Activitieo in Society

To Wed in Fall

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Markel, of Northfield Blvd., Oak Park,
Mich., will be honored at a dinner party for 100 guests by their
children, Mrs. Herman Katz, Mr. Sydney Markel and Mr. Irving
Markel, on Saturday evening. The Markels are leaving for an eight
week trip to South America, which will include attending the
wedding of their nephew in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Also on their
itinerary are stops at Panama, Caracas and Rio de Janeiro.
Dr. and Mrs. Israel Heyman, of Tel Aviv, Israel, who were the
guests here for the past four months of their brother, Moshe
Heyman, their aunt, Mrs. Samuel N. Heyman, and cousin, Mrs.
Sol Silver (Judith Heyman), left on Wednesday for Boston, and
from there will return to Israel the early part of next week.
Mrs. Louis M. Elliman, of the Belcrest Hotel, is a guest at the
-Beverly Wilshire - Hotel, Beverly Hills, Calif.
Mr. and Mrs. Max Weisman, of Birwood Ave., honored . their
daughter, Doris, at a sweet sixteen party recently at L'Aiglon.
Fifty guests helped her to celebrate the occasion.
Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Kushner, of West Seven Mile Road, are on
an extended motor trip through California. Their destination is
Palm Springs where they are celebrating their 35th wedding an-.
niversary, with many friends and relatives attending.
Mr. and Mrs. Julius Chajes were in Kansas City this week for
a joint musical recital at the Jewish Center.
Miss Janet Laib of Detroit has been named beauty editor of
Seventeen Magazine. As a student at the University of Michigan,
Miss Laib composed music for school plays. She also studied at
the George School.
In honor of the graduation of Robert L. Cohen from the
Wayne University school of business administration, his wife, Shir-
ley, and sons, Lawrence and Allan, will be hosts at an open house
in his honor on Sunday, in the family home, 18255 Griggs. Mr.
Cohen, who majored in accounting, will receive a bachelor of sci-
ence degree. He is Scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 592, sponsored
by Schulz School, and is vice-president of the Adas Shalom Men's
Club Bowling League,
Mrs. Leonard Weiner of Huntington Woods, a member of the
national board of the Women's Division of the United Jewish
Appeal, attended the boards meeting in New York last week.
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Mr. and Mrs. Leon Wolock, of 23440 Marlow, Oak Park, Mich.,
will hold open house from 2 to 5 p.m., Sunday, in the family home,
in honor of the graduation of their daughter, 'Lillian, from' the
Cranbrook Academy of .Arts, with a degree of master of fine arts
in ceramics.
Rabbi Isaac Stollman spent a week-end in Winnipeg, Manitoba,
Canada, where he participated in the Israel bond campaign and
addressed three gatherings.

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Our Letter Box

Urges Entertainers
To Sing New Jewish Songs
Some time ago I attended a
Bar Mitzvah, one of the few in
my memory imbued with a
spirit of Jewishness. Not a sper.:k
of trefe food was to be found.
The atmosphere was festive and
extended even to the short
speeches. The orchestra played
Jewish melodies.
I enjoyed' it until a singer be-
gan to sing Jewish songs. The
enjoyment began to wear off.
Not that there was anything im-
proper about the songs—only
that they have been heard for
the past 40 years.
There is nothing inherently
bad in hearing the same things
over and over again—but I be-
gan to consider the whys and
wherefores of this unreasonable
limiting of our repertoire of
Jewish songs. It certainly could-
n't be because we have no new
songs. Perhaps no other litera-
ture has expanded in the past
50 years as has our Yiddish and
Hebrew literature. ThOusands
of songs have been written by
our greatest poets, with hun-
dreds of them set to music. But
our entertainers either do not
know or else do not want to sing
them publicly.
This restricted taste is a
characteristic of all our singers
who ignore completely the abun-
dance of new material.
American Jewry, in its 300
year history, has never had as
receptive an audience as it has
now. Many of us who love to
sing a Jewish melody would like
to hear a new one, but our en-
tertainers won't give us the
chance. •
We treat the Jewish song like
a step-child. When we talk of
Jewish culture we mean, usually,
books. We forget the song—that
child of two fathers: the poet
and the musician, we forget that •
more often than. not songs are
remembered a n d sung longer
than books are remembered and
read; that a song can reach the
hearts of people of all ages—
of all cultures—of all stages of
intellectual development.
I challenge our young enter-
tainers to enrich themselves
and to enrich their listeners: to
learn and perform new songs.

B.M.L.

DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-1 3 University Congress Group Sch edules Music Program
Friday, February 4, 1955
University Women's Chapter, ish music. Both men are from
American Jewish Congress, will Israel.
Janis Lazar and Blossom
celebrate Jewish Music Month
with a program Monday evening Lehrman head the chapter Com-
mission on Jewish Living which
at the home of Emily Schwartz. planned the program.
Julius Schwartz, music direc-
tor of the United Hebrew
schools, will be guest speaker.
Artists for the evening will
include Israel Hochberg, playing
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