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…Co m muni ty New Arrivals Oct. 9 Mara (Hack) and Andrew Moss of Birmingham welcome with much love and happiness the birth of their son, Nathan Henry (Natan David). Sharing in the excitement are first- time grandparents Francine and Paul Hack of Birmingham and Sue and Douglas Moss of Bloomfield Hills. Especially honored is great-grand- mother Charlotte Prussian. Nathan Henry is named in loving memory of his paternal great-grandfather Henry P...…
…unity Joe- eocxzta•t_ ENTERTAINMENT MAZEL •.> Jordan Blake Charlupski was called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah on Saturday, Nov. 8, at Congregation Shaarey Zedek Southfield. Participating in the service were his proud parents Elyn and Larry Charlupski, broth- er Cory and sister Rachel. Jordan was honored to have his grandparents Franka and Allen Charlupski and Renee and Morrie Rochlin share in his simchah. Jordan is an honor student at Hi...…
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…Mazel Toy! Many thanks to tie 200 Jewish Family Service Volunteers who helped make our MAZEL projects involve time spent at Yad Ezra in Berkley, at Farmington Hills- based JARC and at the Fleischman Residence in West Bloomfield. Rachel Faith Milen will be called to the Torah as a bat mitzvah on Saturday, Nov. 15, at Congregation Shaarey Zedek Southfield. She is the daughter of Miriam and Bruce Milen and sister of Jason and Becca. Proud bubb...…
…A DAZZLING helped make dolls at Hadassah House in West Bloomfield and donated funds to the American Cancer Society. Joshua Louis Zeman, son of Marci and Paul Zeman and brother of Jeffrey and Carli, will be called to the Torah at Temple Israel Saturday, Nov. 15, on the occasion of his bar mitzvah. Sharing in the simchah will be his grandparents Avis and Harold Wolfe and Maggie Zeman. He is the grandson of the late Robert Zeman and the great-g...…
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…EDITOR'S NOTE A t the core of all great books, underneath the varieties of language, stories and ideas, lies the complex' relation- ship of the individual to society. And at the core of all reading groups is a similar concern: individuals getting together to create a communal conversation, held together by the vision of the writer being read. The National Foundation for Jewish Culture, through its many literary programs, grams, awards and pu...…
…■ e Ash. FOR BOOK GROUPS OF ONE OR MORE _u p_plerite n t The National Foundation for Jewish Culture would like to thank the following sponsors of the Jewish Literary Supplement: Phyllis Friedman EDITNG, CONTENT AND DESIGN of Baltimore. THE ASSOCIATED: JEWISH' FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE Detroit JAMES AUGUST BILL BERA IAN A.B. Yehoshua xetptlil - ' Joel ben Izzy's The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness AVERN COHN LAWRENCE JA...…
…EXCERPT JOEL bEN IZZY THE BEGGAR KING AND THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS A 11 storytellers remember the to the rabbi to study Talmud. You know teller who first inspired the story?" them; it leaves a lifelong I didn't. impression. In storytelling circles, this "A young man asks a rabbi to teach him person is known as a teller's "mama the wisdom of the Talmud. The rabbi tells duck." Lenny was my mama duck. him he's not ready. The man ins...…
…Jewish Literary Supplement KIN For the next six months I rodemy bike to his cabin twice a week, of their own business cards. The name itself seemed to hold a certain to sit before his wood-burning stove and listen to him tell tales. He mystique—a long Eastern European name, filled with unlikely con- seemed to know every story ever told—as well as all the same jokes sonants and scarcely a vowel, an unpronounceable word that would my fa...…
…A.B. YEHOSHUA THE LIBERATED BRIDE tip LIBERATE; BRIDE 0 NCE AGAIN, THE Tedeschis- I've heard of." needing, so it seemed, the constant "He wasn't just a teacher," Tedeschi protested angrily. presence of real death—had a surprise corpse for him. "He was a first-rate scholar who burned the midnight oil to under- This time it was an unknown young scholar from the Arabic stand the Arab mind. Not that that stopped them from snuffing him ...…
…A.B. Yehoshua is the author of several novels, including Mr. Mani and The Lover. He has received the National Jewish Book Award and the Koret Jewish Book Award, and lives in Haifa, Israel. A.B. e os ua, cr.: eonar o -ndamo "Yosef Suissa." Hannah Tedeschi was relentless. "No one gives a damn about "An Orthodox Jew?" popular culture. They think it's beneath them. They'd rather write "One of the decent ones." about that blind Egyptian ...…
