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Toronto, April 17, 1923.
CANADIAN JEWISH REVIEW:
As a more or less regular redder of your interesting periodical may I request the favour of a small space in it for the purpose of presenting a subject which, I believe, has riot been heretofore broached publicly through a Jewish medium. v �
During the oast decade or so, there has been an unmistakable trend in the growth of the Jewish community of this eity towards musical development and education of every type. Mye'find our conservatories filled with Jewish children of all ages, musical instruments in nearly all homes, and theg majority of talented executants, if not yet creators, few*, In all fields of music they have their share of work.
However, notwithstanding all this growth there is yet one phase which has not been properly, if at all,developed and this is more important than all the others. What I mean is the almost criminal negligence and lack of interest in the attitude of our communal educationists, or leading thinkers and citizens, towards this most beautiful of arts. The finest and most highly educated men and women, the veritable pillars of the Jewish coriinuinity are indifferent, nay, almost apathetic towards what is best in music. One .can pick men at random, who, otherwise brilliantly educated, and deeply versed on many, many subjects, betray the most astounding and woeful ignorance when music is spoken of seriously.
To digress for a moment, I can say that even most sagej hoary "professors .of art," profoundly learned as. they arc, openly admit to musicians of any standing their comparatively total lack of knowledge of music. There are those who may claim that vice versa is also
true. Qtut that la not the case, at leant from my experience. I believe, as a fact, that any niusiciari with an much knowledge of his own art, as the professor pOii�, can also speak with authority QR literature, graphic arts or sculpture? and that, to the "professor," who usually, in his turn, must preserve a discreet silence, or, at the most, argue feebly on music. You wil) agree that such a state of affairs is not complimentary to the intellects, or would-ta intellects, of any community. Nevertheless, it is cajmly tolerated, even by musicians. However, there is one redeeming feature of their ignorance. They keep silent usually, or are very hesitant with the expression of.their views or criticisms. It is precisely here that the truth, "f(x;ls rush in�'-" applies.- All over the city Cor really the world I suppose) one finds blockheads who, fearlessly and shamelessly .express the most atrociously foolish and unauthoritative opinions. Moreover -they remain unshaken by any remonstrance from those who really know whereof they speak. . ;
There is no reason for the existing condition. Information on music is available, in all public libraries. There is no need for ignorance, of anything when knowledge is easily obtainable. Which Jewish citizen of prominence has ever given a lecture or talk here on niusic and its influence on life? I cannot recall one; We have fine orators here who invariably arouse public interest in the topic they speak on. Why cannot those rhetorical powers be turned into the stream .of musical, really musical, development for the community? - . .
Yours respectfully,
MAX XKLLKR.
129 Pal m erston - Aven ue.
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HAKEXKREUZER MILITARY DEMONSTRATION CANCELLED Jews Protest Commercial Boycott
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The.Port Dalhousie and St. Catharines books will cost $11.00, Niagara Falls, Ont., $11.60, Welland $15.60, Port Colborne $18.80 (war tax extra).. Books may also be purchased to ThoroKI, F6nthilland Niagara-on-the-Lake. Each book contains sixteen single ride coupons and is good for passage of those whose names are shown therein.
JEWISH PROFESSOR MAKES BLIND SEE
IVtrogrud, (J. T. A.V A Jewish physician, Professor Kat/ of Pi-tro�raJ, has devised, an ojx.*ration by which the blind are able to M-e, aivoriHng to. a fctory printetl by ihc IVtio^rad correspondent of the Now York World.
All that i* nrvrs.>ary for ihr operation to lie sutvetolul, says Kaur i*� irut the light perception ncrvea arc intact. - la more than iitty per n-nt. ot the blind caac-* this condition exUl^. The oiirra-tion iaclutirft the insertion t>t A celluloid cup into the socket ol the r\e, so that the light ia reflected through it.
The **Von�iche /ettung" here pub li*hed a telegram from Leuiher^ mating th*t 3 reyo|f fe*0 broken out u\ I kiatm; attended by attacks on Je�a. The
Vienna (J. T; A.).� Fpltowing warnings by the police that stern measures would be resort ed-t.o, -if the proposed Hakenkreuzer militai-\- manoeuvTes were held, leaders of that organization announced that the demonstration :had been cancelled. .
The martial exercises of the anti-. Semitic organization were intended as a'*hreat against the Jews. .
The Hakenkreuzer are continuing the publication in their . new5[Xip<?irs of blacklists of Jewish business houses. while leading Jews condemn the goverri-. fnent for its alleged mildness towards the anti-Semites, particularly demanding that the Vienna Chamber of Commerce come out outspokenly against the economic boycott. The Jews furrher charge that Dr; Conrad, the s^crvrarv of the \"ienna Chamber of Comntcrcc. is himst^lt a memt>er. ot >he organization.
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