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Graduates Keep Their "Eyes on the Prize" Commencement Number 42 Around the University

Board of IVustees Approves Budget

an increase in The Board of Trustees This reflects the fact that reflects gifts from approved an operating budget half of the incoming student budget-relieving million in 1992-93 to of $150,957,000 for the 1993- body will require need-based $10 $12.5 million in 1993-94 to 94 fiscal year. As part of a financial aid in 1993-94 as defray costs borne by four-year effort to reduce compared with 45 percent students and their families. operating costs by $12 this year. Because of the million, the budget reflects skyrocketing costs of books 1993-94 In addition, the Board of an effort to hold costs at and periodicals, the an except for four budget contains a $260,000 Trustees announced current levels speaker increase of 5.7 percent in Cummencement major areas: undergraduate increase for the Libraries. All charges for the 1993-94 and honorary degree need-based financial aid, other operating costs will billed year, the lowest recipient Liv UUmann faculty and staff salary receive no budget increase academic 1 993 in almost 20 years. addresses the Class of increases, money for the for inflation next year. The increase combined tuition, fees Libraries and utility and net result is an overall The room and board costs plant costs. budget increase of 6.8 and percent. The budget also will increase from $24,051 Undergraduate need-based in 1992-93 to $25,415 in 1993-94. financial aid is projected to Brandeis Awards increase by $2.5 million or Burns 15.8 percent over 1992-93. George Honorary Degree

awarded George Martin A. Fisher Brandeis Bums, the 97-year-old School of Physics entertainer and author, an Rededicated honorary Doctor of Humane Letters in Los Angeles in June. This was the first occasion where the University has presented an honorary degree off campus. Brandeis recently marked the of magnetic fields For the past 15 years, he has 25th anniversary of the surrounding black holes in enjoyed success as an author, founding of the Martin A. distant quasars. including the bestseller. Fisher School of Physics by Grade: A Love Story, and rededicating the program. In The daylong rededication Wisdom of the 90s. In a ceremony that included a included a keynote address addition to performing in tribute to Martin Fisher by by Irwin Shapiro, director of vaudeville, Bums and his late his son, Richard, and his the Harvard-Smithsonian wife, Gracie Allen, had their daughter, Irma Mann Center for Astrophysics; a own radio show in the 1930s Steams, members of the description of work at and television show in the University community noted Brandeis's Benjamin and Mae 1950s. Burns went on his the contributions the physics Volen National Center for own in the 1960s to perform department has made to a Complex Systems by in nightclubs and theaters range of scientific pursuits, Laurence Abbott, professor of with other entertainers. In including the search for the physics; and a discussion of the 1970s, Bums began his sixth and final quark, the Superconducting Super development of the first Collider, including the latest high-resolution anti-matter results on the hunt for the M. Anthony Fisher and microscope and the mapping top quark, by James Emily Fisher Landau unveil Bensinger, professor of a plaque designating the physics. rededicated Martin A. Fisher School of Physics Commencement Keynoted by Liv Ullmann

At Brandeis's 42nd Committee and UNICEF. Commencement exercises, She has specialized in actress and humanitarian Liv children's causes in recent Ullmann addressed over 700 years, after starring in many graduates and their stage productions and in nine approximately 7,000 family Ingmar Bergman films during and friends, urging them to her acting career. shun deceiving labels like "ethnic cleansing" and strive Other honorary degree to expose and change the real recipients were: Derek Bok, horrors they depict. president of Harvard Challenging the graduating University from 1971 to class to embark on a quest 1990; Henry E. Hampton, for change, she said, "May it creator of the highly- be a quest based on a new acclaimed "Eyes on the ethical way of thinking, a Prize," the 14-hour PBS film new language, representing series of America's civil vision instead of slogan, rights movement and author Middle East expert; and representing sharing instead of its companion volume, Ph.D. '72 hooding Henry E. Sheldon M. Wolff, M.D., of domination, representing Voices of Freedom: An Oral as President Endicott Professor and chair freedom instead of History of America's Civil Hampton of the Department of demagogues." UUman Rights Movement; Max M. Samuel O. Thier looks on Medicine of Tufts University received an honorary Doctor Kampelman, chief United School of Medicine and of Humane Letters for more States nuclear and space physician m chief at the New than 12 years of devotion to arms negotiator for the INF England Medical Center. humanitarian causes for the and START treaties,- Bernard International Refugee Lewis, professor emeritus of (Photographic coverage of Near Eastern studies at Princeton University and Commencement follows on page distinguished scholar and 8.) President Thier Joins National Search Team

Development President Samuel O. Thier has been appointed to a Reports increased national search committee Giving for a new director of the National Institutes of Health. Thier, former head of the Institute of Medicine, is well-known for his expertise in the areas of national In the fiscal year just $1 million from Norman S. Howard Hughes Medical health policy, medical completed, total private and Eleanor E. Rabb, Institute and the Raytheon education and biomedical support for Brandeis showed $500,000 from Joseph Company. For the first time research. Thier, along with University's history, its first increase in the last Schwartz and $150,000 from in the Barbara Hazard Munro, dean three years. Individuals, Marjorie Grodner Housen '56 the endowment reached the and professor at Boston corporations and foundations and Charles Housen. The $200 million level. College School of Nursing, contributed a total of University's $10 million and Meizhu Lui, director of $11, 828 million, an increase campaign to fund the Having completed his first the Boston Health Access of one percent over fiscal Benjamin and Mae Volen full year as senior vice Project, led a committee on a year 1991-92. This year, National Center for Complex president for development discussion on training realized trusts and estates Systems was launched and alumni relations, Daniel physicians, nurses and other showed the largest gain, successfully in the past year, Mansoor commented, "I am health care workers as part of providing $8,131 million as having raised more than very encouraged by the a health care reform compared to $3,957 million $2.8 million in cash and results of fiscal year 1992-93. conference at New England m 1991-92. pledges, including They show broad support for Medical Center. The event, commitments from the Brandeis from alumni, which drew some 700 Among the important friends, institutions, the participants, was organized commitments that the American Jewish community by U.S. Senator Edward M. University received were and beyond. I am especially Kennedy (D-Mass.) chair of $2 million from the Carl and pleased by the number of the Senate Committee on Ruth Shapiro Foundation, new donors." Labor and Human Resources and longtime health care advocate in the federal government.

TJiier also gave a speech on ADDS to the American Professors Receive Philosophical Society in Humboldt Award March, focusing on society's and Guggenheim response to the epidemic. He Fellowship criticized the government for failing to address the social and behavioral aspects of the disease and recommended concrete steps to deal with the health hazard, including Brandeis Professor of and may eventually aid in having the medical Biochemistry Serge M. the development of better profession state that it is Timasheff has been awarded cancer drugs. unethical not to treat the the prestigious Humboldt disease, launching behavioral Research Award for Senior Samuel Kline Cohn, Jr., studies of sexuality, U.S. Scientists. The German professor of history, and Ray providing public education prize, which recognizes the Jackendoff, professor of on the subject and reforming achievements of senior linguistics and National the health care system. foreign scientists, will allow Center for Complex Systems, Timasheff to collaborate were named as John Simon In addition, he has been with researchers in Germany Guggenheim Memorial an honorary member on experiments on the Foundation Fellows. named the American Association molecular mechanisms of Guggenheim Fellows are of Dental Schools for his protein stabilization. His named on the basis of of efforts, when he research focuses on unusually distinguished significant president of the Institute the molecular mechanisms achievement in the past and was Medicine, in by which certain exceptional promise for of the Institute's anti-cancer drugs fimction future accomplishment. This implementing of dental education. Serge M. Timasheff, professor year 146 artists, scholars and study of biochemistry scientist were selected from among 2,989 applicants for Fellowship awards.

4 Brandeis Review Moral and Ethical Implications of Health Care Featured at Fellows Conference

students Win On Friday and Saturday, men was withheld after the Scholarships October 15 and 16, the discovery of penicillin so Brandeis University Fellows that the ravages of the will sponsor a National untreated disease could be Fellows Conference to be observed. That scientific held m conjunction with curiosity about the effects of Founders' Day weekend. The untreated syphilis general theme will be completely outweighed the "Health Care in the United moral question of the '94 Michelle Liblanc received abroad. In addition to States and its Moral and suffering and disease the a Goldwater Scholarship for Brandeis, the participating Ethical Implications." study caused the patients 1993-94, providing $7,000 in institutions are Boston sets the tone of the support. Liblanc was one of University, The City College The conference will begin on conference. 233 Goldwater Scholarship of New York, Columbia Friday evening with a winners chosen from over University, Connecticut program of readings from the A symposium featuring 2,000 nominees. Rachel College, Gallaudet play Miss Evers' Boys. Brandeis President Dr. Blitzblau '93 and Alexandra University, Harvard written by David Feldshuh, Samuel O. Thier; Dr. Stanley Haber '93 each received a University, Rochester M.D. These readings will be Wallack, director of the DAAD award from the Institute of Technology, follov.'ed by a panel Institute for Health Policy at German government for Wesleyan University and discussion on medical ethics The Heller School; and Dr. 1993-94. The awards provide Yale University. The with Feldshuh; Arthur L. Deborah A. Stone, the David full tuition, room, board and fellowships are supported by Caplan '71, director of the R. Pokross Professor of Law travel expense coverage. income from the Mortimer Center for Biomedical Ethics and Social Policy at The '93 Miriam Louisa Steinberg and Sara Hays Endowment at the University of Heller School, will take place was awarded a Mortimer Fund at Brandeis and provide Minnesota; and Denise Saturday afternoon. The Hays-Brandeis Traveling support for travel and hving Dianni, producer of the topic will be the ethical and Fellowship to survey public expenses to students in "Nova" show based on the moral aspects of treatment of arts projects in Paris, visual and fine arts, play. Miss Evers' Boys refers the ill and the elderly, Brussels, Stockholm, including art history, to the controversial particularly in the last year Cologne and Vienna. The conservation, studio art and "Tuskegee Study of of life and in light of one year, $12,000 fellowships photography. Untreated Syphilis in the proposed health care reforms are awarded to three students Negro Male," in which and cutbacks in annually from 10 different treatment of the afflicted expenditures. colleges and universities for arts-related graduate work On Saturday evening, the traditional Founders' Day '93 Radovic Wins dinner will be held. At the Watson TVaveling cocktail reception a Fellow's Fellowship hooding ceremony will take place, along with the presentation of several alumni awards. Alumni Achievement Awards will be presented at the dinner. A Brandeis senior from the Radovic, a Wien war-torn Republic of Croatia International Scholar, has Inner Family members, has been awarded a Thomas been fascinated with new Justice Brandeis Society members and alumni and I. Watson Fellowship for developments in parallel 1993-94. Niksa Radovic, a computing since he began National Women's computer science major, will taking courses in computer Committee leadership will use the $15,000 grant to science under the guidance of receive a formal invitation conduct a one-year study of Professor Jacques Cohen. in September. Any parallel computing in After his Watson year, others wishing to attend Europe. Radovic has been Radovic plans to pursue a this conference or the accepted as a visiting doctorate in computer Saturday dinner, please researcher at institutes in science, focusing on the field call 617-736-4145 for France, Germany, Greece, of computer simulations. But information. Scotland and Switzerland first, he said, he will return startmg in the fall. to Croatia to use what he has learned to help rebuild his country.

Niksa Radovic

5 Summer 1993 Sports Notes

Lemberg Program Brandeis Athletes Win starter in tennis and was a Hosts Conference Awards UAA all-star in both sports. The winners of the 1992-93 He was selected to play in athletic awards were honored the Senior Soccer Bowl all- at the Athletic Recognition star game and led the team to and Awards Banquet held in a pair of ECAC Division III May. A pair of versatile tourney berths in the last senior athletes, Rob Bilsbury three years. and Lynne Dempsey, topped Massachusetts Governor the list of year-end athletic Jason Bessett, a four-year William Weld (left) and U.S. award winners at Brandeis. varsity member of the Representative Edward baseball team, won the Markey (D-Mass.) joined top Dempsey won the Max Morris J. Sepinuck business leaders and Silber Award presented each Sportsmanship Award. This economists for a major year to the outstanding is presented annually to a conference on campus on female student-athlete. She senior athlete who makes a government, international was captain of three sports, significant contribution to competition and emerging soccer, basketball and the athletic program and to markets for New England Softball, and was the only campus life. Bessett was a businesses sponsored by the female athlete to play three four-year member of the Lemberg Program in distinctly different varsity varsity baseball team and a International Economics and sports. Dempsey played four work study student for the Finance and Babson years of soccer and basketball athletic department in the College. Shown here is and three years of Softball. equipment room for four Governor Weld addressing She was a New England years. He also worked the 45- the conference Women's Eight (NEW 8) all- second shot clock at the star and a UAA all-star in men's and women's varsity soccer as a senior. Dempsey basketball games. In was a four-year starter in addition, he was the top soccer and a three-year student assistant to the starter in softball. In facilities manager at the New Israeli basketball, she was the Gosman Sports and Ambassador Visits team's top guard off of the Convocation Center. Brandeis bench in her first three years and then a starter in the first Karen Chambers was the four games of her senior year, winner of the Charles Napoli prior to a season-ending Scholar- Athlete Award, injury. She was MVP of the presented annually to the top soccer team as a senior, scholar-athlete. Two-year voted most dedicated as a captain of both the volleyball Israeli Ambassador to the junior and most improved as and Softball teams, she was a United States Itamar a sophomore. As a four-year starter in each Rabinovich spoke at sophomore, she led the sport. She was honored as a Brandeis in March. soccer team to a school NEW 8 all-star in volleyball Rabinovich is head of the record 16 wins and the NEW twice and was selected to Israeli delegation for peace 8 title and played on three play in the Senior Volleyball talks with Syria and his visit NEW 8 championship teams Classic. In softball, she led to campus marked the first in basketball. As a junior, she Brandeis to the NEW 8 speech he had made at an led the basketball team to a championship. American university since school record 21 wins and his appointment as first-ever ECAC tourney. Steve Fletcher won the ambassador Markson Award, given to the Rob Bilsbury won the Harry, athlete with the highest loseph and Ida Stein grade point average in the Memorial Award, presented humanities. Fletcher was the annually to the outstanding number-one golfer for four male student-athlete. Bilsbury captained both the soccer and tennis teams. He was a four-year member of both teams and a three-year starter in goal for the soccer team. He was a four-year

6 Brandeis Review Left to right. Steve Fletcher. National Women's Lynne Dempsey. Karen Committee Elects Chambers. Jason Bessett and Rob Bilsbury First Alum as President

Belle lurkowitz '55 of Miami Beach was elected president of the Brandeis University National Women's Committee at the organization's 45th Annual National Conference, held on campus this past fune. She is the first alumna to head the Women's Committee, which was established in 1948 to support the Brandeis Libraries.

More than 200 National Women's Committee leaders came from all over the years. He won the exemplifies the character, UAA countiy to the Conference, Newly-elected Brandeis individual title as a freshman dedication and good where outgoing president University National and was in the top 15 the sportsmanship of McCully's Marsha Stoller presented a Women 's Committee other years. He also won the All-American soccer career. President Belle gift of $2,91 1,887 to the fmkowitz Little Four individual title This year it was awarded to '55, University on behalf of the right, visits with Letty the past three years and cowinners, Bilsbur>' and Women's Committee. Cottin Pogrebin '59, winner never missed a meet or a Amy Sullivan. Sullivan was a of the Women's Committee's practice. four-year starter at guard on At the Conference Letty Abiam L. Sachar Medallion, the women's basketball team Cottin Pogrebin '59 was at the organization's 45th The Jim McCully Award is and also was a three-year Annual National awarded the Abram L. Sachar Conference presented annually to a starter in softball. She was a Medallion for her on campus student-athlete who best all-star and 8 all- UAA NEW outstanding contributions to star in basketball and a major public education and contributor to both team's awareness, and a panel of Committee and later served successes. distinguished alumni as president of the Miami discussed higher education in Beach Chapter when she the 21st century. Pogrebin is moved to Florida. A Fellow the founding editor of Ms. of the University, she has magazine and cofounder of also been a member-at-large the National Women's of the National Alumni Political Caucus. Panel Association Board of participants included Directors and served for 10 Obituary President Samuel O. Thier, years as regional chair of the moderator; Paula Apsell '69, Alumni Advisory Council. executive producer of the Public Television series Serving most recently as "NOVA" at WGBH-TV, national chair of new Boston; Andrew Billingsley membership, she has '64, professor of family and maintained the community development. organization's level of University of Maryland; and membership during a period With the death of writer, Howe served for many years Arthur Levine '70, chairman when the memberships of editor and literary critic as a distinguished professor of the Institute for similar groups have suffered Irving Howe, the country lost of English at the City Educational Management, significant declines. She was one of Its most engaging University of New York but the Harvard Graduate School also instrumental in minds. For nearly 50 years, began his academic career in of Education. persuading the Women's Howe promoted a unique the English department at Committee to change its version of democratic Brandeis, where he was a lurkowitz has been active in bylaws so that men could be socialism, which often put faculty member from 1953 to the Women's Committee accepted into the him at odds with people on 1961. During his years at since joining as a student and organization. both the right and the left of Brandeis he helped to found in the Alumni Association the political spectrum. the ioumal Dissent, which since the 1960s. She followed Among his many books was he edited for nearly four in her mother's footsteps as World of Our Fathers, a decades. one of the first presidents of National Book Award- the Scranton, Pennsylvania, winning account of East Chapter of the Women's European immigration in the United States.

7 Summer 1993 Graduates Keep Their Commencement "Eyes on the Prize" Number 42

when honorary degree Mr. doesn't Hampton mind of thousands celebrating its recipient Henry our appropriating it Hampton for achievements in the Gosman talks about his documentary, Commencement Day as a Sports and Convocation "Eyes on the Prize," he is means of describing the Center. referring of course to the ambitions and hopes of our goals of the civil rights graduates. As the ceremony ended the movement. But the title is so graduates possessed the irresistable, so full of After four years of hard work, cherished diploma, the prize resonance, it that has entered 933 seniors and graduate that can never be taken the language as an students came with high away. expressive idiom. We hope expectations. The day was all that the Class of 1993 hoped it would be, with blue skies, warm weather and a crowd

(above) Mailinda McPhail, (below left) Left to right. a Martin Luther King Pich Hoiit '93 with friends Scholar from Hattiesburg, Kitty Dukakis and former Mississippi, delivering the governor of Massachusetts senior address Michael Dukakis

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ibelow) Left to right. Krister <^/iAm Stendahl, Myra and Robert Kraft and Jacob Hiatt Distinguished Professor of Christian Studies, with honorary degree recipients Derek Bok and Max M. Kampelman

(right) Honorary degree recipient Sheldon Wolff, M.D.. right, talks with President Samuel O. Thier. left, at the Fellow's Dinner Saturday night

9 Summer 1993 Lois Greenfield, a world-renowned

artist, insists she is not a dance photographer. Her subject

is movement and dance is her landscape. Abandoning

choreography for improvisation, the

dancers become raw material for her own aesthetic preoccupations.

Breaking Bounds

by Lois Greenfield 70

1 Brandeis Review Greenfield works exclusively in her Breaking Bounds: The Dance studio with an electronic flash that Photography of Lois Greenfield by allows her to capture the elegance William A. Ewing, a book featuring and power of the body in flight. 87 of her duotones, captures The movements she captures may the explosive energy of dancers look impossible, but are really In motion. Shown here and

"simple snapshots." There is no on the covers are nine images from

technical manipulation either in that publication. taking or printing the photographs.

11 Summer 1993

For nearly 20 years commercial assignments Greenfield has been and counts Kodak. Cutty photographing dance for the Sark Liquor. Walt Disney Village Voice. Her work has and others among her appeared In Elle, Esquire, clients. At Brandeis she Mademoiselle, Rolling majored in anthropology, but Stone, Newsweek, Time, took all the filmmaking Vanity Fair, Vogue and other courses she could. She lives magazines, and has been In New York with her exhibited throughout the husband, Stuart Llebman world. She also works on 70, and her two sons.

Lois Greenfield, self-portrait

13 Summer 1993 1.

Faust

Bringing Images Full Circle

By Charles Berliner, M.F.A. 71

Shown here, spanning 20 (1971); second, costumes Ashland; and fourth, as a graduate student at years of my career, are and scenery for lonesco's costumes and scenery for Brandels, bringing my

sketches and photographs Exit the King, the a visual scenario I call ideas full circle. Unlike the from three productions Cleveland Play House Perform Project for the mediums of film and

and a project that has yet (1988); third, costumes future, in collaboration television that have a

to be produced. First, for A Flea in Her Ear by with choreographer Rudy repetitive life, the world of

costumes for the theater Georges Feydeau, Perez and composer theater can continue to

arts department's mime currently In repertory Daniel Lentz. The source exist only In photographs,

version of Faust, created through the end of of inspiration for this sketches and the memory

event was of people witnessed when I was a graduate October, Oregon performance who

student at Brandels Shakespeare Festival, the Faust that I worked on the performance.

Mephistopheles, the puppeteer, with Gluttony and Pride (original sketches)

MtpNISTDPHELES

1 4 Brandeis Review From Director Kenyon Martin's 1971 production of Faust at Brandeis: costumes for (top to bottom) Gluttony, Greed, Envy and Sloth

unless otherwise noted, photographs ot sketches and black and white transfers are by Black and Color Photo Lab, Hollywood

•;* 4'* T* ^LUTTON/ ^ £. 15 Summer 1993 Exit the King 1, L^%^ 1. SlGNf^TECHNOLUGV

Photo of a painting of the stage design for Exit the King (from the cover of Theater Design and Technology, Spring 1988)

The walls of the set were everything disappearing 26 feet high at the point at the end except for the closest to the opening of king's center throne. the proscenium; the width There is something of the stage opening was thrilling and frightening 44 feet. The stage about being responsible directions have for a kingdom that self- destructs on cue

Although the painting changed

slightly In actual execution on the stage, the larger-than-life quality remained

In response to painting to begin Director Will Rhys's the design process. request that the The painting characters and was exhibited at environment appear the Milwaukee Art to be from a Museum's surrealist painting in Contemporary operatic scale, I American Stage created the acrylic Design exhibit (1987)

1 6 Brandeis Review A Flea in Her Ear

The evocation of a particular historical period will In some way reflect current visual sensibilities regardless of how hard one tries to be historically accurate. So why not, especially in farce, just have fun.

The designer often The flurry of chiffon Raymonde. Her attempts to and exaggeration suspicions have convey through the of period detail help been awakened, or costume sketch to support the to paraphrase a sense or illusion agitation expressed the French, she has

of movement by Fredi Olster as a flea In her ear

Robynn Rodriquez, Ray Porter, Fredi Olster, Dennis Smith and Dan Kremer as domestic staff, family and friends expressing Feydeau's

first commandment: "When two of my characters should under no circumstances encounter one

another, I throw them together as quickly as possible"

17 Summer 1993 Perform Project

Perform Project

is an investigation of artistic form, MR-FORM mhmz expressed through figurative and

literal projection of the graphic, choreographic and musical

My paintings are from a series, "Inner Images," which create stage pictures. Two from the series are "Encounter #9" and "Encounter #2," as envisioned in Perform Project

18 Brandeis Review One movement will explore the graptilc, choreographic and musical relationships of four distinct characters

Berliner checks a costume for Debra Funkhouser as

Antionette at a first fitting for A Flea In Her Ear

Another movement will focus on the compositional complexity of building new relationships

Charles Berliner. M.F.A. '71. and theater arts department the United Scenic Artists his theatrical designs have has done costume and at San Francisco State Local 829. the union been included in national stage design for theater, University, where he representing theatrical and international exhibitions. film, television and dance. received his B.A. In the fall designers in the United He has recently completed He has also taught theatrical of 1979, courtesy of the States, he has participated the manuscripts of three design. For 10 years, he Martin Weiner Distinguished in various negotiations and illustrated books for children: was the resident costume Lecturer Fund, he returned activities for the Believe You Me. A Colorful

and scenery designer for the to Brandeis with an improvement of conditions Color and I Want Much More University of California at illustrated lecture reviewing for members of the theatrical Than a Dinosaur; as well as Los Angeles dance his work covering the design profession. a nonfiction illustrated department, as well as guest decade following the manuscript. Inner Images artist/lecturer at the commencement of his study He received a Design Arts Unknown: A Theatrical professional theater program at Brandeis. As western Fellowship from the National Designer's Visualizations. at the University of Delaware regional representative of Endowment of the Arts, and

19 Summer 1993 |»6** vio is*» jfc>i» et»t pet»o »ho^ tHt "I am a fairly new Jew-by- choice. This magazine has

been a true blessing in

my life. It has given me the confidence to do things

that I would not have dared to do on my own."

