100%

Scanned image of the page. Keyboard directions: use + to zoom in, - to zoom out, arrow keys to pan inside the viewer.

Page Options

Share

Something wrong?

Something wrong with this page? Report problem.

Rights / Permissions

The University of Michigan Library provides access to these materials for educational and research purposes. These materials may be under copyright. If you decide to use any of these materials, you are responsible for making your own legal assessment and securing any necessary permission. If you have questions about the collection, please contact the Bentley Historical Library at bentley.ref@umich.edu

October 02, 1959 - Image 52

Resource type:
Text
Publication:
The Detroit Jewish News, 1959-10-02

Disclaimer: Computer generated plain text may have errors. Read more about this.

Holiday Good Cheer

PHILLIP'S WASTE
OIL PICK-UP

And Road Oiling Service,- Inc.
The Largest Pick-Up Fleet
in the Midwest
3901 WYOMING, in Dearborn
VI. 3-1700

z

Happy Holiday

PINEWOOD
RESTAURANT

FINE FOOD

12824 Livernois
WE 5-9340

to•••••••••••••••••••••



Rosh Hashanah
• •

Greetings





• *Pollak Printing Co.• •






Complete Printing Service •


2420 Grand River • •

WO. 3-0895


ommothummotwombe

Best Wishes to All for
A Happy New Year

PRIMEAT FOOD
PRODUCTS CO.

Beef - Veal - Lamb
2380 TWENTIETH

TA. 5-8877

New Year Greetings

PRINCE
Michigan Macaroni

MFG. CO ., INC.
3261-65 Bellevue .

WA. 1-4421

ipootroomimmmcomio-
• 'Greetings....


• •


PRINTCRAFT •

PRESS
• •

1 250
••
••

First Street


WO. 3-1229.

SH1*************••••••

Greetings on the
New Year



PUBLIX
CLEANERS

19504 W. McNichols
KE. 2-3430
13035 W. McNichols
UN. 2-9688

Season's Greetings

QUALITY
ENVELOPE CO.

439 East Fort Street
WO. 2-0672

Richard Wagner: Musical Genius?
Or, Psychotic Hate-Monger?

The bridal chorus from
Wagner's Lohengrin has become
as much a part of the Jewish
wedding ceremony as bridal
bouquets and rice.
And yet, Harry Simonhoff
points out in a Seven Art fea-
ture article, Richard Wagner,
so admired for his musical
genius, wrote a vicious pam-
phlet, "Judaism in Music,"
which became a textbook for
anti-Semitism throughout
Europe.
Wagner put an end to toler-
ance in the art world in the
middle of the 19th century, ac-
cording to Simonhoff. Before
Wagner climbed from the
depths of poverty to the heights
of fame, the outstanding names
in music were Mendelssohn,
Meyerbeer, Halevy, Offenbach
and other Jews.
His strange case of "Judeo-
phobia" is witnessed in the four
gigantic music-dramas of The
Ring cycle "In his written
instructions on the original
score," Simonhoff writes,
"Wagner directed that the vocal
delivery of the two Nibelungs
should be 'the Jewish manner of
speech—shrill, hissing, buzzing,
a wholly foreign and arbitrary
distortion of our idiom'."
Hitler was an admirer ' of
Wagner, for apparent reasons.
Rather than agree to uncondi-
tional surrender, regardless of
German suffering and loss of
life, he preferred the Wag-
nerian touch: "to crash the
Reich into a mighty ruin in
keeping with the Gotterdame-
rung, the twilight of the gods,"
writes Simonhoff.
The psychotic hate carried
out by Hitler in his concentra-
tion camps could have been
taken directly from Wagner's
last paragraph of "Judaism in
Music" where he addresses the
Jews: "But think you that one
thing only can redeem you from
the burden of your curse: the
redemption of Ahasuerus—an-
nihilation."
"Wagner's Judeophobia did
not stop with music," Simonhoff
writes. "He embraced racism in
all its aspects. Jews became the
demons exploiting 'the adorable
and beautiful Germans' as de-
scribed by his 'Meistersinger'
who dogmatized that by con-
trolling the banks and the press,
Jews 'dominated the entire Ger-
man life.
"But he insisted that there

•*********************2
New Year Greetings t,

• ADVANCE BAG
& BURLAP .CO.

