold – as himself. Holocaust survivor.^[1]
Regina Feingold
Brianna Perez – as herself. School girl.
Kathleen Drohan

Reception

The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on 14 April 2016.^[2]^[3]

Awards

2017: Academy Awards – Best Documentary Short Subject – Nominated^[4]^[5]

References

^ Grisar, P. J. (17 April 2020). "Joseph Feingold, survivor and documentary subject, dies at 97". The Forward. Retrieved 22 April 2020. Joseph Feingold, a Holocaust survivor, architect and memoirist whose gift of music brought a unique friendship to a South Bronx community died April 15 of pneumonia and COVID-19. He was 97. Jozef Fajngold was born to socialist parents on March 23, 1923 in Warsaw. His father, Aron, a carpenter, and mother Ruchele (nee Jakubowski), a polyglot homemaker, encouraged his musical education by purchasing him a violin when he was five and paying for lessons with a local teacher.
^ Amber Janieson (26 April 2016). "Joe's Violin: a Holocaust survivor, a schoolgirl and an unlikely friendship". The Guardian.
^ Nicholas Alexander Brown (29 May 2016). "When Music Restores Faith in Humanity". Huffington Post.
^ Variety, Staff (2017-01-24). "Oscar Nominations: Complete List". Variety. Retrieved 2017-01-24.
^ "Oscar Nominations 2017: See the Full List". Vanity Fair. 24 January 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2017.