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GREETINGS OF THE SEASON
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The New China Ca f e
Little Theater:—
The little theater will be opened
Dec. 28 when the monthly meeting
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of
the 1. 1 . . .
Guards of Judaea.
ur g Performance
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Deems Gunzb
Guards of Judaea Club has re- A Chanukah
program has been ar-
series of
'the
ramrod,
consisting
of
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Inspiring Event of Dull Sea
sumed its weekly meetings. Discus- tableaux; "A Vision of .1exis
°m-
sions on educational, current and Ms anhood," to be given by the advanced
son Thus Far.
Within the past month the musical torical Jewish topics are carried on dramatic group; a play entitled "'the
public of Detroit has witnessed the at each meeting. Theodore Baruch is Unlighted Menorah," which is to he
concert debut Of Toti dal lkionte, Ital- . chairman of the program committee. presented by the Young Judaean
fan lyric soprano; it Cocked to the The first social meeting was held last dramatic group, and several musical
farewell performance of the peerless Saturday evening at the home of Mr. numbers.
Russian halleteuse, Anna Pavlowa; it • and Mrs. A. Rosenthal, 440 East
e grt •
a tR II chmaninoff's an- Ferry avenue. Among the guests
waled
• I t the
crow
nual recital and once again paid tri- were the Misses Gertrude (nosier, Dance:
butt to the peculiar art of John Mc- Elizabeth Mote, Belle Rothberg,
There will not be a donee under the
Comm& But the interest displayed Neena Aranow and Mary Glasier.
ausiees of the 1'. W. II. A. Saturday
in Mme. dal Monies performance The recently elected officers are
evening,
Dee. 27, at Temple Beth Et.
could in no way equal the actual en.' President, George Weiswasser; vice-
Jan. 3
thusiasm aroused by the masterly per- president, Samuel Charfoos; secre- The dances will be resumed
and
will
be
held the succeeding Satur-
formance of the Grigg concerto by tory, Walter Farber, and treasurer,
By HERMANN HOEXTER
Percy Grainger, who came as soloist Bernard Weiss. Meetings are held days.
with the Detroit Symphony Orches- every Wednesday evening at the Kir-
tra; nor could the much heralded Kar- , by Center. Visitors are invited. Harry
savina's acts compare artistically with Friedgut is leader.
the fine demonstration which Dr.
Pirchei Zion.
Mark Gunzburg gave—an evening of '
sincere and delightful piano playing.
Miss Celia Becker of f 986 Meilbury
whose high water mark came with his
of
Lint'S acellue Was hostess at a meeting o
convincing performance
Fantasia and of Fugue on the Pirchei Zion Club last Monday
stupendous "
The following officers were
ti nos ad Salutarem " e " i "g .
the Chorale—.Ad
eecker;
Undam," transcribed by Busoni, and elected: President,
endl
B sohn;
Eva Ce lice
vice - president,
heard here for the first time.
Goldie
Si
einberg;
cones-
treasurer,
m eanw hik the ,,,,.h eat na t ,,,,,, ann ,
any minding secretary, Gertrude Cohen;
has progressed without creati ng n oc- secretary. Florence Gross, anti ser-
profound impressions; and if a
casional soloist, by virtue of person- Recent-tit-arms, Anne Rubinstein. The
alit y or performance, has suceessfully club is planning to purchase Young
has
pulled the men of the orchestra out Judaea pins. A Chanukah party
of their somnolent lethargy, the foci- been planned for Dee. 28.
dent has only served to reveal the
dull, dead level of perfornnce and
interpretation which the symphony
has reached. The selections have been ,
—
pretty conservative, the novelties of
Chanukah, a minor festival of the
no great import and hardly deserving i synagogue sometimes called the
of a place on a symphony program;; ' Feast of L ' ights will be observed Sun-
,
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while the soloists, with the few ex- ,. y evening, Dec.
21, and for eight
ceptions already referred to were days thereafter.
With the Feast of Lights there is
uninspiring.
general tenor of the Detroit coupled an historical event, the Mac-
Symphony Orchestra concerts has eabean revolt which proved to be of
been perfunctory; the spirit, the' supreme national importance to the
verve, the enthusiasm and the interest people of Israel.
of four seasons ago, is missing, gone. i
The years 166 to 165, B. C. F..,
What can he done to bring it back? were eventful in Palestine, even
Or has it deported forever under the epochal. In those stirring years An-
, present regime? tiochus Epiphanes, King of Syria,
ambitious to unite all provinces of his
Musical Reviewer of Chronicle domain into one nation, resorted to
the crude method of compelling all
Coaches Group of Capable
his subject people to use one Ian-
Detroit Singers.
