Friday, Sentember 12, 1947
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
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Minna Harkavy
Famed Sculptress
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of another persecuted people,
the Negroes.
She has also depicted some of
mankind's Rreat aspirations. for
example, in her portrait of Hen-
ri Barbusse, the great French
novelist, anti-fascist and lover of
humanity. Her portraits of wo-
men, from young girlhood to
womanhood show her compas-
sion for the members of her
own sex.
Has Deep Feeling
for Fellow Men
By LILLIAN NELSON
AMERICAN JEWISH
sculptor-artist of interna-
tional renown is Minna Hark-
avy, who does not just make
pretty statues but perpetuates in
bronze, marble and clay the
beauty and noble aspirations of
mankind as well as the ugliness
and vicissitudes.
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In her sculpture as in all her
work, Minna Harkavy shows her
profound feeling towards her fel-
low Americans, her fellow Jews
and all people.
One of her most outstanding
works, embodying this concern
for humanity, is her sculpture
group, American Miner's Fam-
ily, located in the Museum of
Modern Art, New York City.
Showing a miner and his hard-
working wife, it is a structure
of stark beauty, a beauty re-
flected particularly in the child-
ren, who, as Minna Harvavy
portrays them, show the great-
ness to which they could rise
with the right opportunities.
She has also fashioned por-
trait busts ( f some of her
friends and those who are dear
to her. These include Judge
Morris Rothenberg, Max Weber,
Lillian. Hellman and Os'..ar Ko-
koshka.
their future, they wash diapers. They are provided food at
special kosher kitchens set up by the Vaad Ilatzala Rescue
Committee, which has its headquarters in New York.
became a school teacher and at-
tempted to express her appre-
ciation of humanity through
writing. But later she turned to
the plastic arts and found her
forte in sculpture.
She spent five years studying
in Europe, where she acquired
considerable renown. At an
early age her work was exhib-
ited in the leading art salons of
many European cities.
In 1931 she was invited to
Minna Harkavy has a full
pride in being Jewish. In early give a "one-man" show in the
childhood 'she came to America
with her family, from Esthonia.
She was one of ten children in
the Rothenberg family. They
were raised in a healthy Jewish Rosh Hashonah Greetings
environment and learned to play
an active part in Jewish life.
• • •
ACTIVELY JEWISH
NOT ONLY THROUGH her
art but through her work in
many Jewish organizations Min-
na Harkavy remains at one with
her own people. She is a mem-
ber of the American Committee
of Jewish Writers, Artists and
Scientists and numerous other
Jewish groups.
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American art is not made
by those who have the same
color of hair, nor even by those
with certain-sounding names, but
by those who live here, gather
their experiences here, create
here; who see and feel the life
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around them and know how to
reflect these experiences through
SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS
MINNA HARKAVY has used their emotions and through
her art to show the suffering knowledge of their medium."
Museum of Western Art at Mos-
cow. The Soviet Union bought
several of the statues she ex-
hibited there and they are still
on display at the Museum of
Western Art.
BREMEN, Germany — A• re-
cently-arrived shipment of JDC
supplies met with even more
enthusiasm than usual here when
it was discovered that 500 bas-
ketballs and 500 soccer balls
were included in the consign-
ment.
Jewish displaced persons in
the camps of the American zone
have learned to play basketball
—a • game entirely foreign to
their experience—from American
troops stationed in the area.
At the present time, without
exception. each DP installation
boasts at least one basketball
team. American members of the
JDC staff' report, however that
more vigor than skill is dis-
played in the basketball played
by these teams.
Soccer, however, is played
with considerable skill by vir-
tually all of the DP's.
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NEW YORK, N.Y.—Seven ad-
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professional workers have been
assigned to the overseas staff
pf the Joint Distribution Com-
mittee. They were all at their
posts in various European coun-
tries by late August.
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Answering the false theory
that real America: art can only
come from artists descended of
many generations of Americans,
Minna Harkavy has written:
Upon arriving in Vienna from Poland, these weary refugees find
there is still work to be done. While waiting for the decision on
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