QUEEN •
Quality Laundry.

PARKVI EW
NURSERY
_ 14201 Telegraph

Happy New Year to Our
Relatives and Friends

Mr. and Mrs.
Milton Ratner

St. Clair Shores, Mich.

New Year Greetings

PASTOR CLEANERS

10816 Fullerton

TE 4-2800



PEERLESS
DISTRIBUTING CO.

1 5800 Tirernan

8720 'Livernois

TI 6-7009

Holiday Greetings

Standard Heating
& Sheet Metal Co.

Heating and Cooling
Residential and Commercial

13130 PLYMOUTH
WE 3-0209

1

ALLIED
CYCLE CO

1 1 844 Grand River

WE 3-4050

TE 4-6400

Holiday Greetings

STANDARD
POULTRY

3011 Russell

■ ••• ■ ••• ■ •••• ■•■■••■■■■••■■••■■■•■■,,

Greetings on New Year's

Greetings on the Holiday

BEULAH STARR

ALPORT SCRAP
SALVAGE CO.

Superfluous Hair Permanently
Removed by
Multiple Electrolysis
Physicians' References

3035 Central
VI 3-0721

908 MUTUAL BLDG.
28 W. ADAMS

WO. 2-2789

Holiday Best Wishes

Angelo Cartage Co.

GENERAL TRUCKING
By hour; Carload or Contract
Specializing in Electric
. Ap plignce Moving


1951 E. Ferry

Best Wishes
on New Year's

Steinmetz Cooperage

4638 Mitchell

WA 5-2875

WA 2-7447

'fir

Sincere Holiday Wishes

Season's Greetings

ASSOCIATED
HEATING Inc.

STEWART
PRINTING CO.

Heating - Ventilating
Air Conditioning Engineers
Contractors

Printing and Offset Printing
536 E. LARNED

5630 East Davison
TW 3-2473

WO 2-7817•

' Holiday Greetings

Holiday Best Wishes

-ATOMIC

SYLVIA'S
BEAUTY SALON

SUPER SERVICE

Mobil Gas Products
Completely Equipped
Anti-Freeze

Beauty - Charm
"Come in and Get Acquainted"

12105 Harper. at Harrell

.... 13521 WEST 7 MILE

Open 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.

DR 1-9881

For Appointment call UN 4-7560

Sincerest Greetings
THREE STAR
STEAK HOUSE

SKOLNICK
PHOTO FRAMES

DiStributors of Metal and Wood.
Frames and Albums

Next to Post Office

Steaks - Chops - Lobster Tails
Pizza Pies Our Specialty
Prime Ribs of Beef
1 1817. JOSEPH. CAMPAU

DI. 1-8637

TO 5-5545

New Year's Greetings
to AU

New Year Greetings

17388 LIVERNOIS

UNITED BLOCK
CO., Inc.

Morris Snow & Co.

WHOLESALE MEATS

4070 Deming

Dexter Blvd.

PERMALASTIC
PRODUCTS

f••••••••••••••••••••:

7111 W. McNichols
UN 1-4416

New Year Greetings

Home of Lusterized Cleaning

TO 8-8876

Specializing in All Alterations
on Ladies', Men'S and
Children's Clothing

DI 1-3587

New Year Greetings
Peerless Cleaners
& Dyers

12840

SPICK CLEANERS
& FURRIERS

at Littlefield

68 E. Warren
TE 1-4870
3 o Soa ins-isannsinrirtnrinnnic

Happy New Year

SAM REITER S

Greetings & Best Wishes

13315 West 7 Mile

Printers and Manufacturers of
Paper Boxes
Norman Gitler - Solomon Gitler

Holiday Good Cheer


• •
• •
DECORATOR

0 17326 Prairie UN 1-4195. •

New Year Greetings

HolidayGood Cheer

r•••••••••••••••s
• •

Happy New Year to


Our Friends a nd Patrons • •



WE 3-9070

Hot Lunches
Special Ice Cream
and Party Molds
Candies — White Chocolates

NORMAN'S
PAPER BOX CO.