, guage and worship in one established
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FEAST OF LIGHTS
The
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amp other homier,/ Insli comma
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tree made "
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Olt dos in;mpretel "
played by
The Supreme Musical
Herman Hoexter, musical critic for and certified religious ceremonial,
e.,
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle, has namely, the polytheistic ritualism of
been coaching a group of singers his model, the Greeks.
prominent in the musical life of De-' The enforcement of this royal de-
troit, who under the name of the Cap- cree was mandatory on all peoples,
itol Quartette, make their debut this including the Jews. The Temple of
week at that theater, under the diree- 'Jerusalem was defiled by the erection
tion of Eduard Werner. The quartet of altars where idols were worshipped
Greek religious practices intro-
includes Muriel M. Kyle, soprano; , And
Helen Fitzgerald, contralto; Charles dared not only hostile to the sensi-
I.. Jolley, tenor, and, by the way, bilities of the Jewish people but re.
tenor soloist at Temple Beth El, and garded by them as abominations
Thomas Fielder, bass. At the Sun- which had been uprooted from their
day's eighth noon concert at the Cap- religion many centuries before the
itol Theater, this new organization Syrian tyrant plotted to restore them.
will sing Gounod's beautiful "Sane- The enforcement of this idolatrous
bus" from his "Ilymn to St. Cecelia." ceremonials, coupled with intense op-
while during the week they will be pression, germinated hatred in the
heard in a special act of Christmas hearts of the Jewish people of Pales-
. music in costume, the act being, tine which burst into a revolt and in-
' staged by Howard 0. Pierce of the stantly led to war against the mad
Kunsky offices and the music directed despot of Syria.
by Mr. Werner. The concert on Sun- , This insurrection was instigated by
day contains, among other excellent Mattathias, a priest of Modin, who
selections, the "Coronation March" rallied his countrymen around him
from Meyerbeer's "The Prophet," the and defied the King of Syria to force
magnificent prelude to Wagner's "The them to bend the knee before an ho-
Master Singers," the "Largo" front age made by man instead of the one
Dvorak's "New World Symphony" and only Creator who made heaven
See the Cadillacs now on display
and selections from Leoneavallo's and earth.
in the following showrooms:
Sustained by his son Judah, called
opera, "I Pagliacci."
Jefferson at Walker
the Maccabee, and his four heroic
Cass at York
General Motors Building
, brothers, the mighty armies of Syria
were defeated after successive cam-
paigns covering a period of four
years.
The final victory of the Maccabean
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armies over all the hosts f Syria hap-
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Jewish Agriculturalists R
pened according to the Hebrew
eaten-
s .
to , ar on the 25th of Kislev, which cor-
Spend Winter in Tenteady
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responds to the month of December,
NEiN' YORK.—A group of Jewish in the year 165 B. C. E. On this
pi ',neer: organized a new Incoming eventful day the various images and
colony in Bessarabia, near Belzi, ac- ritual paraphernalia brought into the
cording to a report of Abraham Ra- Temple at Jerusalem .were removed
binowitz, traveling agriculturist of and the altar rededicated to the wor.
the Ort, which was received in this ship of the God of Israel who is the
city. symbol of truth and justice, love and
According to Mr. Rabinowitz, the mercy.
Many legends have been preserved
tract of land was bought without a
single building on it and the colonists in post-Biblical literature concerning
will not begin the work of building Chanukah. The martyrdom of lino-
until next spring. The soil is fertile, nab and her seven sons is the most
the colony is located near a river with popular. This story relates the hero.
a broken darn and there is a deserted ism of a devoted mother who, rather
orchard not for away. than submit to the defilements of
"The entire population of young pagan worship on the part of her sons
fanners," writes Mr. Rabinowitz, anti herself, is finally put to death to-
"was busy with some sort of manual other with her sons.
All stories, however, recount the
Sonar were plowing, others
labor.
were mending the dam, still others loyalty of the people of Israel to their
were chopping clown old trees in the religious heritage and awaken in the
orchard and the rest were putting to- hearts of their modern descendants
gether a large mini but in which the a consciousness of the ultimate
whole colony will live for the winter. triumph of righteousness over the Ag-
in the meantime, the group lives in, gression of tyranny and might. Thsf
a tent, in spite of the cold nights." man does not prevail by the exercise
The agriculturists gave the neces of might but by the spirit of Go i
nary advice about caring for the land, working for justice and fair play is
I take this means of wishing all my friends and patrons
and also promised the colonists that the keynote of the feast as celebrated
A JOYOUS CHANUKAH
the Ort would provide them with a today in Jewish homes and schools
spray for destroying the worms which and synagogues.
FRESH MEATS AND FRESH DRESSED POULTRY
ore spoiling the plum trees and aid
them in building their houses.
DAILY
Other Bessarabian colonies which
most up-to-date and sanitary meat markets in the city.
have been under the supervision of .
One of the
Ort agriculturists are reporting in-
Located with the Reliable Grocery Company.
creased and better crops. The Ort
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large Jewish colony at Alexandreni
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for nearby colonists.
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SEASON'S GREETINGS
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9124 Twelfth street, near Clair-
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years and
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and is equipped to supply home build- the most beloved members of the col-
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' Professor Neumark formerly was
prier's.
This new store has been termed a 1 editor of a quarterly magazine called
distinct addition to the business col- the Journal of Jewish Lore and Phi-
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Ellis Island Probe.
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