THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
PAGE SIXTEEN
THE JEWISH SOUL IN SONG
BY OSCAR LEONARD
Jewish music began almost before
the Jews became a people. When as
nomad shepherds the progenitors of
the Jewish nation followed their
flocks, they fashioned 'pipes out of
reeds. With these they sang of their
joys at beholding nature and nature's
workk, or to )apish the feeling of
loneliness which comes to the shep-
herd who is alone with his sheep by
day and with his stars by night.
The first authentic Jewish song to
reach us is a song of triumph and
thanksgiving by Moses, after crossing
the Red Sea. In the wilderness, as
the Jews marched, they must have
sung, now in joy at the prospect of
the Promised Land, now in the sor-
row of weary wandering. Then came
the days of the Temple on Mount
folk songs. Arno Nadler gathered
folk melodies and arranged them. Be-
ing a musician, lie knew how to ar-
range them without diminishing the
charm which the folk, had given them.
This interest in Germany found its
echo in l'etrograd, where an organi-
zation was gathered to form Jewish
folk songs. Baron David Ginsberg
became interested. lIe gave readily
of his time and means to this under-
taking. Commissioners were sent all
over Russia, wherever Jews lived. to
gather these folk songs. Truly, the
soul of the Jew sang again and its
song teas to be written down
and preserved. The first composers
to take part in this movement were
Schkalyar, a pupil of Ilimsky-Korsa-
kohl, and Schalitt, whose "Eli, ar-
rangement is one of the most expres-
Zion, where music and song formed
part of the ceremonial. Surely a peo- sive of melodies.
ple whose king's heart overflowed
In Russia the movement soon
with songs as did that of Hasid, must spread wherever Jews lived. Every
have had music in its soot.
Jewish community had its own organ-
folk music.
In joy and in sorrow Israel sang. ization devoted to Jewish
came the war with its cannon
Moses sang in victory. So did De- Then
borah. David sang in a minor key roar and the harsh tones of ride and
saber. N1'heit the war is over we shall
when he bethought himself of his
probably have a musical reaction of
transgressions. Solomon sang his
the folk-soul. Now children cry for
"Song of Songs" when his heart was
bread and mothers weep for their
filled with love. Jeremiah chanted
his "Lamentations" when Jerusalem 10111S,
was destroyed. What a pity that these
The Jewish folk music mot...mein
strains have not come down to us. has spread to our shores. After all,
But we cannot he certain that they neither oceans nor mountains can cre-
have been entirely lost. Perhaps some ate harriers for the soul. So the
of the traditional melodies now chant- movement came to Amer i cawhen J.
ed by the Jews have come to US from Medvedielf lauded on our shores. Ile
toured the country and sang these
those dint ages of history. ,
simple songs, which brought hack
We do know that thousands of tra-
memories of days gone by. Jews in
ditional melodies are being used by
American communities began to sing
Jews all over time world in their syna-
these half-forgotten songs again. Now
gogues. Whether one enters the
Medtedieg is in New York doing pio-
synagogue in the bleak fields of Si-
Chicago, Solomon
beria or in the sunny villages of the neer work. In
Nile. he will hear the strains of the
"Kol Nitre;' in which the file of the
Jew is mirrored. This melody is
mentioned because it has come out of
the Ghetto into the world of music.
Brach's arrangement of this melody,
with its universal strain and poignant
appeal, is now one of the best known
program pieces.
Golub is at the head of the Hebrew
Oratorio Society, which gathers Jew-
ish music and teaches the Jewish folk
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to sing.
Among those who did pioneer Work
is Pinellas Jassinovsky. A student un-
der great masters like Glazunov and
Sokolov, a lover of his people and
a man with a fine lyric tenor voice, he
placed himself at the service of his
people. Ile has taken some of the
simple melodies and arranged them
without taking from the mtheir charm.
He sings these melodies with the mas-
tery of an artist and the soul of a
Where do its wonderful notes conic
from? \Ve can trace them as far back
as Spain. Do they come from the
Temple in Jerusalem, or have they
been formed out of the sighs and
tears and groans of the tortured Jews
during the Inquisition? Just as we Jew.
cannot trace the origin of the "Koh
America is a good place for such
Nitre;' around which many legends work. Here we desire not only the
have grown, so we cannot trace the brawn of all peoples who come. \Ve
origin of the other rich and pathetic want the riches of their souls. If
America is to be rich not only in ma-
synagogue motifs.
perish as
If we turn from sacred to secular terial thing., which must
time wears on, but in the things of
music, we find a wealth of joy and
the heart, the things that last, then we
sorrow. The Jewish folk is the orig-
must ask each group to add to this
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folk everywhere. Music, being the common treasure.
