The Menuhins - A Family Odyssey

San Francisco: Panjandrum/Aris Books, 1978. A Fine unmarked copy with VG dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition. 256 pages. 27 illustrations. The Menuhins is the story of a miraculous family of great musicians and religious leaders. It is told here for the first time by the nephew of Yehudi Menuhin, the great violinist. Elements of the story have been told before, but few outside the family have known the true dimensions of the Menuhin miracle, for the Menuhin children were not the first prodigies in their family's unique history. Foe centuries the Menuhin line had been producing geniuses, yet the elder Menuhins witheld the details of Yehudi's exotic lineage. There was The MaHaRal, a great rabbi and the creator of the legendary Golem; Schneur Zalman, the founder of Chabad Hassidism and the composer of powerful religious songs; and all the great Schneersohns, the hereditary first family of the Lubavicher Hassids. Although Rolfe, the son of Yaltah Menuhin, often focuses on his famous uncle, he has ventured behind the Menuhin public image with an intimacy that only a Menuhin could bring to this family portrait. **** NOT EX LIB **** 12. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Cormier, Roger. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.