-.. Banner Year for Israel Film, Theater ing the path of religious- nationalist extremism, in favor of the non-political spiritual approaCh as taught by Rabbi Yohanan Ben Zakai, who opposed both the corruption of the priests and the viol-6116e of the zealots. room,"- by French playw- right Jean-Claude Grum- Press Service berg, directed by Israeli- The play, "The Wars of born Michal Guvrin, re- the Jews," by Yehoshua volves around the more re- Sobol, portrays the polari- cent • tragedy of the zation and division of the Holocaust. It tells the story people of Jerusalem into of survivors attempting to two factions, the "fanatics" return to normal life and and the. "moderates," with Director Ilan Ronen represents an effort to forge the eventual victory of the makes use of the still ex- a new sense of Jewish iden- extremists and bloody tant city - wallg to bring tity in the aftermath of un- elimination of any voices home the gruesome speakable horror. appealing for compromise. warning of the play. '"Adam's Purim Party," Closing following re- Music by Shlomo Bar based On a novel by Yoram corded history of the revolt maintains a puldug,sen- Kaniuk, shows survivors of against aime which led to sual undertone to the de- the trauma dealing with the destruction of the veloping epic of national their Memories in their own Jewish state, the intended catastrophe, as por- way:, by simply going in- parallel to contemporary trayed in scenes of brutal sane. , Set in a hospital for events, though unstated, power. the mentally ill, the Group couldn't be more obvious. The recently opened Theater, directed by Playwright Sobol takes a Habimah National Theater American-born Nola Chil- strong stand against follow- production of "The Work- ton, who for years has been making a unique contribu- tion to the Israeli stage, pushes the audience almost beynnd• their capacities for SYLVIA & LEON FELD & FAMILY absorbing realism. wish all their friends and relatives On a less serious note, the a happy and healthy New Year Habima's hit of the year was an adaptation of Beaumar- chais' "The Marriage of Figaro," a parody of grand opera, in which all the MICKEY & MICHELLE GALPER: --- female:parts are played by bearded gentlemen. An- wish all their friends and relatives ; other box-office success was a happy and healthy New Year the Cameri Theater's • adaptation of "Yentl," based on-a story written by I.B. We wish our family and friends a Singer, the moral of which very healthy, happy and prosperous is that "mistakes are made New Year in Heaven, too." Another MR. & MRS. LARRIE GLOBERSON : adaptation," A Simple Story," produced by & FAMILY 1-01. 1irria, based on a novelette by S.Y. Agnon, portrayed the conflict be- tween a spiritually inclined young .man and his mate- RUBIN & FRANCES HERMAN & SON RON rialistic environment. wish all their friends and relatives By JAMES LEWIN From World Zionist tiZrazri Pima: row 5, islet tiZrizzi rt3C5 Returning to the darker side of reality, Harold Pinter's "Caretaker" proved a success in the Beersheva Theater production di- meted by Geza Partos. All the way back to the realm of tragic sorrow, Hanoch Levin's "The Trials of Job" has been leaving audiences with what Mendel Kohansky, thea- ter critic of the Jerusalem Post, called the "fascinat- ingly cruel theatrical ex- perience" of the hero, dying in terrible agony, calling out to his friends, "Please, don't leave me alone with Godl" a happy and healthy New Year We wish our family and friends a very healthy. happy and prosperous New Year MR. & MRS. HARRY J. LEVITAN & FAMILY tiZrizn ,tizm nutt5 EDYTHE & MARVIN MEVIS wish all their friends and relatives a happy and healthy New Year tiZrizn rizuo rthr5 MR. & MRS. JOE ROTT wish all their friends and relatives - a happy and healthy New Year tiZrizn `isle rutr5 MR. & MRS. PAUL SHERIZEN & FAMILY wish all their friends and relatives a happy and healthy New Year 11Znzri `MILD rue,5 SHERRIE, NORTY, SCOTT & KEN STERN wish all their friends and relatives a happy and healthy New Year tiZrizn `islet-rutr5 RALPH & MARLENE YAMRON, AMY, PHILIP & DEBRA , wish all their friends and relatives .. a_happy and healthy New Year .. . . The year's most controv- ersial Israeli film, featured and praised at the Cannes Festival, "The Vulture," di- rected by Yaki Yosha, co- written with Yoram Kanitilc,. tells the tale of a soldier returning from battle who allows himself to be"talked into creating a memorial album for the mourning relatives of a friend who was killed before his- eyes. From there, he makes the writing of memorial albums into a: business, putting him into the role of vulture. Less' shocking perhaps, yet strongly confirming the continuing development of Israeli cinema on a high in- ternational level of excel- lence; director Michal Bat-Adam's second film "The Thin Line" deals with thegradual disintegration ' THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, September 25, 1961 113 islet n3v5 MR. & MRS. SAUL H. BLOOM wish all their friends and relatives a happy and healthy New Year ozrizn rim rov5 HERMAN & ADA BOHM & FAMILY wish all their friends and relatives _a happy and healthy New Year Pictured above is an actress in Yehoshua Sobol's play, "The Wars of the Jews," presented by the Kahn Theater in the walls of David's Citadel, next to the Jaffa Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem. • • • of a happy normal mother of two daughters into a state of inexplicable mental illness. Another serious minded Israeli art film "The End of Milton Levy" directed by Nissim Dayan deals vividly with the problems of the "o- riental sub-proletariat." In comedy theater, "Tel Aviv-New York-Tel Aviv" caught the flavor of Israeli yordim in America but sac- rificed attention to detail on the altar of topicality. Simi- larly, "The Last Striptease" had pretensions of being a political satire, but pre- sented little more than a stream of obscenities with- out much rhyme or reason. In film, director Ehud Levanon assayed to spoof the army radio station, with some good moments but lack of overall coherence. Boaz Davidson continued to copy his own success in "Lemon Popsicle" and "Go- ing Steady" with his latest teenage sex comedy, re- leased in English as "Hot Bubblegum." Theater-goers this year also have been offered the recently opened spectacle of the Beersheva Theater's production of Pirandellow's "Six Characters in Search of an Actor." Plays by Brecht and Kafka adapted from the German were also featured during this past year on the Israeli stage. In addition, there were a variety of Shakespearean productions, including ex- perimental modern adaptations of "Twelfth Night" and "Romeo and Juliet." Visiting artists of note included a performance by legendary Yiddish comedienne Molly Picon, still trouping at age 83, and the superbly profes- sional Actors Touring Company of London who presented Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" and a two-part adapta- tion of Cervantes' "Don Quixote." Other high points of the theater year included a re- vival of the 1959 hit "Little Tel Aviv" nostalgically re- calling the by-gone genera- tion of pioneering immig- rants to Israel and the Haifa Theater production of Odeon Von Horvath's "Faith, Love, Hope," depict- ing the fate of the lonely in- dividual in an sopknessi y e abCiety: ' "," ' '• We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year MR. & MRS. LOUIS BORDOLEY nzrizil ;Ism mnr5 MR. AND MRS. CHARLES -SIEGEL & GOLDIE BRONER wish all their friends and relatives a happy and healthy New Year We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year THE DWORMANS: BOB, CHERYL & STEVEN IIZrizil `islet rt3v5 MRS. JENNIE FISCHER & LILLIAN FISCHER wish all their friends and relatives a happy and healthy New Year We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year JANET & BEN KORN & FAMILY ilzrizri pima: rutr5 MR. & MRS. SIDNEY RICER & FAMILY wish all their friends and relatives a happy and healthy New Year Best Wishes For THE NEW YEAR to all our family & friends Patti and Eric Kommel Wishing all our friends and relatives a happy and healthy New Year