The Devil's

by Brenda Marder A pacesetter in the world of Jewish feminism? An agent for change in Jewish hfe? A mirror of how things stand? An agitator stirring up dissension? Yes, to all of those questions. Just read the letters to the editor and the prime coverage the editor in chief receives from the national media to measure the impact of this plucky organization.

No weak sister among the outspoken media of the day, Lilith speaks its mind about the most divisive, repugnant and explosive issues while maintaming a steady, modulated pitch. Such problems as incest in Holocaust survivor families, AIDS in the Jewish community or lesbian weddings, matters that the fainthearted would prefer to see closeted, are aired with a disarming fort brightness. Clearly

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"It has been a revelation "I have found a place "The diversity, new reader, a world of

to me to find many of where I, as a honesty, ingenuity and Jewish feminism

my thoughts and concerns Jewish woman, can passion of the I am deeply gratified to

in print. It has been cooperate with work collected in know of." difficult enough to be other Jewish women.' these issues impressed

Jewish, but to be a Jewish and moved me. quotes from letters-to-the-

feminist woman often Even your advertising editor, Lilith

lends itself to paradox." is provocative and

suggests to me, as a

"the independent Jewish women's A major editorial force since the Critics who charge the feminist magazine," as declared on its founding of the periodical, Susan movement with the "hell-hath-no- banner, is exerting a fair share of Weidman Schneider '65 betrays a fury-like-a-woman-scomed" influence not only among feminists touch of Lilith as she takes on opprobrium, will find no hot-headed but also on society at large by subjects that were only a few years target here. Schneider keeps her setting the agendas and framing the ago taboo in the Jewish community balance, but argues her position issues that are crucial to feminists. and that still raise hackles in the skillfully and thoughtfully as issues more conventional sectors of Jewish of abortion, anti-Semitism, That the founders chose as their life. An articulate, incisive, even- women's leadership role in religion, symbol the courageous and fiercely toned speaker who appears in Jewish law and divorce, and independent progenitor Lilith— forums throughout the country to homosexuals' religious rights swirl woman willing to defy God and discuss women's issues, she sets the about her. In fact, as editor in chief man to defend her freedom—speaks tenor of the periodical. "I don't of the only nonprofit independent volumes. What better role model for believe that anger is a useful tool," Jewish women's magazine in the women who, as they enter a new she says levelly. Brandeis Professor country, she and the other members millennium, feel keenly the politics of Sociology and Director of the of the magazine's activist editorial of exclusion, a marginality they Women's Studies Program Shulamit staff serve as a nerve center for some trace all the way back to the Reinharz, M.A. '66, Ph.D. '77 says of the key social issues of the day. creation, and anticipate the heady Schneider "is one of the many Lilith "speaks very frequently for possibilities for change in Jewish feminist Brandeis alumnae who Jewish women in the general life. have done what many of our current women's movement," claims students say they want to do when they graduate—work for change."

21 Summer 1993 Schneider. "While issues affecting Canadian citizenship, she never Jewish women are often the same as abandoned her sangfroid to leap those affecting all women, Jewish headlong into the hotbed of women have special concerns," she American college activism. claims. While she was fascinated by the When Schneider made the voyage student turmoil and political from Winnipeg to Waltham in 1961, exuberance of the Vietnam period, she changed planets, moving from she stayed aloof from the Victorian-like world of her demonstrations. "I looked on the Anglophile, public school in Canada political activity with excitement to the superheated cosmos of the but at a definite remove." Although Brandeis campus during the she makes her home in a New York Vietnam War. To make a proper City suburb with her American arrival, she was dressed primly in husband (a professor of medicine), pumps and carried a handbag, she says she still is not totally comme il faut for Canadian girls in Americanized, and is sometimes her social circle, but she speedily criticized for being "too polite to adapted to the turtleneck sweater, people who make me angry," a the campus uniform. Due to her mannerism that stems from her Lilith: Eve's upbringing, temperament and upbringing. Yet the ease with which Legendary Predecessor she handles the subjects that are of burning interest to American women, and the feminist flash The namesake for the good for Adam to be The Holy One said to words that are so fluently at her magazine is Lilith, the alone." He created a Adam: "If she wants to command, mark her as one who

legendary predecessor of woman, also from the return, all the better. If not, lives in the full-tide of American Eve, who insisted on earth, and called her Lilith. she will have to accept life. equality with Adam. that one hundred of her They quarreled children will die every The magazine was founded in 1976 The legend, taken from Immediately. She said: "I day." through the collaboration of six "Alphabet of Ben Sira, " Is will not lie below you." He women editors coming from widely one of the most said, "I will not lie below The Angels went after her, diverse backgrounds, but who found complicated and you, but above you." finally locating her in the common ground in their strong sophisticated of Hebrew sea, in the powerful waters identification in two powerful stories written in the early She responded: "We are in which the Egyptians isms—feminism and Zionism. Middle Ages but based on both equal because we were destined to perish. Schneider asserts it is run as a a myth that goes back to both come from the They told her what God collective; although she holds the pre-lsrael times. Scholars earth." had said, and she did not top title and responsibility for its believe the author did not want to return." day-to-day operation, she has kept belong to any organized When Lilith realized that the organizational lines horizontal, group but merely wanted Adam was being Later Jewish tradition not hierarchical. Even the student to satirize the institutions intractable, she characterized Lilith as a interns, some of whom have come of organized religion of his pronounced the ineffable demon. The demonic Lilith from Brandeis, participate in the day. name of God and flew off came to overshadow the editorial discussions. into the air. original independent Lilith The story goes as follows: in subsequent legends. The magazine grew out of a After the Holy One created Adam rose in prayer confluence of general social the first human being, before the Creator, saying, influences, Schneider explains. Adam. He said: "It Is not "The woman you gave me "First, the burgeoning ethnic has fled from me." consciousness of the late 1960s with Immediately the Holy One such concepts as black-is-beautiful sent three angels after her. prompted Jews too to think about Jewish as beautiful." The mood of the times, created in part by the 1967 Six Day War in Israel, encouraged Diaspora Jews to feel and express their ethnicity with an openness and excitement that probably had never before been possible.

"Second, the women's movement, which was gathering speed in the early 1970s, gave a powerful 22 Brandeis Review Schneider strolls on campus with her daughter, Rachel Schneider '95

impetus to the magazine," says Schneider. "In the chorus of advocates who took up various feminist causes, we fek a need to provide a medium for many reasons: to explore options that women were beginning to create for themselves in male-dominated Jewish communal and religious life, to offer a voice for Jewish women in the general women's movement and to prod Jewish women's organizations to take a more forceful stand on a range of women's issues."

How much credit can Lilith take for the sea change that has occurred on the stands that organizations like Hadassah, the National Council of Jewish Women and B'nai B'rith Women are now willing to take concerning such issues as reproductive choice, religious ritual, pay equality, child care and images of Jewish women in the popular media? "I don't have a grandiose sense that the magazine played the dominant role in galvanizing the organizations to become more activist, but the magazine has challenged them to change in a variety of areas," says Schneider. Charles Silberman, author of the 1985 book A Certain People: American Jews and Their Lives Today, claims "the magazine plays an enormous role in helping men and women think through the issues raised by feminism in a Jewish context." Jewish community for hhndly .should cmphasiZL- that the magaznie All along Lilith has been the furthering and toleratmg the vicious often attracts women who are national address and telephone humor. She told the Jerusalem Post unaffiliated with Jewish number for Jewish women's that "U.S. Jewish communities are organizations: about 40 percent of concerns across the country. For the only ones in the country that our readers do nothing else Jewish instance, before the negative allow its women to be so when they first read the magazine. stereotyping of Jewish women as maligned." Her trenchant remarks It wasn't our initial goal to reach JAPs became recognized by the reported by The New York Times, these unconnected individuals public in its full insidious The Philadelphia Inquirer, deliberately, but through dimensions, Lilith had run a series Newsweek, Seventeen and other happenstance, simply by our of articles decrying its true nature. media were instrumental in making existence, we have been drawing In fact on feminist issues that are the public aware of the menace. Her them into the larger community of laced with anti-Semitic overtones, analysis in the summer 1990 issue Jews," she says. Although the like the JAP epithet and the right- of Lilith and elsewhere of the anti- readership is diverse on the wing antiabortion movement, Jewish innuendoes concealed in the extremes of its spectrum, the Schneider is usually among the first antiabortion movement, where anti- magazine's demographics are to realize their infectious sting and choice protesters make veiled (and homogeneous on average, and reveal to take her opinions to the national sometimes overt) accusations that a strikingly upscale audience. The press. Concerning the JAP issue, she Jewish doctors are baby killers, results of a readership survey called Jewish males to task in the makes her a one-woman anti- completed in 1991 indicate that the boldest terms for originating the defamation league. average reader is a well-read, well- jibes and blamed segments of the educated woman: she holds a Schneider derives satisfaction from the knowledge that Lilith reaches so many different kinds of people. "I 23 Summer 1993 " ^^^BHl^H

An aulhoi, jouinalist and lecturer, Susan Weidman Schneider '65 cofounded Lilith magazine in 1976 and serves as editor in chief. She has written Jewish and Female: Choices and Changes in Our Lives Today,- Intermarriage: The Challenge of Living with Differences Between Christians and Jews; and has coauthored Head & Heart: A Woman's Guide to Financial Independence. She has also written book chapters on Jewish women in the nuclear family. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Newsweek, The Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times, Newsday, The Washington Post, Ms., USA Today and other periodicals. She has appeared on CNN, "Oprah Winfrey, "Donahue," "Good Morning America" and " "Sally Jessy Raphael. draws on militant metaphor. "I see the incest survivor had approached wealth that many American women the magazine as providing her with the written article and a now command, they will need to ammunition for women's battles for parallel piece that described how revamp their strategies to accord equality. Using the name Lilith frustrated she was when she with the findings. A sampling of shows that we have a hard edge. We couldn't get anyone in the Jewish other studies that Lilith has carried don't want to soft-pedal change; we community to believe her. We then out in partnership with want to make change possible by took the article and sent it around organizations or for which Lilith diminishing people's resistance to to a number of psychologists and obtained grants are "Women on the it." Articles in the winter issue, for experts who counsel children of Way Up: The Challenge of Family instance, dealing with the feelings Holocaust survivors. Experts Career and Community," provoked when women inherit a fur conoborated the story and the "Reaching Out to Jewish Women on coat from a mother and an particular became more general as College Campuses," "Choosing insightful in-depth report on Jewish we learned of other adult children Jews: The Endogamous Minority," women's philanthropy, are hardly with similar stories. Bit by bit, "Changing Realities for Jewish the stuff of combat. Rather they are services and support groups have Women Worldwide: Israel, Russia, an attempt to strike a variety of formed around this issue. This was Latin America." A project now in chords to appeal to the diverse not a story we treated easily or progress, the National Jewish readership. sensationally. It became clear to us Women's Talent Bank and that many people needed to speak Information Service, designed to The magazine's lead articles often out about this painful ordeal." develop and promote a listing of are written in a confessional style, Schneider's grim recital offers Jewish women experts, has been or as Schneider calls it, "a first- insight into Lilith's editorial initiated with a grant from the person voice," to get across the process. Nathan Cummings Foundation. experience of an individual author, a convention that can be off-putting Aiding Schneider in shaping the In the last 18 years, a turbulent to readers who respect an expository magazine is a staff that she praises period for publishing during which or journalistic style. At the heart of amply. Editor Susan Schnur, a other magazines were launched only this first-person approach is the Reconstructionist rabbi, edits much to be swamped due to the vagaries outpouring of personal problems of the copy and deals directly with of taste and the economy, or were that can embarrass readers, causing most authors, and Brandeis alum shunted like Ms. from one owner to them to question if such intimate Alicia Ostriker, '59, a fine poet, is the other, Lilith, with its clearly- details deserve to be broadcast, or poetry editor. Add Managing Editor defined niche, has weathered the worse, to dismiss them as Naomi Danis and Fiction Editor storm. In fact since U.S. business in sensationalism. Schneider answers Julia Wolf Mazow and you have general has shifted its emphasis on that critique in a couple of ways. almost the whole editorial staff. bigness to smaller-niche markets, Beyond the practical matter of Lilith ought to be well positioned. commissioning analytical articles is Although the nonprofit quarterly Writers such as Cynthia Ozick, an ideology that is part and parcel of cannot be called a shoestring Grace Paley, Adrienne Rich, Leslea feminism, a contribution, says operation, the editor in chief admits Newman, Yael Dayan and Harriet Schneider, that woman have made there are always cash flow Goldhor Lemer have graced its to journalism: the belief that the difficulties—the earned income pages, offering a luster of prestige, personal is political. "What to one covers barely a third of the annual and its editor's public exposure reader is embarrassing is to another budget, which is about $250,000. validates its claims as a national reader a real validation of The rest comes from tax-deductible force. As Brandeis Assistant experience. This personal detail contributions donated by Professor Sylvia Barack Fishman, a becomes a click of recognition when individuals and foundation grants. scholar of Jewish feminism, says, a reader says to herself 'Oh, another "Because Lilith's interests cross person has had the same experience Lilith's clout extends beyond its denominational and sociopolitical I've had. I'm not alone.' When readership through the many lines, it continues to be a valuable enough women recognize a projects it always has in progress. resource for Jewish women across common response, they can The latest study by Schneider to the country and its popularity provoke authentic and positive come to fruition is called "Jewish shows no signs of abating." social change." Women's Philanthropy: Does Money Buy Power?" Initiated by a She offers a sobering example of grant from the Lilly Endowment when the personal proved to be and the Sophia Fund, its useful more extensive by referring to the conclusions have recently been searing article Lilith ran on incest in reported in the press and will surely Holocaust families. "We first influence the way women are received the piece from a well- solicited for philanthropic gifts. The known journalist who told us that reasons women donate, the study shows, are markedly different from

traditional male motivation,- if organizations want to tap into the

25 Summer 1993 —

Whether your image of the golden age

of Hollywood is first run (from the big screen) or second hand (from the "Late I Late Show"), one cast of characters is liable to be indelible. Recite the roll call: the Iowa farm boy, baby-faced and

idealistic, with no girl back home save his mom; an older, heftier fellow inevitably nicknamed "Pops"—exempt Americans All from the draft, but who pulled some strings to get in and do his bit; the Italian kid from Jersey, fancies himself something of a ladies' man; the lanky, molasses-mouthed sharpshooter from south of the Mason-Dixon line; the Jewish guy from Brooklyn, devoted in equal measure to Old Glory and the Brooklyn Dodgers; and, on the edges

by Thomas Doherty — of the group, a cynical loner of For the duration of "the present depth. Of course the hyphenated indeterminate origin and suspicious emergency," the nation's long-standing Americans who got the wittiest lines, past, who, to the surprise of no wars at home over class, ethnicity, most extended screen time and best one, will die heroically in the final reel. religion and race were negotiated, odds for end-reel survival tended to curtailed and denied. In official be prominent in assimilationist success Few Hollywood cliches are more government posters and and domestic box office influence resonant than the demographically proclamations, "Americans All" closed Irish, Italians and Jews. But with an apportioned, ethnically diverse ranks. The native melting pot, a inclusiveness remarkable for its time, ingredients of the World War II combat harmonious blend of ethnic flavors and more exotic and heretofore invisible unit. Film buffs have a name for it: "the class elements, became the dominant peoples—Hispanics, Asians, Native Warner Brothers platoon." Gazed at motif. The rough egalitarianism of the Americans and blacks—appear, from the 1990s, the calibrated military and the universality of the draft and not always as expendable tokens. quotioning of the wartime melting pot made the depiction credible; the need seems a bit overdone. Yet from 1941- to unify a pluralistic and contentious The melting pot was the insistent

1945 the movies played more than a people made it urgent. That the theme of a wholly new, quickly supporting role in nurturing the civil American strength-in-heterogeneity improvised film genre: the combat film.

rights revolution that was to break out was an instant rebuff to Master Race Whether on ground or in the air, in in the postwar era. Spurred on by the eugenics lent the motif resonance and Hollywood entertainment or War Office of War Information (OWI), the Department documentary, the real

Hollywood studios began to recognize champion of the World War II combat categories of Americans long excluded film is not the individual but the team. from celluloid celebration. In films such as Flying Tigers. Air Force

Thomas Doherty (inset left and cluster on page 26) Is an assistant professor In thie American studies department at Brandeis. He previously taught at Boston University and the University of Iowa. Doherty earned his B.A. from Gonzaga University and received a Ph.D. In American studies from the University of Iowa. His disciplines Include American film and American culture. Doherty is the author o^Teenagers and Teenpics: The Juvenilization of American Movies in the

1 950s and the forthcoming Projections of War: Hollywood, American

Culture, and World War II.

Ecumenical buddies

in Pride of the Marines

27 Summer 1993 and Guadalcanal Diary, the showoff, So wide was the open-armed embrace

the loner and the outlaw accept military of the family of man that it stretched discipline, repress personal desires beyond American borders. Determined and sign on for choral contribution in by theater of operation and the desire the service of the nation. Typical of the to cement Allied unity, offshore

genre is Walter Wanger's Gung Ho! nationalities were wedged into the (1943), a blustery tribute to Colonel American combat team. Latins, Evan Carlson's Makin Island Raiders. Chinese, Russians and Filipinos served Utterly venomous toward the Japanese alongside Midwest farmers and

enemy, it purrs good-naturedly at a Brooklyn Dodger fans. Always, the menagerie of divergent ethnicities and boys from the plains of the Midwest sensibilities. A recruitment sequence and the peasants from the Russian efficiently introduces the calculated steppes discover they have more than quotient of Irish brogues and Southern anti-Fascism in common. drawls, Mediterranean flavors and Yankee airs. Dedicated to expunging Given the racist cast of the war against Few Hollywood cliches are more every "Jap" from the face of the earth, Japan, Asians presented a special the ruthless warriors nonetheless problem. Because slanted eyes might resonant than the demographically function as a model of OWI tolerance. send out crossed signals, Hollywood apportioned, ethnically diverse Since the commanding officer taught Americans to keep their yellow (Randolph Scott) wants men who fight perils straight. Chinese and Chinese- ingredients of the World War II combat with the precision of "a harmonious Americans were distinguished from unit. Film buffs have a name for machine," he orders his soldiers to Japanese and eventually Japanese- it: "the Warner Brothers platoon." "cast out all prejudices— racial, Americans were distinguished from religious, and every other kind." The Japanese enemies. Shortly after Pearl

film helped make its title part of the Harbor, Life magazine ran an

language, but in 1943 it was an instructional spread headlined "How to injunction to "work together" as Tell Japs from the Chinese." "U.S.

"Americans All," not a cry of homicidal citizens have been demonstrating a enthusiasm. distressing ignorance on the delicate

Hollywood projected racial pluralism onto a landscape beyond American

borders in Casablanca

28 Brandeis Review question of how to tell a Chinese from innocence of the murder but illustrates Japanese villains. Loo, typed forever a Jap," reported the photo magazine of how the face of the alien "Other" has as the oily, overconfident, American- record. "To dispel some of the been reformulated without being educated Japanese officer, gave a face confusion" and having adduced a "rule redesigned—a lesson taught by raising to the enemy that wartime audiences, of thumb from the anthropometric and then exorcising the specter of the to flash back one war, loved to hate. As conformations that distinguish friendly Asian dragon lady. When she and the lying prosecutor in The Purple

Chinese from enemy alien Japs," Life Cagney fall in love, she says the match Heart (1943), the smirking diplomat in printed mug shots of representative is doomed because "I'm half Chinese." Jack London (1943), the taunting Zero models of the no-longer-look-alike "So what?" rejoins Cagney with a pilot in God Is My Co-P;/o/ (1 945) and races. With arrows and helpful asides colorblind casualness unimaginable a the sadistic camp commandant in First ("higher bridge"/"higher nose"), points few years previous. "I'm half Irish and Yank Into Tokyo (1945), he on the proboscis pitted "the rational half Norwegian." The features of mispronounced Japanese and spat out calm of tolerant realists" against the actress Sylvia Sidney, Euro- not Asian, comic balloon dialogue in Pidgin "humorless intensity of ruthless mitigates the miscegenation, but Blood English. "0-kay, you Yankee Doodle mystics." on the Sun assumes distinctions that Dandies, come and get it! Where are were once a blur and approves you gangsters? Come on up and get a The screen underscored the lessons of interminglings that were once load of that scrap metal you sold us!"

