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OF JEWISH MUSIC The old adage inter anna sil e n t artes, in war the arts are siA class in ballroom dancing f lent; might well be applied to the B. Aisurowich of New York, a be organized at the Jewish representative of the American I present state: of IsraeL For "we Community Centex for intermedOB.T Federation, v;as the guest of | are embattled on all fronts. Half iates (12-15) years if a sufficient a group of Cmanatis for a fe?; of the world is warring upon us poor, both Jew and non-Jew, jjumber register. . Tie class is : Sir Harold KacHichael Welhours Saturday night at the home : and all'our. poor resources scarcein the community. open to both boys and girls and of Max Crounse, Mr. Aisurowicfc j comed at Tel | ' ly suffice for a", shadow of effectLocal Services will meet on Wednesdays after told of his recent trip to Europe, i ual* defense. So that we might Aviv In observance of the holiday school. He has visited thirteen countries well let that effort and that special services will be held by during the last two rears. A charge of fifteen cents will strain suffice .us. Luckily there the local congregations. Jerusalem (WNS-Palecr AgenSundown, Wednesday evening, hi made for each lesson. All He is planning to return to . is among us here and there, deBeth El MacMicnael will usher In.the merriest festivprinciples of dancing will be cy) — Sir Harold Qniaha-in the nes.r future. ; • spite our. weaknesses and failures al On Wednesday night at 7 taught. was welcomed to Palestine as its of ,ine Jewish religious calen: and Inadequacies, a certain stub- dar, Purim, .the Feast of Lots, o'clock at the Beth EI synagogue fifth Britisfl High. Commissioner Those interested may register iborn gallantry that will not des- that honors Esther, the Jewish the reading' of the Megillah will to the booming of 17 guns from i |pair, that will not give in, that queen of Persia who rescued her take place. The service will be at the Jewish Community Center the cruiser Enterprise •which j f carries on in darkness and thepeople from a tragic fate. The hol- conducted by the .Junior Choir office. brought hira to Haifa harbor ' imminent face of danger. from Egypt. The absence of cividay will continue until the sun- under the leadership of "Cantor ilian Arabs from the delegations Among enterprises that sym- down, Thursday. Aaron Edgar. which greeted him, except for bolize and activate that gallantry The Beth El auxiliary will disPurim is one holiday of the Mayor Hassan Shukry of Haifa of our- none is more conspicuous year that-is marked by rejoicing tribute Purim favors to the boys and Ragheb Bey Xashashibi in - than Maiiamm, the American Pal- and gaiety. Masquerades, parties, and girls of the congregation. • Jerusalem, must. have, been noted estine Music Association which, and general hilarity wnich is perTemple j by the man into whose hands has added, to. its quieter but not less mitted even in the synagogues At Temple Israel the holiday been entrusted the administrafruitful activities, gave a concert during the'reading of the Book will be marked Wednesday aftertion of the Palestine Mandate. in Town Hall on February 19 and of Esther are the order of the noon, from 4 to 6 o'clock, by a in planning a second concert de- day. "' • . children's party to be given by j v First Secretary of Embassy voted-to the w orks . of Ernest Capetown (WNS) — Shalom .' The story of Purim goes back the Sisterhood. Bloch on' the evening" of March to the fourth Century before the Assails Anti-Semtisa AntiSemti jj e r a , a t a a o f f i c e r o r t n e . British Sch-wartzbard, the Russian-born • Vaad poet and. \ troops ia Palestine, was the first | Jewish watchmaker, present era when.the Jewess, EsThe Purim services and readAs Anti-German It Is the great virtue and the ther, was chosen by the king Ah- ing of the Megillah will take to board the cruiser to greet Sir soldier, vrho areng-ec the Ukrain- ' New York (WNS) — A last- Harold and Lady MacMichaei and ian pogroms 1S1S-1920 by assasgTeat merit" .of those who found- asuerus, to share the ferone of place on Wednesday evening at • ed and of those who sustain Maii- Persia with .him. Through her 7 • p. m. and on Thursday morn- ing peace between National So- their daughter. Clad in full cress sinating tfceir instigator, General amm to have reached — what is cousin, Mordecai, she learned ing at 8 a. m. The children will cialism and Christianity is out of Colonial uniform, the new High Simoa Petlura, in the street of • the question because Hitlerism is Commissioner, after so . rare — • ' a sound conclusion how the king had been, tricked by participate in the service. descending Paris on May'25, !