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The Jew in French Literature
Joshua's jewellery business
York.
By ANDRE SPIRE
(Copyrighted, 1923, Jewish Correspondence Itureau.)
The winter months constitute in
France the season of the great literary
prizes, in which the Frenchmen of let-
tern mean no less than the Grand I'rix
in the racing world. But whereas the
Grand Prix marks the close of the rac-
ing season, the award of the literary
prizes denotes the opening of the lit-
erary and social season in Paris. Im-
mediately after returning from their
summer vacation, the literary judges
and umpires grow busy with matters
about, the award of the prizes, and the
exelterrffint runs high.
Who will get the Laserre Prizes,
which is awarded annually by the
Academie Franceise for the best set
of collected works by a well-known
author? Who will get the Goncourt
Prize and the Balzac Prize, which are
generally awarded for the best novels
of the year? And who will get the
a powerful stimulus for literary pro-
duction.
The B•lzac Prize.
Three hundred novels were submit-
ted for the Balzac l'rize, which was
as
founded by un army contractor, per-
suaded by a librarian to make this
beau geste. Two were awardes1 the
prize One is "Job the Fatal" ("Job
le Predestine," by Emile Baumann,
a Catholic professor who was led by
his Catholicism to love the Bible, and
in his previous book, "The Peace of
the Seventh Day," took a decidedly
pro-Zionist view of the Jewish ques-
tion, The other is "Siegfried et he
Limousin" by Jean Girandoux, the
most cultivated of all the young
French literary men. Ile is not al-
together unknown to readers in Eng-
land and America, fur his "Campaign
81111 Intervals has been translated by
F emina •I size, given by a jury of Miss Elizabeth S. Sergeant. Ilk pres-
women for an important work of lit- ent novel is full of a gentle, fantas-
erature, preferably a work of imagi- tic shrewdness and tenderness which
nation? The jury comprises sonic of we usually associated with that sad
the most brilliant members of the fem- smile which is found hovering about
inist world and of high society, the certain pages of Heine's "Reisebild-
leading women writers in France, er" or is heard in the Allegretto of
such as the Countess Mathieu de No- Beethoven's Eighth Symphony. Gir-
stiles, Mary !Cadens (the wife of Mr. audoux describes France and Germany
James Darmesteter,) known to Eng- after the war, the Frenchman and
lish readers as Mary Robinson.
German of today. fiat here and there
The prizes were originally intended he amuses himself by showing the gulf
by their founders to help young strug- separating the Jew, and above all the
gling writers and the older men of let- Russian Jets, the critic, the revolu-
ters who preferred hard patient work tionary, the idealist, the man of pas-
to a big circulation. But us a result sion, from the German who is above
of the enormous rise of prices which all a scientific calculating machine.
has absurdly reduced the pecuniary The same abyss separates Fraulein
value of the awards tad because otthe Evs von Schtvanhofer, a German mis-
sporting spirit which has token hold tress, from Lillie David, an exquisite,
of French literary circles, the awards relined Jewish girl, a being "to whom
base become now a sign of merit and
death was the least punishment and
a theme for propaganda in the salons. bliss the first reward."
, .
They make no better the lot of the
ming to the Gemina Prize, we find
poverty-stricken writers who are just
an badly off now as they were in the this awarded for a book entirely de-
vnded
to the Jewish question. It is n
days when, according to Juvenal, poets
were at times reduced to earning their navel by Mr. .lacquer itaefefelle,
young
writer
with a warm, sober style
livelihood by turning bath-keeper in
Gabies or having a baker's stall in his heart full of pity for human suffer-
ing
and
shortcomings.
The novel is
Rome.- The hive, however, served as
entitled "Silbermann."
"Silbernnann" is the story of two
school chums. One is a Jew, the other
a Protestant. The Jew, Silbermann,
is the must intelligent and most suc-
cessful student in the class. Ile is per-
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aries and royalists who are scheming
to make him the victim of a minor
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Dreyfus affair. The Protestant takes
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his part, protects him and shares his
blows. Finally he is subjected to what
is regarded by French students as the
worst of punishments—he is sent to
Coventry.
!Its fellow-students look
Repainted a dark maroon. Better
at him as if they do not see him, no
hurry for this one.
one speaks to him, everybody tries to
REO DETROIT BRANCH
eyed: hint as if he had the plague.
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This goes on for a long time and Sil-
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berman!), who is devoted to his stud-
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ies and is anxious to complete them
no matter what the price, accepts this
horrible situation,
Emigrates to America.
