Music and the arts I N the sixth year of her independence Israel has attained surprising cultural maturity. The working press is free, active, and informed. There are over a dozen daily newspapers, the majority written in Hebrew, and representing every shade of political opinion. Alongside the Cairo, Moscow, and New York dispatches there are lively editorials. The letters columns carry controversies over poetry and art as well as attacks on government incompetence.
Music continues to flourish.
Its repertory of the national theater has now added to the classics the latest popular successes of the New York and Continental stages. The museums of Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem conduct an active schedule of exhibitions, and there is the familiar disputation among painters and critics over the relative merits of modern and traditional art. All rights reserved. Originally published in The Atlantic Monthly, June 1953. Volume 191, no.