ARTZENU YISRAEL JNF NEW LEADERSHIP MISSION TO ISRAEL

November 14-24, 1991

ing fancy in Freud. Among
these are a ring Freud gave
to members of a secret socie-
ty he established in 1913, a
support group for other like-
minded psychoanalysts, and
a copy of the famous photo
showing Freud with his
cigar. There's also a letter
Freud wrote in 1928, his
name —Professor Dr. Freud
— embossed at the top left,
and his dramatic hand-
writing flowing off the right-
hand side of the page.
Another unusual item is
Freud's copy of William
Jensens' Gradiva, published
in 1903, the story of an ar-
chaeologist who falls in love
with an ancient relief of a
woman. The book, which
became the basis of Freud's
Delusions and Dreams in
Jensens' `Gradiva', is filled
with Freud's handwritten
notes. Unfortunately, the
book is open to the fron-
tispiece only and his notes

are not visible to museum
guests.
Jewish visitors will be es-
pecially interested in Die
Israelitishe Bibel, a set of
which Freud owned and
several of which are includ-
ed in the exhibit.
Display notes recount that
Freud received his first copy
of the Bible when he was 7.
It was a gift from his father.
The book is filled with il-
lustrations of Egyptian
mythological figures. Accor-
ding to the exhibit, both
Freud's Jewish heritage and
his relationship with his
father had "a profound im-
pact on his psychoanalytic
theories. Some have pos-
tulated that his urge to col-
lect antiquities was in direct
response to the multivalent
void created in him by the
death of his father."
Surely, that's an inter-
pretation Freud himself
would have appreciated. ❑

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Syrians Squelch
Film Festival

Los Angeles (JTA) — The
American Film Festival that
was supposed to open June
29 in Damascus but did not
is this summer's puzzler for
Hollywood mystery buffs.
Intended as a token of im-
proved relations between the
United States and Syria, the
film fest was abruptly called
off by the Syrian authorities
after weeks of organizing
work by U.S. Ambassador
Edward Djerejian and Najah
Alator, the Syrian minister
of culture.
The two officials had
agreed on 25 movies to be
screened, including cinema
classics such as The Wizard
of Oz and Gone With the
Wind.
There were also to be three
films produced by Columbia
Pictures Entertainment:
Close Encounters of the
Third Kind, Awakenings and
Glory.
Three days before the
opening, Mr. Alator inform-
ed Mr. Djerejian that on
orders from top government
authorities, the three
Columbia films had to be
withdrawn.
The ambassador refused
and the festival was cancel-
ed.
A brief news story filed by
the Reuters news agency
caught the attention of
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, as-
sociate dean of the Simon
Wiesenthal Center in Los
Angeles.
He contacted U.S. Rep.

David Dreier (R-Calif.), who
got in touch with the State
Department. The report
came back that the three
films were vetoed by the
Syrians because Columbia
was on the Arab League's
secondary boycott list of
companies trading with
Israel.
That was curious because
Columbia is now owned by
the Sony Corp. of Japan.
Previously, the studio
belonged to the Coca-Cola
Company, makers of a soft
drink bottled in Israel and
therefore banned in most
Arab countries.
Possibly the Arab League
boycott office failed to up-
date its list, Mr. Cooper
speculated; or a well-
publicized event 10 days
before the cancelation may
have aroused the Syrian
leadership's ire.
On June 16, President
Bush spoke at a Wiesenthal
Center dinner here, honor-
ing actor Arnold Schwarzen-
egger for his support of its
work.
The president naturally
referred favorably to Israel
at a major Jewish function,
and his remarks were re-
ported by the international
media.
The co-chairmen of the
evening were the two top
men at Columbia — Peter
Guber and Jon Peters.
(Peters had resigned that
position a few days before,
but showed up anyway.

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