Irma Stern, South African Jewish artist, has been selected to represent South African art at the Imperial Art Gallery in London. Three of her pictures are already on their way to London.
Irma Stern was born in Schweizer-Rencke in the Transvaal in 1894. She received her art training in Weimar and in Berlin. On her return to South Africa she devoted herself to the study and interpretation of native life and primitive conditions.
Plans for a new synagogue in Minot. N. D. are now being prepared. The proposed structure is to be erected this Summer. It is expected to cost approximately $20,000.
Rabbi Bencin J. Riseman is head of the congregation.
A congregational club room will occupy the main portion of the basement floor of the synagogue. There will be class rooms for the Hebrew school and kitchens.
The temple proper will be on the upper floor. The seating capacity will be approximately 200.
Funeral services were held yesterday for the late Frederick William Kaufmann, who died Monday in New York. He was 57 years old.
Mr. Kaufmann devoted himself to the work of the Hospital for Joint Diseases, of which he was a member of the board of directors. The directors and the members of the medical staff of the hospital attended the funeral in a body.
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