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She also was pleased that attention finally was coming to [Fry] even though it was after his death." Isenberg, who teaches journalism at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and has been an investigative reporter, interviewed Miriam Davenport Ebel, who died in 1999, and references the refugees outside the artistic community Fry vas able to save. He made arrangements to help some of Hitler's detractors, such as publishers and union leaders, who spoke out against Nazism. Special Programs Some of the information presented by Isenberg comes from archival sources, including Fry's own papers at Columbia University. These materials give deeper insight into how Fry could do his work when he was 32, go against the governmental objections he confronted and start his memoirs, left unfinished some 25 years later without his having a clue that recognition would come after his death. "I stayed because the refugees needed me," he wrote. "It took courage, and courage is a quality that I hadn't previ- ously been sure I possessed." In addition to Isenberg's talk this Wednesday, Esther Tarnoff Cooper will elaborate on the material in the exhibit. A local authority on Jewish art, she will provide a slide presentation and discuss "The Jewish School of Paris" 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 20. Varian's War, a fictionalized film about Fry originally made for Showtime, will be on view 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 23. "I am more than pleased that Americans are finding out about Varian Fry," says Isenberg, who also wrote Women Who Love Men Who Kill and The Life and Times of Ron Brown. "The Europeans he saved — writers, philosophers, political activists, most of the surrealists, musicians, scientists — created film noir, generated the cre- ative and cultural atmosphere in which the New York School of Painting was born and added indelibly and pro- foundly to our American culture, which would have been very different without Fry's actions." ❑ Soup, Salad, Sorbet, Entree, Choice of Starch & Desserts! DINNER AS LOW AS $9.95 Mention this ad & receive Lunch: $5 OFF Monday - Friday • 11:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. Dinner: Tuesday - Thursday • 5 p.m. - 9 p.m. Friday - Saturday • 5pm - 10pm your total food bill (must have 2 or more in you party) Reservations Encouraged (248) 7063430 1302 W. 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Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays- Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursdays and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sundays. (248) 432-5448. Celebrating Michigan Artists I n a very different presentation from "Assignment Rescue: The Story of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee," the Janice Charach Epstein Gallery is displaying a companion exhibit, "Celebrate." The exhibit, part of the commemoration of the gallery's 10th anniversary, will include works of 22 Michigan artists whose talents have been recog- nized at the gallery through individual or group shows. Among the artists whose works will be shown are Eileen Aboulafia, Barbara Coburn, Bertha Cohen, Terry Lee Dill, Barbara Dorchen, Joyce Gottlieb, Renee Gruskin, Gail Kaplan, Barbara Keidan, Sandra Levin, Helene Lubin, Beverly Neumann and Marilyn Schechter. 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