But one day, after a succession of
painful
incidents, Silbermann's par-
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Prior to his departure he pays a vis_
it to his friend. It is a pity I cannot
reproduce here in its entirety the con-
versation between the young Jew and
his friend. "To be a Jew and a
Frenchman, how fruitful such a com-
bination could have been." What a
hope to lose! I was anxious not to
leave but anything of all you have
written and thought. Was there any
emotion in the world 1 did not feel
when reading a work born of your
genius!" But it is finished. It is im-
possible for him to stay in France. Ile
is overwhelmed by outrages, by blows,
he, whose only dream was to serve
his country, France, and his friends.
Na one numbs why he is citing tin Am-
erica to make money, to gather up
coins, heaps of csins—a calling to
which he seems to have been consen-
crated by his very mime--Silbermann.
The years of dreams have passed.
In America he will wed according to
the traditions of his fathers. "Of what
natimaility, you ask, will my children
be?" "I do not know," he says. "Of
one thing, however, I am sure. They
will be Jews. I myself will endeavor
to make them know the greatness of
our race and respect our beliefs."
This is the attitude which a young
French writer of the best French so-
ciety makes his Jewish hero adopt.
Some of Mr. Jacques de Lacretelle's
ancestors fought in the ranks of the
old royalists, others took part in the
most ruches! movements of their
times. One of them was Pierre Louis
Idtersteiternalswyer at the high court
of Nancy, who nffide an eloquent plea
in defense of the Jews in 1777, lung
before the Abbe Gregoire and the
great Mirabeau pleaded the Jewish
cause, and he can , therefore, be just-
ly considered one of the first cham-
pions of Jewish emancipation. Cer-
tainly, the attitude of his descendant,
Jacques he IA(1+4-fie, leaves no doubt
that in the France of today there are
certain things which have changed
since the day when, in order to show
on the stage a brave Jew, Henri Bern-
stein, a very (•ourageous Jew himself,
was compelled to create a snob infatu-
ated' by nobility who wandered into
high society and was eventually insult-
ed and cast off by his friends the bar-
ons, the princes and the dukes.
Since that day the works of Zang-
will have penetrated into France and
have helped Jewish writers and
French Jews as a whole to regain their
Jewish consciousness and their self-
respeet. The French have begun to
appreciate this attitude and to respect
it et-tin while fighting against it. It
is nothing unusual nowadays to find
in French journals, even in the must
anti-Semitic articles devoted to a most
impartial and even to a respectful
consideration of the works of Jewish
writers. Zangwill is now known, ad-
mired and loved in the best literary
circles in France. Government insti-
tutions in France have come to re-
spect the Jews.
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From the President's Desk—Talk No. 138.
A Word About
Ships and Canoes
Every man chooses his own
craft for the voyage thru life—
chooses it according to his ideals
—his ambitions—his goal.
Have you chosen a canoe be-
. cause ypu have no particular
place to go—because of the rush-
ioned ease it offers—because you
think the sun will shine till you
tire of paddling?
Or have you, after serious planning, decided on the
one port you intend to make, agreed to pay the
price asked, agreed to the discipline you will be
subjected to, and chosen the powerfully built ship
which takes the shortest, most direct course, thru
sunshine and storm, to the port you have chosen?
If you know where you are going, let us write
your passport—in a Bank Book.
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Levitt'. Paintings.
Levitt's paintings on Jewish sub-
jects are many and varied, including
portraits striking in conception,
By DR. STEPHEN S. WISE
I strong in line, pure and lifelike in col-
or, characterized by forceful execu-
(Copyright, 1923, Jewish Correspondence Bureau.)
lion and expressive of sincere feeling.
(Because of the elections of Del- in deed. Distribution Committees are • Among his sitters have been promi•
egates to the American Jewish Con.' needed war and post-war instrument- neat Americans, and in the more in-
greets June 24, the statement below talities, but the American Jewish, timate circle of .lewish writers and
r• Isaac
by Dr. Stephen S. Wise, chairman of Congress, aiming not at the distnbu- artists — etas If irechbein,
its executive committee, is of pecul. lion of things, but at the consecration Hourwitch, Abraham Callan, Abra-
ham
Liessin,
Leon
S.
MoisselfT
and
jar timeliness and interest.—Editor.) of collective Israel to Israel's COM-
The American Jewish Congress man tasks, is become un abiding many others of equal prominence.
