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Thursday, December 9, 1943 Thursday; Decetnb_e_r_9.:.., _19_4_3______T_H_E_J-E-W-I-S-H- __P_O_S_T~ ______...:.... ___...l::~;,=-.c:--:.:..':c.:.':':..'-".,"'.:.- -'~_:\_"_' _''''::'''''.:::0'',:;...." Page Three THE JEWISH POST ~',\ ~,'" ",,','.'.-:- ;,' Page Two of his work." Ce-rtainly, it was noll acting family. It should b~l~\ ention- ;E~rpp~an:fri~~d~. gr\e up -\Yh.at they his introduction of three-dimensional ed, however, that he was old .and 't:alled a "hppeless" struggle, 11ke the s~ts, of .1;he revolving stage and the independent enough to sta il. in. hi~ df~!Q~tist Ern'~~,'",J'ollef~'~ho hanged cyclorama (that ~,;cenic device used theatres numerous works by 'ddish ~§,elf,Jli'h4he, cord of his bath- Max Reinhardt to simulate the sky) nor any other authors, such as "The God, 0 'M'e ~ his Park Avenue Hotel, Qr The Oldest AngI<>-JewiBh Weekly in Western CanadB.' The orld's Foremost (L:!lIued weekly in the interests of Jewish Community activitiep By Alfred Werner technicality, but the reclamation of geance" by Sholem Asch, c Stefan Zweig, who took poison in in Winnipeg and Western Canada) all the arts, for the creation of a Treasure" by David Pinski, and Brazil. Reinhardt, since 1940 a citi­ Gesantkunstwerk (a . Wagnerian works by Ossup Dymov and Semion zen of this country and the father HERE is that in theatricad rep- back-stage training as an actor, Published every Thursclay "T Yushkevich. Jewish plays written of an American soldier, remained by , resentaion w h i c h awakens Reinhardt made the traditional round tenn); it was ·the restoration of thE' Talmudist theatre, which had long been the by German Jews and performed on active and optimistic to his very end. EMPlliE PRESS LTD. whatever romance belongs to OHr of the provincial theatres of the meeting place of I connoisseurs and the Reinhardt stages include "Jacoh'3 He died of pneumonia which had Printel's and Publishers character. The magic lights, the monarchy . It was at Salzburg the snobs only, to the masses . longing Dream" by Beer-Hofmann and "The followed a series of paralytic stroke3 BEN M. COHEN, Business Manager America. Upon his arrival in New York in 1900, pomp of the scene, the fair, false, ex- scene of his later triumphs, that the (A Biographical Sketch of Prof. Louis Ginzberg) for beauty, that was the historical Mission of Seamael" a play dealing at a New York hotel on the last day Phone 54400 Evenjnge ~4 345 he joined the staff of the Jewish Encyclopaedia citing life that is detailed before us, Berlinese theatrical director and By DORIS TUSSMAN with the Tiszlar EszIar case by of October, a few weeks after having as Editor of the Rabbinical Department. During crowding into three short hours all champion of Naturalism, Otto'Brahm, triumph of Reinhardt, the "Austrian Head Office: 213 Selkirk Ave., Winnipeg, Canada (Copyright, 1943, Jewish Telegraphic Agency) hedonist." Arnold Zwei~. celebrated his seventieth birthday. Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at Ottawa' his association with the Encyclopaedia, he wrote our most busy ambition could desire himself a Jew, discovered the twenty IVlost significant was his last request: HE week of December 11th has' been dedicated more than 400 articles and edited many others. all these appeals I to our senses are year old Eeinhardt and gave him a His later experiments were not The numerous Americans who at- Vol. XIX-No. 49 Thursday, December 9, 1943 "No flowers. No pomp. Tell anyone to Professor Louis Ginzberg in honor of his It wa~ in 1902 that he received the appointment not made in vain. Our taste for contract. At Brahm's Deutsches T always successful. Conceiving the tended the Salzburg festivals be­ who wishes to send flowers to make seventieth birthday. It is thus fitting to recall castle-building and visions deepens Theatre the Austrian' enjoyed much which he retains to this day, Professor of Talmud idea of a collective playhouse wher.: tween 1920 and 1938 will still re­ a contribution to any war effort that some events of Professor Ginzberg's life, both his upon us, and we chew a mental op- success portraying Ghosts, but aftel" At The Danger Point and Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary actors and audiences were one body, member Reinhardt's stupendous will help defeat Hitler." training and accomplishments, in order to appre­ of America. ium