Jewish Ensemble Theatre
ISN'T
IT ROMANTIC
By Wendy Wasserstein
An hilarious and touching play about two young women today .. .
The dilemma?
Personal independence and/or romantic fulfillment.
PREVIEWS: September 8-12, 1993 • OPENING NIGHT: September 12 at 7:00 P.M.
REGULAR PERFORMANCES: September 13 - October 3
Poet Edith Covensky
In Bloomfield lims
By Arthur Miller
Two long-estranged brothers meet after many years to dispose of their
father's belongings. (The role of the wise and savvy appraiser
to be played by Sol Frieder.)
PREVIEWS: December 1-5, 1993 • OPENING NIGHT: December 5 at 7:00 P.M.
REGULAR PERFORMANCES: December 8 - December 26
SIGHT
UNSEEN
By Donald Margulies
A smart and sad comedy about a super star artist — the sadness of lost love,
assimilation and the role of the artist at the end of a ragged century
PREVIEWS: April 6-10, 1994 • OPENING NIGHT: April 10 at 7:00 P.M.
REGULAR PERFORMANCES: April 13 - May 1
BEAU
JEST
By James Sherman
This Beau is a Jest! A single daughter, her mother, and the dream catch, or is it
match, makes for a very funny night in the theater
PREVIEWS: May 18-22, 1994 • OPENING NIGHT: May 22 at 7:00 P.M.
REGULAR PERFORMANCES: May 25 - June 12
THE WINTER FESTIVAL OF STAGED READINGS
Special senior, student and group discounts available and
for Season Tickets, call
(313) 788-2900.
Aaron Delloy Theatre
Jewish Community Center West Bloomfield, Michigan
CARLA JEAN SCHWARTZ LOCAL COLUMNIST
T
he poems of Edith
(Judy) Covensky
belong to Israel and
America, but they do
not represent either country.
Mrs. Covensky, of Bloom-
field Hills and a Wayne
State University lecturer in
Hebrew language and litera-
ture, writes Hebrew poetry.
Her poems appear in bil-
ingual editions published by
the Israeli company Eked,
with English translations by
Edouard Codish. Itamar
Yaoz-Kest, a Hebrew poet,
is editor of Mrs. Covensky's
books.
She writes about the uni-
versal themes of love and
war in her passionate
poetry. A few of her poems
allude to the Holocaust.
"Poetry is an inner expres-
sion that draws from ex-
terior elements," says Mrs.
Covensky. She often talks
about the relationship bet-
ween love and poetry. In
"An Attempt to
Write"included in An
Anatomy ofLove, she writes:
My love is constant on the
surface of the poem
seeking its way in creation
nourished by the primal
matter
and the beauty that dwells
between the lines.
Mrs. Covensky was born in
Rumania and went to Israel
in 1948. In 1965, she came to
the United States to con-
tinue her education. She is
married to attorney
Harvey Covensky. She
has two children, Jeffrey
and Laurice. Her parents,
Gizy and Moshe Bizaoui,
reside in West Bloomfield.
Her poetry books are
Anatomy of Love.
available at Borders and her
newest, Partial
Autobiography, will be
available in this fall.
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NA'AMAT EVENT
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Greater Detroit Counci.Z.
Na'amat held its annual'
spiritual adoption luncheon
last week at Adat Shalom
Synagogue.
Honorees this year were
Channel 7 reporter Cheryl
Chodun and longtime
Na'amat activists
Charlotte Edeiheit and
Frieda Leemon.
With more than 50,000
members in the United
States, Na'amat is a chil-
dren's and women's ad-
vocate organization that
supports numerous causes in
Israel and the United States.
Among Na'amat's projects
in Israel are operating com-
munity centers, conducting:-
counseling programs, spon-
soring job training and child
care courses, operating:,
agricultural high schools'