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From "The Illegal Camera": Concealed cameras resulted in photo fragments and
strange angles.
HANGING AROUND
Each picture taken in the
Netherlands between 1940 and 1945
represented an act of heroism.
During the Nazi occupation, pho-
tos were prohibited. Photographers
found by the Nazis were arrested.
"The Illegal Camera," the exhibit at
the Janice Charach Epstein Museum
Gallery through March 19, shows the
pictures taken with undercover cam-
eras by people who wanted to docu-
ment everyday life under the Nazi
regime.
Street scenes with German soldiers
and starved people collapsed on the
pavement show the horror of the
times.
The images — whether captured as
fragments or at strange angles — are
that way because cameras were con-
cealed while the shutters were
snapped. With lenses partially blocked
by pockets or sheets of paper, there
could be no full or usual scenes.
"Eighty percent of the Jews in the
Netherlands were killed," said
Professor Sidney Bolkosky, whose
gallery lecture will give insight into
the atmosphere in the country at the
time the pictures were taken. His talk
begins at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 1.
"After Poland, the Netherlands had
the largest number of Jews destroyed,
and I think it's important for
people to know the routine of
the Holocaust, how organized it
was. I also will show how the
process of hiding people failed.
"Fewer than 7,000 of
140,000 Dutch Jews survived."
The secret visual documenta-
tion gained attention shortly
after the liberation of the
Netherlands.
The pictures are considered
important both as a human doc-
ument of the war and as a legacy
of determined acts of resistance,
according to Sylvia Nelson,
gallery director.
— Suzanne Chessler
Israel? Intermarriage? Sex?
Read all about it in Schmoozing, a
new book by Joshua Halberstam
(Perigee Books; $13), in which
American Jews sound off about who
they are and who they want to be in
the century ahead.
Halberstam, born into a renowned
family of Chasidic rabbis but now a
secular academic, was struck "by the
similarities in attitudes that I hear
when schmoozing in Yiddish with my
Chasidic family in Brooklyn and when
schmoozing with my totally secular
Jewish friends out in the real world."
In Schmoozing, Halberstam and
Jews from all walks of life take aim at
the stereotypes that have defined them
for years, dispelling those that are false
and pondering those based in truth, to
come up with some interesting tidbits.
• Jews, per capita, give more to
charity than any other group in the
U.S., but
American Jews
continue to be
uneasy about
their stereotypical
relationship to
money, and
younger Jews are
more likely to
give money to
non-Jewish caus-
es.
• Jews are experi-
encing a revival
in religious and
communal inter-
est, but the per-
centage of athe-
ists and agnostics among Jews is high-
er than in any other religion, and a
substantial number of the country's
Buddhists are Jews.
• According to a major study by
University of Chicago researchers,
Jews have more sex than any other
ethnic group in the United States —
despite the image of the undersexed
Jewish nebbish made famous in
Woody Allen's films. Yet, the book
shows, those stats mask the bitter fight
lurking beneath the numbers: the
"Jewish battle of the sexes."
Halberstam best sums up the
meaning of his book in the final two
lines: "The secret for the long life of
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"The Illegal Camera" will be on
exhibit through March 19 at the
Janice Charach Epstein Museum
Gallery at the Maple/Drake Jewish
Community Center. Gallery hours
are 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mondays-
Wednesdays, 11 a.m.-8 p.m.
Thursdays and 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Sundays. (248) 661-7641.
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American Jews and money?
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