To Wed Nov. 2

Dr. Max Brod's Excellent Work:

'Heine: The Artist in Revolt'

Leib and DeMaria with
Parks Band This Week

Silver-York Rites
Set for September

Herschel Leib will direct the
Summer Parks Band next
week, at Clarke, Lipke, Bal-
duck, Stoepel and Palmer
Parks, appearing at the latter
next Friday evening.
His program will include
selections from Verdi, Suppe,
Strauss, Bizet, Giere, Clarke,
and Ponchielle.
There will be selected solos
by William DeMaria, baritone.

Few of the many volumes published on the life and literary
activities of Heinrich Heine have the merit of "Heine: The Artist
in Revolt," by Max Brod, published by New - York University
Press.
The analysis of Heine's family backgrounds, his Jewish inter-
ests, his reactions to prejudices, his literary skill, are all master-
fully presented by the eminent writer who now makes his home
in Israel, after having escaped from the Hitler menace.

It is not only the evaluation of the life of Heine that has
special merit in this volume, but also the new light it throws
on Jewish reactions to the threats from their neighbors and

MISS MARLENE OLEN

Mr. and Mrs. Julius Olen, of
Snowden Ave., announce the
engagement of their daughter,
Marlene, to Leonard Reider,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Reider, of Monica Ave. A Nov.
2 wedding is planned.

Flint Jewish Council
Elects New Officers •

Newly-elected officers of the
Flint Jewish Community Coun-
cil, assuming office this week,
are: Dr. H. Maxwell Golden,
president; Arthur Hurand, Gil-
bert Rubenstein and Edwin L.
Elk, vice-presidents; Jacob
Pines. treasurer; and Mrs.
Morton Leitson, secretary.
Dr. Golden had been Council
vice-president since 1952 and
was general chairman of the
Flint UJA for 1956. He is active
in the Michigan Heart Associa-
tion and is a past-president of
the Flint Academy of Medicine.
Dr. Golden succeeds Louis E.
Rudner as Council president.
Rudner was chosen honorary
president.

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to their existence as Jews that emerges in this scholarly work.
A typical instance is Dr. Brod's description of the conversions
of prominent Jewesses of the time:
"Henriette Herz's was the typical career of a Jewess of
outstanding talent, seriousness and beauty. In the Berlin environ-
ment in xhich she grew up it was inevitable from the start
. . . that Jewesses should become completely assimilated to their
German environment and divorced from Judaism. Henriette
Herz was no more to blame for her apostasy than was Dorothea
Schlegel, Mendelssohn's daughter, whose best friend she was,
or Rahel Levin, Varnhagen von Ense's wife, who was her junior
by a few years, or. the Meyer sisters . . . All these Berlin
Jewesses had arrived- socially. At the turn of the (19th) century
and for the next three decades their 'salons' were the focal point
of German cultural life. Their lives had assumed the form they
did in spite of the opposition . . . of their tradition-minded
parents, who 'considered a German education inseparable from
a Christian basis' .. . The parental opposition failed. We cannot
regret it. What Judaism had these parents to offer their chil-
dren? It was a crumbling Judaism, no longer aspiring as a
matter of course to permeate the whole life of every individual
Jew and of the entire Jewish community . . ."
Such were the conditions that also influenced the life of
Heine. The reader of Dr. Brod's analysis of the situation that
existed in Germany a century and a half ago will inevitably
come to the conclusion that marked strides forward had been
made by Jewry towards a more wholesome Jewish existence.
Dr. Brod's study is not only of the conditions of that time
but also of the various other trends in Jewish life and the
entire struggle between Judaism and apostasy that so seriously
affected the life of Heinrich Heine.
Heine's wit, his biographer points out. was not uniform,
corresponded to periods in his life and became finer with increas-
ing age. Dr. Brod states that "Heine used his wit as a defense
mechanism of the most primitive kind. He was poor, was a
Jew, was unhappy in love, was mistrustful, was proud, ambitious
and sensitive, and he saw nothing wrong in attempting to
gratify the pleasures he so keenly enjoyed; hence he was marked
out for suffering on all counts."
Of particular interest is this observation by Dr. Brod:
"For Heine the Jewish question was very often, practically
always, the impossible situation that lurked ahead. In the
last years of his German period the situation became one of
despair of ever being able to find a place in German society,
of ever being able to exercise a profession. To this extent he
had no choice between being ironical or unironical; he had to
have recourse to irony or else suffocate .
"So the view taken of Heine's irony will always be linked
with the view taken of the Jewish situation of his day. Was
this situation a genuinely impossible one? To me it seems
that it would be an impossible situation even in our own day,
did not Zionism point a way to a solution. But for Heine's
generation and the succeeding ones even this narrow way
was not available."
Describing Heine's life "between Germany and Paris," Dr.
Brod again discussed the problem of conversions and states that
"Heine believed firmly that a formal change of faith could be
justified only as a concession to the Jew's environment and on
grounds of occupational necessity . . . There .could be no
question whatever of any inner conversion, of any spiritual
change towards Christianity." He then declares that "baptism
aroused Heine's fury" and that the conversions of the great
Jewish women of that time—Rahel Levin, Henriette Herz, the
Mendelssohns and the Veits----and their "intransigent attitude
towards real Christianity . • . enabled him to don the cloak of
pseudo-Christianity so easily, and led him to quite an unpardon-
able over-simplification of the situation."
Dr. Brod's informant, Mme. Caroline Jaubert, revealed to
him that Heine particularly enjoyed listening to his old friend
Princess Belgiojoso, "who had just returned from a voyage
to the East. when she spoke of Palestine. a country 'across which
he had often travelled in his mind since the Bible had become
his favorite reading'."
There are evaluations of Heine's "Hebrew Melodies" in
Dr. Brod's book. We learn that in his imagination Heine "had
destined to preserve the poems of Judah Ha-Levi."
"Heine: The Artist in Revolt" is a good book. We treasure
it as perhaps the best work we have read and possess on Heinrich
Heine.

Israel Ratifies Pact on
Abolition of Slave Labor

UNITED NATIONS, (JTA)—
Israel ratified the convention
on the abolition of forced labor
which was adopted by the inter-
national labor conference last
June.
The convention provides that
each member state will not
make use of any form of forced
or compulsory labor as a means
of political coercion or as a
means of racial, social, national
or religious discrimination. Is-
rael has now ratified 21 of the
International Labor Organiza-
tion's conventions which togeth-
er form the so balled World
Labor Code.

Rio de Janeiro Names
I Public School for Israel

RIO DE JANEIRO, (JTA)—
A municipal school named for
the State of Israel was opened
here at a ceremony attended by
Mayor Negrao de Lima and
Israel Minister Ariah Aroch.
The school is located in a work-
ers' suburb in which no Jews
reside.
The naming of the school for
the State of Israel was decided
upon by the Rio de Janeiro
municipality in honor of Is-
rael's tenth anniversary. In his
speech, Mayor de Lima empha-
sized the contribution of the
Jews of Brazil to the develop-
ment of the Brazilian capital.

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MISS NORMA SILVER

The engagement of Norma
Ellen Silver to Phillip Charles
York was announced at a re-
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home of the bride's parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Hyman Silver, of
11644 N. Martindale. Mr. York
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