8 _friday, May 6, 1983 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 60,000 at Jerusalem Book Fair NOTICE TO OUR CUSTOMERS: FLOOR COVERINGS NEW LOCATION 10721 W. TEN MILE RD. BETWEEN COOLIDGE AND WOODWARD Phone 548-7884 Featuririg CABIN. CRAFTS CARPETS 611111' 1' I I' III' 11'11111' 1111111 I III 11111111111111 141111111 I HI HI H 1111 1 1 11! I 11111111 JERUSALEM (JTA) — "The Book in the Electronic Age" and "Encouragement of Reading in Under- privileged Societies" were two themes of this year's 11th International Book Fair which closed last weekend. Organizers of the six-day biennial event said 60,000 people attended. The high point of the fair was the presentation of the Jerusalem Prize for "The Freedom of - the Individual in Society" to writer V. S. Naipaul of Trinidad, who is looked upon as the literary spokesman for the Third World. An estimated 100,000' books were dis- played by 1,000 publishing houses from 31 countries, including countries which actual burnings as well do not have diplomatic rela- as of the 750 books which tions with Israel. were burned. Five publishers, noted for Dialogues between having done much for Israel authors dealt with "Human and for Jerusalem, were Rights and the Involvement given the "Friend of of Writers." Jerusaleni Award." They In conjunction with the included Arthur Rosenthal, Book Fair, the Jerusalem president of Harvard Uni- Cinematheque presented a versity Press; Paul Feffer, marathon of films written president of Feffer and Si- by authors who were invited mons Publishing House; guests of the Fair. The Van Der Heyden, of marathon featured "Lew Elsevier Publishing House; Belle de Jour," "The Big Gerhard Kurtze, president Dig," "The Policeman," of the Grossohaus Wegner "Sallah Shabati," "Section Publishing House; and 317," "The Loneliness of the Yechezkiel Steimatzky, Long Distance Runner" and Steimatsky Publishing. In commemoration of - The Wayne State Univer- the 50th anniversary of sity Press was represented the Nazi book burnings in at the Fair, and Detroiter 1933, the Georg Lingen- Toby Holtzman was one of brink Publishing House the representatives of the of Hamburg set up a dis- Jewish Publication Society play of documentation of of America. - Christians Must Examine Lebanon, Theologian Says NEW YORK (JTA) — present religious and politi- Christians should follow cal complexities in the Mid- our example of the Israelis, dle East." who today are searching Both Schoon and Christ- their consciences and ask- ine Pilon, one of the original* ing themselves if they "did settlers of Nes Ammim, and the right thing" in Lebanon, the widow of the founder, a Dutch theologian stated. described the settlement as Speaking at a press "a unique and moving at- luncheon at the American tempt to build and demon- Jewish Committee's head- strate Christian solidarity quarters, Dr. Simon Schoon, with Israel." It was born of former pastor at Nes Am- its founders' desire, they mim, the only Christian ag- • said, "to voice a meaningful ricultural cooperative in Is- Christian response to the rael, said that Christians Holocaust and to centuries should not forget that it was of anti-Semitism." Appealing to Christians "Christians who did the-kil- lings in the Palestinian to visit and spend time in camps. "Then," Schoon Nes Ammim, Mrs. Pilon added, "out of collective re- said: "We must understand sponsibility we can really the depth of the suffering the Jews experienced at the discuss the matter." hands of Christians. We The whole situation is so must repent of that persecu- complex, Schoon asserted, tion by identifying with a that "we must go back to living Jewish people in history in order to judge the . their homeland." KOSHAROVSKYS Photo by Bill Aron Second Annual FREEDOM o CONCERT WORLD PREMIERE SOVIET JEWRY "The Wailing Wall" Adat Shalom Synagogue Tuesday, May 10, 1983 8:00 P.M. SOVIET EMIGRE DAVID FINKO a composition by featuring Members of, THE DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA DETROIT SOVIET JEWRY COMMITTEE OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL Call 962-1880 for ticket info Israel Marks Lag b'Omer, May Day - TEL AVIV (JTA) -- Reli- gious Jews celebrated Lag b'Omer in their traditional manner on Sunday in northern Israel and trade unionists paraded through the center of Tel Aviv in honor of May Day, the tradi- tional workers' holiday. The dual holiday caused mammoth traffic jams on the roads of Galilee and in and around the country's largest city. Orthodox Jews gathered at the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yochai in Meron, near Safad. Or- ganizers of the festivities said that "well over 100,000" were on hand. The May Day parade, or- ganized by Histadrut and the Labor Alignment, drew an estimated, 70,000- 100,000 prompting cynics to remark that "Rabbi Shimon appeared to have beaten Rabbi Karl Marx" this year. The Lag b'Omer cele- brations began Saturday night with bonfires all over the countryside, a tradition practiced mainly by teenagers who hold parties around the flames and create -12eAda,ches for local -fire brigades. The daylight gathering at Meron has been observed in its present form for about 150 years. It draws black- garbed ultra-Orthodox Jews and conventionally dressed Sephardim. Food booths set up in recent years have added a carnival at- mosphere. The May Day parade and rally in Tel Aviv departed from the low key with which the workers holiday has been marked in Israel for the last 10 years. It was de- signed \to rally the populace behind Labor and in opposi- tion to the Likud govern- ment. Massed red banners led the procession. The celebration culmi- nated with the official open- ing of the Hapoel Interna- tional Labor Sports Club games which have drawn athletes from all over the world. , Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debts, and so fetters them with irons that enter into their inmost souls. - - - - - - - - - - - - -