KRISTALLNACHT
COMMEMORATION DAY

anyone looking to be successful profes-
sionally — and do the right thing —
in business.

12:15 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6
Jon Milan and Gail Offen: Iconic
Restaurants of Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor is home to some of the
best-known, and best-loved, restaurants
in Michigan. Jon Milan and Gail Offen
have gone in search of the very finest
and, in their new book, invite readers
along for a tasty journey. Also included
are fascinating stories about the city’s
eateries and food history, including one
of the most unusual series of laws related
to the campus district and prohibition.

4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6
Adina Hoffman: Till We Have Built
Jerusalem: Architects of a New City
Erich Mendelsohn had daring ideas
in design — and politics. Spyro Houris
left behind stately structures but little

evidence that he existed. Austin St. Barbe
Harrison was a quiet but creative vision-
ary. All three were architects who made
major contributions to the Jerusalem of
today.
As she traces these three remarkable
lives, Adina Hoffman also paints a rich
and compelling picture of Jerusalem, a
city where layers of history and meaning
are piled atop each other hiding in plain
sight.

6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6
Kenneth L. Marcus: The Definition of
Anti-Semitism
Is it possible to be against the State of
Israel but not anti-Semitic? If you don’t
want your son to marry someone Jewish
but you’re fine with living next door to
Jews, is that anti-Semitism?
The term “anti-Semitic” has been
around for more than 1,000 years, and
exactly what it means has been changed,
debated and questioned ever since.

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he met a 2-year old named
Sacha, and the two become
best pals. This is the story of
their friendship, with valu-
able lessons about kindness
and overcoming hardship.

and gets the park ready for Yom
Ha’aztmaut (Israel Independence
Day).

1:45 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6
Darcee Hope Matlen: Moshe & Asa
Asa is a Holocaust survivor who
made a beautiful life for himself and
his family in Detroit. At 91 years old,

2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13
Doris Rubenstein: The
Journey of a Dollar
When his class decides to
send money to a school in a
remote village in the Andes,
Elliot is curious as to how
the money will get from his
hands to a place so far away. His
mom guides him through an imagi-
nary journey, connecting him with
hundreds of other kids from across
the country. Featuring illustrations
by Howard Fridson.

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Wednesday, Nov. 9
11 a.m.
Book Fair presentation by Jamie Wraight
Moriz Scheyer: Asylum: A Survivor’s Flight from Nazi-
occupied Vienna Through Wartime France
Moriz Scheyer was an editor at Vienna’s leading newspaper,
a friend of the city’s great artists and a reporter held in great
esteem.
Then the Nazis came to power, and Scheyer began writing of
a different sort. Now his focus was his wartime experiences: a
tense, moving, at times almost miraculous story of Vienna at the
Anschluss; Paris pre-war and under Nazi occupation; his two
periods of incarceration in French concentration camps; contact
with the Resistance; a failed attempt at escape to Switzerland;
and a dramatic rescue followed by clandestine life in a mental
asylum run by Franciscan nuns.
Jamie Wraight is director of the Voice/Vision Holocaust
Survivor Oral History Archive and a senior lecturer in the
Department of Social Sciences at the University of Michigan-
Dearborn, where he teaches courses in world, military and
Holocaust history. He will discuss Asylum and the events of the
Holocaust in France.

1:30 p.m.
Joel Dimsdale: Anatomy of Malice
Everyone was certain that the men on trial were psychopaths.
They included Robert Ley, Hermann Göring, Julius Streicher
and Rudolf Hess — men who were studied, interviewed, ana-
lyzed at length by psychiatrists and psychologists at Nuremberg.
But were they really evil — or ordinary people who behaved
as they did because they were in a particular environment?
Dr. Joel Dimsdale uses the latest developments in psychiatry,
psychology and neuroscience to take a new look at Ley, Goring,
Streicher and Hess. His surprising findings include a remarkably
broad spectrum of pathology, taking readers on a complex and
troubling quest to make sense of the most extreme evil.

6 p.m.
Book Fair appearance by David Kinney
Robert K. Wittman and David Kinney: The Devil’s Diary
Alfred Rosenberg was the “chief philosopher” of the Third
Reich and one of the main authors of Nazi ideology. For 10 years,
he kept a journal that offered a remarkable look at one of the
most tumultuous times in history, including documents about
the “Jewish question” and his views on other Nazi leaders.
The last anyone had seen the journal was at the Nuremberg
Trials. Then it landed in the hands of a prosecutor’s mistress
and an eccentric professor. An elaborate game of cat-and-mouse
ensued until the diary was finally secured.
The Devil’s Diary is the story of the hunt for a WWII docu-
ment that offers harrowing insights into the mind of one of the
men who drove Germany to mass murder.

8 p.m.
Neal Bascomb: The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission To Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb
$12 ($10 for JCC members)
In 1942, the Nazis needed just one thing to complete their work on an atomic bomb:
Deuterium oxide, also known as heavy water. This rare substance was made only at Vermork,
located in a remote valley in Norway.
The Allies were equally determined to get to Vermork at stop the Nazis, but how to reach a
castle atop a massive gorge in a country controlled by Hitler? Enter a Norwegian scientist, the
British Special Operations and an unforgettable collection of patriots.
The Winter Fortress is the exciting, true story of the greatest act of sabotage in WWII.

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