THE GALLERY RESTAURANT Ghetto Tango 4 041! BREAKFAST • LUNCH • DINNER MON. SAT. 7 a.m.- 9:30 p.m. SUN. 8 a.m.- 9 p.m. Bloomfield Plaza • 6638 Telegraph Road and Maple • 248-851-0313 Holocaust-era music finds new life. the Yiddish language and culture alive contribute to the growing renaissance of Yiddish culture. To enhance the renaissance, Workmen's Circle and avid Beyglman was an ide- alistic, talented Jewish corn- community partners are developing a poser and conductor impris- new Yiddish program in the fall." Raised in a Yiddish-speaking home, oned during the Holocaust in the Lodz Cooper is passionate about Yiddish Ghetto. He lived there for a while, starving and in despair, making music music and Holocaust education. "For many years I participated in when he could, and then was deported Holocaust commemorative concerts:' to a death camp where he died. she said. "But I knew there was so His younger brother, Henry, also much more, that even during the war was a musician — but he survived a kind of phenomenal vitality existed the Holocaust and immediately after — and I was wondering whether the war returned to work. Together there was another way of honoring the with a handful of friends he formed Holocaust without the focus being on a new musical group. They toured the grieving." displaced persons camps and played This would ultimately swing music and songs lead to her to the music from the 1930s. They that had been per- called themselves the formed at makeshift Happy Boys. clubs in Jewish ghettos Of course, they had throughout Poland and endured a life so brutal Lithuania. The sound it hurt just to speak of — a combination of it. But still there was traditional Yiddish songs that part of them that fused with Argentinean remained: young men tango, cabaret tunes who loved music and and American ragtime singing and playing a — was completely new. jazzy beat, and "this was Adrienne Co oper and "There was a prec- who they felt they really Zalmen Miot ek edent of edgy, urban were says singer and music [in the secular world] that was Yiddish authority Adrienne Cooper. theatrical, topical and political, played Thanks to the work of musicians in cabarets throughout Warsaw, Lodz like Cooper and her performance and Eastern Europe Cooper said. partner, Zalmen Mlotek, songs from Jews in the ghettos "kept that same the Holocaust period — including kind of vocabulary and attitude but works by the Beyglmans — continue. added their own history and lyrics But rarely are they weepy, anguished that were often cynical, heartsick and tunes. Instead, the music is infused feisty — lyrics that would "shine a with a sense of humor — the tra- light on their own experience."' ditional Jewish lullaby "Raisins and Almonds" became "No Raisins, No Writer Elizabeth Applebaum is a market- Almonds" — as well as with anger ing specialist for the Jewish Community and a blistering honesty. Center of Metropolitan Detroit. At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 18, the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield will host Ghetto Tango: An Evening of Cabaret Music of Ghetto Tango: An Evening of Holocaust Resistance featuring Cooper Cabaret Music of Holocaust and Mlotek. The event is sponsored Resistance will be performed by the JCC, the Cohn-Haddow Center 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 18, for Judaic Studies at Wayne State at the Jewish Community Center University and the Workmen's Circle- in West Bloomfield. Tickets are Arbeter Ring of Michigan. $7 for students, seniors 60 and "Audiences of the immensely tal- over, Workmen's Circle and JCC ented Adrienne Cooper and Zalmen members; $10 general public (in Mlotek quickly become followers',' advance); $15 at the door. For says Ellen Bates-Brackett, Michigan tickets, call (248) 432-5577, Workmen's Circle director. "Cooper's ext. 7. and Mlotek's worldwide efforts to keep Enjoy gracious dining amid a beautiful atmosphere of casual elegance OPEN 7 DAYS: ( thhh.. Elizabeth Applebaum Special to the Jewish News - -'411rIlliw "21.1411Ww- 1231600 D Restat.traii t ( 248.476.0044 "Any Event" Catering • Banquet Room Available Buy any dinner entree and receive 00 $6 off the second dinner entree $6" Salads, pizza, sandwiches and ribs for 2 excluded. 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