April 7, 1944

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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day in a special series for the "Musical Commandos." Have we technical high school, hospitals, tionalism we could be expected
workers and peasants with the not every reason to be proud of public schools, theaters and big to be as religious as people were
same programs and the same this institution? And should not cinemas, they created a Jewish in ancient times when they wit-
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soloists, but with one difference: every Jew, whether Zionist or Nation with all the attributes of nessed miracles. Well, today in
Palestine one can see endless mir-
for a moment that with these the tickets to cost only one-fifth not, make a sacrifice to support a national entity, with their own acles if only one has the sense
to
language, with morales, with a
of
the
normal.
The
response
was
this
most
efficient
spiritual
incen-
American subsidies, and also some so tremendous that what origin- tive to win the war in this most solution of social problems of see miracles. I am sure that in u
help from friends of mine in ally was intended as our cultural deciding sector of the war map? their won, and all this without thousand years to come one will
other countries, the orchestra was duty towards workmen and peas- Who helps this orchestra must not losing sight of the hereditary mis- read the story of the Building of
given to Palestine as a present ants turned out a considerable think that he is indulging in a sion of the Jew towards the whole the Third Temple in our da
with the same awe as we read in
like so many other institutions. financial help to the orchestra. Jewish luxury. No, he is helping humanity.
w in a child I often wondered the Bible of the Building of the
By no means! In the estimate of So I must say to you that which the armies of the United Nations. how
our times of modern ra- Second Temple.
the budget the share of the Pal- links me most with Palestine is A Jewish Orchestra rescued from
estinian population was very high. the Jewish workmen in his atti- Hitler's persecution assembled in
the little country of Palestine,
And I am proud to say they sur- tude toward culture.
I mentioned already that the recognized by non-Jewish com-
passed the expectations. Again the
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Federation of Labor was in the idea of the formation of an or- manding generals as an impor-
forefront in helping to build up chestra in Palestine came to my tant factor to keep up the fight-
the orchestra. I will spare you too mind from two angles: the high ing spirit of the belligerent Unit-
many details, but a few charac- level of the Palestinian Jew and ed Nations in their fight against
teristic points will give you an the need for rescue of the Eu- the devilish enemy of humanity!
idea. The Histadruth in Palestine ropean musician. But in addition I call this a miracle! I should
came forward with an unsolicited I had some vague feelings that have loved to talk to you of the
loan of $5,000 to make possible such an institution might also miracles on other lines of the
the completion of a makeshift serve as a weapon in our deadly development in Erez Israel be-
auditorum in Tel-Aviv. Is not fight against Nazism. At that time cause one can find them in every
that a miracle! The workmen on I thought only of the fight in the corner of the country. But that
the job agreed to work at night field of culture and spirit. But would surposs the limits of my
so that the orchestra could re- now we see that it is fulfilling a time and of yours. Yet a few phe-
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hearse by day, They refused over- much more direct immediate task nomena may be hinted at on the
social
lines.
Some
of
the
farm
in
our
all-out
war
effort.
Accord-
time pay. They wanted only tick-
MAdison 5676
ets for the concerts. Out of a ing to letters and cables which I settlements are run on collective
principles.
It
is
for
the
first
time
Jewish population of 280,000 in have received from military com-
Palestine, Haifa and Tel-Aviv manders in Egypt and Palestine, in history that the experiment of
8,000 regularly attended the con- from Australian, South African a voluntary collective enterprise
cert. Again a miracle! If a simi- and British high-ranking officers, is successful. The zeal, the devo-
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lar proportion of the population this orchestra helps to maintain tion to the country, the attach-
went to concerts in New York, the morale of the soldiers, it ment to the soil displayed by
every symphony concert would be brings them joy in hospitals, it these collective farm workers is
attended by, say, 300,000 persons. gives them courage far out in so imressive that the former
PROGRESSIVE
But our institution is unique also the desert where the orchestra British High Commissioner, Sir
in its attitude toward the work- has given dozens of concerts. Arthur Wauchope, in a spell of
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enthusiasm exclaimed to me that
men. I made it a point that every
concert of the normally priced Those musical expeditions got surely out of the spirit of the
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series should be repeated the next from the soldiers the name of collective settlements some day a
new message of redemption will
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emerge, not only for the Jews,
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but for all mankind. The British
A. E. WISNE
High Commissioner of the most
PAUL A. THORLAKSON
capitalistic country raving about
the Jewish communists of Pales-
tine is that not a miracle? And
the Jewish capitalistic middle-
OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
class of Palestine is of nothing
more proud than of these collec-
C. N. McCLURE, MICHIGAN MANAGER
tive settlers. No wonder, just the
MARY S. COHAN, Cashier
same as the music lover of Pal-
estine is different from other
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countries' amateurs, or the Fed-
eration of Labor is different, so
is the collective peasant. He is
lacking both in fact and in his
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aspiration the main character-
istic of the political communist,
he despises expropriation of the
capitalist and relies from the
start on entirely on the produc-
tivity of his own hands. Is this
not a miracle!
MANUFACTURERS
In a final summary I should
The most complete line of
like to state: within a period of
some 20 years the Jews have
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succeeded in turning a barren
Plain and Printed
desert into a paradise of green
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