The news that Maugein, the last accordion manufacturer in France, will cease doing business, raises the question of whether the “box of sobs,” as the French call it, is more Gallic or Jewish in its ...

Last October, in Heraklion, Crete, my husband and I met a traveling musician. Given her age and that it was a Monday, she should've been in school. Factoring in the Greek economy, we donated a euro.