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Myriad Topics to Be Covered by Book Fair Speakers
Major authors have been
scheduled throughout the
week of Book Fair at the
Jewish Community Center.
Dennis Prager will be the
Book Fah= speaker 1 p.m.
Nov. 14 (Sisterhood Day).
Author of "Why the Jews?,"
Prager will discuss "From
Pharaoh to Anti-Zionism,
_ 0 The Reason for the World's
Greatest Hatred."
"Why the Jews?" is a
landmark book that seeks to
answer the question of why
Jews have been the object of
the most enduring and uni-
versal hatred in history.
It discards conven-
tional explanations of
anti-Semitism to argue
that its root causes are
the very same beliefs that
have, paradoxically,
allowed the Jewish
people to survive. The
existence of Jews has,
through history, consti-
tuted a threat to the pre-
vailing .order.
Dennis Prager has taught
Jewish history at the City
University of New York and
was a fellow at the Russian
and Middle East institutes
,=== of the Columbia University
School of International
fairs. From 1976 to 1983,
Prager was- director of the
Brandeis-Bardin Institute
in California.
Dr. Roman Vishniac,
author of "_A Vanished
World" will speak at 8 p.m.
Nov. 14. His topic will be "A
World to Remember" and he
will present a -slide pre-
sentation.
Dr. Vishniac came back
from his trips to Eastern
Europe in the 1930s with a
collection of photographs
that has become an impor-
tant historical document,
for it gives a last-minute
look at Jewish life just be-
> fore the. Nazi extermina-
tion. Vishniac took with
him on this self-imposed as-
signment a rare depth of
understanding and a native
son's warmth and love for
his people. The resulting
photographs are among
photography's finest docu-
ments of a time and place.
"A Vanished World" is
r
the first book to offer a
comprehensive selection
of Vishniac's photo-
graphs of the Jews of
Eastern Europe. Taken
between 1934 and 1939, as
Vishniac walked across
Poland, the Ukraine,
Czechoslovakia,
Romania, Hungary, Lat-
via and Lithuania, these
photographs preserve
for posterity unforgetta-
ble images of Jewish life.
Levins
Vishniac
Education Day). His talk
will be entitled: "The Arab
Global Financial Offen-
sive."
- "Arab Reach" tells how
the oil-rich Arab nations
have conducted a financial
and diplomatic war dedi-
cated to the destruction of
Israel. Thoroughly re-
searched and richly de-
tailed, "Arab Reach" names
names, pinpoints dates and
divulges secret transac-
tions. It is an inside look at
how the enormous wealth of
the Arab nations has been
and continues to be trans-
formed into potent political
power, both in the U.S. and
abroad, a force which is in-
creasingly isolating Israel
in the international com-
munity.
Levins is a three-time
winner of the Philadel-
phia Press Association's
Grand Award for best
reporting. He has been
cited by the Pennsyl-
vania Editors and Pub-
lishers Association as the
best reporter in the state.
His writing in Philadel-
phia Magazine has won
national awards from.
Sigma Delta Chi and the
National Press Associa-
tion. He has testified be-
fore the Senate Finance
Committee on Arab in-
vestment in, the United
States.
Julie Ellis, author of
"Glorious Morning" and
"East Wind," will speak at 1
p.m. Nov. 15. Her talk is
entitled "The Jews of the
Far East." "East Wind" is a
novel from the pogroms of
turn-of-the-century Poland
to the lights of the Yiddish
stage in Manhattan. The
main character, Rissa
Landowska, flees Poland to
London, where, in a
heartbreaking affair with
an English lord, she casts off
her village innocence. Vow-
ing to survive on her own
terms, she earns her fare to
the United States where she
pursues a brilliant career on
the Yiddish stage on New
York's Lower East Side, and
tumultuous, yet deeply ful-
filling life with a family of
her own.
"Glorious Morning" is a
saga that sweeps through
two world wars, set against
the backdrops of Hong
Kong, England and
America, about a proud,
beautiful young woman
who is caught up in the age-
less struggle between reck-
less passion and staunch
commitment — and who
makes a life for herself in
which she can have both.
