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A Mother's Journey In Autism,
Invoking The Bunny Bunny,
And Shabbat In Ethiopia
ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR
M
enelik's day begins at a
table of woven reeds
where he and his fami-
ly dine on injara.
The pancakes are sizzling; the
coffee is hot.
Soon, Menelik and his family
hear the sound of drums. It is the
elders, walking through the vil-
lage to remind families that
Shabbat is coming.
In Day of Delight: A Jewish
Sabbath in Ethiopia (Dial
Books for Children), Maxine Rose
Schur tells the story of a young
boy, Menelik, and his family. It
is a book rich with sound ("We
can hear our cattle moo in the
twilight. We can hear a hyena cry
in the hills. We can hear the dry
thornbush creak in the wind")
and with sight ("I see my moth-
er in front of our but sitting with
the other potter women. Her
hands fly like two brown swal-
lows") and with smell and taste
("I can smell the spicy barberry
pepper and garlic of our chicken
stew.")
Menelik is the son of a black-
smith. His mother makes pottery.
"Old Uri" works
on a loom to cre-
ate the shammas
robe worn by the
Ethiopian fami-
lies.
But on Shab-
bat, everyone
stops working.
They dress in
their finest clothes
and walk to the
synagogue, where
they will dine on
sweet honey beer,
coffee, yogurt and
bread. Basil and
coriander already
have been laid on
the ground, so by
the time the fam-
ilies gather to
daven, "the per-
fume of the herbs
wraps around us
all. We have made
our own Garden
of Eden."
Ms. Schur also
is the author of
Hannah Szenes: A
Song of Light and
The Circlemaker.
Day of Delight
features illustra-
tions by Brian
Pinkney, whose
works include
SevenCandles for Kwanzaa and them. So it would make me feel
better if you didn't call me what
The Dark-Thirty.
everyone else did.
— Sure.
ilda Radner began each
— Thanks.
morning of her childhood
— Gilda?
with an incantation: "Bun-
—Yeah?
ny Bunny." She hoped it
—Any thoughts about what I
would guarantee a happy day.
In Bunny Bunny (Villard should call you?
— ...Gilbert.
Books), screenwriter Alan
Mr. Zweibel co-wrote the
Zweibel pays tribute to his long-
time best friend, the Detroit na- screenplay for the new film North
tive and comedienne who died, at and has written for Saturday
Night Live andIt's Garry Shand-
age 44, of ovarian cancer.
— Could you please not call ling's Show.
me Gilda anymore?
ho would have thought
— Excuse me?
a song on the Yiddish
—I mean it.
vaudeville circuit could
— Why don't you want me to
have caused such a
call you Gilda anymore?
ruckus.
— Because everybody does.
The Sept. 22, 1925 edition of
— Well, isn't that your name?
— Tm scared, Zweibel. Tm real the New York Law Journal fea-
excited about what's happening tured a story on the decision
to me. It's what I'm working for, rendered in a case focusing on
and it's what I've always wanted "Eli, Eli," (My God, My God.) The
and I'm grateful and it's fun but judge's ruling— that a composer
I don't trust it. It's a weird feeling has only so long to claim copy-
having strangers call me by name right of a song — ran on page 1
and knowing all sorts of things of the journal and has served as
about my life that I never told a watershed on the issue ever
since.
This story, relat-
ed in the new Pass-
port to Jewish
Music: Its Histo-
ry, Traditions and
Culture (Green-
wood Publishing),
by Irene Heskes, be-
gan when an immi-
grant composer,
Peretz Jacob Koppel
Sandler, agreed to
write the music for
the play Brokhoh.
Produced by Moshe
Horowitz in New
York in 1896,
Brokhoh was a hit,
especially its solo
Eli, Eli, adapted
from Psalm 22.
Sandler soon left
theatrical work, but
his song kept grow-
ing in popularity. It
was published in
1906, and made its
debut on the Met-
ropolitan Opera
aC 11(2
House stage in
1919.
In 1923, Sandler
sued music publish-
ers for copyright in-
fringement. In his
ruling, the judge
said that "long delay
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