Moscow State Yiddish Theater
Remembered in Israel Exhibit
NEW YORK — Sen.
Jacob K. Javits of New York
was named recipient of the
Haym Salomon Award of
the Anti-Defamation
League of Bnai Brith in
honor of "his contributions
to America's democratic
society."
The senator will accept
the award, according to
Maxwell E. Greenberg,
ADL's national chairman,
at the ADL's national inau-
gural dinner at the Break-
ers Hotel, Palm Beach, Fla.,
Feb. 12.
The dinner marks the
opeiiing of ADL's national
executive committee meet-
ing Feb. 12-15.
Bea Alexander, foun-
der and president of the
Alexander Doll Co. in
New York City, will be
presented with ADL's
Distinguished Public
Service Award, for "her
achievements in advanc-
ing programs of educa-
tion and human rights."
Sen. Javits, currently the
ranking Republican
member of the Senate
Foreign Relations Commit-
tee and the Joint Economic
Committee, will have
served in the U.S. Senate
longer than any New
TEL AVIV (JTA) — An of Benjamin the Third," the 1948, to be murdered there
exhibition depicting the theater went on a tour of a week later. Although
birth, flowering and even- Europe, during which eye-witnesses later de-
scribed to his family how he
tual literal murder of the Granovsky defected.
He was replaced as artist was deliberately hit by a car
Moscow State Yiddish The-
director by Mikhoels, hailed operated by Stalin's agents,
ater has opened here.
The show at Beth as the greatest Yiddish ac- it was officially stated that
he had "perished under
Hatefutsot -- the Nahum tor.
In the 1930s, under the tragic circumstances and he
Goldmann Museum of the
Jewish Diaspora — includes pressure of official Soviet was given a state funeral.
Mikhoels was replaced as
100 photographs of the the- criticism, the Yiddish thea-
ater's productions, the only ter repertoire took a more artistic director by Benja-
objects saved from a fire naturalistic style and be- min Zuskin, but the Soviet
which gutted the building came more varied. At the government stopped finan-
and brought to Israel by the beginning of World War II, cial support for the theater
daughters of its two actor- in the early 1940s, the thea- shortly afterwards and trips
directors, both murdered on ter was moved to Tashkent, outside Moscow were
Stalin's direct orders. The returning to Moscow at the banned.
exhibition is named: The end of the war, when it pro-
Zuskin was arrested in
duced contemporary Jewish
Closed Curtain."
December
1948 and exe-
The State Yiddish Thea- plays dealing with post-war cuted in August 1952, to-
rehabilitation
questions.
ter was established as an ac-
gether with other Jewish
During the war, writers and public fig-
tors' studio by Alexei
Granovsky in Petrograd in Mikhoels became in- ures in what was known
1918, mirroring the hopes volved in public activi- as the doctors' plot
then felt for a resurgence of ties, serving as chairman against Stalin." The last
Jewish artistic and cultural of the Jewish anti-Fascist announcement of per-
life after the 1917 Bolshevik Committee and touring formances appeared in
Europe and the U.S. to Izvestia on Nov. 16, 1949.
revolution.
It moved to Moscow in win support for Soviet
Among those present at
1920 and became the center Jewry during the strug-
the exhibition's opening
of Jewish cultural life in the gle against Nazism.
Mikhoels was awarded were Tala and Nina
city, attracting a nucleus of
Jewish artists and intellec- the Stalin Prize in 1946, and Mikhoels, and Tamar and
it was on Stalin Prize com- Ella Zuskin, daughters of
tuals.
One of the young artists at- mittee business that he was the former directors, now
tracted to the center was sent to Minsk on Jan. 7, living in Israel.
Marc Chagall, then an al-
most unknown artist in his
20s. He later recalled:
"They suggested that I
should decorate the walls of
pride of his family relation-
By JAMES RICE
the auditorium with fres-
(Copyright 1981, JTA, Inc.)
ship to Berl Katsnelson, the
coes and design the sets for
its first production. I said to
The title of a recent arti- famous Zionist leader. As
myself: here is an opportu- cle in "Seventeen" maga- soon as they can save
nity to buy the old fashioned zine was "Dishing It Out At enough money, Leonid
Yiddish theater, to sweep The CIA." It referred to 13- Katsnelson plans to take his
away its psychological year-old Ilya Katsnelson family on a trip to Israel.