Levitt
who
is
a
native
of
Russia
was not a product of war's fears or agency of ' American Israel until the
The Meaning of the Jewish Congress
hopes. The need of it had been
making itself felt for a decade or
more before the World War began.
To these who before could not or
would not see, the war revealed the
urgency of establishing a democrat-
ically chosen body, which should
speak with authority and act with
adequacy on behalf of American
Jews.
The Congress hope was cherished
long before I 914. but it remained
for the war to make clear the vast-
ness and variety of Jewish needs, the
essential oneness of the Jewish prob-
lem, the power and will of the Amer-
can Jesv to serve, the readiness of
some of the great powers on earth
to take part in a rightful solution of
Jewish problems, and the absence of
any agency or instrumentality; dem-
ocratic, representative, effective,
which would suffice to match the in-
exhaustible capacity for service of
the American Jew' to the needs of
world Israel.
Thus the American Jewish Con-
gress was born, the mind and soul
of the American Jew reacting to the
needs and problems of the Jew in
all lands. The easy and obvious
thing watt to give, and American
Israel has given, though nut enough.
Harder than tin give it became to
live with and for the Jewish people,
and the American Jewish Congress
became and remains incarnate of the
will of the American Jew to think
for Jews, to live with all Jews, as
well as to give to some Jew's.
Function of the Con sssss .
And what is the rancho:1 of an
American Jewish Congress? Ti,
speak and to act on behalf of Jews
in all matters affecting the welfare
of Jews as Jews. This automatically
shuts out the consideration of any
problem which does not affect Jews
as Jew's. No question which is not
strictly Jewish may come before the
American Jewish Congress. Every
question which is Jewish should and
will come before it. Every infringe.
ment upon the rights of the Jew in
other lands, whether Poland or Hun.
gory, Austria or Lithuania, would
properly come within the purview of
the American Jewish Congress. The
very fact of the existence of such a
body as the American Jewish Con-
gress, vigilant, alert, unafraid, would
diminish the number of occasions for
the need of action by such a Con.
gress. Wrong and injustice time
anywhere and to whomsoever are the
concern of Jews everywhere. Hurt
HMI injury to the Jew must be the
concern of right-minded and justice-
loving men and peoples everywhere.
Questions may or may not arise in
American life affecting the honor and
well-being of the Jews' collectively
more serious by far than the ink and
stink-bomb campaign of the most
productive velocipede manufacturer
in Detroit. Such an occasion re-
cently arose when the carges made
against the Jewish people before a
Committee of the House of Repre-
sentatives should have been answered
by the American Jewish Congress
q uietly, firmly and with unforgetable
decisiveness of emphasis.
No one doubts that the great
Jewry of America ought at times to
make itself heard and felt when the
rights of Jew's as citizens are im-
perilled or wrongs threatened against
Jews as Jews. The American Jewish
Congress is a token of the nascent
self-reverence of the Jewish people
in this land. The American Jewish
Congress is not an organization of
American Jews. It is to be AmeM-
can Israel organized.
Jews in Need and Deed.
The American Jewish Congress is
for the relief of Jews in need and
for the honor of all who are Jews
UKRAINIAN PEASANTS
GRATEFUL TO J. D. C.
Ukrainian peasants, neighbor s
the Jewish farming colonists whi..„,
being aided by thus-Jesuit Distribut
Committee, have adofted resoluts
thanking that organization for
tending the some aid to them,
chilly the assistance in the 'ti"
plowing of the tractor squads bliss
from America and for giving this,
good supply of seeds fur the 1.
harvest. They also adopted re,
tions thanking the Ukrainian goers
men t for its co-operation with
Joint Distribution Committee.
Agricultural 'aid in the Ukrassi
directed by Dr. Joseph E. Rosen
behalf of the Joint Distribution i
mittee, is extended, as far on
,
to non-Jewish as well as Jes t t,
farmers.
last of the shadows of injustice to has brought with him upon his ar-
' rival to this country nine years ago—
Israel flee away.
understanding of people and
The Congress was born in bonils.lh,is
In order to win all groups and classes*' , st.un end his ability to portray the
lepths of human emotion. His work
in
American
Israel
to
its
support,
it
'
in
,,,.„
foredoomed itself to merely temper-
won immediate recognition in this
s 1country and he was admitted to the
ary existence as a war agency
or be
a "cidents'
an instrumentality which was to
exhibitions of the National Ac
if Design, . having exhibited since at
terminated by the war's end. This
' t ine AmericanWilt l'r Color SO(' iety, SITE IS
arrangement or compromise was
the
Salmagundi Club, the 1'ennsyl-
based in part upon (what we are now
egn vN l toast the erring notion that venni Academy of Fine Arts, Colo-
rads Springs Broailmore Art Acad-
JERUSALEM.—(J. T. A.IM
all our problems would be automatic-
emy and other galleries in New Turk request of the American Jewish
ally
by war's end and the sub-
City and out of town. The last fall siemens Association, the ,Pal•sts...
sequent peace. We did not know and
exhibition of the National Academy Land Development Company has Is,-
could not know that war would nut
of Design contained his portrait of chased a plot of land un Mount
be followed by peace but by an armis.
