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MOROCCAN JEW IS
OLDEST IMMIGRANT
MONTREAL (JTA (Cana-
da's oldest immigrant. 102-
year-old David Cohen, has
arrived here from Tiznit,
Morocco. The white-bearded
Mr. Cohen was accompanied
by his wife. Leah, 56, and
daughter. Simy. 21. He has
a married daughter here,
and two other children in
Israel.
Habimah Belongs To Jewish People
Jewish Writer Is
Elected To Czech
National Council
LONDON (JTA) Prof. Eduard
Coldstuecktr. a prominent Czecho-
slovakia;! Jewish writer and acade-
mician, ua- one of the 150 mem-
bers elected to the new Czech Na-
tional Council, an interim body
that will serve until a new Parlia-
ment is cr.osen in a general elec-
tion some time next year, it was
reported Jure from Prague this
week.
Prof. Goidstuecker, chairman of
the Czech Writers Union and vice
rector of Charles University, was
the victim of an anonymous anti-
Semitic letter-writing campaign in
recent months. The campaign was
exposed in the Czech Communist
Party new-paper Rudo Pravo. and
drew a flood of letters of support
for Dr. Goidstuecker from a wide
segment of the Czechoslovak pop-
ulation.
The membership of the new Na-
tional Council includes "a very
strong body of prominent intellec-
tuals" who had earlier rallied to
defend Dr. Goidstuecker against
the anti-Semitic letters, the report
said. Tht Council's powers will be
limited.
By S. J. GOLDSMITH
The Israelis and the Jews of the
Diaspora share Habimah as they
share the rest of the Jewish her-
itage.
Habimah is the national theater
of the Jewish people. A national
theater is. of course, not a mere
troupe which performs plays for
the amusement and edification of
'he public: it has its roots in the
traditions of a people, reflects its
Character and represents its as-
pirations. It is an expression of its
people in times of jo> and in times
of distress; it laughs and cries on
behalf of its people As such, it is
an institution and not just an
artistic enterprise.
Such is the Habimah to Jewry.
The question of whether Habi-
mah is a good or bad theater is
not important, because it is a
national institution. You might as
well ask if Massada is an architec-
turally satisfying structure, or
complain that the waters of the
Dead Sea are too salty.
That Habimah was founded fifty
years ago in Moscow is not sur-
prising at all. Russian J?wry was
not only the largest Jewish com-
munity in the world since the end
of the 18th century but also the
greatest Jewish center, the power-
house of Jewish learning and the
treasurehouse of Jewish lore.
Russian Jewry has given us the
Gaon of Vilna and Shneer Zalman
of Liadi; Mendele, Peretz and Sho-
lem Aleichm; Bialik, Tcherni-
chovsky and Shneur; Volozhin and
Slobodka.
No other Jewish community
could poss;bly have produced Habi-
mah. And when the time came.
Habimah moved to Eretz Israel,
its natural place, with its actors,
repertoire and props. It was like a
precious plant, grown in artificial
soil and then transplanted into its
natural soil.
The beginnings were rather
smallthirteen dedicated people,
committed to the creation of a
Hebrew Theater amidst the tur-
moil following the Russian Revolu-
tion.
The L'reat director Stanislavsky
(his real name was Konstantin Ser-
-ieevich Ahxeevi liked the idea
and delegated his star disciple.
Yevgeny Vachtangov, a young Ar-
menian, to work with Habinidh
| (which means "the stage."
The three component pails which
I went into the creation of Habimah
j were the natural talent and dedica-
tion of the original membersthe
Hebrew language and the Russian
school of acting.
After some hectic activity and
a production of four one-act
i vignettes, work started on 'The
' Dybbuk" and Habimah had ar-
rived. Whether "The Dybbuk" is a
I good or a mediocre play by mod-
I ern standards is entirely beside the
I point. It was written in Yiddish by
|S. Ansky (Shlomo Zanvel Raoo-
port). who had an uncanny feel for
I the mystique in Jewish lite, and
translated into Hebrew by Chaim
Nachman Bialik, our national poet
and the then custodian of our liter-
ary heritage.
The play touches Jews to the
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very depth of their being. It is
probably no accident that the pro-
ducer was a member of another
homeless and persecuted minority
which drew up:>n its rich fund of
lore for consolation. '"The Dytbuk"
remains the most profoundly Jew-
ish play ever written and put on
stage
There were other plays in the
earls years, all of them memora-
ble and all of them anchored to
the messianic longing. "The Go-
lem'" and "Hayehudi Hanitzhi"
The Eternal Jew") belong to this
pciio;! 'Hayehudi Hanitzhi" may
.nit be the best play ever written.
 in it is a play no Jew can watch
,'. ith dry eyes Hannah Rovina's
weeping at the destruction of the
Temple penetrates the soul of the
Jess- and fills it with a great sad-
ness sshich lingers and lingers.
When the European catastrophe
fell upon the Jews, the echoes of
Rovina's weeping at the destruc-
tion of the Temple emerged from
the recesses of the Jewish soul to
help express the pain and the an-
guish.
The producer of this play wa- i
Russian called Mechdilos. a disc,
pie of Stanislavsky. No one but i
Russian can fully grasp the tor
ment of the soul of Dostoyevsky'i
idiot, just as only an Englishman
can savor to the full Shakespeare'<
"Richard III." So it is with "Th-?
Dybbuk'' and "Hayehudi Hanitzhi "
And therein lies the charm or
Habimah.
There haye been memorable
productions achieved in Israel by
ihi' Habimah from "Julius Caesar''
tj the Bard and Goethe's "Fans-'
to "Death il a Salesman" by Ar-
thur Miller and "Look Back
,.:_ r by John Osborne Nothing
human is alien to Habimah. It Is
.oday a mid-twentieth century
theatre in a modern society. Bur.
its contribution and its place ::
modern Jewish history rest upoa
those early days and early plays
Habimah started in a studio ta
a Moscow backstreet and grew to
become one of the artistic ele-
ments in the construction of tlw
Third Jewish Commonwealth.
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