which stagnates the other fac~ a few years of working under his he staged Rolland's "Danton" so that mise-en-scene of the medieval mor­ The Westchester Hill Cemetery ciate more fully his dual position of primacy in The Professor's talents and scholarship have ulties, but wakes that of the ideal." stern and pedantic master he became the audience was the court-room ality play "Everyman" re-written fol' near Hastings cn Hudson, N.Y., now Despatches from Jerusalem received this week Jewish scholarship and primacy in the hearts of been accorded recognition by outstanding men In the same year, 1873, when the dissatisfied with the sordid realism, 'rowd of the play; supers were placed the s!=!cptical and sophisicted twenti­ bears the remains of a great refonner report that the charges agaillst the 34 settlers all those who know him. We remember these and institutions of all sects and nationalities. He author of these words, the outstand- drab dullness and perverted mater­ in seats throughout the auditorium, eth-century audience by Hugo Hof­ of the modern stage. True, the Rein-, of Ramat Hakovesh, arrested during the police deeds, not only in tribute to a great man, but was one of a select group of world famous men to ing English novelist and dramatist, ialism that were the keynotes of the and they astonished their unprepared mannsthal), of Hofmannsthal's ver­ hardt-style is the style of yesterday, raid on the settlement, have been dropped by the also as an inspiration to others for a nobler and be distinguished by Harvard University during Bulwer-Lyton, passed away, at the Gennan stage of 1890-1900. He real­ neighb~rs by suddenly rising to .'sion of Calderon~s f~l Gran Teatro not of tomorrow, and he was, indeed, Palestine Government. The net results of the more meaningful Jewish life. its Tercentennial celebration when he was pre­ little spa of Baden near Vienna to 1 iz'ed that, contrary to his director';; speak their lines.' In his production del Mundo" and Goethe's lIFaust 0' a unique mixture of Prospero and 1 disturbance were one Jew killed and the tension Professor Ginzberg's literally encyclopaedic sented with an honorary degree of Doctor of the Goldinanns a son was' born who, concept, the spoken word was not the of .' '~Hamlet," the actors, wearing just as they will recall Toscanini a~d Barnum, as his critics claimed. But of the entire Near East engendered to such a learning in the field of rabbinics has been attri­ Theology. ' under his artist's name of Max Rein- \ only element of stagecraft, ~nd th",t modern dress, leaned against the Bruno Walter conducting their Moz­ the superficial showman Reinhardt pitch that serious outbreaks in the not far distant buted to many factors, but one in particular seems Though widely known as ,a teacher and scholar, hardt, was d~stined to create on the I the stage demand~d its full ·share. of spectators' boxes and mixed with the art's operas or Lotte Lehmann sing­ of the later years must never oblier­ future are a distinct possibility. The shedding of relevant at this point. It may be said that it is his Professor Ginzberg's fame rests chiefly upon his modern stage all the magic lights, alII light, color and design. . Breakulg 'audience before the curtain rose. ing German lieder. To m~ny oi ate the memory of the serious young one more Jew's blood will be dismissed without universality of knowledge that has enabled him many books on Hebrew law and folklore. The most the appeals to man's senses that had with Brahm'l he founded, fIrst a cab­ Reinhardt tra;nsforme4 a Berlin cir- those Americans, however, who nev­ revolutionary Reinhardt whose hon­ much fuss or furor in the face of indiscriminating to be a great specialist. His particular fame rests famous among the latter is "The Legends of the been extolled' so longingly by the:, aret 'of his own, later' his own little cus into a huge theatre with 3,000 er went to Europe, he is known ps orable place in the history of the bloodshed of three million others, but this leaves upon the unique manner in which he brings to jews," which consists of seven volumes and is the British writer. A castle-builder h~, theatre where he earned a stunning seats and there "barnumized" the the Prospera who staged here "Tc:~' modern theatre is undisputed.