PAGE FOUR TifEDurgomikwisn New York Evening World Makes Report On Palestine YIDDISH ACTORS HONOR ISAAC ARCO ifRONICLE Music---Its History, Traditions and Value In Synagogue Service visited me in my room at the Allen- by Hotel in Jerusalem to explain the Arab point of view on the Jew- ish colonization. "There is nothing fanatically fe- Will Give Special Performance Wednesday at People's Theater. rocious in their attitude to the Jews. They admitted that the Isaac Arco, leading man of Litt- country has benefitted immensely, Extracts From a Series On the Growing Jewish Homeland. man's People's Theater , will be done that, we'll turn our hands to honored by a special performance a little dairying. More problems (Editor's Note:—There recently appeared a series of six next Wednesday evening, Dec. 28. there, but I tell you I find it more articles in the New York Evening World, in which the economic By JACOB SINGER. The play will be Artzibashets interesting than the work I did over and social status of Jews in Palestine was surveyed. Written in Renzi), Poland." famous "Sanin." impartially, but with a full understanding of the sacrifices in- "What did you do there?" The early part in the nineteenth synagogue remained exclusively a Mr. Arco will interpret the role volved in the establishment in Palestine of the national Jewish "Oh, I studied law." c entury witnessed many changes in vocal art. The great bar to the of Sanin, the Russian student, a "At this reply the whole group homeland, these articles are indicative of the growing appre- role which e ill do full justice to burst out laughing. At the same the life of European Jewry. Coeval development of our sacred music ciation in the non-Jewish world of the heroism and nobility with the political emancipation was removed by the introduction his great talent. moment a dozen or as girls came of the Jewish poneers in Eretz Israel. The articles were writ- Russian gypsy songs will fea- along, baskets on their arms, some c ame the general interest in secu- of the organ in the synagogue. The ten by a staff correspondent of the New York Evening World, l ture the program. These songs of them bare footed, many with ar learning which brought a com- "a capella" or unaccompanied song one of the leading papers in the United States. Those ex- will be sung by Mr. Arco himself hoes and spades on their shoulders. plete transformation in the inner is used with great effectiveness in cerpts are typical of the spirit and comprehension which marks as an lidded attraction to the per- There was an exchange of 'shal- life of the Jew. One may regard Jewish and non-Jewish houses of the reforms in synagogue music as worship; still artistic results are the series.) formance. oms,' the Hebrew for peace, and the The ability of Mr. Area as lead- universal, even Arab, greeting in part of the general movement possible only where well trained which made for the modernization voices are available. Large or op- Within the last few weeks there articles are in 00 way written from ing man of the Yiddish repertoire Palestine. of Judaism. Although Solomon ulent congregations alone can com- appeared in the New York Evening a Zionist or even Jewish point of company is well known to the "Strong, magnificent women they World a series of six articles on view. The author, apparently well- Jewish community and a large at- were. Conversation between them Sulzer, the late cantor of Vienna mand the resources necessary for present conditions in Palestine. versed in the political situation of tendance of his admirers will be and the boys became general in a wrote music for a religious serv- such an exacting undertaking. The Unheralded, printed on the regular the Near East, describes in clear present next Wednesday evening. minute. Silvery laughter rippled ice where no doctrinal changes were use of the organ simplifies the contemplated; nevertheless, with problem considerably. With the news pages, somewhere among the and simple style the Jewish, Chris- through the air. They promised to the introduction of the four part help of the organ, even the unison items relating to amnesia and boot- tian and Arabic Palestine he saw. meet again that night, not at the leg cases, these unsigned articles He is fascinated by the romantic of the Zionist effort to rebuild the movie, nor theater, for there aren't song constructed along modern song of the congregation or the lines, with the preparation of his part song of the single quartette have attracted more attention, I be- rebirth of the Jewish nation, forced Jewish homeland. lieve, than most of the big stunt upon him by the facts as he oh- The correspondent of the Eve- any, but at the session of the Peace "Shir Zion" in which Schubert and become artistically satisfying. As "Jewish gainers," published with- iwrved them. He has an unbiased ning World has the following to say Court where the boys themselves others participated, it was evident a result of this innovation in Jew- in the last few years. Yet, these though sympathetic, understanding of his first