Chanuka ir 11 CI 911 9 13 ) Festiv' lg ts of • S25), is devoted to a subject the cele- brated photographer especially loved, and one whose spontaneity and joy he captured with particular poignan- cy: children. Vishniac, a Russian Jew, provided an extraordinary record of the lives of German and Eastern European Jews in the years immediately preceding the Holocaust. Between 1935 and 1938, he explored the cities and villages of Eastern Europe, capturing Jewish life in the shtetls of Poland, Romania, Russia and Hungary. Using a hidden camera, he took 16,000 photographs, many of which survived the war. This volume features 70 pho- tographs of children playing, study- ing and living in a world that would soon disappear. The photographs are accompanied by a selection of nurs- ery rhymes, songs, poems and chants for children's games both in Yiddish and English translation by Miriam Hartman Flacks. Photographs for the book were selected by the photographer's daugh- ter, Mara Vishniac Kohn. "We want E.G. NICK'S 6066 W. Maple • West Bloomfield, Michigan 48322 • (248) 851-0805 11 first settlement on the southern tip of Manhattan; the destruction wrought by the Revolutionary War; the city's emergence in the 19th century as the nation's industrial center; the waves of early 20th-century immigration that transformed the city and the nation; New York's transformation into the first modern city; and its emergence as the testing ground for popular culture. Of the 2 million Jews who came to America from Eastern Europe between 1881 and 1914, three-quarters settled in New York, notes the book's narra- tive. By 1910, Jews had become the Tender boneless breast of chicken sautéed into a classic Piccata then served atop a bed of angel-hair pasta and served with a choice of soup or salad ...$12.95 • . . . . . . essaiPs0111111011•1•4011wp .0•011kruer. . - S ushi 1 THEE KoiLsosIANTWTHITEHSAM SAME SUSHI CHEFS Japanese Cuisine & Sushi Bar The best sushi in town and the best prices! Featuring: ■ Daily Specials ■ Fresh Fish Delivered Daily ■ Tempura & Teriyaki ■ Party Trays r Roman Vishniac Children ofa Vanished Wotld to remember the children Roman loved," she writes in the introduc- tion. "Their images are surrounded with the songs and rhymes that made them smile. We want to look into their eyes and see there the wonder, the hope and the trust in a future that they would not experience. We think of them, we assure them of our love and we cherish their memory" Candle # 8 For Big Apple Devotees New York: An Illustrated History, by Ric Burns and James Sanders, with Lisa Ades (Alfred A. Knopf; $60), is the companion volume to the six-part PBS television series on the Big Apple, which aired last month. The book covers nearly four cen- turies of turbulent change and growth in America's most exciting city.: the largest single immigrant group in the city, with more than 400,000 living on the Lower East Side alone. "Rivington Street was only a suburb of Minsk," Alfred Kazin later remarked. "I recall a large cool room ... and a big class of bright-eyed Jewish children, boys and girls," H. G Wells wrote in 1906 after a visit to the Educational Alliance, in the heart of the Lower East Side. "Some of them had been in America a month, some much longer, but here they were — under the aus- pices of the wealthy Hebrews of New York ...being Americanized." This coffee-table size book brims with hundreds of illustrations — pho- tographs, paintings, lithographs, prints and period maps — and features the voices and stories of the men and women, many of them Jewish, who lived in and built the city. Accompanying the narrative are interviews with and essays by a group of New York historians and writers. This is a treat for anyone who holds a special place in his or her heart for the city that never sleeps. ❑ (248) 471-4363 30703 W. 12 Mile Rd., Farmington Hills (just east of Orchard Lake Rd.) After 5:00 p.m. 1 coupon per table 2 or more people only Expires 12/30/99 Open 7 Days a Week for Lunch & Dinner Mon-Thurs 11-10 pm Fri-Sat 1 1-10:30 pm ■ Sun 1-9 pm to TOTAL BILL $ 3000 m i n. L SUNDAY BAR/BAT MITZVAHS I with Creative Customized Catering in... .