American Yewisli Periodical a DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE Page 20 Friday, December 8, 1950 The Chronicle Was There Center Slates Two Young Artists Excel America Must Help Israel, F.D.R. Jr. Tells Pioneer Women Beethoven Fete "America must help Israel in to overcome all their difficulties." its fight for freedom," declared I The speaker also stressed the Rep. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., unique role of the cooperatives in a speech at the 25th anniver- in Israel's industry and agricul- sary celebration of the Pioneer ture and declared that without Women last Wednesday night at the Histadrut there would be no Israel. He described the spirit of Masonic Temple. A crowd of an estimated 4,000 friendly competition in Israel, people had come to help the or- which is tempered by mutual un- ganization celebrate the occasion. derstanding and respect. Taking all these factors into Roosevelt devoted the greater part of his talk to reminiscences consideration, Roosevelt said, we about his trip to Israel in 1949. understand that giving /or Israel He described as Israel's basic is not charity but an investment philosophy and policy the "in- in the future of the Jewish people. Israel, he continued, is t h e gathering of the exiles"—a policy which is characterized by its con- torch bearer of democracy in the spicuous lack of discrimination Near East, and it therefore be- comes an obligation for all and the sacrifices it requires. The transformation of Israel, Americans, Jews and Gentiles, to Roosevelt stated, could not hap- support this outpost of democracy. pen without the men of vision Israel, he said, is the only coun- who have guided the Zionist try in the Near East which can movement since its inception. bring a higher standard of living The speaker reminded his lis- to the Arab countries. Roosevelt said that he would teners • of the many problems which face the Jewish state, such continue his fight for Marshall as the housing problem and the aid and an Export-Import Bank many other shortages, lack of loan in the next congress, and schools and hospitals. He also also praised the labor exchange lauded the policy of land pur- plan of the UAW as an auspicious chases through the Jewish Na- beginning of a closer relationship tional Fund as a policy of social between America and Israel. The speaker finally pointed out justice which is in sharp contrast to the sufferings imposed on the that in the present world crisis Jews by other nations during Israel has a special importance their centuries of homelessness. in the Near East and he concluded on a note of hope that the prin- PRAISE OF ISRAEL "I never saw a people with ciple, "Might makes right," will greater courage and a more real- never supersede the principles of istic approach to their problems justice and democracy. Roosevelt was introduced by than the Israelis," Roosevelt de- Glared. "I am sure that with their Mrs. Paul Feldman,, program determination they will be able chairman. The program W a S . rri Ow ttA The Center Symphony, under the direction of Julius Chajes, will be heard for the first time this season in a Beethoven Fes- tival on Sunday evening, Dec. 17 at the Davison Community Cen- ter. The concert will be held in commemoration of Beethoven's 140th birthday. Featured soloist will be Donche Dikova, Detroit pianist, who arrived in the United States from Bulgaria a short time ago. Miss Dikova has been heard as soloist this summer with the De- troit Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Valter Poole and since then appeared in many con- certs in the middle west. The program lists Symphony No. 1 in C major, the Emperor Concerto and Edgmont Overture. Tickets are 50 cents for Center members opened by Mrs. Norman Cantor, president, who announced as the next project of Pioneer Women a $96,000 youth village and agricul- tural school in the Negev. Mrs. Irving Turner, donor chairman, announced that a total of $58,000 had been raised in the current campaign. The evening ended on a happy and humorous note. Sam Leven- son, noted Yiddish humorist, from New York, gave freely of his inexhaustible treasure of Jewish stories in Yiddish and English, and the audience obvi- ously loved every minute of it. Automatic Ride Control It's a completely new ride that automatically adjusts itself to road condition. with "Hydta.Coil".Front Springs. new Variable•Rate Rear Spring Suspension and new "Viscous Control" Shock Absorbers. P. 4a."•9111101•••""tom — •• .T.se oso.p“osossa g.::, Meyer Levin Analyzes Jew in U. S. Writing Before an overflow audience of 400 women of the American Jew- ish Congress, Meyer Levin, well- known Jewish author, outlined the classic portrait of the Jew in modern literature. The talk followed a brunch held last Wednesday at the Bel- Aire Terrace. •ww• G. N. Levin told the women that the Jew has generally been pictured as either a bearded, dirty old man, or conversely as a patriar- chal saintly type who pours over his Torah day and night. The first of these "mythiological stere- otypes" he attributed to the old anti-Semitic literary tradition which dates to Shakespeare and Dickens. In modern fiction he pointed out Ernest Hemingway's charact- erization of a Jew in "The Sun Also Rises" and Thomas Wolfe's descriptions in many of his works. Turning : to Jewish writers, he