£££, died in a; fundamentally anti-Christian and to the quay, was escorted to the Ii o t e J r o C E l t e r e 3 u s t a s he was ; . concerning the character of all a wicked minister of the ' court,, anti-German and an enemy of customs shed where the welcom- j Preparing- to leave South Africa ; creative art. Art may' and doe3 Haman, into permitting a mascivilization and therefore1 all become universal "if it is great acre of the Jews of his realm. took place be- I a f t e r a Ic31E speaking tour in the j ing ceremonies Christians must be uncompromis'V dm™nonr. A A ! interests of the Universal Tid- ; enough. It is always born of anAt a banquet prepared for the cause of the steady downpour. ingly opposed to Hitlerism, Dr. g ethnic womb and speaks the king, Esther revealed herself as a Encyclopedia. Born in Sraol- ; UaT d of honor was prorified hy i speech and expresses the inner Jewess and plead the cause of ,Ernst Wilhelm Meyer, veteran ol j -west Kent soldiers. Mayor Shu- \ e n ; in 1£S7, Schwartz-bard, enrhythm and has the spiritual ac- her people so effectively that the tered his father's wa the German diplomatic service, !k r y ^ a s t h e o a l y A r a b p r e s e E t at cent of. the folk t h a t brought it evil-doer, Haman, was the one declared in an address in Wash- -j t i e S e exercises. Tee train which shop as & boy oJ 10. He was onlr forth. Roughly: ten measures who was destined for an inglorj t o o k s i r H a r o j ; j t 0 Jerusalem was ! 15 vhen he organized end led E ington. from an unfamilar work, of Bra- ious ending on the gallows. Eelf-fie'ense corps during Assailing the Nazi regime for jj guarded by unusually large ce- I Ji Zffif di hms will be German in accent to • During the reading of the Book the pogroms c* 1ECS. In 1SIC he [ !-having "betrayed j j tacnments of troops and police. Gifts, a rightly attuned ear, ten mea- of Esther whenever the name of became a JJancing on. 1 0 b e t l l e lasting interests of the ! Chatting easily with the guests went to Paris and sures of an unfamilar work of Haman Is mentioned, noisemakGerman fatherland," Dr. Meyer j who waited for him as he arriv- French citizen. During the TTer j Program of Debussy will • be French. • It is ers,. known as Hamandrehers, are J said "I could no longer_conscient- ! ed, the High Commissioner was he and his four brothers served ! Affair upon this recognition that Maii- whirred. I t is also customary for S,TTD.T. Thrice : j iously serve a government which ; observed to converse ir. Arabic i a the French amm has been founded. The mor- sweets to be. distributed among _ j I say to be the foe of^ so many j with Emir fallal, Crown Prince ; wounded, he fiistinguished him- • A gala al and spiritual accent of Jewish the children and gifts sent to all who was also '. self at Champagne 6Ed the Vos- . things I had been taught Ger- \ of Trans Jordan, -w n
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A message sent by Murray Weithis part ner, former president of A. Z. A.' i - lic - — of- National Socialist i . ,, ^ c.v ,. , Sohwartzbard returned to France \ ( ' - ' Chapter 165. Asbury Park N. J. I1 P° T Stos evidence of moral I ceremomes were Moshe Shertek, where he became active in t h e ' c ~ r o r r a .c •i a. l . . . - . . • . . . . .1 head of the political department and cameraman on the McGregor ! strength. If they were , head of the political c n on the McGregor e he 1 ft r r ._ Isaac ben labor movement. For a Arf!fip. w-rnprtitfrin T^,^ >«T«™^J racially and morally strons". they I of the Jewish Agency, Arctic Expedition, was delivered I racially and morally strong, they l d not- have aroused the low! j **. g to A. 2. A/headquarters he>e"las-i ! ecould t h d th l s tauma
week within a few hours after it was sent.. The message message was was sent sent by short-wave radio from Etah, Greenland — 700 miles from the G l North Pole. The message was picked up first by an amateur radio operator in Reindeer Point, Greeland, then relayed to Lincoln, Nebraska — operating station W9EKK — who, in turn, transmitted it to another amateur operator in Omaha, C. A. Marsh, operating station W9QVF. Mr. Marsh phoned the message to Julius Bisno, executive Secretary jOf A . Z . A. The message read: "Fraternal greeting to A. Z. A. and its Alephs from Etah, Greenland,' seven nundred miles from North Pole. From Murray Weiner, cameraman, the McGregor Arctic Expedieiton and past Aleph Godol of Chapter No. 165."
