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'Jews Of Islamic Lands'
Are Focus Of WSU Conference
"The Jews of Islamic
Lands," an international con-
ference presented by the
Cohn-Haddow Center for
Judaic Studies at Wayne
State University in coopera-
tion with the University of
Michigan, will take place Oct.
21-24.
The conference will assem-
ble specialists in Judaica,
Islamic studies and the Latin
West to appraise current ac-
tivities, project areas of future
research and lay foundations
for increased attention to the
"Jews of Islam."
Bernard Lewis of Princeton
University will open the con-
ference at 8 p.m. Oct. 21 at
the Maple-Drake Jewish
Community Center with
"The Jews of Islam and the
Formulation of the Judeo-
Islamic Tradition."
Continuing the conference
9:30 a.m. Oct. 22 will be the
sixth annual Max Kapustin
Memorial Symposium at the
WSU McGregor Memorial
Conference Center, titled,
"The Intellectual Milieu of
the Jews of Islam."
"Crosspollination: Philo-
sophically Fruitful Ex-
changes between Jewish and
Islamic Thought" will be
discussed by Lenn Evan
Goodman of the University of
Hawaii.
"The Uses of Aristotleian
Dialectic by Maimonides and
his Arab Predecessors" will
be presented by Joel Kraemer
of Tel Aviv University with a
response by Alfred Ivry of
New York University and
discussion led by Franz
Rosenthal of Yale University.
The afternoon session at
2:15 p.m. will be "Andalusian
Hebrew Devotional Poetry in
the Light of Arabic" by Ray-
mond Scheindlin of the
Jewish Theological Seminary.
This will be followed by
"Representations of Muslims
Peter Dyvig
Beate Klarsfeld
Holocaust Center
Hosts Klarsfeld
Beate Klarsfeld, interna-
tionally known Nazi hunter,
will be the speaker at the
Holocaust Memorial Center's
sixth anniversary dinner
Oct. 28.
Beate Klarsfeld was born in
Berlin in 1939 to Protestant
German parents. At the age
of 21, she moved to France.
Until that time, she says that
she remained virtually
unaware of the Nazi's crimes.
Since learning of the horrors
of the Holocaust, she has
devoted her life's efforts to
keeping the story and lessons
of the Holocaust alive and to
exploring and tracking down
Nazi war criminals and bring-
ing them to justice.
Nazi
exposed
She
Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger
and Ernst Achenbach, former
head of the Political Section of
the Germany Embassy in
Paris 1940-1943, as well as
the notorious Klaus Barbie.
She was nominated for the
1977 Nobel Peace Prize by a
committee of Israeli notables
including professors from four
universities and 60 MKs.
A highlight of the evening
will be the presentation of the
HMC's prestigious
Righeousness Award to His
Excellency Peter Dyvig, am-
bassador from Denmark to
the U.S., recognizing the
humanity and heroism
displayed by his countrymen
in rescuing their Jewish
citizens from transportation
to the death camps during the
Holocaust.
Hiram Dorfman and David
Engelbert are chairmen of
the event. Jack Robinson is
the patron chairman.
For reservations, call the
HMC, 661-0840.
and Jews in Judah al-Harizi's
Tahkemoni" by Ross Brann of
Cornell University, with a
response by Wolfhart Hein-
richs of Harvard University
and a discussion led by Gene
Schramm of the University of
Michigan.
The conference will move to
U-M's Horace Rackham
Building Oct. 23 for the next
three sessions.
"S.D. Gotein: An Apprecia-
tion" by Norman Stillman of
SUNY-Binghamton and "The
Jewish Woman during the
Gaonic Period: Transparent
and Hidden Muslim Dif-
ferences" by Gideon Libson of
the Hebrew University.
Responding to Mr. Libson's
presentation will be Mordecai
Freeman of Tel Aviv Univer-
sity, with discussion led by
Norman Golb of the Univer-
sity of Chicago at 9:30 a.m.
The afternoon session at
2:15 p.m. will present Avram
Udovitch of Princeton Univer-
sity speaking on "Economic
and Social Aspects of Jewish
Life." Following will be Moshe
Gil of Tel Aviv University
with "The World Leadership
of the Jews under Islamic
Rule in the Early Middle
Ages." Paula Sanders of Rice
University will respond to Mr.
Gil, with discussion led by
U-M's Michael Bonner.
A session at 8 p.m. will be
"Did Muslim Authors Know
the Texts of the Bible?" by
Hava Lazarus-Yafeh of the
Hebrew University. Following
will be "Understandings and
Misunderstandings: The Fate
of Jewish Traditions in
Muslim Religious Literature"
by William Brinner of the
University of California-
Berkeley, with a response by
Ron Nettler of the Oxford
Centre for Post-Graduate
Hebrew Studies and discus-
sion led by WSU's Jacob
Lassner.
A final session will be 9:30
a.m. Oct. 24 at McGregor.
"Christians in the Caliphate
in the Ninth and Tenth Cen-
turies; Apologetics and the
Problem of Conversion" by
Sidney Griffith of the
Catholic University of
America.
The conference will close
with "The Jews of Islam:
Comparative Reflections" by
Mark Cohen of Princeton
with response by Robert
Chazan of New York Univer-
sity and discussion led by
Todd Endelman of U-M.
For information, call the
Cohn-Haddow Center for
Judaic Studies, 557-2679.
Michael Maddin
Oscar Feldman
Jewish Charities. Fund
Hosts Two Speakers
"Everything You Always
Wanted to Know About the
Detroit Pistons . . . but Were
Afraid to Ask" will be asked
and answered at a luncheon
of the Federated Endowment
Fund of United Jewish
Charities noon, Nov. 5, at
Temple Beth El.
Oscar Feldman, partner
and general counsel of the
Detroit Pistons, will provide
the answers about the two-
time NBA champions.
The talk by the Piston's
former general manager will
be followed by a update on the
Federated Endowment Fund
by Michael Maddin, the
fund's chairman.
A UJC board member, Mr.
Feldman serves on the fund's
Professional Advisory Com-
mittee. He also is Hutzel
Hospital's board chairman.
Vice president of UJC, Mr.
Maddin has held a number of
leadership positions with the
Allied Jewish Campaign and
is a member of the Jewish
Welfare Federation Board of
Governors.
There is a charge for the
program, and reservations
are required.
For information, call the
Federated Endowment Fund
of United Jewish Charities,
965-3939.
Women's Division
Hosts Institute
"The Jewish Family: Back
to the Future" will be the
theme of the 43rd annual In-
stitute of the Jewish Welfare
Federation Women's Division
7:15 p.m. Nov. 7 and 9:30 a.m.
Nov. 8 at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek.
The speaker will be Gerald
Bubis, founding director of
the School of Jewish Com-
munal Service at Hebrew
Union College-Jewish In-
stitute of Religion, Los
Angeles.
His latest book is entitled,
Saving the Jewish Family,
and he will address the issue
of the effects of modernity on
the Jewish family.
The Nov. 7 program will be
preceded at 5:30 p.m. by the
year's first educational din-
ner of the Business and Pro-
fessional Women at which
members will meet B & P
leadership and learn about
the division. Zina Kramer is
Gerald Bubis
chairman of the program, and
Nancy Kurland Simpson,
associate chairman. Susan
Miller is B & P chairman and
Janice Schwartz, associate
chairman.
Alan Goodman, executive
director of the Jewish Family
Service, will provide a local
perspective on Nov. 8.
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