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them," said Roth, who was literary
manager of Circle Repertory Theater
and playwright-in-residence at the
American Jewish Theater.
"We're going to have to be commit-
ted to preserving the institutions that
are struggling to produce them."

— Suzanne Chessler

Life in ROisal will be performed at

8 p.m. Thursdays- Saturdays and 2
and 7 p.m. Sundays, March 20-
April 12, at the Performance
Network, 408 W Washington,
Ann Arbor. $10 previews/$15 gen-
eral admission/$12 students and
seniors/pay-what-you-can
Thursdays. (313) 663-0681.

market in the square, the little stores and
workshops, the house of prayer and the
house of death.
My movie theater — severe, cold,
devoid, to be sure, of the particular
melody of prayerful voices, but obviously
wiser than any ordinary movie house —
was a Jewish synagogue. The hilltop at
Czerniawy, overgrown with trees, grass
and nettles, it turned out was the final
resting place of the Kazimierz Jews in
the time when they were still dying
peaceful deaths.
I wanted to return them to the places
they belonged to, to give back their home
to the orphaned, even if only on paper.
To open up the scar and allow them to
return home.

— Gail Zimmerman

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A best-selling author in Poland
of six nonfiction books'and four
volumes of poetry, Agata
Tuszynska in 1993 was the recipi-
ent of the Polish PEN award in
reportage and nonfiction writing.
Spurred by her love of Isaac
Bashevis Singer's fiction, this
Polish historian and Warsaw resi-
dent went in search of his roots
and discovered that despite the
Holocaust's obliteration of a cul-
ture, remarkable remnants of
Poland's Jews remain.

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Here to, as in countless
Polish towns, Jews had
lived, engaged in trade,
prayed, and died. For so
many years, unconsciously, I
Agata Tuszynska
had connected with the
places of their daily life: the

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Lost Landscapes: In Search of
Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Jews of
Poland (William Morrow; $23) is

the result of Tuszynska's emotional
odyssey through. Poland, Tel Aviv
and New York in search of original
documents, oral testimony and
historical ghosts.
Partly an "impressionistic biog-
raphy" of Singer, partly a wrench-
ing tale of one of humanity's great-
est tragedies, Lost
Landscapes elucidates the
common and tangled his-
tory of Poles and Jews in
the 20th century.
The author's prose, as
translated by Madeline
Levine, a professor of
Slavic languages at the
University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, is
lyrical. Tuszynska writes: ,

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The Frankel Center for
Judaic Studies and the
Center for Russian and
East European Studies
hosts Agata. Tuszynska
discussing Lost

Landscapes: In Search of
Isaac Bashevis Singer
and the Jews of

in a lecture at 4 p.m.
Thursday, March 26,
in the Rackham East
Conference Room.
For more information,
call (734) 763-9047.

• For more info
call 7th House Box
Office (248) 335-8101
and Ticketmaster
(248) 645-6666

• Tickets $22 and $27

• Show Times: Thur., Fri. &
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