THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Six Authors to Speak at Jewish Book Fair The Jewish Community Center's 31st annual Jewish Book Fair has scheduled a number of authors for its third and fourth days of activities, Nov. 15-16. Esther Jungreis will be the speaker at 10 a.m. Nov. 15 (Sisterhood Day). Her topic will be "American Mores and Jewish Values." A descendant of a great rabbinic dynasty whose lineage dates back to the days of King David, a sur- vivor of the Holocaust, the wife of an American Or- thodox rabbi, Esther Jun- greis has become a cele- brated Rebbetzin whom Time magazine had dubbed, "The Jewish Billy Graham." A spellbinding speaker, she has ap- peared on hundreds of radio, television and lec- ture programs through- out the United States and has 136en the subject of as many magazine and newspaper stories. She founded Hineni, an international movement whose purpose is to awaken the Jewish people to their (Continued from Page 68) Youth Conduct Member Lunch Hashachar, for youth in fourth-seventh grades,. will meet 1:15 p.m. Oct. 31 in the Cong. Beth Israel youth room. The occasion will be the paid-up membership luncheon. The meeting will include election of officers. Donna Rosenblatt, regional direc- tor of Hashachar, will lead games and songs. Florence Berner is the youth group director; Eighth-12 grade students who are willing to assist should call Mrs. Berner, 732-3346. Flint BB Unit Plans Luncheon Flint Bnai Brith Women will celebrate the 85th birthday of Bnai Brith Women at a luncheon 11 a.m. Sunday at the Speakeasy, Grand Blanc. A program featuring Roz Kramer and Anita Kippel- man will highlight the af- ternoon. New members are invited free of charge. There is a charge for members and guests. For reservations, call Mary Mitshkun, 732-3030 or 732-0926; or Rose Rubenstein, 232-8342. Jonathon Siegel became Bar Mitzva at Shabat serv- ices Oct. 16 at Cong. Beth" Israel. * * * Jeffrey Rittman will be- come Bar Mitzva at 11 a.m. Saturday at Flint's Temple Beth El. heritage, and to inspire them to return to their roots. Her main mission is to restore the values of faith, and above all the tra- ditional view of a family- centered world and life. In her book "The Jewish Soul on Fire," she illumi- nates her views with stories from her own past. The afternoon speaker on SMITH KANTER JUNGREIS Sisterhood Day will be Rabbi Kenneth Aaron Kanter. He will speak and present a musical program at 1 p.m. Nov. 15. His pro- gram is entitled "Do You Remember? — A Medley of Tin Pan Alley Music." Rabbi Kanter, cur- rently -assistant rabbi at the Temple, Cong. Ohabai Sholom in Nashville, Tenn., has TAX KENEALLY IRVING written a book, "The' Jews on Tin Pan Alley," which traces the 100-year claims of the British, Arabs them from the extermina- history of Jewish contri- and Jews for Palestine in tion camps. He has won a number of butions to American the period 1916-1919. • "We talk of the Middle Australian and interna- music. To the immigrant and East as though it had tional book awards, has existed in that form for cen- written screenplays for often penniless Jew of the turies, but the Middle East television and film, and has 19th and early 20th Cen- turies, America and the of today — Israel, Jordan, been a film actor and pro- New World was to become Syria, Iraq and -Saudi ducer. The Book Fair speaker at not only "Home Sweet Arabia — was conjured into Home" but also "Waiting for existence almost overnight 8 p.m. Nov. 16 will be the Robert E. Lee," by ' improvisers and Meredith Tax, author of "Swanee" and 1,000 other muddlers, to suit a purely "Rivington Street." Her ap- convenience," says pearance will be co-spon- places he had never known - Western- Irving. sored by the Michigan Coal- but could vividly bring to The topic of Irving's ition of Humanistic and life in the most popular songs of the time. The un- talk is "Israel: Cultural Secular Jews. In "Rivington Street," canny • ability of American Collision." His appear- Jewish song-writers such as ance will be co- Meredith Tax captures Richard Rodgers, Jerome sponsored by the Jewish the excitement of an era Kern, Irving Berlin and National Fund and the in which immigrants be- George and Ira Gershwin Zionist Organization of came Americans, work- ers became union mem- to translate the nation's Detroit. bers and women began to hopes and dreams into Robert Kimmel Smith, wake up to the fact that words and music is detailed author of "Jane's House," hard as they tried they in Rabbi Kanter's book. will be the Book Fair were not fully accepted in "Every Western power speaker at 10 a.m. Nov. 16 either role. pursuing its interests irtthe — Hadassah Education From the turn of the cen- Middle East has come to Day. This is the third time tury to 1918 — the period Smith will be speaking at grief by misunderstanding covered in the book — NeW the true nature of the Book Fair, having been here York was a.center of grow- in 1977 when he wrote place," says novelist Clive trade union strength "Sadie Shapiro in Miami," ing Irving, Book Fair speaker at and an awakening feminist 8 p.m. Nov. 15. "It has hap- and in 1973 with his book consciousness. The two pened to the French, to the "Sadie Shapiro's Knitting movements matured to- Book." British and now the Ameri- gether. The title of his talk on cans." Irving is the author of •For a