November 22, 1957 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-40
Annual Book Fair Opens Saturday Evening
Ladies Day Participants at the Jewish Book Fair
Puppeteer Clarissa Yager and some members of the cast
of the show to be given at the Sixth Annual Jewish Book Fair,
Children's Day, Sunday.
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Distinguished Authors on Panels
at Events at Center Nov. 23-25
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The annual Jewish Book
Fair, which has become an es-
tablished community-wide cul-
tural event, will mark its sixth
anniversary, Nov. 23-25, with
programs of unusual interest.
The opening night program,
Saturday, Nov. 23, 8:30 p.m.,
at the Davison branch of the
Jewish Center, will be keynoted
by Dr. Mordecai M. Kaplan,
who will discuss "A Five-Point
Program for American Jewish
Life." Rabbi Morris Adler will
introduce Dr. Kaplan.
Also participating in the
program will be Dr. Norman
Drachler, Book Fair chair-
man, and Jacob L. Keidan,
Jewish Community Center
president.
In addition to the . Center
Choral Society, Julius Chajes,
conductor, with Mildred Levey
at the piano, will present a
short interlude of songs featur-
ing soloists Leah Koven, Wyn
Garden Landis, Rita Cohen and
Adele Brown.
Winners of the Teme Skully
Award Contest for Essays on a
Jewish Theme will be an-
nounced that evening. -
Following the program, au-
thors will be present in the
gymnasium to discuss the books
and greet visitors.
Dr. Kaplan also will be hon-
ored at a brunch, Sunday,
10:15 a.m., at the Davison
Jewish Center.
The intimate gathering will
give members of the commu-
nity, who are interested in Dr.
Kaplan's redefinition of Juda-
ism, an opportunity to meet the
distinguished scholar, according
to Mrs. Alexander W. Sanders,
chairman of the committee for
the affair. Other members of
the committee include Law-
rence Crohn, Walter Farber,
Mrs. Louis LaMed, Mrs. Leo
Orecklin, Mrs. Sol Passell, Mrs.
H. A. Paysner and Mrs. A. S.
Rogoff.
Announcement is made by
Keidan that Nancy H. Cohen of
Huntington Woods, Mich.; Peter
Brier, of Cambridge, Mass.; and
Ely Stock, of Brooklyn, N.Y.,
have been selected as winners
of the 1957 Teme Skully Con-
test for Essays on a Jewish
Theme.
First prize will be awarded
Miss Cohen for her essay "Who
Am I?" Second prize will go to
Brier for his "S. S. Charlton,"
and third prize, to Stock for
his entry "The Shul."
Essays were judged by Louis
LaMed, Dr. Joseph Prescott,
and Dr. Maurice M. Shudofsky.
In accordance with the decision
of the judges, only three entries
received awards this year, al-
though the contest provides for
three fourth prizes.
Children's Day, Sunday, will
feature "The Remarkable
Danny," a puppet show, by Mrs.
Clarissa A. Yager and her staff
in the Broder auditorium.
Performances will be given at
2 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Tickets are obtainable in ad-
vance beginning at 10 a.m. at
the Center, permitting visitors
to browse and purchase books.
Prior to each performance,
Shimon Gewirtz and Mrs. Chana
Stiebel will leqd community
singing.
Winners of poster and liter-
ary • contests will be announced
at the 4 p.m. program. Walter
Farber will present the literary
awards, and Mrs. Ruth Adler
Schnee the poster awards.
Yiddish - Hebrew night, Sun-
day, 8:30 p.m., will be high-
lighted by Ehud Ben Yehudah,
Hebrew lexicographer, and Cha-
yim Grade, Yiddish writer.
Ben Yehudah, who will be in-
troduced by Bernard Isaacs,
will speak in HebrOw on "He-
brew:a Spiritual Bridge be-
tween Israel and the Diaspora."
Grade will talk in Yiddish on
"Present Problems in Yiddish
Planning Ladies Day, on Nov. 25, as one of the principal events of the annual Jewish
Book Fair are members of the Ladies Day committee, left to right, Mesdames HARRY L.
