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Communist Committee Adopts Reso-
lution to Improve Conditions.

CHANUKAH GREETINGS

MOSCOW.—(J. T. A.)—The solu-
tion of the Jewish question in White
Russia lies in improving their eco-
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nomie condition, according to a reso-
For Every
lution adopted by the Central Com-
mittee of the Communist Party in
White Russia.
The Central Committee in one ses-
sion dealt with the problem of the na-
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tional minorities. Among the resolu-
ri Art is international, in the sense but in the last analysis it still remains tions accepted, several were devoted
to the problems of the Jewish popula-
that it makes its appeal to the entire very poor.
Notwithstanding this somewhat pen- tion.
world. If we come to an agreement
"The work of improving the econom-
and accept this statement, there can simistic view, it is true that in New
I be no distinctly Jewish art, and yet a York City and to a greater or lesser ic condition of the Jewish population
must henceforth be an important task
/ Hebrew who takes brush in hand, as extent elsewhere, Jewish artists figure of the party," the resolution declares.
2 an artist, simply cannot eliminate with prominently.
"The settling of Jews on the land
absolutism the Jewish spirit, the Jew-
The exhibitions of the Society of must be continued energetically and
ish faith and the Jewish traditions.
Independent Artists, the Salons of special support is to he given to col-
By the mere fact of taking a paint- America, the New Gallery, the Whit- lectives," the resolution stated.
er's brush as a working tool a Jew ney Studio Club, the Kraushaar Art
Considering exceptionally unfav-
Ai does not lose his individuality or his, Gallery, Reinhardt's, Scott & Fowles, orable conditions of the Jewish popu-
Anderson's, and Daniel's, the J. 13. lation in the small towns, it is advis-
5 community.
In the old days art had no place Neumann's Print Rooms, the Societe able that the Jews should be the first
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whatever among the Jews, because of Anonyme and other similar galleries in transporting the superfluous to the
the Mosaic law which interdicted it in and institutions have shown the work other republics. Better relations are
the commandment, "Thou shalt not of Jewish artists in connection with also to be established with those
make unto thee any graven image, or their Gentile competitors and the com- places where the Jewish population is
that is in the earth beneath, or that is parison has been highly favorable to in the majority. The Soviet institu-
the Jewish exhibitors. Indeed, for tions must adapt themselves to Jew-
in the water under the earth."
comprehensiveness, the Jewish artists ish life, consider the Yiddish language
WHOLESOME AND DELICIOUS
The pagans featured pictures, but
in their contributions have furnished and Jewish customs, according to the
Jadaism set its face against art, as
an almost complete inventory of at resolution.
represented by the picture and the
least the modern schools, as well as of
The appalling economic position of
sculptured bit.
the schools that still linger in embry- the Jewish population prepares a fav-
,Step by step, however, the pre j u- vale stages.
orable ground for Zionism, which now
dice voiced by this quoted command-
I ment disintegrated and Jewish artists Jewish artists may perhaps he lack- has the strongest influence upon the
to off- middle class and the Jewish youth.
rA / undertook
to compete with heathen or- lag in creative imagination, but
the revolutionary part
tists and craftsmen. set that lack, they have other and cons- Considering
which Zionism is playing in Russia,
No
equipment.
No matter how great an artis may Ipensating
Some of the names that are out- as well as abroad, the Central Com-
be, if he lacks a national spirit his
work is by no means complete. It may I standing in recent exhibitions are as mittee proposes, besides weakening
Zionism by improving the economic
be a gesture, but that is all that can follows: Maurice Becker, Ben Silbert,
Boris Anisfeld, Samuel Halpert, Abbo condition of the Jewish population,
Or
I be claimed for it. Finally, It is as
Al Your
Ostrowsky, Theresa F. Bernstein, A. to reinforce its direct fight against
sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
S. Baylinson, Lionel Reiss, E. Lissit- Zionism. The Communist Party and
The national spirit is the soul of a zky, Bernard Gussow, Abraham Walk- the Comsomol, Communist youth or-
people. When the Tribes of Israel owitz, William Meyerowitz, J. Lip- ganization, are to be acquainted with
crossed the Jordan they brought with chitz, William and Marguerite Zorach, the character of Zionism. Anti-Zion-
other luggage; an individual way of William Gropper, Manievitch, Ep- ist literature is to be widely spread
thinking that was peculiar, just as stein, Abraham Harrison, Morris Kan- among the youth," the resolution
10205 Mack Avenue - - • - Lincoln 4169
their conceptions and morals were un•
recommended.
like those of other people. With this Brockman,
tor, Max Weber,
I.
Kostini,
Robert
William Auerbach-Levy.
began a new era in world civilization. Maurice Fromken, John Wenger and
That day must be considered lost
Jewish history is crowded with mire some others, making a notable list.
when one has not laughed.
acles.
It is both curious and interesting to
When a Jewish artist in New York consider how few of these listed ar-
or indeed in any other city or suburb tists devote their several talents to the
sets out to express himself with sin. expression of Jewish themes and with
cerity, he must reflect something es- a Jewish spirit. In a way, this is in-
pecially Jewish in his work. Try as he evitable, since the more abstract ten-
may, he cannot but create Jewish art. dencies in modern art offer the artist
Of course if he paints a tree, there an almost perfect escape from the rac-
will be no difference between it and a ial and social environment.
tree painted by a Gentile artist, al-
It is collaterally inevitable when we
ways p rovided that both artists have fully realize that the Jewish commun.
qual skill and training. But the home ity, as such, makes but very alight, if
life of the Jewish artist and his fam- any, demands upon the artist, offering
ily life, combined with synagogue and him on the one hand no encourage-
I business associations inevitably i n meat and on the other, no require-
spires him to paint pictures with
ments. In a commercial age such as
Jewish slant. Such art will of course now prevails this must be considered
make a particular appeal to Hebrews by the artist who is striving on the
for it will be soulful and racially in. one hand to produce art and incident-
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dividulistic.
ally to keep the wolf from his door. =—
This, then becomes Jewish national
There can, of course, be Jewish ar-
tints through the accident of birth, but
art.
It is a popular way of expressing that does not of necessity signify Jew-
ish art unless a social need for it is
ideas.
Blessed is that nation whose history created and developed.
Men like Max Weber, who often
has been built up and developed in
such a way as to give it the possibility mould their art out of Jewish meter-
Ial because their inner consciousness
of harmony.
But it requires no argument or is bound up in Jewish memories and
demonstration to show that not every interest, s must, it will be seen without
nation has had a happy history. The violence , be the exception rather than
history of the Jewish people is bur- the rule.
Leon Kroll and Maurice Sterne,
dened with unhappiness. The fates
of God's chosen people have stricken each an artist of high attainment, =
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and still continue to strike the wan. were seen at their best in a limited EL -
THE OUTSTANDING
number of examples that were exhibit_
dering Jews without respite.
These fates have conspired to drive ed recently at the Anderson Gallery,
VALUE OF THE SEASON
the Jews from one country to another with the New Society of Artists.
As it stands today, the Jewish ar-
and from one corner of the earth to
another, from one language to another. tilt in any of the art centers stands
The Jew is a confirmed wanderer. on an equal footing with his Gentile
He is without a country. Wherever brother in art and is in no respect in - - A"
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he goes he is a stranger in a strange the position of standing outside and
Own Neighborhood
land and there is no universality of looking eagerly but hopelessly at the
welcome for him anywhere. More of- inner circle.
When William Meyerowitz proceeds
ten than otherwise he is received with
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antagonism. The tragic cast in Jew- to depict a Jewish rabbi or a Talmud-
ish history has favored new concep- i st, he gives his subject flesh and blood,
dignity. character and the traditions
tion of liberty and justice.
Nothing indeed has been favorable that belongs to the part.
If a Gentile artist attempts the same
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looking toward the formantion of such
thing, there is a lack of understand-
a thing a a Jewish art school.
ing,
a avant of knowledge of the fine
The centuries after the destruction
of the Jewish country, the wanderings details that should he known to aid in-
of the Jewish people, to which refer. terpretation and the result is a mani-
ence has already been made, combined kin with drapery thrown over the lay
with certain prohibitions against the figure, in the place of the living,
creation of works of art which obtain- breathing individual that it should be.
ed, strongly militate,' against the de- If Mr. Meyerowitz were to undertake
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The author of this article, a non-Jew, is a well known Ameri-
can art critic, now with the Newark Evening New S. lie was art
critic on the New York Evening World for ten years from 1915 to
1925• Among his works are "A Step Across the Gulf to Cuba," ''The
Rise of the Book Plate," James MacNeil Whistler, the man and His
Work; "The Little Girl and Her Soil"; "Jack and Jill, According to
the Modern School of Fiction," "The Bunch of Violets," and "The
Jewelled Dagger." He is a member of the Long Island Historical
Society and of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Ile is
widely known as a collector of Japanese prints and other curious.

