Arts & Entertainment Summer Reading from page 53 NONFICTION A NV EVE ENTint-stAsTls D II EA .1I! No less dramatic and moving than her own fiction, The Life of Irene Nemirovsky (Knopf) by Olivier Philipponnant and Patrick Lienhardt tells the story of the woman who escaped Russia with her family in 1919 to settle in Paris and become a renowned writer, only to fall victim to the Nazis. Join us for 1/2 off all bottles of wine. Every Wednesday at Meriwether's. Every Wednesday and Thursday at Charley's Crab Troy. eff ch ciR teq's cR aD Southfield 25485 Telegraph Road 248.358.1310 Troy 5498 Crooks Road 248,879.2060 HAPPY HOUR 4PM - 7PM EVERY DAY In Future Tense: Jews, Judaism and Israel in the Twenty-First Century (Schocken), Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Great Britain and the Commonwealth, calls on Jews to understand their history but not to be stuck in it, to look ahead with a sense of strength and renewed purpose to make the world a better place. Featuring $3, $4, $5 Appetizer & Drink Specials In Jewcentricity: Why the Jews Are Praised, Blamed and Used to Explain Just About Everything (Wiley), Adam Garfinkle divides the sources of gran- chose claims about the Jews into four groups: anti-Semites, philo-Semites, Jewish chauvinists and so-called self-hat- ing Jews. He also traces the origins and history of the most common myths about Jews and reveals how these impossible exaggerations, both positive and negative, feed off of and perpetuate one another. On-line Reservations now available at muer.com With e:tzre,. In-store consumption only. Butiqueu and parties c,er S excluded. 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WE CATER AT MOST SYNAGOGUES, TEMPLES, HOTELS AND THE HALLS OF YOUR CHOICE ieec- 144, ge4t—rvicd JEWEL CLASSIC CUISINE Approved by Council of Orthodox Rabbis KOSHER CATERERS P1111.1P TUG food & Beverage Director 248-661-4050 54 June 24 • 2010 iN farminoton Rills Jane Ziegelman explores the culinary life that was the heart and soul of New York's Lower East Side around the turn of the 20th century in 97 Orchard (HarperCollins) — as German, Irish, Italians and Eastern European Jews attempted to forge a new life. Detroit native Daniel Okrent offers a vivid and well-researched history of Prohibition in Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (Scribner), includ- ing how anti-Semitism contributed to the push to ban alcohol in the U.S. For her book Heaven: An Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife (Harper), Newsweek religion editor Lisa Miller talked to priests, rabbis, Muslim clerics, professors and more — giving readers a sweeping historical and liter- ary geography of heaven; she finds that heaven — to all cultures and religions — means hope. MEMOIRS With Devotion: A Memoir (Harper), Dani Shapiro, author of the best-sell- ing memoir Slow Motion, shares her account of being a middle-class, middle-aged woman in spiritual crisis as she searches for meaning in her everyday life. Blending history, geography, politics and personal memoir, Charles London explains in Far from Zion: In Search of a Global Jewish Community (William Morrow) that he feels little connection to the faith of his people — until he goes on a yearlong quest to seek out Jewish communities around the world. Frequently outrageous comedian Sarah Silverman offers a collection of witty autobiographical essays in The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption and Pee (Harper), in which she opens up about growing up Jewish in New Hampshire, fighting a nightly war with her bladder almost until high-school graduation, the acci- dental death of her infant brother, her teenage battle with depression and inciting a media firestorm with a bit skewering political correctness. In When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man (Twelve Books), we follow entertainment titan Jerry Weintraub from his first great success at 26 with Elvis Presley to his days with Sinatra and his hits as a movie producer — with his reflections on musical greats, Hollywood figures and politicians filling the pages. The book was written with author Rich Cohen, whose latest solo book, Israel Is Real: An Obsessive Quest To Understand the Jewish Nation and Its History (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) — from the destruction of the Second Temple till now — has been optioned as a major public television documentary. Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial car- toonist Jules Feiffer discusses memo- rable moments from his career and family life as he moved from cartoon- ing to screenplays to children's books in Backing Into Forward: A Memoir (Nan A. Talese); his wry cartoons are interspersed throughout the book. In Hitch-22: A Memoir (Twelve), jour- nalist/author Christopher Hitchens tells not only many public stories, but personal ones as well. Later in life, he learns that his mother was Jewish, which, if only technically, makes him Jewish as well (he is a self-proclaimed atheist). That takes him on a journey to learn the story of his family, many of whom died in the Holocaust. ❑ Sandee Brawarsky contributed to this article.