Witness To A Dream

Tribute to Aleph Katz

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75th Anniversary of
Founding of Jewish
Settlement Observed

NEWARK, N.J., (JTA)—The
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
the rabbi emerges; his pupils 75th anniversary of the found-
chant "Cholera Aleichem," ing of Carmel, N.J.' as an experi-
We were three in 1919.
One -abandoned the fury for Aleichem Cholem, Rabbi, we mental agricultural settlement
promise you we are leaving for Jews was observed here
marbled silence.
Another was lacking both in your dream
and
giving
you Monday. Morris April, chairman
At the
same
time,
patience and in talent to play however, they delicately re- of the Jubilee - Committee., said
the committee has been seeking
cavalier' to muse. mind him that by falling into some 20,000 direct descendants
The third one, Aleph, had a dream in their very presence of the original 17 Jewish famil-
dream and he recounted it in he violated the essence that ies from Russia who settled in
verse. entry to one's own Pardes' is 'Carmel in 1883. The committee
When Aleph Katz uttered permissible only when no ob- has received letters from 500 of
his first poetic word be was servers are- around.
the descendants, he stated.
bewildered by its echo. Whence
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The Carmel colony was found-
did it come and would he be
This is no mystic lOre or ed by the Montefiore Agricul-
lost in the labyrinth? He had lesson that Aleph means to tural Aid Society of which Mich-
realized there were pitfalls in
the poetic Pardee, that only convey, but a principle that ael Heilprin, a leading 19th
the few can savor its fruit is basic to.an understanding of Century American Jew, was
creative art in all its forms. founder. In 1889 there were 286
and survive, and he was mind- What is poetry? How does one persons living in 30 homes in
ful of the peril to footsteps
in the dark and that there was arrive at the essence of a poem? the colony, with 82 children of
no halting once the trek had Well, how does one arrive at school age. Carmel now has a
the essence of a dream? "Thel total of 75 families, 40 of whom
begun, as he confesses in his
meaning of a work," AlephV'e Jewish.
second book of verse Akertzeit,
tells us, "rests in each one 3
plowing time.
Israeli to Preside
Thirty-nine years have now separately, and that is the won- at Session of UN Body
der."
passed since Aleph made his
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.,
The Cholem, the dream, "is
first step in Zangen and the always as each understands it"- (JTA) — Arthur Liveran, Coun-
magic of the word still puzzles
for "the world is a dream with selor of the Israel EmbasSy in
him. It is no mere coincidence. deep parables, • a question in , 1 London, arrived here en route
therefdre. that the "first word"
quest for elucidation - and "a from Montreal where he will
is the theme of the opening never-ending story."
attend the emergency session of
poem of his most recent book,
In the years that Aleph has the United Nations Joint Staff
Cholem Aleichem, dream be
ing the path he en- Pension Board- of whiCh 'he .is
been trod
d
with you. The "first- word" to countered
all the trends in the president. Liveran. who was for-
Aleph "is the threshold a a
'he Israel
er 5' cc
miracle, the swining
ajar of poetic medium, but in the end ,* i in
g
UN, conferred
deleation
g
to the UN
gate,
the
corridor
to
-joy
he
moulded
his
medium
to
his
a
and the pathway to sadness." own personality. There were I here in. connection which
with the
are
The poet knows there can be Attie lyricists, the introspecti-1 Montreal.
expected meetings
to continue for - two
no turning to tome for answer vists, the cerebralists and the ■
to query or direction to path host of poetic schools that I weeks.
until there has been what he came and vanished during the )
calls lightning-like visitation years' that Aleph strove to spell
of the "unexpected 'wonder- out his poetic personality. Yet
he aped none of them, though
-
word.-
the pressure of their influence
.
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Cholem Aleichem, - Aleph' must at times have been a i
seventh hook of poetry, is not stupendous temptation. Aleph i
a collection of his earlier verse. has plowed his own way. Not
yet it epitomizes his poetic even his early . lyrical poems
path. Aleph in. 1919 had a were in the style of the estab-
dream and he zealously guard- fished pathfinders. At a time
ed its secret. Now, ' in , 1958, when free verse was the sign
at the age of sixty, he un- and symbol of newness, Aleph
dreams his dream to us and bound his verse in tablets of
more—he wants dream to be rhyme, resorting to that ex-
with us. be it his dream, or pression only where the theme
our rendering of his dream or demanded it. -
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just imagining. No man is ever
privy to another man's crea-
The test of a true artist is
tivity. That is a domain the his readiness to experiment,
artist lets no man trespass. whether in clay, paint or quill, I
Even the most perceptive of for even the most creative of
readers can only surmise at artists must stagnate if he does
poet's hinting. For. even as not renew - himself _ over the
there is no door to dream. as years both in content and in,
Aleph himself remarks, so is form as well. Aleph's latest
there no penetrating of the contribution to our literary
labryinth that the poet's do-1 heritage bears witness to the !
main.
eternal freshness that is the
Red Treitel. central . figure hallmark of every true poet.
of the dramatic poem after
There is a theory that jour-
which the book is titled, has nalisin and poetry do not mix
a dream which splits him in well.' that writing for a living ,
twain.I Disturbed by the trance is an impediment to creative
into which their rabbi had sud- effort. Perhaps this is verity '
denly fallen. his pupils con- with others, but „it is a cliche ,
trive entering his dream. When it seems as far as Aleph Katz
is concerned. He has been as-
sociated now for more than
IF YOU TURN THE
thirty-five* years with the Jew-
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ish Telegraphic Agency. but
have responded to
his poetry has by no means
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