Life. In Sam Goldwyn's Tfiey Got l\/le unthinkable. Covered (1942), Bob Hope dials a The battlefield contributions of women phone number at random and pretends Unfortunately, the nation's generous to the war effort—especially as to report a kidnapping to the FBI. On embrace of ethnic difference overseas nurses—created a distaff variation on the other end of the line is a grinning was not extended to one of its own. the Warner Brothers platoon. The war's

Chinese who babbles, "I no kidnap Decreed on February 19, 1942 by two big-budget female-centered nobody. Only wash laundry. FBI? You Executive Order 9066, the forced combat films. So Proudly We Hall! want Japanese—me Chinese. Hundred internment of 120,000 native (1943) and Cry "Havoc!" (^943), share percent American!" In Mr. Japanese-Americans ana resident a setting (the Philippines in the dark Blabbermouth (1942), an MGM- Japanese aliens on the West Coast days of 1942) and a plot outline produced Victory film attacking punctured the high ideals of (nurses under fire). Unlike the boys' rumormongers, an Asian chef assimilationist OWI rhetoric. Hollywood club, the all-girl squad was not as alleviates any ethnic doubts by wearing screen credits likewise ignored the concerned with absorbing ethnic a sign on his hat reading, "I am a distinctions among Asians asserted so difference as in unifying divergent Chinese American." From such small forcefully in the narratives: Central female stereotypes—the man-hungry favors, the OWI took great Casting prejudice foreclosed what gal, the world-weary dame, the encouragement. The OWI's Hollywood should have been boon times for sheltered rich girl, the corn-fed sweetie branch cabled Bureau of Motion Asian-American actors. The few and the mother hen. Where the

Picture chief Lowell Mellett to call his Japanese-American actors working in featured protagonist in the male attention to Dr. Glllispie's Criminal Hollywood were soon cast elsewhere combat team is torn between self- Case (1943), where Dr. Lee (Keye by the War Relocation Authority, but assertion and group contribution, the Luke), "a young Chinese American, is even before internment they had featured female protagonist wrestles presented simply as a citizen, (who is) refused to play the enemy in Secret with the conflict between duty and treated no different from and who has Agent of Japan (1 942). A trade romance. Where men prove their no less privilege than other reviewer with an eye for verisimilitude mettle by suppressing aggressiveness Americans." complained: "Some of the 'Japs' used and independence, women prove theirs in the picture look like fugitives from a by doing the exact opposite: The anti-Japanese melodrama Blood Chinese hand laundry." Another trouble suppressing docility and calling up on the Sun (1945) provided a trenchant with cross-racial optometries, as reservoirs of strength and endurance. lesson in cross-Asian stereotyping. Behind the Rising Sun (1943) director In Cry "Havocf a delicate writer reveals James Cagney, a reporter in prewar Edward Dmytryk later cracked, was a sturdy backbone, a plucky lady Tokyo, plays a totally assimilated and that "fake eyelids don't come cheap," masters aerial gunnery and a bubbly sensitized gaijin. He knows judo and Eschewing laugh lines, the trade Southern belle turns efficiently karate, speaks Japanese fluently and weekly l/arie/y spilled the truth. The unladylike. Meanwhile, by way of bathes (albeit in his own tub) in the reason so many Caucasian actors gender equipoise, the stern and steady public baths. When a woman is "impersonated Japs" in Blood on the matriarchs expose underbellies of murdered aboard a ship anchored in Sun was "the idea that Orientals don't feminine vulnerability and romantic Tokyo Bay, Cagney spies a sinister make good actors." yearning— in So Proudly We Hail! dragon lady exiting the crime scene. Claudette Colbert cracks during an

The suspect woman (Sylvia Sidney) is Nonetheless, though the inside track aerial attack and pledges to sacrifice all later spotted serving tea to two was given to eyeline-adaptable for love, in Cry "/-/avoc.'" Margaret Japanese politicians. "She's of mixed occidentals like J. Carrol Naish and Sullavan's chilly exterior conceals her parentage?" inquires one. His Walter Huston, Asians of extractions passion for a barely-glimpsed companion —nods affirmatively. "Her other than Japanese were more in lieutenant, secretly her beloved mother was " "Chinese," interjects the demand than before. Reluctant initially husband. other. Typing the Eurasian character as to pass themselves off as nationals of a half Chinese not only establishes her land despised for centuries before The sole personal prejudice not only 1941, Chinese- and Korean-Americans tolerated but sanctioned was against such as Richard Loo and Philip Ahn sacrificed ethnic pride to contribute to the war effort as morale-enhancing

29 Summer 1993 segregated armed forces and a Jim Cafe, Hollywood projected racial Crow culture, the rhetoric and pluralism onto a landscape beyond symbology of wartime unity— lofty American borders. Casablanca, language from the Office of War Bataan, Sahara—the titles bespeak the Information, four freedoms promised by geographical displacement of a President Roosevelt, melting pot national dilemma too close to home to posters of "Amehcans AH"—rang address on native soil. hollow. However, by advancing at least

the Ideal o\ a colorblind equality, the Above all, in the combat zone, under movies underwent a perceptible duress, removed from the codes and

transformation. For the first time in morality of civilian life, normal

history, Hollywood opened its front hierarchies and social customs broke During the war, such overseas doors to a portion of the population down. As a sturdy gunner in Bataan heretofore admitted only through the (1943), black actor Kenneth Spencer theaters of operation hosted a goodly servants' entrance. conforms to prewar type in prayer and share of integrationist action. In the song, but he is an integral member of jungle, the desert and the smoky Indeed, throughout the war, the the ragtag squad of defenders, presentation of black Americans on the shirtless and powerful, a committed interiors of Rick's Cafe, Hollywood motion picture screen attracted special fighter. In Sahara (1943) Rex Ingram projected racial pluralism onto a attention from a renascent civil rights played a gallant Sudanese sergeant landscape beyond American borders. movement. Calculatingly equating who confronts a Nazi officer/Jim Crow "Deutschland and Dixieland," "Hitlerism surrogate. When the master racist abroad with Hitlerism at home," the snarls in German that he does not want Negro Press and the National to be touched by a member of an the unbeliever. There were no atheists Association for the Advancement of "inferior race," Humphrey Bogart

in Hollywood's foxholes. Divine Colored People (NAACP) exploited delivers a sensitivity lesson from copilots, repentant sinners and clumsy wartime exigencies to advance their screenwriter and future Hollywood Ten but heartfelt prayers spread the word cause throughout the entertainment ringleader John Howard Lawson. "Tell that a quiet devotion to generic industry and to improve the lot of black him not to worry about (the sergeant's)

religiosity infused "Americans All." actors on screen. Just as the preferred being black," commands Bogart. "It Being tighter with the ecclesiastical persuasive technique of the antebellum won't come off on his pretty uniform." In production code, Roman Catholics slave narrative was to cast the light of a replay of the Joe Louis-Max were granted special indulgence, but Christian ideals on the darkness of the Schmeling fight of 1938, the Sudanese denominational differences and "peculiar institution," the wartime civil sergeant beats up the Nazi and puts theological disputations melted away in rights movement turned OWI-approved him out for the count in the desert the heat of battle. In 20 economical rhetoric back to domestic shores and sand. On behalf of the NAACP, Roy seconds, Guadalcanal Diary preached made the American dilemma Wilkens publicly commended Columbia the ecumenical lesson that became Hollywood's. for the "outstanding contribution" of holy writ for wartime cinema. The Sahara and praised MGM's Bataan as camera settles in on the deck of a As a result, new spaces for interracial "a film that shows how superfluous

transport ship in the Pacific. A religious mingling opened up during 1941-1945 racial and religious problems are when

service is in progress, packed with as never before. Traditionally in common danger is faced." devout Marines singing "Rock of Ages." classical Hollywood cinema, the arenas

The seemingly Protestant service is of unrestricted access were presocial, The most resounding of all cinematic presided over by a Roman Catholic antisocial or offshore. In the easy calls for interracial equality was the

priest in full vestments, filling in for his integration of Hal Roach's "Little March of Time's "Americans AH" sick Protestant colleague. Cut to a Rascals," the two-steps between (1944). Before the war, so forthright an

medium shot of two Marines in the Shirley Temple and Bill "Bojangles" integrationist plea would have been

congregation who deliver the following Robinson and the multiethnic Boy unthinkable. In fact it was. In January exchange: Rangers in Mr Smith Goes to 1941, in an atmosphere of defense Washington, childhood suspended the mobilization that saw also an influx of First Marine: Gee, Sammy, you sing rules of Jim Crow. Likewise, on chain desperate European refugees, the pretty good. gangs and in big houses, behind the March of Time had issued a nearly iron bars of prison, hardened convicts identically titled entry, "Americans

Second Marine: I should. My father enjoyed a freedom of loose association All!" The difference in focus and spirit was a cantor. unknown in civil society. Finally, in between the prewar exclamatory adventures in Africa and romance in "Amencans All!" and the declarative Pride of the Marines made the same the South Seas, foreign locales wartime "Americans AH" is a sensitive point with the symbols decorating the tolerated a casual mix and match. barometer of historical change. The

machine gun of its Judeo-Christian During the war, such overseas theaters subject of the first March of Time issue

heroes: a Star of David and a of operation hosted a goodly share of is the immigrant, the theme tolerance. shamrock. integrationist action. In the jungle, the The unspoken (but not unscreened)

desert and the smoky interiors of Rick's beneficiary is the refugee European, in For black Americans, alas, the particular the Jew fleeing Nazism. The "Americans All" portrait concealed an association is made explicit in a shot of

ugly truth. Set in relief against a a Jewish dinner blessing and in the commentary condemnation of the German-American bund as anli-

30 Brandeis Review narration tilts noticeably toward the less tenor and direction of the issue, which In the midst of a war which is swarthy European immigrant groups begins with several pro forma pleas for demanding the utmost of American (Irish, Germans, Scandinavians and religious tolerance among Catholic, manpower and resources, the United Eastern Europeans), the impulse is Protestant and Jew, directly confronts States has called for and has received assimilationist and generous. the crucial problem. A Roman Catholic in full measure the help of the Negro. In Significantly too the narration is careful priest reads a pastoral letter against the Armed Services are more than half to distinguish between "loyal and racism, a Southern newspaper a million colored men and women who peaceful Japanese-Americans" and editorialist calls for an end to Jim Crow accept the same hard training and alleged Japanese naval reservists ridership and an Episcopalian minister discipline, and are subject to the same working undercover in the California proclaims equality from the pulpit. Most dangers as the whites. Many fishing fleet. American blacks, compellingly. blacks and whites mix Southerners are aware of the Injustice however, are never mentioned, implied socially and cinematically. They sit in of denying to the Negro the rights of or shown. In a prewar call for national equality around conference tables, on American citizenship while expecting unity, race is not just a subject too hot rostrums and in classrooms. The him to shoulder its ultimate to handle; it is totally off the mass polemical call for equality was as responsibility—that of defending his cultural radar. dynamic and uncompromising as the country with his life. visual one. Over a newsreel montage

Less than four years later, race of black troops marching in column, Unlike its predecessor, "Americans All" dominates the screen space. In the jumping from airplanes and trekking lived up to its name. For once —too the second "Americans All" the voice-over through Pacific jungles, the signature sign-off of the series "Time commentary and the eloquent filmed authoritative voice of March of Time Marches On!"—was a portent of spokesmen forcefully advocate narrator Westbrook Van Vorhees cultural progress and the marches to integration and equality. The whole asserts; come.

James Cagney romances Sylvia Sidney

in Blood on the Sun

31 Summer 1993 — Moving Students A Portrait from A to Z: of a Teacher

by Brenda Marder Marc Brettler. associate IS at work on a book professor of Near Eastern designed to introduce and Judaic Studies, lias biblical scholars to medieval taugfit at Brandeis since Jewish biblical interpretation.

1986. l-lis most recent bool< /sMinhah le-Nahum: Biblical Brettler received his B.A. and Other Studies magna cum laude from Presented to Nahum M. Brandeis with highest Sarna in Honour of his 70th honors in Near Eastern and Birthday, coedited witti Judaic Studies and received IVIicliael Fisfibane. He is also his M.A. with high distinction tfie auttior of God is King: in Near Eastern and Judaic Marder: A few years ago, the semester, the students Understanding an Israelite Studies the same year. He you were awarded the really should feel the forward IVIetaphor. Among tiis recent earned his Ph.D. from Michael L. Walzer Award for movement. Every week or projects Is a l\/laclntosh Brandeis and was a visiting

if program for graduate student at Hebrew Teaching. I imagine you so, the students were to computer in Jerusalem. must be in harmony with the ask themselves "what have I teacfiing intermediate University completing his students as they take their done this week that I biblical Hebrew. He fias While seats in the classroom. couldn't have done the week recently completed a bool< graduate work, Brettler before?" they should have on biblical historiography taught at l\/liddlebury. entitled of Wellesleyand Yale. In 1991 Brettler: I try to. One thing I an answer that gives them a The Creation stress is the need to sense of accomplishment. History in Ancient Israel and he was awarded an empathize with the students. American Philosophical Teachers should imagine Marder: What is your key to Society Grant for Travel themselves in the classroom progress for Abroad and a Bernstein- at the students' level with undergraduates? Perlmutter Fellowship from the same needs and desires Brandeis. to master the material. I Brettler: Organization is watch them throughout the crucial. In fact this aspect is lecture— I follow their eyes, so important that I have their yawns, their smiles always argued that it is

If I and I react accordingly. better to spend an hour notice that the lecture is not plotting how you're going to the beleaguered minority problem; I then spend 50

I of unraveling holding their attention, I get from A to Z as opposed because insist the lecture minutes lecture have enough flexibility to to investing that extra time course is a useful model for it, crafting the lecture to change my approach. in reading a book or a undergraduates. The vast dovetail with the problem. Students really come to the journal to reinforce your amount of material can be Another way to engage the classroom to learn, so they lecture. Along with covered only in lectures and students in my field is by are quick to judge if the organization goes structure. not in a discussion format. encouraging them to teacher has the same My syllabi for introductory Students, of course, can ask examine continuities or commitment to teaching as courses are unusually questions within the lecture. discontinuities between the

they have to learning. The detailed. I give the students Bible and contemporary major task for the teacher is a number of questions to Marder: If you speak for issues. For instance, when I to figure out how to get the help them focus their most of the hour, how do teach biblical law, I start out students from A to Z; every reading. These questions you manage to keep the by asking students—all class meeting is an will act as the backbone of students engaged? those budding— Brandeis important step in that the lecture. lawyers "What is law in progress. As the teacher Brettler: Here's where the America?" "What is the develops the material during Marder: What is the organizing principle moves function of law?" "What is organizing principle around in. At the beginning of the the relationship of law to

which you design your lecture, I usually pose a society?" As they discuss

courses? these questions before I

begin to lecture, I gain a Brettler: As you probably sense of their understanding know, there are different

styles in teaching. I am in

32 Brandeis Review Students really come to the classroom to learn, so they are quick to

judge if the teacher has the same commitment to teaching as they have to learning.

Brettler: One experience

really nags at me. I have never been able to teach the freshman humanities course

well. While I can't figure out

exactly why I haven't

excelled in this case, I have detected one of my problems, which relates directly to the empathy

factor I spoke about a few minutes ago. Because my high school experience at a Jewish day school was so different from the typical Brandeis first-year students',

I didn't realize how much

effort it took for them to become socialized during

their first year, a time of of the contemporary issue students when they need them sensitive to the great emotional and intellectual that relates to the material I help with their homework'; religious differences change; the plan to cover that day. thus says the Lord of Hosts, between contemporary course work has to be a 'A fire shall come out of the American life and ancient bridge to take them across Marder: Do you use this East, a conflagration from Israelite society, a situation to the new environment. The routine invariably? Massell Quad.'" With that that we are going to begin to situation is different in my recitation, the students unravel in order to biblical text classes, where in understand prophecy. the students who have Brettler: No, I try to vary it. suddenly realize that One of my variations when biblical Israel, when chosen the courses come in I'm teaching biblical somebody like Amos, whom Marder: You have an with a deep interest in the prophecy is to declaim a that prophecy is largely interactive format then, that subject matter and have two-minute modern based on, stated something carries you along. Have you already had some prophecy, following the style similar, the audience did not always been successful with background in the area. In of the Bible, something like laugh like they deride me. this kind of approach or has contrast, first-year students this; "Thus says the God of The class suddenly grasps your teaching career had its in the humanities courses Hosts, 'You are cheating on that what's in my mind is a ups and downs? arrive cold and receive a lot your exams, you are fundamental problem; of new ideas and materials, difficult plagiarizing your papers, you why is it that in ancient Israel which they often find are not helping your fellow when someone like Amos, to process. We are now Jeremiah or Isaiah got up, changing the curriculum and he wasn't treated like a this first-year offering will be

lunatic. My satire makes altered in a manner that I think will work better for faculty and students.

33 Summer 1993 40th Anniversary of NEJS at Brandeis University

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the graduate program in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies (NEJS) at Brandeis University.

IVIarder: You spend a lot of Marder: Of course teaching teaching like how many When Brandeis was time on class preparation and research are people they have in the founded in 1948, and in thinking about interrelated. class. Unfortunately such instruction in post-biblical teaching methods. Does this chitchat moves the Judaica in the United indicate that the emphasis Brettler: Yes. I handle my conversation away from the States was confined to a on teaching is growing program by spending most really important issues. The few individuals at a stronger among highly- of the summer and Undergraduate Fellows handful of universities, for selective universities and vacations doing research Program has offered the most part located in that research will not remain and writing, and the rest of important opportunities for New York City. Virtually the defining factor for the time on the courses I'm faculty to discuss issues from the University's faculty? teaching. Often articles I relating to pedagogy. I beginning, Hebrew, Judaic publish are based on subject should add that on a handful and Near Eastern studies

Brettler: At Brandeis, as matter that I have prepared of occasions, colleagues constituted an integral well as other institutions, the for the classroom, and have come to me with part of the Brandeis faculty is very torn. Brandeis likewise much of my specific teaching problems curriculum. A program in still uses publications as a research is basic material for when they might say, "I am NEJS was one of the initial major criterion to grant teaching. The best faculty having such and such a tenure, but on the other members are people who problem. Am I doing hand, the ethos of this can achieve a balance something wrong? Can you university resembles that of between doing interesting, help me analyze it?" a small liberal arts college, important and contemporary where undergraduate research and at the same Marder: Why are faculty at teaching is taken very time can do a good job of so many institutions seriously. Take my case as conveying that new and unwilling to discuss the an example of how teaching exciting material to students. classroom? teacher to get the material is valued at Brandeis. across to them. How do you

Several years ago, if you IVIarder: I note that at other Brettler: It's difficult to say respond to that thought? received a teaching award universities, faculty have with accuracy. Maybe as an untenured faculty complained that their people are reluctant, if they Brettler: I share his member, it would have colleagues tend not to share have problems with pessimism somewhat in my served as the kiss of their teaching experiences. students, to admit their work with undergraduates. I death—you would not have They talk about hundreds of weakness. find many students living on received a tenured position. topics among themselves, the practical and immediate

This has changed. That I but never touch on the craft Marder: Let's turn to the plane. While students have was granted tenure after I of teaching. How do student mentality for a to be practical to face the received my award is an exchanges on this subject moment. A few years ago, future, their university indication of how things take place at Brandeis? when Professor Allen experience should take have altered. But if you look Grossman taught at place on a more elevated

at recently tenured faculty at Brettler: In a formal setting Brandeis, I interviewed him level. They need to spend Brandeis, you'll see that there are many for the Brandeis Review and some of their free time

research is absolutely opportunities. The University noted his insightful thinking about serious

paramount. However, does conduct workshops observations on which I subjects. In my field, the several years ago, one could and form groups with the have often ruminated. It was Bible spends a fair amount say that teaching was expressed goal of his opinion, a rather of time talking about what

marginally significant. Now, I discussing the issue of pessimistic one, that as "the one should do on this earth. think, it has gained teaching. But it is true on lived experience," as he put If you've spent no time

additional significance in this campus, too, that for it, of the students moved talking and thinking about terms of tenure, at least in some reason, faculty further away from what went the problems of the human some departments. members do not engage in on in the classroom, the condition, your

informal conversations about harder it would be for the understanding of the teaching, though they are classroom discussion will be generally eager to talk about limited. their research and the mundane aspects of Marder: That is a problem you will be encountering for presumably a long while.

34 Brandeis Review —

four graduate programs program has been sector but also in all language program on established at Brandeis enhanced by the addition professions that require a campus and the largest University in fall 1953. of joint M.A. programs broad liberal arts modern Hebrew program with the Hornstein education. in the United States. Today the graduate Program in Jewish Undergraduates also have Additionally, courses are program of the NEJS Communal Studies and the options of undertaking offered in Akkadian, department constitutes with women's studies, a double major, combining Arabic, Aramaic, Ugaritic the largest and most while the new general M.A. NEJS with any other area and Yiddish. comprehensive program program has been of instruction in the existing in a university attracting growing University, or of minoring As of September 1993, the setting outside of the state numbers of students. in NEJS. Furthermore, department will consist of of Israel. Its Ph.D. numerous students avail 16 full-time faculty graduates, numbering well When formal themselves of the Hebrew members, in addition to over a hundred, are in the undergraduate language program, either the Hebrew language staff forefront of the field and departments were to fulfill the University and 21 faculty members of occupy positions of established in 1956, an language requirement or other departments who leadership in major undergraduate major in for its own sake, making it are in some way involved universities all over the NEJS was put in place. the second largest in aspects of Near Eastern world. Recently, the Currently, it has two and Judaic Studies and departmental graduate separate tracks, one in have been designated as Judaic studies and the NEJS faculty associates. other in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies. Undergraduate majors in NEJS subsequently pursue successful careers not only in the Jewish

students into the to bear on the matehal. perspective, but In choosing draw the Every week or so, if the subject matter? Sometimes these high- my materials and in my students were to ask culture references need to presentation, I can often Brettler: Two things come be explained in the connect with the themselves "what have to mind. First, as a teacher I classroom and that's fine, fundamental problems the I done this week that I try to keep myself current on too. In other instances, one students are experiencing. couldn't have done the the popular culture and on would hope that students You can ask an almost student life as a way of would go to the library to infinite number of legitimate week before?" they making students comfortable search out some answers questions about the text. should have an answer and as a means of using for themselves. The text doesn't change, that gives them a sense analogies in the lecture that that is the physical black and they can relate to. So for Marder: If you bend to white text, but the text as an of accomplishment. in example, I regularly read the popular culture by using idea does change Justice and bring in modern analogies to accordance with the times references from the decipher biblical text, do you think of the book by Stanley newspaper that deal with risk trivializing it? Fish, Is There a Text in Ttiis current student concerns. Class? He brings that out

This has been especially Brettler: If you asked me very clearly. useful in teaching biblical that a few years ago, I might in historical texts, where I can have answered in the Marder: So, you a sense use the conflicting positive. But by using new are brought along by the perspectives reflected in the ideas such as feminist texts, students to understand the

in Justice to show that events I often find myself text a new way. cannot be described in an comfortably moving out of objective, unbiased fashion. the traditional academic Brettler: Yes, that's what

On the other hand, it's mode and really explicitly keeps teaching exciting. important to bring in acknowledging what is so OthenA/ise, we'd be bored to references from high culture crucial to many students. I death. am rather committed to dealing with the material from a historical-critical

35 Summer 1993 Town Called Kuranda

by Heidi Fleisher '93

Fleishei, who graduated cum laude with a major in sociology this past spring, is working and studying in Israel

In my junior semester located in the northeast independent study period

abroad I participated in tlie corner of the country. One at the end of the program,

School for International aspect of the program that I lived with an Aboriginal

Training's program, The fascinated me was the family and recorded

Natural and Human history and culture of the the life stories of June and

Environment in Australia, Aboriginal people. During Finley Grogan. The

which is based in the the one-month following article is based

tropical rain forest region on that experience.

36 Brandeis Review The breakfast dishes have aheady been cleared, and didn't stop that. They did stop the big culture like the the grandkids have begun to argue over who will dry corroborees (traditional Aboriginal tribal dance), and the the dishes this morning. Finley sits down next to me meetings—like if the tribes wanted to meet, they and says, "I'm going up Oak Forest way today to meet weren't allowed to do it. Some used to sneak it, but it with some forestry blokes. You comin'l" was law. You couldn't do it.

"Sure, " / say. not knowing exactly what the day holds We never had a traditional culture out there. Our in store for me. tradition was religion. That's all we knew; going to church all the time. Our religion was the Seventh-day Many a morning at the Grogan household began like Adventist religion. Sabbath goes from sundown on that: the places we explored changed from day to day, Friday to sundown Saturday. We had church Friday but a basic structure emerged. I learned that each day night. We all enjoyed that. You see the people just all with Finley was somewhat of an adventure. Simple walking up towards the church. The big bells ring. We errands, such as a run to the gas station, stretched into used to have sing-songs, and then we'll bring in the day-long journeys. Conversations with males on the Sabbath. Saturday we go to church. Nobody was street led to invitations for afternoon cuppas (tea) and allowed to do anything on Saturday. Then Saturday walks in the bush. My mini-tape player in hand, we'd night you close the Sabbath, and maybe there's games spend hours bumping along country bush roads in "OV or concerts and things like that. Faithful, " Finley's dilapidated truck. As we drove along, he would break into stories about "the oV As far as I'm concemed, I don't think there was a timber cuttin' days, " and the campfiies they had on traditional culture on Mona Mona. It was all taken cold mission nights. away from the people. They wasn't even allowed to do corroboree or speak their language. Everybody had to Other days I'd put the kettle on to boil and talk with talk English. That's why none of us are talking language June over tea. She smiled as she remembered the good- today The Aboriginal history is not even out yet, eh? ol'-days on mission. "They were hard, but they were The white people in Australia don't even know what's " good, too, she'd say. It felt to me like these memories goin' on. They always say that the blacks are causing all left a bittersweet taste in her mouth. the trouble. They're finding out now what it's all about. But they're not putting it into history; letting everybody know what happened to the Aboriginal people.

