Otto H. Kahn subscribed $1,000 toward the fund being raised for the continuance of the Yiddish Art Theatre under the direction of Maurice Schwartz.
In his letter accompanying the subscription, Mr. Kahn stated: “A Yiddish theatre which merely imitates the Broadway theatre serves no useful purpose and promotes no artistic interest. A Yiddish theatre which draws its inspiration from the soul and traditions of the Jewish race, which aims mainly to depict its mentality, feelings, problems and ways of living, its humor and pathos, is entitled to sympathy and respect and should mean in its way and in its effect a genuine contribution to American art.
“I have used the term ‘aims mainly’ in the preceding sentence because it seems to me that part of the function of the Yiddish theatre should be present to its audiences from time to time, masterpieces of English dramatic literature.”
SCHOLARS ACADEMY HOLDS ANNUAL CONVENTION
The second annual convention of the Jewish Academy of Arts and Sciences was held Saturday evening and Sunday at the True Sisters Building, New York City, Dr. Henry Keller, President of the Academy presided.
Honorary membership was conferred upon Enrico Glicenstein of Rome, Leopold Pilichowski, Hermann Struck of Berlin and Prof. George Foote Moore of Harvard University, for his work, “Judaism.”
Professor Moses Hyamson, Vice President of the Academy, made the presentation address.
Papers were read by Dr. Bernard Drachman, “Concerning the Correct Pronunciation of the Hebrew Language”; Dr. Solomon Gandz, “The Origins of Angle Geometry”; Dr. Benjamin Jablons, “Is End-Arteritis Obliterans, a Jewish Disease?”; Abraham Levitan, “The Oath in Jewish Jurisprudence”; Dr. Pinkhas Churgin, “Comparative Renderinsg in the Septuagint”; Dr. Henry Keller, “Modern Hebrew Orthopaedic Terminology Based on Talmudic Literature”; Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum, “Fundamentals of Jewish Nationalism”; Dr. Bernard Revel, “The Source of the Karaite Laws of Levitical Purity”; Dr. Albert Hyman, “Concerning Heart Disease among Jewish People”; Dr. Leo Jung, “Leviathan, a case of Mistranslation as a Source of Folk Lore.”
Dr. Henry Keller was re-elected president: Prof. Nathan Isaacs, first vice-president; Prof. Moses Hyamson, second vice-president; Dr. Shelley R. Safir, secretary; A. Levitan, treasurer.
Lewis Goldberg of Brookline, Mass., member of the public utilities commission and a leader in Jewish circles, has been elected president of the New Century Club of Boston, Mass.
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