12 — THE BULLETIN — Thursday, June 30.1988
—JWB Summer Publishing Calendar
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Hear and there'
When
our column this p&gQ THE WEEK AHEAD gQts really skinny like last week or fades away entirely, then we know truly 'tis summer ^Further proof is tlie weekly appearance of your Summer Publishing Calendar to which we ask you to refer each edition so that you know what's ahead namely that there will «o/ be a Bulletin published either July 14 or July 28 . Most other Jewish papers just close up shop completely forat least two summer weeks in a row for staff holidays, but the Boss has always felt that doesn't give adequate service either to the community or our advertisers who rely on this newspaper. . Rob Watt, director of the Vancouver Museumyhas pointed out that Vancouver is the only venue in Canada for the Danzig 1939 exhibit opening here Dec. 15 (yw^^ June 16). Vancouver Museum will also be final tour stop. The exhibit is travelling from Albany, N.Y. to Memphis then on to Vancouver. . . As a show of? solidarity Women's Canadian ORT is holding their 19th Biennial in Israel Nov. 14-23. Registration is now taking place ... By the by, Victoria ORT chapter hopes to launch an anthology of Yom Tov menus early in the New Year and has been receiving recipes steadily for inclusion. , ;
When Carol Henriquez
received her YWCA Women of Distinction award recently {JWB June \6) in theaudience
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"Sehfing The Public For Over 75 Years"
sat Gloria Schwartz who was
co-founder and co-director with Henrique?, of Arts Umbrella for eight years . . Schwartz was in town at the time by chance, but the timing-was right because as she lis^ tened to Henriquez make her acceptance speech-she heard her -former cohort publicly recognize her significant contribution to Arts Umbrella.
Just the day after last issue's Deadline we got news that localite Rita Cohn has been , ^.-^'^ \ selected as a member of the official delegation going froin Vancouver in August to visit sister city Odessa . . . The of-COHN ficial party will incfude Aldermen Jonathan Baker, Libby Davis and George Puil— plus Cohn as representative of CJC from the Jewish community, plus a group of business people . . . Cohn, who heads Vancouver Action for Soviet Jewry, will meet with Refuseniks in the USSR and is putting together a video of Jewish life here . . . Other localites may possibly accompany the party, but not in an official capacity.
Scene 1: Recently when Vancouver Hadassah-WIZO Council was winding up the year and cutting a Happy 40th-Birthday-to-Israel cake, down the hall at the JCC vintner Robert Weinstock of Sonoma County^ Calif. Weinstock Vineyards was in town pouring his four prizewinning kosher wines for a bevy of invited guests . . ,^.Scene 2: Weinstock completed the formal, pouring and spontaneously (by invitation) moved his display into the Hadassah-WIZO meeting room where Council members
Ambassador chosen
JERUSALEM — Professor Shimon Shamir, who teaches contemporary Middle Eastern history at Tel Aviv university, has been selected as Israel's next ambassador to Egypt.
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were treated to the wine that is making ripples throughout North America . . Incidentally, Weinstoek's Chardon-nay and Sauvignon Blanc continue to sell well at local Liquor Commission Specialty Stores but you can also special order his Beaujolais (a blush wine) directly from the vineyard by phoning here to Dale Harris, 6S8-47n (pager).
Bouquets to Kay Nixon, of Kerrisdale Travel who~was recent recipient of the Shalom Award presented hereon behalf of the C a n a d i a n director of the Israel Government Tourist Office This award * was given by NIXON the Israel Cominission for Tourism in North America to recognize Kay's outstanding
efforts in promoting tourism to Israel . . . Mazeltov!
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The Gallery at Temple Sho-
lom has a new exhibit opening July 5 of photographic reproductions of key pages, texts and illustrations from among Bibles and books of the impressive Jacob M. Lowy Collection . . . This travelling exhibit ^'Incunabula, Hebraica and Judaica'Vof the National Library of Canada has been journeying in Canada for five years and remains on view at T.S. through'Aug. 30 so you'll have lots of time during the leisurely summer to drop in and take a look.
.Nu, Kinderlac/i; we'll meet again in this corner next week — Der Oybishter. willing ... It's a beautiful summer here so enjoy, throughout a peaceful Shabbat sind & good week ahead To everyone G^oo// Shabbos... Shavua Tov!
