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mong the stacks of hard-
cover bargain books at the
Barnes & Noble store in
West Bloomfield is a slim
volume of 19th-century stories
the American Jewish Congress
would like to see pulled from the
shelves.
A 1995 Barnes & Noble
reprint of the 1948 Gypsy Folk
Tales, edited by Dora Yates, con-
tains the story "The Lucky Sim-
pleton," translated from the
original Polish. In it, a dishonest
Jewish innkeeper intoxicates and
then steals food and money from
a peasant before he gets his due.
The moral of the story? Jewish
innkeepers take advantage of
kind-hearted but ignorant folk.
When the American Jewish
Congress learned of the story
from a member who bought it to
read to her children, it fired off a
letter to Barnes & Noble CEO
Leonard Riggio. That was on
Rosh Hashanah eve last Friday.
Before getting a reply from Mr.
Riggio, the AJC sent out press re-
leases decrying the publication
of Gypsy Folk Tales and de-
manding it be withdrawn from
stores or that the offensive por-
tion of the story be excised.
The fallout from the flap has
already resulted in at least one
qualified apology — from the AJ-
Congress.
On Monday, Executive Direc-
tor Phil Baum apologized to Mr.
Riggio for alerting the press to
the book's existence before
Barnes & Noble had a chance to
act He also assured him that the
AJCongress is not accusing the
bookseller of spreading anti-
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"We have a very high percent-
age of member families who are
rearing their families as Jews
who, if it weren't for Shir Tikvah,
would be lost to our people," he
said.
Until Rabbi Sleutelberg, 38,
became its spiritual leader, ser-
vices were led by congregants.
Larry Littman, a former con-
gregation president who heads
Shir Tikvah's building commit-
tee, said the congregation func-
tions like an "extended family."
He, his wife and daughter are
original members.
"When you come to an event
as an outsider, it's hard to see
which kids belong to which
adults. Sometimes large congre-
gations get impersonal. Our fear
was that as we grew we'd lose
that, but we seem to attract peo-
ple who want the same thing,"
Mr. Littman said. 0
A Book Bind
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ered a family education program,
he explained, because parents
are required to attend with their
children at least once each
month. Plus, they are offered the
same curriculum, with an "adult
approach," a different part of the
morning.
"There's an experiential
hands-on activity children and
parents and even grandparents
participate in. Intergenerational
teaching has helped our families
to feel confident about the vari-
ous traditions children are learn-
ing in their classrooms," Rabbi
Sleutelberg said. Congregation
Shir Tikvah was formed 14 years
ago by about 16 families who
wanted to worship near their
homes. Rabbi Sleutelberg does
not know how many of its current
230 member families are inter-
faith, "because it's not an issue
for us.
1-96 lothies
Semitism nor calling for a boy-
cott of the store.
But, Mr. Baum's letter says, "...
the fact remains that someone in
Barnes & Noble obviously
thought that it was a good and
useful and, one supposes, prof-
itable thing to do to publish, re-
produce and merchandise this
crude and unmistakably anti-Se-
mitic material ... What we called
for is a re-examination of an edi-
torial judgment that Barnes &
Noble has made which seems to
us scandalously deficient."
Mr. Riggio, who calls himself a
"passionate liberal" and crusad-
er against all forms of bigotry, an-
grily defended his First
Amendment right to publish and
carry all kinds of printed mater-
ial. And he called the AJCongress
actions an attempt to censor the
written word.