THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 3 Friday, November 13, 1981 Youth Aliya Program Provides Offstage 'Career' for Actress By WENDY ELLIMAN United Jewish Appeal JERUSALEM Shoshana Ravid has played Shakespeare and Chekhov, ancient Greek tragedy and modern Hebrew drama. A"grande dame" of Is- BUCKLErigisilMITED BU C K L ES $450 3 for 512.50 $5, 510 awl vie OTHER BUCKLES AT U. OVER 1,800 DIFFERENT BUCKLE STYLES h._ PEARL SCISSORS THE BUCKLE LADY' 2240 COOLIDGE Farmington *kW ere Saterday10-6 — Free Pedal 5 ELKS. N. OF 11 MILE 35171 Grand River BERKLEY. ML 48072 blk. E. of Drake efakeskire %loin Cater 545-6885 474-0055 rael's stage and screen, she has entertained and moved audiences in public per- formances across Israel for more than three decades. Yet this dynamic, 55- year-old theatrical star - always performing, always in demand, is just as famil- iar a figure to more private audiences as well — to Youth Aliya gatherings and celebrations, where she reads from Henrietta Szold's letters. 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There would be no heat and often no food either - and she would warm the family by telling them of a better world in Eretz Israel, where we were, and where in every home there was a big bag of cookies and the children could help themselves whenever they wanted." From Gan HaShlosha, the Youth Aliya village that served as her first Israeli home, Shoshana and her class moved to Kfar Giladi in northern Israel. "The idea was to decide whether we wanted to join the kibutz or to start a new settlement of our own," she says. "But on Kfar Giladi I met Leah Birnberg — and that meet- ing changed my life." Leah Birnberg had studied drama and it was she who awoke in Shoshana an urge to act that she never knew was in her. "An aunt of mine had been on the stage," she says, "but she disap- peared in the Holocaust. Slowly, over about two years, an ambition to act took hold of me. I kept it close as a great secret — like a first love or a secret dream. I was totally pos- sessed by it." Tel Aviv's Habima Thea- ter was holding auditions. Shoshana went along and was accepted into the com- pany. "All my dreams came true," she says. "I met my Terrorism Against Jews Subject of Rally NEW YORK (JTA) — Public officials, religious leaders and members of the diplomatic corps joined some 700 other New Yor- kers at a memorial gather- ing at the Fifth Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan last week to protest acts of terrorism against Jewish communities in Western Europe. Sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of New York and its 30 member agencies, 'the program memorialized the victims of the Oct. 20 synagogue bombing in Antwerp, as well as those maimed and killed in a series of attacks on Jewish communal in- stitutions in Paris, Vienna, Antwerp, Rome and other cities during the past 12 months. beloved husband, Shraga Friedman, who was a member of the troupe. I acted roles that every ac- tress dreams of. We traveled all over Israel with our plays. "I appeared in films, I took a scriptwriting course in the United States ... I left Habima when we started a family, but I could never keep away for long. I still act regularly — the theater is in my blood." Nor can she keep away from Youth Aliya, which is just as deeply in her blood. WSU Press Offers Volume on Globe Theater Project In the spring of 1979, a group of Shakespearean scholars met at Wayne State University to explore the possibility of construct- ing a replica of the famous Globe Theater on the De- troit Riverfront. That conference has been documented in "The Third Globe: Symposium for the Reconstruction of the Globe Playhouse, Wayne State University, 1979" (WSU Press). The volume was edited by conference par- ticipants C. Walter Hodges, S. Schoenbaum and Leonard Leone. Following the sym- posium, Detroit Mayor Coleman Young and WSU President Thomas Bonner declared a civic commit- ment to reconstruct the Globe Theater on the river- front between the Renais- sance Center and Belle Isle. The theater will serve as a study and research center for the university and will include space for museum exhibitions. Originally, there were two Globe playhouses at the Bankside site in Lon- don. The first acciden- tally _burned down in 1613. The second was built to replace it and opened its doors to the public in 1614. It is the second theater that will be recreated on the river- front. C. Walter Hodges is an authority on the structure of Elizabethan playhouses; S. Schoenbaum is professor of renaissance studies at the Universities of Maryland and author of "Shakes- peare: The Globe and the World"; Leonard Leone is professor of theater arts and director of the theater de- partment at WSU. Germans Elect Town's Only Jew to City Council NEW YORK — In what was either a rebellion against conformity or a poor joke, the town of Jever, West Germany has, accord- ing to the New York Times, elected its only Jewish resi- dent to the city council. Fritz Levy, a somewhat eccentric 80-year-old, was elected last month by a coal- ition of young adults con- cerned with the town's anti-Semitic past and resi- dents of a home for senior citizens, located in one of the voting districts. Levy says he made the decision to run for council himself, al- though the editor and pub- lisher emeritus of the town paper, the Jeverisches Wochenblatt, feel he was coaxed into it by the youth center group. The middle class estab- lishment in Jever (popula- tion 12,000) is embarrassed and upset at Levy's election. Through the years, Levy, the only Jew to return to Jever after World War II, has been an irritant for the town's conservative citi- zens. His house was a mess, he rode his bicycle on the sidewalk (not acceptable behavior in much of Europe), and occasionally shouted at women in the market square. But Levy has been vic- timized by the remnants of anti-Semitism in a town that, during the 1930s, was a fascist stronghold in Hitler's Germany. When Levy was born in Jever in 1901, there was a Jewish com- munity of about 200 in the town, which then had a population of 6,000. He took over the family cat- tle business before being sent to the Sac- hsenhausen concentra- tion camp. Levy was released from the camp and boarded a boat for Shanghai, where he spent the remainder of the war. He worked briefly in San Francisco before re- turning to Jever in 1949, hoping to find two nieces whom he had lost track of during the war. He dis- covered that his mother and sisters had been killed but that the nieces were living safely in Bolivia. He chose to remain in Jever. Levy, as the council's old- est member, will preside when the governing body meets to choose a mayor this month. A prepared text of- fered to him by the town manager would have him promising not to be a clown and professing his faith in Jever and democracy. Levy says he won't have any part of the plan. "I'm not going to make myself ridiculous," he said. Zionist Challenge JERUSALEM (ZINS) — At a recent Zionist seminar in Herzliya, World Zionist Organization and Jewish Agency chairman Arye Dulzin said, "Every indi- vidual Zionist must give his personal answer to the chal- lenge of aliya and Jewish education, without which the Zionist movement will collapse on its own."