THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
28 October 17, 1975
Important Classics Paperbacked, Variety of New Books
Many noteworthy classics
have been paperbacked and
made available for popular
distribution. Schocken re-
sorted to paperbacking of
many of the very important
books published in the past
two decades.
Among the most valuable,
a large sized art book, on the
new Schocken paperback
list, is "Kathe Kollwitz —
Life in Art" by Mina C.
Klein and H. Arthur Klein.
The 110 illustrations,
some in color, the life story
of a courageous woman who
defied the Nazi terror and
associated with Jewish not-
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ables — this book is a classic
of the arts and a tribute to a
woman of skill and valor.
This is the first biogra-
phy in English of the re-
markable German artist.
For more than 60 years
Kollwitz expressed
through her work the
ideas that obsessed her:
the plight of the oppressed,
the causes of peace and
social justice, the joys and
sorrows of motherhood,
and the mystery of death.
Married in her youth to a
doctor, she bore him two
sons, one of whom was
killed in World War I.
Her earliest major suc-
cess — a series of prints
called "lAreavers," based on a
revolt of Silesian weavers as
dramatized in a play be Ger-
hart Hauptmann — caused
her to become known as the
"socialist artist."
She continued all her life
in her social concerns, and
in World War I produced
some of her most powerful
works to express her anti-
war feelings.
Nevertheless, her out-
ward life was not untypi-
cal of an ordinary house-
wife, and it is from her
experience as a mother
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that much of her most ex-
pressive work was formed.
with more than 700 pic-
tures, many of them show-
ing scenes from the plays
under review.
"The Movie Musical,
From Votaphone to 42nd
St.," is the title of this im-
mense work, edited by Miles
Kreuger.
Her last years were spent
in the nightmare of Hitler's
Germany where she was
forbidden to teach and
where her work was labeled
"degenerate."
In this book the authors
have brought together her
life and art, showing
through reproductions of
her drawings, etchings,
woodcuts, lithographs, and
sculpture how each contrib-
utes toward an understand-
ing of this complex woman,
one of our century's most
moving artists.
* * *
Historians of the arts
will be primarily inter-
ested in this exploratory
work which contains the
factual record of the devel-
oping movie industry, and
the lay reader will experi-
ence an unfolding of great
progress and immense
achievement.
"The Myth of the Hyperactive
Child"
(Pantheon Books)
"Deviant" tendencies
among children pose some
of the most serious prob-
lems of the age.
Millions of the nation's
youth, described as being
"hyperactive" and suffering
from "minimal brain dys-
functions" have inspired se-
rious studies of the emerged
and apparently growing
problem.
Means of child control are
probed in a significant
work, "The Myth of the
Hyperactive Child," in
which Peter Schrag and
Diane Divoky deal with this
serious problem.
The authors show, in
this extensively docu-
mented work, how the
common occurrences
which are maximalized as
problems become objects
for medical treatments.
Many of the resulting con-
clusions from authorita-
tively claimed research
are condemned as shoddy.
The trend to brand many
children as predelinquent
are denounced in the
Schrag-Divoky documenta-
tions and studies. The re-
placement of old-fashioned
punishment and control by
social and medical substi-
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tutes are subjected to criti-
cism.
This volume is certain to
create serious debate and
augurs importantly for the
student of child welfare and
the needs for firm tackling
of the major issues affecting
youth in modern society.
* * *
"THE MOVIE MUSICAL"
(Dover)
Lovers of the movies and
of musicals, in fact, those
who are interested in all fac-
ets of the theater, will be
fascinated by a reproduc-
tion of the article that ap-
peared on a major subject
relating to the musical
theme from Photoplay Mag-
azine.
It appears in a large
Dover book, containing the
historical record, illustrated
The very great names of
the makers of the movie mu-
sical are paraded for such
readers in the Dover prod-
uct.
The hundreds of names of
films listed in this volume
and the more than a thou-
sand names of participants,
actors, singers, directors,
dramatists, humorists, etc.,
attest to the completeness
of the record.
Any attempt to emphas-
ize either titles or stars
would be an injustice to the
industry so valuably classi-
fied and personified here.
The totality is what needs
emphasis.
"The Movie Musical" is a
valuable addition to the his-
torical factors in popular lit-
erature. So effective are the
reproduced illustrations,
photographs, advertise-
ments and reviews, signify-
ing the value of an art and
industry, that the Miles
Kreuger-edited book ap-
pears certain to gain a vast
reading audience.