5.0

14877 Wyoming

KE 5-0140

Holiday Greetings
ALINOSI'S
COFFEE SHOP

New Year's Greetings

~

21420 W. 8 Mile Rd.

2220 Puritan
UN 2-0777

329_9

1/4 Mile N. of Schoolcraft
REDFORD TOWNSH I P

Ready Mix Concrete

SPECIFICATIONS
SERVICE CO.

"Authorized Parts Depot"

"Superfluous wealth can buy
superfluities only ; Money is not
*
required to buy one necessary
* of the soul." — Henry David
Ir*************ii***;**M Thoreau

Holiday Good Cheer

New Year Greetings

Motor' City
Transit Mix, Inc.

Nelson Equipment
& Service Co.

1352 DIVISION
WO 3-1571

Greetings of the Season

Complete Service
3000 JOY RD. TY. 8-0468

is something racially mystical
about the German language
which Jews could never hope to
acquire. In the face of Heinrich
Heine's exquisite handling of
the language in' poetry and
prose, • Wagner argued that Jews
could never feel, understand or
create in German. Nazis mouth-
ed this slogan until their gas
chambers were seized by the
allied forces."
Simonhoff calls attention to
the fact that Wagner's daugh-
ter married the arch anti-
Semitic Englishmen Houston
Stewart Chamberlain, whose
"Foundation of the Nineteenth
Century" "became a Bible to
the Nazis." Too, the widow of
W a g n e r's son Siegfried was
among the first in the art world
to back Adolph Hitler. "It was
her prestige as owner of Wag-
ner's Music Drama Theater at
Beyreuth that enabled Shikel-
gruber to meet and influence
the German intelligentsia."
And yet, "strong evidence"
leads to the belief that Wagner
was the son of Ludwig Geyer,
an actor of Jewish descent who
became his stepfather, following
the separation of his mother
and Karl Friedrich Wagner at
the time Richard was born.
Wagner's creed, according to
Simonhoff, was that "Jews as an
alien race cannot possibly com-
prehend the German soul.
Since he held that people think
with their blood, a Jewish artist
could not express or interpret
the Germanic spirit. Thus, if
he composes music he intro-
duces an alien element which
corrupts the pure fountainhead
of Teutonic Kultur.
"It follows quite logically
that all music written by Jew-
ish composers must be torn
root and branch out of German
art . . . Wagner's dream was
symbolically realized with the
destruction of Felix Mendels-
sohn's marble statue at Dussel-
dorf."
Yet, Wagner, for his own
benefit, "utilized the talents of
Herman Levi to conduct the
international premiere of Par-
sifal at Beyreuth . . . But his
subconscious wishes were com-
pletely fulfilled when Jewish
singers, conductors, violinists,
pianists and composers were
either banished or murdered in
concentration camps . . . "
"How," asks Simonhoff, "can
Jewish parents lead their sons
and daughters to the marriage
canopy in the synagogue, to the„
crashing rhythmic chorus of
Wagner's Wedding March?"

Holiday Greetings

TA 5-5011



19290 W. 8 Mile Rd.
KE 2-9300

ti

!Cordial Holiday Greeting! -

!Socks Texaco Service

21243 GRAND RIVER
at Westbrook
Brake Service — Motor Tune-Up -
Expert Marfak Lubrication
Phone KEnwood 1-9502
YOUR TEXACO DEALER

Best Wishes on
- New Year's

Vacuum Cleaners
Service Shop

Detroit's Largest Repair
and Service Center
ALL MAKES REBUILT

17801 John R.
N. of 6 Mile
TO 9-4222

Back to Top

© 2024 Regents of the University of Michigan