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THE "1"R-JEWISH NEWS .'31kerriage
Boris Smolar's
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More than ,30(ir affiliates of the dire need "of equipment 'and that
Detroit Chapter of American Soci- $450,000 will be needed to provide
ety for Technion—Israel Institute the stiuctiires.with the necessities
of Technology in- Eaila,-andlheir to make- them fully -filuctionahle;
friends 'beard reports of -progress He-issued .a list of the Tetteire
attained at', the sehixii- that. has items 'in his -Appeal that they Ate
been acclaimed -as the- gm of provided by • the Detroit coiriinu:
the lliddle East and weree„ told nity
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of the welding of,ingineering _and Col; Ami declared .that "the -key
medicine iri Projects at the Is to Israel's - Survival education,'!
rael ".technOlOgical riniversitk; .at and he pointed to the progressive
the alma' dinnerBundaY, Coat.- steps 'to fulfill "the needs' in -tech,
Shaarey Zedek.
noIogical • undertakings. He -report,
Col. Yosef Aini, vice president ed that the :ptesent .enrollment-
of Techniori, - reported on the "ad- the Technion :numbers 8 200 and
vancement of technological experi- that there are 1,000, graduates a
ments at the institute, _Ind Dr.' year who 'fill -'engineering - air7
Adrian Kantrowitz, Chairman of craft and Other technical positions.
the department of surgery at Sinai 'Describing the contributions
Hospital, gave a vivid description Technion makes toward israel's
of the research in curing heart defense, Col. And emphasized
ailments and the contributions be- the craving for peace and said
ing made by engineering techni- "we are sorry for every pound
ques toward these efforts. we waste on military matters,
The dinner served also to in- but this is not our fault."
troduce the new officers of the
As an admonishment to the
Detroit Technion Society. Julius
J.. Harwood was 'installed as .new Arabs,- he declared- that "we are
president by Sam Rich, the re- there to stay," and added that
tiring president. Others installed "Arabs must adopt a policy of co-
were David D. Kahn, •who was existence." -
Dr. 16ntrowitz welcomed the
toastmaster of the evening, as
vice president; Charles Stone, merging of the engineering with
the
medical processes at the Tech:
treasurer; and Richard Modell,
nion in an effort to advance health
secretary.
Sam Rich, who was presented as well as creating technology.
Speaking extensively on the va-
with a plaque from the Detroit
society in a presentation by Sam rious approaches to solving prob-
Grand and another citation from lems of heart ailments, he said
the national society, announced to "heart surgery is an exciting ex-
the gathering that the Detroit plosion of techniques." He indicat-
,
-Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, .TTA
' (Copyright 1971, JTA
JEWISH ART:- .The Jewish people_ have contributed to the world
a -great deal -in ethical culture,' atronomy; medicine and music in the
ancient times. - However, they were .practically non-existent-.in, -the arts
of-painting and sculpture. - --
Today, we can boast of great modern Jewish painters like Modig-
Beni, Chagall, Mane-Katz and Soutine, and also of. great Jewish sculp-
tors like Jacob Epstein, Jacques Lipchitz, Henrico Glicenstein, Bernard
Reder and Nathan Rappoport. We speak with pride of Mark Antokolski
with whom - the historical record of Jewish sculpture. virtually began
in the second half of the last century. But we have nothing to show in
Jewish pictorial and plastic art in ancient times—when art was already
developed in "E gy pt and Persia—and even in the Middle Ages. All
that is known of Jewish art of those periods. is limited to ceremonial
subjects.
Jewish pictorial
— not including illuminations of Hagadot,
Megillot and other religious books—actually came into being in the last
century. when Moritz Daniel Oppenheim was the first unbaptized
Jew to achieve a more than fleeting success as a painter. As a young-
ster, he was permitted to make copies of genuine works by Raphael,
Leonardo da Vinci and other old masters. He later pregented a series
of paintings on purely Jewish themes which gained him lasting fame.
One of these, "A Jewish . Wedding." can now be seen in the Jewish
Museum in New York.
He was succeeded by a number of other great Jewish painters
who left their mark as "Jewish Impressionists." They included Joseph
Israels. Meyer de Haan, Lazar Krestin, Isidore .Kaufman; Maurycy
Gottlieb, Samuel Hirszenberg, Illauricy Minkovski—all of whom painted
on Jewish themes.