This is what happened; they get everybody up like June's Story cattle and put them on this one place—mission station. My dad used to tell me, and probably his grandmother

I was bom in Innisvale in 1935. 1 grew up there. My before that told him, that the police used to call them family's all in Innisvale, in a place called Malaytown. all up for rations. "Come up and get your blankets We're half Malayans. My dad had four girls and two now." And you used to get up and get your ration. The boys. Mum died when she gave birth to my youngest police used to shoot 'em down in cold blood. My dad sister, so we were sort of given to each of our older was saying that my great grandmother, how she got sisters. Between them, they looked after us. away, she followed a cow. When she came to a gully, she just dropped into the gully. Otherwise she would My dad sort of got converted by the Seventh-day have been dead too. This is how people were treated. Adventist Church, and that's where we heard about They murdered them. Mona Mona. Unlike some other people, my dad went to Mona Mona on his own accord. The minister told dad Most of our parents got picked up when they were kids that Mona Mona was there. It was of our own religion, and were taken to mission station. My stepmother was so it was good. So that's when we all packed up and only a young of 14. Can you imagine, when they got went to Mona Mona. That's where my childhood picked up there must have been screaming and all by started from. I was nine years old then. When we went the parents. to mission my dad met another lady, so he married her and she took us six kids. I can't really say much to go against Mona Mona. It was really good-ol'-days. That's the only place we knew as

I went to school until I was like in grade four or five. home. They used to have the big-girl dormitories, the The education standards were so low there at mission. little-girl dormitories, the big-boy dormitories and the We used to think grade five was top class, but it wasn't. small-boy dormitories. That's how they called it, you It was only about up to grade one or two today. We sort know. When you all get to a certain age, they take of learned by experience. In school we learned reading, you away and put you into the dormitory. But I was writing, maths and we were taught crafts, playing the lucky. My dad and mum was house parents. They look piano, cooking, hygiene. We were brought up in a after the dormitory. They had a house next to religious community. It was the Seventh-day Adventist the dormitory, so we were more or less in the same community. We had really good times out there. But it compound. But we weren't allowed to sleep in was like the white man stood over you. You wasn't their house. We had to be away from 'em. Sleep in allowed to do this. You wasn't allowed to do that. the dormitory.

You wasn't allowed to leave the mission unless you got permission. I like it at Mona Mona. It was a good life, but I can't sort of say it was right, though. It was law. People still went huntin' and things like that. They

37 Summer 1993 We used to watch the older girls. They had it tougher It was hard when we left mission, but we had our dad. than we did in our age. When the hig girls did wrong We all came to Mum and Dad's. He wouldn't leave any they put these sack cloths on them, and shaved their of us kids on the mission. Whether we were married or heads and put them out to do hard work. But as for us, not, he took the whole lot of us out of the mission. we were younger and our punishment wasn't that bad. There was work in this place called Mirriwina. That's We used to get the cane and that from the where we went. My dad was a timber cutter, so Finley superintendent or whoever. If we ever did anything started cutting with my dad. We sort of adjusted to life wrong, we weren't allowed to go out anywhere or have off the mission. It took us awhile though, 'cause we outings. We were punished if we spoke to a boy. It was used to come out of there talking broken English. It really ridiculous. And the older fellas, they used to get took us a long time to get out of that. After Mirriwina, hidings, whippings and put in jail. we come back to Kuranda in 1953.

Must have been 14 when I left school. I married Finley

when I was 15. 1 had two kids out there.

Finley and I left the mission in 1951. Claud was only two weeks old when we left the mission. Before we left we had to get exempted; it's like a passport, you know. A lot of people were still left on the mission. They stayed until the mission broke up in 1962 because of the dam.

History of Aboriginal l\/iissions in Australia

The Aborigines, the the late 1800s ceremonies, fi/lissionaries they uncover the racist Indigenous people of missionaries became discovered that Aboriginal tensions that Australia, have Inhabited more aggressive in their children were more accompanied the the continent for at least attempts to Christianize accepting of Christianity assimilation of black 40,000 years. Up until Aborigines. Government than their elders, so they Australians into white

1788, the time of European policies made it legal for were placed in dormitories Australian society and contact, the native police to kidnap and educated away from express the conflicts they Australians led a nomadic Aborigines and take them their families. experience as they lifestyle: they were forcefully to mission balance their traditional hunters and gatherers, stations; the government In the 205 years since past with their present day traveling the land in stole Aboriginal children, white settlers landed on sedentary lifestyle. search of food and water. separating them from their the Australian continent, Europeans did not families and culture to the Aboriginal people have June and Finley are approve of this lifestyle absorb them into white witnessed the near descendants of Mona because to them society. They were placed destruction of their Mona Mission, a self- nomadism was a sign of in missions, training culture, and until recently, supporting mission savagery. To "civilize" the homes and the harsh treatment located in North native people, Christian apprenticeships to be experienced by native Queensland, started by missionaries set up brought up in the "white Australians was not the Seventh-day Adventist mission stations to way." recorded in Australian Church. In 1962 the convert Aborigines to history. The Aborigines mission was broken up on Christianity. Mission stations were currently are engaged in account of a government carefully organized with rewriting Australian proposal to construct a During this time, the the intent of breaking history from their dam that would flood government stole large down the Aboriginal perspective and I feel mission land: all the tracts of Aboriginal land culture. Once on the privileged to be a part of people living there were and gave them to white mission, the Aborigines this process. forced to move. As of yet settlers, who used the were forbidden to speak the dam has not been land for agriculture and their traditional languages June and Finley Grogan constructed. mining. The Aborigines or perform their ritual are a part of this first wanted to keep their generation of Aboriginal H.F. nomadic culture alive but children brought up on without their lands on missions. In their stories which to hunt and gather, their culture unraveled. By

38 Brandeis Review Finley's Story He said, "I come from Palm.

Mona Mona was a nice place. I was bom there. My old "No. Where do you really come from?" asked Dad. dad, he come from Normington. He spoke about seven different Aboriginal languages. My dad was a stockman. "Maytown." My mother came from Lora. She got sent to Mona Mona by the police. The police used to go out and pick Mum looked at him and she said, "Reuban?" He looked all the kids up here and there and send them to this at her. He had found a long-lost sister from all that mission station. Then Dad, they took him to Mona time. It musta been 30 years. She wanted to know

Mona too. Mom and Dad got married there I reckon where her other brothers and sisters had been. He said, when they was young. There's nine in our family. All "Two in Palm Island." my brothers and sisters were all bom and bred at Mona Mona. We grew up and went to school at the mission. When he went back to Palm, he told these two old ladies that Mum was in Mona Mona. They was on the We had to go to school and learn English. I can still talk next boat up. But there were still two sisters missing. to my people in bits and pieces. If I had to stay with Five years went by and Mum found her other sister. She them for a week or two I'd be back in the language was at Yarrabah. Then there was still one missing. She form. I used to know it, and it'd be easy to catch on. found her before she died. She was in Mossman. White Mum and Dad used to talk to us in language. peoples grow her up. You know, they didn't sent her to the mission. They adopted her. Two months later Mum Mum and Dad, they used to tell us about the old days, died. It was good to know she found all her sisters how they were up in Lora and Normington. They were before she passed on. all living in primitive style. Policemen went up there and roimded them all up when they were only kids and When I worked on mission driving the bullock team I sent them off to different missions. They sent them to used to get six pence a day. Tucker (food) was free. all different places. When they grew up they didn't Clothes was free, and we had a home. If you're out know where all their brothers and sisters were at. In walking when you're not supposed to be, the local later years they start tracing them up. police will get you and want to know what you're doing here. If you didn't have an excuse, well, in the click you When we were at Mona Mona this one special night go for a few days. Oh, they were pretty tough here. there were two policemen in from Palm Island. They stayed at my dad's place because he was sergeant at Sometimes at night we used to go pig shootin' for a bit Mona Mona. They were talking this one night and of fun. You have about half a dozen dogs. Dog will find Mum said, "See that bloke there. I think he's my the pigs. When they bark, you run down with a torch relation. That's my brother."

Dad said to this fellow, "Where do you come from, mate?"

All images on these pages are photographs of ariifacls brought back from Australia by Fleisher

39 Summer 1993 I worked for a bloke in the cattle station. Morris Moss

was his name. I used to have tucker with him. I stayed

in a little barrack. Tucker-time I used to have dinner with him at one side of the table. This one special day

his brother-in-law come from Georgetown. I wasn't allowed to have tucker with them at the table because his brother-in-law wasn't used to that. In those days all the Aborigines used to work for different station owners, and you weren't allowed to have meals with them at the table. You go out woody, you know, a place to sit. This happened to me. \ \ V The day Morris's brother-in-law arrived they sang out,

"Dinner time." So I went out, washed me face and combed me hair. Went in, and old Morris met me at the

door with this tucker. I say, "What's that for?"

He said, "You go out and eat in the woody, boy."

:'/, ^"H^ I said, "Oh good. Thanks. If I'm not good enough to eat ?%.i with you, then I'm not good enough to work for you. Righto, you wanta get into me. Go outside and I'll fight

ya." But it didn't happen. So I told 'em I was finished.

Packed all my gear, got on my horse and rode home. I told him, "Send my pay over in the next couple of days." He promised he will. and you get your pigs. Take them to eat. This one pay. It to about six weeks. Didn't get special night Uncle Philip said, "You comin' pig No went up anything. So I went up to the superintendent at shootin'?" Uncle Philip was about six foot six. A big Mona I said, Morris put in?" tall man. Mona. "Did Moss my pay

His mate shot him accidentally. We made an old bush "No pay here." I rang Morris up and he start wingin' striker and about six of us carried him through the rain and moanin'. I went to the union and told 'em what they out there. a after, I forest. We carried him down to the dispensary. We had happened. So went About week got all pay plus waitin' time. That really hurt a matron there used to look alter girls. Stuck him up my my tryin to keep the blood from runnin' out. Boss came. him. He thought I don't do that to him, because up the back country they used to put it over these poor black They got a car. It was a couple of hours run from there fellas. I'll give it to next time to Mareeba. Instead of tryin' to cut off his leg, they try "Oh, you next time," and will never come. That's how they use to treat them to save it. Then, a few weeks after, he got lockjaw. We poor old aborigines in the back country. were sittin' around the fire. My old dad was sittin' near the fireplace and somethin' happened. A dog yelled. Dad in the eight, nine said, "Uncle Philip dead." In the Aboriginal way you Sometime you get caught bush o'clock at night. that always get a sign. The phone call came through five One time happened. We came minutes later saying Uncle Philip was dead. home, but my horse got away so I rode double back with me old dad. We come to a certain place and this horse wouldn't go. There was somethin' in front I left the mission when I was about 24. 1 went out and there. had to ride around the big hills to get past this timber cut for about 45 years. My family was still on We thing whatever it was. Aborigines believe in ghost, or the mission. I was the timber cutter. I had to work for biddu to call 'em. Your hair on end and you get about three months, and all my money went into the we used a funny feelin'. We go around. You sort of past their bank. And when I got it, it was two bob mission fund, territory, and then everything's normal again. two bob church fund and two bob tax fund. I got 40 cents out of a dollar. In Mareeba we were walking down this road. It was Timber was good. We didn't go and cut everything. night. I wasn't drinkin'. I didn't get up from sleep so I Timber was selected. The forestry used to go wasn't half asleep. A moonlit night it was. I was on the road and there was two dogs. One was big and one was a around and look at a tree, put an X on it. If it's got an little one. I said to this old fella, "Hey, look at that. X on it, well that's the one you take out. And when That's a big dog." you fall it, you gotta steer it so you won't damage any tree in front of it. It keeps you in good condition. He said, "That's not a dog. That's biddu." That means

some sort of thing that happened. I don't loiow if it ever happens in white society or not. But I've seen some

queer things. Biddu, they call it. That's like a devil. We

raced towards it. It disappeared. I had a funny feelin'. This thing disappeared in front of my eyes. I told one of me mates about it. He said, "You believe in that? You

40 Brandeis Review — see, we come from mission. They're tryin' to teach us problem with that. He's good now for awhile, but when not to beUeve in that sort of thing." I said, "Well it he gets money, you wouldn't want to see him. Grog is a happened. I seen it. It just disappeared in front of my very bad thing. eyes. Whatever happened, I don't know."

I taught my family the culture; you gotta respect your In the bush there's a certain little bush. You break it. elders. In the Aborigmal way, if someone's very badly You got no toothpaste, no Colgate, you rub that around behaved, they'll try to get away from all that. You can't. your teeth and rinse your mouth out. Just like Colgate. That's how it's got to be. If an old fella asks you to go Take the foul taste outa your mouth. It's good stuff. We and do something, if you don't do it, and you insult used to call it toothbrush tree. him, then you done wrong. In the Aboriginal law, the penalty for anybody that do wrong, the penalty is death. For medicine, if you had diarrhea, or runny stomach If they had that Aboriginal law today you wouldn't see you can't cure, there's a bush plant. It's a bud wood no grog, because they would be too frightened to do any gum. One of the eucalyptus. It's a sure medicine. I'll of it because they get speared. guarantee it to anybody. There's an old bookie bloke. He come here one day and I said, "How are you, Tom?" Now, all my kids are grown up. We've got hardly anyone at home. Just June, Claud, at home. When the He said, "Boy, I'm jolly crook." kids and grandkids come home for holiday, then we got a big mob. Last school holiday we musta had about 30

I said, "What's wrong with ya?" people in the place. It's a four bedroom house. It's a big house for us three, but when the family comes home, He said, "I got a runny stomach. I been to the doctor. it's too small. They can't fix me." My intention now is to buy a place out of town about

I said, "I'll give you some blackfella medicine. It'll fix half a mile drive out of Kuranda. It's about 88 acres. On your turn." the other place I'm planning to build a house. Have

fowls and stuff like that and start an artifact shop. I got

"Will ya?" I went out and got some plant for him. He a few artists m the family. Have a bush walk for wasn't game though. I had to chew it first to show him tourists. I've got horses. I can make up a wagon. Take that it was alright. Then he done it. The next day he 'em for a ride around the property. come back to me. He gave me $80 for that. I said, "I don't want that, Tom." I'll build some old Aboriginal turnout. Just a shelter to put tables in so you can have a cup of tea or somethin' He said, "No. You fixed me. That really fixed me." And to eat there. Be all old bush food cooldn'. Even have he swore by that. boomerang throwin' out there.

Nineteen sixty-two, mission broke up. Everybody got I made my way in the world. I found it hard, but I got out. That's why they're all livin' in Kuranda, Korowa, by. There's an old sayin', "There's no such thing as

Kowa, Caims. Scattered all over the place. I bought that can't. If you don't try, you'll never get anywhere." place where I am now. It was about 35 years ago. I'm That's the idea, eh? This tourist turnout I want to build, still there today. it'll be an asset for the children when they grow up. That's what I'm lookin' foi-ward for. Somethin' they can

As years go by, all the Aboriginal culture's nearly dyin' look back to. I can get them all workin' there doin' out. We're tryin' to keep it goin'. We know that a lot of somethin' in the place instead of roamin' the street. young people don't want to know. The older people know what's goin' on. But the younger people, they just To get 'em interested in things like this tourist turnout don't give a damn. They joinin' the white way. You would be a good thing. Not only to help my family, but know, drinkin'. And when they're in strife they come to help a lot of younger people. You know, there's a lot back to us. of street kids around the place. Nowhere to go. Little trouble makers. They go breaking and entrance,- bashin' When they get drunk and get in trouble—go in jail people up. You get those kids in a place like mine out they come back to us for our support, which we'll there, give 'em something to do. Might change their always give them. Like Claud, my boy. He's got a way of livin', or change their young minds.

I'm happy for what I've done in my life. I didn't get it easy. If I sell my house and get that land out there it'd be a start all over. In my family, I've got about three carpenters. I've got a secretary and the college students like Lila and Glenys. They're smart to do the books,

'cause I won't be able to do that. I'll be able to organize

work and get things goin'. If I got it today I'd be workin' on it startin' this afternoon.

41 Summer 1993 Bookshelf

Love Beyond Death: The Anatomy of a Myth in the Arts New York University Press

What were the source and the sense of eroticization of death in the arts from the late 18th century to the early 20th century? To answer this question, Binion explores a variety of prose and poetry, painting and sculpture, lyrical and instrumental opportunities. Yet as OTiiiiam Flesch Janet Z. Giele music, interlacing love and feminist advances have associate professor of English and Hilda Kahne, eds. death. He compares modem possibilities, American literature Giele is professor of with premodem treatments opened they and also have called into sociology and family policy of key subjects such as the and acting dean of The Salome and Mary Magdalen, question traditional roles. Generosity and Limits of challenge to Authority: Shakespeare, Florence Heller Graduate supporting his text with The Jewish today is to preserve Herbert. Milton School for Advanced Studies illustrations. In conclusion, women the Jewish community and Cornell University Press in Social Welfare. he traces this fantasy of guarantee its survival while carnal love beyond death to creating meaningful In new readings of Women 's Work and the Christian message of new social and spiritual models Shakespeare, Herbert and Women's Lives: The spiritual love beyond death, that respond to feminist Milton, the author Continuing Struggle which modern, post- illuminates the personal Worldwide Christian culture has both enlightenment. Drawing on interviews with authority that is bound with Westview Press discarded and salvaged. Jewish women from 1 8 to 80 across acts of generosity. As their theological Our global society, marked Sylvia Barack Fishman the United States, the author different as explores the wide of political commitments not only by change hut also assistant professor of range and contemporary American contemporary options for are, Milton, Shakespeare and by growing interdependence, Jewish women striving to Herbert share a deep interest throws into sharp relief the Jewish life in the combine community, family in a particular kind of similarities and differences Department of Near Eastern and individual needs and she personal authority the among nations as well as in and Judaic Studies and senior — demonstrates the ways authority that comes from the lives of individuals. The research associate at the feminism has transformed having "a privileged relation main focus of the book is Cohen Center for Modern their sources of being" and women's paid work but the Jewish Studies both secular and to the — spiritual lives. all three explore on a chapters devoted to working fundamental level the women in specific countries A Breath of Life: Feminism question of the relationship sketch a larger picture of in the American fewish Community of the individual psyche to women's lives, showing the such a privileged authority. relationships of paid work to The Free Press Flesch maintains that the education, family life and the literary power of larger social, economic and Today's Jewish women are Shakespeare, Herbert and political contexts. taking advantage of increased is its intense educational and occupational Milton at most when they are exploring the limits of generosity.

42 Brandeis Review CLIMBING MM ifMadness Alumni and loss of motherhood JACOB'S Sfxujlily Rcpnxiucuon. and Long-Tfrm Mciual Illness

Roo«na J Apfel M D M P H LADDER Roberta J. Apfel '58 and Andrew Billingsley, 1 he Enduring Legacy Maryellen H. Hander '60 Ph.D. '64 Apfel, who holds an M.D. Billingsley is professor and ofAfrican-American and M.P.H., is associate chair of the Department of professor of clinical Family Studies at the Families psychiatry at Harvard University of Maryland and Medical School, The visiting scholar-in-residence Cambridge Hospital and the at Spelman College, Atlanta. former Metropolitan State Hospital in Waltham, Climbing Jacob's Ladder: Massachusetts, and Handel, The Enduring Legacy of who holds a Ph.D., is director African-American Families of Psychiatric Ambulatory Simon and Schuster Services at Newton- Wellesley Hospital, Newton, Chmbmg Jacob's Ladder Massachusetts, and clinical traces the evolution of assistant professor of African-American families. It psychiatry at Tufts describes the major forces University School of that have shaped these Andrew Billingsley, PI1.D. Medicine. families, the major patterns Author of Black Fainilies in White America of adaptation they have made Madness and Loss of and reveals the African- FOREWORD BY PAULA GIDDINGS Motherhood: Sexuality. American family as strong, Reproduction, and enduring, adaptive and Daniel A. Cohen, Ph.D. '89 court records and an array of Long-Term Mental Illness resilient. The author shows Cohen is assistant professor popular literary sources, American Psychiatric that class, race, gender and of history at Florida revealing insights into Press, Inc. age are all critical International University. American society from dimensions of life that may colonial times to the Civil The need for intimacy is be used to understand Pillars of Salt, Monuments of War and probes the forgotten well to present in everyone, perhaps families better as as Grace: New England Crime origins of our own modem even more so among persons discriminate against them. Literature and the Origins of mass media's preoccupation with delineates five levels of long-term mental He American Popular Culture, with crime and punishment. illness. For some of these socioeconomic structure 1674-1860 the black persons, parenting a child common m Oxford University Press Marcia Falk '68 provides an instant identity, community that impact on Falk is a poet and translator a valued status. From helping the functioning of its Crime and punishment were of Hebrew and Yiddish an individual families, and sets forth make decisions sources of endless fascination poetry. She is an affiliated about his or her sexuality to specific recommendations for the readers ot colonial scholar at Stanford's Institute with for action by African- stabilizing a woman and early national New for Research on Women and long-term mental illness American families, their England. Between 1674 and Gender and at the Beatrice throughout pregnancy, the institutions, family 1860, printers in the region M. Bam Research Group of clinician is faced specialists, family agencies with many issued hundreds of books, the University of California policies that can challenges. This volume and family pamphlets and broadsides at Berkeley. issues minimize the destructive examines surrounding relating to the lives and sexuality reproduction impact of societal changes. and deaths of criminals. The The Song of Songs: persons long- among with literature consisted of a wide A New Translation and term illness. Specific mental variety of genres, including Interpretation chapters present clinical execution sermons, HarperCollins information on medication conversion narratives, dying use during pregnancy, and on verses and last stories. One of the most celebrated prenatal and postpartum collections of ancient love During the late 1 7th century care, with special emphasis when ministers still poetry, the "Song of the encountered on problems dominated the local print Songs"—also known as the when working with this culture, the first publications "Song of Solomon"—is the special population. served as instruments of religious authority. The author uses unpublished

