Friday, August 16, 1963—THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-22 Oscar Klausner Whets His Appetite Jewish Schools Announce Fall for Life Perfects His Craft at 84 Registration .4: OSCAR KLAUSNER DISPLAYS HIS RUBAIYAT Hebrew, Sunday and all-day school registrations have been announced by synagogues and school institutions in the com- munity. Among them are the Livonia Jewish Congregation, the Hayim Greenberg Hebrew Yiddish Shule and the Beth Yehudah Schools. The Livonia Jewish Congre- gation announces that it will hold Sunday School registra- tion on Aug. 18 and 25 from 10 a.m. until noon at 32070 W. Seven Mile, Livonia. Classes being offered for the 1963-1964 semester are nursery (for three-year-olds), pre-school and kindergarten, first grade, second grade and third grade. For information, call Mrs. Tom Salmons, GA 7-1167. The Hayim Greenberg He- brew Yiddish Shule, 19161 Schaefer, is advising parents to enroll their children now. Classes will begin right after Labor Day. The course of study com- prises Hebrew, Yiddish, Bible, history, traditional and modern Hebrew and Yiddish songs, holi- day observation, current events and Bar Mitzvah preparation for students who attend the school five years. The Hayim Greenberg Nurs- ery will be available to 3 1/2-5- year-olds. For information, call UN 4-6319. Registrations are being taken for beginners and advanced students at all branches of the Beth Yehudah Schools, which provide an integrated all-day program of Hebrew and gen- eral secular studies for boys and girls. The main school on Defter Blvd. ranges from kin- dergarten through grade 12; its suburban branch — the Hebrew Academy (on Ten Mile near Greenfield) ranges from kinder- garteen through grade seven. The' Beth Yehudah Schools also operate an afternoon school program for boys and girls at- tending the public schools. Af- ternoon school classes meet at Young Israel of Northwest De- troit and at the Hebrew Acad- emy in Oak Park. Bus transportation to and from school is offered by Yeshi- vath Beth Yehudah. For infor- mation and registration, call WE 1-0203. dance hall, for David 'Brown. By MITZI RACHLEFF Decorator - writer - skater - The smoking rooms of the painter Oscar Klausner spends steamers "Greater. Buffalo" his life, not in search of gran- and "Greater Cleveland" were deur, but in the discovery of designed by Klausner. He was ostensibly unimportant things also the creator of the minia- which tell him something of ture golf club in the basement of the Statler Hotel. significance. During the 1930's Klausner Klausner began his career in worked on a mural for the Vienna where he was born in Clawson High School. He de- 1879. At the age of 15 he re- s i g n e d tapestries depicting calls skating in a public rink three ballgames: football, soc- one morning and upon request cer and basketball, which were offered to teach a young boy hung in the school. skill on ice. The boy la t e r When plans for the new turned out to be Emperor Karl Bnai David Synagogue were of Austria. in progress, Klausner was Before coming to the United asked to decorate the inter- States in 1907, Klausner ior. He presently maintains studied and worked in Ger- an interior decoration studio many, Switzerland and in Detroit. Belgium. "I am now working on a "During the 1890's there project for adult education," was a great prosperity in states Klausner. "It will be a Germany," says Klausner. "This was the time when series of lectures pertaining to department stores and five decoration and the art of the and dimes first had their home. With the many new tex- tiles on the market, great ex- start. There was a shortage of decorators and I was hired perience is needed to separate to design display windows in the chaff from the wheat." -- Today Klausner lives with one of the large stores." Klausner wrote and won his dachshund, Snooky, of literary prizes in Germany whom he has published stories during this period. Among his in D e t r oit newspapers. He outstanding contributions to loves to read and feels the man the field of literature is a who most molded his own form translation into German of of writing is Heinrich Heine, "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khay- "the poet who made the Ger- yam." Each page of the book man language singable." Sometimes Klausner will was handwritten with metallic sit down at his old player ink and illustrated by Klausner in the style of Persian minia- piano and bring forth the tures and woodcuts. This work beauty of his beloved received reviews in American Beethoven, or Shubert or Chopin. His home on Bur- newspapers as well as the magazine of The German lingame bespeaks another Oriental Society. era. While living in New York, "Once Anne Campbell jok- Klausner was invited by the ingly remarked that I've always Newcomb-Endicott Co. of De- given advice to others on dec- troit to work as their decorator. oration and yet my own home He held this post from 1910 to hasn't changed in 