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t,.ssoc . • . u 1• \ SiOR \ cr..L Jt'!. \ Su ·' Ro· gl ~;-:G'E.Lk Si. ozgOb 2 R 1• Q_Q'I . b . • ·Movre, 'Fiddler On The Roof,' To Open In N.Y. In November LONDON - Tevye, the poor to open In New York In Ukrainian Jewish milkman with November. five unmarried daughters, a lame The cast of predominantly horse, a sharp-tongued wife and New York actors speak morosely enduring optimism, Is now In the of their four months on location. movies. "It got to be llke a prison," THE ONLY ENGLISH-JEW/SH WEEKLY IN R. /. AND SOUTHEAST MASS. The Joyous and melancholy Mr. Frey said, watching Mr. · plight of the Sholom Aleichem Jewlson direct a scene of Rossi an _V_O_L_U_M_E_LIV__ N_U_MB_E_R_4_l ____ F_R_ID_A_Y_, -JAN--U-AR_ Y....,.8.;..,-l-97_1 ____ 1_5c~P.;..E;.;R;;.....C_O;;;P;;;Y_.;_ __ _.;.1_6_P_A_G_;ES;.. character depicted In "Flddler·on policemen plundering Tevye's ------'--------------------~--~-----------..;...­ the Roor' Is being fllmed In home. _"The first week everything England and In the Yugloslav was sociability, mirth, parties. countryside In a $9-mllllon Then everyone got quiet, then production. tense, then bitter. By ·the third Jews Adaptable, Educator Says; "l feel a little Intimidated at week you had to have lists of who the success of the play," Norman was talking to who. Jewlson, the film's director, said "There's something special stepping over wires and electric about 'Fiddler.' The shtetl life Institutions Remain Static cables In the dusty set of the village of Ana tevka, at Pinewood, - It's kind of _g-lamorlzed - but It's quite magnificent. It 30 miles from London. "I've The Jewioh pMple how alway, Calls Center Democratic, approached It with a certain resembles a kind of hippie been able to adapt thomMlwt to commune that you find In upstate their dnum1ta,_., In any count,y trepidation." \ New York or California, with 11 Fiddler" has a cast wt thout pr.,._., time, ICIJIof relielou1Dr. Jacob 1tv<IIN -·- at· Open, Intensely Eager major American stars, Topol, the people totally needing each other, depending on each other." •-n Unlwnity, In hio adclreu to Israeli actor who portrayed tho National c:.m...- of lntor­ Tevye In London, re-enacts the Nearby, 72-year-old Molly mecllato Otiel' becutivfl which To Bring Jews Together role In the film . Norma Crane, a Picon stepped beside a camera will be hold in New OriNM, l.oui­ Brooklyn-born television actress, and waited to appear In a scene. llana, thio wHkend, but the Amer· When you look back upon 1hc astonishing continui1y or the Jewish plays Tevye's wife, Golde, Molly "This Is like a document of icon Jewhh inatitutiont today oper­ people, s1anding at the end or nearly forty centuries or continuous ate within an institutional 1tructvre Picon, the Yiddish stage star, historical significance." she said thot hen not much cha~ for his1ory. 1hc first thing you no1ice is 1ha1 the Jews and their religious. portrays Yente the matchmaker, slowly. "It's part of a world ,__1y a century. "II there not a social. and cuhural inslilutions bravely adapt to new situations and and Leonard Frey, who appeared that's gone. What began with dilcontinulty," ho aob, "belwHn master change. Jews not only do not rear change, bul 1hey make ii their as Harold, the pock- marked ' Fiddler• · and the life In the American Jewry'• lnal,;Hty to p,o­ own. the ahllmark or their collcc1ive life. duce ligniflcant reoponw to the homosexual In "The Boys In the nineteen-hundreds ended, finally, And changes somelimes come guile suddenly. The des1ruction or the Band," Is Motel the tailor, who with Hitler. cho"9l"9 lituation of America, on firsl Temple in 586 required adaptation to new conditions in a brier marries Tevye's oldest daughter. "There's such a Joy and tho one lide, and tho hiotorlcal adaptablllty of tho Jewilh PffPle time. When we hear or the Babylonian exiles. a very few years For Mr. Jewlson, a 44-yeau­ tenderness about this. There's a and hodltlon, on tho othor?" old Canadian who has directed sadness, too. The world that afterward. we find new institulions. new modes or faith and riluals such films as "The Cincinnati we're portraying has been The , ...,,i.i. •••, of l'tof. -·· rapidly created to lake accounl or the new si1uation. Kid," "In the Heat of the Night" destroyed.