43 Summer 1993 AN ANTHOLOGY

Edltalbv- RUTH HARRIETJACOBS. Ph.D- only book of love poetry in Richard Kopley '71, ed. variety, ubiquity and the Bible. For centuries, both Kopley is associate professor economic importance of Jewish and Christian of English at the KARIN McQuillan chemicals means that traditions viewed the "Song" Pennsylvania State AUTHOR OF DEADLY SAFARI effective regulation to as spiritual allegory, University-DuBois. safeguard against undesirable justifying its place in the ELEPHANTS' health or environmental side biblical canon, but this mode Poe's Pym: Critical effects is quite challenging. of interpretation does not Explorations GKAVEYARD Traditionally, regulation to explain the text's primary Duke University Press bring about these safeguards level of meaning. She argues has taken the form of for viewing the "Song" as a Confinement, mutiny, "command and control," but collection of lyrics, shipwreck, starvation, incentive-based schemes can demonstrating that over half cannibalism, mysterious offer a flexible alternative. the poems are love vision—all are within the Using case studies, the monologues or dialogues and compass of The Narrative of authors evaluate the are remarkable for their lack Arthur Gordon Pym, Edgar potential attractiveness of of sexual stereotyping and Allan Poe's only novel. To Mltoi4 incentive-based policies for their expression of mutuality celebrate the the regulation of four specific bad marriage and a worse in relationships between sesquicentennial of the toxic substances: chlorinated divorce, American expatriate women and men. book's first publication, a solvents, formaldehyde, happily ekes out a conference was held in 1988; Jazz Jasper cadmium and brominated living running safari tours Ruth Harriet Jacobs, 16 essays are drawn from flame retardants. and advocating for animal M.A. '66, Ph.D '69, ed. that meeting. The authors rights. But the Kenyan life of Jacobs is a research scholar at offer a factual basis for some Lisa Vogel, M.A. '80, another American, wealthy the Wellesley College Center of the most fantastic Ph.D. '81 Emmet Laird, has just ended. for Research on Women, elements in the novel and Vogel teaches sociology and His lifeless body is found Wellesley, Massachusetts. uncover a surprising number women's studies at Rider beside an elephants' watering of connections between Poe's College, Lawrenceville, New hole. Emmet's grieving lover, We Speak for Peace text and exploration Jersey. Mikki, presses her friend Jazz Knowledge, Ideas and literature, nautical lore, to investigate the crime. Jazz Trends, Inc. Arthurian narrative, 19th- Mothers on the Job: her friend. century journalism, Moby agrees, aware that Maternity Policy in the U.S. Police Inspector Ormondi, We Speak For Peace is an Dick and other writings. Workplace will severely disapprove of anthology of over 200 poems Rutgers University Press interference. culled from inore than 3,000 Karin McQuillan '71 her Nonetheless, stalks her contributions the editor McQuillan, who has spent Jazz What kinds of benefits do game, certain that the received from people of all time in Africa as a Peace working mothers need? How murderer she seeks will be ages, from each of the 50 Corps volunteer, is also a can the ideals of equality be someone she knows well. states and of all occupations, naturalist. She is now reconciled with the gender when she placed an ad in two writing the third novel in the specificity of motherhood? Karen L. Palmer '81, poetry journals asking for Jazz Jasper series. Vogel examines the way antiwar, propeace Molly K. Macauley and these questions have long Michael D. Bowes. submissions. The subjects of Elephants' Graveyard constituted a dilemma both is fellow in the the poems are either related Ballantine Books Palmer a for U.S. public policy and for Quality of the Environment to the atrocities of war or the feminist thought. Several Division at Resources for the benefit of peace, and fall McQuillan's Kenya, the pages are devoted to the brief Future, under several different setting for her second novel, Washington, DC written by Louis Brandeis categories, including the is Isak Dinesen's, 70 years and Josephine Goldmark for Using Economic Incentives Vietnam War, nuclear later, a paradise lost but still MuUer vs. Oregon, which weapons, war and children, breathtaking and rich in to Regulate Toxic reached the Supreme Court, Substances war and women, and wildlife. Recovering from a offering the legal argument Resources for the Future soldiers. Jacob cites her deep- that female-specific hours seated opposition to the 1991 laws are rational. More than 60,000 chemicals Gulf War as the inspiration enter into the many products behind the book. and services that shape today's life-styles. The sheer

44 Brandeis Review — Faculty Notes

Eric Chasalow Peter Conrad Empowerment," about an Edward K. Kaplan assistant professor of professor of sociology, has experimental course he professor of French and composition, was awarded a coedited with Eugene designed with the help of comparative literature, $7,500 commission by the Gallagher Heahh and Health four students at the annual published "Solipsism and Fromm Foundation for Care in Developing spring conference of the Dialogue in Baudelaire's Music at Harvard University Countries: Sociological Peace Studies Association. Prose Poems" in Modernity to compose a piece for six Perspectives, which includes and Revolution in Late instruments. Two of his his article "Urgency and Gregory Freeze Nineteenth-Century France works were performed at the Utilization of Emergency professor of history, is and "Baudelaire and the conference of the Society for Medical Services in Urban director and chief editor of Vicissitudes of Venus: Electro-Acoustic Music in Indonesia: A Report and the Russian Archive Project, Ethical Irony in Fleurs du the United States, Austin. Reflection." which is funded by the Mai" in The Shaping of Text: Fast Forward for two National Council for Style. Imagery, and percussion and tape was Edward Engelberg Research on Russia and Structure in French performed, and The Fury of professor of comparative Eastern Europe. The project Literature. He also Rainstorms for tape was literature and European will prepare and publish contributed a chapter on the presented as part of a cultural studies, chaired a guides to the main Russian life and thought of Abraham choreography workshop. panel on "In Search of the archives, including the Joshua Heschel in Self" at the annual American Central Party Archive, which Interpreters of Judaism in Jacob Cohen Comparative Literature have only recently become the Late Twentieth Century. associate professor of Association Conference, accessible to scholars. He He spoke at Smith College as American studies, had his Indiana University. was also the director of the a respondent to two papers, essay, "Yes, Oswald Alone Summer Seminar for College "Emmanuel Levinas and Killed Kennedy" chosen for Gerald D. Fasman Teachers held in Moscow French (ewish Philosophy" inclusion in the 1993 volume Louis and Bessie Rosenfield and sponsored by the and "Levinas and the of The Best American Professor of Biochemistry, National Endowment of Talmud in Christian Essays. delivered "Distinguishing Humanities to provide Thought," in a symposium, Transmembrane Helices by faculty with the opportunity "New Perspectives on Martin Cohn the Deconvolution of to conduct research in the Jewish-Christian Relations." lecturer and senior research Circular Dichroism Spectra newly opened archival associate m computer of Membrane Proteins" at collections. Ethan B. Kapstein science, was program chair the Department of assistant professor of and James A. Storer Chemistiy, Pennsylvania Lizbeth Hedstrom international relations, had associate professor of State University; the Lucille P. Markey Assistant his book. The Political computer science and Department of Chemistry, Professor of Biochemistry, Economy of National National Center for Complex SUNY-Albany; Biophysics was named Searle Scholar for Security, recognized as an Systems, was general chair of Seminar, Bar Elan 1993-96. "Outstanding Academic the annual Data University, Ramat Gan, Book" for 1992 by the editors Compression Conference, Israel; Life Sciences Jane Hughes of Choice magazine. held in Snowbird, Utah. Colloquium, Weizmann adjunct professor of Storer was coauthor of the Institute of Science, economics, spoke on Lydian String Quartet presentation by Brandeis Rehovoth, Israel; and the "Emerging Economies artists-in-residence, was graduate student Cornel Department of Biochemistry, Marketing Opportunities on presented an award from the Constantinescu. The University of Alabama Investment Realities" at the American Society of at Birmingham. Thamesway-Syracuse Composers, Authors and Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. University Global Publishers (ASCAP) for professor of history, was Margot Fassler Perspectives Conference, adventuresome programming awarded The John Simon associate professor of music, Beaver Creek, Colorado. in chamber music at the Guggenheim Fellowship, had "Christian Chant from Conference participants Chamber Music America

The Villa I Tatti Fellowship the Bible through the included Dick Cheney, conference in New York. and The Institute for Renaissance" published in former defense secretary; They also received a grant Advanced Study, Princeton, Sacred Sound and Social Richard Breeden, SEC from The Aaron Copland Fellowship for the academic Change: Liturgical Music in chairman; and Bowman Foundation that will enable year 1993-94. Jewish and Christian Cutter, deputy assistant to them to present a series of Experience. President Clinton for concerts featuring economic policy. contemporary American Gordon Fellman music next season. The associate professor of Lydians have been appointed sociology and chair. Peace to the faculty of the Yale and Conflict Program, Summer School of Music and delivered a paper, "On Teaching the Sociology of

45 Summer 1993 Art and their Harmonia Association for Jewish Silvan S. Schweber Mundi recording, Staff "The Studies. His article, "A Tale professor of physics and Quartets of John Harbison," of Three Cities and Their Richard Koret Professor in was named Best Albert Raison d'Etat: Ancona, the History of Ideas, S. Axelrad Contemporary Recording of Jewish chaplain, Venice, Livorno and the delivered two lectures at traveled to 1992 the Warsaw to m Boston Globe. Competition for Jewish Cornell University: "Telling lecture and teach in the local Merchants in the Sixteenth the life of H.A. Bethe" to the Jewish Robert L. community Marshall Century," appeared in the Newman Laboratory of and conduct Louis, Frances and Jeffrey Mediterranean Historical Nuclear Studies and "The memorial services at the site Sachar Professor of of Auschwitz-Birkenau Music, Review. Present Crisis in the Physical and delivered "Bach's Treblinka. tempo Sciences" to the Department He also was the oidinario: Plaine and Easie subject of a profile, A Rhonda Rider of Social Studies of Science. in Introduction to the System" Swedish, by Ingrid artist-in-residence in music As the invited speaker at the Lomfers, a and "Origins of the former student Weil- and a member of the Lydian annual meeting of the in the Tempered Clavier" as the Hornstein Graduate String Quartet, was American Physical Society in principal speaker at the 1993 presented in concert with Washington, he spoke on Program. Festival Johann Sebastian pianist Lois Shapiro at the "Physics at Cornell: The Post Bach, Boston University. Brenda Marder University of Qregon, San World War II Period." Francisco State University director of publications, Jessie Ann Owens and California State William Shipman announces that the catalog associate professor for the of music, University at Davis. She also lecturer in physical Rose Ait Museum's presented her paper, exhibit, Kiki Smith: worked with student education, was named to "Palestrina at Work," at the Unfolding the Body, composers and performed serve a three-year term on has Music, Musicians been selected and with members of the Pacific the National Collegiate as a winner in Musical Culture the in Rim Gamelon in a new work Athletic Association (NCAA) category of exhibition Renaissance Rome catalogs by the 1993 by composer Robert Kyr. In Fencing Committee by the Conference that was held in New York, Rider took part in NCAA. The Fencing American Association of conjunction with the Museums Vatican the "Wall To Wall, Off The Committee oversees the Pubhcations exhibit "Rome Reborn," Design Competition. Wall" new music series at NCAA regional and national The Library of Congress, catalog, Symphony Space, performing championships and governs designed by Washington, DC. a piece for amplified cello by the sport's collegiate Charles Dunham, design Lee Hyla. She was featured in competition. director in the Thomas Pochapsky Mobius Band for solo cello, publications office, and assistant professor of written by soprano and orchestra on a Stephen J. Whitfield Susan Stoops, chemistry, has received the curator of the museum, compact disc of the works of Max Richter Professor of won Camille and Henry second prize. Dreyfus composer Steve Mackey, American Civilization, The catalog, Teacher-Scholar Award for Ph.D. '83, Stanley Boxer: 45 Years, also released on lectured on Jewish histoiy at 1993. The award mcludes the designed by Dunham, Newport Classics. the University of Colorado allocation of $5,000 to the and written and at Michigan State by the Rose Art chemistry department for Museum's director Jonathan D. Sarna University. He also served as undergraduate educational Carl Belz, Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Fulbright Visiting Professor received puiposes. honorable mention. Professor of American Jewish of American Studies at the History, spoke at the Catholic University of Antony Polonsky University of Michigan's Louvain, Belgium. He visiting professor of East Conference on Jews and the published two articles: European Jewish history, Encounter with the New "Value Added: Jews in edited volume 7 of Polin: A World. He also coedited A Postwar American Culture" Journal of Polish-Jewish Double Bond: The in volume 8 of Studies in Studies: Sara Rosen's My Constitutional Documents Contemporary Jewry and Lost World: A Survivor's of American Jewry. "The Jew as Wisdom Figure" Tale: and Jacob Gerstenfeld- in Modern Judaism. Maltiel's My Private War:

One Man 's Struggle to Constance W. Williams Survive the Soviets and the associate professor. The Nazis. Heller School, was awarded a Doctorate of Humane Letters Benjamin C.I. Ravid honoris causa at the Jennie and Mayer Weisman commencement ceremony Professor of Jewish History, for Curry College, Milton, chaired a panel on "Medieval Massachusetts. Jewish History" at the annual conference of the

46 Brandeis Review Alumni

Alums Make Aliyah

when I visited Israel this "We ended up in past January I met with as Washington, D.C., and he many Brandeis alumni as had to work for five years in possible. I wanted to hear Jewish education: those were firsthand about their lives in the terms of the fellowship."

Israel, what it might be like But in 1990 Rodman and to grow up there, or to be Laufer, together with their bom in North America and three small children, made move to Israel as an adult. aliyah back to Israel.

The 10 alums I interviewed eagerly invited me into their Many of the Brandeis alums I workplaces and homes to tell spoke with moved to Israel their stories. without job offers. David Eisenstodt '84 arrived in Debbie Rittner Unlike most American-bom 1985. "The employment Israelis, Minam Laufer '79 conditions m Israel at the had the opportunity to live in time were horrendous. I took

Israel as a teenager from 1971 the first job I got. But then I Norma Schneider '55 went to months, or possibly the rest to 1973 when her family started getting all kinds of Israel as a temporary resident of life. goal was to made aliyah. "I was very free-lance jobs in Jewish my My in 1970 at the age of find work in broadcast committed to coming back education and in writing 36, without knowing a soul television. And I got the and living in Israel forever." through friends I had met as there. "While I was still in proverbial lucky break. Laufer met her future a Zionist activist in America. Ulpan I went to the husband, Peretz Rodman '75, I think what it ultimately Academic Placement Center "What happened to me M.A. '83, at Brandeis when comes down to is a desire not of the Sochnut. It tumed out doesn't happen to very he was in his second year of to give up after some hard many the guy wasn't to people in life. I went graduate school and she was knocks m the beginning." supposed from deal with people were the 95th television market in a transfer sophomore. They who here, but only with people the United States, were married a week after After completing his army who hadn't to the Burlington, Vermont, her graduation on the service, Eisenstodt found come country yet. But he sent out covering cow auctions and Brandeis campus. work with the Society for the resume to about a dozen city council meetings, to Protection of Nature in my places and I got three or four Israel where I was hired In 1982 Rodman, who had Israel. He became editor of interviews; one of them was within a month by and already been to Israel on Israel: Land and Nature, and CNN at the Israel Academy of started covering the intifada, Hebrew University's One is now an environmental Sciences and Humanities as which at the time was the Year Program and had stayed guide. "Working as an a copy editor, a job I had hottest story on the on an additional year, applied environmental educator in never done. But I had always international scene." Later, and was accepted for this country, taking people wanted to be in publishing. I Scherzer gained celebrity Jerusalem Fellows, a project around the Judean Desert TV stayed there for nine years, when she covered the Gulf of the World Zionist and speaking about what my later becoming the director War for in Tel Aviv. Organization to train ancestors did out there and CNN of English publications." professionals for senior their connection with the Linda Cohen Maurice '84 positions in Jewish environment and what it Linda Scherzer '82, like was also a television education. Says Laufer, "We should mean about our Schneider, arrived in Israel journalist and had visited did that from '82 to '85. They connection with the with few prior connections Israel three times, including paid for everything. The idea environment today, is much m 1988. "I wanted to leam Hebrew University's One is after three years, you give more meaningful for me than what it was like to shop in Year Program. She was five years to Jewish if I were an environmental an Israeli supennarket, to working as a desk assistant education in America, or educator in some place in the deal with that horrible Israeli for 1986 wherever you came from. Adirondacks or Colorado, as NBC m when NBC bureaucracy, to Israeli started going into financial beautiful as those places make friends, to leam the language, trouble. "So I came to Israel "But we came here for this are." to experience life here to the and hung out at the NBC program because it seemed it fullest extent that an was a good way to get to American or Canadian can. I Israel sooner than we might otherwise. came with the idea that I wanted to spend at least two

47 Summer 1993 Baruch Levy

in this country care about it, 'What's wrong;' She said 'My

it doesn't seem as grandson is stuck.' Well, the screamingly obvious to them bus driver gets down and half

as it does to me sometimes." the people get down off the bus and there's a big But North American-born conference about how to get Brandeis alums know their the child's leg out. They take American-ness can play a 10 minutes to do this. They positive role in the society finally get his leg unstuck. they now live in, "like the Everybody was overly level of service when dealing concerned. There was a child with people," as Eisenstodt in trouble. It was their duty

puts it. "But that level of to help."

service that I think is basically an American And then there are the quality has worked very advantages of living in a much to my benefit in terms country of only five million of receiving specific jobs people, according to Kaplan, where they want somebody author of six books on whom they can trust to give Ethiopia and Ethiopian Jews. a higher level of service "Ethiopian history and when dealing with people." culture is about as obscure as you can get in terms of areas

One's American-ness is, to study. I've met with perhaps, even a necessary cabinet ministers about it,

contribution for the future of which is one of the things I Israeli society as a whole. like about Israel. It's so bureau here, with the hLiie.ui 1 hen thcu ciie the cultural Says Rodman, "Cultural small. Can you imagine in chief. He introduced me to adjustments. Steve Kaplan pluralism, religious the States meeting with different organizations, and I '75, chair of the African pluralism, democratic values, cabinet-level people?" met the head of what was studies department at American liberal political going to be the brand new Hebrew University, values are very important to But what is the most CBC, the Canadian explained it to me. "When us. That's part of what I can important reason for staying Broadcasting Bureau. He had you come here initially, contribute here." on in Israel 10, 15, 20 years already hired a producer but suddenly you acquire a much or more? Says Kaplan, "Most before even starting the job, stronger American identity Of course, there are many of the people I know stay the candidate had left. So he than you ever had before in positives about the quality of basically because, in the end, interviewed me, and I got the your life. If in America you life in Israel. Says Eisenstodt, it's home. It's where your job." were a lew, you come to "There's a whole other side friends are, it's where your Israel and you're an of Israeli life that's very kids go to school, it's where But once one finds work, the American. Clearly there are comfortable and fulfilling your job is, it's where your challenge comes in settling elements about me that are and nice and friendly and I do apartment is. There's into Israeli life for the long very American. People often miss it even when I go back obviously an ideological haul. Laufer and Rodman comment on it: most of the to the States for short periods component, but I don't wake explained, "We have jobs but reading I do is in English; I of time." Laufer explained it up in the morning thinking we don't make enough follow American sportS; to me. "Here people aren't I'm here because of some money. We each work more there's something about the always necessarily nice to Zionist dream. You end up than a full-time job. So we way I dress." you but, at the same time, if staying because it's where feel very strapped you're in trouble they will go you live." economically, and that's new Says Eisenstodt, "As a tour out of their way for you. for us." guide and an environmental And for those Brandeis alums educator, I see certain "My son was three and my born or brought up there, According to Maurice, who aspects of environmental mother was waiting with Israel has been home for is now married and raising an awareness that have come of him at a bus stop and the bus most of their lives. Mordy infant, "It is hard to be apart age in America that haven't came and, while they were Hurwich '79 left New York from family. It bothered me yet taken root here. Litter is sitting there, my son had for good in 1968 when he before, pre-baby, but not as a huge problem in this somehow managed to get his was 10. How did Hurwich much as it does now. I like country and I think, while all knee caught in the seat of the end up at Brandeis? "In what my life here, but since I've other environmental groups bus stop. There were two would have been 12th grade had Meirah, I'm a bit more slats of wood and there was a here my father accepted a torn than I was. It's very hard space in between and the knowing my family won't child said, 'I can't move, my see her in all her leg is stuck.' So did the bus development." driver close the door and drive away? No. My mother said 'Wait, help me!' He said

48 Brandeis Review Peretz Rodman and Miriam Laufer

i position at Harvard Medical Baruch Levy, Ph.D. '80, came positions I had and I began and I decided that I was going School, his sabbatical year. to Brandeis from Israel under my studies and work as a to go through with all the Rather than attend 12th a very different set of student, as a Ph.D. candidate requirements for the master's grade m the States, I applied circumstances. He had at The Heller School. I didn't degree. I must say that my for early admission. My served as the advisor on have time to slow down, so I years at Brandeis were some parents wanted it to be in the social policy to the late worked day and night, and of the most beautiful that I Boston area. And it was so Prime Minister Golda Meir after two and a half years I had because it was the first late in the year that not too from 1973 to 1977. "In 1977 got my Ph.D. in 1980." time that I studied for the many schools considered my there was a change of sake of study and not for any application. Brandeis did and administrations so I found Chaim Kalcheim, M.A. '61, stepping stone in a career, or accepted me, so I got to myself out of office, as many on the other hand, never for advancing my status." Brandeis." officers do when there is a planned to come to Brandeis

change of political at all. He was completing his All the alums I interviewed,

But he cotildn't take for administration, and I said to master's degree at Columbia native Israeli and North granted having four years to myself that I should seize in public law and American-born alumni alike, study for a bachelor's degree. that opportunity and try to government and he was value their Brandeis "I received my first draft pursue my academic studies. looking for some income for connection and maintain notice. After my first year at continuing his studies in strong ties with one another.

Brandeis, 1 was supposed to "Prime Minister Begin gave Paris. He had a diploma from Scherzer helped Maurice be drafted into the Israeli me a letter of the Teachers' Institute of land free-lance work with army. But I kind of battled recommendation. He, of Yeshiva University "so that I CNN during the Gulf War. the army into allowing me to course, asked me to stay on could earn a living while Schneider, who serves as an continue my studies until in spite of the change of the being in the States as a advisory editor to New York completion. And, at first, the government. But I said to certified teacher." University Press, found army didn't want me to him that I've already Kaplan a publisher for his continue my studies until arranged for the Ph.D. In the summer of 1960 he two most recent books. Levy completion and I was even studies at Brandeis and he met Professor Nahum was back at Brandeis just last listed as AWOL, a draft agreed with me, that that Glatzer who, at the time, November. "I am assisting dodger, I guess. But was an opportunity I was the head of the Near The Heller School to select eventually we came to an shouldn't miss." Eastern and Judaic Studies students, especially for its agreement whereby they department. Glatzer offered master's program, the would permit me to continue Levy was 45 years old when Kalcheim a scholarship for master's in management of my studies, to complete my he arrived on campus and graduate studies at NEJS. "I human services." degree on condition that, in had already completed 23 told him 'I'm packing up to addition to the three years of military service, go to Israel.' But I had a very Brandeis University is alive obligatory years, I'd sign on including a position as good background in Jewish and well in Israel. for two additional years. I commanding officer of studies and he felt that that was concentrating in Gadna, the youth command. might contribute to the Debbie Rittner '79 computer science and history "And at that age I got to discussion in class. I at Brandeis. The computer Brandeis and I forgot all the answered 'I don't intend to Debbie Rittner '79, a science was something that stars and all the higher stay more than that year. I'm professional storyteller, interested them. I graduated not taking upon myself any specializes in "real life"

May 27, 1979. I got back to obligations for a diploma.' He stories. Israel mid-July. Two weeks said 'Okay, it's fine. You later I was in the army." won't have to pay for your studies. Just come to class.'

