Look at your floor...
then call Mickey

Flooring Warehouse,
your manufacturer
direct merchant for:

EIGHT NIGHTS from

FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHY BUFF

• Major name brands in carpet,
hardwood, vinyl, laminate and
ceramic tile
• 50,000 square foot warehouse
of first-quality goods
• Convenient delivery and cus-

Introducing...

C ustom-Made/
Rugs /

tom installation

• Easy access from 1-696 — only

20 minutes from Telegraph
Road
•Savings on the flooring you
want most, when you need it

Flooring
Warehouse

...or I'll bring the warehouse to
you with a free in-home

appointment.

Call Mickey Alterman!
You'll find there's never a sale,
just extra low prices every day.

We set the floor on prices.

20750 Hoover Road (3 miles south of 1-696)
Open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. and by appointment.
Call Mickey at 586-756-2400.

757400

:

- 1:-:1

-:1 -

1:-:1

1:-:1

1:-:i • ca.:1

1:-:1

The 31..uv Nil()

fervin, the 'rest torte of Ethiopia
"I - 1:-:1
1:-:1 - 1:-:1
'I- 6 3a 7 I:":

-or

If tke occaffoei if Spetiat
tke Flom fkottld be too!!

Dinner for Two

ETHIOPIAN FEAST

VEGETARIAN FEAST

a.

$
$

offer expires Jan. 31, 2004 — with coupon

30.00
25.00

545 West 9 Mile • Femdale • 248-547-6699
221 E. Washington Rd. • Ann Arbor • 734-998-4746

Open for Dinner Only • Hours —Sun 3-9, Mon-Thurs 5-9, Fri-Sat 4-11

11 ::1 - 1:-:1

-

-1

-

1:-:1

790530

al ••%S.:

Italian
CHOPHOUSE

Thuriaays All

Prime Rib

I

I
Private rooms
I available for Parties
and Special Occasions
I (We can accommodate
anywhere from
20.100 guests)

Buy One Dinner

Get 1/2 o f

the 2nd of equal
or greater value.

&It

12/19

2003

80

Excludes Pizza

Ma

a? Daily Specials • 2 coupons per table • Expires 1/31/04

ins me =I a

IM

MIS

—

IM

page 78

1

NM NM

I

• Catering Available

40111111111111111111/11111111111111111/

20300 Fannin • on Road Between 7 ei ■ - 8 MO on:Eait 'Side 2 48.474

242a,

At age 42, Jeff Gusky, a doctor of
emergency medicine in Dallas, decid-
ed he wanted to better confront the
reality of modern Jewish history. The
result is Silent Places: Landscapes of
Jewish Life and Loss in Eastern Europe
(Overlook Press; $50).
Dr. Gusky bought "a good, journal-
ist-type camera and some lenses" and
read the instructions on route to
Poland, where accompanied on four
trips by his Polish guide, he took hun-
dreds of black-and-white photographs,
mostly in the remote villages where
Jews had lived and worked for nearly .
1,000 years before the Holocaust. He
accompanies his museum-quality pho-
tographs of austere landscapes and des-
ecrated remains of a once-thriving cul-
ture with text explaining the circum-
stances and significance of each photo.
"I was not prepared to encounter so
many centuries-old sites of Jewish his-
tory in the raw, abandoned, neglected,
disintegrating," writes Dr. Grusky.
"My greatest surprise, however, was
that in the four journeys to Poland, I
did not encounter a single Jew, only
emptiness, only absence."
And then — for those feeling flush
— there's Diaspora: Homelands in Exile
(HarperCollins; $100), by photographer
Frederic Brenner, a set of two oversized
volumes enclosed in a slipcase.
The first and larger, "Photographs"
includes more than 260 photos, along
with a map and itinerary of Brenner's
extensive travel over 25 years and five
continents. Many of the large photo-
graphs cover two pages, and are full of
surprises and irony, from the contempo-
rary Marranos in Portugal who continue
to celebrate Passover secretly, as they did
during the Inquisition, to a group of
Holocaust survivors with their lesbian
daughters.
In the second vol-
ume, "Voices," 60 of
the photographs are
reproduced in a smaller
format, each surround-
ed in a Talmud-like
style by the words of a
distinguished interna-
tional group of writers,
philosophers and pro-
fessors commenting on
the images and explor-
ing the themes of
Diaspora, identity,
memory, community,
rootedness and exile.
(Isn't it improbable how

rREEs..ERK BC:ENNER

Jewish all Jews look," notes the writer
Andre Aciman, originally from Egypt.)
Brenner, who is from France, shares
this thought: "I have been swept for-
ward by intuition, not intention, as I
became consumed with capturing the
identity of my tribe, the Jewish nation.
I go where the camera points. Each
time I release the shutter, I write a
new definition for something that
resists defining."

FOR THE ISRAELIST

Donna Rosenthal's The Israelis:
Ordinary People in an Extraordinary
Land (The Free Press; $28) was born
when a CNN producer told the
author, Our viewers are confused. We
have footage of Jews who look like
Arabs, Arabs who look like Jews. We
have black Jews, bearded 16th-century
Jews and sexy girls in tight jeans. Who
are these people?"
The author provides an in-depth
portrait of the contradictions found in
Israeli society, a result of the variety of
people inhabiting the Jewish state,
focusing on ordinary citizens in
"abnormal times." While covering ter-
rorism and relations with the
Palestinians, secular-religious tensions,
Askenazi-Sephardic divisions and
Israeli Arabs and Jewish immigrants
from Ethiopia and Russia, she allows
the people themselves — Jewish, Arab,
Christian and Druze,
men and women, reli-
gious and secular — to
speak for themselves.
Rosenthal, who has
written for many
American publications,
was a news producer at
Israel Television, a
reporter for Israel
Radio and the
Jerusalem Post and a
lecturer at the Hebrew
University. I 1