-Am- the question of the present uneasiness that has bear upon his own profound insights into the first attempt to gather from the original sources was, indeed, from his boyhood spent I success with his peculiar staging of classics, resorting to acrpbatics and. Miracle," "A Midsummer Night's erican Hebrew. been brought to a dangerous pitch. Talmud and Hebrew lore the vast knowledge of the myriad Jewish legends which refer to Biblical chiefly in the gallery of the Hofburg' Gorki;s "Night Lodging/', that half the' 1oud ar,ena style of speaking. 'bream," and liThe Eternal Road," ______, 'We can understand that there are some in Western Science personages and events. It is the most complete Theatre in Vienna, to his very last mystical play where the scene is a While thus yielding to sensation- and as the producer of a much-dis- Call For Blood Donors the Middle East who are satisfied with the results. and Cui t u r e, and accurate work of its kind, and a gold mine of days when he supervised the pro-I Russan tramp lodging-house and alism in the circus performances cussed movie' version of "A Midsum,· Made By Congress· Conditions have been brought to the point des­ which he acquired fascinating information, shedding light not only duction of Jacques Offenbach's comic I['one of the leading personages is that which catered to the public taste, he mel' Night's Dream. While the Mir- opera, La Belle Helena, for the New 'strange pilgrim Luka who urges thc 1 " dl 1 tIl' With the Canadian Anny in action. cribed in the recent statement of the American in his studies at on the Biblical personalities discussed, but also on retained the small Kammertheatre ac e, a wor ess spectac e, e mg on the continent of Europe the need various German Opera Compa~y in New York. Verily '\ derelicts to remember that they are th d f h Zionist Emergency Council. "The Palestine Ad­ the Jewish scholars and rabbis who incorporated which remained his true preference. e 'ld' a ventures . tho 0 . t f e 1 youngld nun, for hlood plasma by the Canadian , a producer he was who, to quote men. M ministration has steadily set about creating an universities. this folklore in their writings, thus ensuring its In that house ,"resembling as closely egl IS) In IS SIn u wor , was Red Cross has increased greatly. It was as a Shakespeare, had such p4antasies But he scored even greater tri­ d 1924 th h f I atmosphere in Palestine calculated to provoke the survival. I as possible' the body of a violin and, presente in ,e ot er etes 0 The Patriotic Committee of the you n g boy in that apprehend more than cool rea-[1..1m hS as directer of the Deutsches f d h N Jews and ultimately prejudice the cause of the "Students, Scholars and Saints," the most P like the violin, attuned to receiVe:! art were per 'orme after' t e 1"azis Canadian Jewish Congress has is- Kovno, Russia­ son ever apprehends.'~\ .' TheatrE: which he took over from h d h d G Jewish National Home. The theory apparently popular of his books written in English, is a and respond to the slightest vibra- , a cased ermany t £ th s greatestR' h ThIV- sued an appeal to the Jewish com-:-- is that the Middle East is in an explosive condi­ wh ere he was We know little about his youth, I Brahm when, under the inspiring tion" (Hofmannsthal), he produced mg pro uce!' ou a e elC. e brilliant account of early Jewish history and the t . f t th t d' h' f' munity to increase their already born, and in Telsh except fqr ·the fact that he a.ttended influence of Shakespeare's brilliance, delicate, spiritual and witty ,plays by s unnmg ae a urmg IS lrst tion, that the fuse is all ready and that the Jews development of the schools and schoolmen. It is f' d splendid contributions to the Red will apply the match to it." Carrying this charge where he received the' Untergymnasium (junior high be fought, single-handed, a two-front Shaw, Wilde, Maeterlinck,' Hamsmi. twent y- lye (Years as a pro ucer his early Talmud­ composed of a collection of lectures, unified by a and Goethe. There, as ,'n' ·Vienna'<.,', Reinhardt had staged more than 23,- Cross, , further the statement of the Council accuses the common theme and purpose - to give the reader, school) and was a theatre-fan. He war against both the dominant school In a statement made public by ical training, that had his "theatromania" in common of naturalism and the insipid acad­ intimate Theatre in del' Josefstadl:, 000 nights or entertainment for Ber .. Allan Bronfman, chairman of the Administration of instituting the searches and some insight into the cultural