So I did. And, within two months, my appetite grew

49 Summer 1993 Plan Now for Fall Max Lerner Campus Symposium Celebrations

Three concurrent alumni Each Reunion class will have returning alumni. Individual Approximately 200 persons events will take place on the its own activities on dinner dances for each came to Hassenfeld weekend of October 1-3: Saturday, and a separate Reunion class and a special Conference Center to hear Reunion for the classes of Wien program will include Wien dinner will follow. tributes to Max Lerner, the 1973, 1978, 1983 and 1988, members of the late holder of the first endowed Homecoming and the 35th Lawrence Wien's family, Sunday brunches for professorship at Brandeis anniversary of the founding current Wien students and Reunion alumni and Wien University, and one of the of the Wien International returning Wien alumni. alumni will precede the 20th century's leading Scholarship Program. Homecoming soccer games joumalist-scholars, who Saturday afternoon will vs. Washington University. taught at Brandeis between "We are really looking feature a keynote address by Additional Homecoming 1949 and 1973. forward to this first fall a prominent international events will be sponsored by Reunion under our new dual alumnus, an alumni authors Friends of Brandeis Athletics Three of Lemer's former Reunion program," says Lori reception and a President's and various Brandeis student students joined Lawrence H. B. Cans '83, M.M.H.S. '86, reception where President organizations. Fuchs, Meyer and Walter director of alumni relations. Samuel O. Thier will greet Jaffe Professor in American "There will be many For further information Civilization, in speaking on opportunities for faculty, about any of these events, the topic that Lerner alumni and student please contact the Office of addressed in his 1,000-page interaction that simply Alumni Relations at volume, America as a cannot take place during 617-736-4110. Civilization, by asking: What Commencement weekend." do we mean by American civilization, and what holds A welcome-back dinner will it together? Martin Peretz feature Jehuda Reinharz, '59, editor in chief of The Ph.D. '72, provost and senior New Republic, was joined by Philippa Strumm '59, vice president for academic Alumni Authors affairs, addressing Reunion Alumni Join professor of political science classes about the state of the Government Archive Grows at Brooklyn College, and academy. Individual class during First Year Professor Sanford Lakoff '54, gatherings will follow that founder of the Department of evening. A barbecue and Political Science at the family picnic will bring University of Cahfomia, San together Reunion alumni Diego. from the 5th, lOth, I5th and 20th classes, recent alumni Attending the event was Joining other alumni already Brandeis alumni authors and Wien International Lemer's former wife, Edna serving in Washington are have responded to a call to Scholar alumni on campus Lerner, and their son, Adam Fernando Torres-Gil '72, contribute signed volumes of for a variety of Homecoming Lerner. Also at the event M.S.W., Ph.D. '76, Stanley their books to the year-old activities and to enjoy the were several professors Roth '75 and Ira Shapiro '62. AJumni Authors Archive in New England foliage and the emeriti who knew Lerner in Torres-Gil has been the Farber/Goldfarb Library. festivities of a the 1950s and 1960s. appointed by President In its first year, more than comprehensive Brandeis Speaking for them were Clinton to be the new 200 volumes have been weekend. professors emeriti Frank assistant secretary of aging in received by the Office of Manuel and Saul Cohen. the Department of Health Alumni Relations and and Human Services. Shapiro contributed to the Library. The Max Richter chair in is serving general counsel as American Civilization, now to United States Trade University Librarian Bessie held by Professor Stephen Representative Michael Hahn is pleased with the Whitfield, Ph.D. '72, was After the Nuptials (Mickey) Cantor. Shapiro's initial response and is proud created when Charles Segal, job is to ensure that the to include works by alumni the trustee of the Richter Office of the Trade in the special Alumni Foundation, decided to Representative, which Authors Archive collection. endow the first professorship Lori B. Cans '83, M.M.H.S. ' reports directly to President The Brandeis Review no at Brandeis. Segal, who died Clinton, adheres to the scope '86, director of alumni longer accepts engagement in January 1993, lived to see and purposes for which the relations, encourages more announcements. Please save two of his grandchildren, position was founded by alumni authors to contribute the good news until after the Mark Gatof '77 and Wendy Congress and acts in their books to inspire [nuptials. Gatof Malina '74, graduate compliance with the students and future scholars from Brandeis. provisions of the Trade Act with the intellectual of 1974. accomplishments of alumni.

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51 Summer 1993 Four Classes Enjoy Intimate Reunions

'69 Perfect weather and a late- the day was a three-way However, the 1993 team '68, Lee Schlesinger and blossoming spring created a round robin match of wits could do no wrong in the Arthur Chemoff '68. picture-book campus between three College Bowl second half, and surged ahead Members of The Brats backdrop for the reunion of teams: the championship to end the match with a 100- included William R. Kenan, over 300 alumni and guests team of 1968, returning to point margin of victory, 280 Jr., Professor of Astrophysics from the classes of 1953, campus for their 25th to 180, in a demonstration David Roberts and Associate 1958, 1963 and 1968 for a Reunion; the faculty team, that the old order has Professor Eric Jensen of the weekend that began with known as "The Brats"; and changed, yielding to a more physics department, and Alumni College and the current 1993 College practiced and youthful squad, associate professors John concluded with Bowl team. In two warm-up and dashing alumni fantasies Burt and William Flesch Commencement '93. This rounds. The Brats blew away of revisiting their still- from the English department. Reunion, marking the first the alumni team 315 to 75 standing records of the Members of the student time in over 20 years that and the students trounced televised GE series in the team were Ross Garmil '93, only four classes returned to The Brats 324 to 135. The 1950s and 1960s. Andrew Weiskopf '93, Adam campus, allowed the final match between the Diamond '93, Jonathan '94 University to provide quality 1968 team and the 1993 Moderator of the match was Schaerf and Eli Mlawer, a meeting spaces and more team was a close one during physics professor Hugh graduate student in physics., attention by faculty, staff and the first seven-minute half, Pendleton, who had coached administration than in the with the students holding a both the 1968 and 1993 The welcome-back dinner recent past. narrow lead of 20 points. teams. Team players for the featured opening remarks by 1968 team included Jack Alumni Association This year's Reunion Feirman '68, Alan Ehrenhalt president Bruce Litwer '61, combined intellectual '68, Anita Siskind '69 and who presented gifts to offerings with social ones, team captain Eric Wexler '70, starting with Alumni with altemates Jack Bierig College '93, "Inquiry and Imagination." A highlight of

frightIClassmates Maurice Stein '58, left, and Lenore Edelnwn Saltman '58. right, recognize Class Program Chair Judith Brecher Borakove '58, center, for her extraordinary contribution and commitment to the class

(left)Left to right, Maurice Stein '58, Lawrence Fields '63. Stephen R. Reiner '61 and Allan Goroll '68 present a check for $948,125. (abovcjRobeit Gallucci, representing the aggregate M.A. 73, Ph.D. '74. assistant total of Reunion giving secretary of state, delivers as of May 20. to President Alumni College keynote Samuel O. Thier address on national security

52 Brandeis Review fie ft) Noah Carp '95 presents Student Alumni Association Pride Award to Lois Lindauer '53. founder of The Diet Workshop

(above)Left to right. Ron lright)1968 College Bowl Hollander '63, Ibrahim champions, front row, left to Sundiata, professor of right, fack Fierman '68, Eric African and Afro-American Wexler '70, Anita Siskind studies, and Herman W. Blumenthal '69, Alan Hemingway '53 on an Ehrenhalt '68; standing, left Alumni College panel on to right. Professor of Physics Black-fewish relations Hugh Pendelton, Lee Schlesinger '69, Arthur

Chernoff, M.D. '68 and f. Bierig '68

Reunion class program chairs Heumann Gurian '58, deputy Ronni Yellen '78 and Kristen the Sanctity of Life Award: Leila Troyansky '53, ludith director of the United States Petersen Farmelant '85 were Arthur Pepine '53, financial Brecher Borakove '58, Holocaust Memorial recognized on Saturday aid officer at the Yale Stephen Cohen '63 and Jay Museum in Washington, morning at Charlie's University School of Drama Kaufman '68 and to Reunion D.C. and former deputy Breakfast, named in honor of and past president of the Gift chairs, Maurice "Morry" director for public program the late Charles Napoli '58, Connecticut Coalition of Stein '58, Lawrence Harris planning for the National while a display of Citizens with Disabilities, '63 and Allan Goroll '68. Museum of the American photographs taken by the and Evan Stark '63, a Stephen R. Reiner '61, chair Indian at the Smithsonian University's original nationally-recognized of Annual Giving, and the Institute; Charles Teller '63, photographer were featured authority on woman Reunion Gift chairs United Nations expert on the at the Ralph Norman battering, child abuse, presented a check for social demography of Emeritus Breakfast. Two minority youth violence and $948,125 to President Thier, malnutrition at the panels followed, the first on health and family policy. an aggregate total of gifts and Nutrition Institute in "Activism in the 1990s and pledges received by Reunion Central America and director the Brandeis Legacy" and the A reception sponsored by the Weekend from four 1993 of the International second on "History and Alumni Association Reunion classes. Jason Nutrition Unit of the Office Hope: A Discussion on celebrated the literary Schneider '93 and Jim Herbst of International Health; and Black/Jewish Relations." accomplishments of '94, representatives of the Alan Ehrenhalt '68, founder members of the Reunion Student Alumni Association, and executive editor of On Saturday afternoon, classes and included a presented the first annual Governing magazine and Herbert Gross '53 gave the display of books that Pride Awards to a member of author of The United States Phi Beta Kappa address and members of these classes had each Reunion class whose of Ambition: Politicians, three alumni, Abraham inscribed and donated to the accomplishments made the Power and the Pursuit of Heller '53, Joan Shapiro '56 Alumni Authors Archive in members of the student Office. and Harvey Pressman '58, the Farber/Goldfarb association most proud. who were members of the Libraries. Class dinners were These awards were presented Honor Society before there held on campus and at to Lois Lindauer '53, founder was a Phi Beta Kappa nearby hotels. and chairman of The Diet Chapter, were inducted into Workshop, Inc.; Elaine the Mu Chapter. At an afternoon baccalaureate ceremony for the Class of 1993, two alumni received

53 Summer 1993 Class Notes

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Dr. Norman Diamond, Class studies. Marilyn Goretsky Becker law enforcement attorney with the run summer camp is still going Correspondent, 240 Kendrick has become a cantor and serves a U.S. Commodity Futures Trading strong. Philippa Strum's book. The Street, Newton, MA 02158 congregation outside Boston. She Commission in Chicago. Michael Women Are Marching: The Second also officiates at life cycle events Kirsch is an internist in Sherman Sex In The Palestinian Revolution William Wiener, M.D. is a clinical such as weddings and bahy Oaks, CA. Barbara Levine Leons is was published last July. Her new neurologist in Framingham, MA, nammgs. Letty Cottin Pogrebin's a professor of anthropology at book. Beyond Progressivism: The who still tries to find time for seventh book, Deborah. Gohii!. Towson State University and Political Thought of Louis D. nonmedical pursuits such as and Me, has been published m conducts research m Bolivia, Brandeis. is out this month. She swimming. He and his wife, Ita K. paperback. She was a recipient of where she spent last year on a delivered a paper at a human rights Wiener '54, have five children and the Brandeis University Alumni sabbatical. Elaine Rosenblatt conference sponsored by the reside in Brookline, MA. Achievement Award, which was Levitin is in her 23rd year of Institute of Law of the '54 presented to her at the Founders' teaching, and her 19th at the Czechoslovakian Academy of Day Annual Dinner, and also of middle school in Scarsdale, NY. Sciences in Prague and another at Miriam Feingold d'Amato, Class the 1993 Sachar Award of the Martin Levy is living in Barbados the Centre for Postgraduate Correspondent, 62 Floyd Street, National Women's Committee. after retiring from the fields of law Hebrew Studies at Oxford Winthrop, MA 02152 She is currently serving as cochair and accounting. Becky Cohen University. In addition, she was of Americans for Peace Now, the Long is happily retired and living recently re-elected to the executive Shimon S. Gottschalk (Ph.D. 72, U.S. branch of the Israeli Peace in Tampa, FL, where she heads the committee of the board of The Heller School) retired from his Now Movement. After receiving Tampa Bay Area Alumni directors of the American Civil position as professor at Florida her M.L.S. in library and Admissions Council. Alan Miller Liberties Union. Marilyn Siegel State University to enjoy a third information science. Sunny uses his talents as a clothing Weene is senior placement career as a househushand caring Brownrout continued her studies designer in his business as a men's counselor at Network Personnel for newborn twins and a total of in the field of data processing and personal clothier and custom Inc. in Billerica, MA. She can be seven children. IS a senior systems analyst in designer in the Washington, DC, found at the Brandeis chapel most '55 Stamford, CT. She is working in area. Beverly Nadelman is on the Saturdays during the school year. the newly formed Connecticut faculty of the photography '60 Judith Paull Aronson, Class Chapter of the Brandeis Alumni department. School of Visual Arts, Correspondent, 767 South Windsor Association. Harry Cohen is New York City, and Nassau Abby Brown, Class Correspondent, Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90005 clinical director for Orange Community College in Garden 4 Jeffrey Circle, Bedford, MA County's Drug Abuse Services for City, NY. She is represented in the 01730 Fine color, acid-free laser prints of the Newport Beach/Costa Mesa west by Stewart -Thomas Galleries. Evi Buckler Sheffres's art piece area. He and his wife, Adrienne Gloria Feman Orenstein is a full "Balance," a work designed and Mann Cohen '57, share a professor in the field of created specifically for the psychotherapy practice. They are comparative literature at the Brandeis Women's Studies both active in the Southern University of Southern California Program, are heing made available California chapter of the Brandeis and has written or coedited three

to program donors of $1,000 or Alumni Association, Martin J. books: The Theater of the more. Her work was on display in Fiala took early retirement from Marvelous: Surrealism and the June and July at the Cape Museum Exxon in 1986 and now lives in Contemporary Stage; The of Fine Arts in Dennis, MA. Aspen, CO. Maine is home to Ann Reflowering of the Goddess: and '56 Bobrick Friedlander, where she Reweaving the World: The owns and operates a garden center/ Emergence of Ecofeminism. She is Leona Feldman Curhan, Class florist shop in Bethel. Edward working on a forthcoming book as Correspondent, 6 Tide Winds Friedman spent part of the well. Multi-cultural Celebrations: Terrace, Marblehead, MA 01945 summer of 1992 in Alabama Bettv La Duke Paintings 1972- working on a decoUectivization 1992. In addition, she reports that Sidney Hurwitz's pastel paintings project for U.S. AID. Autumn her two daughters have both were exhibited at the Randall Beck found him in China on a rural received their Ph.D. Alicia Suskin Eh'onorc Kessler Cohen Gallery in Boston last winter. development project for the Ford Ostriker is the author of the '58 Foundation, and in March he was recently published book. The Bible Eleonore Kessler Cohen, the newly in Tokyo on a human rights effort. and Feminist Revision, and has elected mayor of Livingston, NJ, Allan W. Drachman, Class His book, Chinese Village, written seven volumes of poetry, was named a member of the Correspondent, 1 15 Mayo Road, Socialist State, will be issued in including Green Age. She is a Springfield, NJ, law firm of Wellesley, MA 02181 paperback this year, and another. member of the English department Kraemer, Burns & Lovell, P. A. Backward Toward Revolution, is at Rutgers University, New where she specializes in real estate David G. Lehrman, M.D. is chief being translated into Chinese. A Brunswick, NJ. Barbara Bolotin and family law. A member of the of orthopedics at St. Francis third book. The Politics of Rosen has a full-time private Livingston Planning Board, she has Hospital in Miami Beach. Three Democratization, will also be psychotherapy practice and also also been a three-term member of years ago he started a residential published this year. Two more of spends time lecturing on her the board of education, serving as treatment center that emphasizes his books are at press: Nationalism specialties—treating people who president and vice president. In back strengthening, education Against Democracy and The have eating disorders or those who addition, she is on the advisory about body mechanics and weight Struggle to Reform China's have survived sexual abuse. Robert board of Broad National Bank, a control. Socialist Countryside. Steven Rosenblum writes fiction under trustee of the Livingston '59 Fishman received an M.S.W. in several pseudonyms. Some of his Symphony, secretary to the Essex 1961 from the University of books have been filmed for movies County Bar Association Family Sunny Sunshine Brownrout, Class Chicago and makes his home in and TV including In The Deep Law Executive Committee and a Correspondent, 87 Old Hill Road, Los Angeles, where he is a Woods written under the name of member of the executive Westport, CT 06880 manager for the Department of Nicholas Cowe, which became a committee of the United Jewish Mental Health, County of Los TV movie starring Anthony Appeal Women's Business and Joy Zacharia Applebaum is Angeles, After receiving her f.D. in Perkins. Emanuel Schreiber is a Professional Council. Muriel director of development and public 1977, Judith Sanders Goodie is a psychotherapist, specializing in (Mimi) Berenson Silberstein has relations for the Hebrew Hospital adolescents and relationship been appointed coordinator of Home, a long-term health care therapy. Mayer Schwartz practices special education and guidance facility in the Bronx. She is also a medicine in Johnson City, NY, counselor for the Bangor, PA, area free-lance lecturer on Sephardic where he specializes in allergy and school district. immunity. Amy Medine Stein is semi-retired, although the family-

54 Brandeis Review '61

Judith Leavitt Schatz, Class Bank in Roseland, NJ, while his professor of history, he recently in archetypal psychology through Correspondent, 139 Cumberland wife, Laura, works at the Early developed a presidential election the Union Institute. He and his Road, Leominster, MA 01453 Childhood Direction Center of St. prediction system. Thirteen Keys wife, Pamela Mercer, reside in Agnes Hospital in White Plains, to the Presidency, with earthquake Petaluma, CA, Shulamit T. Zina Jordan has been named NY. They have two daughters and specialist, Volodia Keilis-Borok. Reinharz, professor of sociology assistant provost for academic reside in Scarsdale, NY. Estelle and director of women's studies at affairs at Brandeis University. Sacknoff Kluft edited a book '68 Brandeis University, and her Sharon P. Rivo, executive director intended for readers in the mental Jay R. Kaufman, Class husband, (ehuda Reinharz (Ph.D. of the National Center for Jewish health profession entitled Correspondent, One Childs Road, '72, NEJS), Richard Koret Professor Film at Brandeis University, Expressive and Functional Lexington, MA 02 173 of Modern Jewish History and accepted the second Annual Therapies in the Treatment of Brandeis University provost, are Preservation Award from the Multiple Personality Disorder. Charles Hoffman, author of Gray compiling their extensive research Anthology Film Archives of New Peter Zassenhaus Zoll is managing Dawn: the fews of Eastern Europe on kibbutzim originator, Manya York for the restoration and director of Swiss Bank Portfolio in the Post-Communist Era, was a Wilbushewitz Shohat, into distribution of historic works on Management International in speaker at a conference in New published works and a future the Jewish experience. London, while bis wife, Laura, is York City on the awakening of biography. In addition, Shulamit '64 owner of a Tafilmusik franchise. East European Jewry. Stephen G. has published Feminist Methods in '65 Lisansky, Ph.D. is cofounder and Social Research as a textbook for Rochelle A. Wolf, Class director of CPL Scientific Ltd., a the study of social science and Correspondent, 113Naudain Daphnah Sage, Class consulting and publishing women's studies. Nanette (Nina) Street, Philadelphia, PA 19477 Correspondent, 1435 Centre company in Newbury, England, Haber-Rosenthal Sheftman moved Street, Newton Centre, MA 02159 focusing on the areas of from Haifa to Karmiel, Israel, Peter A. Berkowsky has been agriculture, food, biotechnology where she teaches English at a promoted to colonel, U.S. Air Janet Akyuz Mattei, Ph.D. and scientific employment local high school. She and her Force Reserve. A graduate of the received the George Van services. He is a specialist in husband, Israel, are busy Air War College and a veteran of Biesbroeck Award in recognition of biopesticides, author of 780 books, renovating their new home and Operation Desert Storm, he will be her enthusiastic and unselfish articles, special studies and papers supporting the movement for "returning home" to the Boston leadership of the American as well as editor of Impact, an Conservative Judaism in Israel. area as senior reserve attorney at Association of Variable Star agriculture/biology industry They have three sons, Raanan, 15, the Electronic Systems Center at Observers and for making the journal Natasha C. Lisman was and Yonie and Danny, 13. AAVSO database available to the astronomical community. In her '70 work she computerizes, analyzes Carol Stein-Schulman, Class and dissimulates about 250,000 Correspondent, 7 Stonehenge, observations a year to observers, Great Neck, NY 11023 mostly amateur astronomers around the world. She has Judith Lowitz Adler has been pubhshed 125 articles in elected partner in the Detroit law professional journals and has firm of [affe, Raitt, Heuer and collaborated with astronomers m Weiss where she specializes in variable star research as well as financing and corporate been the principal invcstigatf)r m transactions. Penelope Wise Shar, grants funded by the National M.D. was graduated from Albert Science Foundation (NSF) and the Emstein College of Medicine in National Aeronautics and Space 1989, completed a residency in Administration (NASA). internal medicine at Rhode Island '66 Peter A. Berk(}wsky with Sin}on Natasha C. Lisman rienthal, during the famed Kenneth E. Davis, Class -1 hunter's 1991 visit to the Correspondent, 28 Mary Chilton appointed to the board of directors :'ellate Division courthouse in Road, Needham, MA 02192 of the New England Council, an nhattan organization that promotes federal Lucy Rose Fischer, Ph.D. is a legislation benefitting the region's Hanscom Air Force Base and as geriatric research scientist at the economy. In addition, she is a admissions liaison officer for the Group Health Foundation, a senior partner in the firm of Air Force Academy. In civilian life, support organization of Group Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & he has served as law secretary to a Health, Inc., in the Twin Cities. Cohen in Boston and the past justice of the Appellate Division of An extensively published author president of the Massachusetts the New York Supreme Court in on topics in aging and health care, Civil Liberties Union. Manhattan and as the organizer of she provides leadership for '69 the International Minyan for the geriatrics research for the New York City Marathoners, a Foundation and for Group Health's Jo Anne Chemev Adlerstein, Class program he founded in 1983. geriatric department. Correspondent, 76 Glenview Road, Azuka A. Dike, Ph.D. teaches at South Orange, NJ 07079 Penelope Wise Shnr the University of Nigeria with his '67

wife, Virginia W. Dike, Ph.D. He is Arme ReiUy Hort, Class Phoebe J. Epstein continues to Hospital and is in private practice chair of the governing board of the Correspondent, 4600 Livingston work for American Express in New in Bangor, ME. She and her Nigeria National Commission for Avenue, Riverdale, NY 10471 York City as vice president of husband, Arthur Jones, live in Museums and Monuments and worldwide employee relations. She Hampden, ME, on a farm with

was elected secretary general of Allan J. Lichtman, Ph.D. was bought a 250-year-old farmhouse cows, horses, geese, ducks, cats the Pan African Association of selected as American University's in Kent, CT, that she says is "tiny, and a dog. She has two children. Anthropologists as well as 1993 Scholar/Teacher of the Year, but with plenty of room for a Brad, a junior at Marlboro College president of its subdisciplinary receiving praise as one of "the vegetable garden and a few fruit m Vermont, and Tracy, a junior at Network of African Medical university's most diverse and trees " Lois Sabath Fried, CPA, Emerson College. Robert F.X. Anthropologists. They have five accomplished scholars" from the was made a partner at the firm Sillerman, a communications children, two of whom are dean of the College of Arts and Capaldi, Reynolds ik Associates in executive and one of the largest studying in the United States. Sciences. In addition to being a Northfield, NJ. Sam Hilt is self- Alan E. Katz was elected to the employed as a computer board of directors of Norcrown consultant, while pursuing a Ph.D.

