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November 28, 1975 17

Writer Says Young Israeli Artists Ruined Aleichem Play

By MOSHE RON

Jewish News Special
Israel Correspondent

TEL AVIV — The Israel
National Theater "Habima"
opened its new season with
Sholem Aleichem's comedy
"The • Treasure" staged by
Omri Nizan.
Nizan, who had succeeded
in many performances, has
failed this time. He took a
comedy of Sholem Alei-
chem, which deals with dig-
ging out a treasure, and
buried it.
One of the reasons for its
failure is the general atti-
tude in Israel to classical
works. The young genera-
tion believes it can mix the
old theater repertoire with
ultra-modern ideas
Habima took the sophis-

ticated comedy of Sholem
Aleichem and turned it
into a circus with acro-
batic effects. It also turned
out that the Hebrew lan-
guage does not have the
same effect as Aleichem's
outstanding Yiddish.
Maybe if Nizan would
have at his disposal great
artists like the late Meir
Margolit, who has played
several times in_"The Trea-
sure" but has kept to the or-
ginal text and character, the
performance would have
succeeded. The young Is-
raeli director put his atten-
tion toward external effects
and this crippled the mar-
velous work of Aleichem.
The Israeli press strongly
criticized the performance.
Sholem Aleichem seems to
have no luck with the Israeli
Theater. The same hap-
pened with the performance
of "200,000".

A committee was formed
under the patronage of
Golda Meir to honor the late
"Mother of the Yiddish
Theater" Esther Rachel
Kaminska on the occasion of
the 50th anniversary of her
death in Warsaw.
In the apartment of her
daughter Ida Kaminska
and Meir Melman in_ Tel
Aviv a group of artists,
journalists and personali-
ties assembled. It was de-
cided that Ida Kaminska
will appear in a special
performance "Mirele Ef-
ross", a role which had
been played for years by
Esther Rachel Kaminska.
Ida Kaminska and her
husband Meir Melman have
received a special permis-
sion from the Polish govern-
ment to. visit Poland in order

to lay a wreath on the grave
of her mother. They will try
to obtain a license to-trans-
fer the remains to Israel.
In the committee are art-
ists Hana Rovina,. Orna
Porat, Shimon Finkel, the_
Manager of Habima Gabriel
Zifroni, the representative
of the Ministry for Culture
Lea Porat, the Vice Mayor
of Tel Aviv, Yitzhak Arzi,
newspaper editors Shalom
Rosenfeld (Maariv), Dr.
Herzl Rosenblum (Yediot
Aharonot), Eliyahu Agress
(Davar), Mordecai Zanin
(Lakte Neiess) Mare Gefen
(Al Hamishmar), Shimon
Somet and Moshe Ron, and
the chairman of the Asso-
ciation of Polish Jews in Is-
rael Anshel Reiss, Stefon
Grazek, Dr. Gershon Wei-
mer and Jonas Turkov.

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LOS ANGELES (JTA) --
A two-year study which will
seek to produce a valid mea-
NEW YORK (JTA) — sure of Jewish identity will
Robert M. Morganthau, dis- be conducted by two Jewish
trict attorney for New York scholars who have received a
County, announced the re- grant-from the center for
covery of a priceless antiqu- the study of contemporary
ity from ancient Biblical Jewish life of the Univ,ersity
of Judaism in Los Angeles,
- times.
The object is a sherd — a the West Coast school of the
fragment of a clay tablet — Jewish Theological Semi-
bearing a cuneiform inscrip- nary of-America.
The research will be con-
tion of unique archaeologi-.
cal significance. Morgan- ducted by Dr. Neil C. Sand-
thau returned this berg, .a Loyola University
antiquity, dating from be- professor and western re-
tween 1500 and 2000 BCE, gional director of the Amer-
to Amos Ganor, acting Is- ican Jewish Committee, and
rael Consul General in New Dr. Gene Levine, sociology
professor at the University
York.
The sherd was originally of California in Los An-
found at the site of the ar- geles.
They have been named as
chaeological excavation of
the ancient city of Hazor the first Fellows of the
which is about 10 miles ter of the Conservative
north of the Sea of Galilee. school.
It was removed from Is-
rael in violation of that
country's antiquities law,
which requires the finder
of any antiquity to notify
the government of the dis-
covery and afford it an
opportunity to acquire the
object.
The Israeli government
filed a complaint with the
District Attorney through
Dr. Avraham Biran, former
director of the Israel De-
partment of Antiquities,
after efforts to negotiate a
return of the sherd failed.
No arrests were made nor
was the identity of the per-
son who took the sherd re-
vealed.

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France Seeking
Arab 'Manifesto'

WASHINGTON (ZINS)
— France has proposed the
issuance by the western
European countries, as soon
as possible, of a "Manifesto
for the Palestinians" in re-
spect of the European Corn-
mon Market.
The manifesto is said to
call for recognition of the
"national rights" of the Pal-
estinian Arabs even though
it does not specify the Arab
terrorist organizations by
name.
Italy is the first to declare
that it will support the pub-
lication of such a manifesto.

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