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The first chapter of this story begins in 1959 at the old Jewish Community Center on Curtis and Meyers. Then-director Irwin Shaw was eager to promote Hebrew language classes for adults. He found a sympa- thetic soul in Avraham Avichai, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's press secretary and later student dean at Hebrew University. When Mr. Avichai visited Detroit, he and Mr. Shaw started a local Hebrew con- versation group. Several years later, and after he had attended an " ulpan, Hebrew language seminar, in Israel, Mr. Shaw decided to expand the Center's Hebrew cur- riculum. Of his interest in the language Mr. Shaw says, "It is an integral part of Jewish culture." He contacted the national Jewish Welfare Board and asked for a shaliach to work in Detroit. In 1965 Asher Tarmon, a principal in Israel, accepted the post, becoming the first shaliach in the United States. In September 1966, Mr. Shaw and Mr. Tarmon decided to implement in Detroit a new audiovisual Hebrew instruction pro- gram, developed by the Technion. They hired two Israeli students at Wayne State University and UHS teacher Ezri Uval and began the classes in September, just before Rosh Hashanah. "Usually, you start with 15 students and end up with five," Mr. Shaw says. "But our retention was unbelievable, so we knew we had something." The program combined written and oral broadcasts from Israel Radio, covering such subjects as an inter- view with an El Al crew whose plane had been hi- jacked and Yitzhak Rabin speaking about the Six-Day War. Mr. Shaw remembers snipping and slicing tapes with a pair of scissors to pro- duce a 21/2-hour program. The project was such a success that the men expanded the tapes to an international program, Heb- rew Cassette of the Month, with 3,000 subscribers worldwide. Included with the tapes was a verb root book and glossary developed by Mr. Shaw, Mr. Tarmon and Mr. Uval. The pamphlet provid- ed students with verbs used in the texts and their roots. Though the Hebrew Cassette of the Month pro- ject would end in 1975, the verb book was about to expand. "There was a Hebrew verb table book out at the time, but it wasn't good for beginners," Mr. Shaw ex- plains. "What we wanted was an abridgement, with words most frequently used." So Mr. Uval and Mr. Asher set to work. They took the original, small pamphlet of verbs used with Hebrew Cassette of the Month and made it into a full-fledged book. It took three months to complete Hebrew Verb Tables,which features thousands of Hebrew verbs and their conjugations. Hebrew Verb Tables would be in continual use at the Center for the next several years, where Mr. Shaw de- veloped numerous new Heb- rew language programs for teen-agers and adults. Among the most popular was the "buddy session. "Buddies" were required to speak Hebrew whenever together. Mr. Uval and Mr. Asher both eventually returned to Israel. Mr. Uval accepted a post in the linguistics department of Hebrew Uni- versity, while Mr. Asher served at the JWB office in Israel. He has since retired. Neither man forgot Heb- rew Verb Tables, and both saw a perfect new use for the book when Soviet immi- grants began to enter the country in the late 1970s. Israel's Ministry of Edu- cation decided to publish Hebrew Verb Tables in Rus- sian. LI _ _ /