Fleischman's senior adults
and Hillel s students view
Detroit Jewish history.

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SHELLI DORFMAN

Editorial Assistant

Bertha Cohen looks for
a photograph of herself
in the display.

ertha Cohen examined photo after
photo, searching for a face from
the past — her own.

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A group of students overlook the menorah design lay-
- out of the photo exhibit.

Sharon Alterman
guides
Sid Garelick,
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Ruth Marks and
Esther Fealk through
the exhibit.

Carol Weintraub Fogel
studies ph. otoaraphs with
Andrea Shuback, Nikki
Selik, Allison Fishman
and Tamara Melikoua.

Visiting the "Memory and Vision" exhibit
at the D. Dan and Betty Kahn Jewish
Community Center in West Bloomfield,
Cohen joined others from the Fleischman
Residence who came to remember and look
for a familiar past.
The display, sponsored by the Centennial
Committee of the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit and the United Jewish
Foundation of Metropolitan Detroit, is a
visual history of pictures and artifacts chron-
icling the first 100 years of the organized
Detroit Jewish community.
Not -eCTeryone viewing the exhibit, "A
Celebration of Jewish Community 1899-
1999," recognized places and events. The
majority of the Hillel Day School fifth
graders, who also toured, had never been to
or even heard of most of the places depicted.
Nonetheless, many of them had special rea-
sons for wanting to be there.
Lauren Robbins hoped to see places she
heard about from her grandparents who
came to Detroit from Prussia. Matt
Newman couldn't wait to see how his
"grandma and grandpa lived a Jewish life a
long time ago."
Viewing a radio from the 1940s, the stu-
dents said they could hardly imagine a time
without television and video games. The
senior adults, on the other hand, remem-
bered similar radios once sitting on their
kitchen tables.
For Esther Fealk, the visit brought back