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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Theater Events Set for Annual Book Fair
At 2 p.m. Nov. 2, as part of
the 29th annual Jewish
Book Fair, the Michigan
Lyric .Opera Company will
present "George Gershwin's
Life and Music: A Program
for Youngsters." The per-
formance will be held in the
Aaron DeRoy Studio Thea-
ter at the main Jewish
Community Center.
This concert has been de-
signed for children of
elementary school age. It
will feature many of Ger-
shwin's best-known tunes,
such as "Summertime" and
"I Got Plenty o' Nuthin" and
some of his lesser known
pieces such as "Mischa,
Yashca, Toscha, Sascha."
Special consideration will
be given to some of the dis-
tinctively Jewish elements
in his music.
Narration for the pro-
gram, which will last ap-
proximately 45 minutes,
will be provided by Michi-
gan Lyric Opera's Good
Witch and Dew Fairy.
There is a charge.
At 8 p.m. Nov. 8, an
evening of English-
Yiddish Theater will be
co-sponsored by the Yid-
dish Committee of the
Jewish Community Cen-
ter. The show is entitled
"Yiddishkeit" and there
is a charge.
Mimi Sloan and Herschel
Gendel are the stars of the
variety show. Mimi Sloan is
the daughter of Moishe and
Sabina Feder, prominent
actors. Last season, review-
ers were unanimous in their
praise for her stint as the
leading female star in
"Hello, Solly!" on Broad-
way. Prior to that, Miss
Sloan starred in more than
30 Yiddish theater prod-
uctions.
Gendel is a long-time
favorite of our English-
Yiddish Theater, and has
appeared at Book Fair sev-
eral times. He is considered
to be an outstanding
humorist and interpreter of
Jewish wit, humor, satire
and folklore. His authentic
interpretation of American-
Jewish characters has won
him wide acclaim.
At 10:30 a.m. Nov. 9, the
Jewish Historical Society
and the Jewish Parents
Institute will co-sponsor
the appearance of Arthur
Kurzweil, the author of
"From Generation to
Generation (How to
Trace Your Jewish
Geneology and Personal
Book Report
Contest for Kids
A book report contest for
students in grades 1-9 will
be held in conjunction with
the annual Book Fair at the
Jewish Community Center.
Prizes will be awarded in
three areas: reports on
bOoks of fiction or non-
fiction with a Jewish theme,
and Hebrew books with any
theme.
Awards will be presented
Nov. 2 by Israeli author
Yehuda Amichai. Entries
must be submitted by
Thursday to the Cultural
Arts Department at
the Jewish Community
Center.
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Friday, October 24, 1980 11
Re-elect
Bill
Broomfield
Sloan
Gendel
History)." The title of his
talk is "Jewish History Is
Family History."
In 1970, in the New York
Public Library, Kurzweil
happened upon a photo-
graph of his great-
grandfather in the memo-
rial book of his parent's
birthplace, Dobromil, Po-
land.
Despite being told that it
was impossible for a Jew to
trace his ancestry, Kurzweil
proceeded painstakingly to
search in America and
Eastern Europe through old
birth and death certificates,
immigration records, tem-
ple files and more in an ef-
fort to unearth significant
branches of his family tree.
Today he has traced his
lineage through many gen-
erations on both sides of his
family, dating as far back as
the 16th Century.
Explanations on how to
go about locating one's
Jewish ancestors are de-
tailed in the book and in-
clude addresses of specific
locating services as well as
private and governmental
agencies.
The author of the
famous K'tonton stories,
Sadie Rose Weilerstein,
will speak at Book Fair 2
p.m. Nov. 9 to tell stories
and speak to children
from kindergarten to ap-
proximately third grade.
Mrs. Weilerstein has
written several books about
K'tonton, the Jewish Tom
Thumb. She has also writ-
ten "Dick the Horse That
Kept the Sabbath," "What
the Moon Brought,"
"Jewish Heroes" and "Ten
and A Kid."
