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Carrie Kushner, Andi Wolfe and Nancy Lipsey: Three of the many faces behind
Book Fair.

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fled on Nancy Lipsey's
desk at the Maple-Drake
Jewish Community Cen-
ter is a healthy stack of
book reviews torn out of publica-
tions ranging from the weekly
New York Times' Book Review to

People magazine.

Since the conclusion of last

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Wednesday, September 25, 1996

Meet our new director!
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TH E D E T R OI T J E WI S H N E W S

will be meeting with the Board for the first time.

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■President's Report
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year's Jewish Book Fair at the

Jewish Community Center, peo-
ple have been sending in book ti-
tles and reviews as suggestions
for the upcoming fair.
Ms. Lipsey, the Book Fair co-
ordinator, said community sug-
gestions comprise only a fraction
of the 7,500 or more titles sold at
the annual event. Trade publi-
cations and a book sellers con-
vention provide Ms. Lipsey and
Book Fair co-chairs Andi Wolfe
and Carrie Kushner with ex-
haustive lists of new publications.
Although the Nov. 9 opening
night is less than two months
away, all the books have yet to
be ordered. It only takes a few
days to get the books once the or-
der goes in, Ms. Wolfe said.
Because storage space at the
JCC is limited, books don't sit for
long before making their way to
temporary holding cases and
then, a few days before the start
of the event, to the display racks
that will ultimately be in the lob-
by.
Serious planning for the Jew-
ish Book Fair begins in February
when coordinators start looking
through catalogues for fall books
and begin seeking volunteers.
From February on, monthly
meetings are conducted, which
often include talks with nearly

100 co sponsoring organizations,

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ranging from congregational sis-

terhoods to the Jewish Federa-
tion of Metropolitan Detroit.
"We sit in a community that
ranges from the ultra-Orthodox
to secular Jews," Ms. Wolfe said.
"If we truly are the Jewish Cen-
ter, we need to be all-encom-
passing by stocking a vast range
of titles."
In the past, organizers re-
ordered many of the same titles
sold at the previous year's fair.
But at the conclusion of last
year's Book Fair, the database of
book titles was lost in a comput-
er failure.
"It forced us to clean house on
a lot of our titles," Ms. Wolfe said.
For the first time, local Jewish
authors who have published
within the last year will be fea-
tured in a separate room during
the event. Also new to this year's
Book Fair is a policy on Jewish
authors. Previously, a book had
to have Jewish content. This
year; a select group of works by
Jewish authors, but without Jew-
ish themes, will be available.
"Let's say Henry Kissinger
wrote a book on foreign policy,
but it had no Jewish content,"
said Margo Weitzer, the JCC's
director of programming. "Under
our old policy, we could not bring
his book to Book Fair. We didn't
want to lose people like him, so
we changed our policy."
Because of the magnitude of
the event — Detroit hosts the
largest Jewish book fair in the
nation — speakers agree to ap-
pear without compensation. An
author's airfare and accommo-

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