THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 32 Friday, May 2, 1975 Camera Club Plans Exhibit at Center YIVO Marks 50th Anniversary By BORIS SMOLAR The Jewish Community (Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.) Center Camera Club will Fifty years is a very im- present its annual exhibi- tion of award-winning pho- portant milestone in the ex- tographs May 18 in the istence of a Jewish institu- lobby of the main Jewish tion. Especially when the institution was uprooted in Center. the country of its founding More belongs to dancing and transplanted into a new than a pair of dancing atmosphere in a new coun- shoes. try. •••••••••••••••••••••• • • Since /960 . . . Good friends get together at . . . • • SORB SIRED111 ' • • _ 4 - • .111 ,• , • • a • Something new at this old favorite. Menus that • feature even better ea. for a whole lot-less than you would expec • Sing along at the Piano Bar and • • • • • • • • • enjoy the spirit. ••••••••p. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • o. • • • • • 44 ••••••••••••••••• $8.95 • 20480 James Couzens (the Lodge Expressway service drive) at • the corner of Greenfield Road. Call 342-5660 for reservations. • For another great dining experience try the new Meyerson • RestatArrt, Trio at Franklin Place. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • .• • • sccrrcs-eni SIRLOIN •• LOBSTER BOIL EVERY THURSDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT I know she's someone specials.. bring her to my place! YIVO, the Institute for Jewish Research, is such an institution. It now cele- brates the 50th anniversary of its founding in Vilna, Po- land and the 35th anniver- sary of its "immigration" to the United States. It was very fortunate for YIVO that it succeeded in rescuing its valuable library and collections of rare man- uscripts from Nazi hands. But it was also fortunate for the world of Jewish learning that the much treasured YIVO library and archives reached the United States through a combination of dedicated effort and bizarre circumstances. Reconstituted in the U.S., YIVO expanded its archives to include mate- rial on Jewish immigrant life in this country and the development of the Jewish labor movement. Its li- brary 'now contains over 300,000 volumes and in its archieves there are mil- lions of items. Today it is impossible for any author to write a book .on Jewish history of East- ern European countries, on the Holocaust and ,oni, Jew- ish life in this country dur- ing the mass-immigration years without spending a good deal of time on re- search in the YIVO archives, near the Metropolitan Mu: seum in New York. The high reputation which YIVO succeeded in acquiring in a short time among Jews and non-Jews in the scholarly world in this country — gaining also recognition of the U.S. gov- ernment as a prestigious institution of Jewish re- search — is due to a-great. extent to zealous devotion of the late Prof. Max Wein- reich, one of its founders in Vilna who became a mem- ber of the faculty of Colum- bia University soon after his arrival in this country. He succeeded in centering around YIVO-many noted scholars and literary per- sonalities. In no time, Columbia University entered into an arrangement with YIVO for teaching Yiddish lan- guage and literature. This arrangement preceded the establishment by YIVO in 1970 of a Center for Ad- John Laffrey Mother's Day Sunday, May 11th 1 P M.to9PM MSU Hillel Will Hear Canada Prof vanced Jewish Studies at Columbia carrying Dr. Weinreich's name. The Weinreich Center does not award degrees, but its credits are transferable to other universities. A number of its graduates are already filling positions as teachers in Yiddish and Yid- dish literature in leading ac- ademic institutions. - At its inter-university graduate seminars the cen- ter offers, in addition to Yiddish language and litera- ture, courses on Eastern and East-Central European Jewry, Jews in the Soviet Union, the development of Jewish economic life in the United States, Jewish re- sponse to Nazi persecutions, and others. Thus, YIVO not only helps academicians, authors and scholars in their re- search work, but is also ac- tive in training staffs for teaching in Atherican col- leges and universities where courses of Jewish studies and classes of Yiddish cul- ture have been introduced. The National Endow- ment for Humanities, a federal agency, has granted YIVO the sum of $675,000 in support of its Weinreich Center. In addi- tion, the Endowment con- ditionally offered to in crease this grant by $200,000 on condition the Endowment receives matching donations for half of the additional amount. If the Jewish community takes up the present chal- lenge by the National En- dowment, the grant for the Weinreich Center will amount to $875,000 covering a five-year period: Jewish federations and individuals are expected to be respon- sive in helping YIVO with matching funds to meet the Washington requirement. MOVIE GUIDE Americana Complex 1, 2, 3, 4 Greenfield N. of STEAKS