Mrs. Weilerstein has won
many awards including the
Jewish Book Council of
America Juvenile Award in
1962 and the Yovel Award
in .1968 from the Women's
League for Conservative
Judaism.
Also appearing at 2
p.m. Nov. 9, will be
Richard Siegel and Carl
Rheins, co-authors of
"The Jewish Almanac."
JPS Event Nov. 2
Reservations are still
being taken for the Jewish
Publication Society dinner,
5:30 p.m. Nov. 2, as a Book
Fair feature event.
Irwin "Toby" Holtzman,
JPS vice president, is
supervising plans for this
function to encourage inter-
est in books through JPS.
Bernard Levinson, execu-
tive vice president of JPS,
will be a guest at the dinner,
and the speaker will be Is-
raeli poet Yehuda Amichai.
For dinner reservations,
call the Jewish Community
Center Cultural Arts De-
partment, 661-1000, .ext.
250.
Kurzweil
Weilerstein
Our Congressman
for the SOs
Shapiro
Their appearances will community for the Ameri-
be co-sponsored by the can Jewish Yearbook for the
Bnai Brith Men's and past 30 years.
Women's Councils and
Dr. Shapiro's "The His-
the Bnai Brith Hillel tory of ORT" is based on ar-
Foundation. Their talk is chival, previously unknown
' entitled "An Optimistic sources. While examining
View of the Jewish Fu- the mechancis of the service
ture."
organization, the book em-
Siegel and Rheins met at phasizes individual human
the State University ofVew experiences of young per-
York in 1974. Siegel was sons who might not other-
Hillel director there, and w,ise have received the
Rheins taught courses in training to become product-
modern Jewish history. , ive and self-sufficient.
For information about
Book Fair activities, call the
JewiSh Community Center
Cultural Arts Department,
661-1000, ext. 250.
Siegel
Rheins
"The Jewish Almanac" was
officially launched in 1977.
Siegel is also the author of
"The Jewish Catalog."
"The Jewish Almanac" is
a 600-page compendium of
essays, opinion pieces, and
articles on subjects ranging
from "Judaism in the Year
2100" to "Where to Find the
Best Pickles, Lox, Bagels,
Blintzes, and Falafel."
Maps, charts, photographs
and lists are included.
Dr. Leon Shapiro, his-
torian and authority on
Jewish and Eastern
European Studies and
author of "The History of
ORT: A Movement for
Social Change," will
speak on "Jews of East-
ern Europe" at 8 p.m.
Nov. 9. His appearance
will be co-sponsored by
the Michigan Region,
Men's and Women's
American ORT.
Dr. Shapiro's academic
associations include profes-
sorships of Russian and
Soviet Jewish History at
Rutgers
UniverSity,
Columbia
University
Seminar on International
Research Methods, State
University of New York,
Queens and Brooklyn Col-
lege.
He was editor and project
consultant for the Lauten-
berg Oral History Collec-
tion of the Surviving East-
ern European Community,
and has written the section
on developments in the
Eastern European Jewish
During his 24 years in Congress and as
the ranking member of the House For-
eign Affairs Committee, Bill Broom-
field has demonstrated his concern
for the State of Israel and its security.
Poland Names
`Hatchet Man'
NEW YORK — The
Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai Brith has expressed
"outrage" that- Mieczyslaw
Moczar, "an anti-Semitic
hatchet man," has again
been elected chairman of
Poland's Supreme Chamber
of Control, the agency
Which investigates corrup-
tion.
The ADL says Moczar
was responsible for the 1968
purge of throusands of Jews.
Abraham H. Foxman, asso-
ciate national director of the
ADL, declared, "It.is uncon-
scionable behavior to con-
tinue honoring this ruthless
former police chief who has
committed 8o may at-
rocities.
On September 18, 1980 Congressman Broomfield
met with Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir
during a meeting of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee.
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SATURDAY PERFORMANCES
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at the
Aaron DeRoy Theatre.
6600 West Maple Road.
West Bloomfield. Michigan
For further information . call
Cultural Arts Qept.
661-1000 ext. 250 or
Joan Rose 543-5912