Mr. Ch. N. Bialik, the famous Hebrew poet, who has come to Poland from Palestine to head the campaign for funds to save the Hebrew schools of the Tarbuth Organisation, is being given an enthusiastic reception in all quarters.
This evening, the Polish Pen Club, the organisation of Polish authors, gave a banquet in his honour at the Bristol Hotel.
During the day, Bialik addressed the Fourth Conference of the Polish Tarbuth Organisation, which was opened to-day in the Philharmonic Hall. Ex-Deputy Farbstein, former President of the Warsaw Jewish Community and now a member of the Zionist World Executive, welcomed him in the name of the Jewish Agency. Dr. Pines, of Berlin, brought greetings in the name of the Hebrew World Federation, which was formed at the Hebrew World Conference held in Berlin last June, and Deputy Gruenbaum welcomed him in the name of the Central Committee of the Polish Zionist Organisation.
Bialik took as his subject “Jewry in Eretz Israel and in the Diaspora”
The Vilna Hebrew Studio Theatre, which was founded there in 1927 on similar lines to the Moscow Hebrew Theatre Habimah, with the intention of stimulating interest in Hebrew theatrical art in Poland, has arrived in Warsaw to give a special performance in honour of Bialik, who will be present at the performance. It is pointed out as a coincidence that in the same way as the first producer of the Habimah, who laid down the general lines of its later development, was a non-Jew, Wachtangof, the producer of the Vilna Hebrew Studio Theatre, too, is a non-Jew, the well-known Polish producer, Gall.
The attitude of the Polish writers organised in the Polish Pen Club towards the Yiddish and Hebrew writers in Poland has not been very friendly in the past, and there was considerable comment in the Polish Press in 1928, when the Polish Pen Club gave a banquet in honour of the famous Yiddish novelist, Shalom Ash, it being the first occasion on which there had been such a fraternisation between Polish and Jewish writers in the country.
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