ON THE HEARTH 7 Mile at Telegraph Rd. CHILDREN'S MENU - Call 538-4688 tor reservations. ° 1 chairman of the department of Judaic studies at the Uni- versity of Manitoba, will be Shabaton guest today and Saturday at the Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation at Michi- gan State University. Rabbi Schachter attended the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Brooklyn, and earned an MA from Boston University, and a DHL from Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. He is an authority on Hasid- ism. He will lead prayers and speak on "Hasidism and the Age of Aquarius" while at Hillel. His visit is being made pog'sible by a grant from the United Jewish Charities of Detroit. $ • • A 4 P g r Mile 559-2730. TUE 1TERS—I Show only at I:00—$I "TOWERING INFERNO" (PG) "TOMMY" (G) "CHINATOWN" (R) By DAVID SCHWARTZ (Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.) The present recession has made a mess of restaurants. The cafes where one could sit down and have a meal have for the most part dis- appeared. Instead we have the fast food...shops. There is one cheery side — the emergence of the ba- gel. The last few months have seen an outcropping of bagel eating places. Every day in New York there seems to be a new one. The bagel has become stylish. We can recall the time when the so-called smart set would not be caught in the neighborhood of a bagel. The bagel was maligned, laughed at. Jokes were made especially about its hardness. Not a word was heard in its defense. Actually, the hardness of the bagel is one of its virtues. The ba- gel is very healthy. What makes the bagel so hard, is its lack of fat. Millions of people are worried about cholesterol. The Jews of Eastern Europe who ate bagels were not bothered much by the cholesterol problem. The hardness of the bagel is also good for the teeth. Ask your dentist and he will tell you that the jaw also needs exercise. About the- only exercise our jaws get today is when we talk and nowadays with everybody watching TV, who talks? In a press interview, Ellin Mackay Berlin was telling about her married life with the song writer, Irving Ber- lin. Their marriage was a sensation in its day. Irving Berlin was a famous song writer when he married, but the Mackays were strongly opposed to it. They were of the wealthy aristocracy and did not condescend to have their daughter wed a prod- uct of New York's East Side. Mrs. Berlin told the re- porter that her father later changed his mind corn- pletely about it and the BERKLEY 7:25 & 9:20 Fri. & Sat. Eve Open 7:15 HARRY & TONTO 7:35 & 9:30 Sat. Only Open 1:30 over 3:35 Sun. Open 1:15 HARRY & TONTO 1:40, 3:35, 5:30, 7:25 & 9:20 Bargain Nites every Sun., Mon. & Thurs. All Seats $1.00 No coupons. Coupons accepted all other days. ) t Gallery to Host One-Man Show Recent paintings by Ed- ward Levine will be on exhi- bition Sunday through May 17 at Garelick's Gallery, 280 N. Woodward, Birmingham. A preview and reception will be held 2-6 p.m. Sunday at the gallery. Levine has participated in several re- gional and national invita- tionals and juried exhibi- tions. The gallery hours are 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday-Sat- urday. Your Washington Theatre has brought back the good old days! SUN. thou THURS. ALL SEATS 51.00 FRI. and SAT. ADULTS S2.00 CHILDREN 51.00 Tonight Alan Arkin James Caen Freebie and the Beam CO 1,1 ,1,1‘.:, Children's Matinee DIGBY THE WORLD'S LARGEST DOG They helped organize la- bor. A Sidney Hillman was an adviser to Franklin De- lano Roosevelt. They pro- duced comedians to make the people laugh and song writers like Berlin and Gershwin and so on. We do not know who was the genius who invented the bagel. The inventors of many great things are un- known to us. Who invented the wheel? The bagel itself is a kind of wheel. It is round. The in- ventor of the bagel- must have been an artist. The cir- cle, Emerson said, is the pri inary art form. The shape of the bagel is no doubt part of its attraction. THE LI 2.0330 HARRY & TONTO (R) Russian Jews were ma- ligned like bagels, too. They came with nothing but "bedd gevand." They peddled, they worked in sweat shops. They built up the garment indus They helped develop moving pictures. They be- came doctors. A Salk and a Sabin discovered the cure for infantile para- lysis. TL 12 Mile-Coolidge Weekdays Open 7 o'clock Art Carney, Academy Award Winner "Best Actor" marriage has been a very happy one. Mrs. Berlin went on to tell about her hus- band, and how is family had arrived from Russia with only their "bedd gevand." Somehow it all reminded me of bagels. Bagel, "bedd gevand" and Russian Jews — all belong to the same category. , Remember when you and family could see hit movies ' and not destroy your budget? r "JANIS" (R) Rabbi Zalman Schachter, . 9 Tin.: tTERS IN ONE BUILDING Vied. vriNEES tLL Emeigence of the Bagel i „ • T TA WO! • iACK HARPS VA; ql( AND GENE AL HACKAIAN 12ACIN° PANAVISION® TECHNICOLOR', 4sCR 422 S. WASHINGTON, ROYAL OAK 541-0092 c■E