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Chajes Bet ifis His 30th' Anniversary Year With Center Symphony Orchestra!

at the First Inter- ,
The Book Fair is a comparative clenburg Concerto No. 4. The pro- Prize winner a
newcomer to Detroit Jewish Cen- gram will open with Beethoven's national Competition for Pianists
in
Vienna,
',and
one year later
ter, taken beside the years that "Egmont" Overture.
Born in Lwow, Poland Dee. 21, was appointed head of the piano
Julius Chajes has been director of
at
the
Music College
music at the Center. This begins 1910, the son of surgeon Dr. Josef department ,
his 30th season as director and as Chajes. young Chajes began his of Tel Aviv. For two years he
conducted the Jerusalem Male
conductor of the Center Symphony studies with his mother at age 7.
Ile studied conducting at the Chorus and did extensive re-
Orchestra.
At 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Chajes Vienna Conservatory of Music and search work on ancient Hebrew
will conduct the orchestra in the after finishing high school in Vien- music.
second concert of the season, fea- na, attended courses of musicology
Chajes came to the United States
Wring Bronislaw Gimpel, interna- at Vienna University. He gave his in December 1937 and was engaged
first recital and also wrote his first to play in three recitals in Town
tionally known violinist.
He will perform Brahms' Violin composition for piano at age 9, Hall, as well as over the Columbia
and his first string quartet when network.
Concerto,
Shaul and Genia Ben-Meir, flut- he wasc 13. At 15 he played his
From 1941 until 1945, Chajes
ists, and Emil Austin, violinist "Romantic Fantasy" with the Vi-
held the position of music director
with the Detroit Symphony Orches- enna Symphony Orchestra.
In 1933, Chajes was Honor of Temple Beth El and taught com-
tra, will be heard in Bach's Bran-
position at the Institute of Musical
Art, affiliated with the University
of Detroit.
TIME TABLE FOR BOOK FAIR
In June 1946. he conducted a
Nov. 8- 8:15 p.m.-GERALD GREEN, "Contemporary Trends in
chorus of 2.000 voices at the Auto-
American Literature and Art"
motive Golden Jubilee in Detroit's
8:30 p.m.-CENTER THEATER, "Summer and Smoke"
Nov. 9-10 a.m.-GERALD GREEN. Children's Meeting
Briggs Stadium, before an audi-
10 a.m.-SUSAN PURDY, Holiday Craft Workshop for
ence of 35,000.
Children
2 p.m.-SUSAN PURDY, Holiday Craft Workshop for
The premiere of Chajes' "Sab-
Teachers and Club Leaders
bath Evening Service" took place
10 a.m., 2 and 3 p.m.-STORYTELLING
2 p.m.-JOSE LIMON, dance lecture-demonstration
in
New York's Temple Emanu-El
8:15 p.m.-LEO LITWAK, "Impulse for Social Justice--Does
in 1947. On the first anniversary
It Exist Among American Jews?"
Nov. 10 - 1-3 p.m.-BOOK-IN, Capsule Reviews
of
the
state of Israel, the New York
8:15 p.m.-RABBI ALAN W. MILLER, "The Alienation and
Philharmonic Orchestra, under the
Return of the Jewish Intellectual"
-
NOV. 11--10 a.m.-RABBI HOWARD SINGER, "The Changing
direction of Izler Solomon, per-
Character of American and Israel Jowry"
formed Chajes' "Hymn of Free-
Noon-HADASSAH DAY LUNCHEON with DOROTHY
FULDHEIM. "The Contemporary Picture"
dom" and his orchestral arrange-
8:15 p.m.-DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN, "Doctors in Literature"
ment of "Hatikva" in New York's
8:30 p.m.-BRONISLAW GIMPEL, Violinist, with Center
Symphony
Carnegie Hall.

Nov. 12-10 a.m.-RABBI EUGENE 11. BOROWITZ, "The Crisis of
Jewish Ethics"
Noon - SISTERHOOD DAY LUNCHEON with GWEN
GIBSON SCHWARTZ, "The Changing Face of the
Jewish Wife"
7 p.m.-CHAIM POTOK. Interview and Discussion with
Young Adults
7:30 p.m.-ELIEZER GREENBERG, "Yiddish Poetry Speaks to
the World"
8:45 p.m.-CHAIM POTOK, "Love, Hate and Rebellion"
Nov. 13-Noon - DETROIT COUNCIL OF PIONEER WOMEN
LUNCHEON with VIOLET WEINGARTEN, "How
Not to Be a Jewish Mother"
I p.m.-MICHIGAN REGION, WOMEN'S AMERICAN ORT-
COFFEE and CAKE with ARONA McHUGH, "Jewish
Roots and Branches in American Literature"
8:15 p.m.-RABBI ROLAND B. GITTELSOHN, "The Sexual
Revolution: Fiction or Fact?"

