In Jaffa it established a
high school (Bet ha-Sefer), it inspired Doctor Chazanowicz to establish
a national library, and ways and means are being considered to establish
a national university in Palestine.
Even among the devotees of the arts it has given rise to a new romantic
school, young painters and sculptors who are depicting their
Judenschmerz.
Their cunning hands--says Mr. Leo Mielziner--have mastered the
technique of their art, be it in Moscow or Munich, or Berlin, or
Paris, but the heart which inspires their brush or mallet
pulsates in Palestine. The wandering Jew in them pauses, not to
portray the impression of the foreign lands and stranger
customs, but to depict his own suffering, his own Heimweh, his
own aspirations.
Struck, Ashkenasi, Maimon, Hirszenberg, Gottlieb, Epstein, Loebschuetz,
and Schatz are the leaders of this new movement. The last-named,
together with Ephraim Moses Lilien of Galicia, perhaps the greatest
Jewish illustrator of our time, has founded a national school, Bezalel,
to propagate Jewish art in Palestine, on the same principles on which
the great national art schools of other countries are based.
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