Canadian Jewry has rallied to the call of Palestine’s Hebrew authors and is joining in the world-wide celebrations of the sixtieth birthday of the great Jewish national poet, Chaim Nachman Bialik.
“Few personalities in our time have so epitomized the Jewish national renaissance as the poet, Chaim Nachman Bialik,” says the proclamation issued by the national council of the Zionist Organization of Canada calling to all Zionist groups throughout the Dominion to arrange appropriate Bialik celebrations. The first one held here under the auspices of the Zionist Order of Habonim drew an audience of over 800 people and heard a discourse on Bialik’s personality and poetry by Maurice Samuel. A short speech on Bialik was given in Hebrew by Mordecai M. Mendelson, well-known local pedagogue.
A Bialik celebration of still greater magnitude is being arranged by a conference of local national and cultural organizations on the evening of February 4th, with Dr. Yehuda Kaufman, of Palestine, as guest speaker. Separate functions devoted to the Bialik jubilee were held by the College of Jewish Studies at the Temple Emanuel and the Lithuanian Alliance.
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