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… tragedy continues to inspire song- junior in the Residential College at writers worldwide. University of Michigan. Sat, APRIL 21 We fake High Pride In Our Kilchen/ SHIRT BILIK Special to the Jewish News…

… Michigan Hillel's Western Europe. A jazzy love song writ- 22nd Annual Conference on the ten by Johnny and Holocaust on March Jones, two popular 20 were no exception. Dutch entertainers Silverman per…

… the ing the war years. audience at U-M Hillel. He said he is Some of the first songs composed in continuously amazed by how many the Holocaust era, explained songs survived in full, and by the coin…

… liquidation of social significance. the Vilna Ghetto." The songs the musicologist/per- With "Westerbork Serenade," former shared \vial his audience as part Silverman's performance turned to of the University of…

…-Made Soups! ♦ Lamb Chops ♦ Sfeaks Musical Memories Sat, April 14 TIM HAZEL RON CODEN SHOW Songs of anguish — and hope show a different face of the Holocaust. the Jewish people. "We Live Forever" was…

… enjoy the perform- dition of activism. From the ance?" Silverman asked. "We will time he first picked up a never know. What we do know is that guitar, he's been singing songs with 1943 was the year of the…

… the duo were sent to path of the human Amsterdam to record it. experience surround- Although they ing the Holocaust. could have escaped "One way to look at while in Amsterdam, it," Silverman said, "is…

… in the tions of the archive are the ultimate protest songs." same transport that alona b with English carried Anne Frank. translations — in \Jen- While Johnny and Jones did not ues across the country…

…. Many of ballads survive the war, their recording did. and songs had never been heard or Silverman played a scratchy version of translated since they were first sung dur- their Amsterdam performance for…

…- Silverman, were written "far from the cidences he continuously encounters shreds," in lagers, German political while collecting them. prisons. Many were composed as part "It's just amazing how these things of…

… unprecedented dialogue. On April 3, the former U.S. envoy told an Ann Arbor audience that, despite recent violence, dialogue will continue. University of Michigan Hillel groups brought Ross to Ann Arbor in the…

… 6600 West Maple Road West Bloomfield, Michigan 48322 Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D. Fellow, Center for Bioethics Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Sociology University of Pennsylvania Chief…

… Envoy to the Middle East Dennis Ross was part of the peace process before there ever was a peace process. Over more than a decade, he was one of the main reasons Israel and its Arab neighbors continued an…

… midst Dennis Ross of an Ann Arbor campus debate surrounding the lat- est intifizcla (Palestinian uprising). While many commentators have declared former President Bill Clinton's peace-making agenda a fail…

…- ure following the latest outbreak of fighting, Ross said much was gained from the Oslo process. He is writing a book about the lessons he learned while negotiating for peace. The primary lesson, he told…

… the audience of about 500, is that there is no substitute for peace — and both _ sides know it. "The last six months have raised more fundamental questions about the peace process than ever before," he…

…. "The Palestinian leadership has done nothing to prepare their public for peace," Ross said. He placed blame on both sides. The Israelis, in turn, should not promote a feeling of helplessness among the…

… Palestinians by expanding settlements or demolishing olive groves. "There are no unilateral outcomes to this situation," Ross continued. Taking drastic measures in the hope of finally being done with the…

… conflict is tempting, he acknowledged, but not practical. A resolution would have to come as a result of a negotiated treaty, but a treaty that cannot be imposed on the two sides by an outside body. That…

… Minister Yitzhak Rabin was not easily discouraged. To a question about whether the U.S. should divest from Israel in light of Israel's blockade of the Palestinian terri- tories, Ross replied with an adamant…