The Denver Jewish news., 1925-04-16

national reputation hH "a lNNHlfi W llNH
tie and cosmetic surgery, being often re-
frrred to as sculptor Ia flesh aud a
nasal and facial architect He Is not
only q master II surgery, hut an nrtist
at The same time lie can turn long noses
Into short ones, and ugly ones into bcnuti-
ful features lie rccontnurs ana ~
lnycnaics the faces OF All the great artists
uf the American stage. moving picture
society leaders lie Is n disciple OF FRO.
fersnrs Joseph aud Israel OF Ncrllu ana
fuchs uf Vienna, the internationally "a
nous Jewish surgeons who developed Tue
science and art Of plhctic surgery ED
Jewish beauty ia lyrical. Greek
beauty is more epic in nature. jew
ish beauty is not always beauty OF
form while Greek beauty is mostly
beauty of form. Jewish beauty. has
an animating effect and it often
arouscs emotions and passions to u
high pitch. Greek beauty, on the
other hand, has a calming, quoting
effect. The Greeks were light heart
ed and virile people, devoted to grace
full pursuits. The manifestations in
their games and arts were forms OF
worship and their outlook concerned
itself with beautiful things as HON
age to their mythical Gods. 1t is
plastic, and it has all the effects OF
plastic beauty. Greek mythology, the
the expression of the immortals
Scopas, Particles and Phidias, four or
five hundred years before Christ, has
ever since influenced sculptors and
painters by the opportunity it affords
for poetic representation of the beau
ties of the ideal form and face. The
lovely Venus of Milo, the most perfect
sculpturcd representation of female
loveliness, is but the manifestation of
the supreme efforts made by the Greek
sculptors of old 10 perpetuate an ideal
of their favoritc Goddess, sea-born
Aphrodite. This statue, although
without arms and minus the left foot,
lit yet by far the most inspiring cx-
ample of perfection in fact and form
that the world possesses. Although
it is generally accepted that it rep
resents Aphroditc or Venus, owing to
the universal worship of this goddess
throughout the coasts and islands of
the Aegean Archipelago, there is no
record of this attribution being au-
thentic and many other designations
have been given by anti-quaries. jew
ish beauty can best be described as the
frozen olegy," the psalm in the form
of human fact. Greek beauty, on
the other hand, is mos formal and
outward. The form may hide emo
tons and passions but it does not eX-
press them. 1t is elevating and edify-
ing in its objective but it is not the
arousing and often torturing and
whipping subjective of Jewish beau
lty.
The literatures of the various ages
and peoples dealing with the beauty
of the different races, contain little
of importance on the subject of Jew
ish racial beauty. A great deal has
been said about classic beauty in con-
tradistinction to Oriental beauty, but
Oriental beauty is rather a vague
term, and is not even TO be identified
with Semitic beauty, for the ancient
| Egyptian bellies are also included
amongst Oriental beauties, although
ancient Egypt was not branch of the
Semitic race 1t was in the magnif
icent civilization of old Egypt thai
conscious artist was born and Draw
ing, as we understand it today, Grad
led. The types of Egyptian civiliza
ton were rendered in painting anc
sculpture with wonderful facility ant
spirit and decorative composition pro
duced, which involved great skill il
representing their beauties Of figur'
and fact in action. But, still, he witt
has eyes to see will readily admit tina
there is such thing as specific Jew
ish beauty-that is to say, beaut,
characteristic only of the Jewish race
French acstheticians maintain tina
what is being termed Jewish beaut,
may actually be classed as Mediter
ran beauty because of their prcsump
ton that the Jews once formed
Mediterranean nation, and that al
that is anthropologically and facial
characteristic of the Mediterranean
races is also characteristic of tn
Jews. French observers have come +
this conclusion because of the fac
that the assimilated Southern Frenc
and Italian Jews resemble so much il
their facial characteristics the pee
pies shcltcring them that it is diff
ficult to distinguish between French
man and a really assimilated Frenc
or Italian jew. But this observation
correct as it may be, does not ADM
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