40 years," 1920. quips Klausner. The walls are Klausner's first home in heavily laden with the artist's Detroit was on Joy St. (now oil, paintings, antique vases and Peterboro). Later he and his memories of 3'7 years of happi- Austrian - born wife (the ness with his wife, "the only daughter of a teacher and truly honest woman I've ever sister of a rabbi) moved to known. Forest Ave., across from the Lindberghs. The Klausners used to sing with the Detroit Catholic University Symphony when Gabrilovitch to Publish Book by was conductor. They were also members of the Har- Jewish Scientist mony and Skating Clubs. PITTSBURGH, (JTA) — Du- In 1918 Klausner won first quesne University, a Roman prize at -the Michigan Artist Catholic Institution, will pub- Exhibition. During the same lish the first English transla- year he created a display for tion of a book by a Jewish sci- General Motors and the King enist now available only in Motor Car Co. After 1920 he French. The author is Dr. free-lanced, did window dis- Aron Gurwitch, and the' book plays. wrote articles pertaining is "The Field of Conscious- to decoration for magazines ness," an analysis of human perception. The National Sci- and painted. He decorated the Arena Gar- ence Foundation gave Duquense dens which was converted from a grvit of $9,840 for this an ice rink • to a concert and proj ect. Starr-Goldberg Rites Solemnized MRS. ROBERT STARR Briscoe to Speak at Bnai David's Israel Bond Fete Congregation Bnai David will honor Jack Lieberman, a for- mer president, at its "Salute to Israel" dinner on Sept. 4, in the Rotenberg social hall of the congregation, Southfield and 9 1/2 Mile Road. Morris J. Brandwine i s president of the congrega- tion. Robert Bris- coe, Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin, will be the guest speaker. Sam Rot h- b e r g, of Pe- oria, Ill., Na- tional Israel Bond Cam- paign chair- man and presi- dent of the Israel Inv e s- Briscoe tors' Corporation, will bring a message on behalf of the Israel Bond Organization. Max Sosin is dinner chairman. Rabbi Hayim Donin will give the tribute to Lieberman. Cantor Hyman J. Adler will provide the musical program. Reservations for the dinner, on behalf of Israel Bonds, can be made by calling the syna- gogue office, EL 6-8210, or the Israel Bond office, DI 1-5707. Dinner committee co-chairmen are Melville J. Richman, Irving Belinsky, Morris Brandwine, Jo- seph Gorman, Harold S o b 1 e, Melvin Volin and William Wein- stein. Betty Carol Goldberg became the bride of Dr. Robert M. Starr at a July 7 ceremony at Park Manor in Brooklyn, N.Y. Parents of the newlyweds are Mr. and Mrs. Morris M. Gold- berg of Northlawn Ave. and Mr. and Mrs. William Starr of Brooklyn, N.Y. The bride wore a gown of ivory Peau de soie with elbow length sleeves. The bodice was lace with tiny seed pearls. Her veil was of hand made roses and seed pearls. She carried Stephanotis and orchids. Mrs. Miriam. Levine, sister of the bride, served as matron of honor. Bridesmaids were Judy Berris and Elaine Zack, of De- troit and Sylvia Shapiro of Toronto, Ont. Best man was Steven Katz of Long Branch, N.J. Ushers were David Goldberg, brother of the bride, Edward Klersfeld and William Soroka of Brooklyn. 4........,4,...„, After a honeymoon in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, the 'couple will move to San An- tonio, Tex., where Dr. Starr is serving as Captain in the U.S. * -« MUSIC N * * Army Dental Corps. 4c LI 8-4432 *********************Z The Grand Opening Parade of the Michigan State Fair will be Friday, Aug. 23, in Down- town Detroit. Ribbon-cutting ceremonies at the Fairgrounds will be at 6 p.m. The fair will run through Labor Day, Mon- 13523 W. 7 MILE RD. day, Sept. 2. Pamphlet Details Swiss Unclaimed Property The World Jewish Congress in New York has issued a pamphlet containing an English translation of the recently adopted Swiss decree on "Un- claimed Properties of Stateless Persons and Foreigners in Switzerland" and its imple- mentary regulation. The law lifts the stringent Swiss bank- ing regulations that protected the identity of depositors and have, until now, prevented action regarding bank accounts, deposits or other assets left un- claimed since the war. Enactment of the Swiss legis- lation follows long negotiations, both by the Allies and various Jewish organizations, Swiss and foreign. The decree deals with all kinds of properties of which it is known or presumed that they belonged to persons who have been "victims of racial, religious or political persecution." Translation of the law was made by Dr. Nehemiah Robin- son, director of the World Jewish Congress Institute of Jewish Affairs. Copies of the pamphlet may be obtained from the World Jewish Congress, 15 E. 84th St., New York 28. Detroit's top disc jockeys will emcee the star-studded shows in the Music Shell at the 114th annual Michigan State Fair, Aug. 23 through Sept. 2. * . * M. G. 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