Of the, 16,000 photo-
graphs he managed to take
— secretly and under dif-
ficult circumstances — Vis-
hniac was able to rescue
only about 2,000. Some he
sewed into his clothing
when he came to the United
States in 1940, most he left
with his father in a village
in France for the dtiration of
the war. Only a handful of
the surviving photographs
have ever been published.
Dennis Jones, author of
Hoag Levins, author of
"Arab Reach," will be the "Rubicon One," will be the
Book Fair speaker at 10 Book Fair speaker 8 p.m.
a.m. Nov. 15 (Hadassah Nov. 15. His appearance
Ellis
will be co-sponsored by
Jewish and Single of Cong.
Beth Shalom, Bnai Brith
Hillel Foundation at Wayne
State University, Jewish
Welfare Federation Young
Adult Division and Com-
munity Network for Jewish
Singles.
Jones, a Canadian liv-
ing in London, Ont., is a
military history and tac-
tics buff and has studied
military intelligence for
15 years.
In "Rubicon One," Jones
creates an all-too realistic
conflict scenario set in Mos-
cow, Washington and the
Middle East. As soon as nu-
clear weapons are intro-
duced into Syria the dooms-
day clock begins to tick
down.
Jones has combined his
interests in the military and
computers to put together a
thriller about the threat of
nuclear war between the
U.S. and USSR via Middle
Eastern interests.
Brenda Lesley Segal,
author of "If I Forgot Thee,"
will also speak on the same
program at 8 p.m. Nov. 15.
Fire" is a biography and the
story of a biblical prophecy,
and eternal dream. It is the
story of Zionism and of the
Jewish people in the last
100 years, of a nation's re-
birth and its momentuous
consequences.
Kurzman, an award-
winning author and foreign
correspondent formerly
with the Washington Post,
Kurzman
Segal
worked on this biography
for three years, though he
Jara, the granddaughter of has included information
the heroine of "The Tenth gathered over more than 15
Measure."
years. The material, much
Dan Kurzman, author of of-it new, has been culled in
"Ben-Gurion: Prophet of part from scores of Ben-
Fire" will be the Book Fair Gurion's unpublished pri-
speaker at 10 a.m. Nov. 16. vate diaries and hundreds of
His appearance will be co- private letters. This book is
sponsored by Akiva Day also based on interviews
School PTA, Hillel Day with Ben-Gurion himself
School PTO and Woman's shortly before he died in
Auxiliary-United Hebrew 1973 and more than 500 of
Schools. His topic will be his relatives, friends and
"The Prophet and the Man." associates from the time he
"Ben-Gurion: Prophet of was a boy in Plonsk, Poland.
Jones
Tenth Measure," which
chronicled the life of
Alexandra bat Harsom
and the heroic struggles
of the Jews against the
Romans at Masada in the
First Century CE.
"If I Forgot Thee" takes
place 60 years after the
mass suicide at Masada.
The Jews' second and final
attempt to throw off the
Roman domination in the
"revolt of Bar Kokhba" is
seen through the eyes of
"If I Forgot Thee" is a
successor to Segal's "The
IDF Preparing
for Cold Weather
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The
Israel Defense Force is now
completing arrangements
to provide all its personnel
serving in Lebanon
adequate housing and clo-
thing to ensure them as
comfortable a winter as pos-
sible.
Temperatures in the
mountain areas of Lebanon,
even those south of the
Awali River, frequently
drop below zero, with heavy
snowfalls in some hill areas.
Permanent structures
built north of the Awali
River were dismantled and
have now been re-erected in
the new positions. Special
winter clothing distributed
to the soldiers is reported to
have cost the army 50,000
Shekels ( a little more than
$600) for each man.
January College
Mission to Israel
NEW YORK — The
Tagar Zionist Student Ac-
tivist Movement will spon-
sor a "Winter Mission" - for
college Zionist activists to
go to Israel Jan: 1-15.
For information, write
Tagar, Suite 617, 41 E. 42nd
St., New York 10017. Tagar
is the national organization
of college students associ-
ated with the Herut and
Betar movements in the
U.S.
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