14 Friday; March 10; 1919 • THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Haddam/et) A Lewin Tale of the Shtetl in Translation By ALLEN A WARSEN To everybody's astonish- Samuel .Lewin, whose ment, Reb Feivel appointed 647-8054 Yiddish works of fiction, a town thief as his gabbai, drama and poetry, were hoping that by this deed he 126 S. Woodward, Birmingham translated into 'Hebrew, would redeem the man from Mon., Tues., Wed., Sat. 10-6 English, German, French, his sinful ways and "save Thurs. & Fri. 10-9 and others authored the the town from thieves. Be- FOR THE ULTIMATE novel "The Turning of the cause if there would be no receiver to buy the stolen Tide" (A.S. Barnes). IN FASHION-RIGHT It was translated from the goods the thieves wouldn't FORMALWEAR RENTALS Yiddish by Joseph Leftwich steal." Upon Reb Feivel's death, who also wrote the &SALES - foreword. Leftwich noted, his only son "wouldn't take Celebrate the occasion with a fresh ap- proach to formalwear. Featuring an exten- "Lewin's novels are monu- over his father's legacy and' sive selection. The newest styles and ments raised to a people position." colors. Nevertheless, stories who are no longer here, the FEATURING about the saintly man millions of Jews of the Westwood, Newport, - Woodstock, towns and cities and vil- continued to circulate. Windsor, Tux Tails, 21 Colored Shirts, lages of what used to be the Even the neighboring Flared Pants, Volore Boots Christian villagers re- Jewish Pale of Settlement, • WEDDINGS • PROMS • CRUISES who were exterminated in lated all kinds of stories the ghettos and the death about the little tailor. • EVERY IMPORTANT SOCIAL EVENT According to one story, camps and the cre- matoriums. Samuel Lewin "The little tailor had met a sees them with the eye of cow, and had asked her why she was sad. Because she one who knew them closely was no longer giving milk. and loved them and has the artistry to bring them be- Then the tailor had gone to the peasant who owned the fore us as living people." cow, and told him that his The novel is a story about a poor tailor and his descen- cow would calf, and would dants who, at the beginning give him a lot of milk, more of this century, lived in a small town beside the Vis- tula. The tailor, Reb Feivel, ONLY ORIGINAL GRAPHICS, and his hunchback wife, POSTERS, and OIL PAINTINGS ALVAR NEW YORK — Samuel WILL BE SOLD Miriam, lived in poverty, - L. Haber, the honorary APPEL BOULANGER and were ridiculed by executive vice president of BRAQUE THURSDAY some people. Others, the American Joint Distri- BUFFET however, considered bution Committee and a MARCH 22, 1979 CALDER CECY them as saints, and were leader in - overseas Jewish CHAGALL convinced that the tailor relief efforts for more than DALI PREVIEW 7:00 pm DAVI LA . was one of the "36 right- 30 years, has joined Colum- AUCTION 8:00 pm - DEGAS eous men," and sus-, bia University as a consul- ESCHER SOMERSET INN petted that his wife's FRI EDLAENDER tant in the development of HALSEY hunchback was a dis- BIG BEAVER ROAD its program of Jewish HOGARTH guised container into east of COOLIDGE studies. MAXWELL which she would gather MIRO TROY, MICHIGAN Haber will work directly • NEI MAN the sins some folks com- with the 17-member advi- Park C0a5t Gallaria5 PICASSO mitted and secretly sory committee working on PURCELL empty them into thebriver RENOIR Columbia's $7.5" million ALL WORK ROCKWELL "so that none should see CUSTOM FRAMED funding drive to strengthen VASARELY AND READY TO HANG what she did." Jewish studies. Before long, the town's Haber began his career Dealers applicable for omission of state sales tax must have resale license on people recognized Reb with the American Joint person. REWARD , We are evaluating Feivel as their rebbe, and Distribution Committee in the effectiveness of our advertising:. FREE ADMISSION kindly bring ir‘ the enure page on which requested that he appoint "a .1947 as director for Ger- this ad appears. BANK— AMFRICARD gabbai (manager) to serve many, where he developed a MASTER CHARGE AMERICAN EXPRESS him and arrange his af- broad aid program for more fairs." - than 200,000 Jewish dis- placed persons. In 1954, he was sent to Morocco to organize a broad relief program which pro- vided essential services to more than 50,000 of the country's 240,000 Jews. He was given the added respon- sibility of developing a wel- fare program for Poland in 1957. In 1974, the Israeli gov- ernmentawarded Haber its ALEH award in recognitiOn of his services prior to the establishment of the state of With A Spectacular Israel. His other honors in- on over 600 Buicks, Opels, Hondas, New & Used, clude an honorary degree from the Hebrew Union Col- and Motor Homes all specially priced lege Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles and Yeshiva University's Ben Buick Opel Honda Mordecai Award. He is currently national chairman of the Hebrew University Associates Pro- gram. He is also a vice president of the Interna- tional Council on Jewish Social and Welfare Serv- ices, and a vice president and the chairman of the membership and finance committee of the American Council of Voluntary Agen- cies. Recently, he agreed to serve as chairman of the executive committee of the Clothier . PUBLIC ART AUCTION TamaRDFF Celebrates It's 10th Anniversary GREEN TAG SALE TELEGRAPH JUST SOUTH OF 12 MILE 353-1300 Immediate Delivery Open Mondays and Thursdays Til 9 p : m. CUSTOM LEASE PLANS AVAILABLE than ever before. And/ it came to pass as he had said." As the town became industrialized, the Jewish community underwent a so- cial and cultural metamor- phosis. Old beliefs and cus- toms were abandoned; a modern rabbi was engaged; a Hebrew school was estab- lished; young people be- came factory workers; Reb Feivel's great-grand daugh- ter joined the Polish Socialist Party; and her brother Joseph became a "maskil" (an enlightened Jew) and went to Warsaw to study. Before long, however, he became tired of the big city and returned home. Upon his arrival, he found his parents dying and his sister living with a factory worker whose' grandfather was a serf. The author weaves into the plot suspense- causing incidents and episodes, such as an ex- citing ceremony of dedi- Sam Haber to Aid Columbia Jewish Studies Fund Drive cating a new Sefer Torah; a Hasidic Sabbath obser- vance with its attendant fervor and ecstasy; an impressive rite of exor- cising a dybuk (an evil spirit), accompanied by shofar blowing, fervent prayers, spells, and in- cantations; the "business ventures" of the town's Jewish Robin Hood; and the love affairs of the female members of the new rebbe's family. Theseand other incide and episodes the nove artistically and skillful fitted together to form a fas- cinating mosaic of an active and vibrant pre-golocaust East European Jewish community. Announcing the Opening of . Ex Calibur Hair Styling Salon SAMUEL HABER Institute on Contemporary Jewry of the Hebrew Uni- versity of Jerusalem. German-Israeli Unit Sifts Data REHOVOT — Data gathered at the world's newest and most advanced elementary particle ac- celerator is being presented at the Third German-Israeli Minerva Syniposium on Physics, at Ein Bokek on the shores of the Dead Sea, under the sponsorship of the Minerva Gesellschaft of the Federal Republic of Ger- many. The review will be deliv- ered by a young particle physicist from the Weiz- mann Institute of Science in Rehovot who is now par- ticipating in the interna- tional collaborative effort to break in and improve the recently built ""Position- Electron Tandem Ring Ac- celerator" (PETRA) at the Deutsches Elektron- SYncrotron (DESY) in Hamburg, Germany. . Grant Aids Music CINCINNATI (JTA) — A grant of $66,668 has been made by the National Endowment for the Humanities for the Klau Library of the Cincinnati school of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to process and mic- rofilm a HUC music collec- tion. 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