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commitment to scholarship and and the Bat, is selling well and Leslie Perm, Class Correspondent, academic excellence. Leonard A. that he has awaiting the Marshall Leather Finishing, lason, Ph.D., a professor of publication of his series of four 43-45 Wooster Street, New York, psychology at EJePaul University, graphic novels called Tree of Life. NY 10013 published Helping Transfer about a rabbi in space in the 27th Students: Strategies for century. In addition, he has a pilot Faye Pollock Cohen lives in F.ducational and Social TV script making the rounds that Jerusalem where she is the Readjustment, a book based on a he says is "pretty good; trust us on manager of CNN and hotel tour-year study of over 1,000 this." loumahst, political advisor services at Direct Satellite transfer students in the third, and communications specialist Television. She and her husband, tciurth and fifth grades in 31 Michal A. Regunberg was named Dror Cohen, are the parents of two schools. Philip Rubin, Ph.D, was director of public affairs at girls, Meromi, age 4, and Michaela,

appointed vice president for Brandeis Umversity in March. age 2. Betty (. Harris published technical resources at Haskins Previously, she held a number of The Political Economy of the positions: director of the Institute Southern African Periphery: for Democratic Communication at Cottage Industries, Factories, and Robert F. X. SilleTmar. Boston University, where she also Female Wage Labor m Swaziland taught undergraduate and graduate Compared. She is an associate investors of radio in the world, has courses; editorial director of WEEI/ professor of anthropology and been appointed Chancellor of Long CBS Radio in Boston; producer of a director of women's studies at the Island University's Southampton news show in Dallas; and director University of Oklahoma. Joshua Z. April, Campus. In Deborah M. of communications for the Schoffman is legal director of the Spitalnik, Ph.D. received the Massachusetts Department of Association for Civil Rights in highest honor of the New lersey Public Welfare, Rabbi Avi B. Israel, which works to protect the United Cerebral Palsy Association, Winokur was installed as rabbi of civil liberties of all Israelis in light the Elizabeth Boggs Citizenship the West End Synagogue, a of the turmoil in the region. He Award. She is executive director of Reconstructionist synagogue on was instrumental in attempts to New lersey's center for Manhattan's Upper West Side. prevent the forced expulsion of 415 developmental disabilities at Previously, he was rabbi of Palestinians deported to Southern Robert Wood lohnson Medical Congregation Shirei Shalom in Lebanon. School, In addition, she served as Monroe, CT, and director of the '76 president of the American community relations committee of Philip Rubin Association of University the Jewish Federation of Greater Beth Pearlman Rotenberg, Class Affiliated Facilities in 1992. She New Haven. Correspondent, 2743 Dean Laboratories in New Haven. lives in Sergeantsville, Nf, with Parkway, Minneapolis, MN 55416 Haskins is a Yale-affiliated her husband, John R. Weingart, '73 research laboratory working in a and their daughter, Molly, age 8. Paula L. Scheer, Class Lewis Kachur was selected for a variety of areas, including speech Correspondent, 133 Park Street, Fulbright lectureship. He is '71 perception, speech production, Brooklme, MA 02146 teaching American art at Osaka reading, cognitive and ecological Mark L. Kaufman, Class University in Japan and was psychology, linguistics, motor Correspondent, 28 Devens Road, Janet Besso Becker and her cocurator of the exhibition "The behavior and robotics. Philip is Swampscott, MA 01907-2014 husband, Neil, are living in St. Drawings of Stuart Davis," which married to )oette Katz '74, a justice Vincent, West Indies, where they opened at the Terra Museum in on the Connecticut State Supreme Steven L. Berk, M.D. was the 1992 operate the waterfront Sugar Reef Chicago last December, The Court; they have two children, recipient of the Distinguished Restaurant and Bar at the Lagoon exhibit will be circulated by the Jason, age 9, and Samantha, age 7. Faculty Award at East Tennessee Marina and Hotel. "We love American Federation of Arts to '72 visitors, so pencil it into your Middlebury, VT; San Antonio, TX; vacation plans," Janet writes. Andover, MA; Omaha, NE; and Marc L. Eisenstock, Class Their address is P.O, Box 133, St. Washington, DC, with an Correspondent, Plastics Unlimited Vincent, West Indies. Ellen accompanying book published by Inc., 80 Winter Street, Worcester, Morgan Lodgen is assistant Abrams. Alan L. Mittleman was MA, 01604 principal at Cohen HiUel Academy promoted to associate professor of in Marblehead, MA, where she has religion and granted tenure at Carol L. Cone is founder, chief taught for 19 years. Muhlenberg College in Allentown, executive officer and partner of PA, Julieanna L. Richardson was Cone Communications, a '74 named executive producer for marketing communications firm Elizabeth Sarason Pfau, Class in Boston David G. Gotthelf is Correspondent, 80 Monadnock department head for special Road, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167 education services at Wellesley High School in Wellesley, MA. He Denise W. LaMaute is president of IS also completing his Ph.D. in the Los Angeles City Employees' counseling psychology at Boston ll\ Retirement System's five-member College and has two daughters, Steven L. Berk board of commissioners, which Rachel, age 6, and Sara, age 4. runs pension operations, including After spending some time working State University, where he is a investments and the as a technical writer for a software professor and chairman of the administration of benefits. Ernest company and a magazine editor in Department of Internal Medicine H. Rubinstein is enrolled in a New York, Elliot S. Maggin at the lames H. Quillen College of Ph.D. program in religion at remarried his ex-wife, Pam, and Medicine. One of ETSU's two Northwestern University in moved back to Los Angeles in highest honors, the award is Evanston, IL. In addition, he and 1990 where he has been spending presented to a nominee with deep his partner, Paul, celebrated a much of his time writing teleplays commitment ceremony attended and screenplays "on spec," by several supportive friends. lulicanna L KiLiiutu^iut including animated scripts for the Fox Network's "Batman" and "X- Showcase Chicago, Cable 25, She Men" series. He reports that his was previously cable administrator graphic novel. The Blue, the Grey of the City of Chicago, Raina Chamovitz Rosenberg, M.D. is a

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family physician in lerusalem, Lisa Gelfand, Class Correspondent, What have you been doing Israel, and the only life member of 19 Winchester Street #404, lately? Let the alumni office the Hadassah Women's Brooklme, MA 02146 knovy. We invite you to Organization to graduate from submit articles, photos (black Hadassah Medical School. She is Kisa Janoff Bernstein and Sol W. and white photos mamed to Zviha (a Sabra) and the Bernstein '81 bought a house in are preferred) mother of two children, Maia, age New Jersey and are enioymg their and news that would be of 8Vi, and Tamar, age 3. Daniel newborn son, Beniamin Samuel. interest to your fellow Sreebny was named chief of the Deborah G. Cummis has opened classmates to: North Africa, Middle East and her law office in Beverly Hills, CA, South Asia Division at the Bureau practicing family law, criminal Office of Alumni Relations of Broadcasting, part of the United defense and general civil litigation. Brandeis University States Information Agency's Voice She and her fiance, Richard Klein, P.O. Box 91 10 of America in Washington, DC. He a senior corporate accounts is now responsible for broadcast manager for Sterling Software, live Waltham, MA 02254-91 10 operations in the languages Arabic, in West Los Angeles with their Mary C. Poitei Kurdish, Hindi, Bangla and Urdu. three dogs. Anne R. Exter Donald B. Stewart is director of temporarily returned to her home public affairs at Lawrence and Compliance Group at The state of New Jersey where she is Name University in Appleton, WI, where Boston Company. Margo L. participating in a technology his wife, Karen A. Engelbourg '79, Rosenbach (PhD. '85, The Heller internship program for New Brandeis Degree and Class Year is director of ma|or gifts. The School! was awarded a contract England Telephone. She plans to from the Health Care Financing college has not yet hired their two- return to the Boston area in luly. Address year-old son, Michael. Administration to evaluate the Lisa A. ICitinoja, Ph.D. has impact of extending Medicaid relocated her consulting firm. '77 Phone coverage to low-mcome families Extension Systems International, Fred Berg, Class Correspondent, and individuals. Her doctoral to Woodland, CA. Her recent Home Work 150 East 83rd Street, Apt. 2C, New dissertation, "Use of Physicians' projects include training in post- York, NY 10028 Services by Low-Income harvest handling methods in Chad Children," was published by and research studies in Trinidad Julie Black was promoted to press Garland Publishing. She is vice and Tobago and Nigeria. Judy spokesperson for the Committee president of Health Economics Mejias Ortiz is pursuing a master's on Bankmg, Finance and Urban Research m Waltham, MA, where degree in management and public Affairs, U.S. House of she has worked since 1985. Robert administration from Webster Representatives. She is also M. Schaufeld moved his law University while acting as a publicity vice president for B'nai practice to Garden City, NY, and volunteer mediator with the B'rith women's chapter for young IS president of the Nassau County Cumberland County Dispute Jewish professionals in Jewish Lawyers Association. He Resolution Center. She and her Washington, DC. Debra Katz and his wife, Caryn Greenvald, a husband, U.S. Army Chief Warrant Weber is assistant wardrobe vice president of marketing for Officer 3 Michael Ortiz, and three

supervisor for "The Will Rogers CitiBank, have moved into their children, Michael, age 7, Janelle,

Follies" on Broadway and resides new house in Great Neck, NY. age 3, and Elizabeth Marie, age 2, Please check here if address is in Warwick, NY, with her David F. Schneiderman is working live in Fayetteville, NC. Meryl R. different from mailing label. husband. Rick, and 3-year-old, in the computer consulting/ Ostrow works for the City of Natalia Rose. support field, providing clients Philadelphia as a social worker in Demographic News with technology planning with the Office of Mental Retardation '78 (Marriages, Births) special focus on the investment while her husband, Alan C. and financial communities. Valene Troyansky, Class He and Ostrow, IS an assistant city Name Correspondent, 210 West 89th his wife, Julia A. Benson, a solicitor for the City of Street #6C, New York, NY 10024 designer of fashion jewelr\', reside Philadelphia Reiss Penan is Julia a Class in Pacific Palisades, CA, where full-time mother/homemaker for Brad A. Bederman is a systems they remain active m politics. her husband, Daniel, and their two engineer with Date the Electronic Data '79 daughters, JiUian, age 5, and Systems Corporation in Dallas, Allison, age 1, in historic TX. He remains single and enjoys Ruth Strauss Fleischmann, Class Sturbridge, MA. Edward H. dancing, skiing, hiking and playing Correspondent, 8 Angier Road, Pendergast moved to Troy, NY, If you know of any alumni the stock market. Ruth Kessler Lexington, MA 02 173 where he is vice president of who are not receiving the Danielson received her MB.A. product development at Maplnfo from Boston University in 1986 Jeff Burman, an associate film Inc, a desktop mapping software Brandeis Review, please let us and works as assistant director of editor at Universal Studios, won company. He and his wife, Laura know. investments at the Boston re-election to the hoard of directors Stephens Pendergast '82, have two Name University Treasury Office. She is of his craft local, coming in first in children, a daughter, Kelly, age 3, the mother of three boys, John, age his classification. He is also and a son, Teddy, 18 months. 5, Bobby, age 3, and Brian, age 2, nearing completion of a screenplay Barbara G. Rabson is director of Brandeis Degree and Class Year and in her spare time enjoys on the life of Eugene V. Debs managed care at Beth Israel running and entering races. Lauta called Captivated. Myrna Barkey Hospital in Boston. She continues Address Bailen Kaufman has been in Mitnick works as a CPA with to play the French horn and is the private dental practice in the Kamanitz, Uhlfelder and first hom for the Memmack greater Tel Aviv area for the past Permison, P. A. in Baltimore. Carol Valley Philharmonic. In her 10 years while her husband, E. Rosenthal is a partner m the remaining time, she bikes, hikes Howard A. Kaufman 76, has been New York City law firm of Berle, and skis with her husband, John Phone in private law practice and serves Kass &. Case, where she specializes Silletto Susan Ludwig Rosenberg, Home Work in the Israeli Defense Forces in zoning, environmental, real Pli.D. received her doctorate in reserves Mary G. Porter was estate and other areas of land use Due to space limitations, we appointed senior vice president in law. She and her husband. Dr. the auditing division of the Audit Frank Schneier, an assistant usually are unable to print lists professor of clinical psychiatry at of classmates who attend each Columbia University, spent last other's weddings or other April in Botswana and Zimbabwe. functions. News of marriages and births are included in separate listings by class. Marriages

clinical psychology from Yeshiva with Rochester Park Medical Class Name Date University in 1986 and is in Group and has an appointment at private practice in Voorhees, NJ, Strong Memorial as an instructor 1970 Penelope Wise Shar, M.D. to while her husband, Arthur Jones October 10, 1992 Lawrence in medicine and genetics. She and 1973 Ellen Morgan to Larry Lodgen August Rosenberg, M.A. '80, is an her husband, 11, 1991 Milton Stamos, were 1979 Carol E. Rosenthal to Dr. Frank Schneier April 12, 1992 orthopedic surgeon at Kessler married in 1990 and have a 1980 William S. Gorin to Memorial Jody Louis February 28, 1993 Hospital. Together they newborn son, Moshe Chaim. She 1983 Debra Sands to Michael S. have two daughters, Kraft June 27, 1992 Marlee, age 4, says she is looking forward to 1984 Heidi Terkel to Barry Daitch and 1 '/;. September 21, 1992 Sarah, age Jenirifer A. starting a human genetics 1986 Julie F. Grasfield to Steven Weil Roskies lives November 28, 1992 in Montreal with her fellowship at the University of Robert Marcus, M.D. to Evelyn husband. Morales November 7, 1992 Brad, and children, Pittsburgh in 1994. Terry Martin Gary S. Zel to Antoinette Aviva, Colartc February 13, 1993 age 4, and Beniamin, Zingman and Barry Zingman have 1987 Adriane (Suzy) Glazer to '86 age 2Vi. David Spilcr May 31, 1992 She joined the federation moved to Rye Brook, NY, where Louise D. Gross to Nevin Reynolds of the Montreal May 1, 1993 Jewish community they reside with their newborn Abigail Nagler to Steven E. Sender February as a planning associate, where son, Michael, and 21, 1993 daughter, Lisa Ora L. Schorr to Alan M. Kriegstein some of her responsibilities June 16, 1991 Adam J. Brauer to Bonnie Ellen include the planning and '82 Weiser June 6, 1993 Toby E. Boshak to Paul Eisenberg '87 coordination November 1, 1992 of services for newly Ellen Cohen, Class Correspondent, Renee W. Kwait to David S. Rettig '87 November arrived immigrants. Robert I. 26, 1992 1 75 15th Street NE #318, Atlanta 1989 Harold G. Belkowitz to Rubin, a partner at Gordon & 30309 July 26, 1992 GA Cheryl L. Grossman '91 Silber, P.C. in New York City, David J. Chase to Sharyn F. Levine '90 August published an article entitled Stacey Cushner 18, 1991 is a director of the Katherine D. Spivak to "Tainted Food" in the March IWi January 23, 1993 Boston firm of Bernstein, Cushner Dr. Mark D. Friedman issue of Trial magazine. Jeffrey P. and Kimmell, PC, where she 1991 (ill C. Hammer to Jeremy P. Goldman August 1992 Schachne lives in Katonah, NY, practices 16, employment law and Holly R. Litwin to Tod Andrew with his wife Susan Snyder Northman December 27, 1992 civil litigation. She is married and Schachne '81 and their three has two children, Benjamin and children, Daniel, age .5, Ryan, Ally Bernstein, ages 4 and 2 age 3, and Ariana, 6 months. George M. Seremitis is finishing '83 his urology residency at Eileen Isbitts Weiss, 456 9th Street Dartmouth this year. He and his #30, Hoboken, NJ 07030 fiancee, Laurie Vedder, will be treatment of organ transplant- moving '86 to Chicago in July, where Jennifer Porder Gurvits and associated infectious diseases. His he will be a pediatric urology wife, Wendy Finn '85, Illyse Shindler Habbe, Class Eugene Gurvits '81 moved into a is director of fellow at the children's development Correspondent, 89 Turner hospital new house in Newton, MA, where and community Street, and she will practice relations for Brighton, MA 02135 psychiatry at they live with their children, the Children's Evanston Hospital. Amy Beth Medical Center at the University newborn son, leremy, Alex, age 3, Taublieb, Ph.D. has been offered of Massachusetts Medical Andrew Cardin will be chief a and Laura, age 6. Ian Finnell is a Center. contract by HarperCollins In addition, resident in pediatrics at financial counselor for Fidelity she serves as president Children's Publishing Company in of the Greater Hospital of Philadelphia, starting New York Investments in New York City. Boston Chapter of City to write an the Brandeis in July 1994. Illyse Shindler undergraduate Rebecca C. Hall is a senior University Alumni Habbe textbook on the Association. finished a book for children psychopathology consultant at Strategic Technology They reside m with of childhood and Framingham, cancer as her dissertation for adolescence. In Resources in Chicago. Debra Sands MA, with Sheba, a addition to maintaining their Ph.D. m psychology at an active Kraft manages a boutique on two-year-old German the MPPH private practice. Dr. shepherd. and says she is looking Taublieb is an Newbury Street m Boston while At the 1992 American lor both an associate professor at the Society of illustrator and a job. Robert Camsius her husband, Michael, a graduate Criminology College psychology Conference, Marcus finished his department of the University of Pennsylvania Michael A. White residency in and an associate presented internal medicine at psychologist on and Boston University Law School, a paper entitled Emory the screening/admissions unit of "Identifying Characteristics University Hospital in Atlanta, has his own law practice at Faneuil that Buffalo Psychiatric GA. His wife, Evelyn Center Hall Market Place. After working Distinguish Recidivists from Non- Morales, is Recidivists." an intensive care neonatal '81 in corporate human resources and He continues to work nurse. as a research Rebecca Rae Miller is living with job placement for 3 years, Deborah analyst with the Matthew B. Hills, Class Massachusetts her pet rabbit on New York's E. Lipton earned a master's in Department of Correspondent, Ifi Corrections. Upper West Side and working Harcourt, Apt human resource counseling from as a 3E, Boston, MA 021 16 trial attorney in the Office of the Northeastern University, is a '84 Solicitor lor the United States career counselor in the Boston area Barbara Angelucci Giammona is Marcia Book, Class Department of Labor where she and coordinates workshops for Correspondent, vice president of SUBA 98-01 67th Avenue investigates and enforces federal dislocated workers. Richard P. #14N, Corporation and resides in Flushing, labor statutes. She and La JoUa, Schwartz was elected junior NY 1 1374 her CA, with her husband, husband, a fourth-year Joseph, an partner m the Real Estate and medical attorney, and their 2-year-old Martin K. student at Mt. Sinai Medical son, Finance Department of the law Alintuck was elected to James. Stuart Moser and Meryl the California School, were married in firm Nutter, McClennen and Fish Democratic Party May in Resnick Moser live in Riverdale, in State Central Committee Boston, llene Goldenberg Moss Boston. Scott (. Thaler, M.D. from NY, and are looking forward to Marin and finished her residency in pediatrics completed a combined clinical and Sonoma counties, as their ISth Reunion. He well as to at Momstown Memorial practices research fellowship m the the Mann County Hospital cardiology in the Bronx/ Democratic Central and has joined the association of laboratory of Bernard Fields '58 in Committee. Westchester area while she works Steven E. Bizar of Dr. Richard Lander and Dr. Vito the Department of Microbiology at Center City as an R.N. at White Plains Harvard Philadelphia received his Petrozino in the practice of Medical School. He is an J.D. from Hospital. They have two pediatric medicine at their children, attending physician in the Columbia Law School and is an Sharon, age 6, and Benny, age 4. associate in Momstown and Livingston, infectious disease division of the the litigation NJ, Wendy S. Rubinstein received department offices. Her husband. Dr. her Brigham and Women's Hospital of Montgomery, Leonard M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the McCracken, Moss, is a second-year cardiology and a member of the faculty of the Walker & Rhoads. Mount Sinai School of Heidi fellow at the University Medicine in Harvard Medical School, where he Terkel Daitch is a product of 1989 and completed a manager for residency in studies the risk factors, causes and Interleaf, a publishing internal medicine at Strong software company. She and her Memorial Hospital in 1992. She husband, Barry Daitch, reside in enjoys her work as an internist South Natick, MA.

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Medicine and Dentistry at Robert Bill Clinton's Florida steering Wakefield, MA. After receiving his Judith Libhaber, Class Wood lohnson University Hospital committee and as the South Master of Arts in teaching from Correspondent, 745 North Shore and together they published a case Florida coordinator for Governor the University of North Carolina Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33141 report on endocarditis in the April Lawton Chiles's election at Chapel Hill, Steven |. Lauridsen 1993 issue of Piunary Cardiology. campaign. In lanuary, Cary S. Zel moved to Oak Park, IL, where he is Sheryl L. Axelrod completed her David Spiler and Adriane (Suzy) began a new job as marketing certified to teach high school final year of law school at Temple Glazer '87 have moved to Glen manager at Time magazine in social studies and is substitute University, where she placed first

Ridge, NI, where he is midtown Manhattan. teaching as well as tutoring at the in the Samuel J. Polsky Moot simultaneously a marketing '87 Huntington Learning Center. Court Competition, and has begun specialist at Medco Containment Renee Kwait Rettig is an attorney a judicial clerkship with the Services and completing his Vanessa B. Newman, Class m the legal department of Honorable Sandra Mazer Moss. M.B.A. at Seton Hall University Correspondent, 4.S East End Prudential Securities in New York Elise M. Golden works for and she is special projects Avenue, Apt. .SH, New York, NY City. She and her husband, David Scudder, Stevens & Clark where coordinator at Cancer Care. 10028 S. Rettig '87, reside in Brooklyn, she was promoted to the London Douglas A. Steinberg was NY. Susan Kanarfogel Shapiro was office and works with offshore promoted to manager in the Paul Eisenberg is communications graduated from Boston University mutual fund investors. Barak business assurance/audit practice coordinator at the Freedom Forum School of Education with a Ed.M. Kushner is living in Yamada, Media Studies Center at Columbia in educational media and Japan, studying Japanese and University while his wife, Toby E. technology. She has been a "home teaching English in a junior high Boshak '88, is the assistant mom" since the birth of her school. Steven Levine accepted an director of development at the daughter, Aliza, but plans to return assistant economic research Bronx Museum of the Arts in New to elementary school teaching. consultant position with the York City. Louise D. Gross was '89 Helmans' condiment division of graduated from medical school in Kraft Foods, Inc Rowena E. Pineda May and began a residency in Karen L. Gitten, Class has worked since graduation for family practice. Laura E. Ross is a Correspondent, 35 Crosby Road the Center for Third World first-year resident in orthopedic 2nd Floor, Newton, MA 02167 Organizing, a nonprofit training surgery at Brighton Medical Center institute by and for people of color,

in Portland, ME. Abigail Nagler Amy B. Eisenberg was graduated in Oakland, CA Dean J. Shalit and Sender received her master's from Mt. Sinai School of Medicine his fiancee, Melissa Feldman, are degree in nonprofit organization and began her residency in both at Cardozo School of Law. management from Case Western pediatrics. Scott W. Elton Julian S. Steinberg is a computer Reserve University. She lives in completed his third year of graphics technician with clients Cleveland Heights, OH, with her medical school at the University of that include MultiMedia Artist, husband, Steven, a corporate tax Pittsburgh and passed the first part Apple Computer, University of officer and CPA with National of the National Medical Boards, California at San Francisco and of the Boston office of Coopers & City Corporation, a bank holding and has completed rotations in Ziff Davis Publishing. Lybrand, the international company. pediatrics, surgery and neurology. '91 accounting and consulting firm. '88 Katherine Spivak Friedman passed Kenneth L. Wolf, who is active in the Massachusetts bar exam and is Andrea C. Kramer, Class the Democratic Party as vice Susan Tevelow, Class practicing with a small law firm in Correspondent, 5343 Washington president of the Greater Fort Correspondent, 268 Grove Street, Saugus, MA. Douglas Fuchs moved Street, West Roxbury, MA 02132 Apt. 5, Auburndale, MA 02166 to Farmmgton, CT, where he

works for the Farmington Police Elisa J. Aberman is teaching first is in the Bronx, and plans Mari J. Cartagenova has left the Department. Karen L. Gitten grade NY, field of TV production and is working for Bishoff Solomon to pursue her master's in early pursuing a master's of social work Communications, a public education this fall Ronald Ash at the University of Southern relations agency that handles completed his second year at the California. She loves Los Angeles political and governmental clients. Medical College of Virginia in the and hopes to seek a career as a Stephen D. Krause is in his second graduate program in health therapist Paul A. Cohen was year of a two-year Master of administration. His fiancee, graduated from New York College Science program m exercise Jennifer Brenner, is attending of Medicine and will begin an physiology at the University of Boston University where she is a internship at Cornell Medical Nevada at Las Vegas. He presented second-year doctoral student in Center. Sara Brownstein Goldman research results at the annual clinical psychology. Deborah received a master's degree in social meeting of the southwest chapter Brody started graduate school last work in 1990 from Columbia of the American College of Sports September in a mass

University and is studying Medicine. Michelle J. Long is communication program at Boston psychotherapy at the American living in Rochester, NY, where she University's College of

Kenneth L. Wull Institute for Psychoanalysis and is director of planning and Communication. 'Theodore H. Psychotherapy. She married Dr. development for the law firm of Frank spent much of his second Lauderdale Democratic Club and Benjamin Goldman in 1989 and Woods, Oviatt, Gilman, Sherman year of law school working as a with various civic groups, has a one-year-old son, Daniel & Clarke. Steven Rappaport is in staff member of the University of including the Environmental Lorence Tamara A. Greelish was his second year of a Ph.D. program Chicago Law Review. He was the Coalition, the United Way and graduated cum laude from Suffolk in fewish and Russian history at recipient of an Olin Law and Educational Foundation, Law School in 1991 and was Stanford University. Jared Slosberg Economics Fellowship and will be announced that he will run for a admitted to the Massachusetts and was graduated from Boalt Hall working this summer in the Fort Lauderdale city commissioner New Hampshire bars. Sheri Slusky School of Law last spring and took Chicago office of Kirkland and start a seat. He is the branch manager for Lanzarone was married in the California bar exam before Ellis. In addition, he will the public relations firm of Hill & November and is putting her embarking on an 1,100-mile clerkship with Judge Frank Knowlton and serves on the public master's in counseling psychology bicycle trip through Europe. He Easterbrook after graduation in policy panel of the Greater Fort to work as a counselor in has returned to California where 1994 Jeremy P. Goldman Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce he practices law in Palo Alto. completed his second year of a as well as on the city's Katherine D. Spivak passed the doctoral chemistry program at Community Appearance Board. In Massachusetts bar exam in Yale University while his wife, Jill addition, he served on President November and is practicing law in Saugus, MA.

