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Sixth Annual Rabbi Richard C. Hertz

Institute on
Reform Judaism

Friday evening-Saturday Morning
November 20-21

RABBI
SAMUEL E. KARFF

Houston, Texas
Vice President, CCAR
General Conference
of American Rabbis

"THE REFORM JEW
IN SEARCH OF THE SPIRIT"

Friday Evening
at 8:00

"The Quest for God —
A Reform Jewish Perspective"

Saturday Morning
at 9:30

"Religious Commitment and
Mitzvah in Reform Judaism"

Shabbat Service
at 11:00

"The Case for
Reform Judaism"

This Institute was established
in loving memory
of her father and mother
MANUEL E. and SELMA E. ARDEN
By Ellin Arden Lawson

The 1987 Institute is the sixth in a series held each fall in honor of our
Rabbi Emeritus. It is a means of furthering the knowledge of Reform
Judaism for the benefit and enjoyment of Reform Jews. All the meetings
are open to anyone or any group interested in attending, without charge.

Encyclopedia

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bibliography. The project will
take three to four years to
complete, he believes.
Prof. Frisch, who was tap-
ped to be the nascent work's
managing editor, estimates
the encyclopedia's pre-
publication budget willbe
$200,000. Rabbi Rosenzveig
said that it is "almost for
sure" that a single benefactor
will provide the majority of
the funding. He would not
reveal that person's name.
Rabbi Rosenzveig said that
publishing costs would be
paid by a yet-to-be-named
publisher. He said that both
Wayne State and Columbia
University presses were in-
terested in the work, as is
Schocken Books. He said he
preferred to go with a
publishing house because its
distribution power is greater
than a university press.
He sees a wide demand for
the encyclopedia. "It's
something every library in
the world would want to
have," he said. Copies would
be distributed to synagogues,
high schools and universities.
A number of scholars have
already been contacted to
write articles and to sit on the
project's editorial board, ac-
cording to Rabbi Rosenzveig.
But one noted scholar has

some initial reservations
about an encyclopedia.
"I'm not sure we can write
an encyclopedia of the
Holocaust," remarked Prof.
Raul Hilberg of the Universi-
ty of Vermont. "There are still
gaps in our knowledge."
Hilberg, an eminent authori-
ty, said he knew of another
encyclopedia project current-
ly being carried out in Israel.
"Our pool of talent isn't that
great," he warned. "People
who are working on one are
not going to run over and
work on the other."
Rabbi Rosenzveig said he
knew of no encyclopedia being
prepared in Israel. Prof.
David Wyman, a Holocaust
scholar at Amherst College
who will be the encyclopedia's
"honorary editor," said that
the existence of unanswered
questions on the Holocaust is
no reason not to compile an
encyclopedia. "I'm sure that
it would be stated [that there
are holes in our knowledge]."
Despite the size of the under-
taking, he said the en-
cyclopedia is "certainly
doable."
Rabbi Rosenzveig is un-
daunted by the possibility of
lack of support, monetary or
moral. "No matter what,
we're going to go through
with it."

HMC Dinner Cites

Wallenberg Sunday

Raoul Wallenberg, the
"righteous gentile" who led a
historic mission of rescue of
thousands of Jews during
World War II, will receive the
Holocaust Memorial Center's
Righteousness Award at the
institution's third anniver-
sary dinner at the Westin
Hotel Sunday at 5:30 p.m.
The honor, to be accepted by
Wallenberg's second cousin,
Jacob C. Wallenberg, is the
first medal to be bestowed
upon the hero of the
Holocaust in the United
States.
The guest speaker at the
annual dinner will be Con-
gressman Ibm Lantos (D-
Raoul Wallenberg, who as a
young Swedish diplomat, sav-
ed 100,000 Hungarian Jews
in 1944. Jacob C. Wallenberg
is vice chairman of the Raoul
Wallenberg Committee in the
United States.
Michigan Gov. James J.
Blanchard has declared Sun-
day as Raoul Wallenberg Day.
Calif.) the first and only
Holocaust survivor to be
elected to the U.S. Congress
and author of history-making
legislation conferring
honorary U.S. citizenship on
Raoul Wallenberg.

David Mondry is event
chairman

Folktown Hosts
Rosalie Gerut

Rosalie Gerut

Guitarist-vocalist Rosalie
Gerut will appear in an even-
ing of Jewish and klezmer
music at 8 p.m. Nov. 21 at the
Southfield Parks and Recrea-
tion Building. She will be
joined by Jeff Warschauer.
Gerut has appeared on
stage in musical theater and
on radio and TV. She is a
former lead singer for the
Klezmer Conservatory Band,
with Shirim and Phantom
West and has performed from

