Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1990-12-27

              The Ohio Jewish Chronicle
Serving Columbus and Central Ohio
Jewish Community for Over 60 Years
VOLUME 68 DECEMBER 27,1990
NUMBER 53 10TEVET5751
DEVOTED   TO   AMERICAN   AND   JEWISH   IDEALS
Rothschild announces
year of celebration
Page2
Budget Act of 1990
  Page 3
Waldheim back in
headlines again
page 3
Temple Israel holds
consecration
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Rothman to play lead
in 'Crossing Delancey'
page 4.
Rehab Center opens
page 5
Artsites display at JCC
page 10
EARLY DEADLINE
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OJC was noon Wednesday, Dec. 26.
The OJC office will be closed on Monday,
Dec: 31 and Tuesday, Jan. J.
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Community ,    4,5
Federation 8
FrontPage   ..,. 2
Lifecycle ;. 6
Marketplace 9
New Generation 11
Synagogues , :': .. 7
Viewpoint   ,. 3
PROFILE
Alfred Tibor —
a man of'many dimensions
By Ina Horwitz
Alfred Tibor the sculptor;
Alfred Tibor the humanist;
Alfred Tibor the survivor. His
life seems to revolve in three-
dimensional form, for his life
is his work, his work is his art
and his art is his life.
He has even had three
names in his lifetime. He was
bom Alfred Goldstein in 1920
in Hungary. ,In the few years
preceding WWII, the family
changed their name to Zakav,
a Hebrew word meaning gold
(thus Goldstein). This was to
protect them from the Nazis
finding out they were Jewish.
"The Nazis didn't know from
Hebrew," Tibor explained.
In  1954,  while still in
Hungary, he changed his
name to Tibor, in memoiy of
his brother who was killed
near the end of the war.
Living and working out of
his combination home/studio
on the eastside, Tibor often
makes up his work of three
characters - a mother, father
and child. "I look at my sculptures in different ways," he
said, "for they h^ve different
meanings and different
shapes at every angle. That is
why certain pieces need space
and some should stand by a
wall."
When Tibor has the idea for
a new sculpture, he starts with
a three-dimensional wax
sketch, which evolves into an
actual scale model and often
becomes a larger-than-life
size sculpture. "Many sculptors work only from
drawings," he said.
Tibor is very humble for a
man whose works sell for as
much as $30,000. "I'm not doing it for the money," he said,
"but for nqy emotions. If you
(the viewer) are catching on
to what I am trying to express
in the sculpture, then I am doing a good job."
He has more than 200 pieces
in private and public collections all over the world —
from Brazil to Belgium, from
the East Coast of America to
the West Coast and in Israel.
His works are considered rare
and valuable, as all of his
limited editions stop at 15. A
special Holocaust work, of
which he made ten, sold out
quickly. He has since destroyed the mold.
He is perhaps most well
known for his sculptures depicting the Holocaust, as he
himself was a survivor of a
Holocaust slave labor camp,
and one of his pieces is in the
Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. Another is
at the Agudas Achim synagogue, where he belongs.
The latter sculpture, "Remembrance," shows a group
of Jews! being driven to a concentration camp, and although the viewer can see the
appearance of smoke, reprfc
senting the crematoriumsTV
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