10 Friday, December 14, 1919 Disco Parties by IL ' • Dan Samittom 3153-601011 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Author Bill Broder. Reconstructs Background as Native Detroiter Israel Workers Conduct Strike — All municipal services in Tel Aviv came to a halt Sunday as 10.000 municipal workers staged a 24-hour warning strike for not re- ceiving their November salaries. Garbage was pil- ing up fast in the city's JERUSALEM (JTA streets. City hospitals and other emergency services oper- ated on a weekend and holi- day basis. Mayor Shlomo Lahat and Interfor Minister Yosef Burg accused each other for the financial diffi- culti's of Tel Aviv. "Meet the Author" is a normal function frequently sponsored by national pub- lishers-in New York as means of introducing a book and its author, with the aim of popularizing both. In Detroit, Tuesday, "Meet the Author" became a nostalgic occasion for a na- tive Detroiter who has authored a volume that is approaching best-seller status. Bill Broder, a native De- troiter who now resides with his immediate family in Sausalito, Calif., was here, at the reunion with community and family, to introduce his book "The Sacred Hoop" (Sierra Club Books), hailed by the pub- lisher as "a unique experi- ence in historical fiction from the retelling of 'Genesis' to the saga of the Steam God (Transcontinen- tal Railroad) in 19th Cen- tury'America." A GOLDEN YEAR We Invite Your Participation in celebrating Our 50th Jubilee Campaign 1930-1980 Introduced by local community leader, his brother Brewster Broder, the author's visit was an occasion for a family reunion. At Our 50th Annual Donor Tea His father was the late Hy Broder, who served as president - of the Jewish Community Center. His mother was the former Celia Meyers and her uncles were the Keidans. Thus, this event brought to the scene the descendants of the Meyers and Keidan families, both having ranked in top leadership. Author Bill Broder there- fore had an opportunity to speak nostalgically about the community into which he was born and where he had his interesting back- ground — the late Joel Cashdan having been his Bar Mitzva teacher, Julius Chajes having advised him that he would not succeed at the piano. - The" former location of Shaarey Zedek on Chicago Blvd. was impressively de- ‘110- 411 -- 12:00 Noon, Tuesday, January 8, 1980 Shaarey Zedek Synagogue 27375 Bell Road Southfield, Michigan 48034 for information call: JEWISH NATIONAL FUND, 27308 Southfield Road, Southfield, Michigan, 557-6644 Reba (Mrs. Irving) Bloom President Shirley (Mrs. Jules) Kraft Fund Raising Chairwoman Doris (Mrs. Joseph) Mark. I Program Chairwoman picted in Broder's speech at the author luncheon at the Jewish Community Center. erArooe—store-wide sale featuring reductions of • 207,-50Z OFF on his and her CONTEMPORARY SPORTSWEAR by such designer names as • Jag • Fiorucci • Sasson • Geoffrey Beene • Kennsington Blue • Calvin Klein • Cacharel • Irka • Kenar PIA fir/VA of West Bloomfield in the Orchard Mall 1/2 block north of Maple Road on Orchard Lake Road just orn • 626-5516 • MON., TUE., WED., SAT, 10 to 6 p.m. THURS., FRI. 10 to 9 p.m. SUN. 12 to 5 p.m . • Commenting on his fascina- tion of the natural phenomena. he thus spoke about his book: "'The Sacred Hoop,' is, in part, about 'commu- nity.' It is also about God or gods, and about na- ture. "In a series of tales which follow history from the be- ginning to the present, the book tells how we have be- come separated from nature and what that separation has meant to our culture. Each tale is about an ordi- nary person struggling to come to terms with the obs- tacles which events have posed to his or her reverence for the earth. Although the stories rest upon archeolog- ical and historical evidence, hopefully, each of my char- acters lives to tell his or her own tale. "You will find here, among others, a primitive man hunting a closely re- lated species, a Sumerian irrigation administrator who has been unjustly stripped of his canal, a sac- red prostitute and prophetess who helps re- form the Judaic Code, a Greek father who se family is threatened by nature cults, a Roman road builder, a Slavic slave girl working in German iron mines, a displaced English farmer who becomes a landscape architect, and a chinese la- borer blasting the transcon- tinental railway -through the Sierra Mountains. "By using these episoiles of individual lives, I hope to make a composite protrait of our own present attitude towards nature. Our minds are not new-made with each generation. We have inher- ited a patchwork of beliefs and impulses, some of which go back to earliest man, _ others to cultures which today s--e-em worlds re- moved." The way he got "mixed up with nature" was part of Broder's topic analyzing "the wilderness into which I was born." This mix-up with na- ture continued in Broder's message to his gathering here and he quoted from his book: "My people all but ig- nored nature, except to thank God fisa-its bounties. Even though - my great- grandparents in the Old World sold fishing lines, hooks and nets, and lived under the same roof as their goats and cows, their atten- tion was focused on such questions as: 'How should we treat one another under the constant gaze of a vigil- ant God?' and 'What are our duties to one another and to that God?' "I think the most they asked of animals was whether their hooves were cloven, or how best, to slit their throats and salt their flesh so that God would not be offended. If the Jews of the Lithuanian Confeder- acy had any feeling for ani- mals or nature, it was all but lost by the time my great-uncle reached Detroit and sent far the rest of the family. "It seemed almost as tithe covenant which had made them a people devoted to justice and morality had excluded them trim e' Meyers and Keidan family names may have been incidental to the - Meet the Author" event at the Center, but the honored guest Bill Broder served an interesting purpose: he re- vived the highly respected community interest in two eminent families and made the nostalgia somewhat his- toric for Detroit Jewry. — P.S. 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