30 THE D ETROIT JEW I SH NEW S — Friday July VI, 1959 - 57—FOR SALE: HOUSEHOLD GOODS AND FURNITURE LEAVING city. Will sacrifice en- tire contents of completely fur- nished 3-room aptd 60 yards carpeting less than 1 yr. old. Sofa. lounge chair. occasional chair. tables and lamps. Jr. din- ing room suite with oval table. Loose cushion seats on chairs. twin bedroom suite complete. Drapes. occasional pieces. - 17701 MANDERSON APT. 101 CHICAGO-Linwood store. flat above. Newly decorated, reasonable. UN 1-6942 BEDROOM. French. Dinette. 1.iving room. Oldsmobile. Dresses, 14 UN 1-6942. 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. BUYING! SELLING! RENTING! "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. * • • 4 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 READ AND USE OUR WANT ADS FOR QUICK RESULTS! IT'S THE TOWN'S BIGGEST MARKET PLACE CALL THE JEWISH NEWS V E. 8-9364