…in the North__Am_erican Literary Imagination Joan Leegant A few years ago I showed a writer friend a town, they had to survive the transitions." draft of a story I was working on. The Of course, not all North American writers are as story, set in the present, centered on a 70- restrained as Miller when it comes to the fervent poli- year-old Jerusalemite who'd left Europe some tics that drive such immigrants to places inside the fift...…
…STEVE ALMOND E Israel as the respository of highly charged Jewish longing is not new; it has been inspiring dreams of glory of all stripes for centuries. , just finish Tithe Olsen's "Tell Me a which Kadish herself was for some months, All of which raises an interesting ques- adding yet another layer of complexity to this tion: what about Israelis who are not new already rich story of the immigrant encounter immigrants or religious fan...…
…LARA VAPNYAR THERE ARE JEWS IN my HOUSE 0 n the night when Raya was supposed Jews." Her hands were getting cold; she shook the to leave with the peasant, she water off the doormat and carried it back to the appeared at Galina's door at about 3 hall. "Raya may be dead in a few days," she a.m. She stood in the doorway in her boots caked thought. Both Raya and Leeza. Galina sat down, with country mud, soaked with sweat under her makin...…
…a l a Jewish Literary c _upplement There still was danger, of course. Great danger. But the thought of the danger didn't dampen Galina's ardor; on the contrary, it made her all the more enthusiastic. — FROM THERE ARE JEWS IN MY HOUSE ' BY LARA VAPNYAR things and come to my place. We have to make it knew her way around it. When Galina threw before morning," she said breathlessly to Raya as birthday parties, Raya, who always came earl...…
…NORMAN MANEA THE HOOLI GAN'S RETURN Norman Manea is the author of fourteen volumes I n the autumn of 1986, before I left Romania, I failed to convince my old parents, listening to me took an eight-hour journey by train from with depressed skepticism, that my going away was Bucharest to Suceava, into the very heart of only a temporary separation. Bukovina, to say my final goodbyes. As I entered the The day before my return to Bucha...…
…Jewish Literary Supplement Ai It was obvious that the once bustling little town of my youth had also fallen on hard times. The people looked diminished, muted. One could read the sadness and bitterness, the smoldering anger, in their dry, wrinkled faces, in their tense greetings, even in the most commonplace exchanges.” —from The Hooligan's Return help her sit on the edge of the bed. As soon as the woman withdrew, the torrent of words...…
…Treasuring-Yiddish for the_Right Reasons Dora Horn I Dara Horn is a doctoral candidate in Hebrew have often wondered if there is any language language spoken by real people (and the number in the world that is as cherished as Yiddish— of Yiddish speakers today is actually growing, that is, by people who can't speak or read a thanks to the demographics of religious commu- word of it. Few Jewish writers in America today nities that s...…
…Jewish Readers have gotten the hint. Most sin, or of sex, but of the concept of death American Jewish readers under 60, I think, itself, in a world where death doesn't yet could probably name three concentration exist. That poem sent me back to the Book camps. But how many of those readers of Genesis, where I discovered something could name three Yiddish writers? Is there in the text that I had never noticed before. a point to knowi...…
…NELLY REIFLER n Friday evenings during the school year, Julia. uncle Maurice- Julian walked out of the kitchen and went to fIerzl's brother—came over with his kneel next to Peter, who was inspecting a Frank son Peter. This visit would be their first since Zappa record he'd taken out of a faded card- May. The doorbell rang at eight o'clock. Herzl board jacket. Julian remembered Peter prying was resting upstairs in the bedroom. Julian ...…
…• u•ached into the kitchen, he wondered if been about to squeeze his shoulder a o ogetsca y or hit him." r ROM "JULIAN" BY NELLY REIFLER - - - that Peter's walls were painted red and had pic- Julian opened the magazine to the first page. tures of Bob Dylan, Albert Einstein, and the On one side was an ad for menthol cigarettes, on kibbutz in Israel that he'd visited. Julian opened the other a table of contents. Julian squinted so ...…
…MELVIN JULES BUKIET TONGUE OF THE JEWS J ane Hawkins, nee Hodges, from a line as cessful settlement, Edward found other reasons venerable as her husband's — railroads- to remain involved in the world of his Jews. He, had once been proud of Ned. She who had hardly ever known a Jew, immersed remembered him on the basketball court, All- himself in Hebrew tragedy. He looked backward Ivy, pre-law, senatorial timber. Their first home pas...…
