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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, October 3, 1947
The Julius Chajes's Return
1-Tome History
Detroit Artists Conclude 2-Month of Jews Fills
An Urgent Need
Tour as Musical Ambassadors
By RUTH MIRIAM LEVINE
A HISTORY OF THE JEWS
From the Babylonian Exile to the end
of World War II by Solomon Graysel.
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication So-
ciety of America, 5707-1947. 835 pages.
121 illustrations. 24 maps.
Detroit's two musical ambassadors, Julius Chajes and
Marguerite Kozenn (Mrs. Chajes) have returned from a two-
month concert tour in Europe, convinced that they have seen A Review by Dr. Joshua Bloch
a 25-year-old work of fiction come to life.
Chief of the Jewish Division of
the New York Public Library
The book was Hugo Bettauer's "City without Jews,"
For many years there has been
which Mrs. Chajes recalls having read in 1922, and which great
need for a work on the
describes a city that casts out its
Cracow Catholics,
Jews at Odds Over
Temple Ownership
WARSAW, (JTA)—In an effort
to prevent anti-Jewish incidents,
the Council of Jewish Communi-
ties and the Jewish Central Com-
mittee have addressed a joint ap-
peal to the Security Ministry,
asking the stationing of a special
guard before an ancient syna-
gogue in Cracow which is now the
subject of a conflict between the
Jewish and Catholic communities
in that city.
The synagogue, which wasbuilt
in the 17th century, was occupied
after the war by a Christian sect
calling itself the "National
Church," since few Jews re-
mained alive in the section. of
Cracow where it is located. How-
ever, the Council of Jewish Com-
munities prbtested to the Polish
government, which ordered the
building closed until an investi-
gation established the right of the
Jews or the Christian sect to
owi•nrship.
Sidney liusworM Named
To Justice Dept. Committee
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The
appointment of. Sidney G. Kus-
worm of Dayton, 0., national
treasurer of Bnai Brith, to the
Justice Department's Advisory
Committee on Citizenship was
announced here by Attorney
General Tom C. Clark.
history of the Jews giving in
entire Jewish population, only to
welcome them back several dec- standard of living and, moreover, a - readable fashion, in a handy
ades later, with great cordiality. with Switzerland, are the only single volume, an acount of the
Although the book prophecied no countries where such events as a most enthralling of all histories.
Zionist cong:ess may safely oc-
cur.
Describing their stay in Prague,
the Chajes's stressed the kind co-
operation of the Minister of In-
formation, V a clay Kopeszky.
Their program of American mu-
sic was broadcast over all Prague
stations.
On Sept. 6, Mrs. Chajes sang
the title role in Dvorak's fairy-
tale opera, "Rusalka," making
musical history with the first
English performance of that pro-
duction on the stage of the
The volume is distinguished by
Prague National Theatre. The
a fine sense of proportion in the
audience's enthusiastic,. response
presentation of a record that
brought her back for 31 curtain
VOTE FOR
covers a period of 3,000 years.
calls, which, she modestly re-
It is enriched with over one hun-
marks, probably was as much. a
dred and twenty well-chosen
demonstration in favor of Amer-
JULIUS CHAJES
illustrations, many of them re-
ica, as for her performance.
produced for the first , time.
DR.
SOLOMON
GRAYZEL
Nazi fanaticism, .it has otherwise
A reception in honor of the
Although Grayzel deals with
come true in the city of Vienna; Chajes's was given by the Soci- Not that there is a lack of one-
his subject from a moderately
Mrs. Chajes declares. •
ety for Cultural Exchange be- volume works dealing with Jew- conservative point of view, his
Except for the DPs who are tween Czechoslovakia and the ish history; but the latest work interpretation of the facts is
Outstanding Attorney
miserably quartered in the Roths- United States, another example in the field, that of Gra6,rzel will thoroughly modern. Recent ar-
child' Hospital there, , Vienna is of the spirit of cultural sympathy find a welcome reception for a
Qheological and historical re-
FOR COMMON
today a city without Jews, yet between the two countries.
