THE JEWISH NEWS

Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 19.51

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CHARLOTTE HYAMS

City Editor

Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the 13th day of Kislev, 5727, the following Scriptural selections
will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchai portion, Gen. 32:4-36:43. Prophetical portion, Hosea 11:7-12:12.

Licht Benshen, Friday, Nov. 25, 4:44 p.m.

VOL. L. No. 14

Page Four

November 25, 1966

Bar-Ilan University's Progressive Growth

Detroit Jewry has a fine record of sup-
port for Israeli educational institutions. The
Hebrew University, Technion and the Weiz-
mann Institute continue to receive consider-
able assistance here. Interest also is being
shown in the growing Tel Aviv University.
Especially effective are the labors of a
large number of Detroiters who consistently
provide encouragement to Bar-Ilan University
located at Ramat Gan in Israel. Thanks to
the Stollman Family and a number of others,
this interest has been retained and is grow-
ing.
Bar-Ilan's growth has been phenomenal.
In its tenth year, its student population has
grown from 2,100 to 2,600. New depart-
ments have been established. The natural
science courses are being pursued by 25 per
cent of the students. Those studying for
their masters degrees have grown to 10
per cent of the entire student body—in itself
an indication of vast growth.
There are 200 students from abroad, in-
cluding enrollees from the United States,
Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand, Austria,

Mexico, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa,
Australia, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Ger-
many, Peru and Brazil.
Among the important additions to the
university's departments is a social work
course , which is deemed a vital need for
Israel. Prof. Solomon H. Green, who heads
that department, and who is on loan to Bar-
Ilan from Yeshiva University in New York,
has indicated that even the kibbutzim can use
social workers and that the aim to inspire
"a commitment to Jewish life and values" is
part of a social worker's duties.
Other specializations are significant in
Bar-ilan's activities and its natural science
and education departments are praised for
their progressive tendencies.
Taking these facts into account, the sup-
porters of Bar-Ilan in Detroit have good rea-
son to feel compensated that the assistance
they give to the current fund-raising effort,
through the annual dinner to be held on
Nov. 30, is for an important effort on behalf
of Israel and of Jewry.

Democracy's AssetToiera nce of Discontent

U. S. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas
has made a strong case for the right to differ
when he said that democracy's "secret of sur-
vival" was inherent in its "tolerance of dis-
content, its hospitality to complaint and criti-
cism—for it is dissent that discloses griev-
ance and produces remedy."
It was upon accepting the American
Jewish Congress' 1966 Stephen S. Wise
Award for Advancing Human Freedom that
he declared:
"We do not survive despite carping
criticism; corrosive and sometimes bitter
faultfinding; marching and picketing and
demonstrations. We survive because of them.
Devotion to freedom sometimes requires that
its friends take the risk of criticizing the
uses to which it is being put."
Additionally timely was his assertion,
while viewing the responsibility that devolves
from the exercise of freedom, that:
"Some of the excesses committed in free-
dom's name have nothing to do with free-
dom's office in a civilized community.
"Freedom has no place for violence, for
riot or assault.
"The First Amendment has no kinship
with breaking store fronts, assaulting auto-

mobiles or throwing garbage.
"The First Amendment has no room with-
in its broad scope for hooliganism—whether
it is in the name of racial equality or of op-
position to the war in Vietnam.
"It doesn't matter whether the rioter
wears a white sheet, a brown shirt or the
garments of virtuous pacifism. Freedom
is not designed as his shelter."
These are admonitions that must be taken
to heart by all Americans. We owe duty to
our government and to society to uphold the
hands of our leaders, but the moment we
abandon the right to criticize, to dissent, to
differ, we will be doomed.
We must, all of us, strive for the highest
attainments in the acquisition of civil rights
for all citizens, in gaining the social and
political benefits that accrue to human bene-
fits so that all citizens should share them
with as much equality as possible. But that
does not give any one the right to riot, to
destroy life and property, to molest fellow
citizens.
There are interesting lessons to be
learned from the declarations made by Mr.
Justice Fortas. He has interpreted well the
basic American principles.

Neo-Nazism and Germany's Burden of Proof

It is not the Hessian and Bavarian gains
for neo-Nazism alone that are cause for ser-
ious concern over the re-emergence of the
extreme rightists in Germany. There is the
added fear that the Hitler years are being
forgotten, that those who had been trained
under the Nazis may influence the youth,
that the latter, embittered by the blame that
reverts upon them as a result of the sins of
their fathers may also join the forces of hate.
Students of developing events in Ger-
many have warned for some time that the
growing NatiOnal Democratic Party, which
has been labeled rightist but many of whose
supporters have retained an affinity for
Nazism, is emerging as a menace to demo-
cratic thinking.
Will the Bonn government be able to stem
the tide, will it succeed in preventing the re-
emergence of bigotry akin to the hatreds
that were fomented under Hitler and his
cohorts?