found two types prevalent, that whin finds all the virtues in the old country immigrant type, and that which expresses Jewish self- hatred. In the former classification he placed Fannie Hurst and Ben Hecht. In the latter he placed some of the most popular Jewish writers today, such as Shulbe•g, Jerome Weidman and Max Shul- man. He pointed out that all these authors fall into a similar cate- gory in that they portray their Jewish characters as ruthless, im- moral, grasping individuals who achieve material success by Ls* at breaking faith with everyone with whom they come into con- "Leek Mar Fames tact. ' And then there's the new Levin expressed the opinion Double-Seal King-Sits Brakes that these sorts of books probably the Automatic Posture Coo. do • more harm than good, since trol that makes any driver more they are widely read by the non- comfortable and safer ... a sew "Luxury Lounge" Interior with Jewish population. long-life Fordcraft Fabrics. He then went on to explain the difficulties that the Jewish author You can have your choice of three advanced transmissions in finds in obtaining a publisher and your new 'SI Ford . . . the adequate reviews. 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For example, new Automatic Ride Control makes even rough roads easy on you --easy on the car itself. Ile new Key- Turn Starter lets you start your engine with just a twilit of the ignition key. By ROBERT W.• MILLER Two talented artist's were pre- sented by the Music Study Club of Detroit in a concert at the In- stitute of Arts: Kurt Saffir, a very promising pianist not en- tirely unknown to Detroit's music audience, and Esther Glazer, a violinist of extraordinary quali- ties. The accompaniments for the violin solos were played most competently and sensitively by Rebecca Fineberg. The recital opened with a Respighi revision of Vivaldi's Vi- olin Sonata in D major, a work that displays more the character- istics of its arranger than those of Vivaldi. It employs violinistic devices which were not common in Vivaldi's times, but Miss Glaz- er showed good understanding for its structure and contents. Small rhythmical inconsisten- cies in the final movement did not affect the overall good im- am WHEN YON INUOR 11E1URE SPY fOillt SEE YOUR FORD DEALER pression which made itself most apparent in the beautiful slow movement. Mozart's Rondo in G major with its well designed cadenzas (by Kreisler) and precisely exe- cuted bowing-effects was pre- sented with a great deal of skill and a good concept of its light nature. Kurt Saffir chose the Sonata in D minor by D. Scarlatti; its simple outline and subject-mat- ter harly lend themselves to more than good passage work and effective dynamic shadings. The Bach Prelude and Fugue in F sharp minor lacked a cer- tain amount of expressiveness in the thematic contours of the fugue, but left nothing to be de- sired in its technical aspect. Haydn's seldom heard but most ingratiating Sonata in A flat ma- jor was the real artistic achieve- ment of the evening. Saffir deserves full credit for programming this work, and his playing, as well as the audience's response, merely confirms such a statement. Kabalevsky's Improvisation proved Miss Glazer's sense for a beautiful melodic line, cultivated toni and purity of doublestops, while the following Burlesque by Hoffman is a technically com- plex piece, a sort of a violinistie pell-mell, yet an altogether in- consequential work that conveys nothing, Ravel's Tzigane was performed satisfactorily, yet Miss Glazer's concept of the introductory solo recitative seems to be a too re- strained and classical one. Her superb harmonics and beautiful tone made up only partly for the lack of freedom in this presenta- tion. Schubert's Moment Musical in C sharp minor as played by Saf- fir displayed some clever dy- namic effects together with im- pressive technical : resources in the charming Scherzo in F minor by the same composer. Proko- fiev's First Sonata in F minor betrays influences of Rachmani- nov. Saffir mastered its prob- lems very well. Both artists joined to close the evening with Beethoven's Sonata in C minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 30, No. 2 in a performance marked by good taste (except for a few long glissandos in the vio- lin). The somewhat brisk tempo of the first movement perhaps obscured some of its dynamic de- cisiveness. Reich to Give 2 Talks Here The Jewish Community Coun- cil notified its affiliated organiza- tions of the appearance here, Sunday and Monday, of Dr. Na- than Reich, chairman of the de- partments of economics at Hunter College. Benjamin M. Laikin will chair a meeting of Community Coun- cil's representatives at the Tur- over Hall, Dexter at Monterey, at 2 p.m., Sunday, when Dr. Reich will speak in Yiddish on "Jews Behind the Iron Curtain." This appearance is sponsored by the Culture Commission of the Jew- ish Community Council of which Rabbi Morris Adler and Morris Lieberman are chairmen. Dr. Reich's second appearance will be under the auspices of the Detroit Chapter of the American Jewish Committee. "The Com- munist Threat" will be the sub- ject of this address at a meeting of the America, ► Jewish Commit- tee at 8:30 p.m. on Monday, at Temple Beth El. REPORT ON HISTADRUT For a complete report of the rally which opened the Detroit Histadrut campaign see page seven.