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Drawing The Line
Southwestern Jewish Press, January 10, 1958, Page 3
What difference does it make if Wimbledon champion Althea Gibson hits a ball across the tennis court to Louise Brough, or if the Chicago Cubs’ minor league players receive spring training in Shreveport or Mesa, or if Ralph Dupas has one-quarter Negro blood?
Dupas, a leading middleweight boxer, had to go to court to prove he has no Negro blood in order to get a top bout in New Orleans. New Orleans, however, will never see its favorite son, heavyweight Willie Pastrano, fight for the title because the champion and all other top-ranked heavyweights are Negro. Exit, white Pastrano.
The Cubs, hoping to find another Willie Mays or Jackie Robinson or Don Newcombe among their farmhands, have moved these players to Mesa, where they may be tried and tested. Exit the Cubs from Louisiana.
With this headlong rush into inactivity, it would appear that Louisiana would be in sad straits in its efforts to attract the out-of-state dollar. Not so. It can count on the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds. This group, supported by Jewish community dollars, convened 1,000 delegates for four days in New Orleans last month. The impact on Louisiana businesses must have gratified their owners.
With the nation’s Jewish population so overwhelmingly opposed to discrimination against the Negro, it is difficult to understand why the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds did not impose a boycott against New Orleans in protest.
And, to look at it more selfishly, state laws discriminating against Jews are only one step away from state laws discriminating against Negroes.
The U.S. Naval Academy has imposed a boycott against participating in the Sugar Bowl football game in New Orleans because of the Negro ban.
The Jewish federations should have followed suit. – From the Phoenix Jewish News
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New Books
Southwestern Jewish Press, January 10, 1958, Page 3
A Boys Quiet Volice
by Ruth Kolko Cohen
Greenberg, pp. 113, $2.75
This slim book is a highly dramatic and moving account of the life of a fourteen year old boy who dies of bone cancer. The mother’s story is warm and touching but never tragic.
Mrs. Cohen has written this book in the hope that others may find the strength to conquer their grief when suffering a great loss.
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Israel Zangwill
By Joseph Leftwich
Thomas Yoseloff, pp 305, $6.00
Israel Zangwill has been long neglected by writers in the Jewish field. This biography, appearing more than 30 years after his death in 1926, is the first full-scale study of his life and works. The author was an intimate friend of Zangwill’s during the latter part of his life.
Mr. Leftwich relates the story of Zangwill’s childhood from the poverty stricken slums of London’s East End to his rise as an author who had a strong influence in raising the level of the poor and down-trodden. His novel, “Children of the Ghetto,” was drawn from his early childhood. Zangwill remained close to his people and Mr. Leftwich is to be congratulated for bringing him the notice he so well deserves.
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The World of Moses Maimonides
By Jacob S. Minkin
Thomas Yoselfff, pp 448, $6.00
This volume is at once an anthology of Maimonides’ writings, an appraisal of his significance, and a reconstruction of his life and times. Affording the contemporary reader a rounded portrait of the greatest Jewish sage since biblical days, it also offers the essence of wisdom contained in Maimonides’ religious, philosophical and ethical teachings – words of faith, understanding and encouragement that have never staled or lost validity during all the centuries since they were first inscribed.
The author, Rabbi Jacob S. Minkin, has written an informative and well-planned book which could serve as a treasury of learning and inspiration for readers of every faith. His other workds include, “The Romance of Hassidism” and “Herod: King of the Jews.”
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Prolegomena To The History of Ancient Israel
By Julius Well-Hausen
Meridian Books, Inc., pp 552, $1.95
The work which forms the greater part of this paper-back volume first appeared in 1878 under the title “History of Israel.” The book produced a great impression throughout Europe. Its main thesis is that “the Mosaic history is not the starting point for the history of Ancient Israel, but Judaism.” The book gives a complete picture of the history of worship in ancient Israel, of sacrifices, feasts and priesthood.
It also contains the complete reprint from the Encyclopedia Britannica, which affords a general view of the course of the history of Israel as the author constructs it on the basis of research. The volume is extremely valuable to those students of the Old Testament and the theory of “higher criticism” which is the mode of the day.
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Memoirs of a Revolutionist
By Dwight MacDonald
Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, pp. 376, $4.75
Dwight MacDonald has written a series of essays in political criticism which makes interesting reading. The articles in this book are arranged in six sections; “The Responsibility of Peoples”; “Looking at the War”: “The Cultural Front”; “Political Pathology”; “Saints”; and “By the Way”. In addition there is a long introductory piece, titled “Politics Past,” which is a lively autobiographical note on left wing activities during the past twenty years.