contact with the Chu- would act as judges, defense law- that the Jews of Europe had reach- ish worship, the humblest congre- yers and civil attorneys. ed a new spoch in their history. gation is enabled to enjoy the best lutzim: "If all the money so liberally ex- specimens of sacred music. With Music of the Synagogue. "I saw my first Chalutzim just north of Afule. The sun was al- pended by New York Jews has not Although music was highly es- the aid of the organ not alone do ready sinking rapidly beyond Car- accomplished any more than mak- teemed in antiquity, its growth as our traditional chants assume a mel and they were busy storing ing human beings out of these for- an art was stilled and retarded by , new dignified beauty and appeal; oats in a been. Some of the boys mer ghetto dwellers, it has not been the unfavorable conditions which but the great creations of Bach and Beethoven and the other nts- hardly seemed capable of lifting in vain." It is this humanly intimate man- followed the destruction of the an- ' ters become accessible to the Jew- the heavy sacks, so frail they temple in the year 70 C. E. I A seemed. They bent double under ner which characterizes all of the cient ish worshipper; so that the art of As a sign of morning for Zion, in- MEMBERS: the load, and nobody spoke a word. Evening World's correspondent's strumental music was banned from I o"J asphett.:omes to beautify the tents views of Palestine. tie dues not go of Shem." "No eight-hour day here?" I ask- either to the Zionist or Arab official public worship, the only exception The Organ In Reform Judaism. r2.17 YORK STOCK EXCIIANGE ed the truck driver. headquarters for his information being the shofar or ram's horn, the ft The use of the organ in the syn- DETROIT STOCK EXCHANGE "We don't count the hours here; ancient signal instrument, which this is Palestine," came the reply. but tries, and apparently success- has remained to our day. From agogue forms one of the burning CLEVELAND STOCK EXCHANGE fully, to escape Palestinian official- isues in the polemical and apolo- "Well, you're working overtime PITTSBURGH STOCK EXCHANGE dom. Particularly remarkable is what was once aglorious art, only getical literature of Reform Juda- then." a few vocal specimens have been i sm. I his view of what the ordinary news- COLUMBUS STOCK EXCHANGE t was introduced in Berlin "We don't receive wages. This preserved; and part of the musical by Israel Jacobson on June 14, CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE whole colony is nurs and all th e paper writer would refer to as "the terminology f templ e Arab-Jewish question." And there 1885. So vigorous was the objec- land around. Wark is the only NEW YORK CURB MARKET corded in the superscriptions of the thing that counts," he continued. he finds that the question does not Psalms and elsewhere are the enig- tion to instrumental music in the require any answer, for it answers 114.1111 PENOBSCOT BUILDING synagogue, that Emperor Freder- "When a new man comes here h e mas of scholars. Just as the biol. ick William III a-aspersuaded to doesn't ask what we can Is for him itself. Randolph 4993-4-5.6-7 ogist can reconstruct the form of close the synagogue on Dec. 6 of "When the first Jewish settlers but what he can do for l'alestine." an extinct animal on the basis of a New York Canton "Ilave you been here a long arrived, the Arab masses were in- single bone, so the musical archae- the same year on the ground that R. 1. TEMPlIN, Manager flamed against the newcomers. such innovations encouraged time?" Cleveland Direst Private Wires to All Zanesville ologist can retrace, in a more limi- "Thirty months, but I am moving They were told the Jews had conic ted way, the character of ancient schisms in Jewry. The chief ob- Findlay Columbus pal Markets. along. My time is up. I go to a to rob them of their land. Absent music by the study of the cantil- jections to the organ were: (1) colony next week that is being landlords, who held the Arab work- lations, chants and the ancient that playing a musical instrument a■ ILIL\NM ■■■■■ \\W ■\\\ 1■■■■■■ .\\11s.\\ 16. new started in Galilee up there." He ers in an abject and miserable state scales or "modes" which a rever- on the Sabbath and the holidays was forbidden work since it con- motioned in the direction of Naza- of semi-slavery, saw that the jig ent tradition has preserved. stituted a "shevus" or disturbance reth. "Things are moving all right was up, so to speak, when the Jew- ish colonies started to hire Arab Musical Tradition. on the day of rest; (2) as a sign here now, but experienced workers Holiday Greetings to My Jewish Friends. The accents or "neginoth" in the of mourning for Zion, all music was are needed in the new settlement." labor and pay the man a decent wage. It was the end of feudalism. Bible have a musical signification to be discouraged save at wed- "The sacks of oats were stored away and some of the men gather- They sent their propagandists which is interpreted for us by liv- dings; (3) Jewish services must about, and