Newspaper Page Text
'ZOuie Ti/ond
to 'Wioe S&ofefie'io ...
"IN ATLANTA
IT'S KING'S!"
* For pleasant, rapid, one-stop shopping.
* For a stunningly beautiful selection of holiday
merchandise.
* For courteous, neighborly service.
WHEN YOU SHOP AT KING'S, SAY "CHARGE IT!"
THIRTEEN STORES SERVING ATLANTA
Getting Acquainted
With Our Art
Story of JWB's Portable Exhibit
Haw About It!
ARE YOU
STRONGER
THAN
A HORSE?
It isn’t likely—but I am! In fact, I’m one-third stronger
than a horse, and I can do a lot of jobs they wouldn’t
shake a hoof at.
Why not let me — your electrical servant — help you
in more ways in your home or farm or place of business?
I make life a lot easier and a lot more pleasant. What’s
more, I work for just a few cents a day.
So when you want help in a hurry, just plug in — I’m
REDDY * . • Reddy Kilowatt, your servant from the . . .
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
A CITIZEN WHEREVER WE SERVE
by LIONEL KOPPMAN
People over the country are get
ting acquainted with Jewish art
through the 70 traveling exhibits
which are booked by the Jewish
Center Lecture Bureau of the Na
tional Jewish Welfare Board. Lo
cal citizens of 75 communities in
half of the states in the U. S. had
the opportunity of seeing from one
to more than a dozen of these
“portable exhibits” during the year.
The Bureau would like to have as
many people as possible see the ex
hibits and so makes them available
at no cost except that of transporta
tion. The 70 exhibits — 41 of which
are mounted — have had 255 show
ings during the last 12 months.
Almost 83% of the exhibits are of
Jewish interest.
The four mobile shows people
demand most are the two assem
bled by the Congress for Jewish
Culture but booked exclusively by
the JWB Jewish Center Lecture
Bureau; a collection of Jewish re
ligious objects stolen by the Nazis
and rescued by the Jews of Nurem
berg, and the exhibit of the Ameri
can Jewish Historical Society.
The art exhibits include original
oil paintings by Jewish artists and
are designed not only to promote an
appreciation of Jewish art but to
stimulate local exhibits of local
artists as well. The collection of
religious objects was given to
American Jewry by Nuremberg
(40)
Jews. The Nazis had stolen the
items from synagogues they de
stroyed in Europe. The objects
were deposited with JWB’s Divi
sion of Religious Activities, w’hich
has made them available for ex
hibit purposes.
The exhibit of the American
Jewish Historical Society, now en
joying the sponsorship of JWB, in
cludes early historical documents,
portraits of men prominent in
American Jewish history, commis
sion papers of Jewish officers in
American wars, broadsides and
circulars on the founding of Jewish
institutions, first editions of He
brew grammar books, Bibles and
prayer books published in the U.
S., and other similar material.
Samuel D. Freeman, the Bureau’s
director, points out that the exhib
its are not only used as programs in
themselves, but also as part of com
munity celebrations, in connection
with Jew’ish holidays, Jewish Mu
sic Festival, Jewish Book Month,
and together with lectures on Jew
ish art.
Both Jews and Christians have
viewed the exhibits, which are
shown in just about every place
that can accommodate them: Jew
ish Community Centers, syna
gogues, Hillel Foundations, schools,
and public museums and art gal
leries. In San Diego, Calif., 1500
people, many of them Christians,
saw the exhibit of ceremonial ob
jects. In Reno, Nevada, the paint
ings of Arthur Szyk were shown at
The Southern Israelite