10—Friday, December IS, 1967
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
U.S. Old Masters Now
Dover Paperback
"Perhaps the strangest develop-
ment in all Colonial America was I
the development of a school of
great painters . . This amazing
story has been largely neglected
by the historians of our national
life. It begins with four boys, iso-
lated from one another in Colonial
settlements, who somehow began
to draw in an environment that was
hostile to drawing," James Thomas
Flexner.
Colonial America was inhospit-
able to art. No museums had been
built. No great teachers had come
to its shores; only disgruntled Eur-1
opeans, too inferior to paint at
home. Shortly before the Revolu-
tion, however, a surprising change
took place. Four young men over-,
came these difficulties and taught
themselves to paint. All four far
surpassed the American painters
who had preceded them; three
were widely admired in Europe as
well as in America; two were lead-
ers in the stylistic evolution of
Western art. Their names were
Benjamin West, John Singleton
Copley, Charles Willson Peale and
Gilbert Stuart. Today we know
them as America's "old masters."
In his major study of historic
American art, "America's Old
Masters," James Thomas Flexner
recreates the lives and careers of
these four men. He examines the
interplay in their work of native
and foreign influence, and offers
delightful—and revealing—anec-
dotes like these:
"America's Old Masters" has
just been reprinted by Dover in a
revised, augmented version in a
paperback. Flexner has reworked
the text to take into account new
findings and appreciations, and a
new catalogue provides the latest
data (ownership, size, date, med-
ium) on each painting illustrated.
The
The revised text of Flexner's 1952
article "Benjamin West's Ameri-
can Neo-Classicism" has been ap-
pended, and there is a new fore-
word. Also, 38 new illustrations
have been added to the original 31,
and these now offer a broad sam-
ple of each artist's work, includ-
ing at least one self-portrait and
one painting by an influential
teacher for each.
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Australian Nazi Party
Emerges in Canberra
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
Document Recovered by U.S. Jewish Archives
Mentions Role of Detroit's Frontier Post
The greatest thrill in American
Jewish historical research is to
bring the dead past back to life.
A generation ago a scholar dis-
covered the minutes of the oldest
Jewish community in the New
World — the Rock of Israel Con-
gregation at Recife, Brazil, estab-
lished in the 1640s, if not earlier.,
Less than 10 years ago, Dr
Jacob R. Marcus, director of Am-
erican Jewish Archive on the Cin-
cinnati campus of the Hebrew Un-
ion College-Jewish Institute of Re-
ligion. came upon the oldest North
American synagogal record. Quite
by accident, in the Public Record
Office at London, he discovered
the 1720 record book of New York
f City's Snanish and Portuguese
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financial record book of a "western
frontier" 18th century synagogue.
CANBERRA, Australia — An
Australian Nazi party is emerging
here which uses the swastika as
its symbol, attacks "Jewish con-
trol of international finance" and
circulattp Arab propaganda ma-
terial against Israel.
The leader of the group, which
calls itself the Australian National
Socialist Party, is 26-year-old Ed- This book dates from 1781, the
ward Gawthorn, a research worker year that Cornwallis surrendered
at the National University of Aus- at Yorktown and the United State;
tralia, who claims that "the basic was assured of independence.
philosophy of national socialism
How was this original docu-
can be applied to any country at
ment uncovered? The keepers of
any time." He says his party will
the Archives in London's Bevis
win a large membership and
Marks Congregation, the moth-
achieve political power in Aus-
er synagogue of all the English-
tralia. Like home-grown Nazis in
speaking Jews in the world,
other countries, Gawthorn ridi-
knew that the Hebrew Union
cules the figures given of Jews
College Library possessed a
murdered in Nazi concentration
valuable minute book of Span-
camps. In a party journal which
ish-Portuguese
London Jewry.
he edits, he attacks "the Jews on
They wanted it and diligently
the New York Stock Exchange,"
searched
through
their own ex-
the Australian Labor Party and
tensive archival holdings, look-
"the Communists." •
ing for something to trade. They
were lucky, for they found the
Cleveland Yeshiva Plans
small pinkas, or record book, of
Education Center in Israel the treasury of the Holy Con-
gre"ation of Lancaster. Thus the
CLEVELAND (JTA) — A new
trade was made, and this import-
center for Tora studies and teach-
ant 18th century documentary
er education will be established
record was returned to the Un-
in Israel by the Telshe Yeshiva of
ited States, its original home.
