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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
December 27, 1940
of the common era. It has just.
been published by the Bloch Pub-
lishing Co.
Reuben Leaf (he is the father
of the brilliant dancer, Naomi
Aleh-Leaf, who appeared in• the
Center series here), the eminent
tention. Iter recent "A Child's artist, illustrated this activity
History of Jewish Life" has book.
Thus, Miss Zeligs renders im-
proven an excellent textbook for
portant service by correlating
our schools, as well as a good textbooks with practical sugges-
addition to the average home tions for school work. There are
library.
Her latest work is a "Pupil's various exercises, maps, full-page
suggested exercises
Activity Book," prepared to ac- illustrations,
filling in the right names and
company "A Child's Ilistory of for
right words, etc. Wire bound,
Jewish Life" for the study of the this exercise book sells for 75c.
history of the first 16 centuries
GABRILOWITSCH MUSIC Dorothy F. Zeligs Prepares
HATIKVAH—THE HEBREW ANTHEM LIBRARY DONATED TO Activity Book to Cor-
relate Her History
Hatikvah Reminds Us of the Suffering and Tradition SCHOOL , IN JERUSALEM
Which Has Brought Our People Where
Dorothy F. Zeligs' books for
JERUSALEM (Palcor Agency) children have attracted wide at-
They Are Today
—The entire music library of
the late famous Russian-Amer-
ican pianist and conductor Ossip
Music Director of Jewish Community Center
Gabrilowitsch has been donated
It is an unquestionable fact, ody rom any other part of the to the Palestine Conservatoire of
answer
is
clear.
Mil-
The,
that "Hatikvah" is felt and rec- world?
ognized by Jews of all countries lions of Jews having been driven
to be the Hebrew national an- incessantly 1nm one country to
them. However, there are certain another, in search of peace and
well known Jewish musicians, security, finally settled in Slavic
who from the musical standpoint countries (esp. Russia, Poland).
alone would discard this hymn. Here they made their new home,
base their arguments on realizing the impossibility of re-
'I hey
various grounds. Tney charge turning in the near future, to
that in its style "Hatikvah" is Palestine, the land of hope, prom-
too Slavic in character, lacking ised them in the Bible.
characteristics peculiar to Jewisn Although the Jews were separ-
music and that in its mood it is ated in the Slavic counties from
too melancholy and does not ex- the upper classes and their cul-
press the spirit of the Palestin- tural world, they still had contact
ian "Chalutz." These arguments with the masses, whose folksong
are important enough to require tremendously influenced their tra-
a careful examination and maY ditional music. The Slavic tunes
finally made its way into the
not be passed off lightly.
The opinion is very widespread synagogue and mixing with the
that "Hatikvah" came from the traditional Jewish melodies cre-
theve used by the great Czech ated a new style Slavic-Oriental
composer Friedrich Smetana, in music. This music can still be
his symphonic poem "Moldava." heard in most of the compositions
However, the facts of the case of Jewish composers living out-
show that this melody is a Slav- side of Palestine.
Only a few years ago there
is folksong, which was sung hun-
dreds of years before Smetana began in Palestine a new musical
was even born. We must there- movement, which is attempting LATE OSSIP GABRILOWITSCII
fore draw the obvious conclusion to remove the European influences
that both themes, "'Hatkivah" in Jewish music. The composers Music, located in this city, by
and Smetana's, originated from of this new school base their his widow, Mrs. Clara . Clemens
the same source. music on the strictly Oriental Gabrilowitsch, (laughter of the
But why, one may ask, did the Bedouin and Yemenite music. American author Mark Twain.
Jews choose a Slavic melody for However, being that the Oriental
Over a thousand volumes were
their anthem, rather than a mel- schoid is yet in its infancy, we in the library left by the Rus-
find the Slavic type still very
popular. And so we see, that the
Slavic cast is the fertile back-
ground from which sprang not
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cians, but also powerful Jewish
movements, such as Chassidism
and Zionism. It was here that
the Jews created their national
anthem "Hatikvah."
To answer the second argu-
ment, namely that "Hatikvah"
is too melancholy and does not
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reflect the joyous spirit of the
"Chalutism" let me say that
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"Ilatikvah" must of necessity be
a melancholy song, having been
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created by people, who lived for
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2,000 years in unhappy circum-
stances. Even the "Chalutzini"
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should sing the song which re-
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flects their experiences, while
they build their homeland for
the future. They must build
a new world based on the bitter
lessons learned in the old. They
must not forget the sufferings,
the tradition, which has brought
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them where they are today.
In passing let us note here, MRS. OSSIP GABRILOWITSCH
that both groups of Jews the
Sephardim and the Ashkenazim sian-born musician, who after
recognize "Hatikvah" as the Jew- his marriage in 1909 identified
ish national anthem and it is sung himself more and more with the
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in the manner of other national life of the United States, of
anthems. Even Jews who have which he became a citizen in
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centuries and who are virtually rebuilding of the Jewish Na-
natives of that country even in tional Home is reflected in his
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quite often.
It is important to recognize
the fact that as it stands today "Hatikvah" does not constitute
a complete musical composition.
Other national anthems are sung
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with the harmonization of the
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original composer. "Hatikvah"
however, not having been written
by any particular composer neces-
sarily lacks a definite harmony
and we find conductors all over
the world inject into it their own
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A world competition should be
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held among composers to decide
upon the best harmonic back-
ground for "Hatikvah." It should
then be published in this version
and spread all over the world.
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A Joyous Chanukah to All
In this way "Hatikvah" would
be standardized in its best pos-
sible form and would not only
find its proper place among the
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