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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Meadow Brook Premiere Set

The Meadow Brook Thea-
ter will present the world
premiere of "End of Rama-
dan" by Charles Nolte 8:30
p.m. Thursday at the thea-
ter.
The play will run through
Feb. 21. For ticket informa-

Great Jewish Books Appeared in 1981

tion, call the Meadow Brook
box office, 377-3300.

By MICHAEL BANDLER

JWB Jewish Book Council

I hate to see things done
by halves. If it be right, do it
boldly; if it be wrong leave it
undone.
—Gilpin

NEW YORK — There are
those people who, from time
to time, lament the fact
that, in their view, works of
quality on Jewish subjects
are progressively harder to
find. That may be so.
Nonetheless, at a time of the
year when lists of "bests" in
all corners of culture are
compiled, one still can, in
good conscience, offer a ros-
ter -of the best Jewish-
oriented titles of 1981. The
most significant volumes, in
no particular order are:

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Laqueur (Little, Brown) —
a persuasive analysis of the
disbelief that greeted accu-
rate information about the
Holocaust during its course,
and the reasons why the re-
ports of the intensifying
horror failed to register on
both sides of the Atlantic. It
is a book that, in survivor-
attorney Samuel Pisar's
words, "proves that the un-
thinkable is indeed possible
and that the sin of silence
and disbelief is perhaps the
greatest sin of all."

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"Breakthrough: A Per-
sonal Account of the
Egypt-Israel Negotia-
tions," by Moshe Dayan
(Knopf), and "The Battle
for Peace," by Ezer Weiz-

man (Bantam) — two con-
trasting accounts of the
road to Camp David by two
former Israeli Defense
Ministers, each quite frank
and revealing in its own
way.

"The Art of Biblical
Narrative," by Robert

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Bierman (Viking) — the
first full-length account of
the courage, relentlessness,
and strange disappearance
of the Swedish diplomat
who did more than his share
to protect individual Jews
in Europe from the Nazi
scourge, only to find himself
turned into a victim by Mos-
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Timerman (Knopf) — an ac-
count of the experiences of
the editor and publisher of
La Opinion, a major news-
paper in Buenos Aires, dur-
ing his 2'/> years of impris-
onment by the Argentine
government. Passionate,
frank, stunning, it has been
the controversial subject of
numerous favorable and
condemnatory articles, and
the cause of substantial
comment in U.S. govern-
ment circles. Whatever
one's own political perspec-
tive, this is a significant
work, arguably as impor-
tant a book as appeared in
1981.

Alter (Basic Books) — an
impressive piece of literary
analysis that probes what
the author calls "the mul-
tifaceted artistry" of scores
of age-old biblical episodes.
Employing "literary binoc-
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tionship between the Bible
and literature, and oh the
Bible as literature.

"Vichy France and the
Jews," by Michael R. Mar-

cus and Robert 0. Paxton
(Basic Books) — a worth-
while historical examina-
tion that utilizes a broad
range of documentation to
reveal the travail of the
Jews of France during the
Vichy era.

"The Birobidzhan Af-
fair: "A Yiddish Writer in
Siberia, by Israel Emiot

(Jewish Publication
Society).— a memoir about
eight years' servitude in a
series of Soviet labor camps
in the last days of the
Stalinist period, starkly and
sensitively told.

FICTION
"Badenheim 1939," by

Aharon Appelfeld (David R..
Godine) — an impressive,
yet - brief novel set in the
ominous atmosphere of the
pre-Holocaust Austria. It
describes the unraveling of
existences and, at the same
time, introduces us to a
masterly Israeli literary ta-
lent. (His second book to be

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Comedy Capers will pre-
sent super comics from Gig-
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and Toronto's Yuk Yuk's,
8:45 and 10:45 p.m. today
and Saturday at Stafford's
in the Orchard Mall.
John Rathbone, Lowell
Sanders, Stuart Mitchell
and Mike Rappa will be fea-
tured this weekend. Tony
DePaul of the Los Angeles
Comedy Store will headline
Jan. 29 and 30.
Stafford's Kids Cabaret
featuring a show and lunch
is presented every Saturday
at 1 p.m. For reservations
for any of the shows, call
Stafford's, 851-8952.

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Friedman, will have a stop
smoking clinic beginning
7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Or-
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West Bloomfield.
The clinic is sponsored by
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Mrs. Friedman, 855-2808.

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Wayne State University's
Bonstelle Theater will pre-
sent "Wonderful Town" be-
ginning 8:30 p.m. Jan 29.
Tickets are available at
the WSU Theater box office,
577-2972.

"Farewell to Europe,"

by Walter Laqueur (Little,
Brown) — the author's sec-
ond novel (a sequel to his
first, "The Missing Years"),
a three-generational saga
focusing on a German-
Jewish Holocaust survivor.
"The Testament," by
Elie Wiesel (Summit) — the
gifted storyteller's first
exploration in fiction of the
plight of the Jews of Russia
in modern- times, those per-
secuted yet courageous
souls he -has termed the
"Jews of silence." Set before,
during and after the era of
Stalin, it is rooted in the
Soviet dictator's obsessive
purge of Jewish artists and
writers a year before his
death. It is a fiery, mul-
tilayered, eminently read-
able work.

"The Books of Lights,"

by Chaim Potok (Knopf) —
another of Potok's explora-
tions of a tortured, tempes
tuous religious soul, this
time focused on a rabbi serv-
ing as a chaplain in Korea
who is forced to reconcile
good and evil, religion and
secularism, Judaism and
paganism. It is Potok's
broadest fictional theme as
well as a loving, lyrical — if
occasionally stormy- —
book.
"The Stolen Jew, by Jay
Neugeboren (Holt) — one of
the more expansive
American-Jewish novels in
the catalogue of 20th Cen-
tury Jewish-oriented litera-
ture, a marvelous, poignant
saga of what it means — and
meant to be a Jew in a host
of specific times and places.
Its story-within-a-story
may confuse some readers,
but stick with it, -for
Neugeboren is a vastly im-
portant — and under-rated
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American-Jewish
novelist, and this is his most
fully-realized tale.

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