for a time Jew and Arab ing tradition. Their universal use not smack of imitation of the Gen- ed around. Bronzed faces, lithe fig- Parsons ures, hardy peasants you might faced each other as hitter enemies. in the three chief variants, viz. the tiles "Ilukath ha-Goyim." Prota- "It is so no longer. After all, Ashkenazic (north European), the gonists of Reform Judaism con- say, only they did not talk like peas- CHIROPRACTIC PHYSICIAN ants, but rather like university pro- the Arab is an intelligent fellow. Sephardic (south European) and tended that the use of instrumental In the course of history he has giv- Oriental rituals points to their an- , music is no desecration of the Salt- fessors. Food and Nerve Specialist "Is there any news in the en evidence of remarkable genius. tiquity. In this "ancient declama- bath, that since the organ was used world?" one fellow asked. "Has Our own civilization is largely tory" song there is abundant evi- in the ancient temple, it is more 803 INDUSTRIAL BANK BUILDING anybody started a new war, per- but that they were afraid that a dence of musical resourcefulness, Jewish than otherwise. Reform Jewish state would be set up some since the choice of "mode" or scale, Judaism denies the return of the Grand River, Corner Washington Blvd. haps?" But don't you read the papers day and that the Arabs would over- and the melodic phrase employed !exiles, but holds that our disper- ACTENIC RAY — X-RAY — PHYSIC-THERAPY crowd Palestine, which, they said, are in keeping with ancient canons sion is part of the providential then?" Office: Randolph 3983 "Occasionally we do. But what is a poor country incapable of sup- of art. Both in the cantillations of scheme in the historical destiny of Residence: Glendale 3176 is the use? We have our land here. porting large numbers of popula- the Bible and in the chants of our Israel; objection to instrumental Lady Nurse in Attendance. prayers we have a device which ' music as a sign of mourning for That is enough occupation. You'd tion. "The Arab peasants with whom might be regarded as an anticipa- ; Zion is no longer tenable. Accord- TREATMENTS IN YOUR HOME be surprised to find how many I spoke are not concerned about tion of the "leit motif" (i.e. the use ingly, the organ appeared in Re- problems bob up here. We leave the theorizing to others, and try minority rights of population or in of a musical phrase to represent form synagogues in western Eu- fact with any political doctrine. a mood or an occasion) of modern rope and the United States the to solve practical problems. We are glad to be rid of the hysteria of They want to live, and eat, lie in music. The same is true of the im- early part of the nineteenth cen- the sun and dream in their provisations of the Hazzanim and tury. To the layman unacquaint- modern society. The thing that de- stroys the peace of the world and mosques. The only animosity be- the fixed melodies employed in con- ed with the theological differences tween Jew and Arab was encount- gregational song. The competent between Reform and Orthodoxy, the peace of the individual minds, the frantic urge for success and ered in Jerusalem, where it was Hassan knows the traditional the presence of the organ marks the chiefly a political theory that occu- "mode" or scale, and the "Gust" or Reform, while its absence denotes money making is fortunately un- style which each occasion requires. the Orthodox synagogue. known with us. We have no re- pied the Arab press. Mack Avenue—WU-Mile Road. "An Arab farmer, who had in- -- Hence our traditional music fur- Music In Reform Synagogues. grets over having left so-called civ- Synagogue music in America ilization behind. We are going to stalled a modern dairy in the north, nishes a thrilling commentary to build one of our own. And the from the receipts of extraordinary our ritual, and illumines the dra- was cultivated by the disciples of sums for a strip of land, said that matic moments of our historical Sulzer, Lewando•ski and other em- kirth is our teacher. "We are trying to get a heavier he would go on his hended knee to life. We have the festive decla- inent cantors. Alois Kaiser of Bal- yield of wheat this year. And I ask the Jewish colonies to stay if mation for the holidays, the som- timore, the dean of American Can- think we'll succeed. When we have ever they should decide to leave. 