Michael Portillo discussed David Conway’s new book Jewry in Music with the author, accompanied by live musical illustrations by Mark Viner (piano) and Claudia Conway (soprano). At the start of the 19th century virtually no Jews were active in the field of concert music and the consensus was that they were a hopelessly uncultured and uneducable people. But by the end of the century, the conventional wisdom was that the Jews were ‘a musical people’, and Jews occupied leading positi...