JACKSON, LOUIS KAZDAN, IRVING BEAL, _PHILIP B E R N S T E I N, CARL SCHILLER,
HENRY BERRIS and MARVIN LEVY. -
Literature." He will be intro-
duced by Saul Maultz.
Louis LaMed will be chair-
man of the evening.
Ladies' Day, Monday, Nov. 25,
will feature a symposium on the
question of "Education for Jew-
ish Living," at 10:45 a.m., in
Hyman C. Broder auditorium.
Making up the panel of speak-
ers will be Ehud Ben Yehudah,
and local experts, Mrs. David
Kliger, Mrs. Jacob Axelrod and
Milton Marwil. Mrs. Nathan
Spevakow will be moderator.
There will be audience partici-
pation after the panel talks.
Mrs. Marvin Levy will pre-
side at the morning program.
A buffet luncheon will be
served at noon through the
courtesy of the Cooperative
Council of the League of Jew-
ish W o m e n's Organizations.
Chairman for the luncheon is
Mrs. Joseph Viedrah.
During the luncheon period,
women visitors will have an op-
portunity to meet the authors,
browse and buy books in the
gymnasium.
Community singing,. led by
Mrs. Malke Shaw, will begin at
1 p.m., in Hyman C. Broder au-
ditorium. The afternoon pro-
gram will begin officially with
Mrs. Irving Small, Ladies' Day
co-chairman, giving the opening
prayer. Mrs. Louis Kazdan,
president, League of Jewish
Women's Organizations, w i 11
welcome the audience. Mrs.
Harry L. Jackson, Book Fair co-
chairman, will bring greetings
from the Jewish Community
Center. Mrs. Philip Bernstein,
Ladies' Day chairman, will in-
troduce the afternoon guest,
Louis Golding, British novelist,
who will speak on "The Most
Important Woman in my Life—
as a Man and Novelist."
Men's Night promises to at-
tract as many women visitors
as men. The program to be held
Monday, 8:30 p.m., in Hyman
C. Broder auditorium, will fea-
ture a panel of three speakers
who will discuss the Jewish lit-
erary scene in various parts of
the world.
The British author, lecturer
The Old . .
and the New
in Bnai Brith
and traveler, Louis Golding,
will speak on "The Jewish Lit-
erary Scene in England and on
the Continent."
Hebrew language authority
Ehud Ben Yehuda will delin-
eate "The Jewish Literary Scene
in Israel."
Philip Slomovitz will round
out the discussion, speaking on
"The Jewish Literary Scene in
America."
Chairman for Men's Night is
Morris Garvett.
Visitors will be able to meet
the authors, browse among book
displays and make purchases
both before and after the pro-
gram.
To Exhibit Golding's Books
A feature of the Book Fair
will be the display of some of
the works of Louis Golding from
the collection of Charles E.
Feinberg.
The loan collection contains
books now out of print, manu-
scripts, and fine editions of
the British author's earlier
writings.
Included among them are:
"Song of Songs," "Day of
Atonement," "Magnolia Street,"
"Five Silver Daughters," "Sea-
coast of Bohemia," "J a m e s
Joyce," "Terrace in Capri,"
"Those Ancient Lands," "Sor-
row of War," "A Letter to
Adolph Hitler," "The Camber-
well Beauty," "Pale Blue Night-
gown," "Adventures in Living
Dangerously," and "Luigi of
Cantzaro."
Golding's Career
Louis Golding, one of the
Book Fair's principal speak-
ers, published his first novel
"Forward from Babylon" in
1920 while he was still at
Oxford. During the decade that
followed, the prolific author
produced in a variety of media:
novels, such as "Seacoast of
Bohemia," "Day of Atonement,"
"Stories of Ladies," "The Mir-
acle Boy"; books of verse, "Sor-
row of War" and "Shepherd
Singing Ragtime"; travel books,
"Sunward," "Sicilian Noon" and
"Those Ancient Lands."
