6 Friday, September 16, 1983 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Sister Carol to Speak at Benefit for HMC SHERWOOD STUDIOS New Store Coming Soon Sister Carol Rittner, spe- cial assistant to the U.S. Holocaust Commission, will be the guest speaker at a city-wide benefit dinner on behalf of the Holocaust Memorial Center sponsored by the Albert Einstein Lodge of Bnai Brith. The dinner will be held 6 p.m. Oct. 2 at Cong. Beth Shalom. NOW In Stock FURNITURE & ACCESSORIES 20'50% OFF Tel-12 Mall, 12 Mile & Telegraph 354-9060 NOW SHOWING $2. .__ 50 FLASHDANCE $5.00 overnight $35.00 for 4 days membership VIDEO PLUS VIDEO PLUS AUDIO 19739 W. 12 MILE RD. at EVERGREEN SOUTHFIELD, MI 569-2330 6641 ORCHARD LAKE RD. (Old Orchard Mall) WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI 855-4070 CENTRAL '48 GRADUATES. 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She has also received a planning grant for an international The Second Exodus' from Egypt By LEILA GOLDMAN leave and return, if they so Though the focus of the work is on the trauma and Ada Aharoni, a gifted Is- desired. raeli poet, has presented in Aharoni poignantly and tragedy of the exodus, it is her historical — somewhat perceptively links the dis- also a story of Jewish iden- autobiographical — novel, solution of the Egyptian tity. Inbar, born in Egypt, "The Second Exodus," Jewish- community with has no nationality and is (Dorrance and Co.) a work of that of the European Jewish plagued by the question, extreme importance that is community in a tale of love "What am I?" Considered a both sensitive and sensible: of two survivors, Raoul foreigner, she develops cul- It depicts a phase of history Lipsky, who has survived tural ties with the West and largely ignored by writers, the Holocaust and has come a social life with other Jews. historians, and politicians: to stay with his aunt Her identity as a Jewess the expulsion of the Jews Stephanie in Cairo, and is complete when she is re- from Egypt in 1948 and the Inbar, whom he meets at the united with Raoul — who concomitant disintegration Maccabee, a ZiOnist youth was expelled before she was of the 2,500-year-old Egyp- organization. and whom she could not lo- tian Jewish community. Raoill, the reticent, mis- cate for five years — in It is the story of another anthropic, knowledgeable Jerusalem. phase of the harsh reality of concentration camp sur- The symbolic value of this vivor, is drawn to the naiv- Jewish experience. union is clear. For Aharoni, Through the eyes of Inbar ete, sensitivity, and, of it is the fusion of Eastern course, beauty of this Egyp- Mosseri, the lovely, shel- and Western culture that tered, yet independent tian "princess." To her, he is identifies the Jew. Inbar be- able to reveal the horrors of daughter of the affluent comes not only identified Judge Abraham Mosseri, his experiences, the mag- with the Jewish people but we get a view of the life of nitude and severity of his symbolic of the Jewish Egyptian Jewry prior to the loss — 73 members of the people. expulsion in all its serenity Lipsky family — and the "The Second Exodus" is a and culture as well as the promise he made to his major contribution to the undercurrent of hostility father to live. He has seen much; he genre of the historical which finally explodes into trusts little, and the erup- novel. Aharoni's work is the seething rage of the populace ready to kill the tion of the pogrom of 1948 well-written; the short in Egypt upon the crea- spans of pedagogy do not ob- "foreigner." One is distressed to tion of the state of Israel trude upon the easy flow of note that after being in a was to him inevitable and her style. This work should country for 25 centuries, simply an aspect of the open up the much-concealed the Jews, as late as 1948, continuing saga of the and neglected subject of the Jews from Arab lands. were still not allowed to Jewish people. * * * become citizens of their native land, the land into which their families had firmly established roots. They were considered "welcomed guests," in "Jewish Refugees From Technion and at the Uni- the country by the good graces of the king. And, Arab Lands: The Second versity of Pennsylvania and of course, as soon as the Exodus" will be the topic of Gratz College. The public is invited free Jewish 'community fell Ada Aharoni at 8 p.m. Sun- out of grace, so did their day at the main United He- of charge. brew Schools building. She will address the Bnai welcome. Ms. Aharoni was born in Brith Hillel Foundation at Their formal status was that of Ahl El Dhimma — Cairo, Egypt, and emi- Wayne State University at The Protected. They had no grated to Israel in 1949. She noon Monday in the Hillel Lounge, 667 Student Center passports with which to is the co-editor of "Voices," travel. Instead they were an English-language poetry Building, on campus. granted a laissez-passer magazine published in Is- sheet allowing them to rael, has taught at the Hope is a good breakfast. Jews from Arab Lands Topic of UHS, WSU Hillel Talks CANDLES $259 SPITZER'S SISTER CAROL conference on the Righteous Gentiles. Her writings and papers have included pre- sentations on "The Holocaust as a Paradigm of Evil," "Conspiracy of Si- lence: Judaism in a Chris- tian World" and "The Holocaust and the Chris- tian Conscience." Included in her organ- izational and profes- sional affiliations are memberships on the De- troit Interfaith Commit- tee on Teaching about the Holocaust, the Detroit Round Table of the Na- tional Conference of Christians and Jews and the National Institute on the Holocaust. Sister Carol is an active member of the Academic Committee of the Holocaust Memorial Center. The Albert Einstein Lodge was founded shortly after World War II and is composed entirely of Holocaust survivors. For ticket information, call Pines, 358-0715; Rubin, 557-0281; or Seiderman, 548-7252. . Esrogim & Lulovim r Plans for the affair were announced by Einstein Lodge president Jack Seiderman and Henry Dorfman, chairman of the lodge's fund-raising and Memorial Center commit- tee. Sigmunt Rubin is serv- ing as dinner committee chairman and ticket chair- man for the benefit is Max Pines. The Holocaust Memorial Center, currently under construction. in West Bloomfield, will serve as a memorial to the martyrs of the Holocaust, as a museum and education institution depicting European Jewish life prior to and during World War II, and as a re- search and study center. The HMC will include a memorial flame, a hall of Jewish culture, a hall of testimony, a special War- saw Ghetto exhibit, gar- den of the Righteous Gentiles, library and study area. The Memorial Center will also host a regular series of special exhibits and programs dealing with cultural, religious and social de- velopments among var- Hebrew Book & Gift Center 11 Mile & Lahser, Southfield Harvard. Row 356-6080 Open All Das y Sunday krt