while, male union Nov. 16 is "One Foot: The "Promise the Earth," a members, women who Distance from Sadie Shap- worked in the Major historical novel deal- sweatshops iro's to Jane's House." -ing with the competing and suffragettes banded to- "Jane's House" is a story gether. But the women who RIETS Alumni about a family coming lived on the Lower East Side apart,.each in his own way, Gather in NY as it ,tries to find some bore the brunt of the battle. NEW YORK — "Chart- method of coping with the In "Rivington Street," the author describes how they ing Directions to Emerging hurt that wouldn't go away. were beaten by bosses, Problems in the Family and Thomas Keneally, author Synagogue" is the theme of of "Schindler's List," will management goons and the the 38th annual convention speak at 1 p.m. Nov. 16 on police. Born in Milwaukee, Ms. of the alumni of the Rabbi "Oskar: A Righteous Per- Tax has taught English at Isaac Elchanan Theological son." Brandeis University. Re- Seminary (RIETS), an af- Keneally has authored search in women's labor his- filiate of Yeshiva Univer- many critically- sity, to be held Oct. 25-28 at acclaimed adult novels tory resulted in the publica- the Homowack Hotel, and a children's book. He tion in 1980 of "The Rising of the Women." Spring Glen, N.Y. was born in Sydney, Au- * * * stralia in 1935. His works, Overseas Help- which have been trans- These Book Fair events TEL AVIV (ZINS) — Is- lated into all the Western are open to the public with- -rael's water company, Ta- European languages, in- out charge. For information ha'1, is now involved in con- clude "The Chant of about Book Fair, call the struction projects in Peru, Jimmy Blacksmith," Jewish Community Center the Dominican Republic, "Gossip From the For- Cultural Arts Department, Costa Rica, Panama, est," "A Season in Pur- 661-1000, ext. 250. Mexico, Guatemala, gatory," "Blood Red," * * * Ecuador and Brazil. "Sister Rose" and "Con- According to the news- federates." Correction paper Maariv, the company His new book, "Schin- Author Mark Slobin's lec- is also studying a dam con- dler's List," is the story of a ture on old Jewish folk struction project in Nigeria. non-Jew who hired hun- music at 2 p.m. Nova 14 will Jews settled in Austria dreds of Jews to work in his be in English, not Yiddish factory, thereby saving as announced last week. before 900 CE. Friday, October 22, 1982 69 Baron Alain de Rothschild PARIS (JTA) — Baron Alain de Rothschild, president of the Represen- tative Council of French Major Jewish Organiza- tions and former president of the French Jewish Con- sistory, died Oct. 17 at age 72. A member of the famous banking firm, he served from 1954 till six months ago as president of the Paris Jewish Consistory and since 1967 as head of the French Consistory. He also headed the political representative organization of France's Jews, the CRIF since 1976. He was an officer in the French Legion of Honor and had been awarded other military medals for his war- time service in the French Army. According to the New York Times, Baron Main was interned in a deten- tion camp during World War II. In 1946, he began his association with Rothschild Freres, the private investment com- pany that became the Rothschild Bank in 1967 and was nationalized last year. At one time or another, he was the head of various Rothschild companies, among them Investment Calmann-Levy, Publisher, Dies PARIS (JTA) Robert Calmann-Levy, _ one of France's best known pub- lishers who headed the fam- ily book empire for over 40 years, died Oct. 13 at age 83. He was the third genera- tion owner-manager of the Calmann-Levy publishing empire and the man who_ brought to French readers the books of Arthur Koes- tler, Hannah Arendt, Jules Isaac and Jacquest Ellul. A combat pilot with the French Air Force during World War I, he was an offi- cer in the Legion of Honor and was awarded the Mili- tary Cross for his wartime activities. ALAIN DE ROTHSCHILD Society of the North, the Society of Petroleum Inves- tors, the Company of the •North and the Discount Bank of France. With his brother Elie, and cousin Guy, he shared own- ership of the Bordeaux wine Chateau Lefite Rothschild. Arnold Bramson Arnold Bramson, an in- ternational broker and im- porter of textiles and fab- rics, died Oct. 15' at age 74. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, Mr. Bramson was a past president of the Probus Club and a member of the Tam-O-Shanter Country Club. He leaves his wife, " Dorothy; a son, Allan L.; a brother, Joseph of Min- neapolis, Minn.; and two grandchildren. Poetry Journal LOS ANGELES (JTA) — "Shirim," a Jewish poetry journal, has published its initial issue. The issue con- tains poems by Yehuda Amichai, Marcia Falk, Haim Gouri, Robert Mezey, Jerome Rothenberg and Howard Schwartz. - Zanuck Widow NEW YORK — Virginia F. Zanuck, widow of movie studio head Darryl F. Zanuck, died Oct. 14 at age 83. • Two New U.S. Citizens Oakland County Circuit Judge Fred Mester is shown administering the oath of citizenship last week to Southfield sisters Fannie Weiner, 83, and Dora Kushmar, 79. Judge Mester, the Immigration and Naturalization Service and Southfield police cooper- ated in handling paperwork and fingerprinting so that the ceremony could be held at the home of the bedridden Mrs. Kushmar. The sisters came to the U.S. from Poland 61 years ago.