Nehama Lifschitz Tour Applauded in U.S.;
to Appear in Concert Here Next Wednesday,

Nehama Lifschitz, the acclaimed for the first time in 1957.
'level of folksinging to concert art.
I
who left Russia three months
I Acclaimed as a Yiddish singer, Her style is intimate, yet digni-
ago to settle in Israel, is receiv- she
fied, confiding but terribly proud,
ing wide acclaim on her tour of . e began traveling through has - .
sia, singing in Yiddish and He- , ringing yet warm."
American cities.
brew, to emerge as the Soviet ' According to New York Times
Her first concert in New York. Union's foremost Jewish singer, i critic Robert Sherman: "Miss LIU
Oct. 5, at Philharmonic Hall. M as well as one of its best sopranos • schitz demands attention. Her ap-
which she was greeted by. Israel
The elf-sized singer, with an pearance, her style, her dignity,
Prime Minister Golda Meir, won
Edith Piaf look and a voice to all bespeak a personal magnetism
for her standing ovations.
match, began her 21 cities U.S. not often encountered ... her com-
She appears in concert In De- tour in New York City on Oct. 5, munication is immediate, her
troit, at the Masonic Temple 1969, her first tour in the free musical message universal."
Wednesday evening and world.
Tickets to the performance
the co-sponsoring group is the
The Newark Evening News critic are available at the Masonic
America-Israel Cultural Foun-
describes Miss Lifschitz: "Nehama Temple Auditorium box office as
dation, under the patronage of
well as at Grinnell's Downtown
Prime Minister Meir and does with her voice—a throaty,
melodious, fireside soprano—what and all J. L. Hudson ticket cen-
Israel's U.S. Ambassador Itzhak
l'iaf did with hers. She raises the ters.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, October 17, 1969-9

singer

Rabin. Many notables are ex-
pected to attend the Detroit con-
cert of one of the outstanding
Jewish singers of our time.
Miss Lifschitz sings in Yiddish.
Hebrew and Russian.
A soloist in the operas of Ma-
zart, Rimsky-Korsakov and Ros -
sini on Russian stages early in her
career, she was heard in selec-
tions from the Goldfaden operettas

Slansky's Tragedy
Related in Story
Told lw His Wife

Rudolf Slansky, who was the vice
premier of Czechoslovakia, was
the victim of a plot. As in the pres-
ent-day Polish witch-hunt and the
frequent purges in the Soviet Un-
ion, he was charged with being a
Trotskyite-Zionist.
He was accused of being a West-
ern spy and a tool of American
imperialism. He was arrested in
1951, was tried and hanged in sec-
ret. The president of Czechoslova-
kia, Klement Gottwald, was his

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 6:30 P.M.
GRAND BALLROOM, STATLER-HILTON

Guest of Honor
Ambassador
Netanel Lorch

Special Guest
Gen. S. L. A. Marshall

RUDOLF SLANSKY

friend. But that did not matter.
The Communist schemes worked
and he was a victim of the party
treachery. Just before his arrest
he was given a birthday party. but
that's how the tricks work.
The story receives a first-hand
account in "Report on My Iles
band" by his wife, Jdsefa Slansky.
published by Atheneum.
Edith Pargeter translated the
book from the Cezch and wrote the
introduction. A report on this report
was written as a foreword by
Pavel Kohout.
It is a revealing work that ex-
poses the crime, and the hitherto
unpublished documents and letter ,
turn this volume into an important
historic document.

Louisville Holocaust Mural

LOUISVILLE (JTA)—A 15-pancl
commemorating the 6.-
000,000 European Jews murdered
by the Nazis will be unveiled Sun-
ditY in the Louisville Jewish Com-
munity Center. Created by Dr.
Harold F. Berg, the mural con-
tains shards from Masada and
from the Wailing Wall, purchased
from the Israel Department of An-
tiquities. Dr. Berg's mosaics are
found in many Louisville institu-
tions.

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