Goldfaden's Yiddish Opera `Shulamith'
to Be Presented Here as Oratorio
Temple Israel to Present Opera
`Out of the Desert,' for 25th Year
Harry Pliskow, president of
Temple Israel, has announced the
commission of a new opera in
honor of the temple's 25th anni-
versary.
Composer and pianist Julius
'Chajes has written the full-length,
three-act opera, which is to be
performed at the synagogue April
17 and 18.
The opera, "Out of the Desert,"
with a libretto by Michael Atzmoni
Keen, is based on a Talmudic
legend, later interpreted in a poem
by Chaim Nachman Malik.
The performance will feature
soprano Marilyn Cotlow, formerly
of the Metropolitan Opera Com-
pany, and Cantor Harold Orbach,
who is also over-all coordinator of
this program.
Others in the cast will include
Robert Angus of the Chicago Lyric
Opera Co.; mezzo soprano Annette
Chajes; Cantor Louis Klein of Bnai
Moshe Congregation; and Leo
Mogill and Sidney Resnick, mem-
bers of the Temple Israel choir.
The Kenneth Jewell Chorale
will sing the choral portion of
the opera, and the choreogra-
phy will be directed by Harriet
Berg, of Wayne State Univer-
sity and the Jewish Center. Stag-
ing will be directed by Evelyn
Orbach.
Russell Paquette of the Wayne
State Theater will be scenic de-
signer, and Carol Selby of the
Detroit Institute of Arts will orig-
inate the costuming.
The play is a declaration of
faith in the destiny of the Jews,
of a belief that not even the most
diabolical extermination devices
will ever prevent this people from
reaching the sanctuary it has
sought through centuries of suf-
fering and agony.
Memorial Wall to Be Dedicated in LA;
6,000,000 Names Sought for Volume
RABBI, MRS. SAMUEL SILVER
Mrs. Samuel Silver
to Join Husband in
Talk at Emanu-El
Final guest lecturers in the 1966
Institute of Jewish Learning of
Temple Emanu-El will be Rabbi
and Mrs. Samuel M. Silver of
Stamford, Conn., who will speak
on and demonstrate "Jewish Music
Is Not Sad," 8:15 p.m., Tuesday.
Rabbi Silver, spiritual leader of
Temple Sinai, Stamford, is a colum-
nist, former editor of the journal
of the Central Conference of
American Rabbis and nationally
known speaker. Rabbi Silver will
appear on television here this
weekend. (See Jewry on the Air).
Mrs. Silver, a concert pianist, will
demonstrate from her husband's
lecture.
The program is open to the pub:
lic at no charge.
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THE WALL OF THE MARTYRED SIX MILLION
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LOS ANGELES — Temple Beth
Am will dedicate its Memorial
Wall to the Martyred Six Million
April 24 at the temple.
According to Nathan Shapell, a
former concentration camp in-
mate and escapee, who is now pres-
ident of the temple, April 24 was
Chosen for the dedication since
It marks the approximate date of
the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, and
iS the day before Israel's Inde-
pendence Celebration.
Among those who have already
agreed to serve as honorary chair-
men of the dedication are Presi-
dent Zalman Shazar of Israel,
Goldberg Says
Rusk's Cairo Visit
Not Yet Confirmed
LONDON (JTA) — Arthur J.
Goldberg, the United States Am-
bassador to the United Nations,
told a press conference here that
the planned visit by Secretary of
State Dean Rusk to Egypt had not
yet been confirmed.
He was also asked about the
American supply of Patton tanks
to Israel, and replied that it was
known that, from time to time, the
United States very reluctantly has
supplied certain quantities of arms
to Middle East countries, specific-
ally Jordan and, more recently,
Israel.
He said that Soviet arms sup-
plies to the Middle East had
created an imbalance and, because
of this, the United States had de-
cided to make the tanks available
to Israel. He added: "We regret
this very much because the coun-
tries concerned could well use
their resources to much better pur-
pose."
He said that the United States
was ready to enter into an agree-
ment with any country to stop
arms supplies to the Middle East
but that, as yet, this has proved
impossible.
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former Presidents Truman and
Eisenhower, and other high gov-
ernmental, religious, and civic
leaders, both internationally and
nationally.
Names of victims who per-
ished in the concentration camps
will be inscribed on the parch-
ment pages of a huge memorial
volume, to be displayed in a
place of prominence in the
Temple. On days of the year
when the traditional and special
memorial prayers are offered,
the book with the inscribed
names will be brought to the
lecturn. Jews around the world
are requested -to send the names
of family and relatives who lost
their lives in the Hitler holo-
caust to Eli Rembaum, Temple
Beth Am, Los Angeles, 90035.
Approximate dates of loss of
life as well as vernacular and
Hebrew names should be sent.
