Lillian Ruth Friedlander: A Biography.
[Judaica]. Bentwich, Margery. Lillian Ruth Friedlander: A Biography. Foreward by Leonard Bernstein. Jerusalem: Rubin Mass, (1957).
8vo.; blue cloth; white dust-jacket, lightly edgeworn.
First edition of the story of an early great patron of the arts in Israel, written by her sister. Lillian Friedlander (1882-1954), born in England, moved to Palestine from New York after her husband, Professor Israel Friedlander, was killed on a relief mission to the Ukraine. When her son Daniel, an extraordinarily gifted musician, died at age eighteen, she set up a house in his memory to be a refuge for artists. Beit Daniel was meant “to provide a quiet sanctuary to which members of the musical profession in this country may, at a minimum cost and in appropriate cases at no cost at all, retire for a much need vacation” (p. 121). The success of her plan led her to expand her mission to fuse art and religion in Israel, garnering the praise of Leonard Bernstein in the foreward as one of “those women who nurse and nurture, who provide for the spiritual needs of the child with equal passion, pride and dignity.”
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