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also were on hand rights were released 1C months
, ago, there have been another 1.015
The show, which began with a productions. Over 37,500.000 people
t 5,55151 run in Detroit's Fisher have seen ''Fiddler.''
Paul Lipson, who has plays?
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Breads
helped popularize
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tory:
Shalom Aleichen: and his charac

ter.
Fleet Press has published a
small but impressi, e book for cl-q,1
dren portraying the chief character
in the - FMcIler. -
In "Tevye. Oh. a Miracle, - the

new Fleet Press Shalom Aleichem
book, the multicolored pictures
are by Kerman Kerman, the
artist. They provide an im-
pressive touch to the brief but
delightful story.
Edited by Dr, D. Spicehandler,
the Fleet Street story was trans-
lated from the original by Adi
!lariat.
Tevye and his troubles are here
—his wife, daughters and the cow
that provides his livelihood are
depicted as the tale develops into
an admonition to the author: "Now
listen to me, Mister Shalom Aled
chem. You're the first one to whom
I've told this story. so you'll for
give me if I talkd a little too
Now you can go back to
much
visor hook writing and I to my
horse and wagon .
The pathos and the humor of the
story make this "Tevye - a timely
fie' children at a time when
"Fiddler on the' Hoof" emerges as
the longest running play on Broad
was

'the New York Times, writing
edi'er.ally under the heading
" 'Fiddler' Is His-tory," stated
about the play's assumption of first
position as the longest-running play
on Broadway:
"In the beginning were the
words: by Shalom Aleichem. the
Yiddish Mark Twain, spinning tales
of Tevye the dairyman and his
daughters and friends in the old
country. Then there was one of
those rare Broadway miracles: a
blend of story, book, lyrics, music
and acting into a classic called
Fiddler on the Roof. Some day the
cultural historians will explain how
come a musical about a Jewish
family in Czarist Russia in 1905—
about poor and unimportant people
—is loved in Finland, Japan, South
Africa, Brazil and just about every
country but Russia itself. Mean-
while, New Yorkers can take some
pride in the fact that it all began
here and that. with this evening's
performance, 'Fiddler on the Roof'
becomes the longest-running pro•
duction (parsing 'Life With
Fa-
ther') m Broadw:iy history Hazel

..,, of 50 years in Congress—He Foreign Minister Abba Eban and
in with the Harding adminis. Jerusalem's mayor, Teddy Koliek.
tration —was upset by an attrac- In the 14th District, a Jewish
tisc 30-year-old woman lawyer challenger, former Rep. Allard
Elizabeth Holtzman. also Jewish. I K . Lowenstein, was beaten by
Celler is asking for a recount in cumbent Congressman John J.
the 562-vote upset. : Rooney. Rep. Bertram Podell won
Rep. Bella Abzug lost to Rep handily over his challenger, State
William Ryan in Manhattan's 20th : Assemblyman Leonard Simon in
Congessional District, and Rep. Brooklyn's 13th District.
James Scheuer was defeated by
Rep. Jonathan Bingham in the
22nd District in the Bronx.

Both contests were held in dis-
tricts newly created by reappor-
tionment. and the race in each case
was between staunch liberals.

In the Bronx, where Bingham
defeated Scheuer by a margin of
about 5.000 votes, appeals to Jew-
ish voters who make up 60 per

Kentucky Denies Holiday
Leave to Jewish Teachers

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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8—Friday June 23, 1972

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To any state. Also &nom furnish-
ed to drive your car anywhere.
Legally insured and I.C.C. licensed

2 Students Arrested
in Fire Bombing of
Eros Sex Boutique

TEL AVIV (JTAI — Two Yes-

hiva students from Jerusalem were
arrested early Wednesday morn-
ing following the fire bombing of
Eros, a "sex boutique" that mar-
kets erotic photographs and 'sex-
ual aids."

The youths were seized follow-
ing a car chase in which shots
were fired, Two other occupants
FRANKFOR. Ky (JTA) — The of the car escaped. The names of
Kentucky attorney general's office : the two men arrested were not
has reaffirmed an earlier decision! immediately disclosed.
that emergency leave may not be
The Eros shop, which does its
gi , en to Jewish teachers so that , business by mail order rather than
they may observe their holidays. I over the counter, has been under
Asst. Atty. Ben. Carl Miller said attack by Orthodox elements since
that allowing them leave would he I it opened. A recently opened
"a discrimination made in their branch in Jerusalem has been
fa‘ or which is not made for morn- picketed by religious zealots.
Police who have been guarding
hers of any other faith." He said
that Kentucky schools do not oh-. the Tel Avis' shop said they saw
serve any holidays which are not two men hurl bombs and kerosene
that into the shop early Wednesday ;
secular holidays,
adding
"Thanksgiving and Christmas have morning from a car occupied by
religious connotations but also are four and the chase ensued. The
thoroughly secular "
, car was identified as rented.

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