In 1932, "Magnolia Street"
appeared and was proclaimed a
masterpiece by the critics.
"The Five Silver Daughters,"
which followed in 1934, how-
ever, is considered the better
book by both Golding, as well
as many critics. The novel's pro-
tagonist, Elsie Silver, is the
"most remarkable woman"
about whom Golding will speak
at Book Fair.
The career of Elsie Silver was
followed in four subsequent
books: "Mr. Emmanuel," "The
Glory of Elsie Silver," "The
Dangerous Places" and "To the
Quayside."
The total of Golding's early
fiction from "The Day of Atone-
ment" through the Silver saga
is identified with the author's
native Manchester, which pre-
dominates as background.
Nevertheless, a great body of
Golding's work is set against
diverse global backgrounds.
Primarily a novelist, the
writer-traveler has produced
"In the Steps of Moses the
Law-Giver" and "In the Steps
of Moses the Conqueror," as a
result of explorations in Egypt,
Sinai and Arabia, as well as
"Goodbye to Ithaca," based on
his travels in the Greek Islands.
Bnai Brith to Dedicate Its New
Building in Washington Ceremonies
More than 1,000 persons from
almost every state and repre-
sentatives from Canada, Great
Britain, continental Europe and
Israel assembled this week end
to join in the dedication cere-
monies in Washington, D.C., of
the $1,600,000 Bnai Brith Build-
ing, new headquarters of the
service organization.
A . group of Detroit com-
munity leaders are attending
the 114th annual meeting of
Bnai Brith in Washington pre-
liminary to the dedication of
the new Bnai Brith Building.
Those attending include Mr.
and Mrs. Robert S. Rudman,
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Yudkoff,
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney J. Kar-
bel, Mrs. Charles Solovich,
Mrs. Leonard Sims, Samuel
W. Leib and Morton Plotnick.
Yudkoff and Leib are past
presidents of Bnai Brith Dis-
trict Six. Mrs. Solovich is a
vice president of Bnai Brith
Women and Mrs. Sims is a
past president of Bnai Brith
Women's District Six. Plot-
nick is president of the Bnai
Brith Young Adults organi-
zation.
Secretary of Labor James P.
Mitchell heads a list of promi-
nent speakers who will par-
ticipate in a national confer-
Shinsheimer's Cafe on New York's East Side (at right) was the founding place of Bnai ence on youth.
The eight-story structure of
Brith 114 years ago. On Nov. 23 and 24, the organization will dedicate its new $1,600,000
home in Washington, D.C. The new building, shown at the left, contains a library and re- glass and white brick, situated
search center on human rights and an exhibition hall devoted to the historic role of Jewry at 17th St. and Rhode Island
& Ave., will be opened Sunday.
in the development of American democracy. feb&s,:bg;:ntzleaw
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, ac-
companied by members of the
late President's family, will ad-
dress a luncheon dedicating the
Bnai Brith Women's Franklin
D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms
Library, a specialized research
center on human rights that
occupies a part of the building's
main floor.
The growth of religious lib-
erty in the United States told
in priceless documents is one
of the historical exhibits which
will be on display at the dedica-
tion of the Bnai Brith Bldg.
The collection of original
manuscripts includes George
Washington's letter of 1790 to
the congregants of the Touro
Synagogue in Newport, R. I.,
in which the first President af-
firmed religious freedom. Also
exhibited are four petitions sub-
mitted in 1655 by the first Jew-
ish colonists in America seek-
ing Gov. Peter Stuyvesant's
permission to remain as citizens
of New Amsterdam.
An 1824 copy of Maryland's
"Jew Bill" granting political
equality in that state, a 1786
imprint of Thomas Jefferson's
speech on the subject to • the
Virginia legislature and the
three-page letter of Jonas Phil-
lips, a Jewish merchant of
Philadelphia, imploring the
1789 Constitutional Convention
to adopt the freedom of reli-
gion principle are part of the
collection to be on exhibition.