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Book Fair 2002
The 51st Annual Jewish. Book Fair is a presentation of the
Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit and
held at both JCC locations. The D. Dan and Betty Kahn
Building is located at 600 W Maple Road in West
Bloomfield; the Jimmy Prentis Morris Building is at
15110 W 10 Mile Road in Oak Park.
For information about organizations sponsoring individ-
ual speakers, see the Book Fair brochure, available at both
JCC locations. Book Fair hours at the Jewish Community
Center in West Bloomfield (Kahn) and the Jewish
Community Center in Oak Park (JPM) are as follows:
6-10 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, Nov. 6-7
9:30 a.m.-3 p,717. Friday, Nov. 8
7-10 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9 (Kahn) --- JPM Closed
9:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday, Nova 10 (Kahn)
9:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10 (IPM)
9:30 a.m.-10 p. m. Monday-Thursday, Nov. 11-14
9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15
7-10 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16 (Kahn)
6:30-8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16 (IPM)
9:30 a.m.-10 p. m. Sunday, Nov. 17 (Kahn)
9:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17 (JPM)
The following special events take place at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield unless otherwise noted. All author
appearances and special events are open to the public at no charge unless otherwise indicated. Speakers and programs at the JCC in
Oak Park are starred with an asterisk (*). This listing reflects the latest information available, but is subject to change.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 6
6:30 p.m.: Opening night patron event with Alan King (charge)
8 p.m.: Alan King, Alan King's Great Jewish Joke Book
THURSDAY, NOV. 7
7 p.m.: Janice Rubin and Leah Lax, The Mikvah Project
SATURDAY, NOV. 9
8 p.m.: An Evening With Robert Clary, From the Holocaust to
Hogan.s Heroes
SUNDAY, NOV. 10
11 a.m.-3 p.m.: Local authors fair (inside Janice Charach
Epstein Gallery)
11 a.m.: Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Searchingfbr Meaning in the Holocaust
Noon: Yitta Eldberstam, Small Miracles for the Jewish Heart
1 p.m.: Rabbis Gershon Schwartz and Michael Katz, Searching
for Meaning in Midrash
2 p.m.: A. Lefkowitz,, From Fear to Eternity
2 p.m.: * Children's Play, Lily's Crossing (charge, $5-$8)
3:30• p.m.: Faye Moskowitz, Peace in the House
5 p.m.: Aryeh Lev Stollman, The Illuminated Soul
6:30 p.m.: Michael Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967 and the
Making of the Modern Middle East
7 p.m.: *Yitta Halberstam, Small Miracles fir the Jewish Heart
8 p.m.: Bruce Feller, Abraham: A journey to the Heart ofThree Faiths
MONDAY, NOV. 11
10 a.m.: Karen Tintori, Trapped
10:30 a.m.: * Michael Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967 and the
Making of the Modern Middle East
1 p.m.: Rochelle Krich, Blues in the Night
6:30 p.m.: Cynthia Kaplan, Why I'm Like This True Stories
7:30 p.m.: * Dara Horn, In the Image, and Nicole Krauss, Man
Walks Into a Room
8 p.m.: Kathi Kamen Goldmark, And My Shoes Keep Walking
Back to You
TUESDAY, NOV. 12
10 a.m.: Data Horn, In the Image, and Nicole Krauss, Man
Walks Into a Room
1 p.m.: Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Three Daughters
6:30 p.m.: George Cantor, Courtney's Legacy
7:30 p.m.: * Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Searching for Meaning in the
Holocaust
8 p.m.: Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 13
10 a.m.: Hasia Diner, Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish
Women in America
1 p.m.: Joseph Berger, Displaced Persons: Growing Up American
After the Holocaust
1 p.m.: * Rachel Simmons, Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture
of Aggression in Girls
6:30 p.m.: Rachel Simmons, Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture
of Aggression in Girls
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7:30 p.m.: * Joseph Berger, Displaced Persons: Growing Up
American After the Holocaust
8 p.m.: Rabbis Yosef Reinman and Ammiel Hirsch, One People,
Two Worlds: A Reform Rabbi and An Orthodox Rabbi Explore the
