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Th e JN: Connecting Th e Generations

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The event’s overarching theme
hen people ask me what
makes Detroit’s Jewish com- is connecting the generations —
past, present and future. We will be
munity special, I describe it
as a place where everyone knows each recognizing the Davidson-Gerson-
Wetsman-Saulson family as
other … or thinks he or she
exemplars of the myriad multi-
should.
generational families who con-
While the soon-to-be
tinue to strengthen our com-
completed Detroit Jewish
munity in large and small ways.
community demographic
The innovative and captivating
study will likely show our
music of the evening’s featured
population between 65,000-
performers — the Grammy
75,000 (clearly, we can’t pos-
Award-winning Klezmatics —
sibly know everyone!), we
Arthur Horwitz
resonates with young and old
still believe that our social
alike. And we will be celebrat-
webs — whether schools,
ing with members of our com-
synagogues, camps, former
munity born in 1942 and their
neighborhoods, fraternities,
families at a special dessert
sororities, eateries, etc. —
reception.
will create this level of connectivity.
The beneficiary of the event is
Further reinforcing this belief is that
so many of us — upward of 70 percent the independent, nonprofit Detroit
Jewish News Foundation. Through its
— have lived all, or virtually all, of our
William Davidson Digital Archive of
lives here.
Jewish Detroit History, the founda-
This communal closeness is under-
tion has captured, digitized and made
pinned by a sense of shared respon-
available — free and easily searchable
sibility practiced for generations by
— more than 327,000 pages of content
thousands of families from across the
from the Detroit Jewish Chronicle and
socioeconomic and religious spec-
the Detroit Jewish News. Collectively,
trum. It is what continues to make
they start in 1916 and span more than
Detroit one of North America’s most
100 consecutive years.
admired Jewish communities.
The digital archive contains the
Beginning with today’s edition, the
DNA of our community … snippets
Detroit Jewish News will be spotlight-
ing several of these multi-generational of information that, when linked, tell
tens of thousands of unique and often
families (see page 26). This initiative
remarkable stories about the people
parallels the final weeks of our 75th
and families whose legacies continue
anniversary year and leads into a
to influence us. It reminds us that we
gala community-wide event on May
are standing on the shoulders of those
3 at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in
who came before us.
Southfield (see facing page).

In 2017, the digital archive hosted
more than 16,000 visitors accessing
almost 250,000 pages of content.
As part of our concluding anniver-
sary activities, we are asking you, our
valued readers, to share photos with
us of your multi-generational family
(I’ve included a sample — it shows my
father, oldest son, first grandchild and
me). We would like to share many of
them at the May 3 event as well as dig-
itize and preserve them on our foun-
dation website (www.djnfoundation.
org) for future generations to enjoy.
To send your photo our way, please
attach a high-resolution version of it
to us at legacy@djnfoundation.org.
Alternatively, thank you for consider-
ing either bringing it or mailing it
to our office at 29200 Northwestern
Highway, Suite 110, Southfield, MI
48034.
With your multi-generational fam-
ily photo, please include informa-
tion about who is in the photo and
approximately when it was taken. Feel
free to include a few words about the
family legacy represented in the photo
as well.
And if you share a non-digital photo
with us, please supply a name and
address so we can get it back to you.
We look forward to celebrating with
you on May 3 and continuing to cap-
ture and share the newest chapters in
the story of our community and the
people and families who shape it. •

Arthur Horwitz is publisher and executive editor
of the Detroit Jewish News.

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March 15 • 2018

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