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It is well that the Jew add his soul-
treasure of music and song. When
Israel takes up again the harp which
he bath hung on the willows by the
waters of Babylon, no longer to la-
ment, but to sing in triumph and in
the new hope and aspiration, his song
will re-echo from these hospitable
shores of Columbia, in a noble song
A people like the Jews whom have
of
humanity.—American Hebrew.
suffered as no other people have suf-
fered, could not help producing its
deepest expression of the soul, must
conic from the people. It cannot be
made to order. If it is, then we have
something artificial, transitory, worth-
less. The nittsic that comes out of the
heart of the people lives because it
throbs with its emotions of joy and
sorrow, of 11011e and despair.
peculiar music. But, whereas na-
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J. W. B. PROGRAMS
ple finds it well-nigh impossible to
stop in its flight and pick tip shining
NEW YORK.—Two nails of sing-
bits of soul-jewels, or tiny heart-
pearls. While fleeing the oppressor, ers and actors, composed of profes-
one leaves precious things behind to siottal entertainers, and Yiddish thea-
trical and musical stars, will entertain
escape alive.
men waiting to be mustered out of
What is really precious, !limner, the army, and navy, and will perform
cannot be entirely lost. Some time for wounded and other soldiers 're-
some one was sure to gather these turning from European battlefields.
precious treasures. The man who did
This is part of a comprehensive pro-
this was Abraham tioldfallen. Ile was
not a musician. He knew nothing of gram of recreation toolertaken by the
harmony or of the theory of compo- Jewish Welfare Board for men in the
sition. But his heart was the broad demobilization 'camps. A group con-
Jewish heart. He was of the people. sisting of Rachel Rosenfeld of the
Ile knew and lose] his people. Ile Tomashefsky Theatre; Harry Rosen-
came as an embodiment of them. His feld, comedian; Leon Rosenstein,
songs, written for the Yiddish theater, singer of Yiddish folk songs; Alexan-
reflect the heart and soul of the Jew. der Tannenholz, of the Irving Place
1 here is in them the sorrow of op- Theatre; Abraham Raizin, poet; B.
presion, the joy of faith, time longing Nov tier, humorist: John Paurel, pian-
for the land of _their fathers and the ist, and Anna Miltzer, soprano solo-
hope of the rettirn to that land. Am here ist. are already on tour. They will
Israel shall again live beneath his visit Camps Upton, Dix. Devens,
own
own vine and fig tree and when out of
Zion shall again come forth wisdom
and the word of God from Jerusalem.
;oldfailen had to be followed by
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demobilization camps throughout the
country, and through the community
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Meade, Humphreys, Wadsworth and
Spartansburg, Newport News Train- to labor conditions, and opportunities
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The second unit will tour Camps community representatives apprised
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Hancock. McClIelan, Sheridan and of opportunities that develop. The in-
Beattregard, Chickamauga National formation division will co-operate
real musicians. At first he was re-
garded as a negligible quantity by
those who knew music. His composi-
tions were thin, faulty. But when it
was realized that he had taken price- l'ark. The members of the company
less jewels out of the heart of his are 'Miss Zella Santley, vaudeville
people and was trying to polish them singer; Rose Erlich. concertinist;
and give them back to his people. Gertrude \Volt', dancer; Sadie Cheifitz,
lovers of Jewish music became atten- pianist, and Rose Dreeben, soprano
tive. It was, too, a time when Jewish soloist.. All of the performers have
national feeling was stirring. when appeared at cantonments around
the Jews came to realize that they New York City.
were a people and not a tribe of wan-
derers that must remain scattered
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upon the face of the earth.
About the close of the nineteenth
century the Voskhod, a Jewish jour-
nal in the Russian language, began to
gather Jewish folk songs. Only the
words of these were gathered. The
Journal appealed to Jews everywhere
to send in folk songs. These were
gathered in a book. Those who read
the simple words were charmed.
There was a wistfulness about them
which appealed to the hearts of Jews
everywhere. Leo Winz, of Berlin.
publisher of Oat and \Vest, a Jewish
magazine, arranged for the publica-
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NEW YORK.—The soldiers and
at Norfolk, Va., on Nov. 1, 1918.
sailors and their families will be given
After taking two men from the
assistance in solving their problems
of readjustment, through the infor- burning schooner to safety, Siegel
mation division organized by the went back a third time but this time
home service department of the Jew- was himself trapped by a steam pipe
ish Welfare Board. to meet the post- barring his exit. When rescued by
other shipmates he was in a danger-
war emergency.
ous condition. and for hours physi-
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