In the period of the great French Impressionists and great innova-
tors who stormed the bastions of post-Romantic academies in the
second half of the 19th Century, Jews emerged as great painters in
every country. In Fiance, there was the great Camille Pissaro who was
one of the main theoreticians of Impressionism. In Germany, there
were the famous painters Max Lieberman and 'Lesser Ury.• In Holland,
there was. Josef Israels; in Italy. Serafino da Tivoli; in England, Sir
and Aircraft Engineer-
William Rothenstein; in Russia, Isaac Levitan; in Sweden, Ernst Joieph- Mechanical
son—each of whom played an important role in the evolution of modern ing Complex at the Technion is in
art.
BAN ON ART: The reason %%h. the Jews came so late into the
field of art is to be found in the Ten Commandments. There is the U.S. Families Set Up
Commandment which prohibits uncompromisingly the making of "graven Village in Judea Hills
images." The pagan en ronment, where images were objects to wor-
JERUSALEM—The site of a
ship, was clearly behin- this prohibition.
unique type of American settle-
Even today, you cannot see in Israel a bust of any of the fathers ment, started by members of
of the Jewish State—like Dr. Chaim Weizmann, David Ben-Gurion, or Hadassah's aliya movement, Ha-
"Their forerunners—on any of the city squares or other public places cnagshimim, was directed in Sep-
under the open sky. There are many streets in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, tember in the presence of Prime
Haifa and other cities in Israel named after Jewish personalities, but Minister Golda Meir at Neve Ilan,
no monuments with the images of these personalities, although you 12 miles outside Jerusalem.
can find busts of these leaders in private homes of liberal-minded
Mrs. Meir praised the - pioneering
families. In religious homes, the tradition of the Ten Commandments spirit and idealism which had led
banning images still prevails.
the young American families,
Nevertheless, there are now quite a number of good painters and many of them academics, to form
sculptors in Israel. Among them are even Orthodox Jews. The most a new village in the hills of Judea.
remarkable thing is that the best center of painters in Israel is in
The nucleus of the group is com-
the ancient ultra-religious city of Safad.
posed of graduates of Hadassah's
In the United States, Jewish art began to come into being about senior Young Judea movement.
50 years ago, really encouraged by Menorah Journal, a 'monthly
The group is different from
, magazine of arts and letters which printed reproductions of the works any previously formed in Israel
of young American Jewish artists. It was in the Menorah Journal in that it will be a moshav
period that painters and sculptors like Hahn Gross, Louis Lozowick, shitufi—a cooperative settlement
Raphael Soyer, Moses Soyer, Abraham Walkowitz, Minna Harkavy and
—in which the members will
others received their recognition. It was also during that period` that work as acadeades and profes-
I.ionel E..Reiss began to draw attention with his etchings of Jewish sional people, and not as farm-
types and paintings and watercolors on Jewish themes.
ers. Many members of the group
"A World at Twilight," a collection of 110 paintings, drawings are artists or art teachers and
and etchings by Lionel Reiss, has row been published by Macmillan.
have, therefore, established an
It reflects Jewish life in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. The art ;drool.
book carries a scholarly text by Prof. Milton Hindus presenting
This unique moshav also has a
the historical background on Mr. Heiss' work and a very emotional "think tank" composed of three
preface by Isaac Bashevis-Singer, the noted author.
members, a mathematician, elec-
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TEL AVIV (JTA)—Israel, which"
is solving its own serious watei
problems, has become one of the
principal developers of water
,
:are - : tremendous opPortunities in
the use of engineering methods."
He predicted
an "enormous prog-
ress"' in_ . such cOoPeratioir in -the
future m -the . ,preparation of m-e-
chanidal- devices:du -dialingi_with
heart . d ceases.•
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presented
-
Sigmund 71tohlik in ,-1.-Appreciation
of fire :role she and her late -hus- "
band played ,-in advancing
aloe's `'needs'
. active .mernberS'
of. the Detreit'society. •
'
Rabbis `-Milton Rsisenbanin,
Mordecai Halpern gave the:Topen-
big and 'cloiing prayers.
'
Goesta at, the dinner -included :
Dr. John N. Clark;
of the
college of _ engineering-at_the
versiti of Michigan; Di. Leurenee
Kenjohn' of the University ',of De-
troit college of engineering; Dr.
Dov Jaron,
Technion graduate
who is an
Kantrowitz's staff; -
Walker.L. Cisler and others,
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There are 30,000 children born
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with limited life expectancy can
be assured normal existence."
Cures have- been found for
those suffering from rheumatic
fever, he said, and, pointing to
the 60,000 such patients a year
he said that there is the cure
by_ the mere use of a plastic
valve.
He described the use of the pace-
makers and said 50,000 have been
provided with them in this coun-
try. He predicted that an atomic
energy pacemaker to come will last
for 25 years.
"The relationship between engi-
neering and medicine proved ex-
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