Page 12 - The Canadian Jewish News, Friday, September 16, 1977
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By JANICE ARNOLD
SEPHARDICINFORMATION DAY
The Sephardic community of Montreal is holding an Information Day, Sept. 18. open to anyone interested in its programs. The open house will~take place at the Centre Communautaire Juif on Darlington Street, 10:30 to 12:30 a.m. All of the centre's staff will be on hand to answer questions.
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PROJa:CT ENRICHMENT
Nine Israeli teachers have come to Montreal to teach under three-year contracts at the nine affiliated United . Talmud Torahs Schools. Under what is known as "Project Enrichment" these Hebrew teachers will act as "cultural shlichim" with the responsibility to work with elementary and high school students as both educators and ambassadors for Israel.
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NEW MEMBERS TEA
The Jewish Junior Welfare League is starting its 52nd year with a new members' tea. Sept. 15. under the chairmanship of Louisa Finkelstein.
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GALA LUNCHEON
The women's division of the Combined Jewish Appeal is planning a luncheon in tribute to the diamond anniversary of Allied Jewish Community Services. The function, to be held sometime in November, will be one of the first in the new Hyatt-Regency Hotel. A top flight speaker will soon be named.
• •      • • LITERARY EVENING
A literary evening in honor of Ish Yair |Dr. Israel Stern], will be held in the auditorium of the Jewish Public Library, Sept. 17, at 8:30 p.m. to mark the publication of his book. In The Days Of .... The speeches will be in Yiddish.
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LONDON TOUR
The regional tour and outing program of United Synagogue. Eastern Region, is organizing a one-week tour of London. Leaving Oct. 9 and returning Oct. 17. the trip features theatre, sightseeing, and visits to 0.\ford and Stratford. Reservations will be accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis. Call Helen Held at 481-7727.
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MOROCCAN SINGER TO APPEAR
Popular Moroccan singer, Saml El-
Maghiibi, will return to Montreal after a J 0-year absence with a performance at Place Des Arts, April 11, 1978.
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ISRAELI COMEDY
The Mount Carmel chapter of Hadas-sah will present the premiere showing of the Israeli musical cfomedy, Hershele, starring Mike Burstyn and Mandy Rice-Davles. Play will be performed at the Cine Centre, 1430 Bleury St. on Sept. 24 at 8:30 p.m. Tickets available at- 488-6320 and 744-6562. ,
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HADASSAH CONVENTION
A press conference in the salon of the Montreal city hall on Notre Dame Street East, Sept. 20, will kick off the Canadian Hadassah-WIZO Diamond Jubilee observance. The organization, with 16,000 members across Canada, is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year by holding its 27th biennial convention in Jerusalem Nov. 6-16.
BIKE-A-THON '      * *
The Hebrew Foundation School of Dollard Des Ormeaux will be staging its annual bike-a-thon Sept. 25 at 10 a.m. Proceeds will go toward the school's ' educational and cultural programing. Assembly point will be the Deacon Road entrance to the West Island Mall. For further information, call 684-2192 or 683-3429.
GROUP D'!?NAM*ICS *
The Jewish Single Graduate Association invites its members and other university graduates to an evening of group dynamics with a professional from that field on hand. Wine and cheese will be served Sept. }8 at Hillel on Stanley Street. Details from Blama Wagner at 748-8581.
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NEW YORK INVITATION
The Jewish Single Graduate Association has been invited by the metropolitan singles division of B'nai B'rith of New York to a weekend in the 'Big Apple', Oct. 7-10. Groups from New Jersey, Boston and Washington have also been invited. The association is planning to host members of the University Graduate Club of Toronto for a weekend in Montreal sometime in October as well, information on either activity can be obtained from Melvvn Nederhoffer at 845-6756.
... about ourselves
German Nazi hunter Beate Klarsfeld will speak in Montreal Nov. 24. She will be the guest of the National Holocaust Committee and Hillel.
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Yuri Barik will deliver a lecture on "The Role of the Jews in the Development of European Civilization in the Middle Ages" in Russian at the Jewish Public Library Sept. 18 at 2:30 p.m.