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ned for Sunday, March 13, when 1 T - c and was awarded the Crois • The moral law ! among those who went by car to the Vaad Auxiliary holds its an- m a n y s t a n d s f o r 1 Guerre. TThen in IS-IS a RUEI f nual Purim Carnival at the Jew- ! a n d I o y a l t r t 0 the true Germany j Government House for the swear- , . ested that the j 1E r'hich Chi£ ish. Community. Center.- Special I m a k e s surrender to National So- ; ing-in ceremonies at which Chief : sxan colonei EH Russian volunteers in the French |vimpossible. I cannot &o |'Justice Harry Trusted presided. r l a y enlist in Russia, favors, including Mickey Mouse ! otherwise, whether as a German re aim After administering the oath of j | toys, will be given the children. Schwartsbard replied that "the lie. office to the new Chief Esecu- i Kn Music for dancing will be fur- or as a Christian." Trusted "°Vel! SratefuI fatherland will not nished by Irving Rhodes and his Dr. Meyer, who spoke at a din- tire, Chief- Justice csve my boses." orchestra. "Feature, of the even- ner given in his honor by the j corned him on behalf of the peoAfter the outbreak of the Ens- I ing will be a Big Apple Contest j Federal Council of Churches of | pie acd : public services of Paiesas. Eevoluiioain IS Eoi.T-E.rtzwith.prizes for t i e winning cou- j Christ and the Universal Christ-j tine: He_called jipcn him sot to -ples.-.-Am'Bn^rTtiie'Ettrsctioxis';-l"T7irI Ijan -'Council "of Life and 'Work, is ' think- c-f"'X-ast- aiSicuIties " but to •itiag to his' eredic,' vclnstcc-r- • r be a Country Grocery Store. . the first public denunciation of I turn'- bis eyes to tfce future in 2gitizi ea for -service f i t h t i e Frenci • probTwo door prizes, a five tube the Hitler government 'by a for- solving the many major mission to Russia. While c i a i "••'" lems of Palestine, the speaker radio set and an electric alarm mer member of the German dipvisit to his father in Ukraine t i e ! : ' XT ~ *~ pointed, out, he concluded, concluded, with. clock trill be given. lomatic service. pointed, out, as as he with , , • ~. r r Tickets for the carnival are prosperity and cP°E»=is broke out and Sctrartz-1 .. srti In the course of his address the hope that Palestine ! v.-uraea levensxny io crgsE: FSLE £ &T& twenty-five cents per person-and Dr. Meyer said that Nazi snti- peace peace ^ould would come coxae to to Palestine to crgsn, a ~ \' *ize s.Trorted JeTiEli fevensitr self cieZenEe corps, jj FOLE I_t ^ ^ . , children under 12 will beadmittSir oro.ic > *t I "of which fee became an actire | b°-r- T~C- ed. free. Mrs. M. Burstein is ticT-nti tlOn. m & Dric*. anil- . are ket .chairman. . . the new — „ _ . h welcome, l German characteristics of Kaz- off the lost two I he ~ r ~ T"" tnat he in-1 E1"0^8 S c j ism "It is the disgraceful oppo- Commissioner said licles Band.' E 5 ten cousins. DeEpcir- j r ° i uncles " -. tended honestly to carry out t i s ^ site of German and Nordic fcr m duties and f i a t he hoped that evi S of success the government and ruling party
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music exists, even when we do not know it. That accent can be heard and indeed created by giving, the works, of .Jewish, composers a hearing. For music by Jews if created and. neard over a-long enough period will by simple addition result in a body of Jewish In • the short duration of its music from which- the: ethnic •. acexistence, the Jewish Free; Emcent will be heard. . - • '. * ployment- Service has- already ". _ T_Fx.«n;lihist:cehtraL"i4ea-'spring placed ieveral.