Wednesday
November 9
Dave Lieberman
10 a.m.
Author of:
The Search for
Major Plagge
The son of two holocaust sur-
vivors, Dr. Good shares the
remarkable story of Karl
Plagge, a German army officer who saved
Good's mother and more than 250 other Jews
from Vilna, Lithuania by providing them with
work permits as "indispensable° laborers
essential to the war effort. Dr. Good is a physi-
cian in Durham, Connecticut. Co-sponsored
by: Holocaust Education Coalition and Hidden
Children & Child Survivors of Michigan
Gigi Anders
1 p.m.
Author of:
Jubana!
Growing up with one Jewish
parent and the other Cuban
made for an interesting, oy
vey and ay caramba upbring-
'rig! Ufe in Havana was picture perfect until the
Castro regime began in 1959 and a year later
forced her family to leave with practically noth-
ing. Gigi Anders is a Washington Post special
correspondent and a frequent contributor to
several popular magazines. Co-sponsored by
Adat Shalom Sisterhood
Enoch Brater ...........1 p.m.
JPM Building, Oak Park
Author of:
Admission: $5/$8
Food Networks popular Dave
Lieberman brings cooking to a
_ fresh new level. The book fea-
tures wonderful dishes that can be used for
casual sit-downs, cooking for a crowd, living
room and tailgate parties and much more.
Lieberman shares personal stories, helpful
hints, and big, bright, colorful pictures. Co
sponsored by: Temple Kol Ami Sisterhood
Jewish Carpets
This concise literary biogra-
phy—the first new study pub-
lished since the playwright's death—gives the
general reader a welcome introduction to this
legendary American writer. Professor Brater
follows Miller's career from his prizewinnin
student days at the University of Michigan
through the landmark success of Death of a
Salesman, to his marriage to Marilyn Monroe
and beyond. Co-sponsored by: The Center's
JPM Building Book Club
Gigi Anders ............7
JPM Building, Oak Park
See Wednesday, Nov. 9 1 p.m. for details.
Co-sponsored by: Adat Shalom Sisterhood
A Special Presentation!
Peter Schroeder & Dagmar
Schroeder-Hildebrand ....7 p.m.
Authors of:
The Six Million
Paper Clips
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7 p.m.
JPM Building, Oak Park
The Jewish Community Center in Oak Park will
hold a reception to open an exhibit and sale of
Jewish carpets that are recreations of seven
rug designs from the Bezalel School of Arts
and Crafts in Israel. Anton Felton, author of
Jewish Carpets and the world's foremost
scholar on the subject, will be speaking and
signing his book.
Steven Roberts
. .8:15 p.m.
Author of:
My Father's House
Admission: $51$8
Acclaimed
New York
Times correspondent Steve
Roberts recounts how life for
his family began in America
after his grandparents took the voyage from
Bialystok in Eastern Europe to the life his par-
ents created in Bayonne, New Jersey. This
memoir tracks how his father's house came to
be and the future and memories it holds. Co-
sponsored by: NCJI/V-Greater Detroit
Section, ADL and the Jewish Historical
Society of Michigan
Arthur Miller: A
Playwright's Life & Works
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Young and Hungry
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Day underwritten by: The Atara & Ray
Zimmerman Fund and Sam & Jean Frankel
Dr. Michael Good
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Author of:
Friday
November 11
Day underwritten by: The Nosan/Nosanchuk
Families Book Fair Fund
Join us for our first Teen Health Awareness
Day! A special day for parents of tccns
and health professionals
Dr. Brad Sachs
11 a.m.
The Good Enough
Teen: Raising
Adolescents With
Love and Acceptance
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can be very challenging years.
Brad Sachs provides the tools through
lists, strategies, quizzes, exercises and stork
that will help parents recognize unrealistic
expectations and develop those feelings into
acceptance, nurturin
n Co-sponsored by:
Sunday
November 13
Day underwritten by: Andi & Larry Wolfe and
D. Dan Kahn in memory of Betty Kahn
Eric Konigsberg
11 a.m.
Author of:
Blood Relation
Eric Konigsberg discovers
one day that his seemingly
generic Jewish clan has a
black-sheep in its bloodline,
his long-lost great-uncle Heshy, a.k.a. Harold
"Kayo" Konigsberg, a notorious freelance
Mafia hit man legendary for his brutality and
his brilliance. In Blooa' Relation, Konigsberg
looks for answers to this long-suppressed
family mystery. Co-sponsored by: Association
of Jewish Libraries-Michigan Chapter
People of the Book/Dances
of the Book
12:30 p.m.
Join Harriet Berg and the Festival Dancers in
the Henry & Delia Meyers Library for an excit-
ing lecture/dance demonstration. Sit back
and enjoy the performance as our dancers
take you on a journey through history and
learn about the many styles of Jewish dance.
Berl Falbaum
1 p.m.
JPM Building, Oak Park
Author of:
Shanghai
Remembered
The fascinating anthology
tells the story of hardship and
survival in wartime Shanghai, through vivid
personal accounts of 23 "Shanghailanders."
Their stories are a tribute to the tenacity and
spirit of the refugees under harsh conditions.
Mr. Falbaum was born in Berlin and escaped
to Shanghai in 1939. He is a former reporter
for the Detroit News. Co-sponsored by: Akiva
Day School and Young Israel Council of
Metropolitan Detroit
Linda Glaser
2 p.m.
Children's Author of:
Bridge to America
The year is 1920 and the set-
ting is a shtetl, a small village
in northern Poland, where a
young family lives in fear of
the ruthless Cossacks and unpredictable
pogroms. Nine year-old Fivel longs for his
father and is afraid for their lives. This absorb-
ing, ultimately hopeful novel creates an unfor-
gettable portrait of a family, a time and the
bridging of two worlds. Co sponsored by:
Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit PTO
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Eric Konigsberg
3 p.m.
JPM Building, Oak Park
See Sunday, Nov. 13, 11 a.m. for details.
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