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MAPLE, B'HAM 644-9224 El NI III IN MI II TRUNK SHOW • Dress Shirts •Ties • Sport Shirts 19011 West 10 Mile Road (Between Southfield & Evergreen) In the Orchard vall West Bloomfield • (810) 737-4888 Saturday March 4th 124 P.M. Southfield 810-352-1080 STORE HOURS: Daily 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. * PREVIOUS SALES AND SALE ITEMS EXCLUDED. DAVID KLEIN OFFER EXPIRES 3-3-95 A THE MCDONNELL HOVSE ANTKIVES 02 B3 B3E8 EBB3Ef3 EBEB • Sell 19$00 • E Vest 12 Mile ROA ■ lust c.Ast of Evcrsrcol:. (S10) 559-9120 _1' 181•71.1 GAIL LICHTMAN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS n the Ukrainian shtetl of Zholldev, an elderly man is the last Jew left. He's unwilling to leave because "someone has to look after the synagogue." In Grodno, Belarus, a city which before World War II had a Jewish population of some 25,000 and boasted 40 synagogues, five of the original pre-war residents remain to recall the splendor of the synagogues and Jewish com- munity institutions. And in Uzbekistan, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Moldavia, hun- dreds of years of Jewish history are drawing to a close as whole villages and communities leave for Israel. Since 1979, the Center of Jew- ish Art (CJA) at the Hebrew Uni- versity in Jerusalem, established by art history Professor Bezalel Narkiss, has been preserving Jewish visual heritage through the documentation of all extant Jewish art — ritual objects, syn- agogue architecture, Hebrew illuminated manuscripts and ancient and modern Jewish art. The only institution of its kind in the world, CJA's work is car- ried out by history graduate stu- dents under the supervision of university staff. Of top priority is the documentation of Jewish art in "danger areas," where Jewish communities are at risk of dis- appearing. Since 1990, the cen- ter has been engaged in extensive efforts in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and has con- ducted expeditions to Poland, the Czech Republic, the Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, Russia and Uzbekistan. This summer, ex- peditions are planned to the Caucasus Mountain region, Moldavia, the Ukraine and Poland. "At present, the political situ- ation is extremely uncertain in the Caucasus region and Mol- davia," says Dr. Aliza Cohen- Mushlin, CJA director and editor of the center's annual magazine, Jewish Art. "There are wars going on and we hope to be able to carry out these expeditions. By next year I'm afraid there won't be much left to document." Documentation is entered into a computerized database, the Jerusalem Index of Jewish Art, where it is accessible to students, scholars, curators and collectors around the world. "We are a non-invasive form of documentation," Ms. Cohen Mushlin says. "We photograph, draw, describe and measure artifacts. We are not a museum I Tucsdou, Walkcsdou Fridou, Soturdog 10:00-6:00 Located in he OrcIE1rd Moll West Bloomfield (810) 855-4466 Preserving Forgotten Jewish Treasures GALLERY 430 North Woodward Birmingham MI 48009 Telephone 810.433.3700 Fax 810.433.3702 and we do not collect, transfer or remove artifacts. But we do pass on information to others to help preserve what we have found." On an expedition to Lithuania in 1992, for example, researchers discovered six wooden shtetl syn- agogues. "This was a most extraordi- nary find," Ms. Cohen-Mushlin says. "It was previously believed that no wooden synagogues had survived World War II. These synagogues had not been in use since the war but they were never vandalized. They are being used today as warehouses and cine- mas and are in very poor condi- tion." The CJA notified a Lithuanian open-air museum of wooden churches about the synagogues, in the hope it will be able to pre- serve at least one of them as part of its collection. The discovery of the syna- gogues and numerous other finds in shtetls and museum store- houses around the former Soviet Union are the result of coopera- tion between the CJA and the Jewish University in St. Peters- burg. Members of the Jewish University have served as the center's eyes and ears in the field, and its people are instrumental in arranging the expeditions to the CIS and the Baltic states. The CJA has conducted docu- mentation training courses in both St. Petersburg and Israel for Eastern European scholars, cu- rators and Jewish leaders. The second two-week course on doc- umentation, held recently in Jerusalem, brought some 40 par- ticipants from all over the former Soviet Union, Poland and Hun- gary. At the end of June 1994, a course on Jewish art was given in St. Petersburg with more than 100 participants. The amount of Jewish art re- maining in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union is stag- gering. In the Jewish Museum in Prague alone, there are at least 32,000 artifacts. The items were gathered by the Nazis from 132 different communities in Bo- hemia and Moravia, with the intention of creating "a museum of the inferior race," according to Yarona Pinhas, a master's stu- dent in art history who recently returned from a one-month expedition to Prague. "We worked in the same offices the Nazis used. The artifacts were meticulously numbered and catalogued. Our aim was to con- centrate on the metal ritual