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esolve that the existence
and safety of Israel shall
not slip from our grasp,"
reads Milton Landau's
script. "We owe it to those who
have fallen. We owe it to those yet
unborn."
Lest those words lead you to be-
lieve that Landau's latest musi-
cal is a sullen piece of historical
docudrama, consider the vaude-
villian scene at Moshe Chang's
Chinese Restaurant, set in the Is-
raeli desert circa 1917. Or the bit
at the Basle Congress in 1897,
where Theodore Herzl calls for
the creation of the State of Israel,
and several women delegates take
the opportunity to decry their
marginalized status.
Did either of those events ac-
tually happen? Probably not. Does
that matter to Landau? Not at all.
The 65-year-old lawyer-cum-play-
wright simply aims to put an en-
tertaining and modern spin on the
past while honoring its spirit. The
curtain rises Friday, April 19, on
his seventh full-length production
for the Birmingham Temple Tem-
plesingers, The Exiled Return
Home: Centennial of Zionism, and
Landau hopes the show's humor
and music illuminate history in a
way that keeps the crowd in-
trigued.
A 30-year-member of the tem-
ple, Landau was encouraged by
his wife to pursue his interests in
music and song. She bought him
piano lessons ("I was a disaster,"
he admits) and urged him to join
the Templesingers, even though
the only crooning Landau had
done up to then was in the show-
er. Nevertheless, he learned to
read music, and when the Tern-
plesingers lost its leader 12 years
ago, Landau volunteered to as-
sume the artistic reins by writing
a musical. 'They all looked at me
like I was crazy," he says.
His first attempt, A History of
America: The Search for a Better
Life, packed the temple and was,
he says, "maybe the most excit-
ing experience of my life." That to Germany, prompting an
show was followed by annual outpouring of anti-Semitism
Templesingers productions, six throughout France.)
Though the subject matter is
more of which Landau would cre-
ate, including A History of the weighty, Landau and the play's
Jews: The French Revolution (in director, Arthur Rose, furnish
which Rabbi Sherwin Wine offi- buoyant moments as well.
"We're very serious, but we
ciates the Jewish wedding of
Napoleon and Josephine) and, have a sense of humor," Landau
last year, a review about Landau's emphasizes. "My whole theory is
years at Detroit's Central High that ... there has to be a constant
change of mood and pace in any
School (he graduated in 1948).
"It's an enormous job," he says show that I put on."
That said, the production ends
of penning a play. But one the
semi-retired attorney and histo- on a contemplative note, with a
ry buff thoroughly enjoys. This passage read by Rabbi Wine and
year's theme of returning home a song dedicated to peace and the
honors the centennial of the memory of slain Israeli leader
Dreyfus Affair and, as a conse- Yitzhak Rabin.
`The more you persecute Jews,
quence, Herzl's push for a Jew-
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Director Arthur Rose prepares the Birmingham Templesingers for the opening night,
Friday, April 19, of Milton Landau's The Exiled Return Home: Centennial of Zionism.
ish state. Much of the action
takes place in Herzl's dreams
where an unseen voice leads the
founder of the Zionist movement
through events of Jewish histo-
ry: David naming Jerusalem the
capital of the Jewish land, the
fall of Masada, the Jews in
Egypt, the trial of Alfred Drey-
fus by a military court in Paris.
(Dreyfus, a Jew and French
army officer, was falsely accused
of furnishing military secrets
the more you fortify their will for
survival," Landau notes. "And
that's sort of a theme in this pro- (--\
duction."
The Exiled Return Home:
Centennial of Zionism will be
performed by the Birrning,ham
Temple Templesingers at 8
p.m. Friday, April 19, at the
Birmingham Temple in Farm-
ington Hills. Admission is free.
Call (810) 477-1410.
Shtetl Airs on Channel 56
O
n Nov. 8, 1942, Nazi sol-
diers rounded up the Jews
living in a shtetl, a small
village in Bransk, Poland,
and ordered the town's farmers to
provide horse wagons to transport
them to a nearby train station.
Within 24 hours, Bransk's 2,500
Jews died in Treblinka's gas
chambers, Their shtetl died with
them.
To commemorate national
Holocaust Remembrance Week,
"Frontline" embarks on a four-
year-long journey to search for
what happened to the shtetl in
Bransk and uncovers the origins
and depth of Polish anti-Semi-
tism.
In Shtetl, airing Wednesday,
April 17, at 8 p.m. on PBS's
WTVS Channel 56, filmmaker
Marian Marzynski, a Polish-born
Jew hidden as a child by
Catholics, and Zbyszek Roma-
niuk, a 29-year-old Pole with a cu-
riosity for Jewish history, confront
the memories of Nazi terror and
explore the state of Polish-Jewish
relations. Filmed in Poland, the
United States and Israel, Shtet_
is a universal tale of Jews and
those who lived around them.