.P*ge 12-The Canadian Jewish News, Friday, July 8, 1977
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Ezra Kadimah coneert hit both heights, depths
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By RICK KARDONNE
Stashivers set pace for Bond division
TORONTO —
The Toronto Israel Bond Campaign among the community's various landsmanshaftcn and or-gani7ations looks to nienibers of the Stashiver Young Men's Societv
and Ladies Auxiliary as the pace-setters for this division.
.Again this year, they
have maintained their leadership bv raising more than SIOO.OOO in Bond funds at a single
breakfast meeting.
This took place on Sunday. June 20. at the Workmen's Circle. 471 Lav\rence .Avenue West, and was the occasion of the presentation of the 1977 United Jerusalem
Award to veteran Stashiver bond supporter, Harry Mann.
An all-out effort is being undertaken through the coming weeks to enrol each and every Stashiver member as an Israel Bond pur-
chaser in 1977. and at- s tain the target of 100% 1 participation by these = dedicated workers in Is- 1 rael's cause. = Jack Israeli, past gen- s eral campaign chairman s of Bonds, was special = guest speaker. s
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The heights and utter depths of performance quality (or sheer lack of it) wore spanned in the 11th arMUial benefit concert for Toronto's Ezra and Kad-ima Schools held last month at Adath Israel Synagogue.
The heights came in the torni of New York-based comedian Sy Kleinman. who is a full-time law professor at Columbia University.
.-\n example of Sy's ■ecumenical" humor: A C atholic priest claims that he is more devout than a Jew because while the Jew .says a prayer after a festive meal, the Catholic always says Grace before a nicai. The Jew responds: "You have to. You're citing trefc."
Or. consider Sy's recollections of his early life in ihc congested East Bronx, where the cantor of his sluil claims that he had his \oicc insured for S500,-OiK). He is then asked: "So what did you do with the money?"
Its the best Sholom Aleichem-type of sharp hut compassionate humor: f;ir preferable to me than the crudely self-deroga-torv jibes of Philip Roth or
Novella Heunion' succeeds where ^ant tomes fail
the shiemiel shtick of Woody Allen.
A new type of Jewish-Israeli humor seems to be emerging.Jypified by Dry-Bones in the Jerusalem Post and CJN. Although naturally different from Kleinman's essentially Galut-oriented Yiddish humor, it shares with him the vital common ground of Jewish pride.
Now for the depths of disgrace: The Berger Brothers. These four New York-area-based cantor brothers acutely embarrassed the worthy just cause of Ezra and Kadima by putting on the most abominable act Toronto Jewry has had to suffer through this reason (with the possible exception of last November's Shalom '76 fiasco).
Their excruciating rendition of a ditty entitled Sons of Burgundy: their barbershop-quartet version of Exodus (coinplete with a bass part which went "dum-dum-dum"); the manner in which they creaked throu'gh, and mutilated, a Yossele Rosenblatt composition: their persistent tendency to sing off-key. and. most painful of all. their laughable and seemingly unrehearsed attempts to create vocal harmonies, made the truly proper environment for their act — not at all a vital benefit concert such as this — but rather The Gong Show.
Concluding the concert was Cantor Tibor Kelen. formerly of Toronto, now of Temple BethEl, Cedar-hurst. Long Island.
His bravura vibrato was much in evidence, in top_. form, just as it was when
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Reunion By Fred Uhlman
This novella, easily read in about two hours, will linger in mind and heart for a long time.
It is a quiet, deeply felt, understated account of what happetis to the warm and close friendship of two high schixil students in Stuttgart, south-west Germany, as the virus of Nazism infects the city.
Hans Schwarz is diffident, solitary, intellectual-i\ curious, wanting in self-confidence and the fash-
ionable graces — the child of a Jewish middle-class family. Konradin Von Ho-hehfels is the handsome, brilliant scion of an aris-tocrafic family, famous in the annals of German history.
Superficially, the two schoolmates have little in common. But a mutual hunger for companionship and security bring them together for a short-lived and intense relationship — before malignant forces beyond their control tear them asunder.
The strange pair, a source, of piizzjernent to their fellow schoolmates, discuss the perennial questions about religion and philosophy and explore each other's cherished collections of books and assorted art objects. Together they await the future with hope and confidence.
But Hans learns to his dismay that his friend's parents are enthusiastic partisans of Hitlerism. He is overcome with bitterness and a sense of despair as Konradin joins with them in the movement that will bring grandeur and pride once again to Germany.
Hans is sent to the United States, his parents are driven to suicide. Only 20 vears later — in what
must be one of the most stunning two line surprises in literature — does he and the reader discover what happened to his erst-w hilc companion.
What makes Reunion memorable is its spare, poetic, emotionally controlled prose, its sense of impending catasirophe and the evocation of a beautiful part of Germany that includes the Black Forest and Lake Con-
stance. This is the land of "soft, ser.cne bluish hills of Swabia. covered with vineyards and crowned with castles."
Fred Uhlman. an anti-Nazi lawyer turned artist and poet, was forced to flee Germany in 1933. Reunion made little impact when it was first
published in a small edition in England in 1970. But, re-discovered, it is being reprinted throughout the world to widespread interest and acclaim. This is a book of enduring merits—It—sue— ceeds in small compass where e>ani tomes have (ailed. ^
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The subtle nuances of spontaneous pain, yearning and joy. were missing this time. Cantor Eli Kirshblum and the Adath Israel Choir opened the program with three numbers — one liturgical and two Chassidic folk — aptly commemorating Yom Yerushalavim.
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Is this Buenos Aires. Berlin or New York's East Village? No; according to a recent issue of Maclean's magazine on 'punk rock', this scene happened a few weeks ago right here on
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