Moshe Menuhin

Moshe Menuhin (1893–1983) was born Moshe Mnuchin in Gomel to a distinguished, religious Jewish family. He was the great great grandson of Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad Hassidism. When the family moved to Palestine, Moshe was sent to Orthodox Jewish schools, first to Yeshivas in Jerusalem, then to the nationalistic Hebrew Gymnasia Herzlia in Jaffa - Tel Aviv.

In 1913 he came to the United States to complete his higher education, attending New York University where he studied mathematics, political science and education.

In late 1919 he and his wife Marutha (née Sher) became American citizens, and changed their surname to Menuhin.

He later moved to California, where he worked as a Hebrew teacher. A committed anti-Zionist, he was the author of The Decadence of Judaism in Our Time and Jewish Critics of Zionism, and of the family history The Menuhin Saga.

Moshe Menuhin was the father of renowned violinist Yehudi Menuhin and pianists Hephzibah Menuhin Hauser and Yaltah Menuhin.

Works

• The decadence of Judaism in our time. New York, Exposition Press, 1965
• "The Other Side of the Coin." Published circa 1967. A copy of which is held in the UN Library in Geneva.
• Quo vadis Zionist Israel? A 1969 postscript to The decadence of Judaism in our time. Beirut, Institute for Palestine Studies, 1969
• In memory of Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden, United Nations mediator on Palestine New York : Arab Information Center, 1969
• Jewish critics of Zionism : a testamentary essay, with the stifling and smearing of a dissenter New York : League of Arab States, Arab Information Center, 1974
• A Jewish child in Czarist Russia Moshe Menuhin describes life in a Jewish ghetto of Czarist Russia. Hollywood, Calif. : Center for cassette studies, 1976
• The Menuhin saga: the autobiography of Moshe Menuhin. London : Sidgwick & Jackson 1984

External links

• Like Father, Like Son: A Tribute to Moshe and Yehudi Menuhin, Grace Halsell, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs July 1996