Traveling Exhibit, Tzeda THE DETROIT JEWISH KM'S
Mystiques of Violence Contending With Israel's
Jewish Heritage Outlined in Sword-Harp Study
War and peace are the themes,
mystiques of violence and aspira-
tions for national redemption are
intermingled in "Israel" by Dr.
Ferdynand Zweig, published by
Fa rl e ig h Dickinson University
Press.
An appropriate subtitle to the
book is "The Sword and the Harp."
This describes the author's ap-
proach to a theme in which he
touches upon many aspects of life
in Israel, the economic and mili-
tary conflicts, the divisions in the
population between Orientals and
Occidentals, the Arab problem, the
hawk versus dove confrontations.
Prof. Zweig has interesting
views on the language question
in Israel. He judges the situa-
tion as one of a "linguistic pro-
fusion" in a "nation of Hebrew
stutterers. He believes the sur-
vival of Yiddish among the or-
thodox section of the population
Warsaw Ghetto Revolt
a Polish, Not Jewish,
Battle, Says Folkstimme
LONDON (JTA)—The 27th an-
niversary of the Warsaw Ghetto
uprising was marked in Poland in
a manner that sought to obliterate
the Jewish character of that suici-
dal struggle against the Nazis.
Folkstimme, the officially sanc-
tioned weekly of the Jewish Social
and Cultural Association in War-
saw, wrote, "The battle of the
ghetto of Warsaw was a Polish
battle in the first place. Those who
fought it were Jews but they spilt
their blood for the freedom of Po-
land. This must be remembered,
and we remember it."
In Vilna, one of the most im-
portant Jewish cultural centers of
Eastern Europe before World War
II, a Lithuanian Jewish partisan
leader was honored with the pub-
lication of his biography. But the
book presents Jacob Smuschkevich,
son of a well known Jewish fam-
ily, simply as a Lithuanian. It is
published in Russian, and there is
no Yiddish version.
Similarly, a Jewish artist in Vil-
na, Samuel Razin, is described only
as a "Lithuanian painter" in an
album of his works just published.
The reproductions of his paintings
include several on Jewish subjects
and several sketches of a visit to
Israel the artist made a few years
ago. The album apoears in Lithu-
anian with no Yiddish translation.
Meanwhile in New York,
Times Square will become War-
saw Ghetto Square at noon Sun-
day when hundreds of people
from the metropolitan area will
gather there to commemorate the
Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The
city's deputy mayor, Timothy
Costello, will conduct the cere-
mony, and Mayor John V. Lind-
say will issue a proclamation on
behalf of the city designating
Sunday as Warsaw Ghetto Com-
memoration Day throughout New
York City.
The 27th anniversary of the up-
rising ceremony Sunday corres-
ponds to.the 27th day of Nisan of
the Hebrew calendar and is the
date when such commemoration
will be observed throughout the
world, spokesmen for the sponsor-
ing committee said.
Later in the day a solemn can-
dle lighting ceremony commemo-
rating the uprising will be held be-
side a symbolic wall at the audi-
torium of Hunter College.
Verily the best of women are
those who are content with little.
—Mohammed
is a certainty. He believes Arabic
will be the language of the work-
ing class, Hebrew of the middle.
middle and upper-middle classes
and English of the upper class.
Describing resentment in clashes
of mores and customs, the authcr
describes the Yemenites' condem-
nation of indecency in dressing
and rebellion of youth.
On the question of the "two Is-
raelis," Dr. Zweiz makes these
points:
"The syndrome of underprivilege
of the Oriental Jews in Israel
throws some light on the color
problem in the West. It shows that
the syndrone of underprivilege is
not due only and entirely to color
prejudice and color discrimination,
because very little of it exists in
Israel, but it has some deeper
roots in the historical past of peo-
ple, who suddenly enter an area
of more developed civilizational
forms, in which they have to com-
pete with more sophisticated and
better equipped social groups."
The confrontation between "the
sword and the harp" is perhaps
best summarized in the author's
concluding paragraph in which
he states: "Some signs of a new
religious climate can be seen in
the emergence of a novel and
Friday, May 1, 1970-15
Features Original Prints
curious secular version of Juda-
ism centered around the venera-
tion and love of the Land which
becomes a Holy Land in the lit-
eral sense. This secular version
has many possibilities for further
development and transformation
which are difficult to forsee. It
can be deflected and deformed
into sheer nationalism, but it
could also assume a finer flow-
ering of the human spirit in
greater universality. By and
large the Israelis are caught be-
tween two most powerful mys-
tiques which have always flour-
ished in the Land: the mystique
of violence, and the mystique of
redemption. These mystiques are
fiercely contending for the mas-
tery of Israel's soul. Which mys
tique is going to win in the end?
The mystique essential to Juda-
ism, or the mystique relevant to
the realities of 40 years' war?"
Let blockheads read what block-
LOS ANGELES—"Tzedaka: Jus-
— Lord Chesterfield
tice—the Eternal Challenge" is the heads wrote
theme of the third traveling print
exhibition sponsored by the West-
side Jewish Center of the Los
IRVING , S
Angeles Jewish Centers Associa-
tion, which will soon go on a three-
ULTRA-MODERN
year display tour throughout the
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country.
Formerly brings & Leons
Consisting of 35 prints of original
at 7 Mile & Hartwell
works by prominent southern Cali-
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fornia artists, the exhibit will make
its nationwide swing of 'bookings
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at Jewish centers affiliated with
the National Jewish Welfare
Board, synagogues, churches and
Near Kentfield
other community facilities.
Bookings for the print exhibition
Irving Shulak (owner)
are being made through the adult
and cultural arts department of
the Westside Jewish Center, 5870
W. Olympic, Los Angeles 50036.
20305 W. 7 MILE
KE 8-9787
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He outlines the issues, the events
that led up to these questions, the
history of a people's experience.,
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