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Southfield, Michigan 30% OFF RETAIL Lose inches with body tonin FREE INTRODUCTORY VISIT • NO MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED • WITH APPOINTMENT ONLY • WITH COUPON ONLY New Clients Only Call for your free appointment L 88 626.'4442 FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1988 SPECIAL 2 FREE VISITS WITH PURCHASE OF 10 VISITS 7315 ORCHARD LAKE RD. • WEST BLOOMFIELD BEHIND I BROWSE BOOKSTORE 626.4442 futureshape nanslator Continued from preceding page translate the novel Marien- bad. Three more works followed in quick succession: two novels, The Nightingale and In the Storm, and a col- lection of children's holiday stories. Her current project, The Bloody Hoax, presented a dif- ficult set of problems from the first. It was not part of the 28 volumes of Sholem Alei- chem's work that had been published in Yiddish in the United States. In fact, it had only been published once, in Poland. "Sometimes you just cannot find an explanation for these things:' says Shevrin. "There was just one copy in existence and . I located it in the ar- chives at the (YIVO) Yiddish Institute in New York City. The pages are beginning to disintegrate so it does not circulate. "Fortunately, it had been copied on microfilm and I have been working with that. But the condition was so bad that it took me an entire sum- mer just to get through a first reading of it," she adds with amazement. Now, after 2 1/2 years of work during which she has pro- duced about 250 pages of translated text, Shevrin is studying the chances of the book's financial success. She worries about the length of the story. Longer novels are not always financially attrac- tive to publishing companies and may discourage prospec- tive readers. "It's not just a Jewish audience that you need, but a Jewish, intellec- tual, literary audience. I may have to go with a university press for this one:' she says. She acknowledges that her workday journeys into the Jewish world that Sholem Aleichem so richly illumi- nated can be lonely. Still, "I feel that this is where I have something im- portant to contribute," she says of the Yiddish career which becaipe her full-time vocation five years ago. "You get used to the nature of the work. Getting the daily mail, eating lunch — now those are the big prizes," she says laughing. ❑ Israel Day Hears Kraar Martin S. Kraar, executive vice president, of the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit, will deliver the keynote ad- dress for the fourth annual Israel Conference Day March 27. Kraar wil speak on "Ameri- can Jewry and Israel: Balanc- ing Rights, Obligations and Demands." The conference, which is free and open to students and the general public, will begin at 10 a.m. at the Rackham building, 915 E. Washington St. in Ann Arbor. Registra- tion will begin at 9:30 a.m. Day care will be available. Complimentary lunch and re- freshments will be served. Drawing upon Israeli, American and local scholars, Israel Conference Day will of- fer presentations and discus- sions on "Prospects for Peace," "Diaspora/Israeli Relations;' "Does Israel Need a Constitu- tion?" "Jewish Religious Ex- tremism in Israeli Society," "Ashken.azi/Sephardi Rela- tions," "Identity Crisis of the Sabra," "Modern Israeli Literature" and "Jews of Morocco and Yemen: An Eth- nic Celebration." Feminist Critique Of Religion Susannah Heschel will speak on "Why God is a He: A Feminist Critique of Re- ligion," 8 p.m. Wednesday, at the Rackham Amphitheatre. She will also speak at noon, in 234 West Engineering, on "Anti-Judaism in Christian Feminist Theology and in Feminist Theory" At 4 p.m. in 3050 Frieze Building, she wil speak on "Modern Jews and Ancient Christians: Views of Jesus in Modern Jewish Thought." Zionist Day Is Scheduled "Proud to be a Zionist Day" will be sponsored Thursday by 'agar and AZYF. Litera- ture and balloons wil be available in the Fishbowl. At 6 p.m., Ephraim Poker, shaliach and Midwest repre- sentative of the World Ex- ecutive of Betar, will speak on the current situation in the Mideast. 11 '1 LOCAL NEWS One-Woman Play At Temple The adult education com- mittee of Temple Israel in- vites the community to a one- act, one-woman play featur- ing Evelyn Orbach at 8 p.m. Monday at the temple. The play, entitled Mercy, depicts the struggle of one woman in colonial America for the individual rights and freedoms of all Americans. The presentation is made possible by a grant from the Michigan Council for the