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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- C CCI O 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.