• 00 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • • • • O • • • • • • e °1' 4 1 1 C tilt P 0 0 0 • 0 0 • 0 0 0 0 bl le e c in a BALFOUR Forward to the next 100 Years of Zionist vision and fulfillment CONCERT 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • • 0 0 • 0 • 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 • RABBI DANIEL B. SYME religious leader of Temple Beth El who will receive the JUSTICE LOUIS D. BRANDEIS AWARD • • • • 0 0 • • • Voted by Lifestyle magazine's readers as one of the 18 North ° American Jews "who will be most influential in shaping the future of the Jewish community in the 90's and into the 21st century." 0 Rabbi Syme served as National Vice President, American Zionist Movement; Director at Large, Jewish National Fund of 0 America; Board Member, United Israel Appeal; National Vice • President, Union of American Hebrew Congregations and is a dis- tinguished Educator and Author. • • 0 ctifir 1'111' Israeli Superstas DAVID "DUDU" FISHER 0 * Zubin Mehta rates Dudu Fisher "among • the greatest tenors in the world" ° * Star of Broadway Hit "Les Miserable?' • 0 • 0 0 • O • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • O • 0 • 0 • 0 * Royal command performance in the presence of Britain's royalty. 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 Dr. Norman J. Rotter • 0 • • 0 • 0 0 • • 0 • 0 Sunday, October 17, 1999 7:30 p.m. At Detroit Orchestra Hall Music by Mack Pitt and His Orchestra 0 FOR RESERVATIONS PHONE: 0 (248) 569-1515 • fax (248) 569-9945 , ! c , Zionist Organization of America Metro Detroit District 17100 West 10 Mile Road • Southfield, Michigan 48075 • i(;' Dr. Norman and Harriet Rotter Civic and Community Leaders , Chairmen of the Rabbi Daniel B. Syme Tribute Committee 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, Oakwood Hospital; Member, American College of Surgery; Former Member, Michigan State Medical Board; Member of the Board, Temple Beth El; Vice President, Franklin Hills Country Club. • • 0 • O Harriet Rotter • • 8 / 13 1999 o•o•o•o•o•o•o•o•o•o•o•o•o•o•o•o•o•o•o•o• 0 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. " - - For further information, con- tact the Sholom Aleichem Memorial Foundation, 1020 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10028; (212) 288-8783.