He told this correspon-
naturalism and pasted-on who emigrated with his
beard. On its walls I could family from the Soviet dent that all Jews in the
USSR should be encouraged
paint what I thought was Union 31/2 years ago.
needed for the renaissance
The CIA? No, this isn't a to leave because there is no
of the Yiddish theater."
story about a teen-age spy, future in a land where Jews
Solomon Mikhoels, the but about the Culinary In- are frequently reminded
main actor and later to be- stitute of America which that they are "lucky" to
come the Yiddish theater's sponsors a national cooking have a job. "In America," he
director, recalled Chagall's competition for 13-to-19- said, "I have freedom to
year olds. Ilya, the youngest think."
make-up:
On the day of the open- entrant, was the winner Mobster's Scam?
ing, Chagall came into the over hundreds of contes-
NEW YORK (ZINS) —
dressing room and after ar- tants, including 27 other
ranging the grease paint he finalists, by a unanimous California author David
started to work. He divided decision of the expert judges Damaris, in his book "Last
the face into two, painting who couldn't resist his lu- Mafioso," claims that Los
one side green and the other scious stuffed cabbage, rice Angeles mobster Mickey
Cohen raised more than $1
side yellow. The right eyeb- pilaf and charlotte russe.
Leonid and Raisa million for the Zionist forces
row was painted two cen-
timeters higher than the Katsnelson, their older son battling Britain in Pales-
left. The wrinkles of the Edward who is now serving tine after World War II.
Demaris said Cohen
nose and lips were extended in the U.S. Army, and Ilya
started
the campaign after
came
to
the
U.S.
via
Rome
all over the face to express
with the aid of HIAS and the Menahem Begin visited Los
tragedy.
"When I looked into the Joint Distribution Commit- Angeles. But Cohen kept
mirror I saw that the tee. The family recently the money, Demaris says,
makeup had created the moved to Madison, Wis. after convincing a news-
expression and from a Chicago suburb paper editor to publish an
dynamism of the char- where they were living article saying that a ship
acter. Suddenly his fin- when Ilya won the contest. laden with arms had sunk
Leonid Katsnelson, an on its way to Palestine.
gers stopped questioning
on my face. He touched agricultural and mechan-
my eye and stepped back ical engineer, is now em- Intimidation
a few paces and said: `Ah, ployed by Chromaloy, a by Arabs at UN
Solomon, if only you major farm equipment
NEW YORK (ZINS) — Is-
didn't have your right firm.
The former Muscovite rael's United Nations am-
eye, I could do so much."
Influenced by Max prefers Madison to Chicago bassador, Yehuda Blum,
Reinhardt and the theories because "I don't like big says that the Arabs have es-
tablished a climate of in-
of Meyerhold, the Yiddish cities."
The Katsnelsons have timidation at the UN to iso-
Theater presented many
performances in Moscow relatives in the U.S., France late the Israeli delegation.
Blum said a Western
and throughout the Soviet and Israel. One cousin is
ambassador
was criticized
employed
by
the
U.S.
Sup-
Union.
a reme Court and another by recently for having lunch
after
1927,
In
generally-acclaimed prod- the Israel Ministry of with Blum. Israel, Blum
says, has close contacts with
uction of Mendele Moher Foreign Affairs. Leonid
10 Western delegations.
Seforim's, "The Adventures Katsnelson spoke with
Young Soviet Emigre Wins
American Cooking Contest
B'Nai Moshe Men's Club
Javits to Get ADL Award
ART
EXHIBIT &
AUCTION
Yorker in history.
Author of the War Powers
Act and Pension Reform,
among other landmark
bills, he is also honored for
legislative accom-
plishments in such areas as
health, education, housing,
civil rights, small business,
labor, fiscal policy, the arts
and humanities and foreign
policy.
Sat., Jan. 24, 7:30 P.M.
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