France Buys Heine Papers From Israel On the Record Bernstein Receives By NATHAN ZIPRIN (A Seven Arts Feature) Roosevelt Award THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, December 2, 1966-29 Music Study Club Picks 2 Winners They Will Never Forget . . . Two young musicians with soul in their fingers climbed one rung The story of the Nazi annihila- of the symbolic success ladder tion of six million Jews has been Sunday night with their perform- told many times. There have (Direct JTA Teletype Wire ance for the Music Study Club's been newspaper accounts, films, to The Jewish News) Annual Artist Concert at the Scot- PARIS — The Bibliotheque Na- speeches, documented reports and tish Rite Cathedral. tionale, the French National Lib- literary works, notably Elie Wei- Undaunted by the formidable rary, disclosed it had acquired sel's haunting novels. Some have music chosen for the program, more than 2,000 unpublished pages been objectively factual; some pianist Emanuel Ax whipped by Heinrich Heine, the Jewish gruesomely stark; still others through Beethoven's "Appassion- poet and satirist, and another imaginative fantasy. But none has ata" sonata and came back even 2,500 pages of letters and docu- been more effective than the hour- ments about him, from the long documentary "Memorandum", • Schocken Foundation in Israel. produced by the National Film The library spokesman declined Board of Canada in the restrained Slight Discord Interrupts to reveal the price paid for the understatement that is so typically Luby's Success Here British. materials. With the sound of applause The transaction was handled Its American premiere was held scarely out of his ears, violinist through Gideon Schocken, a des- last week under the auspices of Richard Luby hit a flat Sunday cendant of Zalman Schocken, Ger- the World Federation of Bergen night. He came home from the An- Leonard Bernstein, the noted man Jewish publisher who as- Belsen. It stunned an audience of nual Artist Concert only to find he sembled the Heine materials as a some hundred survivors into a sil- music director of the New York had lost the $16,500 Guadagnini hobby. He fled from Nazi Ger- ence that was deafening in its im- Philharmonic receives the violin he had borrowed for the many with his collection. pact. No amount of applause Eleanor Roosevelt Humanities debut. The Heine materials were later could have been a greater tribute Award at a dinner sponsored by sent to the Schocken Foundation to its producers than the hushed After the recital, Luby put the in Israel. The library spokesman silence that enveloped its watch- the State of Israel Bond Organi- instrument on the roof of his car zation, marking the climax of its said the Heine collection was made ers. while saying goodby to a friend. 1966 campaign in Washington. up of letters, drafts, poems, "Memorandum" is a carefully He drove off. Unnoticed, the violin The award cited Bernstein "for sketches and some finished works. detailed and painfully moving ac- fell from the top of the car. Heine spent much of his life in count of the Nazi death camps outstanding service to humanity Luby had the violin back Tues- and friendship for Israel in the Paris as a voluntary exile from and utilized German Army clips day after James Green, 37, read spirit of Eleanor Roosevelt." his native Germany. He died in as the background for a visit of about the loss in the papers. He Paris in 1856. survivors to Bergen Belsen last Rabbi Elazar saw an impover- had found the violin case in the summer on the 20th anniversary ished colleague approaching, so he street Monday morning. The com- of its liberation by the British let a coin drop on the ground. pany that insured the violin pre- Army. They had come to say When the other wished to return sented Green with a generous re- kaddish for the men, women and it, Rabbi Elazar said: "I lost it ward. children they had left behind. As some time ago and despaired of And Luby headed back to school Josef Rosensaft, New York busi- finding it. It is therefore legally in Philadelphia—with the 200-year- nessman who heads the Bergen yours." — T. J. Baba Metzia, 2. old instrument safe inside the car. BONN (JTA) — Mayor Ernst Belsen Federation, said: "We shall not forget and we shall not for- Zwink of Oberammergau, site of the Passion Play presentation give." The Federation is cooperating which has stirred international controversy for its version of the with the Canadian National Film trial and crucifixion of Jesus, said Board for the distribution of the here that the text of the play film in this country to both Jewish would be studied by a Catholic and other groups. When you have monastery for anti-Semitic ele- the opporinnity of seeing it, don't miss this picture which points up ments. In his announcement, the mayor German guilt for the murder of the Jews as it plaintively asks: said