Susan Friedland
10 a.m.
Yaffa Eliach
Author of:
Shabbat Shalom
Susan Friedland has devoted her cookbook
to the many traditions, rituals and foods of
the Sabbath, particularly appropriate foods,
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She is a cookbook editor at HarperCollins
and the author of The Passover Table and co-author of The Jewish
American Kitchen.
Saturday, november 13, 1999
Day underwritten by: Benard Maas foundation-
Hi Dorfman 5 Dauid Engelbert, Trustees
Eddie fisher with Dauid fisher
8 p.m.
Authors of
Been There, Done That
There Once Was a Time:
R 900-Year Chronicle of
the Shell of Eishyshok
This award-winning book examines in
photos and narrative the history of a small shtetl, Eliach's home-
town, wiped out by the Nazis, Her book is a memorial to those who
perished. She is the founder of the first Center for Holocaust
Documentation and Research in the U.S, and professor of history
and literature in the Judaic studies department at Brooklyn
College.
Co-Sponsored by: Jewish Genealogical Society of Michigan
Hoot Budin
Sunday, llouember 14, 1999
Day underwritten by: Suzy 6 Bruce Gershenson,
Andrea L. 6 Lawrence II. Wolfe family foundation
6 BED foundation-Lawrence 6 Danie Allan
Itamar Rabinouich
Waging Peace:
Israel and the firabs
at the End of the Century
Author of:
filter Long Silence
Helen Fremont was raised as a Roman
Catholic, but felt an affinity for Jewish cul-
ture and tradition, After Long Silence is
about one woman's search for identity.
Fremont is a lawyer with the Massachusetts public defender
agency and a consultant for the U.S. Department of Justice.
Co-Sponsored by: Children of Holocaust Survivors in Michigan
(CHAIM), Michigan Jewish AIDS Coalition, Simcha
1 p.m.
Author of:
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Eileen Pollack
JP111 Building
Rabinovich will offer his commentary on the
continuing conflicts between Israel and its Arab neighbors. He is a
professor of Middle Eastern history and a former rector of Tel Aviv
University. He also headed the Israeli delegation for peace with
Syria (1992-95) and served as Israel's ambassador to the United
States (1993-96).
Co-Sponsored by: Labor Zionist Alliance, Michigan/Israel
Connection
Carl Reiner
The Pigskin Rabbi
Ezekiel "Ziggy' Cantor is the star player in
Willard Manus' latest novel about a young
Orthodox rabbi turned professional football
player. Manus is the author of a number of
novels, including his best known, Mott the Hoopla
Co-Sponsored by: Michigan Jewish Sports Foundation
1 p.m.
Author of:
Paradise new York
Loss, identity, memory and nostalgia are
major themes of Professor Pollack's first novel,
loosely based on her childhood visits to her
grandparents' hotel in the Catskills. Ms.
Pollack has directed the undergraduate creative writing program at
the University of Michigan for the past five years and is an assistant pro-
fessor in U of M's Master of Fine Arts program.
6:30 p.m.
Author of:
11 a.m.
Willard Manus
4 p.m.
He's a musician, He's a comedian. Who is
he? He's Noah Budin, a performer whose
songs are highly charged and envoke a
sense of pride in being Jewish. See chil-
dren's section for more information.
Sponsored by: The JPM Target Concert
Series
Singer and actor, Eddie Fisher has done and
seen it all. With honesty and irrepressible wit,
he recreates an era and takes the reader on
a roller-coaster ride that is his life. This
program will be conducted as an interview.
Co-Sponsored by: Marvin & Betty Danto Family Health Care Center
Helen Fremont
3 p.m.
Author of
8 p.m.
Author of
How Paul Robeson
Saued Illy Life and Other
Mostly Happy Stories
In this wonderful collection of short stories,
Reiner again spotlights the ingenious talent
that has made him a comedic superstar. He most recently won
the Grammy Award with Mel Brooks for Best Comedy Album of the
Year for The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000. This program will
be conducted as an interview,
Co-Sponsored by: Anti-Defamation League