Some of the famous figures discussed in this witty book are McCarthy, Henry Luce, Dorothy Day, Gandhi, and General George S. Patton. Memoirs of a Revolutionist makes for stimulating reading and is written by a man very well qualified by his experiences as a journalist.
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From Daniel to Daniel
By Eliahu Bar-Daniel
Vantage Press, Inc., pp 318, $3.50
This book—a six year study of Israel – is chiefly devoted to a careful analysis of the many facets of Israeli life and a lucid discussion of the little country’s problems. Mr. Bar-Daniel came to America after an active career as a revolutionary in Czarist Russia. From a lowly start he became a successful industrialist. In 1950, he with his wife and 16-year-old daughter gave up most of the fruits of material success to go to Israel.
His sympathetic but objective reporting, as he pictures Israel from the gay cafes of Tel Aviv to the austere life in the Kibbutzim, makes rewarding reading. The author offers the advice that Israel’s destiny lies in the Middle East and she must identify herself with her neighbors, the Arabs.
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As the Psychologist Sees You
Southwestern Jewish Press, January 10, 1958, Page 3
By Irving R. Stone, Psychological Consultant
Predictions
The turn of the calendar year, through custom, has become the time for everyone to make a resolution or a prediction. As the former are too easily broken and can be repudiated readily, I shall concern myself with that form of activity, which comes closer to the crystal ball. Not that this is scientific, but some of the predictions I have to offer have as much merit (in all due modesty) as those being expounded by others.
Predictions are rather easy to make and everyone can make them without great effort. At the risk of being 100 percent wrong, here are some you might consider. I predict that teen agers will develop a new fad in clothing, a little more sloppy than those now in vogue. At the same time, and in line with the general inconsistency of adolescents, they will demand clothes which will make them look older and more grown-up than their years demand.
There will be a trend away from the sports cars by the adolescents and back towards the hotrods. The sports cars will be a special hobby of their elders with emphasis on those less costly to operate. Gadgets will be found in the teen-agers’ cars and now that they cannot dangle such articles as cubes or dice across the windshields, they will be found suspended over the rear windows.
I predict that there will be a great emphasis on the study of juvenile delinquency with more concern with the causes of delinquency and attempts to reduce the incidence than on methods for punishment. Delinquency rates will continue to rise, for the ninth straight year. Greater study will be made of younger children and the emphasis on delinquency reduction will be in this area.
There will be new drugs to tranquilize and others to stimulate. There will also be some drugs that will combine both of these and some will stimulate for the early morning hours and also contain a drug that will tranquilize for later in the day. The latter, of course, will be a slow acting product that takes over when the stimulating drug has run its course and is no longer needed. More people will avail themselves of the services of psychiatrists and psychologists than ever before, mainly to ward off emotional conditions. Thus, the emphasis will be on prevention.
These are but some of the predictions that can be made. The possibilities are endless and make good conversation whenever the television programs become dull. Finally, I predict that people will continue to talk about TV and comics, smoking, taxes, sex and higher prices. Who was it that said there’s nothing new in the world?
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Arts Foundation Sets Three Concerts
Southwestern Jewish Press, January 10, 1958, Page 4
The Musical Arts Society of Theatre and Arts Foundation of San Diego County will present a series of three Sunday afternoon concerts at four p.m. in the La Jolla Woman’s Club, 715 Silverado Street, La Jolla.
The first concert will be given by the Amati String Quartet of Los Angeles on January 26. The program will be music by Haydn, Bartok and Schubert.
The second concert on February 23rd will be by the Los Angeles Baroque Players (harpsichord, violin, viola, cello and flute) who will play music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The final concert on March 23rd by Howard Wells, pianist, and Stanley Plummer, violinist, will consist of a program of sonatas by Mozart, Brahms and Cesar Franck.
Season subscriptions for the three concerts will be six dollars, students at half price. Single tickets $2.50. Students $1.25.
These may be obtained by mailing check, payable to the Theatre and Arts Foundation, with self-addressed stamped envelope P>O. Box 1172, La Jolla, California.
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Chamber Music Concert Set For Art Gallery
Southwestern Jewish Press, January 10, 1958, Page 4
Music for strings, woodwinds, French horn, and piano will be featured in the second in a series of five chamber music concerts to be presented by the San Diego Symphony Association Sunday, January 12, at 2 p.m. in the Fine Arts Gallery in Balboa Park.
The program will include three distinct historical periods in musical composition. Mozart’s Quintet K 452 for piano, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and French horn will represent the classical; Arthur Foote’s “Night Piece” for flute and string quartet is from the romantic era; and F. Poulenc’s “Sextet” for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and French horn is a contemporary work.
Appearing in the concert in addition to the Modern Arts Quartet, composed of Daniel Lewis, Henry Kolar, Nick Stamon and Fred V. Anderson, will be Marjorie Rohfleisch, Gerald Rudy, Donald Laeke, Daniel Magnusson, Richard Ehhaml and Lawrence Christianson.
