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Restored For Viewing

Rare photo collection at gallery attracts a crowd.

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Dr Arthur Lieberman, left, with
Marcia and Eugene Applebaum

Mickey Shapiro of Bloomfield Hills. and
Michigan Attorney General Michael Cox

2005

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Spencer Partrich views his collection
with daughter Andrea Brown and
granddaughter Tatum Partrich of
West Bloomfield.

hey're called the "forgot-
ten photographs" — but
more than 100 black-
and-white images of Israel in its
infancy captured by Hungarian-
born photo-
journalist Paul
Goldman are
hardly forgot-
ten anymore.
About 150
people attended
the premiere
showing of the
photos at the
ROBIN
Janice Charach
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Epstein Gallery
Columnist
at the Jewish
Community
Center in West Bloomfield.
Doreen Hamelin, host Myrna Partrich
Welcoming the crowd were
and Linda and Spencer Minns of Franklin
hosts Myrna and Spencer
Partrich of Bloomfield Hills,
owners of the collection.
Spencer had the photographs
restored from thousands of negatives
so they could be exhibited. 'As a
native Detroiter, I was proud to bring
this historically important collection
to my hometown for its initial appear-
ance outside of Israel," he said.
The photographs, taken between
1943 and 1961, cover a variety of sub-
jects, from everyday events on the
streets and beaches to important his-
torical happenings as Israel was born.
Goldman's best-known image shows
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion
doing a headstand at Sharon Hotel
Beach in Herzliyah in 1957.
Among the first to view the collec-
Assistant curator David Rubinger, hosts Myrna
tion at the Feb. 3 opening were:
and Spencer Partrich and curator Shlomo Arad.
Martin and Barbara Rom, Marcia and
Eugene Applebaum, Nanci Rands and
Bob Ziegelman, all of Bloomfield
Hills, Nancy Charach of West
Bloomfield and Doreen Hermelin of
Bingham Farms.
Also in the crowd were the Partrichs'
children, Joel and Andrea Brown of
Birmingham and Ross and Samantha
Partrich of West Bloomfield. The
curator, Newsweek photographer emer-
itus Shlomo Arad, was there, too. So
was the assistant curator and former
Time photographer David Rubinger.
"The Paul Goldman collection
enables present and future generations
of our people to visualize the forma-
tive years in the creation of the State
of Israel," said Spencer Partrich. "The
one-of-a-kind photographs are partic-
ularly meaningful to Jewish people
throughout the world," he said.
The collection will be_on display at
Silvio Benvenuti, steering committee chair for the Janice Charach Epstein Gallery
the gallery until March 20. 0
looking at the famous Ben-Gurion photo with Natalie Charach.