The Memorial Wall was de-
signed and built by artist Perli
Pelzig.
What the wall expresses is not
merely a mosaic of many frag-
ments, of individual camps, but a
picture of the concentration camp
system as a whole. As is inscribed
in its metal and stone construc-
tion, the wall dramatically sug-
gests the infernos of horror and
stands, "In loving Tribute to the
Memory of Six Million Martyrs ...
We shall not forget."
AUSTIN A KANTER, Detroit
general agent of the National Life
Insurance Co. of Vermont, an-
nounced that PAUL M. DAVID-
SON and I. A. (Bud) LEHMAN
JR., both of Livonia, have quali-
fied for the firms tenth President's
Club and will attend a conference
at the Deauville Hotel, Miami
Beach, March 16-20. Davidson and
Lehman are previous members of
the club. They also hold the life
industry's National Quality Award,
for excellence of service to policy-
owners over extended periods.
In the 1880s, a young rabbi with
a passion for writing vaudeville-
type Yiddish productions was find-
ing it difficult, if not impossible,
to get his work performed.
The rabbi — Abraham Goldfa-
den — was both creator and entre-
preneur. He not only wrote the
skits and music, but he also or-
ganized and managed amateur
stock companies of aspiring young
Jewish actors — at least he tried
to entice fellow Jewish talent.
It wasn't that Jewish sons and
daughters disliked acting in Gold-
faden's musical comedies. Quite
the contrary.
This time "Shulamith" will be
sung by a 50-voice chorus in ora-
torio style, complete with soloists
and orchestra, at Cong. Ahavas
Achim. It will be the first oratorio
performance of the Goldfaden
work in this city.
A special arrangement for mix-
ed chorus and orchestra has been
prepared by Charles Weiner, a De-
troit musician and composer. Can-
tor Simon Bermanis, a former
Vienna operatic tenor, will direct
the production.
Tickets are available at the
synagogue, Grinnell's (downtown)
and Marwil Book Store (North-
land).
But Jewish parents in Romania
would not allow their children
to "go on the stage". And the Yiddish Poems in Romania
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rabbis forbid it too.
But the "father of Yiddish the- of poems by the Yiddish poet, A.
ater" did not give up. He com-
posed libretto and music that em-
ulated the French composer
Jacques Offenbach, also a Jew,
and even London's famous team
of Gilbert and Sullivan.
In 1883 the Romanian czarist
government resolved that Yiddish
theater might become an instru-
ment for revolutionary propagan-
da. So they banned its perform-
ance.
In 1887, Goldfaden came to New
York, associating himself with the
city's Romanian Opera House.
With the mass migration of
Yiddish-speaking Jews to New
York, a number of enterprising
young actors hurried to the city.
Some of these performers be-
came popular through Goldfaden
works, among them "Shula-
mith."
On March 20, Detroiters will
have an opportunity to hear this,
Goldfaden's most famous Yiddish
opera.
Evion, has been issued by the Gov-
ernment Publishing House for
Literature. The volume, "A New
World Rises," includes the poet's
pre-war poems as well as poems
dealing with World War II and
some postwar verses. The book was
published in an unusually small
edition of 230 copies. A Romanian
translation of Evion's poems also
is available.
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present economic relationship be-
tween the two countries. Details
of the amount and terms of the
aid promised to Israel will be
worked out later.
West Germany has fully ac-
knowledged the "special signif-
icance" of its relations with Is-
rael, Foreign Minister Abba
Eban reported at the weekly
meeting of the Israel Cabinet.
The Israel delegation to the first
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phase of these talks returned
last weekend.
Eban reported that progress has
been made in the discussions on
Israel's demand that Bonn pro-
vide assistance without linking
such aid to specific projects. The
Germans had objected to that re-
quest, insisting that such aid must
not be used for armament acquisi-
tion purposes.
People like you are the reason El
The foreign minister agreed
Al's flying. Israel appreciates. what
with a statement made in Jerusa-
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you've contributed to building its
Rolf Pauls, who had chided the
great institutions, including El AI,
Israeli press for allegedly empha-
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sizing the negative aspects of the
Bonn negotiations. Like Dr. Pauls,
You'll appreciate the way E1 Al's
Eban said that differences had
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covered at least half of the ground
and that the German Government
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different countries; Tel Aviv, NiCo-
sia, Istanbul, Teheran, Nairobi, Jo,
Dr. Konrad Adenauer, West Ger-
many's former chancellor, warned
hannesburg, Athens, Rome, Vienna,
here Sunday that, unless the pres-
Zurich, Munich, Frankfurt, Brussels,
ent Bonn government reaches "a
Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Parisi,
satisfactory" agreement with Is-
London. Go to any you choose. But
rael, as a result of the Bonn-Jeru-
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week, such a failure would affect
West German relations with other
countries.
Dr. Adenauer said in his address
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