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Book Fair to Have 7,00 Titles
Preview Program to Draw
Librarians From Detroit Area
Nearly 7,000 books of general and Jewish interest will be
on display when the 14th annual Jewish Book Fair opens at
the Jewish Center Nov. 13 — and all of them will be for sale.
Visitors to the Fair are in-
vited to browse through the Temple Players and Center
) many book displays, and then Theater. She has directed shows
to visit the Gift Book Booth, for Temple Israel and for Center
where works of the Fair's Theater.
Appearing in "Tevya" is Joyce
guest speakers, special edi-
tions, children's books and Feurring, one of Center Theater's
best known act-
many Hebrew and Yiddish
resses. She
titles as well, will be up for
studied drama-
sale.
tics at the Uni-
In addition, Sifrei Israel, Inc.,
will display and sell English,
Hebrew and Yiddish books from
Israel, in cooperation with the
Jewish National Fund, in Room
202 of the Center, throughout the
Fair. (The JNF also will sponsor
a talk by New York University
Prof. Abraham I. Katch Nov. 15.)
Although the Book Fair doesnt'
officially open until Nov. 13,
many of Detroit's area librarians
will have an opportunity to view
the Fair and gain a greater in-
sight into Jewish literature
Nov. 12 at a special preview
conference 10 a.m. through noon.
Included on the program will be
a brief workshop, coffee, and a
tour of the Book Fair and the
Center's Henry Meyers Memorial
Library. Center Librarian Mrs.
Rebecca Kellman will be on hand
to answer questions.
Chairman of the day is Mrs.
Arthur Gould of the Book Fair
steering committee, and workshop
panelists will include Rabbi Leon
Frain of Temple Israel, Mrs.
Elaine Williams and David Elazar
of Wayne State University's Kresge
Science Library.
Elazar, his father Albert, who is
superintendent of the United
Hebrew Schools, and his brother
Dr. Daniel, professor of political
science at Temple University, will
be featured at another preview
program Tuesday.
At that program, an Educator's
Day Conference sponsored by
Hadassah, the Elazars will discuss
such topics as "The Jews — 1965"
and "The American Jewish Com-
munity: Jeopardy or Continuity."
Hours of the conference are 10
am. to 2 p.m.
Also on Tuesday, at 8:30 p.m.,
the Center's Parents Without
Partners group will cosponsor
guest speaker Frita Ruth Drap-
kin, author of "Momma is a Citi-
zen" and other books. Miss Drap-
kin's talk, like all other book
fair programs, is open to the
public, but there will be a
nominal admission charge for
PWP non-members.
As another foretaste of Book
Fair special events, Center Theater
will present "Tevya and His
Daughters," based on the Sholem
Aleichem classic, this weekend.
The two 8:30 p.m. performances
Saturday and Sunday are open to
the public, but Cong. Beth Aaron,
UN 1-5222, is handling tickets for
the Sunday performance. Satur-
day evening tickets are available
at the Center box office, Marwil's
Northland and Wayne State Uni-
versity.
Beth-Sheva Laikin, well known
to Detroiters as an actress and
director, will direct the production.
Miss Laikin, who received her
masters degree in dramatic arts
from New York University, then
went on to act in stock companies,
radio and television in New York
and throughout the Midwest. In
Detroit she has appeared at Van-
guard Theater, World Stag e,
versity of Michi-
gan and h a s
appeared in
many plays, in-
cluding C e n t e r
•Theater's"An-
other Part of the
Forest" and "The Mrs. Feurring
Rope Dancers." Mrs. Feurring is
often seen and heard on television
and radio in Detroit.
Other performances of "Tevya"
will be Nov. 11, 13, 14.
Noted author, teacher, editor
and lecturer Leo W. Schwarz
will officially open the Fair
8:15 p.m. Nov. 13 in Shiffman
Hall.
Schwarz will speak on "The Jew-
ish Image in American Fiction."
On Nov. 14 and 21, the Mildred
Berry Puppets will present an
original puppet show for chil-
dren, "Ge'Dee Celebrates the Holi-
days" 2 and 3 p.m. in the Aaron
DeRoy Theater. All performances
will be followed by story telling
by authoress Martha Marenof in
the Center Library.
