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On the thirtieth anniversary of , luncheon at the chateau at Fon-
her death, and just seventy-five tainebleau. Mlle. Bon Heur wrote
years after she stirred considerable of this visit: "I was placed beside
excitement in the world of art by the Emperor and all during the
one of her creations, France is meal he talked to me about the in-
paying belated honor to one of her telligence of animals." Several
native genuises, Rosa Bon Heim, years later the Legion of Ilonor
the famous French Jewess whose was raised to the higher grade of
fame, like the ancient adapt, was "otticior."
I always greater in England and in
During the last 25 years of her
the United States than in France. .life she completely ignored the
There is a well-founded tradition great and influential French salons,
that in Bordeaux where she was which in her early career had snub-
born in 1882 she was generally bed and neglected her work, while
known as Rose Mazel Tov, a literal her paintings were becoming more
translation of her French patron- I eagerly sought after in England
ymic. She came from a family of and in the United States where
orthodox Jews who had lived in the they were frequently bought long
south of France forAtVeral Bence - before she had completed them.
ations. Her father, oo, was an art-
Her most famous work, the
ist of no mean repute.
""Horse Fair," now on view in New
Two rooms in the beautiful Cha- 1 York, had a strange career before
teau of Fontainebleau have just ' it reached its present place. An
been set aside as a museum dedi- English art dealer by the name of
cated to Rose Bon Heim. The site! Gambard had bought it from Rosa
of the museum is particularly ap- l'Bon Hear for 40,000 francs, to-
posite since it was in this neighbor- gether with a one quarter size re-
hood of France with its charming 1 plica of the larger work which she
rivers, canals and forests, all still agreed to include in the sale. This .
the haunts of artists, that she lived I replica was sold by the shrewd I
and created her numerous animalidealer to an English collector for
pictures and taught art for many ' $5,000. Later it was willed to the I
years. It was near Fontainebleau, i National Gallery. The large work,
too, that she died in 1899 at the ! the original, which measures 16
ripe old age of 77. by It feet, was bought by an Amer-
When yet very young her father can named Wright, who paid
recognized her remarkable talent, $6,000, which was later reduced to
and in order that she might devote $4,000 by claims for a share in the
herself entirely to her art, permit- profits of showing the picture.
ted her to give up the business of The vast canvas after passing
dressmaking, to which she had, through many hands came up for
( very much against her will, been public auction in England where it
apprenticed. was bought by Cornelius Vander-
At 18 she had already exhibited hilt for $53,000. Later he ppresent-i
the leading salons and by 1845 ed it to the Metropolitan Museum
she boasted of five medals. Her of Art in New York City.
real fame, however, dates from
The above is a typical group of Chalutzim, Jewish pioneers, at '
While Rosa Bon Hear painted
ar Saba, one of the Jewish settlements in Palestine. During the
1855 for from that time on her other kinds of pictures most of her Kfar
works began to be in real demand works centered around animals. So recent disturbances these pioneers were compelled o put aside spade
snd shovel and to be on guard in defense of their settlement. Kfar !
in England where public galleries interested was she in animals th
tie Saba was untouched, the Arab hordes fearing to r approach
and collectors outbid each other there was not a corner of France
the all-
for them. The most remarkable that escaped her search for them. Jewish settlements near Tel Aviv.
characteristic of her work was that The catalogue of her works is al-
she represented animals as she most entirely composed of animal
really saw them. She had a rare pictures.
"ISRAEL AT THE CROSSWAYS"
gift of observation. The anatomy
One of the quaint features of
of the animals in her pictures were her
studio was an ante-chamber
always faultlessly true to life.
which she used as a stable for the Esee..pt of Address by Dr. Stephen S. Wise Before the Free Synagogue
Her most famous work and the 'onvenient study of animals, of
one that first brought her interna- which she collected some noble spec-
In the centuries of the long among many of us to surrender
tional recognition by artists, critics imens. Rosa Bon Fleur WAS a fee- journey,
history may be our faith, to abandon our people,
and an appreciative public, was the quest visitor to horse markets and said to be Jewish
a succession of halting,
"Horse Fair." This huge canvas fairs where she was an interested at the crossways. Israel began its to renounce our life and its stand-
theoriginal of whi ch has for many , observe r. It wa s these visits that history with an emergence from ards. Israel, instead of rising in I
years been on exhibition in the led her to wearing masculine garb. paganism and polytheism, and in this hour to a magnificent rena-
Metropolitan Museum of Art in , Her masculine apparel, however, the time of that first emergence scenesuff
er
New York City, created something did not prevent her from take ng a to monotheism and mono-moral
of a revolution in artistic circles great interest in other women art- ism, it stood alone, accepting the overcome not by a larger faith, but
when she first displayed it in 1853. fists for whom she conducted the challenge of its loneliness with through yielding to the lower
temptations of the world. Liberal
The success of this monumental Free School of Design in Paris zest and high passion.
Judaism must save its disciples
work was the beginning of a long when she was but 27 years old.