Foster's 'Posters and Personality'
Depicts Chagall's Life and Work

Marc Chagall's cubism, surrealism, lyricism; the eminent painter's
sense of the mystical; his etchings, lithographs and ceramics; the in-
fluence of the "shtetl" upon his creative efforts—these have been
subjects of discussion and evaluation, accompanied by admiration for
the works of one of the most prominent of the artists of this century.
His posters introduce a new subject, and there is much for artists
and laymen to learn—providing a new subject for
discussion—in "Marc Chagall—Posters and Personal-
ity" by Joseph K. Foster, published by Reynal and
Co. in association with William Morrow and Co.
(425 Park, S., NY16).
There are, in this collection, 26 reproductions,
multicolored, including two of the Chagall Windows
for Jerusalem. The great artist's personality is re-
viewed in the accompanying essay by Foster, and we
have here a combination of the art of Chagall and
the story of his life and his rise to fame. Foster is
well qualified to write the personality sketch and to Chagall
have edited this work. He had also authored "The Posters of Picasso."
He had befriended Chagall during the war, had met with him. often in
Paris and is familiar with his nuances.
In a prefatory note, Foster states that if, as it has been said,
the 20th Century is the first since the Renaissance to produce "the
whole and versatile man in common numbers . . . then certainly
Marc Chagall, by his tremendous and varying activity, has pro-
duced sound evidence to substantiate this claim." He speaks of
him as "one of the most integrated personalities of our time.
There is no discernible conflict between Chagall the man and
Chagall the artist . . .
The reproduced posters commence with the Kunsthaus Zurich
display of December 1950-January 1951. Then there are posters from
Basel, Nice, Paris, Berlin, Venice, Bern, Reims, Geneva, the Jerusalem
windows and from several galleries.
Foster's essay is an evaluate work on art as well as on Chagall
and includes a lengthy review of Chagall's life, from his birth in
Vitebsk in 1887 to date. -
Defining Chagall's works, Foster points out that "Chagall creates
a tone scale that imbues his paintings with bursts of opulent color."
He states further that "Chagall's color intensities and arrange-
ments offer fresh and dramatic spatial inventions."
Of special interest in the Foster monograph is the review of
Chagall's home life, his marriage, his mother's influence as "the
ruler of the household." He points out: "In many paintings of his
parents his father is a small inconsequential figure in the fore-
ground, while the mother, in the background, looms large and
commanding."
"It is this incidental disregard of perspective," Foster adds, "that
has caused critics to identify him with Surrealism. But the Surrealist
builds his composition around the objet trouve, the accidental objet-
This technique presupposes an automatic, subjective impetus,
which objective organization shapes the final result. Like those of
Surrealists, Chagall's impulses may be subjective, but never au o
matic. "
There is an added explanation of the main contents of this beauti-
fully designed book: "The function of the poster, as that of all forms
of advertising, was to persuade the viewer that life without the ad-
vertised merchandise was insupportable . . . In keeping with current
tradition, Chagall does not accept commissions to design commercial
posters. With the exception of an occasional poster designed to sell
the Riviera as a tourist Mecca (the design for which he contributes
gratis), his posters are concerned with his own books and exhibits,
including the displays of ceramics, graphic art, paintings, the Jerusalem
Windows; the books of the Bible, etc. Hence the most successful poster
is one that most closely resembles his own work, while conversely,
the poorest poster is one that least resembles his work."
Thus, he points out that three of the plates use the theme of
Moses and the Tablets of the Law: "In each of the posters Moses is
pictured as the traditional patriarch who seemingly wears horns.
Actually these 'horns' derive from the first pictorial treatment of Moses
on Mount Sinai receiving the Tablets of the Law. Behind the head of
Moses are seen the sun's rays as a dramatic accompaniment of the
celestial act."
Thus, in this collected album, the reader is treated to a noteworthy

Germans who are anxious to wipe off the
stains of past crimes and to prove to the
world that it is not congenial to their people
to embrace bias and, to deal inhumanely with
their fellow -men, must exert all their in-
fluence to make certain that their schools,
their media of communication, their houses
of worship, teach the children and the adults
to rise above prejudices that lead to crimin-
ality.
Many thousands of Nazi criminals still are
at large and they must be brought to justice.
German courts must act to prove that the
German mind has been purged of the ill will
of the past.
Yet, from Hesse and Bavaria came warn-
ings, and similar dangers lurk in other areas.
Germany remains on trial as a result of
the reappearance of the neo-Nazi forces. The
burden of proof that Nazism has ended for all art collection, to a criticism of art, to a definition as well as an outline
of the life of a very great artist. Foster's "Chagall" is truly a treasure.
time devolves totally upon Germany.

