[2] When the news of the persecution of the Jews in Germany reached Palestine, the musicians who had been fond of their German violins before, either broke them or burned them and some told Moshe that they would throw them away if he did not buy them.
[3] When he learned, after the war, that all his relatives he had left behind in Eastern Europe had been murdered, he suffered a heart attack.
Weinstein apprenticed with his father before he studied violin making in Cremona with Pietro Sgarabotto and Giuseppe Ornati and Ferdinando Garimberti.
When Weinstein opened it up, he found black powder inside, soon realizing that it was ashes from the crematoria of Auschwitz, where the grandfather had last played the instrument.
Conducted by Omer Welber, the Istanbul Philharmonic and the Ra'anana Symphonette accompanied Israeli virtuoso Shlomo Mintz (with whom Weinstein had maintained a longstanding friendship),[7] Yair Dalal and Turkey's Cihat Askin as they played sixteen violins that had outlasted the Holocaust.
[15] In 2016 and 2017, Weinstein organized concerts and exhibitions in Monterrey, Mexico,[16] Houston, Texas,[17] Cleveland, Ohio,[18] Jacksonville[19] and Sarasota, Florida,[20] the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.[21] and in Bucharest, Romania.
As one of the founders of Keshet Eilon violin master courses, he operated a violin-making atelier and lectured on the instruments' history, construction and care.
Weinstein received the Medal of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, signed by the president and handed to him by Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier in a ceremony held in the Jewish Museum in Berlin on 14 December 2016.