And the second stage of the from degenerating into the veiled
string of achievements which en- During the siege of Paris near journey resolved itself into a bat
abled her to become an important the end of the Franco-Prussian tie or conflict with contending - paganism of an anti-nationalist
figure in the world of art. Iler ' War, the Crown Prince of Prussia faiths, with competing civilization sectarianism. Not yet most Israel
popularity and the great attention : specially ordered that her studio all of them alien to its own inmost , become a secularized people rather
that was paid to her work was due and residence at Fontainebleau spirit. But in this second stage than a religious brotherhood. It
not only to the remarkable vigor should be spared and respected. He of its history, throughout the cen must build its idealism into the in-
and realism of her paintings buteven sent a detail of Prussian hus- tunes of which the temptation to - tegrity of self-revering life in the
ancient homeland of the Jew and
also to the fact that in those days ' sars to guard her effects.
self-submergence
was strong into an equally worth y life
women artists were not so common,
Among her other notable works Israel no longer stood alone in it s . throughout
the lands of the Disper-
especially such able ones.
are "Horses Threshing Corn" which spiritual upreaching. Nearly two
Not only did she achieve distinct.; brought $60,000. It is the largest millenia passed, and, when the day sion. From all this it is not
enough
to
be
by the pressure
ion in her chosen work of art but animal picture ever painted, show- of emancipation came, it found the of the world saved
without—Israel's
R ose Bon Ileur was to become the l ing ten horses as large as life. In Jew with head bloody but un-
must be a free and uncoerced and
first woman to be decorated with 1896 on her seventy-fourth birth- bowed, even as his spirit today inmost choice. Elsewise the end
the Legion of Honor, one of the !day she completed a painting repre- seems, alas, bowed and bloodless. 'of the long journey of the cen-
most coveted of honors at the din-1 seating the historical combat be- • If the temptation during the turies will be spiritual confusion
posal of the French Republic. She I tween two stallions to which Lord centuries was to assimilate, and to and moral chaos. If Israel now
attained further fame by her adopt. I Godolphin invited his friends in fail to offer a high self-persistence nobly choose , the journey shall
ion of mannish attire, to which 1734.
because of the parity of tithe r prove t o have been the noblest of
clung through all of the changes In addition to her decoration faiths and cultures, today there i s the world's pilgrimages.
io she
of fa s hi ons i in women's apparel. In from
f
the e mpress Eugenie she was another peril, as Israel, perhaps for
this connection it has frequently made a member of the Belgian In- the last time, stands at the parting _
been pointed out that there never I stitute in 1862, received the Leo- of the ways. The forms of faiths O rganize Day Class in Citi
was anything feminine in her hand- pold Cross from the King of Bel- are common to all, and nothing bu'
zenship
ling of her materials. She was al-; glum in 1880 and in the same year a great devotion to the substance
ways firm and manly.
received from the King of Spain, of our people's faith and ideadsm
The
evening
school department
Until recently Rosa Bon Hear the Commander's Cross of the can move us now,
had not fared so well at the hands , Royal Order of Isabella, the Cath- r Today it may be said that the announces a day class in citizen
ship
will
be
organized
for men and
of the French critics, nor even of olic.
Jew, perhaps only half-consciously, women who because of working
the French public. It was the Em-
To this day Rosa Bon lieur, or must choose between faith and ir- hours or for other s
reasons
are pre-
press Eugenie who took the initia- Rosa Mazel Toy is still the fam- religion, and irreligion for the Jaw
vented frorq attending Om evening
too often means not only philo- classes. It will meet in the Ameri-
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- tion on her. It was from the Cha-
sophic atheism but substantive canization Committee rooms at Era.
- teau at Fontainebleau that the Em-
synicism. Israel must choose to- kine and Riopelle from 10. a. m
press rode over to Rosa Bon Ileur's National Chalutzim Commit - day, especially what is known as
studio
studio at By, to pay her an unan- tee to Receive Palestine liberal Judaism, between becoming, to 12. m. on Monday, Wednesday
pulseless sect or a living people, and Friday of each week. Instruc-
nounced and totally unexpected, Immigration Certificates.
tion is free. For those who need
between lapsing into a feeble mem- instruction in English there are al-
Mlle. Bon lieur in telling of the
The National Chalutzim Commit- ory or rising into a full-orbed life. ready classes meeting at the same
vis it in later
Whatever some Jews may think
tee that was recently organized in
barely had time to slip on a skirt New York City with the aim of about it, there is the temptation time and place.
over the woolen pantaloons that fostering and developing a Chalut-
she wore at work and to cover her zim movement in this country has
blue blouse with her velvet jacket established contact with the His-
before the Empress reached the tadruth, general federation of Jew-
door. Overton ing the artist's ish workers in Palestine, and has
strange attire the Empress pinned requested a number
the cross of the Legion of Honor
•ntr.tific:t;°
„..
on Rosa Bon Ileys:a Jrist t
Those desiring to go to Palestine q
kissing her pri.h.
oath
cheeks
departed
as
Chalutzim
should communicate
a f
„. e-, praising her work.
with the National Chalutzim Com-
Shortly after that Rosa Bon I mittee, 32 Union Square, room
Heur received an invitation to 1010, New York City.

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