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By MARTHA MEISELS lernsalem Post Service How does a 24tb-genera-tion Sabra, from a long line of rabbis, feel about playing the role of a Catholic nun on the stage? Jerusalem-bom Becky Su-zin will. soon begin rehearsals to portray the convent days of Helolse in a play based on the fern-oum 12th century love letters of Abelard and He-loise.
It's all in an actress's work/Becky replies, "You might as well ask how an IS-year-oId Innocent can play a prostitute." She admits she Is "a little far from the world of Christianity." But She quickly adds, "the special character of Heloise is not in her
beins a nun — actually, she was a bit of a skeptic — but rather in her being a woman in love."
In this^ Becky considers her- forthcoming role a continuation of her experience in her present play, 'Tar from the Sea, Par from the Summer.'- It marked last week its 75th performance in Tel Aviv. The current play — as the forthcoming one — is directed by Becky's husband, Peter Erelstadt, who made such a sensation four years ago when he decided at Lydda Airport that he did not want to return to his. native Chechoslovakia, but Instead got off the plane and became an immigrant, One of the reasons was Becky,   whom  he met
while guest director of /The Broken Pitcher" at the Ohel Theatre. She played a servant girl.
Becky's current role in "For from the Sea..." has been compared to the female lead in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" It is a portrayal of a woman in five stages of life — as a young and naive 18-year-old; a 30-year-old, married and somewhat disillusion-ned, a fenune fatale at 45; a dissipated, quarrelsome matron of 58; and an elderly woman afraid of death and agidrt In lova with her husband. The husband is played by Yisrael Gurion. it is an origimx! play written by Yisrael Eliraz.
Diuing the one-hour on stage, Becky goes through various changes of make^ up and costtune before the audience's eyes. (^'If I really change a dress, of course, I go behind a screen.") The on-stage transformations of appearance are a major attraction whoa the play is
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presented to sdiool pupils, Becky, says. Most ot theni have never seen anyone put on stafee make-up, and % they are fascinated. When the performance is at a school, Becky prefaces it with a short talk about the play —" "just as was done in Shakepeare's day."
About 75 per cent of the performances have been held outside of the Tsavta Club — in kibbutzim, ioo-shavim, public halls and schools  throughout the country.   Becky hersislf ably handles the admlns-trative arrangements for booking the play. She comes by her business acumen naturally her father is the owner of , the Suzyn antique s^ops, mm ■■—^-MPi-^      I originally  in Jerusalem *     ■ W K a^Horn.^ and now In Tel Aviv. Most ThsPrid* of Hi* STRICTLY   A     w ancestors were rata KOSHER ORTHODOX HOTELS J °' '^^^ ancestors were ran
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Appropriately, Becky's first acting role was as Queen Esther in the first ^ grade of school. ("The king was very ugly," she remembers.) It was also the first time die cried over a role. Her mother had made her a beautiful dress with a sUver-paper hem, but the teacher though the hem was too long, and ripped it off. Becky barely dried her tears in time to go on-
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Few cities outside Israel could offer as many places of Jewisii interest as Amsterdam; the Portuguese Synagogue almost 300 years old; the former theatre which has been left in ruins as a momento to the Nazi atro-i cities against IXitch Jews, and that narrow -fronted canal house where Anne Franlt wrote her diai^i
The founders of the Amsterdam community were Marranos from . Sjpain who sought refuge in Holland during the Inquisition. The Portuguese Jewish community was founded not long after the defeat of the^Q^anishArmada in 1588. These Jews brought to Amsterdam not cMilyt^^ rich culture' but also their contacts witii'^ewi$h communities, in Noi^ Africas^ the Near, Ea(st and. therefore, were able to play an impiortant part in the development of/the Dutch foreign trade/j-Amsterdaiin civic authbri-. ties, who gave, official sanction to the Jewish conmiun-ity in 1616^ referred to it as ''Members 0^ the Hebrew Nation". Amsterdam* is schools were Uie envy of Jewish communities throughout Europe and became a model of scholarship. Itabbi Manas-seh ben Isitiel helped tbprint the first Jewish book inHol-land in 1627 and fifty years later the Sjpanish language Gazeta de Amsterdam appeared followed shortly by a Yiddish bi-Weekly, the Cou-rant.
By 1780 the number of Jews in Amsterdam reached almost 22,000. ThQr were the leaders in the city's famous diamcmd indusby and influential in foreign trade. &i 1796 Holland became the second European State - jaf-ter France - toemancy>ate its Jewish citizens.
Amsterdam's Jews played a significant role inesta-blish!i« the first Dutch settlements in North America. A petition filed by Amsterdam Jews in 1654 through the Dutch West Lidies cran-pany to Peter Stuyyesant, Governor of New Amsterdam, as New York was then known, resulted, in the settl-jlng of 23 Jewish refugees. jfi-om Dutch Brazil which bad; been re<:aptured by Portugal.
At the time of the German invasion in 1940 the Amsterdam Jewish community numbered almost 90,000. Only about lOiPOO survived the Nazi occiipation. Today S(nnie 13,000 Jews live and workin Amsterdam, atiiirdctfthem refugees from other parts (rf Europe, especially frtHn Germany.
Gratitude totheDutchpeo-ple who showed remarkable solidarity with their Jewish fellow citizens is the motive behind many of the land-
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Nearby is the Jmias Daniel Maijerplein, which commemorates one ai the foremost jurists of his time who^ under the direction ot Louis Bonaparte, King di Holland 0806-1810), helped to rec-(Micile the differences between the Sqshardi and Ash-kenazi congregations.
In the centre ot Jonas Daniel Meijerplein stands the statue of a dock worker, to recall die genmil strike sparked in February, liMl by the dock workers, ihpro-test against the rdunding-up and deration (tf tiie city's Jews Iqrtiie Nazis.
Not more than half a mile from tlris statue stands tiie shell of tiie former Hollan-discher Shouburg, the Dutch Playhoqse. B; had always been a theatre patronised mainly by Jews of tte neig^ibguring districts. During tte Nazi occupatiion itwasiBiecHilyone the Jews were allowed to visit. It was here that the groups were assemblied'be-fore transport.
More than 50,000 Jews went through this theatre on: tiieir way to concoitraticm canipsi Later the building was completely destroyed. Today, the firont, with snaall balconies and ^ded busts, stands like a piece of stage scenery. Bdiind it nothing has been left of the theatre and the site has been trans-f(umed into a memorial to tiie martyrs.
The laiKbnarks c^Nazi oc-ct^ation are not cmifined to tMs former Jewish section of Amsterdam. On the wide Ap-poUalaan, near the glittering tmi Hilton Hotel, is a memorial to tliree young Jews who were shot during a Gestapo round-up and less than three minutes walk from thei^ is a plaque in hmiour of Geriiard Badrian, a heroic fi^er in the Dutch underground.
The huge Portuguese Synagogue in Jonas Daniel Mel jerplein, standing in a courtyard ofone-storeybuildings, . was cpened in 1675. It can accommodate 2,000 people, but is filledonlyonYomKip-pur. The synagogue has no
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