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‘I will not say anything against the Jewish people’

‘I will not say anything against the Jewish people’

In the last of the present Lebrecht Interviews on BBC Radio 3, I asked Itzhak Perlman for his thoughts on the present situation in Israel, where he was born and grew up.

Itzhak gave a deep sigh and said he was hurting. But the bottom line, for him, is loyalty.

Listen now on iPlayer.

Pictured: Perlman’s US debut on the Ed Sullivan show

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