WEDNESDAY
No Deadline This Week
There wllLNOT^ be a Bulletin published July 14
No JWB In this week's Mail
THURSDAY
July 7
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July 14
Survivor brings tier music to Folic Fest
German singer Esther Beje-r a n o, a S u r v i v o r o f; the Auschwitz-Birkenau women's orchestra; New Yorkers Alix Dobkih and Christine Lavin; Roy Bookbinder of Florida; Vancouverites Leon and Eric Bibb, Rick Scott, and Katari Taiko; Muzsikas with Marta Sebestyen from Hungary; and the Real Sounds of Zimbabwe are some of the 200 performers from a dozen countries at the 11th Annual Vanr couver Folk Music Festival July 15-17 at Jericho Beach.
Bejerano, a member of the International-Auschwitz-Comite, played the gccordion and the flute in the orchestra. In 1943 she was moved to K.Z. Ravensbruck, "because I had a Christian grandmother," said Bejerano in her biographical notes. "Because of her, I think I survived."
"At the beginning of May 1945, after the S.S. sent us on. the famous Death March," she continued, "Red army and American soldiers together liberated us." ^ '
After the war, Bejerano went to Israel, studied singing, got married and had two children. She gave more than 160 concerts in Israel specializing in Yiddish songs of the Ghetto, concentration camp songs, and anti-Fascist peace songs in several languages.
In 1960 Bejerano, with her
family, moved to Hamburg where she was elected presir dent of the Auschwitz-Comite in the German Republic and became a leading member of the International Auschwitz-Comite.
She joined Harry Belafonte and otherartistsin 1981,1982, and 1983 in the Artists for Peace concerts. In 1987 her new album came outi It is called Birds Are Dreaming at The Trees after an old Yiddish
BEJERANO
song. Her new group is called Siebenschon (seven beauty) after a street where their rehearsals take place.
Bejerario's presence Wgh-lights one of the festival's themes — the 40th "anniversary of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Hawaii, Africa, and French North Anierica are the other areas emphasized.
The festival's six daytime stages, three evening concerts,
plus the children's area, and the uniquely varied 18 food booths maintain the informal communal ambience of the event.
There are single admission or weekend tickets, discounts for people on fixed incomes and youth (13-18) and it is free for senior citizens.
For information phone the Vancouver Folk Music Festival: 879-2931.
GARY POGROW
Studio 58 performs lively version of The Matchmaker
By MICHAEL AJZENSTADT
One of the most ancient professions in the Jewish tradition is that of the Matchmaker. Th o rnt o n Wilder presents in his light hearted
comedy, The Matchmaker. one of the liveliest matchmakers ever created for the stage.^ Yes, we all love the match: i maker in Fiddleron the Roof, but she is an Eastern European marriage broker. Wildef's creation — Dolly Levi — is an American matchmaker, and what a difference that makes. - -
Dolly Levi, sounds familiar
you say? Yes this is the same Dolly who became the centre of that wonderful musical Hello Z)o/(v. in which Barbara Streisand created one of her most beloved roles.
The Matchmaker,\±QTom Stoppard's On The Razzle is based on the 5ame source — Johann Nestroy's Einen Jux will er sich machen.
Wilder:s play is a gem.
The Matchmaker \s a charming comedy for a summer evening.
It deals with some of the more important issues in life
— love, money and marriage
— and how they relate one to another.
What makes this play unique is not its plot but rather its characters. Take for example Horace Vandergelder; a 60 year-old, very rich shop owner in Yonkers, New York. He is loaded with money but hates parting with it. He believes that all the men in the world are fools; well at least most of them. And he sees it as "Bis responsibility —as one of the few wise :_men ^-=^to cure the world of its folly.
_But as the play ends it is Vandergelder who is cured of his folly by none other than Dolly Leyi.
This very lively matchmaker lives like a queen but has almost no money. Money is what attracts her to Vandergelder. Money, she says, is like manure. It has to be
spread around in order to be useful. And by the end of the play she gets both the money and a husband.
In the process of arranging her own life, Dolly very nicely arranges three more marriages and the play ends in total harmony.
The production is fast-moving and provides a lot of. fun. Roman Podhora as the millionaire and Sharon Bajer as the matchmaker lead a large and convincing cast of Studio 58 students. ,
Director Susan Ferley Has
managed to convey to the audience of one Jin de siecle the atmosphere of an earliet fin de siecie (thcTC is much in common between the 1890s and the 1980s).
This is an entertaining production, which emphasizes both the comedy and the morality of a play, which since the musical, seems to have been quite neglected. >
You can still catch this exciting production of The Matchmaker at Studio 5S (Langara) until July 2.
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