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,Six authors with diverse
backgrounds have been
scheduled for the Wednes-
day and Thursday (Nov.
17-18) of the 31st annual
Jewish Book Fair at the
Jewish Community Center
of Metropolitan Detroit.
At 10 a.m. Nov. - 17, the
Book Fair Speaker will be
William B. Helmreich,
author of "The Things They
Say Behind Your Back" and
"World of the Yeshiva." His
appearance will be co-
sponsored by Akiva Day
School PTA, Hillel Day
School PTO, and Woman's
Auxiliary of United Hebrew
Schools.
His talk is entitled: "The
Jewish Stereotypes and the
Facts Behind Them."
It is unusual for an
author to have two sub-
stantial books on differ-
ent subjects appear
within a month of each
other, but that is the case
with Helmreich. He
worked on one for seven
years and the other for
two years, and they were
released at the same time
"The Things They Say
Behind Your Back" is about
whether or not racial and
ethnic stereotypes are
really true. Specifically are
Jews smart, good at busi-
ness, pushy, do they control
the banks or media, where
did the idea about the
Jewish mother get started,
etc.
"The World of the
Yeshiva" marks the first
time that a major book has
penetrated the advanced
yeshiva's walls in order to
give the outside world a
-first-hand look at this
unique intellectual and
spiritual community.
Helmreich is professor of
Sociology and Judaic studies
at City College of New York
and City University
Graduate Center. He is also
the author of four other
books including "Wake Up,
Wake Up to Do the Work of
the Creator."
Book Fair speaker at 1
p.m. Nov. 17 will be Claire
Rayner, 'author of "The
Enduring Years." Her
appearance will be co-
sponsored by Brandeis
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and the National Council
of Jewish Women.
"The Enduring Years"
begins amid the ruins that
were once Jerusalem after
the Roman invasion, when
two women, sisters-in-law,
FACKENHEIM
exchanged children so that
each would carry forward
into the Diaspora a male
child. From this painful
moment, Mrs. Rayner takes
the reader through count-
less wanderings and gener-
ations and paints an im-
peccably accurate history of
the Jewish people. "The
Enduring Years" is
HELMREICH
BLUMBERG
KLEIN
entertainment, but it will
be an education to many of lived largely to "repair versity, Greater Detroit
its readers.
the world." And it left Council of Pioneer
The title of Mrs. Rayner's him with a new sense of Women and Young
Women of Jewish Na-
talk will be "Your Life, My himself.
Life" — a discussion of the
A reception for the author tional Fund.
Prof. Emil Fackenheim,
differences and similarities will be held in room 239 fol-
author of "To Mend the
in the lives of American and lowing his talk. -
British Jewish women.
At 10 a.m. Nov. 18, the World," will be the Book
Mrs. Rayner, who lives in Book Fair speaker will be Fair speaker at 8 p.m. Nov.
England, is the author of 60 "Rena Blumberg," author of 18. His appearance will be
books, including a broad "Headstrong." Her topic co-sponsored by Depart-
range of medical subjects will be "Life As a Celebra- ment of Michigan Jewish
from sex education for chil- tion," and her appearance War Veterans and Women's
dren and adults, to home will be co-sponsored by De- Auxiliary of the American
nursing, family health, and troit Women of Alpha Jewish Congress.
Fackenheim was or-
baby and childcare, as well Omega Dental Auxiliary
as fiction. She is a regis- and Women's Auxiliary of dained a rabbi in 1939 in
tered nurse and in 1954 was the Maimonides Medical Berlin. He is now world-
renowned as a scholar spe-
awarded the hospital Gold Society.
Medal for outstanding
"FIeadstrong" is - a cializing in the philosophi-
achievement. She married passionate, painful, but al- cal and religious problems
in 1957 and turned to writ- ways life-affirming account of the Holocaust. His distin-
inein 1960 when the birth of Rena Blumberg's valiant guished work in that area
of her first child ended her bout with breast cancer and on the German philosopher
nursing career.
her susequent two-year Hegel has resulted in three
honorary degrees, a fellow-
At 8 p.m. Nov. 17, the ordeal with chemotherapy.
speaker will be Paul
Free from cancer for ship in the Royal Society of
Cowan, author of "An five years, Blumberg is Canada, the president's
Orphan in History." His living proof that cancer medal from the University
appearance will be co- need not be the end of of Western Ontario, and
sponsored by Jewish and anything. "I wrote the now the highest accolade
Single of Cong. Beth book," says Blumberg, University of Toronto can
Shalom, Bnai Brith Hillel "because I wanted to accord one of its faculty
Foundation at Wayne reach as many people as members — the title of Uni-
State University, and possible to spread the versity Professor.
The central tenet in Fac-
Jewish Welfare Federa- message of joy and op-
kenheim's teaching and
_ timism."
tion Junior Division.
Writer and journalist
Blumberg presently has writing is the conviction
Paul Cowan grew up in a her own interview show on that Hitler's murder of six
wealthy, assimilated home. WDOK radio in Cleveland. million_Jews was a unique
His father, Louis Cowan, The recipient of many catastrophe, a turning point
was president of CBS and awards, she received the in civilization. While
created "The $64,000 Ques- American Cancer Society's acknowledging other vic-
tion" and other game shows; Courage Award for 1982 tims of genocide, such as the
his mother, Polly Spiegel, and the United Press Inter- Armenians and Biafrans,
was from the family who national 1982 Newsleader he- maintains that those in-
founded the giant mail- Award for Best Public Serv- stances can be rationalized
in a way that the Holocaust
ice Program.
order house.
At 1 p.m. Nov. 18, the can't.
From Park Avenue, to
Fackenheim has been
Choate and Harvard,- to speaker will be Elizabeth
political activism in the Klein, author of "Reconcili- accused of being obses-
Peace Corps, the civil rights ations," a book about an sed by the Holocaust. He
and anti-war movements, American Jewish family in disputes that assessment
because, to him, an ob-
Cowan knew little of his crisis.
session is negative while
Jewish heritage, including
Elizabeth Klein was born
the fact that he was a_ de- and educated in New York his involvement is posit-
scendant of rabbis.
and worked as an editorial ive. The more that can be
After his parents' death researcher for Newsweek. understood about the
in a tragic fire, Cowan She is the author of a book of phenomenon, he says, the
better the chances of ap-
began to trace their Ameri- poetry, "Approaches," and
prehending a possible
can journey, and that of his has published poems reg-
recurrence.
grandparents. His personal ularly in magazines and an-
* * *
exploration led him to many thologies. She has lived in
Unless noted, the Book
unexpected encounters, in- Israel and England where a
Fair events are open to the
cluding those with the Or- portion of !`Reconciliations"
thodox and the poor Jews of was written. A recipient of public free of charge. For in-
the Lower East Side, and an Illinois Arts Council forniation, call the Cultural
with a group of Conversos grant for "Reconciliations," Arts Department of the
Jewish Community Center,
(Secret Jews) in northern she lives in Champaign, Ill.
661-1000, ext. 250.
Portugal. .
Klein's topic for her
It involved a growing talk will be "After Immi-
Art is reaching out into
friendship with a re- gration — The New Gen-
the ugliness of the world for
markable rabbi who pro- erations," and her ap-
vagrant beauty and the im-
vided a model of personal pearance will be co-
prisoning of it in a tangible
kindness and under- sponsored by American
dream.
standing, a man who Women for Bar-Dan Uni-
—George Nathan