{"id":9198,"date":"2016-03-07T17:09:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T16:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ehpes.com\/blog1\/?p=9198"},"modified":"2016-03-07T17:09:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T16:09:31","slug":"meyer-ebner-on-leibu-levin-1935","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ehpes.com\/blog1\/?p=9198","title":{"rendered":"Meyer Ebner on Leibu Levin &#8211; 1935"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From Ruth Levin, an article from the\u00a0\u201cOst-Yiddishe Zeitung\u201d, 2.6.1935:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8230;Dr. Landau introduced to the audience a young man whose name<br \/>\nshould not be forgotten. Probably, we\u2019ll hear from him again and again.<\/p>\n<p>Levin isn\u2019t a singer, rather he\u2019s an artistic reader. He\u2019s not a reader, rather<br \/>\nhe\u2019s an actor. As a matter of fact he\u2019s all in one: singer, artistic reader, actor<br \/>\nand poet. Why also poet? He reads to us only the poems of others, does he not?<br \/>\nThat being so, this is the secret of his art. He reveals what is hidden between the lines.<br \/>\nHe brings the poet to completion. He draws from the poet\u2019s soul riches the poet himself<br \/>\ndid not know of, riches that were hidden in his sub-conscious&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Frequently the words of the text in his mouth serve solely as a stimulus that awakens \u2013<br \/>\njust for a passing moment \u2013 the poetic spiritual inheritance of his own, and that has<br \/>\nalways to be born anew, like the music.<\/p>\n<p>The art of Leibu Levin needs not only to be heard, though, but also to be seen. He himself<br \/>\none has to hear and see, how he breathes into the dim hall, into the pearls of strangers\u2019<br \/>\npoetry, his young burning soul, the creative, sometimes ecstatic, and sometimes weeping<br \/>\nsoul&#8230; \u00a0His profound understanding drew one deeply into the fables of<br \/>\nEliezer Steinbarg and the ballads of Itzik Manger.<\/p>\n<p>From time to time the reader becomes singer, and only when he was seen as well as heard,<br \/>\ndid I finally understand the meaning of the old expression \u201cto sing and to say\u201d<br \/>\nregarding troubadours and minnesingers. When his spoken word passes to song, it reminds me<br \/>\nof a flying ship hovering above the earth and taking off to the blue heavens&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Talent is as rare as gold. From the gold it is possible to forge a holiday crown for<br \/>\npriests who serve gods and it is possible to pay with it the penance for sinful impurity&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Talent can be refined to capture surpassing art, or can descend to cheap popular<br \/>\nentertainment. It seems to me that all in Leibu Levin aspires toward and is uplifted to the<br \/>\nshining heights of noble art .\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Meyer Ebner<br \/>\nThe newspaper \u201cOst-Yiddishe Zeitung\u201d, 2.6.1935<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ehpes.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Ostju\u0308dische_Zeitung_1935_00169-Kopie.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9200\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9200\" src=\"http:\/\/ehpes.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Ostju\u0308dische_Zeitung_1935_00169-Kopie-670x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Ostju\u0308dische_Zeitung_1935_00169 Kopie\" width=\"540\" height=\"825\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Ruth Levin, an article from the\u00a0\u201cOst-Yiddishe Zeitung\u201d, 2.6.1935: \u201c&#8230;Dr. Landau introduced to the audience a young man whose name should not be forgotten. Probably, we\u2019ll hear from him again and again. Levin isn\u2019t a singer, rather he\u2019s an artistic reader. He\u2019s not a reader, rather he\u2019s an actor. As a matter of fact he\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,8,13,21,23,25,30,1,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ehpes.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9198"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ehpes.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ehpes.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ehpes.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ehpes.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ehpes.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ehpes.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ehpes.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ehpes.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}