Temima Nimtzowitz, the young American artist whose murals were unveiled Sunday in the Synagogue of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism writes in The Recon-structionist, as follows:
Synagogues have been conspicuously deficient in their decorations in the use of pictorial representations of the human figure. The same is true of the decorations in Moslem places of worship. The case of the church, however, has been very different. Ecclesiastical art has always been favored with a warm reception on the part of church and laity. Many of the world’s most meritorious art treasures have been cherished for centuries under the roof of a church, monastery or convent. The tremendous art activity during the Renaissance was created, in a large degree, by the encouragement offered artists by church and state. Artists were given every opportunity to beautify nave and cloister. The life of Jesus and the saints was depicted in innumerable media, foremost among which were mosaic, fresco and marble. To this day visitors flock to the churches of Italy to gaze reverently upon the mural paintings by some of the most gifted artists of all periods—Giotto, Fra Angelico, Mossaccio. These and other masters did their work unhampered by church restriction.
BRISBANE REMINDS NAZIS OF SPAIN’S FATE
Arthur Brisbane, in his column, “Today,” in the Hearst press, comments as follows on the anti-Jewish parades in Berlin last week which were led by brass bands:
Marchers carried placards reading:
“Jews are our misfortune.”
Those Nazis will change their minds about that placard if they succeed in driving out all Jews, including many of the world’s greatest scientists.
Long ago, Portugal and Spain also decided that “Jews are our misfortune” and drove out the Jews. Now look at them.
They were great nations, leading the world in enterprise and commerce. All that has vanished.
SAYS ‘PROTOCOLS’ LIE CAN’T BE KILLED
The Church Times, of London, commenting on the trial of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” writes:
A lie can never be killed—that is, if it is sufficiently picturesque. Many years ago, anti-Semites “discovered” a weird publication called The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which suggested that the Jews of the world were engaged in an organized conspiracy to destroy Christianity tnd Christendom. In 1923 the Times newspaper published a pamphlet, showing that the whole thing w### a fabrication and a forgery. B### that does not matter in the leas### The Protocols have been re-is###sued by the Nazis in Germany and again recently in Switzerland; and despite the fact that the Times pamphlet can be bought for sixpence in Printing House Square, quite a number of people in this country still believe that a fantastic grotesquerie is a genuine document.
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