…A FAKER'S DOZE grew gaunt, as if attempting to simulate in his own body the survivors who had, ironically, grown fat. M E LV Jewish Literary c _upplement He sipped his own tea and looked at her. "There's a book I'm think- ing of," he said. "I know it's here somewhere." He glanced at the shelves. All of this was a tragic loss, but Jane accepted the academic lifestyle She recalled the way her husband would sit in bed reading and say, w...…
…_Contemporary Literature as _Modern_Midrasly Janet Burstein . T he lure of our earliest texts, like a persist- of the essayists above. Engaged in the work of ent undertow, has been drawing what theorist Maurice Halbwachs has called "col- American Jewish writers back to the lective memory," the essayists drew "from the sources of our culture. Among the first of many past what still lives or is capable of living in the contemporary wr...…
…RACHEL JACOBSOHN Law fails to satisfy Ozick's rabbi, who Abraham's despair and Isaac's wound. As begins to read Romantic poetry and to the novel fills in these gaps in the original seek out the "free spirits" of the natural narrative, it augments our memory of the world, abandoning the sacred texts, his collective past. wife and daughters. He knows that faith- Two other recent novels carry the fulness to the Law obliges him to turn ...…
…Why Books Matter ne of my earliest remembrances of Phyllis Friedman, the editorial benefactor of this literary supplement, was a conversation with her outside of the local grocery store many years ago. She mentioned that her father, Dan Koshland, was celebrating a birthday. "What present are you giving him?" I asked. She replied, "He always wanted me to read Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, so I'm reading it." That very personal and literary gift mad...…
…National Foundation For Jewish Culture Board of Directors 2003-2004 CHARLOTTE NEWBERGER=- Ctiainnan of the Board ::JAMES M. AUGUST- BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI Vice Presidents ANNE E. ABRAMSON- BETHESDA, E. MD ROBERT GOODIUND- NEW YORK, NY ALAN S. KAN'NOF- NEW YORK, NY ROBERT S. RIFIUND- NEWYORK, NY MARIaRY C. SLAVIN- TucsoN, AZ MARILYN YOLLES WALDMAN- SAN FRANCISCO, CA ANnA L, WORNICK- HILLSBOROUGH, CA GARY ZELTZER- PORT WASILLNGTON, N...…
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…New Concertmaster For Ann Arbor Symphony 72 Pianist/Psychiatrist Dissects Musicians' Minds 74 A Young Couple Creates A Healthier Taste 86 It's a theatergoers' town. STORY Torah Feldshub in "Golder 's Balcony," a one-woman play based on the life of Golda Meir on page 68 …
…Best Bets Family Affair M ark Feldman has performed in Ann Arbor with a number of groups, but his upcoming performance is a family project. pn at the Edge," which merges Feldman's violin sounds with the piano style of wife Sylvie Courvoisier, begins 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15, at the Kerrytown Concert House. "Sylvie and I are going to play our own composi- tions with some improvisations," says Feldman, 48, married for three years to the Swiss...…
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…New York New York ma. Its a theatergoers' town. ALICE BURDICK SCHWEIGER Special to the Jewish News T his fall, exciting new musicals and inspiring dramas, as well as classic revivals, are filling New York stages. Theatergoers will have no trouble finding a show to suit their taste. What's more, many of the new productions feature Jewish playwrights, actors, themes, composers and directors. In keeping with our annual fall tradition, here's...…
…NEW YORK from page 68 `Rounding Adam Arkin reconnects with Judaism. ro laying a father lacking in athletic skills is easy for Matthew Arkin, star of Rounding Third. In the Off-Broadway show, he portrays an inept Little League assistant coach who can barely throw or hit a ball. In real life, it's hardly a stretch. "I don't know anything about baseball," says Arkin, Matthew Arkin, left, and Robert Clohessy in "Rounding Third" from his dressi...…
…NEw YORK from page 69 Wonderful Town: Based on the book My Sister Eileen (later made into a movie and TV series), this musical first opened on Broadway in 1953. A tribute to New York City, the musi- cal's lively score is by Leonard Bernstein, with lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. Set in the 1920s, it tells the story of two sisters from Ohio — one is smart, the other is pretty — and how they move to New York to search for jobs and make...…
…Adam Arkin. At the John Houseman Theatre, 140 West 42nd St., (212) 239-6200. . LIMITED RUN I. W Firestone, Elaine Grollman and Debra Ben Frances in the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre production of "The Lady Next Door" yet disturbing look inside the contempo- rary world of architecture. A Korean- American student presents her thesis for a public swimming pool to an all-white male jury of architects. Sexual tensions and intellectual pretensions...…
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