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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronic!.

WORDS AND MUSIC

ON THE HOME FRONT

August 13, 1943

Jewish Sports World .. .

By DANIEL L. SCHORR
INTERSETING ITEMS
We first met many members
YEHUDI MENUHIN
By BENJAMIN KAUFMAN
NoThert Heller, an official o f of this gallant band in Tel Aviv,
Yehudi Menuhin is what one
Composslonol Medal of Honor
Palestine, when we went abroad
%vould call an on-and-off musi cian. the once famous Hakoah Swin as press representative with the
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ming
Club
of
Vienna,
has
bee
He is capable of amazingly b eau-
n first American Maccabee team in
National Commend..
tiful performances, yet s ome- in Maracaibo, Venezuela, fo ✓ 1932. We toured Europe on a
times gives one that is just coin- some time now since ne escape d junket tour along with Harold
Sowith War Veterans of the U. S.
••• petent. Occasionally there is even
Kramer, Lou Abelson and Jesse
a considerable variation bet ween from the Nazis. Heller has gon • Siegal, the aquatic stars of the
on record to say that althougl
his
playing
of
two
different
Mayor LaGuardia told the pe
num- the Nazis have killed, cripple d
U. S. "
A. team that year, and
pie of New York that what to o- who might have been unkind t o bens on one program.
or imprisoned many of its mem many members of the Hakoah
ok
them.
Obviously
this
was
the
re
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Recently
I
heard
Mr.
Men
place in Harlem recently was n
ot suit of long-time agitation by play at the Stadium in New Y uhin hers, they have not been abl swimming club were in our party.
a race riot.
ork,
t
But
the
trip
was
made
long
be-
the race-hate gangs, who would just after his return fron
to disorganize the spirit of tha
Clearly it was not. There we
I a erstwhile world famous Jewish fore the chaotic war conditions
t
no groups on either side orga re like nothing better than to se tour of South America. I had athletic organization.,
of today prevail. Much of the
Jew and Negro at each other's talked with him only that of ter-
ized for attack or for defens n-
Nearly 90 per cent of the 600 fun on that trip we owe to the
e. throats. These Negroes had fallen noon about problems m confronting
There were no "burning que 5-
into the trap.
an artist in developent of his Jewish men and women athletes members of the club. No wonder
tions" demanding immediate se t-
There is no five-day sulfa cure style, and some of the things who belonged to the club when then that we rejoice at Norbert
tlement.
Heller's words about the safety
he said shed light on his per- Hitler invaded Austria have es- of
But there were basic situation s for race or religious hate.
most of the 600 members. We
caped to friendly nations, Heller
Negroes
and
Jews
in
America
formance
that
night.
which made it possible for hoo
said. Almost all are in Allied sincerely hope that some day—
d-
have
important
things
in
corn-
Relaxing
on
a
sofa
of
his
ho-
lums to be incited by agitator
armed forces or doing war work, perhaps at the very next Macca-
consciously serving the Fascis s mon: they are both minorities; tel apartment and unconsciously but they have kept in touch biad—we will meet many of our
t
they
are
both
victims
of
preju-
sliding his fingers from one posi-
groups. The white race has n
with each other through a bulle- former friends—today among the
monopoly on Quislings. Negr o dice; though there is no coin- tion to another on his Guarner- tin published weekly in London. most gallant band of athletes in
parison
with
the
intensity
of
ius as he talked, Mr. Menuhin
traitors to their own people, em
me of tq escapes have been the world.
ployed by the race-hate groups - the prejudice against the Negro. told me of the difficulties a mu-' spectacular. One youth now fight-
,
They
are
both
marked
as
possible
sician
faces
in
achieving
balance
i
were there to magnify one whit
ng with the British in the Mid-
policeman's questionable act int e iwitruments for causing confu- between the composer's intention dle East swam the Danube to Nazis Slew 4,000
o sion and disunity among the and the performer's personal ex-
a riot.
Czechoslovakia, then walked by Jews in Stavropol
American people.
pression.
The next night, a Jewish
night to the Mediterranean. One
We
as
Jews,
as
individuals
and
First,
he
said,
it
is
necessary
LONDON (WNS)—A Russian
writer reports, one of these same
g irl hid behind the back seat
colored agitators was heard on as groups, must make the Negro to absorb completely the coin- e ushion of a taxi, went through commission investigating Nazi
see
that
we
are
on
his
side.
We
poser's ideas as expressed in the t
brutality in the liberated regions
the corner of 8th Avenue and
must do what we can to put an score. Within these boundaries, 'I' o Luxembourg and into France. of the Caucasus revealed that the
125th Street—not on a plat- end
he
club's
champion
skier
skied
to Negro-hating. We must the performer can—indeed, should o
