THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Israel's Theater Museum Provides A Rich Legacy BY ISRAEL GUR Director of the Theatrical Museum and Archives in Jerusalem The first step in setting u? a theatrical museum and archives in Jerusalem was a public committee of leading figures in the theatrical and literary world. The late Zalman Zilber- zweig, an authority on the Yiddish theatre and author of a many-volumed lexicon, was asked to transfer his rich archives to Jersualem. Apart from the large Zil- berzweig and "Bamah" col- lections, (Israeli theatrical magazine), material pours in regularly from actors and producers both in Israel and abroad. Among such mate- Meeting the Enemy, 1973 •ial is the archives of the late Yitzhak Nozhik, one of the pillars of the now de- funct satirical theatre "Hamatate", and of the late Meir Margalit, one of the greatest Israeli actors. The Jerusalem Theatri- cal Museum and Archives was opened in May 1973. It is housed in an eight-room building belonging to the Jerusalem Municipality. The main component of the institution is its library, which includes many rare volumes. The other components of the Archives are thousands of files of producers, actors, playwrights, critics - and theatrical research workers. The files deal with current performances by Israeli / Israeli soldiers chat with Egyptians west of Suez in December, 1973. From the Israeli Digest. Congressmen Voice Appeals on Behalf of Jailed Soviet Jew WASHINGTON — Mem- bers of Congress have ap- pealed to the Soviet Union, on behalf of Dr. Mikhail Stern, who was arrested following his son's request for an exit visa for Israel. In a letter to Soviet Presi- dent Nikolai Podgorny, Michigan Congressman Wil- liam Brodhead (D.-17th Dis- trict) urged that Stern's "sentence be commuted to the one year that he has al- ready served in prison and that he and his family be permitted to emigrate to Israel." It also was reported here that a delegation of 14 Sena- tors, including Jacob Javitz (R.-N.Y.), Hugh Scott (R.- Pa) and Charles Percy (R.- Ill.) were approached on their Moscow trip by a group of Jewish activists who asked them to seek a reprieve for Mikhail Y. Lev- ievr, a Soviet Jew who has been sentenced to death on charges of bribe-taking. Meanwhile, in Tel Aviv, American and Russian im- Histadrut Plans Solidarity Parley NEW YORK — With Golda Meir serving as pa- _ tron, the Israel Histadrut 7oundation is planning to o•ing hundreds of Ameri- cans and Canadians to Is- rael in November to attend a three-day Histadrut Soli- darity Conference. Featured on the confer- ence program, in addition to Mrs Meir, who will address the opening session at the Tel Aviv Hilton, are Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Minister of Defense Shimon Peres and Histadrut Secre- tary-General Yeruham Meshel. migrants joined to enjoy each other's traditional- music and song, and discuss mutual challenges in ab- sorption into Israel society in one of the programs of ethnic -folklore evenings sponsored by the Zionist Or- ganization of America House here. In Jerusalem, an exhibi- tion of paintings by famous Russian dissident artist Gavriel Glickman opened. Glickman, 62, lives in Leningrad, but many of his paintings were recently smuggled out of the USSR by the Dvorkin family who are close friends of the art- ist. Glickman's persistent themes are the Holocaust and the Russian labor camps, though he is also an accomplished portrait art- ist. theatrical troupes. Members of the staff also interview actors and producers for a growing tape library. - The-museum, in coopera- tion with "Bamah," is launching a series of biblio- graphical publications, in- cluding an index to the numberous Yiddish and Hebrew theatrical periodi- cals. It also plans to bring out the seventh volume of the late Zalman Zilber- zweig's Theatrical Lexicon, as well as the voluminous book on the theatre of Mor- ris Schwarts. The museum also holds mobile exhibitions. The first was devoted to the late Meir Margalit, and has been viewed by thousands of visi- tors. Friday, July 4, 1975 17 •SALES SERVICE •PRICE Buy Smart Buy NOW While Trade Ins Are Worth` More "A PHONE CALL WILL SAVE YOU MONEY" ALL OUR OLDSMOBILES HAVE SAKS APPEAL 35300 GRAND RIVER FARMINGTON HILLS 478-0500 • 478-6677 Res. 968-5048 Announcing... Convenience-175 Plus No•charge %,\ checking when you have at least $500 in savings. Sign up today! Teamsters' Dinner Nets $2.3 Million in Israel Bonds NEW YORK — More than $2.3-million in Israel Bonds was raised last week in Cleveland as a result of a labor-management tribute to Jackie Presser, vice presi- dent of Teamsters Joint Council 41. The dinner event was at- tended by more than 1,500 representatives of labor and business from Cleveland and other parts of the coun- try, as well as by congres- sional and civic personali- ties. Israel's Ambassador Simha Dinitz and Frank E. Fitzsimmons, president of the International Brother- hood of Teamsters, were the principal speakers at the dinner which set a record as the largest event of its kind in the city's history. YOUR MAXIMUM SERVICE BANK. DETROIT BANK SOUTHFIELD MEMBER FDIC )F.4 VS a. .