Admission to the concert, which is presented in cooperation with the Fine Arts Sojciety, is one dollar for adults and fifty centes for students.
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Highland Springs Resort Special Week-End for Couples
Southwestern Jewish Press, January 10, 1958, Page 4
A special week-end of fun is set for January 24 and 25 at this popular resort. There will be dancing to Mike Ortiz and his band in addition to the many other facilities for your enjoyment.
Make a party week-end of it by getting together with some of your friends and going in a group.
A special rate of $11.24 per person per night including tax, tip and meals will be in effect. Make your reservations early and be assured of better accommodations.
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“On The Town” At Old Globe Theatre
Southwestern Jewish Press, January 10, 1958, Page 4
As gay and lively a show as ever has been “piped aboard” the Old Globe Theatre in Balboa Park opened there Wednesday January 8 when “On the Town” started an extended cruise under the flag of the San Diego Community Theatre.
With music by Leonard Bernstein, story and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, direction by Craig Noel, sets by Peggy Kellner, costumes by John Pittman, dances by Lynn Pyle, musical direction by Joe White and a story that relates the hilarious activities of three sailors on a 24-hour pass in New York, “On The Town” will offer a top evening’s entertainment.
Gilbert Warner and Don Hatch will be at the twin pianos as accompanists. “On the Town” will play at the Old Globe nightly, except Mondays at 8:30 through February 2.
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Senior Citizens To Exhibit Their Art
Southwestern Jewish Press, January 10, 1958, Page 4
An exhibit of original art objects will be presented on Sunday, January 19, 2 to 4 p.m., in the La Sala Room House of Hospitality in Balboa Park.
Created by senior adults under the direction of Stanley Levine, the paintings and ceramics represent the unique achievement of a group of senior citizens who meet twice a week at the Hebrew Home under the auspices of the Jewish community Center and the National Council of Jewish Women. Many of the exhibiting artists have had no previous with artistic self-expression before becoming active in the class.
The outstanding received under Mr. Levine’s tutelage testify to his own talent as an artist as well as his success in dealing with individuals, according to Mrs. Herbert Reder, chairman of the Senior Adults Subcommittee of the Jewish Community Center.
The art exhibit will be open to the public. Refreshments will be served. There is no charge and no reservations are necessary.
Mrs. Herbert Malley is chairman for the afternoon. She is being assisted by Mrs. Lee Bartell.
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Festival Quartet To Play at Russ Jan. 15
Southwestern Jewish Press, January 10, 1958, Page 4
One of the most celebrated of contemporary violin soloists, Szymon Goldberg, is equally successful in the exacting realm of chamber music performance. He is also a conductor of eminence.
Goldberg will be heard in San Diego as a member of the Festival Quartet playing here Wednesday (Jan. 15) at 8:30 p.m. in Russ Auditorium. The quartet’s local appearance is the second event on the current Famous Artists Series.
The summer months of each year find the distinguished instrumentalist at the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado, where, as a performer and member of the faculty he joined forces with the three other musicians who make up the Festival Quartet: Victor Babin, pianist; William Primrose, violist and Nikolai Graudan, cellist.
Wednesday night’s program will include Beethoven’s Piano Quartet in E Flat, the new Walton Piano Quartet, and Brahms A Major Quartet.
Tickets are available at Palmer Box Office, 640 Broadway.
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Council Offers Trip For Two to Las Vegas
Southwestern Jewish Press, January 10, 1958, Page 4
A holiday in Las Vegas at Wilbur Clark’s famous Desert Inn Hotel and a wardrobe for two awaits the winner of the International Council of Jewish Women’s large fund-raising event. With donations set at a nominal $1.00 or six for $5.00, it is anticipated that everyone will want to participate, according to Chairman Mrs. Robert Friedman. Tickets are available from every member of the National Council of Jewish Women. Mrs. Malcolm Winslow is Ticket Chairman – AC2-3762/
The drawing will take place on Saturday, February 22nd, in the Palm Room of the U.S. Grant Hotel. Although the winner need not be present, Mrs. Martin Ernest, dinner-dance chairman, extends an invitation to all to attend what she terms the most extravagant, most elegant, most entertaining social event of the year.
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Civic Music
Southwestern Jewish Press, January 10, 1958, Page 4
Nell Rankin, famous mezzo-soprano, will be the next featured artist Thursday, January 16, for the Civic Music Association. The recital will be held at the Russ Auditorium. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
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(Sleep locales)
Southwestern Jewish Press, January 10, 1958, Page 4
“Asleep at the wheel” is much more dangerous today than “sleeping at the switch.”
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