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And Sons
by ALFRED WERNER
This fall, as in the autumns of
the past, millions of American
Jews flocked to the temples and
synagogues for High Holiday
services. If they had sharp eyes,
they noted that in many a
house of worship startling changes
have occurred in the realm of
ceremonial art. Until very recently,
new buildings appealing to even
the most sophisticated often re
tained undistinguished candela
bra, Torah ornaments, and other
items purchased from - church
supply stores (often proudly,
though misleadingly, calling them
selves 'Creators and Designers of
Artistic Sacred Vessels, Hand-
Made to Specification”). Until re
cently, it was not uncommon, up
on entering a steel-framed syna
gogue, built after 15)45 of simple
brick and concrete, to observe, in
and around the Torah Ark, pseudo-
Baroque monstrosities in silver or
bronze that should have been
abandoned along with the old and
shabby shul.
But as leadership in congrega
tions passes from the older genera
tion that has had little interest in
the newer forms of aesthetic ex
pression to the younger which,
from the Museum of Modern Art
or the Museum of Contemporary
Crafts, has acquired a taste for the
simple and refined, the ecclesiastic
junk of yesterday is discarded for
the sake of art that—good or bad—
at least mirrors the 1 spiritual and
physical predilections of educated
middle-class Jew’s in mid-twen
tieth century America. The Amer
ican-born. college-graduated thir
ty-five - year old recognizes, per
haps unconsciously, that, if his
house, his tableware, his office
equipment are functional and well
designed, the least he can demand
of the objects in his house of wor
ship is that they, too, display the
proper relationships of material,
purpose and form.
To suit the atmosphere of con
temporary Jew’ish places of wor
ship with subtle and subdued in
teriors, ritual objects, too, must
contribute to a feeling of quiet
dignity, undisturbed by noisy or
nament and configuration. It might
be argued that a synagogue, trad
itionally. is different from a
church, especially of the Catholic
variety; whereas in the latter the
congregation listens silently to the
voice of the priest, to choir and
organ, in the synagogue the wor-
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