Mrs. II. Goalwin. His portrait of "A pus for the Medical Department i s.
lice as yet far from ended.
Girl in Shadow" shown at this year's the Ilebrew University. The sits t'
The Congress is needed today as
s
Spr
ing
of Design Exhibi- the medical college adjoins the (hi
truly as it was in war (lays. There s "
tion has attracted wide attention.
House on the hill.
are gnat gains to be safeguarded as
As a landscape painter Levittshows
The Physicians' Association s
well as wrongs to be everted o r
the same characteristics as in his por- founded during Professor Einict, s
checked. There are mighty forces in.
trait work—his purity of color and visit to this country in the Sprits;
the world operative for justice, which beauty of form charm and bewitch
1921.
merit such sustainment and
rein s like a fairy tale told inn childhood
forcemeat as it lies in us collectively d ay ,
to offer. No less truly are forces of
After I left Levitt's studio I still
evil making powerfully for inequity heard his inspiring words:
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astd wrong, which we can help to con-
"My soul was craving since long
quickly.
tfol and limit through the power of for self-expression and creation and
public'exposure.
I was longing to be understood by nny
REO DETROIT BRANCIV 1
The war gamins and the peace gains, own people and my near ones. Because
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which, to the honor of mankind, are to live and to feel that I am lonely in-
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to accrue to Israel, may yet be lord s„fa, as my life as an artist is con-
unless in the cause of truth and jus- c orne dv er y di scuurnging.
i t
lice we are as vigilant as are the is certain that our strivings and hopes
unsleeping foes of honor and right- will ultimately conic , into being, thus
eo
In order to th e
5 ( 1,- preserving for our younger genera-
Of cour, you are.
icent.
.
Most e,er,1.
ble the
American JewishConn- lion the traditions of old and develop-
do you realize the treniendonh
grsiss must be free, and free it is ing all the new interests that time
nillrance of your dreein lifeh-whm
without bonds or commitment other may bring."
dream certain thing. •nd their rrval h.
on your present anti future hal.'
than to further the well-being of the
Pg,cho.Analysis deal with the P.,
Jew.
ninth,. of your
nein. or
u
onac
A Sehnorrer was trying his usual
self and scientilicall Y inte rprets h
For • United Israel.
tactics on a non-Jewish philanthrop-
ner
cnnflict. It definitely •sceram • •
The Congress is no place for Jew-
ist. He began "putting it on thick,"
ramie,. that prevent y. from twat.
ish partisanship or sectarianism.
Your higheol ernwth, brings v. !.
as was his habit with his Jewish pat-
Israel is wide and catholic enough to
understanding of your capahildi,-
rons, knowing that the more heart-
hell" you reach that level to Chu h
welcome within its councils all Jews,
really hclund.
breaking the story the bigger the
who bear their name with pride and
g ift. Before the Schnorrer was half
their burdens with dignity. We are
(lone the philanthropist rung for his
nut partners within a divided Jewry
Psycho-Analysis and Constructive
strong-armed man and instructed:
but we would be frankly and eagerly
Psychology.
"'throw this fellow out. I can't
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partisan for United Israel. Our
Cadillac Stfifi
, stand him, he breaks my heart."
1
motto must be—Nothing that is of
interest to the well-being and honor
of Israel is outside he range of our
collective concern and solicitude as
American Jews.
We believe that the American Jew-
ish Congress can render service to
the Jews, but it were the part of the
demagogue pure and simple to inti-
: mate that the Congress can or will
achieve miracles. Immeasurable and
even miraculous hurt may be done in
an hour, but laborious years alone
achieve the miraculousgood.
The American Jewish Congress
will achieve no more for Israel at
home and abroad than is made possi-
ble by the effort and the generosity,
the wisdom and the sacrifices of the
Jewish people. The mountebank and
the demagogue promise untold and
unearned benefits to the people. The
wisdom of statesmanship moves a
people to serve itself. No miracle
like the miracle wrought by a peo-
ple's self-reverence and helf-help!
