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U-M Lands Arthur Miller Theatre
Arthur Miller, a leading
American playwright and
University of Michigan
graduate (1937), has lent his
name to only one theater in
the world, which will be
built on U-M's north cam-
pus in Ann Arbor.
Miller, the son of Jewish
immigrants, told U-M's
Michigan Today alumni pub-
Miller
lication that he'd like to write
an inaugural play for the facility. But,
"It's easier to build a theater that will
stand up than to write a play that
will."
Miller's career began with one of his
early plays was presented in Detroit's
Federal Theatre Project in 1937,
Miller's senior year at U-M. He went
on to write award-winning plays
including All My Sons (1947), Death of
a Salesman (1948, won Pulitzer and
Drama Critics awards), The Crucible
(1953) and After the Fall (1964).
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Broadway: A Tribute to Arthur Miller.
The new U-M theater will seat 250
people and is designed by Kuwabara
Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects
of Toronto. It is funded by a $10 mil-
lion gift by U-M alumnus Charles
Walgreen Jr.
— Sharon Luckerman, staffwriter
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To celebrate Miller's
career and unveil architec-
tural renderings for the
new theater, a gathering
spearheaded by another U-
M alumnus, two-time Tony
winner Jeffrey Seller, is
planned for Nov. 15 at the
Richard Rodgers Theatre in
New York City.
Other U-M alumni who
will participate in the event
include former U-M regent Robert
Nederlander and his wife Gladys, who
will host the event, and graduates and
faculty members of U-M's School of
Music who will present Michigan on
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As special envoy for
Holocaust issues in the
U.S. State Department
for more than a year,
Ambassador Edward
O'Donnell has not
only worked on resti-
tution issues for
Holocaust survivors,
but has fought the rise
of anti-Semitism
through an interna-
tional organization of
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European countries.
Anti-Semitic incidents peaked in
2002, subsided a bit in 2003, but are
on the rise again, he told a crowd of
50 at the Holocaust Memorial Center
in Farmington Hills on Nov. 1.
"It's a perverse combination of the
old and the new," O'Donnell said.
The "ancient stain" of the old canards
of the blood libelare combined with
the new anti-Semitism that has come,
in great part, from the Muslim corn-
munity.
"In France, nearly 5 million people
— nearly 9 percent — are Muslims.
These residents get instant news from
their homeland," he said. "An inci-
dent in the Middle East spills over to
the boulevards of Paris and Brussels.
"Both of these types of anti-
Semitism feed off each other, and
feed on and stimulate anti-Israel sen-
timent as well,"
O'Donnell said.
Anti-Semitism
needs a multination-
al and international
response, he said.
O'Donnell has
been working
through the
Organization for
Security and
Cooperation in
Europe (OSCE),
headquartered in
Vienna, which includes 55 European
countries negotiating daily on issues
of human rights and anti-Semitism.
The United States spearheaded two
conferences on anti-Semitism and has
helped OSCE to establish a database
among 35 member countries to "dis-
cuss how to define it and how to get
good statistics, a kind of a baseline
on how to attack the problem," he
said.
"One observer might see an inci-
dent as criminal behavior, others as
hooliganism. It's an important begin-
ning, but not a solution."
Education, legislation and law
enforcement are the three ways to
attack anti-Semitism, O'Donnell
said.
— Harry Kirsbaum, staff writer