Songs of the grandfather

From: The Scotsman | Date: January 15, 2002| Author: Sam Phipps | Copyright information

When Sharon and Yola Jacobsen sing at a concert in Edinburgh this weekend, they will be doing more than just performing. It will be a celebration of diversity and defiance - and of their own remarkable grandfather.

In 1935 Joseph "Jola" Jacobsen, then a well-known musician, teacher and Orthodox Jew, published a songbook in his native city of Hamburg. A few years later, he fled the Nazis with his wife and four children and settled in England, where he died, aged only 45, in 1943. The s...

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