The Congress means that the
American Jew, as becomes Jew and
American, is resolved to act in truly
democratic manner in the matter of
guiding his own affairs. Answering
those who sneer at mobocracy, we
insist with all humility that a people,
which has in some part known for
many ceturies the responsibility of
democratic and autonomous life, is
not to be written down a mob be-
cause it prefers the hard and thorny
way of self-direction to the primrose
path of acceptance of favors from
The same wholesome purity charac-
within or without Israel.
teristic of MacDiarmid's Candies for 18
Whether the Congress is to be will
years is maintained; unexcelled manufac-
depend not upon the unanimous pass-
age of resolutions but upon the
turing facilities and wonderfully increased
resoluteness on the morrow of the
demand for MacDiarmid's Candies have
individual Jew.
Anti-Semitism Negligible.
It would he an exaggeration to say
that anti-Semitism is dead in France,
but it can be safely asserte d that anti-
this improvement in our position in
Semitisin plays n negligible part in the
political life of the country. Of course
France is to be accounted for not only
by sentimental or intellectual reasons.
There are deep economic causes, too,
acting in the same direction. The
country which has lost one and a half
mullions of her youngest and most
virile sons, and has to rebuild ten de-
vastated departments cannot afford
the luxury of Xenophobia,
'
like coun-
bring ab o ut a reduction of wages. This
tries where the population. is super-
abundant, and where immigrants
is the main reason why the Jewish
question which in France, as in other
countries, is intimately connected with
the question of Jewish immigration,
has for some time been growing less
pronounced.
Here is a tact which I consider an
excellent illustration of the change
which has been wrought. In "Silber-
mann" where the action takes place
in the period closely following the
Dreyfuss affair, the principal of the
school, acting under pressure of the
Catholic parents, demands that Sil-
bermanns father should withdraw his
son. Recently the French newspapers
published a report of an o•curence in
the school at Besancon, a large town
in the East of France. A Jewish pu-
pil felt offended at the way in which
a Catholic priest who taught theology
in the school, explained to the class Well
Known Artist Discusses New Cultural Movement for Jewish Masses
the mediaeval attitude towards the
in a Special Interview.
Jews.
The principal immediately
apologized to the parents of the Jew-
By
ish pupil; arranged fur the rabbi to
MARIE TROMMER
meet the priest, and made the latter
call upon the family of the Jewish boy
The Jewish masses are fully ripe the works shown at our exhibitions
to explain that he had nut meant by to imbibe culture in all its phases. I
purchased by some Jewish institution
his remarks to affront the Jews.
`eel and know that they are ready. and donated to the Museum in Pales-
True, a great task is still before us, tine, the country where our best Jew-
(Editor's Note:—Andre Spire, the but we are going to hold an exhibition ish youth is giving its all to rebuild
author of this article, is a French Jew if paintings in the very near future, the ancient land of Israel. Let us
who has achieved a unique pirate in and this will acquaint the people with send them our share, our art, to beau-
French poetry.)
our aims and make them join us. I tify and lighten their work and help
feel certain that it won't take long— them build up what is to become
the
and the League for Jewish Culture hope of our people.
INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
till become a glorious reality."
"I would give my very life to obtain
It was on a bright, sunny morning, amoral aid for our task, for it is more
In connection with the federating of a few days ago, that I heard Joel J.
necessary at the present moment than
the Central and Free Synagogues, Levitt, the well-known American-
material assistance. The duty of
which are t , , conic under the leader- Jewish painter, say this to me in his
every cultured Jew in this country is
ship of Dr. Stephen S. Wise together studio at 6 West Twenty-eighth street
to work not alone toward bringing
with Dr. Sidney E. Goldstein and New York City, where I found him at
about better living conditions among
other associates, one of the Articles work on his latest canvas—"A Valley
his less fortunate brethren, but to see
of Federation provides for an annual in the Berkshire Hills," a twilight
to it that the masses became educated
contribution of 825,000 by the feder- country scene, breathing with peace
in every cultural phase. In order to
ated synagogues to the Jewish Insti- and quiet and aglow with color. He
achieve this we, Jewish artists, must
tute of Religion in token of the con- spoke on, and I listened, enraptured—
be encouraged in our endeavors, and 1.
gregation's faith in the importance for not only is I.evitt a poet of the
then the masses will follow."
