Friday, September .15, 1944
Jewish Variety
Theater to Open
In Biro-Bidjan
JERUSALEM (Palcor)—Keren
Kayemeth (J e w is h National
Fund) headquarters announced
here that the Fund's world re-
ceipts for the period from De-
cember 1, 1943, to July, 1944 were
$5,603,508, representing a 61%
increase over the corresponding
period last year. America is in
the lead with $3,381,480; South
Africa is second with $582,748;
Palestine contributed $579,952;
rt and Britain $485,436. • Canada
contributed $239,956; Australia,
$96,060. Total contributions from
the British Empire amount to
$1,404,200.
Contributions from Latin Amer-
ica are $165,284 as compared with
$46,012 in the corresponding
period last year.
Jewish National Fund land
possessions now total 704,859
dunam of which 42,899 were ac-
quired in the past 10 months, in-
cluding the soil of the Kfar Uriah
settlement which was under Jew-
ish cultivation • before 1929 and
abandoned that year because of
the riots.
Palestine Jewish Unit
- in England for Training
LONDON (JTA) — A Jewish
unit from the Palestine military
forces has arrived in Britain for
special training.
The unit, commanded by four
Jewish officers headed by Capt.
Joshua Licht, is composed of sol-
dier:, drawn from the Palestine
companies which gained renown
in 'the battles in Greece, Crete,
and North Africa.
Several members of the- unit
are graduates of t h e Hebrew
University.
Greetings and
Best Wishes
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MIKE FALK
"Rothschild's Violin".
To be Orchestrated
By D. Shostakovich
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MOSCOW (JPS) — The first
Jewish variety theatre will soon
open in Biro-Bidjan under the
directorship of Shloime Faintuch,
d a Jewish composer from the
Ukraine who is now residing in
the Jewish autonomous territory.
The variety theatre will be corn-
prised of amateur and profession-
al actors, musicians and dancers.
The first program of skits and
war songs will include a sketch
called "H e r s h e 1 e Ostropoler
Meets Nasredin." Hershele Ostro-
poler is a classic figure in Jewish
anecdotal literature and Nasredin
is his complement in Uzbec folk-
lore. Another sketch is called
"Haman and Hitler" and its. con-
tents are obvious.
Faintuch began his musical ca-
reer some twenty-five years ago.
He has writen music for many
plays and songs by Yiddish au-
thors. For some years he was
affiliated with the Odessa Jewish
Theatre as a special director; he
later conducted the Kiev Jewish
Song and Dance Ensemble. His
best known scores are those of
M. Pinchevsky's play "I'm Liv-
ing" and S. Halkin's "Der Shpiel,
Foigel."
JNF World Receipts
$5,603,508 in 7 Months
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MOSCOW (JPS) — Dmitri
Shostakovich, leading Soviet
composer, is now completing or-
chestration of "Rothschild's Vio-
lin," a one-act opera by the late
Benjamin Fleishman, who died
fighting at Krasnoye Selo, near
Leningrad. The work Was deliv-
ered to Shostakovich in Decem-
ber, 1943,1T a friend of Benjamin
Fleishman.
The young composer was born
in Bezhetsk where his mother,
Rachel Fleishman, had been ex-
iled some forty years ago by the
Czarist police for revolutionary
activity. Before her exile, she
spent months in prison where
agents of Czarist police tortured
her to obtain information about
her comrades, but could not
break her spirit. Benjamin, a stu-
dent of composition' at the Lenin-
grad Conservatory, and his broth-
ers, left for front-line duty in
the very first days of the war.
All three perished in battle.
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39 New Settlements
In Zion Since War
Refugees Flee Hungary
Disguise as Priests, Nuns
JERUSALEM (JPS-Palcor) —
Thirty-nine communal and small
holders settlements have been es-
tablished in Jewish Palestine
since the war,–it was announced
by the Merkaz Chaklai, Agricul-
tural Workers Organizations af:
filiated with the Histadruth, Gen-
eral Jewish Federation of Labor.
Most of the settlers were young
people who had been trained in
Palestine for agricultural work
and waited several years for the
opportunity to start settlements
of their own. Keren Hayesod,
Palestine Foundation Fund,
monies played the major role in
the founding of these settlements.
On the second anniversary of
the death of M. M. Ussishkin, the
late president of the Jewish Na-
tional Fund, a conference will be
held under the Fund's auspices
to plan for postwar land redemp-
tion in Palestine.
WASHINGTON (JPS) — Two
Hungarians were recently ar-
rested and interned "for helping
fleeing Jews and Poles over the
Romanian frontier," disguised as
priests and nuns;i the Nazi-con-
trolled Budapest newspaper.
Magyarsag' said in an article re-
ported to the Office of War In-
formation today.
The men- arrested were Mihaly
Ivan, editor-in-chief of Uj Nern-
zedek of Szeged and Sandor
Skultethy, director of the Sze-
ged tourist office.
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70th birthday of Dr. Chaim Weiz--
mann, president of the World
Zionist Organization and of the
Jewish Agency for Palestine, will
be marked by contributNns from
Jews throughout the world to
have their names inscribed in the
Jewish National Fund Golden
Book. The proceeds will go for a
special land project to be named
in Dr., Weizmann's honor. Can-
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