In the mid-1920s, members of Kibbutz Merchavia were in two minds as to whether they should accept a young couple recently arrived from America to British Mandatory Palestine and had applied to join their nascent community.

The none-too-welcoming band of pioneers hummed and hawed.

But when it was discovered the young couple possessed a much revered manually operated gramophone and collection of records, they quickly changed their tune.

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