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The growing popularity of art in
that Orzcheshko, a Polish authoress.
pictured Jewish life from its most i the abstract is so strong that no one
sympathetic side; but her composition need despair. Never was there a time
was after all, merely on the surface. when there was such a multiplicity of
She found herself incapable of paint- art exhibitions. The radio is used to
ing a Jewish soul. It was a task far carry art messages, the stage owes a
too deep and incomprehensible for an heavy debt to art and in the matter of
outsider. Even her descriptions are interior decoration there is room for
In one place she speaks of art in all forms to meet all varieties of
wrong.
iday evening when a Jew prays taste
The Jewish artist with his progres
with
a
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and Tefillin—on Friday
For many years we have been give
sive personality that seeks in season
night!
ins quick, reliable, economical plurnb•
The famous Russian painter Alva- and out of season for progress in art,
zowsky pointed Jews at "Tashlich, at need never fear. There is a place for
ing service. We have gained a broad•
• I the river Rosh Ilashonah, with a Tal- him as was never before the case and
experience which is at. your. com
ith and Tefillin and a Torah. the time when both Jewish art and
t of the city
mend, no mew what per
The great Michael Angelo created Gentile art shall come into its own is
not very far distant.
you live in.
Moses as an Italian patrician.
The motto of the advertiser who
Sargent painted the prophets as
full-blooded Anglo-Saxons, most of would get on may well be adopted by
the
artist: "Keeping Everlastingly at
them carefully shaved, some he per-
mitted to have a beard. From the ar- it Brings Success."
tistic point of view, they were ex-
tremely fine; b ut the spirit was very
ERRONEOUS REPORT
far from being Jewish.
JACK LEWINE
Gustave Dore illustrated the Bible.
GIVEN ABOU7 REICH
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He is a great artist in execution and
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tion he secured. But a Jew would newPHILADELPHIA. — (J. T. A.)—
Near Gratiot Ave.
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Egyptology at Dropsie College, was I
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James Tissot lived and worked in amazed on reading a despatch that a
man giving his name and profession
His
types
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had been found paralyzed and blind
I are passable. The costumes are true.
on • highway near Vancouver. Wash.
He has secured the atmosphere of the
According to the Vancouver dis-
Holy Land and he has invested his con-
patch, the man who said he was Dr.
cept of the Bible with consuming in-
terest. But the whole is an expres- Reich was found unconscious 15 miles
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pital at Ridgefield, Wash., where he is I
the coldness of Protestantism.
The Tissot paintings in the Brook- recovering.
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ARTHUR A. CURD
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