* * *
"Sixty Seconds to Mind Ex-
pansion"
(Random House)
Joel Davitz and Harold
Cook combined their liter-
ary skills to produce "Sixty
Seconds to Mind Expan-
sion" (Random House). It is
intended to "sharpen your
five senses . . . heighten
your awareness . . . elimi-
nate boredom . . . get rid of
tension."
The unusual book sug-
gests exercises for the elimi-
nation of emotionalism.
Procedures on "learning to
live" are incorporated in the
uniqueness of these teach-
ing methods.
The mental-intellectual
suggestions for thinking up
words, exercising the proce-
dural ways of breathing and
accomplishing the restful-
ness at bedtime and numer-
ous other approaches make
the Davitz-Cook self-teach-
ing method an attractive
introduction to self-help and
the attainment of calmness
in life.
* * *
"Sociology of Housework"
(Pantheon)
Housework studies and
sexism in sociology, domes-
ticity, marriage and the di-
vision of labor are among
the numerous subjects dis-
cussed and outlined in "The
Sociology of Housework" by
Ann Oakley (Pantheon).
Practicalities and self-
concepts are emphasized in
this authoritative study of a
seriously socialized subject.
— P.S.
Nazi Films Draw Atlanta Protest
ATLANTA (JTA) — The
booking of two Nazi propa-
ganda films by Leni Riefen-
stahl for screening at a film
festival sponsored in part by
the city has embroiled At-
lanta in a bitter controversy
and brought charges of cen-
sorship against the South-
ern office of the Bnai Brith
Anti-Defamation League,
which has demanded that
the films be withdrawn.
The German films are
"Triumph of Will," a docu-
mentary on a Nazi mass
rally in Nuremburg, pro-
duced in 1934, and
"Olympiad," a film on the
1936 Olympic Games held in
Berlin during which Hitler
deliberately snubbed Jesse
Owens, the black American
track star. The films by Rei-
fenstahl, who was a close
friend of Hitler, have been
acclaimed by film experts
for their camera technique.
Stuart Lewengrub, direc-
tor of the Atlanta ADL, said
"We would have absolutely
no objection to the films if
they were being shown at a
seminar of film technique."
He observed, however,
that "What is involved
here is the praising of a
woman who helped the
Nazis, at a festival meant
to honor 'humanistic'
achievement."
Gudmund Vigtel, director
of the High Museum of Art,
one of the sponsors of the
film festival, charged that
the ADL "put the pressure
on us very hard, but we will
not be subjected to any form
of censorship." Mayor May-
nard Jackson said he per-
sonally found the films
"disgusting and repugnant."
However, Mayor Jackson
said, that after consulting
with Jewish community
leaders and members of the
arts community, he con,
eluded that to withdraw the
films might constitute gov-
ernment censorship.
He said they would be
shown "in a controlled at-
mosphere" and would be
preceded and followed by
"serious public discussion of
their form and conte-nt."
HIAS Settles Indochinese
NEW YORK — The
United HIAS Service has
found new homes for 2,100
Vietnamese and Cambodi-
ans. At the same time the
worldwide Jewish resettle-
ment agency is resettling
record numbers of Soviet
Jewish families. During
1975, HIAS expects to bring
5,000 Russian Jews to the
United States.
Financing for the reset-
tlement program is coming
from federal sources. A $500
one time per capita resettle-
ment grant channelled
through the State Depart-
ment will go to the volun-
tary agencies resettling ref-
ugees. HIAS will turn $450
of this grant over to local
Jewish federations; the re-
maining amount being used
to help defray HIAS' admin-
istrative costs.
Refugees are eligible for
federally funded welfare
programs, medical assist-
ance and social services
after they have arrived in
the community.
HIAS has staff teams at
each of the three major
refugee camps at Fort
Smith, Ark., Camp Pen-
dleton, Calif., and Indian-
town Gap, Pa. There are
still more than 40,000 refu-
gees living in these camps.
HIAS is also resettling
refugees with individual
sponsors across the country.
A sponsor, according to
State Department guide-
lines, should be able to pro-
vide food and shelter for the
refugee family until they
become self-sufficient, help
find employment and suita-
ble housing and cover the
costs of clothing and ordi-
nary medical care.
Persons, community
groups or congregations in-
terested in sponsoring Ineo-
chinese refugees can call
HIAS offices collect at:
Camp Chaffee, Fort Smith,
Ark., (501) 484-2063; Camp
Pendleton, San Clemente,
Calif., (714) 492-2741 or
498-0204; Indiantown Gap,
c/o Interagency Task Force,
FOrt Indiantown Gap, Pa.
17003, (717) 782-4944.