'I bre but defiant notes of the IN tors, Sparger, Goldstein, Stark and based unon Arabic culture. When sell them my dairy products and Nidre, the pathetic song of the others have served the Reform syn- Special Dinner and Edtertainment for he saw that his babies did not die ray garden produce. My sons are martyr in the "Abodah." Despite agogue in a notable manner. A New Year's Eve, any longer; that Jewish doctors studying at the Jewish Technicum the influences of the medieval number of musicians both Jewish cured his terrible eye disease, that in Ilaifa. I have built a house church song and the melodies of the and non-Jewish deserve special Make Early Re , ervatians -- $6.00 Per Person. malaria ceased as by magic, follow- since they came. Before, under the troubadors and minstrels, Jewish mention, particularly, Max Spicker, Phone Roseville 558. ing the draining of the swamps by Turks, I was a miserable peasant, music has a character of its own, Sigmund Schlesinger, Wald, Rog- pioneers, he wondered without hope for the future,' he and its appeal for the Jewish heart era and Thatcher. The Central oaaaooatioarioolsocioacx)ootl0000000a000nofxnaol l the h i • Jewish neither time nor circumstance can Conference of American Rabbis has s enmity against the Jews were told "In the high school at Tel Aviv . destroy, The best specimens of pqblished two editions of the Un- not misplaced, and instead of lb the only purely Jewish city In the this ancient synagogue song ema- ion Hymnal with the aim of stimu- enemy he came to recognize a world, the rector asked me if I nate from the time of the "Payye- lating congregational singing. The friend. Hebrew Union College Library has "A delegation consisting of the wanted to put some questions to tanim" or religious poets who flour- the hoys of the graduating class. I ished from the tenth to the four- !probably the largest collection of Arab Mayor of Jerusalem, Rageb Jewish music in the world, and the asked them which period in the teenth centuries. The general Bey, Djemal Ilusseini, the young conference as well as the Union of leader of Arabian nationalism, history of Palestine they considcreu chatacter of this song Is mournful. American Hebrew Congregations Omar el Bargouty, Rafik el Tamini the most important. One slender, Under the circumstances they could have a shown a keen interest in the and the Arab newspaper editors dark-skinned youth stood up and hardly be otherwise. That there promotion of our liturgical music. with an earnestness that was strik- should have been a desire for musi- ing spoke for 20 minutes on the cal expression indicates a natural There is a better understanding on grandeur of Solomon's epoch. A aptitude for the art and a talent the part of comprsers of the spirit beautiful style of architecture had which Jewish musicians in the re- of Jewish music due materially to developed in the temple and the pal- cent days of freedom have amply the studies carried on by investi- ace, enemies paid tribute, the king- demonstrated. The Sephardic tra- gators and students of this sub- . 4 1■ , dom stretched far and wide, poetry dition shows more non-Jewish in- ject. "The day is short and the work was being born. Most of the fluence but the more isolated north- Psalms and Canticles date from ern comunitiea have developed a is great," said one of our sages. It is obvious that the progress of syn- this era of grandeur in Palestine's chant which is more unique. agogue music needs the critical history. The rector told me that Hazsanuth. study of investigators coupled with the boy's Hebrew was flawless and Between the sixteenth and eigh- that his thesis was eloquently put. teenth centuries, the life of the Jew the talents of fully qualified musi- cians. The real success of music But the boy was an Arab and his in Europe had reached the nadir of father a leader in the anti-Zionist misery. Because of heartless pre- meant for religious ends depends upon the laymen more than upon movement." gloomy y isolation of scr iption so ng land ecam oamanner some group of specialists. Progress And that is the way the New wail- York newspaper correspondent ing, and Jewish melodies the mus- in sacred music will come only with went through Palestine, in one ical setting of Jewish tears. Like progress in spiritual rejuvenation place observing fervent Christian some flower denied the light of the External reforms are no more po- services in the Holy Sepulchre, in sun. music in the ghetto became a tent in quickening religious life another watching the pioneer work sickly and distorted art. One hears than the antiquated ceremonials in the Jewish colonies; now visit- in the impassioned gypsy-like runs can guarantee its permanence. Re- ing picturesque Arab settlements, and flourishes of the Ilazzanim the ligious revivals have ever been as - at another time observing city life struggle of the Jewish soul for sociated with song; and if Reform in the new Tel Aviv or old Jerusa- freedom and for light. Sir Hubert Judaism has come to stir anew the lem. Quietly and unpretentiously Parry holds that a musical people heart of modern Israel our sacred the Evening World man investigat- without education cultivates vir- song will play no small part in the ed the cultural, agricultural and tuosity and ornamentation at the religious awakening of our people. "Sing unto the Lord a new song medical activities in the New Pal- expense of structure and form. estine. Strangely enough the po- This lack of education due to the —praise Him in the beauty of holi- litical aspects are entirely missing, injustice of an unkind and unjust ness." The Kimball piano has and although the conclusions of the age, made out of liarzanuth a fer- writer would surely have been in- vent but formless outpouring of the won the admiration of t-resting, they are not essential to Jewish heart. At its best it is the ENGLISH SYNAGOGUES performer and listen- GRANT WOMEN POWER this short. yet ccmprehensive pic- impassioned cry of religious ec- ture of Palestine. er. " A frequent en- stacy, at its worst, it a tedious and LONDON. — (J. T. A.)