Nathan Shaham Bücher

Avigdor Barkov, a Russian Jew in Israel in the 1920s, abandons his girlfriend and child and returns to Moscow where his political activism leads to interrogation, torture, and imprisonment.

The Rosendorf Quartet is both a deft portrait of the complexities and contradictions that have gone to make up the state of Israel and a stunning tribute to the curative powers of music, in whose realm dissonance, politics, and personal anguish dissolve into art, transcending human conflict and national boundaries.