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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Soviet Jewish Demonstrators • Abe Cherow, Says
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'Between You Arrested by Russia's
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Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.)
THE JEWISH MUSIC MONTH: Music is the oldest
form of Jewish art. In other forms the Jewish people had
been much behind other nations; especially in the arts of
painting and sculpture. But in music they led the way.
Jewish music goes back to the Biblical times. There are
more than 100 passages in the Bible where musical instru-
• ents are mentioned. Jews celebrated their crossing of the
\ ed Sea with music. • King David played the harp. In all
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times in Jewish history, and in all countries, music was an
important part of Jewish expression.
It stands to reason that Jews would have excelled also
in sculpture and painting — as they do now — had not one
of the Ten Commandments prohibited making the images,
to prevent the return to idolatry practice. Great painting on
Jewish and Biblical themes had been done by many promi-
nent painters hundreds of years ago, but not by Jews.
The first Jew to exercise a decisive influence on the gen-
eral development of the art of painting was *Camille Pis-
sarro, known as "the father of the French Impressionists."
He lived in the last century and died in Paris in the early
years of this century. Another leading Jewish painter that
emerged at that time was Josef Israels. Among the latter's
paintings on Jewish themes are "A Jewish Wedding," "The
Torah Scribe," "A Son of the ancient People" and others.
Since then, the world became richer in art with Jewish tal-
ents like Max Liebermann, Amadeo Modigliani and others,
including Marc Chagall of our time.
Jewish participation in sculpture started even later
than in painting. During this century a number of well-
known Jewish sculpturers began to emerge, but the tradi-
tion of the Ten Commandments against sculpturing images
is still strong. No statue of Dr. Weizmann, or of Ben-Gur-
ion, or other Jewish personalities of historic importance is
permitted on public squares in Israel.
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NEW YORK (JTA) — The
Student Struggle for Soviet
Jewry reported that Mark
Nashpitz and Anatol Shar-
ansky were among seven
Moscow Jews arrested for
demonstrating for exit visas
outside the Lenin Library
near the Kremlin.
According to reports by
eye-witnesses, between 30
and 40 uniformed and plain-
clothes police surrounded
the demonstrators and
seized their placards which
read, "Freedom for the Pris-
oners of Zion" and "Visas,
Not Prisons." The demon-
strators were taken into the
library building by the pol-
ice.
The demonstration, the
first since Moscow repu-
diated its 1972 trade agree-
ment with the U.S. last
month in protest over the
linkage of trade with Soviet
emigration practices, was
witnessed by Western news-
men who reported that the
KGB parked three large
buses outside the library ap-
parently to prevent passers-
by from seeing the arrests.
At the same time, Jew-
ish sources here reported
that a group of 80 Jews cir-
reporters the text of a
Purim message to the peo-
ple of Israel which they
said had been rejected by
Soviet postal authorities.
The message stated:
"From Jews who have
fought to live with you. We
believe no Hamans will
break the will of our peo-
ple for unification."
Meanwhile, seven newly
elected New York congress-
men each have "adopted" a
Soviet Jewish "prisoner of
conscience" and are waging
an intensive drive designed
to secure their release. The
efforts by the lawmakers is
part of a major campaign on
behalf of the prisoners that
is being conductkl by the
Greater New York Confer-
ence on Soviet Jewry.
Two hundred French poli-
ticians, university profes-
sors, and doctors have
signed a petition in favor of
Dr. Mikhail Stern, the So-
viet Jewish endocrinologist
who was sentenced to eight
years at hard labor after
requesting emigration to
Israel. French intellectuals
signing the petition in-
cluded Jean-Paul Sartre.
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JEWS IN MUSIC: Completely different has been the •
attitude of Jews to music. There is Jewish research litera-
NEW YORK (ZINS) — At promise of greater military
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ture showing a record of 5,000 years of Jewish music. Jews a meeting in Paris with a and economic assistance as
have contributed greatly to the development of music in delegation of French jurists, well as stronger U.S. pres-
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many lands. Primitive Jewish orchestras of "klezmers" ex- Egyptian President Anwar sure on Israel for further
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isted for generations in many towns.
Sadat outlined the "con- territorial withdrawals.
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Among the famous Jewish composers of the last cen- cessions" he is prepared to
According to political an-
• SAME DAY ACTION
tury was Jacques Halevy, a son of a Torah scribe, whose make in exchange for fur- alysts the Israelis would do
opera "La Juive" is popular today as a classic work of music. ther Israeli withdrawals well to call Sadat's bluff and
Other celebrities were Giacomo Meyerbeer and Jacques Of- from the Sinai, the Golan forego his offer of "conces-
fenbach, son of a cantor. A few of our own generation are Heights and the West Bank. sions". From their stand-
Ernest Bloch, Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schoenberg, Darius
As a quid pro quo for Is- point Sadat can very well
Milhaud, George Gershwin, Aaron Copland and Leonard raeli pullbacks on three scrap his Washington trip,
Bernstein. ,
fronts, Sadat declared his cancel reopening of the Suez
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Leopold Auer, Fritz Kreisler, Misha Elman, Yascha Hei- to Washington, the reopen- forces in the Sinai. How-
fetz, Ephraim Zimbalist, Nathan Milstein, Bronislaw Hub- ing of the Suez Canal, exten- ever, Israel is in no position
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waska, Moritz Rosenthal, Leopold Godowsky, Rudolf Ser- in the Sinai, and no insist- shots, the analysts say.
kin. Famous Jewish conductors we have today include ence on reconvening the
Leonard Bernstein. Eugene Ormandy, Arthur Fiedler and Geneva Mideast peace talks
many others.
in the near future.
YIDDISH MUSIC: During the Jewish Music Month
Sadat has much to gain
— which started this week and will continue till Passover — from closer links to Wash-
various programs of Jewish music will be arranged in ington, which hold forth the
hundreds of Jewish institutions. Advice and guidance to
these institutions will be given by the Jewish Music Council Japanese Visit
of the National Jewish Welfare Board.
In the scheduled concerts and lectures, place has been Palestinians
especially reserved for Yiddish folk-music which grew out
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A
of the harsh realities of Jewish life in Eastern Europe and Japanese "good will" emis-
as brought over to this country at the beginning of this sary visited the West Bank
entury by Jewish immigrants, together with the first Yid- towns of Judea and Samaria
dish operettas written by composer Abraham Goldfader in to establish what was de-
scribed as a union of -friend-
Romania 100 years ago.
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Shoen" has become one of the most popular songs among area by donations bo public
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