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Saidye Bronfman will be honored at the YM-YWHA women benefactors & governors function at the Saidve Bronfman Centre, Sept. 20 at 1:30!
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Irving Howe, author of World of Our Fathers, and Rochl Kom. Montreal writer, will be the guests at an evening in commemoration of the 25th anniversar>-of the execution of the Soviet-Jewish authors, to be held in the Jewish Public Library auditorium. Sept.  19, at 8.
Chairman of the evening is Prof. Arthur Lermer. Sponsors are the Workmen's Circle, the Labor Zionist Alliance, and the National Committee on Yiddish of Canadian Jewish Congress. Admission is.S2.
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Alan Rose, national executive vice-president of Canadian Jewish Congress, has been invited by Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler to address the General Assembly of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations on the subject of "Quebec and the Jews." The assembly will be held in San Francisco Nov. 2l\ ■ ■ •,     •      • •
B'nai B'rith Mount Royal Lodge will pay tribute to Rabbi Solomon Frank, spiritual leader of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue and member of the lodge since coming to Montreal from Winnipeg in the late 1940s. Rabbi Frank will be made an honorary president of the lodge by President Phil Tanny during the evening of Oct. 26 in the synagogue.
SB Centre opens season with Michel Tremblay play
entertainment
By THOMASSCHNURMACHER
The'77-'78 theatre season opens at the Saidye Bronfman Centre. Oct. 22. with an English-language production of Quebec playwright Michel Trem-biay's Bonjoor-la, Bon-jour to be directed by Tremblay's constant co\-laborator Andre Brassard.
This opener represents quite a cftup for the Saidye -Bronfman Centre as^this will be the first time that one of Tremblay's plays has ever been performed in Englishnn Montreal.
(Another Tremblay play. A tol pour Tonlours to Marie-Lou opened eariier this year in English asj)art of the annual Festival Lennoxville in Sher-brooke. Que.
SBC Artistic Director MurielGoldsays: "We are in an enviable position because Montreal audiences really enjoy going out in the evening to dine
and to attend the theatre."
The Saidye Bronfman Centre also plans to stage a musical in collaboration with a theatre in Victoria, B.C., based on the works of Qiiebec chansonnier and poet Gilles Vigneault, who by the way is currently performing in Montreal at the Theatre du Nouveau Monde until Oct. 2.
There is also the possibility of a Montreal visit by Israel's internationally^ acclaimed Habimah Theatre. Exact plans, times and dates have not, as of yet, been finalized-
The rest of the season will include the play In Celebration by David Storey as well as The Trial of : the Rosenbergs — a play that is being written especially for the centre.
Unfortunately, the SBC was unable to secure the rights for the Broadway smash hit Same Time Next Year.
However several inter-
esting productions are being considered for the SBC's Second Stage in the adjoining YM-YWHA Samuel Grover Auditorium.
These include the ancient Greek comedy Lys-istrata; a drama about Solzhenitsyn and a mime play by the Theatre Beyond Words, ticket prices for the Second Stage are S3 per play and less for students.
There are also special prices for students and Golden-Agers for the mainstage productions. Monday night rush seats are only $1 for students — surely one of the theatre bargains in Montreal.
'' We're looking forward-^ to a busy season," says Mrs. Gold, "arid our subscription sales are doing very welK
"I'm pleased even more than usual about that because, now more than ever before, it is important for everyone to support English-language theatre in Montreal."
Sources estimate that approxFrnately 85-90% of the theatre-goers in Montreal at both the Saidye Bronfman Centre and at. Centaur Theatre are Jewish..
Brzezinski Sr. reGalls
By CHARLES LAZARUS _
Ever the quintessential diplomat, Tadeusz Brzezinski kept a low profile and circumspect silen<;e when his son Zbigniew became President Jimmy Carter's right-hand man in national security matters last January.
Recently Brzezinski the elder, now 81 and a longtime Canadian citizen and Montreal resident — he served here as Polish consul-general from 1938 to 1945 — certainly unwittingly and perhaps unwillingly, surfaced in the public prints.