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Jewish Wife Is 'Proud of Identity'
but Attendi nu Synagogue Not Primary

throughout the United States and
Canada.
Ile and his wife, the former An-
nette Schoen, have a son, Jeffrey,
and live at 18014 Warrington.

Jewish services. compared to 16
per cent of Christian wives who

never went to church. According
to the authors. "The Jew doesn't
need temples. His ritual is with his
family. The Christian identifies
with his church. the Jew with his
heritage." Jewish wives - were in
almost unanimous agreement that
religious training was essential for
their children." the writers said.
and most "felt it was necessary for
parents to belong to a temple while
their children were growing up."
The pioneering survey matched

200 Jewish wives with a sample
of 200 non-Jewish neighbors.
The authors then re-interviewed
50 Jewish respondents.
Communication between Jewish
husbands and wives was remark-
ably close, the hook shows. When
husbands went on business trips.
GO per cent of the Jewish wives
(but only 40.3 per cent of the non-
Jewish wives ) were telephoned by
their mates every day.
When the couples talked pri-
vately, almost two-thirds (70.4 per
cent of the Jewish wives but only
somewhat more than half (57.6
perc ent) of the non-Jewish wives
reported that the husbands' busi-
ness was the subject they most
frequently discussed.

their children as they grOw up:
the closeness continues even
after marriage: 54.9 per cent of
the Jewish (but only 43.5 per
cent of the non-Jewish) wives
said that a married daughter
should see her parents at least
once a week; and half of the
Jewish (52.6 per cent) and only
soinewhat more than one-third
(39.7 per cent) of the non-Jewish
wives said that a married son
should see ,his parents once a
week.

The Jewish wives' feeling of be-
longing to Judaism was strong, the
study found: two-thirds (75.1 per
cent) of Jewish wives but fewer
than half (43.5 per cent) of non-
Jews said they would not feel com-
fortable living in a community
where there are almost no other'
people of the same religion.

Five non-Jewish wives (hut no
.Jess) included "astronaut" among
acceptable professions for their

sons.
Nursing ranked

almost at bot-
tom among Jewish wives as a pos-

sible job for a daughter, but it
ranked second (after teaching)
among non-Jewish women.
Jewish wives included "sense of
humor" among qualifications for a
dativhter-in-law, but non-Jewish

women did not.

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In November 1949, the Detroit
Halevy Choral Society presented
him with a special award for out-
standing contribution in the field
of Jewish music. His choral
works are performed by Robert
Shaw aid Fred Waring, and his
songs are in the repertoire of
Jan Peerce, Richard Tucker,
Jennie Tourel and Regina Res-
nik. .Mischa Elman has played
his violin works, and his "Song

of Galilee" was performed at a
Mormon choir festival by a
chorus of 10,000 voices.
Paul Paray and the Detroit Sym-

phony Orchestra premiered Chajes'

Piano Concerto with the composer
Moreover, Jewish couples spend at the piano. His opera. "Out of
NEW YORK (.JTA) — Three
times as many Jewish as Christian relatively little time apart. Only the Desert" was commissioned and
wives never attend religious serv- 10.3 ner cent of the Jewish (hut performed by Detroit's Temple Is-
ices although they tend to he 15.2 ner cent of the non-Jewish) rael in 1966.
"fiercely proud of their identity as wives said that they occasionally
Chajes is a part-time faculty
Jews," a survey in the nation's went on non-business trips without member teaching piano at Wayne
their husbands. And 50.7 per cent
four largest cities has revealed.
State
University. He is a member
The results of the survey were of Te‘ , :ish (hut only 39.7 per cent of ASCAP (American Society of
contained in a pre-publication con- of non-Jewish) wives said they Composers, Authors and Publish-
densation of a new book. "The didn't approve of husbands stop- ers) was music co-chairman of the
Jewish Wife, - published in the ping for "drinks with the boys" on Detroit Round Table of Catholics, '
current issue of Ladies Home Jour- the way home after work.
Jews and Protestants. a member of
While leanness was never a vir-
nal and American Home.
the Michigan Teachers' Associa-
tite in Jewish tradition, few young
lion. the Detroit Musicians League,
An in-denth survey of .Jewish
or middle-aged wives who were
and Christian wives was carried interviewed had weight problems: Detroit Federation of Musicians
out by the authors. Barbara Wyden not one was obsese. The authors and the Bohemians.
and Gwen Gibson Schwartz, in interpreted this as one of several
In recent years. Chajes played
New York. Los Angeles, Chicago indications that contemporary Jew- and also conducted his composi- ,
and Philadelphia. It was a follow- ish wives, in many respects. want tions throughout Europe and Israel, ' '
up to a similar survey conducted to he different from their fore- and in more than 300 concerts
by an independent research or- hears.
ganization.
The book reports that Jewish
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The writers found that 57 per
wives not only make it a point
cent of the Jewish wives ques-
to keep closest possible track of

tioned admitted they never went to

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