•• - ·· -h followo: Again, the the aftermath or the and "The Russians Are dcstruc1ion or the Temple in 70. Coming ... " the use of box-office the Jews had both 10 explain stars In a major production ls Dr. Bernard Corp To Preside themselves the reasons for the secondary to the quality of the disas1cr and 10 find a new \ stor.y. religious basis for continued group ''Th e excitement of Over Center Executives' Meeting .. Fiddler," the moving aspects of life. They had to develop new I the play, are rooted In the story Dr Bernard Carp, executive institutions for governmenl. They and In the development and director of the Jewish Community had to revise their religious beliefs relationship of the people," he Center of R.I-., will preside as to take account of what had .r sa_ld. "It's really the story of chairman over the annual meeting changed in their social and the breaking down of traditions. of the National Conference of political situation --and 1hcy did It's the story 9f a man and his Intermediate Cities' Center Executives In New Orleans, so. God, and his problems with his I need not rcci1e the history of five daughters." L o u Is I an a, beginning Sunday, January 10. The meeting will Judaism 10 prove my point: t~c "Fiddler" has been running Jewish people and the Judaic on BroadWay since September 22, continue until January 15. 1964. !It has a book by Joseph The organization Is made up religious tradition have learned Stein based on the Sholom o f executives of Jewish how 10 live with pcrma.,cnt Aleichem stories. The music Is Community Centers representing change, to 1urn crisis into by Jerry Bock and the lyrics by communities with a Jewish opportunity. to preserve courage population of 15,000 to 30,000 in the race ol wha1 seems to be Sheldon Harnlck. Jews and Center budgets from Mr. Jewlson, a Methodist, $250,000 to $750,000. Among the the end of time. Bui you must spent months of preparation for ask. If all things have changed, the film, steeping _himself In cities Included are Providence, Richmond, Loulsvllle, San Diego, from the nomadic times of scholarship, to discover any Jewish history at _ the Ylvo T o l e do, Port I and, Oregon, Abraham to the urban situation of deeply Jewish or Judaic practice Institute for Jewish Research In which has nol in some degree New York and at meetings with W or c ester, Massachusetts, Arthur Goldberg. then what is Hassldlc and other rabbis In Norfolk and many others. abiding and enduring in Judaism'? come to the Jews from another Israel. The theme .of the conference What can the adjective --Jewish .. cuhure or civilization. The Jews I've tried to work In the wlll be "The Decade of Future mean, when the noun 10 which it over long centuries have assumed colors of Chagall for this film," Shock - Enabling the Jewish Community Centers Association applies seems to shift from age 10 as their own what originally was said the ebulllent director, who Community Center toFunctlon of St. Louis. age and place to place'' produced by others, and their wears a button with the movie's Effectively In an Era of Constant Dr. Jacob Neusner, professor What abides is our capacity to infinite - adaptability has been title on his cap. Social Change." of rellglous studies at Brown made possible by their short Among the speakers at the University, and an Internationally prelend that nothing is changed ""''I want to get the crooked and at the same time to revise memories and tenacious insistance meeting will !le Dr. Gary Lloyd, known Jewish scholar, will on the mythic-Jewish origins of roofs and the odd streets. associate professor of sociology present a paper on: "The Jewish everything. Qualities or features There's a Jewish quality - but at Tulane University, Dr. Eugene ,Community Centers Face the which Jews borrow from other purely gentile, or pagan customs. also a universal quality that can't Usdln, chief of psychiatry, Toro 1970' s .'' a speech which Is people in one selling frequently Whatever was or was not Jewish, be disputed when you consider the Mental Health Clinic at Louisiana publlshed In this Issue. a great many things have become fact that ' Fiddler on the Roof' become rooted in Judaism or State University; Charles Zibell, Dr. Carp will serve as Jewry, so that later on or so over the centuries. has been running In 22 different associate director of the Council chairman of the discussion on Dr. I argue, therefore, that the countries with many different elsewhere they come to be. seen as of Jewish Welfare Funds and ·Neusner•s paper which promises peculiarly Judaic or Jewish. The present situation of American languages.'' to have many national policy Federations, and Bill Kahn, Jewish calendar, which we think Jewry, facing changes so rapid The film, which takes place In executive director of the Jewish implications. a nd une,pected as to defy _1905, began shooting In August In of as a unique construction of the village of Lekenik, near Judaism, derives mostly from the prediction, does not characterize Zagreb, Yugoslavia. It Is nearing JNF To Hold Campaign Canaanites.

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