The Emotion
of the Folk Song
,- By
CANTOR J. 1EL SONENKLAR
Does any other people have
such a treasure of folk songs as
does the Jewish people? Is there
a people as emotional, as sensi-
tive and as soulful as ours?
Which other people feels as pro-
foundly as ours—feeling at once
W,Ifear, trepida-
tion, hope, de-
spondence, op-
timism and
pessimism?
The Jewish
scene is filled
with folk songs
—t h e Jewish
soul is im-
Sonenklar
mersed in
folk songs that could be counted
in the thousands.
No matter where the Jew has
found himself, no matter what
language he has employed, and
no matter what he has done,
everywhere and always. the Jew
sings. And what is his theme;
what does he sing about?
About what does he not sing?
He sings about God. about the
world, about the Messiah. about
life and about death, about good
and about evil. He sings songs
of the Sabbath and the Yom
Tov, of happiness, of misfor-
tune, of love and of frustration.
He sings about husband and
wife, about father and mother,
about brother and sister. He
sings of need, poverty and even
persecution.
Jewish folk songs have been
gathering for thousands of years.
Seldom do we know the identity
of the writers of either the lyr-
ics or music—but their songs
pass from mouth tc mouth. their
words and music often become
changed. And other songs are
of the genuine folk variety that
"grow of themselves. - beginning
with a catchy phrase from a
classic composition, circulating
among the people. fitting itself
into their characteristic mode
of song. blending. changing and
finally emerging as a Jewish
folk song.
Glueck Set as Next
Field Lecturer Here
Prof. Nelson Glueck. presi-
dent of Hebrew Union College
— Jewish Institute of Religion.
will speak on "Opening the
Doors of the Biblical Past."
Wednesday. Feb. 4. 8 p.m., in
the Rackharn
Dr. Glueck is one of the
leading Biblical archaeologists.
and the author of innumer-
able books and articles on his
investigations and discoveries.
For the last ten years he has
been spending every summer
doing further explorations in
the lands of the Bible. His
new book. "Rivers in. the Des-
ert," gives a dramatic account
of his explorations. His lecture
is the fourth in the current
Field lecture series.
Prof. Glueck's lecture on his
recent discoveries will be .pre-
ceded by a 25-minute color
film entitled "Wildnerness of
Zi n."
Israel to Substitute
orrah for Prutah
A
Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM—Israel's swell-
ing inflation has made the
smallest unit of currency, the
prutah, of so little use that a
bill has been presented to the
Knesset to establish a new
basic unit.
The bill will divide the
Israel pound into 100 units.
each of which will be called
an agorrah. The prutah repre-
sents one-thousandth of an
Israel pound.
,
PAUL PARAY
* *
Paray to Direct
World Premiere
of Wan Ribeeck'
UNITED NATIONS (AJP)-
Secretary General Dag Ham-
marskjold emphatically denied
during his press conference
here that, while in the Middle
East, he had concurred in
Arab demands for their "even-
tual return to their stolen
homeland."
Posing a question to the I
Secretary General, the AJP
reporter read from a recent
JTA dispatch which had cited
the Arab press as follows:
"Replying to addresses by
Arab refugee leaders who re-
ferred to the refugees' even-
tual return to their 'stolen
homeland,' the UN Secretary
General said: 'I know the
truth and the circumstances of
your problem and my feelings
are similar to yours'."
Asked whether he would like
to comment on this, Hammar-
skjold replied:
"The quote is. first. an exag-
geration and, secondly, put in
Paul Paray will conduct the
Detroit Symphony Orchestra in
the American premiere of I
Jacques Berlinski's "Van Ri-
beeck" symphony on Thursday
evening. in the Ford Audito-
rium. The performance of the
symphony will be given in sa-
lute to Israel's tenth anniver-
sary of statehod and in observ-
ance of the Jewish Music Fes-
tival.
Paray was himself music di-
rector and conductor of the
Israeli orchestra during the
years 1946 to 1948. Pia, lag un-
der him at the time were many
musicians who were among
those saved from the Nazis by
Paray when he was a leader in
the French resistance movement
during the war. He has since
returned to Israel on numerous
occasions to conduct the or- ;
chestra there. with his next
scheduled appearance there set !
for May. 1960.
The performance of the "Van
Ribeek" symphony was made •
; possible by the .Music Study 1-
Club of Detroit and the Dora t
* and Julius Green Fund which
arranged for copies to be made
from the original manuscript
prior to publication of he
young Paris Jewish composer's
work. The Detroit Symphony
now owns one of only three
copies extant at present.
Israel Citrus Board
Fights Government
on Export Packaging
Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM — Minister of
Trade and Industry Pinchas
Saphir threatened to withdraw
the government representation
on the Israel Citrus Marketing
Board and end the govern-
ment's cooperation with ..he
board unless the latter recon-
sidered its latest refusal to use
boxes manufactured in Israel
by an American concern. for
the shipment of ten percent of
its fruit.
This is the latest in a series
of developments which dates
back many years. The boxes are
manufactured by Cargal. a plant
owned by Sam Dubiner, an
American.
The citrus board. which has
a long record of feuding with
Cargal, asserts that its cartons
and boxes are not . strong
enough to protect exported cit-
rus fruit. However. over the
years Cargal has exported mil-
lions of crates to Spain, Italy,
Portugal and Africa for citrus
growers.
Recently, after lengthy nego-
tiations, the Israeli growers
board agreed to use Cargal
boxes for ten percent of their
total export crop. Last week, it
reversed itself. Saphir denounc-
ed this action as "a breach of
contract and deception of the
public," threatening to with-
draw all government coopera-
tion unless the tens percent
agreement was reinstated.
Fol ow ing his press coo,fer-
the wrong context. To the ex-
tent anything of that type ence. Hammarskjold was
might have been- said, and I by the AJP reporter whether
don't think those are my exact I he had picked up any Hebrew
words..it did. not refer to. the words while in Israel.
"Shalom," he said, "hut I
request to return to the home-
land. It did refer to the gen- have known that for some time,
eral plight under which the 1 and it is a term that could
well he used in this house too:"
refugees are suffering . . ."
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