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Israel's Friend Robert Stolz Continues His Music

VIENNA — Prof. Robert
Stolz, 94-year old Austian
composer and conductor
who has been acclaimed for
more than .40 years, has
been receiving numerous

Bar-Ilan's
Computer

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Bar-Ilan is one of the
youngest of universities,
but it perpetuates the wis-
dom of the ages.
Remarkably fascinating
are many of the attractions
that provide the human in-
terest in Bar-Ilan. One ex-
ample is the role of a former'
Russian actress, a very pop-
ular folksinger, who has
turned her interest to this
university.
Nehama Lifschitz, who
has thrilled audiences in
Russia, with her Yiddish
songs, before touring the
United States numerous
times to gain American ad-
mirers, has turned her at-
tention to librarianship.

accolades from many fa-
mous personages on his
birthday of late.
Dr. Stolz, who will be 95
in August, and was awarded
the Jerusalem Medal in 1970
because of "his great friend-
ship for the Jewish people,"
has received official birth-
day greetings from many
North American cities,
President Ford and fellow
school alumnus Henry Kis-
singer.
.A child prodigy, who
wrote his first composition
at age 11, Dr. Stolz was a
contemporary of Strauss
and Lehar, and continues to
rise everyday at 6 a.m. to
compose music in his
Vienna home.
In January he was guest
conductor for the Israel
National Opera, and he
was recently featured in

Detroit's Goal: Israel's Needs

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"Jewish life is there,"
Lautenberg said,. "but the
quality of life will suffer
without these funds. The
Jewish people have sur-
vived for 20 centuries de-
spite mankind's assaults.
For 2,000 years we have
been mankind's consci-
ence. As long as we stand
united we are truly one
people."
The dinner meeting be-
gan with an invocation by
Rabbi Jacob E. Segal of
Adat Shalom. Detroit Jew-
ish Welfare Federation
President Mandell L. Ber-
man gave a brief welcome,
and was followed by Cam-

- Statistics Released

on Israelis Here

NEHAMA LIFSHITZ

She is studying at the
Ramat Gan school to be a li-
brarian and her explanation
of her new devotion adds
new interest to career-seek-
ing by a brilliant artist.

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Fifty-five percent of the es-
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North America live in the
New York City and vicinity,
while 15 percent live on the
West Coast, 15 percent in
Canada and 15 percent are
scattered throughout the
United States.
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cluded in a special report
prepared by Eli Paz, the
representative of the Israeli
Ministry of Labor in the
United States.
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there are about 12,000 Is-
raeli students and academi-
cians in the U.S.: 85 percent
are in the 26-36 age group;
77 percent of them are mar-
ried and most of them are
studying for or hold MA or
PhD degrees. Engineering is
the most popular study
course among the Israeli
students here, with science,
economics and computers
following on the list.
The Yom Kippur War, the
report notes, has increased
by 50 percent the number of
Israeli academicians who
returned to Israel in 1974,
compared to 1973, reaching
a total of 500.

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the German edition of the
Readers Digest magazine.
Dr. Stolz' career has
touched every kind of music.
His father was a conductor,
his mother a pianist, and his
aunt an opera star. Compos-

paign chairmen Richard
Sloan and Arthur Howard
who presented the Cam-
paign leadership and the
Campaign ,division chair-
men who gave brief reports
on the figures listed.
Paul Zuckerman, who
preceeded Lautenberg as
UJA general chairman for
the last three years, intro-
duced the new UJA leader,
who was followed by Wil-
liam Avrunin, Federation
executive vice president who
explained the difference be-
tween the reported figures
and the actual Campaign to-.
tal to date.

ers Johannes Brahms and
Anton - Bruckner were
friends of the family, and
Stolz first saw Johann
Strauss conduct in 1899.
-Dr. Stolz won interna-
tional acclaim for himself in
1929 with two operettas:
"Two Hearts in Three-
Quarter Time" and
"Whirled Into Happiness."
He lived in Berlin, and
was a leading composer, but
fled Germany for France in
1938 despite the pleadings
of Hitler's propaganda min-
ister Dr. Goebbels and the
fact that he was "pure Ar-
yan."
- In 1940 he feld to Amer-
ica, where he wrote music
for Broadway and Holly-
wood, and revised classi-
cal Viennese operettas for
appreciative American
audiences.
He returned to Vienna
after the war, and has con-
tinued his long career. His
latest recording, in German,
was released in January in
Europe: "Robert Stolz Con-
ducts Melodies by Robert
Stolz."
Following the 1967 Six-
Day War, Dr. Stolz con-
ducted a series of benefit
concerts in Israel and Eu-
rope for -the "Help Israel
Fund."
After his last birthday,
Dr. Stolz communicated
with old schoolmate Henry
Kissinger, and received a
warm, personal reply.
"That letter made me
very happy indeed," Prof.
Stolz said. "It shows that
Mr. Kissinger has a won-

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derful sense of humor. It is
amazing that a man with
the most responsible job in
the world has despite his
gigantic tasks and his
tremendous success kept
his qualities of heart and
spirit." ,
Which is exactly how
many people feel about Rob-
ert Stolz.

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