The Jewish state theatre of Rumania must “fight for the unmasking of Zionist nationalism” and for “fraternization between working people of all nationalities,” Bernhard Lebli, director of the theatre, declared today in the organization’s first annual report published here.
The report, which revealed that more than 90,000 persons witnessed performances of the group last year, said that the character of the audiences changed from “bourgeois and petit bourgeois” to “working class.” Mr. Lebli outlined one of the primary aims of the Jewish state theatre as “depicting the Jew not as a passive victim of past regimes, but in an active role as a fighter, a hero of labor, a man of the new type who is now in the making in the Rumanian Popular Republic.”
Fifty-nine Rumanian Jews sailed for Israel during the week-end aboard the S.S. Transylvania. The vessel also transported 250 Israel-bound Czechoslovak Jews passing through Rumania and 56 non-Rumanian Jews resident in this country.
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