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or the first time, FedEd, Federation’s adult Jewish education
arm, is partnering with the Detroit Jewish News Foundation on
a course sure to be a hit with many in the community: “A Jewish
Lens to the Sixties; A Decade of Hope and Despair.” The eight-week
course begins March 21.
The course is the brainchild of Judy Loebl, director of adult Jewish
learning, and Professor Howard Lupovitch, a popular presenter of
many FedEd courses over the years. “I provide the framework, and he
paints the picture,” she said. Lupovitch is an associate professor of his-
tory and the director of the Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies at
Wayne State University.
“About a year and a half ago, I attended a talk
Arthur Horwitz [ founder and president of the
DJN Foundation] was giving about the archives,”
Loebl said. “I thought, ‘Wow, wouldn’t it be
exciting to do a course in conjunction with the
archives?’ What a great way to look at a topic
through history!”
She called Lupovitch, who concurred. They
collaborated on ideas and decided to “do a
decade.” They chose the 1960s because of the
50th anniversary of two seminal events: the Six-
Day War and Reunification of Jerusalem and the
1967 civil disturbance in Detroit.
“We knew we could tell the story through
using the archives — not only locally, at
issues like the Soviet Jewry movement, which
Detroiters were actively involved in — but
July 28, 1967 front page of the JN
national and international events as well,” Loebl
said.
To enroll in “A Jewish Lens
Lupovitch said he enjoyed cruising through
to the Sixties; A Decade of
the William Davidson Digital Archives of Jewish
Hope and Despair,” which
Detroit History as he prepared for the class. “I
runs 7-8:30 p.m. March
came across names I recognized all the time,”
he said. “And I was struck by reading about
21, 28; April 4, 25; May 2,
many of the same issues and same questions
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we grapple with today.”
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Attendees of the course will touch upon
Telegraph in Bloomfield
topics
including American Jewry and Jewry
Township, call (248)
in
the
Post-War
world; Jews and the Civil
205-2557. The eight-week
Rights
Movement;
Jews, Camelot and the
course costs $140.
Great Society; Jewish student activism and the
anti-war movement; Detroit 1967, rebellion or
betrayal; the feminist revolution; Elie Weisel, the Cold War and the
Jews of Silence; and the Six-Day War, Jerusalem reunited and its endur-
ing legacy.
“The ’60s were a pivotal moment in both American and American-
Jewish history,” Lupovitch said. “And I believe many of the students in
this class will have vivid memories of this decade.”
Five years ago, Lupovitch said, he would have spent many tedious
hours bent over a microfiche machine to research a course such as
this. “With the archives, all the information is right there at my fin-
gertips. I’m not sure if all Jewish Detroiters realize what a valuable
resource this is — we can see events and issues throughout our his-
tory reflected in the pages of the JN.”
Horwitz, also publisher and executive editor of the JN, said he is
thrilled that the archives, which feature more than 100 years of Jewish
Detroit history, will be used to inform and frame the class curriculum.
“It’s just one more example of how the pages of the JN can be utilized
to educate, inform and challenge current and future generations of
Jewish Detroiters,” he said. •