Editing Itzhak Perlman (section)

==Early life==
Perlman was born in 1945 in [[Tel Aviv]]. His parents, Chaim and Shoshana Perlman, were [[Jewish]] natives of [[Poland]] and had independently emigrated to [[Mandatory Palestine]] in the mid-1930s before they met and later married. Perlman contracted [[polio]] at age four and has walked using leg braces and crutches since then<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/I-woke-up-and-I-couldnt-walk-This-is-the-polio-that-should-become-just-a-memory-398720 |title='I Woke Up and I Couldn't Walk': This is the Polio That should become Just a Memory|work=The Jerusalem Post |access-date=May 18, 2018}}</ref> and plays the violin while seated. {{as of|2018}}, he uses crutches or an electric scooter for mobility.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/nyregion/how-they-roll.html |title=How They Roll |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=December 26, 2014|date=December 26, 2014 |last1=Lee |first1=Ji Hyun }}</ref>

When Perlman was three years old, he sat and listened attentively to a violin recital on the radio, which inspired him to become a violinist. His mother soon bought him a toy violin, and he quickly taught himself to play melodies. His parents tried to enroll him at the [[Shulamit Conservatory]], but he was denied admission for being too small to hold a violin.<ref>{{cite news|title=Israeli Violin Prodigy Admits He Likes Jazz: But Doesn't Play It, Says Lad, 13, Who Overcame Polio to Become Noted Artist |work=Los Angeles Times |date=29 November 1958 |page=B1 |id = {{ProQuest|167374800}}}}</ref> Despite his handicap, he began learning the violin a year later. His first teacher was a café violinist. At age five, Perlman was admitted to the Academy of Music in Tel Aviv (now the [[Buchmann-Mehta School of Music]]), where he studied for eight years with Rivka Goldgart, a violin teacher of Russian origin, and gave his first recital at age ten.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/21349?q=itzhak+perlman&hbutton_search.x=0&hbutton_search.y=0&hbutton_search=search&search=quick&pos=1 |title=Perlman, Itzhak |dictionary=Oxford Music Online |access-date=October 1, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |entry=Perlman, Itzhak |date=20 January 2001 |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.21349 |last1=Potter |first1=Tully }}</ref> He moved to the United States at age 13 to study violin at the [[Juilliard School]] in [[New York City]] and the [[Meadowmount School of Music]] in [[Essex County, New York]],<ref name="AmMstrs"/> with [[Ivan Galamian]] and his assistant [[Dorothy DeLay]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.enotes.com/contemporary-musicians/perlman-itzhak-biography |title=Perlman, Itzhak Biography: Contemporary Musicians |publisher=Enotes.com |access-date=July 1, 2011}}</ref>