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eading into Jewish practices
through literature, syna-
gogue architecture and TV
portrayals will be explored
by three college professors as part of
the March 7-8 international confer-
ence Jews and the Urban Experience.
The conference is sponsored by the
Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic
Studies at Wayne State University.
The three talks, running through
the afternoon and evening of the
second day of meetings, come under
the heading "The Urban Jewish
Experience as Represented in the
Arts and Architecture."
Murray Baumgarten, of the
University of California-Santa Cruz,
will discuss "Intersections and Modern
Urban Identities: Bashevis Singer,
American Jewish Writers and the
Jewish Street." Lee Shai Weissbach, of
the University of Louisville, will show
many slides as he presents "Detroit
Synagogues and the Patterns of Jewish
Life." Jeffrey Shandler, of New York
University, will have videos to aug-
ment "The Urban Jewish Landscape
in Television: A Multimedia
Presentation."

A bus tour of Jewish Detroit will be
an optional part of the program on
Sunday afternoon. Harvard Professor
Emeritus Nathan Glazer, the keynote
speaker, will open the conference
Sunday evening with a talk on "Jews
and the Urban Experience: A
Historical Assessment."
The morning and lunch sessions of
the conference on Monday feature
speakers comparing urban areas in
other countries and giving a history of
the Detroit Jewish communiry.
During the afternoon session, "I
will talk about the way in which peo-
ple have thought Jewish writing is a
result of ghetto writing, although
wherever Jews lived their life was one
of interaction," says Baumgarten. The
University of California-Santa Cruz
professor holds the Neufeld-Levin
Chair in Holocaust Studies and edits
Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish.
Life and Thought published by the
American Jewish Congress. "There
always was a relationship with neigh-
bors, and I'm trying to elicit a notion
of those connections."
Baumgarten also will talk about
urban Jewish habits, such as going to
the theater and supporting music, and
how suburban Jews have not given up
on them. The Jewish renewal move-