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ents in Birmingham and
then rented a room in
Ann Arbor. I had a ter-
rific time in Michigan
and Detroit holds great
memories for me."
While the state of the
country may or may not
enter into the discussion
at Book Fair, Rich, mar-
ried to fellow New York
Frank Rich:
Times writer Alex
"In times of
Witchel,
says the theater
terrible crises,
can
be
a
source
of solace
people have
during
frightening
turned to
times.
the warmth
"In times of terrible
of the theater"
crises, people have
turned to the warmth of
the theater," says Rich.
Eventually, Rich went on to earn a
"In
the
late
spring
of 1943, about
degree from Harvard and was able to
15 months after Pearl Harbor, people
turn his passion into a highly success-
flocked to see Oklahoma because it
ful career as a theater critic.
had an optimistic message of what it
Rich's first professional newspaper
meant to be an American. I think we
job, while still at Harvard, was work-
will see that, too, as things calm
ing for the Detroit News. "After my
down."
junior year in college in 1970, I spent
a summer in Detroit," Rich recalls. "I
Frank Rich speaks 8 p. m. Tuesday, Nov.
wrote features and film reviews and all
-
13, at the Jewish Community Center in
sorts of pieces.
West Bloomfield.
"I lived with a college friend's par-
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words, and he took as
much pleasure in talking
as he did in writing,"
says Lee, who points out
that the book describes
the pronunciations of
each Yiddish word.
gams
"As an undergraduate
Madeline Rosten Lee
at Harvard, I studied
ap ears on behalf
German specifically to
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differentiates. the uses of "ai-yi-yi"
use of Yiddish for people who were
— sung out happily, uttered sadly
not brought up with the language.
or spoken sarcastically.
"It was his genius to find a way to
Lee, who has written for Ms.
talk about Yiddish and to teach
magazine and now administers a
about Yiddish in an extraordinarily
private charitable foundation in
accessible voice that encompasses his
New York, explains that her dad did own boundless affection for his
not speak Yiddish to his children as
mameloshn (mother tongue; Yiddish
they were growing up, but he did
itself)," she says.
use the language to communicate
with his wife and parents. That
Madeline Rosten Lee speaks 7:30
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