number of reasons.
search have been used to great
the Chajes's were given what
Grayzel does not over-empha- advantage. He makes the politi-
After Prague, the couple went
to Carlsbad, where they were the size the tragic side of the story; cal, religious and social life of
only American Jews at the Euro- his is a record of spiritual and
the Jews vivid. He has a genuine
pean Zionist Congress. In addi- material progress. He is fully
enthusiasm for his sUbject and
tion, Mrs. Chajes was the only aware of the rich social life
Hadassah member attending the which the Jews developed in he - records the history of his
convention of the European and every land of their dispersion. people in a manner to give zest
Palestinian sections of WIZO. He pays considerable attention to his narrative.
They gave a concert of Hebrew to the history of the Jews in
music at the closing session of eastern Europe and to their rise
the. Congress.
in the United States.
Singer Sewing Machine
For Our Community!
"It was wonderful," Mrs. Cha-
Drop Heads
jes recalls, "to see youths from
tact with Mrs. Chajes' parents in-
WE PAY
Palestine standing on the former Bucharest.
* Board Member, Jewish Com-
$45.00 cash for 99-K
Herman Goering Strasse and
A 22-hour plane trip, on which
munity Council of Detroit.
$22.00
for
all
other
Singer,
singing Sholom Aleichem."
they were co-passengers of Jan
round bobbin heads
* Member, Harry B. Keidan
Another pleasant aspect of Masaryk, en route to the UN ses-
$17.50 for Long Shuffles
their Prague visit was their re- sions, brought the artists back to
MARGUERITE KOZENN
Lodge, Bnai Brith.
union with Mr. Chajes' mother,
$12.00 for White Rotarys
meagre hospitality the city af- who flew there from her home in Detroit. They have been invited
* Member, Mosaic Lodge,
to return again in the spring,
Also small pianos, 9 piece
forded when they went there late Tel Aviv, ending a 10-year sepa-
F. & A. M.
bringing more American music to
dining
room
sets
and
9x12
in August to present 'series of ration. The. couple were unable further the cultural bond be-
rugs
wanted
concerts.
* Active in United Hebrew
to secure entryinto Romania, but t‘veen this country and its not-
TY. 4-0190
Their European concerts were were able to make telephone con- so-distant neighbors- in Europe.
Schools and Jewish Com-
arranged through the cultural
munity Center.
and informational department. of
* President, Knollwood Coun
the U.. S. State Department, at
the invitation of the Austrian and
try Club.
Czechoslovak governments. The
* Chairman, Knollwood Coun
series originally included three
try Club Committee which
broadcasts in Vienna and one in
Prague, but was augmented to in-
sold more than $20,000,000
clude a concert for 1,200 Jewish
in Government bonds during
DPs in Vienna, arranged by the
the war.
Joint Distribution Committee,
and appearances at the Prague
El No. 91 on. the Ballot
National Theater, for the Euro-
pean Zionist Congress at Carls-
Harry N. GROSSMAN
bad and, strangely, for the Lon-
VOTE AT THE PRIMARY, OCT. 7th
for COUNCIL
don Rotarians, convened in Olu-
mouc, Czechoslovakia.
The concert for' the displaced .
Jews in Vienna was "our great-
est — and saddest — experience,"
Mrs. Chajes remarked. The audi-
ence was composed of Jews,
most of whom are from Ro-
mania, who are crowded into the
Rothschild Hospital, where they
exist, rather than live. "To at-
tend a concert was, for them, an
experience of normal living, a
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moral lift," the artists declare.
"It gave them human dignity."
Their three broadcasts in Vien-
na, which, they note, were given
on the Russian-controlled station,
included one of international mu-
sic; a.. second, of music of living
American composers, and the
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third, a. performance of Chajes'•
violin sonata 'in. which the con-
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certmaster of the Vienna Syin- •
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