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Oakland Century Lodge #2692
B'nai B'rith
Cordially Invites . . . Members, Honorary Members and Guests to our
27th Annual "Spirit of B'nai B'rith"
' & Scholarship Awards Night
Tuesday, August 24, 1999 - 6:00 p. m.
Honoring: Arnold Michlin
Distinguised Oakland County Lodge Member - Reipient of "Spirit of B'nai B'rith Award"
Oakland Century Lodge Scholarships:
• The Rosenberg Family presenting a scholarship in memory of
ALBERT (AL) SAUL ROSENBERG
SOL MOSS
• Irving and Sarah Pitt presenting a scholarship in memory of
Light Dinner Buffet 6:00 p.m. - Preceding Program
BBQ Chicken, Coney Hot Dogs and
a variety of salads and all the trimmings
Plus . . . Jeff Rosenberg's FABULOUS DESSERT TABLE
Adat Shalom Synagogue - 29901 Middlebelt, Farmington Hills
$12.50 per person for a wonderful evening
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Sport jacket attire
Open seating
Harold Samuels 248 356 3284
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For more information call:
Sol Kozloff 248-737-0088 Seymour Schwartz 248-356-8563
INTERNATIONAL NEWS PLUS
8/13
1999
92 Detroit Jewish News
Former Vienna Philharmonic
conductor Bruno Walter:
`A great-hearted Jewish genius."
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Austrian Atonement
Austria will begin to exorcise its
ghosts when the Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra moves from its comfortable,
gilded home for a concert in the very
heart of darkness: the site of the
Mauthausen concentration camp.
From the time it plays the opening
notes to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
next May, the country will at last
begin to face up to what Chancellor
Viktor Klima describes as "this dark
chapter in our history"
The concert, to be conducted by
the distinguished British conductor Sir
Simon Rattle, will be held May 5 at
the quarry of what was Mauthausen.
The event will mark the anniversary of
the liberation of the camp where some
100,000 Jews, Gypsies and homosexu-
als perished.
The choice of Beethoven's Ninth —
much admired during the Third Reich
as a piece of Teutonic triumphalism —
is being criticized as demonstrating a
lack of sensitivity to deep historic
wounds. But others overlook the music
selection and are simply relieved that
Austria is at last confronting its past.
The Austrian government was moved
to initiate the concert by the forced
expulsions and murders in Kosovo, just
a few hundred miles down the Danube
River, and by domestic support for a far-
right nationalist party in Austria.
The concert is intended as much to
sensitize the young to the dangers of
racism as it is a tribute to the victims
of the Holocaust.
"We no longer want to sweep this
dark chapter of our history under
the carpet," said Klima, who has
designated May 5 as an annual
"Memorial Day for the Victims of
National Socialism."
Some have asked why the 157-year-
old Vienna Philharmonic, the pride and
joy of Austria's cultural set, should have
to bear the burden of leading this act of
repentance when the orchestra did noth-
ing except play music during the war.
Supporters of the concert say that is
precisely the point.
Members of the orchestra did
nothing when their fellow Jewish
members were expelled in 1938, and
they did nothing when six were sent
to the camps and executed. The band
simply played on.
Observers of the Austrian cultural
scene are also astounded by the appar-
ent indifference that the Vienna
Philharmonic has continued to
demonstrate to Austria's Nazi past.
There was not, they point out, even
a hint of shame when Jewish conduc-
tor Bruno Walter agreed to return and
lead the orchestra in 1947, having fled
nine years earlier.
"This should have been interpreted
by the orchestra as a magnanimous
gesture by a great-hearted Jewish
genius," said one cultural commenta-
tor, "but instead it was seen as a signal
that all was forgiven and forgotten."
— Douglas Davis
Jewish. Telegraphic Agency