Guest lecturer Ephraim Shmueli
and Brandeis University Prof. Ben
Halpern will make up the Jewish-
interest portion of activities at the
Fair Nov. 14.
Shmueli, under
t h e co-sponsor-
ship of Book Fair
and the Center's
Kvutza Ivrit
(Hebrew cultural
group), will dis-
cuss in Hebrew
the life and work
of Yiddish au-
thor, poet and it
playwright I. L.
Peretz 2:30 p.m. t•
in Room 384.
Dr. Shmueli,
historian, 1 e c t-
urer and educa-
Shmueli
tor, is currently
on the staff of the College of Jew-
ish Studies in Cleveland. Among
his works are a seven-volume his-
tory of the Jewish people from
the end of World War I and, his
latest, the letters of Spinoza, in
addition to essays and other writ-
ings.
Morris Noble will chair the
meeting, and Israel Elpern will
deliver some readings from Peretz.
"Two JeWs — Three Opinions:
What Common Values for Jews
Around the World?" will be the
question posed and answered by
Halpern, an associate professor
of Near Eastern and Judaic
Studies at Brandeis University,
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terpart funds to provide improved
hospital-kitchen, dining:room and
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The funds were generated by the
sale of surplus commodities by the
U.S. government. It was signed by
Hadassah President Charlotte Jac-
obson and Herbert Waters, assist-
ant administrator for material re-
sources of the U. S. Agency for
International Development.
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when he speaks 8:15 p.m. Nov.
14 in Shiffman Hall.
Halpern's lecture is being co-
sponsored for Book Fair by the
American Jewish Congress.
Manheim S. Shapiro, director of
the national Jewish communal af-
fairs department of the American
Jewish Committee, will speak 8:15
p.m. Nov. 16 in Shiffman Hall. He
will discuss "Jews in a Complex
Society." This talk is being cospon-
sored by the Detroit Section of
the National Council of Jewish
Women.
Rabbi Morris Adler of Cong.
Shaarey Zedek, chairman of Bnai
Brith's Commission on Adult Jew-
ish Education, will moderate a
panel discussion on "Our Jewish
Heritage" 8:15 p.m. Nov. 17.
The discussion, co-sponsored by
the Detroit Council of Bnai Brith,
will be held in the Aaron DeRoy
Theater.
Other members of the panel
will include Asher Tarmon, Is-
raeli educator now serving as
the Center's specialist on Hebrew
and Israeli culture; and Marcia
Segall, a senior at Wayne State
University's Monteith College,
who spent her junior year at
Israel's Hebrew University. Miss
Segall is also an instructor at
the United Hebrew Schools.
An Evening of I. L. Peretz (in
Yiddish) will be featured 8 p.m.
Nov. 20. Poet,
novelist and lect-
urer Chaim Grade
will discuss the
works of Peretz
and his effect on
the modern Jews
in the Aaron De-
Roy Theater.
Cantor Harold
Orbach of Temple
Beth El, accom-
.panied by pianist
Bella Goldberg,
will sing a Peretz
s ong, and a
group of young-
Grade sters from De-
troit's Yiddish schools will perform
a Peretz playlet, "If Not Higher,"
also in Yiddish.
The program is being cospon-
sored by the Center's Yiddish-
Hebrew Committee. Mrs. Morris
Friedman, chairman of the com-
mittee, will also serve as chair-
man of the evening.
The Metropolitan Detroit Jew-
ish Education Conference will be
held the closing day of the Fair,
3:30 p.m. Nov. 21. The theme will
be "Co-Curricular and Enrich-
ment Reading Material for the
Jewish Schools."
There will be four major group
seminars pertaining to various in-
structional levels and focusing on
possibilities of enrichment in the
teaching of Jewish history, Bible,
Jewish life and holidays, Israel
and the Hebrew language.
Participants will include fac-
ulties, -administrators and school-
board members from all segments
of Jewish schools in and around
Detroit.
Coordinators are Dr. Irving
Panush of the United Hebrew
Schools and Sidney Selig of Beth
Shalom School. Chairman will be
Albert Elazar, superintendent of
the UHS. Chairman of the ar-
rangements committee will be Mrs.
Carl Schiller.
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