THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, October 11, 1974-45
'Clinton Street': Entertaining Collection of Yiddish Stories
' h old folktales, Paver's stories of the story.
For the adults, Paver's
"Clinton Street and Other sing environment from whic 'Must be listened to rather
they
try
to
escape.
tales are told around a table.
Stories"
(Yiddisher
Kultur
than
read
in
order
to
get
the
Criterion to Have a Cocktail Party
The teen-agers could not full effect of his messages.
The children listen quietly
Fairbank, Inc.) is an enter-
accept
the demeaning strug-
Criterion Club will host a an admission charge.
as they sit around the story
taining
collection
of
short
Many
of
his
stories
employ
At 8:30 p.m. Wednesday,
gle for life of their parents
teller. The results, in both
cocktail party with refresh-
stories
representing
f
our
the
method
of
question
and
ments, dancing and entertain- the club will hold a closed- decades of Gershon Einbind- and elders. They frowned on answer. Paver starts out situations, a r e everlasting
ment 9 p.m. Saturday at the session membership meeting er's (better known by his the pushcart peddlers, pret- from the middle of a story, improvisations.
—Daniel Pesselnick
Charterhouse Apts. club at the Oak Park Community pen-name Chaver Paver) zel merchants and shopwork- as if he were continuing an
Center. Business will be fol-
ers, seeing them as "creators
room.
Yiddish
work.
old tale, as if both writer
lowed by a taped program
of a different species."
President Betty Weinberg featuring "The Story of the
and reader know what went
Published on the 10th anni-
The
author
points
out
that
invites guests. There will be Jews—An Eternal People" by versary of the author's death,
before.
gangsterism was a way of on "Clinton
Street and Other
Mike
Whorf.
this
volume
represents
the
41.
life for these young men;
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For information, call Ms. first collection of Paver's a dead-end street within Stories" was published at the
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can
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be
called
The f a m o u s "Clinton
vallade,
his
wife.
It
was
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is as important as the teller
Bershad or in New York, are
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just "average Jews."
"Clinton Street and Other
..et The Professionals Perform
Stories" also contains three
stories for children. These
tales are full of children and
all the members of the ani-
Jeep Sm ith — Dick Stein
mal kingdom. Paver amuses
his readers with his animals,
Shelby Lee - 7 — Patty Grant
since they have all the short-
Mori Little — Leonard McDonald Etc.
comings of his human char-
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The author's animals, as
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the Jews of Bershad, are
"do-gooders and eager to set
"Music T he Stein Way"
an unjust world." His dog
Lobsig suffers from emotional
self-adjustment, even the
need for self-punishment„
when he seriously considers
"running away to Philadel-
phia.".
Paver loves fantasy, which
has its own logic and laws—
"Alice moving under_ skies,
never seen by mortal eyes."
Yet, the subject ‘matter of
his - children's stories are
essentially realistic. The
Martin
problems are taken from real
life and the fantasy only adds
to the richness of the stories.
The author's story-telling is
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