life of the Jew by 1 1 d h he first impressed with many Austrians, particularly ernie style approved by Emperor he proved himself "an administrator in theatregoers, inc u ing more t a~1 committee, he said:, ' prosecutions for illegal arlIls and have left no making him acquainted with the ideas and ideals 2 500 £ £ t t his elders with the Vieri.nese, for ~vhom, in, those William II. There was no pompositY who is determined to carry out not' per ormances 0 twen y- WI) "Now that the Canadian Army is stone unturned to place the Jew in an ill-favored h k d his brilliance, his of Talmudic scholars who were the bearers of this heydays of Austrian culture the the- in his startling presentation of "A only the poet's last will, but his S a espearean plays, id not impress light. This vicious program has now reached a culture. The book represents a fervent plea for th N · t 11 "Tu . h d in action, the casualty lists are com- remarkable mem­ atre was neither a complacent pas- Mi.dsununer Night's Dream" in 1905, wishes from first to last, and to e aZlS a a: t TIIC ts, er highly dangerous condition. better appreciation of Talmudic Judaism and a Jude wird verbrannt.... II ing in. And, as the tempo of this For further insight into the machinations of ory and insatiable time nor a flourishing industry, but there were no mere trick scenic ef­ translate the poetic vision into :1 war increases, those casualties will curiosity. His closer connection between the past and the present. an animating centre around which fects, nor was there a word added 01' stage vision so that, not only none In 1937, he presented his last huge 1 those who conspire against us in the Middle East Among his more technical and scholarly works jump enormoUS y. it is worth repeating some of the observations of quest for knowledge urged him on to other fields all intellectual life revolved. The a line cut out-yet, under his hands, of the spiritual effects are lost, but spectacle in New York, "The Eter- "By giving the small quantity of are "An Unknown Jewish Sect," the two parts of 1: Mr. David Emanuel, an authority on the Near _ the Gymnasium at Frankfort-on-the-Main, and Hofburg Theatre could boast of such it had become a new play. "What t that it' gains a new and surpris~ng nal Road" by Franz Wedel, with the blood the Red Cross asks, many ..1 the Universities of Berlin, Strasbourg and Heidel­ the Geonica, and the Yerushalmi Fragments. The extraordinary artists as Adolf von saw," wrote a severe critic, Maxi­ illumination." These were the words music by Kurt Weill. It was an 'wounded' name can be kept out oE East, who has made a special study of the Arab latter, which has been described as epoc,h making, burg where he studied history, philosophy and Sonnenthal (a Jew wh!l originally milia~ Harden, u were childish things of praise uttered by the dramatist amazing panorama of Israel's history, the 'Death' columns. No one misses Nationalist movement. Firstly he points out that is a Hebrew commentary embracing some 2,000 the arms trial, the search for illegal weapons, the oriental languages. In 1898, at the age of 25, he had been a tailor's apprentice), Josef told with a child's laughing joy, with Richard Beer-Hofman, now a refu- written by one who firmly believes this small donation of blood, but it .received his degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the pages and representing the fruit of, 20 years of Lewinsky, Frederich Mitterwurzer that intoxication of joy which would gee in this country. that on that day when all men shall is something money cannot buy. It troubles of the French in Lebanon, the visit of critical study. It is even more than a commentary, King Ibn Saud's son to Washington, all the talk University of Heidelberg. Even this, when com­ and Charlotte Wolter. be the poet's if he could see such a Reinhardt did not spoil the actor have taken up the neglected burden is more than m.oney-it is a part pared to what he has since achieved, may be con­ for Professor Ginzberg's own elucidations contain After having received his £irst, daring and yet wise reconstruction but coaxed out of him his best qual- of their faith, the Messiah will come of our very selves-going right from ,of Arab Federation, all the discussions of an oil novel interpretations and ingenious reconstruc­ mission from the United States State Department sidered ,merely his apprenticeship in the serviee ities. "He