Friday, September 28, 1984 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS NEWS • • . may the New Year be one of joy, happiness and prosperity for all mankind THE JEWISH NEWS STAFF And Their Families Extends heartiest greetings to the entire Jewish Community of Michigan, with gratitude for the splendid cooperation that has enabled us to work to- gether for good community spirit. Seymour Schwartz Marlene Miller Dharlene Norris Phyllis Tyner Pauline Weiss Ellen Wolfe Sylvia Stafford Donald Cheshure Cathy Ciccone Curtis DeLoye Ralph Orme Charles A. Buerger Philip Slomovitz Gary Rosenblatt Carmi M. Slomovitz Kim Muller-Thym Alan Hitsky Heidi Press Tedd Schneider Lauri Biafore Rick Nessel Danny Raskin Prof Y igael Yadin leads David Ben-Gurion to the lower pavillion of King Herod's palace on Massada during an archeological expedition in 1963. Prof. Yadin, one of the world's leading archeologists and a soldier, scholar and politician as well, died this year at the age 67. The IPO: arose from dark Nazi past, exists in shining present chestra on its first tour abroad — Originally founded as the to Egypt. Palestine Orchestra in 1936, the It was not until the third season Israel Philharmonic Orchestra that Huberman himself made his has deep roots in the early days of debut. Seriously injured in a the Nazi regime. plane crash, Huberman took sev- Violinist Bronislaw Huberman, eral years to recover. When he realizing that even Jewish vir- did, however, he was received by tuoso players of top orchestras audiences with adulation as the would not be immune from perse- man who had brought them their cution, took upon himself the task orchestra. of arranging for the entrance and In the late 1940s, the orchestra support of Jewish musicians into strengthened its bonds with the Jewish homeland, which as Jewish musicians abroad. yet had no orchestra. Leonard Bernstein was invited to According to a report in Israel conduct and became an instant Scene magazine, Huberman, with the aid of conductor William favorite. Today, the orchestra still maintains strong ties with Jewish Steinberg and Warsaw Philhar- musicians abroad, the closest of monic inspector Jacob Surowicz, which is violinist Isaac Stern, began persuading musicians to long active in the American- leave Europe and traveled Israel Cultural Foundation. throughout Germany, Poland, Austria and Hungary looking for The orchestra also has strong musicians to play for the forming ties to Israel history, boosting orchestra. morale in times of war and re- By 1935, many Jewish musi- maining a symbol of Israeli pride. cians were losing their jobs and At the ceremony marking the were happy to take positions with establishment of the State of Is- the still-unformed troupe. rael in 1948, the Palestine Or- In 1936, a skeptical public was chestra, soon to be renamed the slow to buy tickets for the inaugu- Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, ration performance of the Pales- closed the proceedings with a per- tine Orchestra under the baton of formance of Hatikva. Arturo Toscanni. The perform- From its first tour overseas, ance, however, eventually sold conducted by Bernstein and Serge out. Koussivitsky in the U.S. in 1951, Within two weeks of the first the IPO has received critical performance, more than 15,000 acclaim wherever it has played, people had heard the Palestine and continues to be one of the Orchestra. At the end of that leading orchestras in the world. period, Toscanni took the or- 9ood fiEaftfi 9ood ftiEncis and fial-212Inzss gE witfi you tfircoug fiout tfiE coming gEaz lzrizrit ri3V5 The Mitnick Families Charlotte and Herbert Randy, Barry, Halye and Robyn Marsha, Ronald and Scott . 1 B