Letter to R. Jung about Planning Fall Lectures at The Jewish Center (1971)
Your annual Sunday night lecture is scheduled for Sunday, November 21, 1971. While our Ta Shema brochure carries no title, it would be good to have one for the Bulletin of the Center. I have been thinking of ways of making these two evenings – your lecture, and mine on February 27 – into genuine cultural “events.” The social aspect, including a buffet dinner, will be attended to by the Sisterhood, but what else? In discussing this with you some time ago, you suggested an idea I think worth developing: an art exhibition of work done exclusively by members of The Jewish Center. A committee would contact those we know to be creative in this way and, through the Bulletin, invite those we may not be aware of. These paintings, sculptures, and other works (Sukkah decorations too?) could be exhibited either in the Board Room on the 10th floor or in the Lobby, with appropriate personnel to guard them, while dinner would take place in the 10th-floor banquet room and the lecture in the Auditorium. Displaying in the lobby would also enable the general public to enjoy the work. For the second lecture in February, we might try something similar: an exhibition of books written by Center members (there are at least five, besides the two of us). Perhaps, in cases of both art and literature, we might mark off those items which may be purchased or ordered. As an alternative, the first lecture could feature both artistic and literary works by our own people, while the second might display Jewish books and records of general interest, with provisions made for ordering and purchasing them. In this way both evenings would be as rich as possible. I am therefore asking Rabbi Welder to contact those Center members to whom copies of this memo can be sent, so that they may consult, divide the work, and arrange the publicity and execution of the plans. If you have any further ideas, please let me know. cc: Rabbi Welder, Sam Shechter, Joseph Kaplan, Rabbi Silverstein, Mrs. Leibier, Mrs. Tanan…
