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HARRIET B. ROTTER: Listed in Best Lawyers in America,
1999; Former Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, Oakland
County; Former Assistant Professor, Political Science,
Oakland Community College; Legal Ads ,;or, WXYZ-TV
and CNN; lecturer, .Matrimonial Law; Board Member,
Temple Beth El
DR. NORMAN J. ROTTER: Chief of Neurosurgery,
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84 Detroit Jewish News
YIDDISHICEIT
from page 85
Roskies describes Sholom Aleichem
as the first thoroughly modern Jewish
writer in terms of style and substance
who was also a champion of the com-
mon man. "The great consoler," he not
only chronicled anti-Semitism and
czarist repression but "helped place these
disasters in the continuum of Jewish life.
"He was a profoundly anti-apoca-
lyptical writer, the very opposite of
Isaac Bashevis Singer. He believed,
despite all odds, that there was hope
for both the individual Jew, facing off
against the forces of history, and for
the community of Israel, transplanted
to new promised lands."
Each volume of the series will be the
creative collaboration" of a translator
and scholarly editor," with an introduc-
tion by the editor, explains Jeffrey
Shandler of New York University,
another member of the editorial board.
"Making his best work available in
the best possible translations will pro-
vide a powerful stimulus for other
writers, poets and playwrights; for
filmmakers, painters and artists in
every media; for cultural historians,
ethnographers and philosophers to
decipher a lost world uncannily simi-
lar to our own," Roskies notes.
In another tribute to Aleichem's
staying power, the Sholom Aleichem
Foundation, with the Jewish
Federation of Ukraine, will mark the
140th anniversary of Aleichem's birth
with a theater festival in Kiev,
Ukraine, Sept. 1-5.
Bel Kaufman will speak at the festi-
val, where she will be joined by 10 of
Aleichem's direct descendants span-
ning three generations.
Theater groups from Russia,
France, Israel, Ukraine, Germany,
Romania and Poland will perform.
Sholom Aleichem was born Sholom
Rabinowitz in the Ukrainian town of
Pereyaslov (now Pereyaslov-
Chmelnitsky). He later moved to Kiev,
where he created his unforgettable char-
acters — Tevye, the milkman;
Menachem Mendel, the luckless broker;
Motel, the cantor's son — and took the
nom de plume Sholom Aleichem.
A monument to Aleichem was
erected in January in Kiev on Bussein
Street, site of the birthplace of Golda
Mabovich, better known as Golda
Mein Aleichem lived nearby.
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For further information, con-
tact the Sholom Aleichem
Memorial Foundation, 1020
Park Avenue, New York, NY
10028; (212) 288-8783.