Cleveland as the core of a new re-
ligious community that will pro-
In 1781, Lancaster was the larg-
vide synagogue s, elementary est "western" town in the new Un-
schools, shopping centers and ited States. The congregation had
homes for 250 families and an an- at least 15 paying members; toget-
ticipated initial student body of her with their families, they must
400.
have numbered close to 100 souls.
The center, which has the Is- Families in those days were large.
rael government's endorsement, Lancaster was an important tex-
will be built on a 40-acre site, nine tile and manufacturing center. The
miles from Jerusalem, on the main patriarch of the Jewish commun-
Tel Aviv highway, according to ity, Joseph Simon, was a leading
Rabbi Aaron Paperman, executive fur-trade merchandise supplier.
vice president of the Telshe Yesh- His business was big enough for
iva. It will be named Kiryat him to be known as a "principal
Telshe-Stone in honor of Irving I. merchant." He manufactured sil-
Stone, American industrialist who ver trinkets for the Indian trade
donated the land.
and guns for the hunters.
Men on the way up the ladder
of success may hear more com-
plaints than compliments.
Congratulations to
MOREY
HOCHBERGER
for an outstanding achievement
The Motor City District of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Com-
pany, located at 20501 Plymouth
Road, is pleased to announce that
Morey Hochberger has again quali-
fied as a member of the Millonaire
Club, of the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company. Since his
appointment as Metropolitan In-
His gun-making firm, called
Simon and Henry, was famous
for its rifles, which were traded
as far west as the frontier post
of Detroit. From Detroit they
were carried west to the Rockies.
Lancaster owed her importance
to the fact that settlers, moving
west to Pittsburgh or south to
Maryland or Virginia, passed
through the town. A Jewish con-
gregation was established there no
later than the 1740s, probably as
early as the one in Philadelphia 70
miles to the East. Lancaster was a
boom town in the generation before
the Revolution, and people always
flocked to boom towns.
During the French and Indian
War of the 1750s and the 1760s,
all the vast supplies needed by the
British and American troops mov-
ing west against the French in the
/ its.... Put your money
Ohio Valley were transported
through Lancaster, or were as-
sembled there in local depots. It
was during this war that the Brit-
ish and Americans drove the
French out of Fort Duquesne and
the Upper Ohio Valley. Jewish
businessmen flocked to early Lan-
caster because of her many oppor-
tunities.
As the "West" grew In the late
17005, the town was by-passed
for green'-r and lusher fields
like Baltimore. In this long run,
inland Lancaster could not com-
pete with the rising port on
Chesapeake Bay — a fact sym-
bolized by the experience of Sol-
omon Etting, Joseph Simon's
son-in-law. Eying struck south
through York and settled in
Baltimore, where he became one
of the founding fathers of what
would grow into a great Jewish
community. There he helped
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Or perhaps it would be fairer to ask, "What Guides the
Guides?" No matter. There is a spirit abroad now in Israel that
goes beyond maps and books and the words of guides. It is the
spirit of a land where the places that have made the Holy Land
holy have been brought together. One can find these places on a
map. In disparate tourist guides. In legends. And in the Holy
Scriptures of all the religions that call this land sacred. The Tomb
of Rachel, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the gold-domed
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City of Jerusalem.
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And an Israeli airline can take you to this land. Us. For viel,
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promote the Baltimore and Ohio
corresponded
with
Railroad,
Robert Fulton about building a
steam warship, fought , actively
for the emancipation of the Jews
in Maryland, and finally be-
came the president of the city
council.
Lancaster's 18th century syna-
gogue records form only a frag-
ment of the huge collection of Am-
erican Jewish historical material to
be found at the American Jewish
Archives in Cincinnati.
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