that Julius Cardinal Dopfner, "And if it could happen in the archbishop of Munich, had ap- proved a proposal to have the fairy land of Hansel and Gretel, and the Pied Piper of Hamelin, could century-old script studied at the it not happen anywhere? And nearby Ettal monastery. could it not happen anywhere, if Zwink did not indicate whether it could happen in the cultured any recommendations for changes emerging from the study would be land of Bach, Beethoven and incorporated in the script for 1970. Schiller?" Would it be that the millions of The text in use is one written in 1860 by the Oberammergau priest, Germans who are now electing neo-Nazis in Hesse and Bavaria, J. A. Daisenberger. and thinking of an ex-Nazi, Kurt Kiesinger, as their next Chancel- Dayan,McNamara lor, be enabled to see this film. In the name of the Free world, of Confer in Washington WASHINGTON (JTA) — Gen. which they purport to be a part, Moshe Dayan, former Israeli chief they too should "not forget". of staff, met Tuesday with United States Secretary of Defense Robert Dr. Alice Masaryk., Foe McNamara, at the invitation of McNamara, apparently to discuss of Nazis Czech Patriot the general's impressions of Viet- CHICAGO — Dr. Alice G. nam. Masaryk, like her father Thomas, Gen. Dayan recently visited Viet- a Czechoslovakian patriot and foe nam to observe American military of the Nazi regime, joined him in operations and counter-guerrilla death Tuesday at the Bohemian tactics. Home for the Aged. She was 87. The Israeli leader also met with Thomas G. Masaryk was the Gen. Harold K. Johnson, U.S. first president of Czechoslovakia. Army chief of staff, and Secre- Alice Masaryk's brother Jan was tary of the Army Stanley R. Resor. Czech foreign minister, who died The topics discussed were not im- under mysterious circumstances mediately revealed but it is be- just after the Communist takeover lieved that Vietnam was the main in 1948. subject. WhStAVAWAWMatithVg Dr. Masaryk headed the Czech Gen. Dayan also met later with Red Cross from 1918 to 1938. In SATISFACTION Nicholas Katzenbach, under sec- that year, Nazi newspapers at- retary of state to whom he will tacked her father and criticized GUARANTEED BY give his impressions of the present her activities on behalf of the DETROIT EDISON security situation in the Near East, Czechoslovak Republic and the as well as his thinking on Vietnam. Red Cross. She resigned from Oberammergau to Restudy Script of Passion Play stronger after intermission to per- form Chopin's Ballade in F minor and the Schubert-Liszt "Liebesbot- schaft." The program was a long one for the two young men, but after the brief recess they looked as though they were just getting started. The audience brought Ax back for an encore. Unlike the solemn, unsmiling pianist — who at 17 has already been assured of a great career by an admiring Artur Rubenstein — his co-star for the evening, Rich- ard Luby, looked at home among the Detroit audience. Luby, son of Detroiters Dr. and Mrs. Robert Luby, showed his one- time teacher Mischa Mischakoff he hasn't been wasting his time at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Luby, 22, excelled in Sarasate's "Tarantelle" and Brahms "Sher- zo," but he showed his musical mettle in the taxing "Chaconne" by Bach and in Faure's Sonata in A. C.H. Conference on Art A national conference on ad- vancing the arts in American Jew- ish life being convened by the National Jewish Welfare Board as one of the major leadership events marking the celebration of JWB's Golden Jubilee will be held Dec. 13 and 14, at the Barbizon-Plaza Hotel, New York. , If you don't get all the hot water you need with an electric water heater, cop SINNWOMMIgh her post. Einstein Memorial Tablet She held a PhD from the Uni- versity of Prague and also studied Is Dedicated in Milan (Direct JTA Teletype Wire in Germany, England and at the to The Jewish News) University of Chicago. After Hitler ROME—A memorial tablet in honor of the late Albert Einstein seized her homeland in 1939, Dr. has been unveiled in Milan in the Masaryk returned to the United house where the physicist lived as States to devote herself to aiding a youth with his parents from Czech refugees. Former president of the Inter- 1894 to 1900. The inscription on the tablet national Conference of Social Work, cites Einstein's acceptance of the Dr. Masaryk lived in Czechoslo- world as his country with borders vakia briefly after the war until only to the universe. His work the Communist takeover. was recalled in an address by Let a man be generous in his Ernesto Amaldi, the Italian physi- cist, at a meeting of the Federa- charities, but let him beware of tion of Scientific Association in giving away all that he has. — Arakin, 28a. Milan. you get your money back! Every cent! Including installation cost, if any! 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