does not prepare for the and the Eternal Road, the street of our own hearts to those boys over­ of God and the Cause of Truth. tions wherever the text lacks satisfactory mean­ actor a warm or a cold shower-bath pain and affliction will have reach- seaS who have sacrificed so much -as diversified as these matters may appear­ ing. Professor Ginzberg's life work and crowning Kate Smith Presents Sergeant Barney Ross are part of a single pattern.. It would be an in­ He emerged from this training with valuable With Jewish War Veteran Citation For VaJ!our or massage." wrote Beer-Hofman, ed a glorious end. While hIs version for us. Never in all history has the achievement is a "Commentary on the Palestinian & triguing drama to watch but for the fact that tools - a varied knowledge of languages including "for each of his rehearsals is like of UDie Fledermaus" has been one homefront soldier known the same Syrian, Arabic, Latin and Armenian, and an ability Talmud," a definitive work to which scholars, for steam-bath in which the actor goes of Broadway's hits under the title opportunity to stand beside his the lives of millions of Jews were so desper­ many generations to come, will turn to for refer­ ,ately involved. What does appear in a clear and to write in German and French with as great from one to the other, complains "Rosalinda" for more than a year, brother-in-arms in his direst hour facility as he does in Hebrew and English. Sb ence and information. often about his treatment, but at the his recent staging of a play by Irving of need." unequivocal light is that all the discussions revolv­ end leaves the hath with the feeling Shaw had a brief run only. In his ------ing about a Pan-Arab Federation are nothing more versatile is he that many articles on dramatic and The key, perhaps, to such magnificent achieve­ in reality than a red herring drawn across the literary criticism were contributed by him to the ments is not only a brilliant mind which has a that he has become a new man.' last years Reinhardt directed a dra- TTT kl G· ddl Frankfurter Zeitung during the years 1890-1894. comprehensive and absolute grasp of the content Over a half million people are esti- matic workshop at Hollywood, and yy ee y 'l~tf!, e Middle East to confuse and befuddle the real issues mated to have appeared in his pro·· though in his late sixties, he did not involved. Anyone who has watched the run of In 1898, Dr. Ginzberg moved to Amsterdam of this ancient period, but a spiritual sympathy where he lived one year before embarking for as well which enables the author to identify him­ ductions. Some of the actors he consider his life-work finished. Pfc. Jules Levener reveals that in­ events and knows however little about the Arab sponsored became known to the Am- When the outlook was' not too side order that Hitler gave Goebbels: Nationalist movement is aware that the Arabs -" self with the mood of the times. Thus, we find in Professor Louis Ginzberg that rare equipment erican public through guest appear- bright for the democracies and the "Tell der people ve was nod retreat-. are getting nowhere in uniting. Jealousies, dis­ ances or through the movies, like Axis seemed to gain mo;re and more \ ing. Ve are zimply advancing in der trust, tribal feuds, so,vereign rights and other , of both the intellectual and the artist. But, this I ' too, does not tell the whole story, for - humane, Albert Bassermann, Emil Jannings: grouna., quite a few of Reinhardt's direcshun from vich ve came!" ! equally importa:nt matters such ~s language and religion are kepmg the Arabs as far apart as they Twenty Years Ago This Week kindly, considerate and unassuming - the Man Alexander Moissi and Conrad Veidt, is as much loved as the Teacher is respected and and,especially such Jewish-born act­ ever were. . . It is high time that Palestine's preJ udICed J.T.A. NEWS revered. I ors and actresses as Elisabeth Berg- administration recognized these facts and turned -- ner, Ernst Deutsch, Max Pallenhel'g Did You SigniThe Petition its thoughts instead to the development of the Iand Rudolph Schildkraut. Incidental­ country and enable Palestine to become wha~ the Washington - Secretary of Labor James Davis ly many of the dramatists, musicians Jerusalem correspondent of the London TImes has announced that several hundred Jewish immi­ The Je\\1ish Calendar

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