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Protestant Church Pupils
Renovate Jewish Cemetery
FRANKFURT (JTA)—Pupils
of the Paul-Gebhardt Commun-
ity Church. a Protestant house
of worship at "Offenbach. be-
gan the renovation of the Jew-
ish cemetery at nearby Seli-
genstadt.
Orthodox Ritual Gets New Look'
PHILADELPHIA (JTA)—An
ultra-modern mikvah, with tiled
floors. bevelled mirrors and an
up-to-date beauty parlor is un-
der construction here.
Rabbi Chanania Deutsch of
Cleveland, who is in Philadel-
phia to supervise construction
of the Jewish ritual immersion
bathing facilities. said there
were many problems in con-
structing such a project.
The rabbi. once grand rabbi
of Helmetzer. Czechoslovakia,
has been in the United States
for only ten years, but has su-
pervised the building of 144 rit-
ualariums in the U.S., Canada
land Mexico.
I In addition to providing for
I the periodic ritual bath for Jew-
' ish women, the mikvah is a key
part of the ceremony of con-
versions of gentiles to Judaism.
Rabbi Deutsch explained that
the primary water source for
a mikvah must be natural
water. such as a spring, or rain
water. The mikvah will use
rain water as its initial source.
Three pools are being built, the
central one admitting city
water through a clay pipe after
it is filled with rain water from
the other two pools.
Since metal may not be used,
there will be no drains and
water will be pumped out.
1E xpressionism Key
to New Jewish Art
oZ
Japanese Firms Investing
in Israel; Exports Gain
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
Israel Treasury Department dis-
closed that Japanese interests
are investing in Israeli copper
mines and other enterprises, in-
cluding manufacturing and as-
sembly plants.
The Treasury also reported
that Israel's exports for April
of this year reached a total
of $15,000,000, $3,000,000 more
than the same period last year,
while the total for the first four
months of the year is $78,000,-
000, up $6.800,000 over the
equivalent period last year.
"Reclining Woman" by the modern Israeli painter, Michael
Gross (1956), is now in the United States as part of the private
collection of Samuel Rubin, president of the America-Israel
Cultural Foundation.
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"Coffee House in Acre" by the modern Israeli painter,
Abraham Ofek (1959), now owned by a private collector in
Israel, is considered an outstanding example of modern Israeli
art by the author, Mr. Katz.
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BY KARL KATZ
ner of Expressionism appeals
There has been a Jewish art to the lonely. the unintegrated.
during the past 1,500 years or the anguished and the oppressed
more, but, obviously it is much because it permits them per-
too early to talk of the exist- sonally and uniquely to make
•
ence of a national style in Israel their problems known.
art.
For this r e a s o n. perhaps.
In the Diaspora. this early Jews of the twentieth century
art took the form of ceremonial , Diaspora were attracted to this
objects and decorated manu- self-conscious style which. it
scripts created by Oriental and might be added. emphasized
Western artists alike. These their racial distinctiveness.
pieces. often for the synagogue.
If there is a connection be-
reveal the craftsman's technical tween early Jewish art in Pales-
competence and sometimes his tine. now Israel, and the Jewish
originality as well. but invari- artistic past. it is conveyed
ably they point to a clear rela- through the spirit that Jewish
tionship with the local non- artists have invested in Expres-
Jewish styles at the time of sionism. Even today. though
their creation.
the artistic scene has changed.
In the fine arts of the nine- the color reproductions one
teenth century in Europe a few most frequently sees in collec-
painters of Jewish background tive settlements are of the works
attained a measure of success: of Van Gogh and Rembrandt.
by now as members of the secu-
lar world. and outside the
framework of religious tradi- 1
tion. Most of them. such as Op-
penheim. Israels, Gottlieb and bf
"tio matter where I die. I
Levithan came from Northern
Europe and worked in the ro- am to be buried not among
mantic. academic and late bar- aristocrats. men of high line-
bison styles in fashion in the age. or men of great wealth.
centers in which they lived . but among common Jewish
Even more than before. there workmen. with just ordinary
was nothing except perhaps folk: so that the tombstone to
their choice of subjects that be put up on my grave will
could distinguish them as Jews. honor the ordinary graves
There is a certain aspect of around mine. and the ordinary
the Jewish art of the twentieth graves will honor my tomb-
century that may, in fact..rep- stone. in the way in which the
resent a - creative binding force. plain. honest people honored
This common factor is Expres- their folk writer in his life-
sionism. In the works of the time."
most successful Jewish artists
of the last 50 years or so the Japanese Credits to Aid
Expressionist style is over-
Israeli Copper Development
whelmingly predominant.
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — A
Chagall. Epstein. Kisling, Le-
vine. Lipchitz, Menkes. Pascin. Japanese company has offered
to
provide 55.000.000 in credits
Rattner, Segal. Shahn, Soutine,
Weber—all are Jews, painters for equipment to expand pro-
or sculptors, and Expressionists. duction at the Timna copper
Even perhaps Modigliani. even works near Elath.
The offer was a sequel to a
Lesser Ury's subjective Impres-
sionism, or canvases by Yankel recent visit to Tokyo by Israel
Adler may be termed Expres- Development Minister Mordecai
Bentov. Talks on the proposal
sionist.
One senses that the anti-intel- are scheduled to be held in Is-
lectual, subjective artistic man- : rael in a few days.
Fxcerpt
from Will
Sholem Aleichem
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