It was in connection with the visit at the beginning of August of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin to Washington, where he met President Carter.
Time magazine's coverage of the visit, included these obscure paragraphs: "The only top member of Carter's entourage who had met hihi (Begin) before w'as (Zbigniew) Brzezinski. From the Israeli Holocaust memorial. Yad Vashem, the premier had brought copies of letters written in 1933 by Brzezinski's father Tadeusz, at the time Polish consul in Leipzig. The elder Brzezinski in those stern memos to German authorities had protested their discrimination against Jews..."
In his quiet niemorabilia-filled and modestly-furnished living room on a tree-lined street in Notre.Dame de Grace, the ambience is of another era of calm gentility: the conversation quiet, with every word and phrase diplomatically measured, but the substance of the talk grates painfully on the memories.
"In those early years of the Nazis," Brzezinski says gently, "when I was the Polish consul in Leipzig, there was no way of knowing what would come to pass; there is a tendency in human beings to think normalization will take place, that things would correct themselves...
"I ser\ed as the Polish consul in Leipzig between 1931 and 1935. and was in my post at the exact time Adolf Hitler took power. At the beginning it was simply a question of protecting Polish nationals. There were perhaps 100,000 of these Polish nationals, doing business or teaching in places such as Saxony, Weimar, Dresden, and Wittenberg, and although Hitler had come to power in January. 1933 on the basis of his Aryan purity and an anti-Semitic philosophy as expounded in his Mein Kampf, my diplomatic position made it necessary to intercede on the basis of protecting the rights of Polish nationals."
At the beginning of the Nazi era it was boycotting, smashed windows and relatively mild anti-Semitic excesses — mild as compared to the Holocaust which darkened Nazi Europe in the years that followed.
Yet. despite Brzezinski's assertion that his official position restricted his protests to the protection of Polish nationals, the evidence contained in the documents resting in Yad Vashem, shows that representations were made to the German authorities specifically noting that Polish nationals who were Jews had become the targets of anti-Semitic policies, as had German Jews.
One document dated Aug. 30, 1933. 10 days after the signingjin Rome of a concordat between the Vatican and Hitler's Third Reich, was addressed to the "Saxon Ministry of the Interior" by the Polish consulate in Leipzig, stating that a complaint had been lodged with the police station in Leipzig asking for "compensatory damages because of alleged ill-treatment of a'number of Polish Jews..."
The Nazi authorities, of course, responded with the official line that Jews were in "protective custody" after they had been attacked in "nationalistic manifestations;" and besides, the whole thing was but another exaniple of "tightly interlaced international Jewry" exercising conspira-"torial excesses.
Brzezinski, who decided to stay in
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"Looking back now, I suppose what* caught us off guard was how quickly events moved: First with discrimination, then boycotting, then signs of 'Jude' across storefronts and Nazis in brown uniforms watching everyone who walked in..."
He appeared pained to be reminded that Poland itself, had long been the scene of pogroms and other anti-Semitic activities, which he blamed on "a small minority" rather than on national government policy.
"I did what I could in Leipzig," he said, "knowing that Jews were among the best Polish patriots, and Poland was the scene of the golden age of Jewish culture, producing men such as Sholem Asch and many other of the arts."
Today. Tadeusz Brzezinski lives quietly in retirement, taking a fatherly pride in the international stature of his son as one of the few men close to the U.S. president.
"He calls here regularly from Washington." he said sin'''ng'y. "but doesn't ask my opinion what he has to do — and I don't offer any ad%ice."
In the years since he took up permaiient Canadian residence. Brzezinski has become deeply involved in Montreal's cuhural and business life, and has spoken out through the years against Communist suppression of his native Poland.
In 1953. he was nominated as the Progressive Conservative candidate in Montreal Cartier. but did not make it to Parliament.
For 20 years Brzezinski was associated with Quebec's Cuhural Affairs Department, responsible for specific collections in the government-operated library here.
' "Today. I try to keep active and look back occasionally. I'm convinced still that the people's will can always prevail."
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