The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1920-07-28
Appeal to World for Art
in Palestine
GIVE THE HOLY LAND BACK HER
TREASURES. SAYS l.. PILICH-
OWSKI,

tSops Io-o ny JEWISH
ence Bureau)
Mr.. L. Pilichowski, the famous Jew
ish artist whose pictures, principally
portraying the sorrows and joys of
Jewish life in the Goluth, are we'll
known in almost every part of the
world where pictures are valued, is the
enthusiastic initiator of plan where
by Palestine may become Che home of
some of the best of the worlds art
treasures.
A representative of the Jewish Cor
respondence Bureau called on Mr..
Pilichowsk at his Studio in st. Johns
Wood, London, to hear from him the
outline of his plan for the rejuvena-
ton of Jewish art and cuitural life in
! Palestine.
Mr.. Pilichowski is devoting himself
strenuOusly to the completion of an
other large and interesting work ON
his favorite subject of life in the East
crn Jewish Communities.
Il am so happy" he said, that I am
alive today to portray for the Jewish
people of the future all the phases of
Jewish life in the Diaspora, that
may leave my work to them-whcn
they are established once more in
peace and prosperity in their own
liomeland-as n legacy and a memory
of these days"
"The scheme, as 1 shall explain ii
IN pSt1 hi = bmput a
Jewish art, has been in my mind for
many years; and now that the jew
ish people has been recognized as
nation, now that it is possible to put
the idea into execution. l am filled
with a desire that the initial appeal
may be brought before the world in
such way that it will meet with an
immediate and unmistakablc response.
THE Jewish peope. no less than
any other people, has, in its daily
life, need and desire for those
things which are outside the mere
physical world, for those things that
make for culture and beauty. As we
say-"Lo balechem 1evadO yichyc
Eaadam"-"man shall not live by
bread alone"-hc must he nourishcd
by the things of the spirit and of the
intellect. Like Israel in the wilder
ness, their prophets and men of ac-
ton have ever been fed with food from
above. With the Jewish people cul-
ture is necessity. Arc they not large
ly responsible for culture:I Think FOR
instance of our Jewish music. the OLD
Jewish songs. and the joy which our
young people derive from singing them.
even today. Think Of the Song of
Solomon. and the poetry of the Thora'
the Psalms and the Prophets. Take
any of our ancient writings. How
over people may rank them philosophic-
ally or officially with the ancient phil
cSophies of other raccs-no one will
deny them their matchless beauty OF
form their artistic value. their high
standard of literary merit And 1t is
these things which remain of ma
TONS greatness They are its title of
nobility-the true and only title of
nobility which nation can possess
What is it that survives out of the
civilizations of the past? The Greek
culture. for example? the Greek TO-
day is a shepherd. as unlike the heroic
HELENE of the olden days of Grecian
art and thought as the average man
in the streets of the city is to Shakes
ucnrc. The beauty of form-thc Greek |
ideal of physical beauty. his master
pieces 0t plastic art. these things have |
come down to US. these things remain |
eternal. these have become the criterion |
Of one great phase of artistic perfection |
for tie whole world. Thus time deal: |
with us all-the seeming relative val I
ues have become the positive the
seeming positive vanish with; the
years.
p But the Jews are poor nation
materially-at least this rs so among
all those millions who are scattered
over Europe-poverty is common
feature of their daily life. You can
not judge the Jews by the few thou
sands of happy men and women who
are living today. in the British Isles
aud possibly in u few other fortunate
countries. The Eastern Jews of
whom ! am one-are today economic
ally frustrated. Thousands of them
lave scarcely enough even to buy
bread Every possible source of ma
tcrial wealth will have t. be drained in
order to pay for even the beginnings
of the new Jewish life. the immigra-
ton and the setting mp ct enough in
dustries in Palestine to support the
and supply them with
work. to enable them to earn enough
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