Issues That Divide Them
THURSDAY, NOV. 14
10 a.m.: Linda Grant When I Lived in Modern Times
1 p.m.: Sandy Schreier, Hollywood Gets Married
1 p.m.: * Linda Grant When I Lived in Modern Times, preceded by
12:30 p.m. Lunch & Learn with author ($6; reservations required)
6:30 p.m.: Georgia Witldn, Ph.D., Stress Relieffor Disasters
Great and Small
7:30 p.m.: * Daniel Levitas, The Terrorist Next Door
FRIDAY, NOV 15
HEALTH AWARENESS DAY
Kahn Building:
9 a.m.: Yoga demonstration-instruction
10:30 a.m.: Nieca Goldberg, M.D., Women Are Not Small Men
Noon: Healthy Luncheon ($18 charge; reservations required by
Nov. 11), Dr. Howard M. Shapiro, Dr. Shapiro's Picture Perfect
Weight Loss 30-Day Plan
1:30 p.m.: Jan King, When Youre Hot, Youre Hot (How I
Laughed My Way Through Menopause)
2:30 p.m.: Self-defense demonstration-instruction
JPM Building:
9 a.m.: * T'ai Chi demonstration-instruction
10 a.m.: * Jan King, When You're Hot, You're Hot: How I
Laughed My Way Through Menopause
11 a.m.: * Yoga demonstration-instruction
Noon: Healthy luncheon ($10 charge; reservations required by Nov. 11)
SATURDAY, NOV. 16
6:30 p.m.: * David Shrayer-Petrov, Castle in 751stamaah
8 p.m.: Encore Concert, Mikveh ($10-$15)
SUNDAY, NOV. 17
10:30 a.m.: Festival Dancers Performance, Women of the Bible
11 a.m.: Janet Reibstein, Staying Alive
Noon: Judy Reiser, And I Thought I Was Crazy: Quirks,
Idiosyncrasies and Meshuga.as
1 p.m.: Lorraine "Rainey" Friedman, children's author, Jerome's
Jam, with Jazz, the Dream Dog
2 p.m.: Rabbi Paul Yedwab, The God Book
2 p.m.: Festival Dancers Performance, Women of the Bible
2 p.m.: *Bryan Mark Rigg, Hitler's Jewish Soldiers
2:30 p.m.: Children's Program, Shhhema and Sweet Dreamzzz
3:30 p.m.: Yale Strom, The Book of Klezmer: The History, the
Music, the Folklore, preceded at 3:15 p.m. with a performace by
the Kidz Klez Band
5 p.m.: Lawrence Schimel, Found Tribe
6:30 p.m.: Bryan Mark Rigg,
s Jewish Soldiers
7 p.m.: *Rabbi Berel Wein, Faith and Fate
8 p.m.: Leon Charney, The Charney Report: Confronting the
Israeli-Arab Conflict
PEOPLE OF THE BOOKS from page 83
Kathy Kamen Goldmark, a
founder of the Rock Bottom
Remainders, a rock band whose
members are authors by day, will
discuss her first novel, And My Shoes
Keep Walking Back to You, a hilarious
page-turner about musicians, love
and family. Goldmark also will per-
form some of her trademark songs.
Recently announced National
Jewish Book Award Winner for
Fiction, 20-something Jonathan
Safran Foer visits to discuss
Everything is Illuminated: A Novel,
whose protagonist of the same name
journeys to Eastern Europe, linking
past and future. Windsor native
Aryeh Lev Stollman, a writer and
neuroradiologist, brings his second
novel, The Illuminated Soul, to Book
Fair. Set in post-Holocaust Windsor,
it follows the remembrances of a
famous neuroanatomist and the mys-
terious visitor to his family home.
Part romantic love story, part spiri-
tual journey, Dara Horn's extraordi-
nary first novel, In the Image, por-
trays a young woman's coming of
age. She'll team up in sessions with
poet and first-time novelist Nicole
Krauss, who, in her fascinating
novel, Man Watt Into a Room,
explores what happens when a man
wakes up one day to find he has for-
gotten all he has known.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin, a well-
known author but first-time novelist,
will discuss her newest book, Three
Daughters. It traces the struggles of
the three Wasserman sisters as.they
seek to break open the legacy of lies
left to them by their parents. Blues
in the Night by veteran mystery
writer Rochelle Krich introduces a
new fictional Modern Orthodox
Jewish heroine, Molly Blume, and
explores post-partum psychosis.
When I Lived in Modern Times by
Linda Grant takes the author's pro-
tagonist from London to what was
then Palestine. Before she knows it,
20-year-old Evelyn Sert becomes an
unwitting spy for a nation fighting
to be born.
Fans of Russian literature will
enjoy meeting David Shrayer-
Petrov, author of the Russian-lan-
guage novel Castle in Tystamaah.
During his presentation, he'll speak
about writers and poets of the
"stormy '60s" in the former Soviet
Union.
For those who enjoy memoirs, Faye
Moskowitz's Peace in the House: Tales
from a Yiddish Kitchen is the latest col-