Nazis slew 4,000 Jews in Stavro-
form, where his motives might be
give to the work the impress of t ver the Alps. Caught three pol, it was disclosed here in a
suspected, but pretending to be realize that where the Negro
imes and sent back, he got into
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one of the crowd—trying to can be mistreated because of his his own personality. The composer s witzerland the fourth time and report from Kuibyshev. Among
the Jew can be mistreated sets forth the emotion he feels w
the
killed,
said
the
report
were
again work up the Negroes' an- color,
because of his religion.
in his work, but there is no rea- s as interned there. He finally Dr. Fishelsohn and Prof. Kapen-
ger. He was throwing himself
Negro-hate and Jew-hate are son why the musician who feels S s ucceeded in reaching the United ka, two of the most leading and
from side to side as he spoke, to
t and is now an instructor respected, citizens of the commu-
attract attention; he was yelling unjust, un-American and helpful a similar or parallel emotion can- i n the army.
not recreate it through his ow
nit
about the Negroes who had been to Hitler and Hirohito.
n
personality.
killed. Soon he had a milling mob
Added to the difficulty of re-
about him, and no white person
creating the composer's intention,
Jewish Olympic Star
was safe from insult.
the young virtuoso has another
The behavior of this Quisling Victim of Brutal
problem. He finds that his reac-
was calculated Ao create new dan-
tion to a score during his youth
gerous outbuYsts, which could Anti-Semitic Assault
is . largely emotional and instinct-
only have brought aliout new in-
ive. If he is a talented musi-
juries and tragedids and mere
MONTREAL. (WNS) — Moe c ian, he can give a performance
destruction.
Herscovitch, form e r Canadian t
I relate this incident some- Olympic star, was so severely b hat sounds amazingly mature,
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what in detail because thereafter beaten in the anti-Jewish race s ut this is an instinctive under-
of the score rather than
some Negroes in the crowd be- riots which broke out last week a tanding
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gan shouting against the Jews. at Plage Laval, Quebec, that c interpretation. As the musi-
grows older he finds that
They did not remember the many he is likely to lose the sight of h ian
e
Jews who have been good to one eye. st can no longer play from in-
inct; he must replace this kind
them and who have worked along-
The police authorities of Que- 0 playing with a thought-out
side of, them to promote better bee Province are hunting Rene In f terpretation.
conditions and good-will. They Bolduc, son of the chief of po-
several years Mr. Menuhin
remembered only the isolated Jew lice of Plage Laval, as one of the ha s For
been going through this tran-
leaders of the gang which le d Si tion which he himself has been
the rioting against the Jews a t ab le to see clearly. I think it ac-
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a summer resort in that smal co unts for some of the current
community. He disappeared short _ va garies of his playing. Fifteen
ly after the riots had been
ye ars ago he could amaze lis-
quelled by the Canadian Army to ners by his work as a "child
Provost Corps and has not been pr odigy". Now he is the grown—
seen since. When queried as to an d growing—artist and his play-
the whereabouts of his son, the in g must show that maturity.
Window Shade Co. chief of police declared that he Mr. Menuhin's
playing of the
resented the "intrusion" of the Br ahms concerto at the Stadium
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provincial police authorities.
to rued out to be uninspiring,. It
The Canadian Jewish Congress wa s adequate technically for the
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issued a statement condemning mo st part, but had nothing of
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was "not a mere incident, but a performance more than a de-
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that "if proper steps are not ing , to the listener, sounded like
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Yet, in three Bach selections
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▪ ly believe it was the same violin-
WE ARE NOW ISSUING
ist who had played the Brahms.
His playing of Bach meant
more to me because a few hours
before he had talked to me of
his ideas about Bach. He rejected
the notion that Bach's music is
"unemotional". To him it is full
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of emotion, expressed in a dif-
ferent way than Tchaikovsky,
say, gave vent to his feelings, yet
full of feeling. And Menuhin
played Bach in a way to reflect,
accent and recreate that emo-
tion.
His concert, without meaning
it to be that way, was an illus-
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holdup
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