}people In- permanthe various ^magnificent, practical ent positions,-and" a few more in achievements of Maiiamm;. tiie establishment of a library of Jew- temporary work. Every effort is ish music at the music branch of being madeito place persons only the New York Public library, the in work in which he is qualified. The Service is grateful for the song contests and contests for Bupport given Professor Salomo response already received from Hosowsky of the Hebrew Univer- the many employers and hopes sity in his epoch-making re- that many more will take advansearches into antique Hebrew tage of what it has to offer. music, the establishment of a Anyone looking for employmusical library within the library ment is welcome to come in and of the ifebrew • university, the place hi3 application .with the Palestinian . composers w h i . c h Jewish Free Employment Service. seek to elicit and reward creative Mrs. W o . Lazere, secretary, is-at music in Eretz Yisrael, the plan- the Center every Monday, Tuesning of the Gabrilowitsch Con- day -and Wednesday mornings servatory in Jerusalem. Merely from ten to twelve-thirty. to recount these activities is- to pay a very great tribute to all the officers and associates of the society, especially to the valiant president Mrs.: Charles' Zunser and to the director of the conOn Sunday, March 13, at 6:30, certs Mrs. Israel Goldstein. Kabbi Frederick Cohn will address the young people of the Let me dwell up"bn the Town Castelar Presbyterian church on Hall Concert of February' 19. The "The Birth of a World." program was admirably: built. Of Wednesday r.fternoon, March the ^executant artists who gave 16, at 2:30 he will review Sintheir aid two, the pianist Isidor clair Lewis's latest book, "The Achron and the cellist Joseph Prodigal Parents," for a sororSchuster, are simply of the first ity gathering at the home of Mrs. order. The others were more Victor Smith. than adequate. In the matter of Rabbi Cohn will review ""Vicvocal interpreters the society can toria-Jtegina" on Friday, March and will no doubt do better. I. 18, at 10:30 for the Book-a-Week missed to my great regret Mr. Club of the Extension department Frederick Jacobi's Quartet in G of r the University of Omaha, major but heard Mrl Joseph Achmeeting in the Baird building. ron's Symphonic . variations and Sonata on a Palestinian theme. One should, of course, hear such ( works more than once. And I am eager to hear not only this but more of Mr. Joseph Achron's The Omaha Hebrew Club -will compositions^.. T h e - Symphonic variations on ;a first hearing are nold its monthly open meeting highly individual, a little too thia, Sunday Afternoon, March 13, at 3 p^ m. sharp at the Jewish cerebal in aa ultra-modern man- Community Center. ner which i3 now a trifle faded. A special Purim program will Here, as in so much contempor- be presented by Cantor E. Seltz, ary writing whether of. music or accompanied by his, daughter, verse, .the head has been a little Shirley, piano duets will be playtoo busy at the expense of the ed by Al and Margaret Finkel. viscera. But I may nave heard Mr. J. L. "Wolfson is to be prin- what I was afraid to hear and cipal speaker. turn with immense appreciation Purim refreshments will be and relish to Salomo Rosowsky's served. pi-ofound and beautiful and I. Morgenstern is president of highly individualized yet immem- the organization. . o r i a 11 y traditional Fantastic Dance for piano,\violih and cello. ' If Maiiamm . had done no more MASADA GROUP WILL it its first concert in. Town Hall BE ORGANIZED HERE than given a hearing to this work we would say dayenu. 3 u t The M a s a d a organization, songs were presented too that which ha3 chapters in the princibear witness to fine characteris- pal cities of the United States tic talents, such'as A." W. Bind- will organize a group here in er's. Camel Caravan and Lazare Omaha. This organization, was . Saminsky's Loneliness. •'- : founded in December of 1933 as Maiiamm is not pedantic or the result of the amalgamation narrow. The music of Jews, is its of several Zionist gToups. It is toprovince. The other day in an ar- day the Zionist organization for ticle in-The New Republic Bruce y o u n g m e n . " . ' ' • • " • . ' Bliven thanked Hitler for the emAnouncement : -Kill be made nent men he had" given us and soon as to the date of the first .(Continued.on page-8.)- . • organisational .meeting.
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