Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year. Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year. SHIRLEY & SAVE BERKOWITZ ZEE & RAY BERNSTEIN Best wishes for a happy. healthy New Year. Best wishes for a MR. & MRS. CHAIM BLUMENKOPF MARY BOOKSTEIN happy, healthy New Year. We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year. DR. MORRIS & ANNE BRENT We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year. DR. EARL K. BOGROW & STAFF We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year. DR. AND MRS. HENRY BRYSTOWSKI AND FAMILY 111W3 to all our friends and relatives. MARION & SAM AUGUST vanDn n1ll3 711V2 BOOKS to all our friends and relatives. Author Recalls Immigrant Life MR. AND MRS. NORMAN ADELSBERG May the coming year be filled with health and happiness for all our family and friends. May the coming year be filled with health and happiness for all our family and friends. THE FRIEDMANS LORETTA & LARRIE GLOBERSON HAROLD, BARBARA, EMILY & BRADLEY L'Shana Tova A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family. May the coming year be one filled with health, happiness and prosperity for all our friends and family. HERB & PAT BIRCOLL LARRY, STEVE & ADRIA Wishing all our family and friends a year of health and happiness. HARVEY & JOAN BROWN A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family. MR. AND MRS. SOL AMSEL AND FAMILY A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family. THE BLAZ FAMILY JERRY; ILENE AND NEAL May the New Year Bring To All Our Friends and Family — Health, Joy, Prosperity and Everything Good in Life. MARVIN & ROCHELLE BROOKS 136 Friday, October 3, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS To All Our Relatives- and Friends, Our wish for a year filled with happiness, health and prosperity. DR. & MRS. LOU HEYMAN JESSIE STERN Special to The Jewish. News illiam Gellin, who recently turned 85 years old, has re- turned to his craft and writ- ten a new book for us to savor. Strangers No More (Shen- gold Press); published in 1985, is the latest effort by this gifted octogenarian to heighten our awareness of what it was to be an immig- rant Jew on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the first 40 years of the 20th Century. Gellin captures this moment in history as well as any storyteller of our time. The book is comprised of two novelettes. The first, Naphtali, reveals a young Sephardic Jew alone in America following the death of his mother, Naphtali Hitany's recollections take us back in time to his early childhood in Turkey where he was the favorite grandson of his scholarly and beloved maternal grandfather, Rabbi Yaakov Ovadia. The story traces Napthali's life in Turkey as a brilliant young student and the changes that occurred once he and his mother made the transisition to New York City. Naphtali's a frail and aesthetic young man who finds it difficult to adjust to the world of small business, a world forced upon him by the financial realities of the Lower East Side. Scholarly by nature and influenced by his famous grandfather, the life of the intellect thrilled him in his youth in a way that his life in America could not match. Working in his mother's small business drains him of his resolve, and he becomes nervous and de- pressed. His first encounter with a public library in New York City, and the kindness of Miss Tumulty, a librarian who befriends him, help re- kindle the spark of learning which was so much a part of his nature and earlier train- ing. This experience exacer- bates Naphtali's internal Con- flict between his desire to continue the apron manufac- turing business his mother started and his yearning for the scholarly life. Gellin expands his plot around the passage in 1933 of the National Industrial Re- covery Act which gave or- ganized labor legal guaran- tees that required collective bargaining no matter the size of the shop. The problems for the small businessman that come about as a result of that act form the basis for the further development of Naph- tali's story. We are introduced to an array of characters each of whom play a major role not only in dealing with the prob-