—The even ludicrous vocalistic "Opal" dorsement from art- or sophistry which can only serve granting of suffrage to women PARENT AND CHILD peatholders in the synagogues af- ists refers to the Kim- to impair and deaden the spirit of filiated with the United Synagogue ball as an inspiration The parent who weakly yields devotion in a modern congregation. in England was decided upon at a Musical Reform.. to a disagreeable child in interest meeting of the Council of the Unit- —a high tribute to the The foremost place in the reform ed A Sylago of temporary peace is uncon- rnr y responsive action and sciously preparing for more endur- of synagogal music belongs to Sol- preceded the ing and severe disturbance later omon Sulzer (1804-1890). Like adoption of the resolution which beauty of tone. on. The relations of parenthood Moses Mendelssohn, he strove to was carried by a majority of C6 with children are not properly es- bring the culture of Europe to the against 51. The Kimball has sat- tablished until impulse yields to children of the ghetto. Vienna was isfied hundreds of the intelligence, comfort to convic- peculiarly fitted for such an enter- MEMORIAL MEETING prise since Haydn, Mozart. Beet- tion.—The Supplement. great musicians and IN HONOR OF CHAJES hoven and Schubert had made of it has found favor in the musical Mecca of Europe. Sul- Wm. E. Robb, Secretary AMERICAN AND FRENCH zer brought the traditional chant- VIENNA.-11. T. A.)—Delega- more than 300,000 ing in the synagogue en rapport tions representing various Zionists Some Americans in Paris criti- with the musical requirements of isocieties and many representative homes. of the cize what they call the immortal- his day. In this effort Sulzer Jews from Poland, Germany, Italy. Can you ask better ity of the French people while anticipated by Meir Cohen, and Czecho-Slovakia, Roumania and their own assumed morality is more significantly by Solomon d Hungary arrived here to attend the .evidence o f superi- largely either constitutional cold- Rossi in Italy in the seventeenth funeral services for the late Dr. ority? neas or cowardice parading as vir- century. The earlier attempts had Teri Perez Chajes. The Federation tue. One can at least admire the merely a local significance. Sulzer i of Austrian Zionists, as well as tit- Grand $795 to $1400 . French for their candor. Lewandowelti, Naumbourg and ' Vienna Kehillah, have issued • call Uprights $420 to $750 . I suggest for the consideration their co-workers toiled in ■ mar, for • memorial meeting in hunor of American critic. of French vir- favorable age, and their efforts if the late scholar. tue that much of the salacious in were more far reaching. Throne` CO. 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G-O-I-N-G! GOING!! GOING!!! FOR THE LANDLORD-TENANT RULES SUGGESTED JERUSALEM.— (J. T. A.) — Recommendationsto regulate the relation between tenants clutivat- ing the land under lease and the owners who desire to sell the land were made by the Jerusalem com- mittee for the protection of agri- cultural tenants. The committee in its published report suggests that the landlord be required to give on year's no- tice if he wishes the tenant to leave the land. The landlords are also to be required to compensate the tenant for improvements made on the land and to pay damages if the eviction causes any disturb- ance. It was stated that the rec- ommendations of the committee are soon to be incorporated in a government ordinance. WARSAW JEWS SCORE ROUMANIAN POGROMS WARSAW. — (J. T. A.)—The anti-Jewish pogroms in Roumania were condemned in a resolution adopted at a full session of the council of the Warsaw Kehillah, The text as offered by B. Mich- alewicz, representative of the la- bor party, Band, charges the Rou- manian government with direct re- sponsibility for the pogroms, de- daring that they were a result of the outspoken policy of the gov- ernment against the national mi- norities in the country. AN EMPTY WAGON Whenever a member of a board of trustees tells you that he doesn't care about his position and will be glad to resign when- ever he is asked to make way for someone else, pay no attention to him. lie is trying to make you believe what he doesn't believe. If he is indifferent to his position, why doesn't he give it upon give a chance to some one else that would appreciate the opportunity and honor? The trouble with such men is that they lack natural big- ness and try to assume it by a pretended magnanimity. An empty wagon is usualy noisy.—The Sup- plement. GREAT NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY —.at .— ORIOLE TERRACE EAST GRAND BLVD. at Woodward. 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