Word: sabbath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sunday, June 13 LAMP UNTO MY Feet (CBS, 10-10:30 am) An examination of Hungary's diminished but still active Jewish.community, with rare films of Sabbath Eve services in Budapest's Dohany (Tabak) Synagogue-the center of the Jewish ghetto during Nazi occupation. LOOK UP AND LIVE (CBS, 10:30-11 am) "The Evolution of Church Music." An explanation of the ethnic adaptations of liturgical music, an analysis of the Gregorian chant, and illustrative performances by Composer-Conductor C. Alexander Peloquin's Chorale comprise the first of a three-part series...
...goes, all the way up to Level I (1948 A.D.), when Makor lay I forgotten as Jews fought Arabs. The conservative rabbis fumed when Israeli insurgents broke the Sabbath to man the barricades, llana, an aggressive Israeli she-male, holds off Arab and rabbi alike; between sorties against enemy entrenchments, she launches a noisy diatribe against the rabbi's "ghetto mentality.'' To replace the religion of her fathers, she proclaims for the new state of Israel the gospel of progress...
...Puck Fair at Killorglin in West Kerry is an unholy midsummer Sabbath. Its origins are pre-Christian. The Puck is a wild male goat, the grandest that can be caught. For three days he rules. Priests and police crouch indoors. Strange road folk called tinkers swarm from caravans. Horse and cattle traders bargain early and drink late. Maidens and married ladies, undanced with for the rest of the year, play ten-toes-up with bumpkins made bold by Puck's fine pungence...
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (RCA Victor), recorded by the Broadway cast, has warm, old-fashioned songs by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. Zero Mostel, as Sholom Aleichem's earthy innocent, Tevye the Dairyman, brightens whatever he sings-the reverent Sabbath Prayer, the nostalgic Sunrise, Sunset, and the wonderful intoxicated gibberish of If I Were a Rich...
...testimony, "an ear into which they dropped their most private avowals." More important, he recorded some of those avowals in his autobiography, which he called his "moral memo" to the world. Published posthumously in France in 1946 and now translated into English for the first time, Witches' Sabbath is a bizarre compound of self-pity, fantasy and braggadocio, relieved by occasional passages of honest self-appraisal and sound literary sense. It constitutes, as one French literary critic put it, an anecdotal "chronique scandaleuse" of Sachs's own place and time...