and necessity of the work, which the canvas, but he is also a clever and en-
I was interested to hear Levitt's
Jewish Institute of Religion is doing. shunting talker, and his words con-
opinion of Jewish art in America, To
This measure of support is also "de- jured up a vision in my mind.
my question he replied that so far the
signed to express the purpose of the
Into lives of everyday cares and Jews in artistic America have nut cre-
congregations to participate as large- struggle for existence, a bright beam
ated anything that would differentiate
ly as it may become possible to do in sf light, a new' movement has found
their work from that of their col-
all movements at home and abroad its way, bringing with it new hopes, leagues.
looking to the welfare of the Jewish new aspirations, showing ne• paths
"Is there such a thing as a Jewish,
people."
to the Jewish masses who are ever in element in Art?" was my next ques-
The executive of the institute an- search—consciously or subconscious- tion.
nounces the election to the Chair of ly—for higher ideals. Many well-
"The Jewish way of thinking, Jew-
Jewish philosophy and history of one known Jewish authors and artists are ish traditions and sympathies, being
of the most gifted and distinguished at the head of this movement, and those of an ancient people, are of ne-,
of the younger Jewish scholars in Am- among the latter stands out promi- cessity, much deeper than those of the
erica; Professor Harry A. Wolfson of nently Joel J. Levitt who devotes a
surrounding world. On the other'
Harvard University, who will, great deal of his time to the art de- hand, I wish to emphasize that no
through an arrangement between the sartment of the League of Jewish school of painting exists for me. If''
institute and Harvard be enabled to Culture—this is the name of the new a painting or sculpture succeeds in
continue his connection as teacher at organization—and gives much of his conveying its message clearly and,
Harvard in addition to performing energy toward the fulfillment of his beautifully—then it becomes a work
the duties as head of the department cherished ideal—to awaken in our of art, school or no school."
of Jewish Philosophy and History at masses the still dormant response to
In reply to my question what he
the institute.
Art.
thought of Jewish life as an inspire.'
The executive of the institute has
"To what extent have our people tion for an artist, Levitt said:
recently been appraised through an shown an interest in Art so far?" I
"It appeals to me very much, I am '
Arial communication of the decision asked.
greatly attached to it. I think that
of the Ho•hschule fur die Wissen-
To Send Art to Palestine.
Jewish life, with its many beautiful
schaf des Judenthums to enter into
"The intellectually inclined middle- customs and traditions, as an inspira-
an arrangement whereby its teachers class people have been purchasing tion for an artist—is still untouched,
Mil from time to time he placed at paintings for quite some time," Le- because its sourse is inexhaustible, the
the disposal of the Institute as visi- vitt replied, "but I would like to see wealth
contained in it—bears no corn-,
ting members of the Institute's teach- the relations between our artists and parison. Jewish home-life and home-
ing staff. This arrangement was un- the public grow more intimate. Let influence are sometimes more inspir-
officially inaugurated by the service our people forget for a while their
ing to my mind than the glow of the
to the Institute during the Fall term, every-day tasks and worries and come
setting sun or the velvety petals of a
1922-23, of Professor Ismar Elbogen to Art exhibitions, to see and feel to-
beautiful flower. I often nee before
of the llochschule faculty.
gether with an the beauty and inspir- me any father's home—the Sedan ser-
ation of art, for genuine wealth is vices, father and mother and the';
Do as much or as little as thou where a nation gives itself full self- whole family in festive attire, group-
canst, only let thy intention be al- expression.
ed around the snow-white table, the
ways good.—The Talmud.
"We hope in the near future to have songs sounding mirthfully in the joy-;
JOEL J. LEVITT—CANVAS POET
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late Son Bons to 60c pound.
At All MaeDiarmid Stores
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Candies sent anywhere in Michi-
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ORCHESTRA HALL
3711 Woodward Avenue
GREAT ATTRACTION
For Sunday Evening, May 20
The Greatest Star of the Jewish Stage
Boris Thomashevsky
TOUViinND
With the Great Actress
Mme. Pola Kartazhinsky
PiPmclinp
With a Star Cast
Will App.. in His Best and Newest Operetta,
"Lebedig and Freilach"
iti5n7iD
Tickets, 50c, 75c, $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00
For sale at Solomon's Confectionery, 2816 Hastings St.; Cooper's
Drug Store, Westminster and Goodwin Ayes.; Plotkin's Book Store,
Hastings and Adelaide; Kahn Brothers' Restaurant, 3530 Hastings;
Small's Drug Store, Hastings and liendrie, and at the Box Office
on the day of the performance.