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Eugene Hoffman is wellness/fitness magazine. Dawn week after graduation, Kimberly research and development for an a trading assistant at Cantor, Lerman is pursuing an M.B.A. in Center moved to Philadelphia and artificial blood substitute, which Fitzgerald L.P., in New York City, marketing and international started taking physics (that's right) he finds to be very exciting work. where he works with bond brokers business at the Stern School of as a member of Bryn Mawr He hopes to attend medical school and customers. Upon graduation. Business at New York University. College's Post-Baccalaureate in fall '94. Eric Fontano is still Marc Horowitz began work with Sarah B. Levin is attending the Premedical Program and she spent living m Waltham with good ol' the learning disabled in residential University of Maryland School of the year taking premed sciences; Mom and Dad. He is even working homes on Long Island and plans to Medicine Miriam R. Linver is then she will attend The Medical at Brandeis as a research assistant go back for his master's in social working toward an M.S. and Ph.D. College of Pennsylvania, where to Dr. Don Caspar in Rosenstiel work in the New York area in in family studies at the University she expects to receive an M.D. in Center. As a full-time employee, September. John Hsu is working of Arizona. Craig H. Lipset is 1997. Quite a change of pace for he is eligible to take courses in right up the street from Brandeis at pursuing a master's degree at this music major! She misses New math, physics and computer New York Life and is planning to Columbia University School of England in the autumn and can't science, and plans to do so over the obtain a master's in financial Public Health division of wait to have a free weekend to next two years. He is leaning services through the company. epidemiology. Lisa M. Lividini is visit Brandeis again, Jeffrey H. towards a career in research, which Davida Isaacs spent part of the working in a library on Port CJiester is completing his first year calls for a graduate degree in summer following graduation Hueneme Naval Base in California as a medical student at the biophysics. In his free time, he traveling through Europe. She is and hopes to go back to grad University of Medicine of New enjoys volleyball, hockey and golf. presently at New York University school. Janis A. Loewengart is Jersey School of Osteopathic Tammy Friedman is working as a Law School Lorraine Jablowsky is living in Randolph, NJ, and Medicine. David Colin is a human resources assistant and a paralegal in a small law firm working for The New Yorker. Beth purchasing agent with a South attending Boston University part- dealing in commercial litigation, C. Manes is attending the Elorida company that exports time for an MBA. After spending in midtown Manhattan where she University of Michigan Law electronics. David Cooke spent the the summer and fall of 1992 hopes to go to law school. Jennifer School Shari R. Mendelson co- summer after graduation touring theater season acting in Vermont, Kalm completed her first year of recorded six children's albums and Israel for six weeks and is Leah Rachel Froum is living in medical school at the University of is working with Pat Collins and attending the University of New York City pursuing a career Florida. Jennifer Karas is working John Velasco on an upcoming Michigan Medical School. Dawn L. off-off-off-off Broadway. She was for First State Management Group video for the project. She lives in Cohen is taking two years off pleased to leam that there are in Boston. Amir Kami is presently Teaneck, NJ, where she is before medical school and is a scores of Class of '90, '91 and '92 in Block II of Medical Scfiool at auditioning, taking dance classes research assistant in a neurology people there, forming a mini- Baylor College of Medicine in and waitressing like every other lab at Case Western Reserve Brandeis on the West side! Sherri Houston, and is happy to report "aspiring actor." Amy S. Merget is University for a doctor who is L. Geller is in graduate school at that he loves it. Dylan Kaufman is working as a program coordinator studying Alzheimer's disease. Lisa Boston University, pursuing a taking pre-med classes at San for Reading, PA, urban ministry. B. Davidson started a master's master's in public relations and Francisco State University, but Her first-of-its-kind program in the program at Tufts University in working as a graduate assistant in hopes to transfer to the University area, family action support team their child study department. She the Center for the Study of of California at Berkeley in the (FAST), reaches out to single says it's nice to finally focus her Disinformation. Daniel Gewanter fall. Heather Parkoff Kibel is parents and their children to take learning and experiences on her IS attending Columbia Law School, married and working as assistant control of an often unstable family future career with children. Mark J. Ginsberg is concentrating director of New Jersey Young unit. Steven W. Rabitz is attending Tabitha Dowling reports she has a in environmental law at the Lewis Judaea, a Zionist youth movement. New York University School of husband, a job (management & Clark-Northwestern School of Inbar Kirson is attending medical Law and expects to graduate in position at Gap Kidsj, a place to Law, Sarina Glazer is pursuing a school at Rush Medical College in May 1995. Sheri C. Newman is in live, three kitties and friends that certificate to teach English at the Chicago and is involved in the a post-baccalaureate pre-medical are too far away! Sam Lyons secondary level and English as a Women's International Zionist program at Tufts University. Peter Elowitch IS studying for his second language, Erin A. Glassman Organization, as well as RATS B. Nickowitz is in a master's/ master's degree in Near Eastern is attending the University of (Rush Aid Through Sports) which Ph.D. program in English literature studies at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social IS similar to a weekly Special at New York University. He enjoys California at Berkeley and may Work for her master's, Lisa Olympics. Cheryl Knoepler is living in Greenwich Village, but thereafter pursue a Ph.D. Vincent Goldman works for the United volunteering at a local elementary misses the green grass and fauna of Eng is attending law school at States Senate Joint Economic school and hopes to attend Waltham. Larissa Pelc completed American University where he is Committee in Washington, DC, graduate school next year to her first year at Brooklyn Law pursuing a J.D. and M.A. in Lori A. Goldsmith is attending the become a counselor. Julie School in New York City and is international affairs. Jason Ensler University of Delaware for her Krasnogor is a student at the living in Brooklyn Heights. She IS working in New York City master's m life span development, University of Connecticut Law says that it's tons of work, but she trying to get acting and movie- after which she hopes to continue School. Taria Lambert completed a loves it. Jeffrey S. Peters completed making experience. He plans to go on for her PhD. Miriam R. graduate program in education at the Kibbutz Ulpan volunteer to New York University Film Greenburg is completing her the Institute of Education at the program in Israel and worked with School. David K. Epstein is certification for teaching and then University of London. Marlyssa A. new immigrants, trying out his spending a year in Israel where he plans to look for work in theater in Landesman is pursuing an M.B.A. new language skills at an is participating in a 10-month the Boston area. Rachel S. Haas is at the State University of New absorption center. When he program consisting of a four- very happily married to Norman York at Buffalo School of returns to the United States, he month Kibbutz Ulpan and a six- Barth and began attending Drisha Management and working m the will attend law school at month work period. He is also Yeshiva in January. Marny Joy Public Defenders Office at Erie Pennsylvania State University. volunteering in the Haifa Held is working full-time for a County Court, interviewing Leila Porter is a research assistant Environmental Quality office, small marketing group whose clients and conducting factual in Bastrop, TX, with MD Anderson helping to establish recycling customers are pharmaceutical investigations. Jodi Lazar worked Cancer Center's Veterinary Park, programs and tutoring recent for EF Foundation for Foreign immigrants in English. Lisa B. Exchange, an international student Feldman is attending graduate exchange organization, and in the school at Rutgers University legal department at Lotus in

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where she is studying the behavior Eastern and North African Studies. Lauren Sueskind is an account district, six blocks from the beach, of a colony of rhesus monkeys. Elena (Lenna) Silberman is executive with Bayard Advertising and has a part-time job as a sales Asad Rahman spent three months finishing up a master's program at Agency, Inc., a recruitment assistant to a stockbroker in the studying Arabic in Jordan as part of Northwestern University's Medill advertising agency in New York Miami office of Smith Barney. his Middle Eastern studies School of Journalism. This City Lynne M. Sundblad is Sean D. Wengroff is attending program and traveled extensively summer she is serving as a working at an advertising/ Tulane Medical School where he through Jordan and Syria before Washington, DC, correspondent marketing agency in Newton, MA. hopes to receive his M.D. and returning to Karachi, Pakistan. He for a television and radio station. Sydnie Suskind worked on the possibly a master's in public works for ICI, the largest British Stephen Silverman is working for Paramount lot as a production health and tropical medicine. He is multinational corporation in Chase Manhattan Bank in New assistant on "Brooklyn Bridge" and enjoying New Orleans where he Pakistan, and says graduate school York City. Michael Sinert is previously was assistant to the lives within walking distance to is somewhere down the road. Ellen working as a reporter covering producer of iooA- Who's Talking. the French Quarter and says he is Rappaport completed her first year local politics for the Daily Asta Kristjana Sveinsdottir is getting acclimated to "po' boys, at Boston College Law School. She Transcript in Dedham, MA. teaching math at the Gymnasium jambalaya, red beans and nee." misses Brandeis, but is glad to be However, he still lives in Waltham of Reykjavik, Iceland, and taking Ronald B. West is a first-year law in the Boston area. Gyodi L. Reid where he enjoys playing squash at courses in old Icelandic, student at the University of San is working for W.W. Norton & Co. Brandeis's new gym. Adam Smith philosophy and French at the Diego. Darren S. Witte is a first- book publishers m New York City IS attending Temple Law School University of Iceland. She plans to year medical student at the and living in Freehold, NJ. Susan and hopes to pursue a career in begin graduate studies in Medical College of Virginia in Rosen is attending the University sports law. Olga Stambler is a first- philosophy in the fall in the Richmond. Joshua Wyte lives in of Pennsylvania where she is year student at Fordham Law United States. Inci Tonguch is Vail, CO, where he is working at a pursuing a master's degree in School in New York City. Mikhal attending Duke University Law sports store. He has plans to apply psychology Michael Rosenthal is E. Stein is assistant director of the School where she is pursuing a J.D. to law school for the fall. Yinlee attending Yale University School Anti-Defamation League's New and master's m international law. Yoong is completing her first year of Law. Jonathan D. Rothberg is England region and resides in Abigail Weiner is in the Ph.D. at Harvard Medical School and attending Loyola Medical School Brookline, MA. Pia N. Strother is program at Brown University's hopes to do some research in in Chicago, IL. Amy B. Rubman is working for Fleet Bank of Center for Old World Archaeology cardiology upon graduation. in medical school at the Massachusetts as a financial and Art. Richard Weiner

University of Vermont. She says analyst in the managed assets completed Lord iSi. Taylor's that she is deeply appreciative of division. She is living with three executive training program and her Brandeis education as she finds other Brandeis alumni, all former was promoted to area sales herself well-prepared for the rigors members of the Brandeis women's manager in Boston. After surviving of medical school. Shelley Savage track team, in Brighton, MA. Hurricane Andrew, Jaime S. is a health e.xtension project Wengroff has settled into a dual volunteer in Togo, West Africa. degree MB. A. and M.S. program in Miriam Schoeman is enjoying the international business, at the master's program at the University University of Miami School of of Michigan's Center for Middle Business. He lives in an apartment in South Miami Beach's art deco

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Elinor T. Adman (MA. '66, Ph.D. Theological Institute. Fatima the English Department at the Connecticut State University and '67, chemistry) is in the itternissi |M.A. '72, Ph.D. '74, University of Houston in Texas has published over 120 poems. He Department of Biological Structure sociology) tries to explain the roles and has published a novel entitled also served as president of a at the University of Washington in of Muslim women without Before and After, a book of essays, cooperatively-run small press that Seattle and was named vice apologetics in her book Islam and poet and short stories called A published 23 books of poetry. president of the American Democracy: Fear of the Modern Rosellen Brown Reader and Street Susanne Schloetelburg Crystallographic Association for World. Shulamit T. Reinharz Games: A Neighborhood, a reissue Klingenstein (M.A. '83) is a 1993. Robert B. Horwitz |M A. '82, (M.A. '69, Ph.D. '77, sociology), of a 1974 book of short stories. research associate at the Tauber Ph.D. '83, sociology) is the chair of director of the Women's Studies Marilyn L. Brownstein (M.A. '70, Institute at Brandeis University the Department of Program and professor of sociology Ph.D. '79) IS assistant professor of and the author of lews in the Communication at the University at Brandeis University, has English at the University of American Academy. 1900-1940: of California at San Diego and the received an Outstanding Academic Georgia and the author of several The Dynamics of Intellectual author of The Irony of Regulatory Book award for 1993 from Choice chapters including "Class Assimilation. Marcia R. Reform: The Deregulation of magazine, the book review journal Consciousness and Non-identity" Lieberman (Ph.D. '66) published American Telecommunications. for academic libraries. Her book, in A Berlin Chronicle and "Three The Outdoor Traveler's Guide: which won the 1990 Ethics and Femmist Methods in Social Guineas" in Post/Modernist The Alps in 1991, and her 1987 Policy Award for Communications Research, was honored for its Negotiations: Gender, Race and book. Walking Switzerland: The Research from the Donald wide-ranging survey of feminist Aesthetics. Martin A. Danahay Swiss Way, is in its second edition. McGannon Communications projects in the social sciences, the (M.A. '83, Ph.D. '87) is assistant Gerda S. Norvig (M.A. '70, Ph.D. Research Center. Walter C. Kaiser, methods employed and the value professor of English at Emory '79) IS teaching in the English

Jr. |M.A. '72, Ph.D. '73, of the work produced. In University in Atlanta and the Department at the University of Mediterranean studies), professor November, Winifred B. author of A Community of One: Colorado and published Dark of Old Testament at Trinity Rothenberg (Ph.D. '85, history) Masculine Autobiography and Figures in the Desired Country: Evangelical Divinity School in published from Market-Places to a Autonomy in Nineteenth-Century Blake's Illustrations to Pilgrim's Chicago, was appointed to the Market Economy: The Britain and several articles on the Progress Naomi Pasachoff (Ph.D. newly-endowed position of the Transformation of Rural subject of class, gender and the '74) has written several textbooks, Colman M. Mockler Distinguished Massachusetts. 17S0-18S0. Victorian masculine subject. He is including Great fewish Thinkers: Professor of Old Testament and Marilyn S. Rueschemeyer (Ph.D. also at work on another book to be Their Lives and Work and Basic director of the Colman M. Mockler '78, sociology) was appointed entitled Ideologies at Work: fudaism for Young People, as well Program in Biblical Foundations cochair of the Committee on Victorian Representation and the as coauthored several books on for Ethics at the Boston International Sociology of the Division of Labor. Anita DeVivo earth science. Linda Simon (Ph.D. American Sociological Association (M.A. '59) IS a self-employed '83) IS a preceptor in expository where she had served as Eastern editorial management consultant writing at Harvard University and European liaison. She coordinated and has served as executive editor IS coauthonng The Harper Collins a conference on women in Eastern of the American Psychological Guide to Writing and authoring a Europe for the International Association. In addition, she is a book entitled William fames. C. Research and Exchange Board in founding member of the Choral Robert Sprich (M.A. '63) is a Prague. In addition, her book. Arts Society of Washington, DC, lecturer at the Boston AUTHORS Women m the Politics of Post- and sang on a Grammy Award- Psychoanalytic Institute, founding Communist Eastern Europe, has winning record with Bernstein for member of the board of directors of See Your Book In Print been published. Sheila Silver |M.A. Nixon's counter-inaugural. Peter The Friends of Dr. Bumey, a '74, Ph.D. '76, music) had the Elbow (Ph.D. '70) is a professor of historic musical theater and Enjoy the personal satisfaction of world premiere of her "Three English at the University of performance group, and founding seeing your meinuscript professionally Preludes" composition when it Massachusetts at Amherst and the member of the board of directors of produced in book form. Dorrance, the was performed by The American recipient of the "Rhetorician of the the Coolidge Comer Theater oldest nctme in subsidy publishing, Composers Orchestra m Carnegie Year" award from the Annual Foundation. Timothy Steele (M.A. publishes cdl categories of rictlon and Hall on March 21. Young Rhetoricians Conference. '72, Ph.D. '77) IS a professor of '71 State non-fiction, poetry, and children's books. Robert E. Frank (MA. 1 is an English at California Send for our complimentary, 32-page, Enj;lish and American Literature English teacher and computer University in Los Angeles and the illustrated Author's Guide to Subsidy coordinator at Weston High School recipient of numerous honors Publishing, a detailed explanation of Charles Bazerman (MA. '68, in Weston, MA. He also edits the including the California State our quality services every author Ph.D. '71) IS a professor of newsletter of the Lexington University Outstanding Professor should have. Call 1-800-695-9599 literature, communication and Council for the Arts. Daniel Fuchs Award 1991-92, the Los Angeles or mail the coupon below. culture as well as director of (M.A. '56) is a professor of English PEN Center Literary Award for graduate studies at Georgia at the College of Staten Island and Poetry 1987, National Books Institute of Technology. He is the the author of Saul Bellow: Vision Critics Circle Finalist for Poetry DORRANCE Dept. UVN author of several books including, and Revision. Steven L. Award 1 986, a Guggenheim PUBLISHING CO. 643 Smithfieid St. A Constructive Experience, due Hamelman (Ph.D. '91) is assistant Fellowship 1984-85 and Pushcart Pittsburgh, PA 15222 out in 1994, and Shaping Written professor of English at the Prize 1983. Ronald R. Thomas Knowledge: The Genre and University of South Carolina/ (M.A. '78, Ph.D. '83) is associate D Please send me your Author's Guide Activity of the Experimental Coastal Carolina College. Barry W. professor of English at Trinity to Subsidy Publishing. Article in Science, which won the Hohz(M.A. '71, Ph.D. '73) is College and the author of Dreams 1990 McGovern Medal of the codirector of the Melton Research of Authority: Freud and the D Enclosed is my manuscript for American Medical Writer's Center for Jewish Education and Fictions of the Unconscious. He your response. Association and the 1990 National associate professor of Jewish was nominated for the 1990 British D Please call me. Council of Teachers of English education at the Jewish Council Prize in the Humanities Award for Excellence in Technical Theological Seminary of America by the North American Name and Scientific Writing. Joan F. in New York City. Gray Jacobik Conference on British Studies for Berns (M.A. '71, Ph.D. '74) is a (M.A. '85, Ph.D. '89) is assistant the James Russell Lowell Prize. In teaching assistant at Wayland professor of English at Eastern addition, he was the recipient of Address High School in Wayland, MA, an the Margaret Church Modern adult tutor in French language and Fiction Studies Memorial Prize for culture and a certified English as a the year's best published essay, in City State Zip . Second Language tutor. Rosellen 1986. Robert Wexelblatt (Ph.D. Brown (M.A. '62) is a professor in '73) is a professor of Humanities at Boston University and the Phone ( ) recipient of numerous awards. Continuing the tradition of quality subsidy publishing since 1920. Brandeis University Prospective Student Referral Card

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. Parsons passed 93 m May we use your name when contacting the student? D Yes D No A, from m AIDS. He was ology at Smith fellowships from :)wment for the professor and chairman of the professor of social work and enlightened values during an Humanities, the National director of the Nonprofit family studies department at the active career of community Endowment for the Arts and the University of Management at West service. Maryland, visitmg Academy She is a national authority National Humanities Institute at Virginia University. Richard scholar-in-residence at Spelman E. on gerontology and chair of the the University of Chicago. In in Isralowitz (Ph.D. '78], director of College Atlanta and member ot committee on older adults for addition, he was a member of the board of overseers of Brandeis the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute Worcester Fights Back. several national sociological University's Heller School, for Social Ecology at Ben-Gurion professional organizations. He University published Climbing [acob's of the Negev (Israel), is Near Eastern and Judaic Studies leaves his companion, William G. Ladder: serving as project codirector for The Enduring Legacy' of the Hungerford; two brothers, Roger of development of a model '77) African-American Families, a education Oral Collins (Ph.D. is teaching Monmouth, CA, and Richard of improvement sequel to his Black Families m program for Bible courses part-time at the Ojai, CA; and his stepmother, White America. Bedouin-Arab and Native Betty J. Cleckley Berkshire Institute for Christian (anette Rainwater of Pacific (Ph.D. '74), vice president for American youth. He is also editor Studies, where he conducts an Palisades, CA. Anthony Sabatino, multicultural affairs, of a special edition of the Israel has been annual academic travel seminar to M.F.A. '69, died on April 10, 1993 Social Science appointed to the executive Research fournal. a Egypt, lordan and Israel. In in Los Angeles of AIDS. He was publication of the Israel committee of the Defense addition, he is also working on a an award winning art director Sociological Advisory Committee on Women Society entitled the commentary on the Apocalypse. whose proiects included "The in "Kibbutz the Services (DACOWTTSl, in Transition." Karen Lynn Hazan (MA. '80) is executive Golden Globes," "The People's which assists and advises the Devereaux JVlelillo (Ph D. '';0), recruiter for Beverly Von Winckler Choice Awards," and production associate secretary of defense on policies and professor m the ^ Associates, a communications of "The Soul Train Music department matters relating to women in the of nursing of the and marketing firm in Chicago, Awards." He had eight Emmy military services. She also serves College of Heath Care Professions and teaches at Lakeside nominations, receiving the as vice at the University of chair of the DACOWITS Massachusetts Congregation in Highland Park, IL. Daytime Emmy for "Fun House" quality of life committee. at Lowell, was named the recipient also Thomas She runs a free-lance business for the 1988-89 season. He is P. '72, '77| of the Foundation of Glynn (M.S.W, Ph.D. American as a professional storyteller and survived by his companion, Leslie was College of Heath Care nominated by President has presented numerous programs Miller, his parents and a sister. Clinton to be Administrators' deputy secretary of Long-Term Care for CAJE, the ADL and other Fack E. Stumpf, Ph.D. '71, died of labor. Previously, Research Award. award is he was senior The lewish organizations throughout pneumonia on January IS, 1993 at vice president for presented annually for original finance and the country. Audrey Mindlin his home in San Diego. He was a administration contributions to at Brown knowledge related Poppy (M.A. '84) is working part- founder and one of five original to the organization, University in Providence. He also finance or time as consultant editor to a professors of the School of Social served delivery of long-term as general manager of the health care. publisher of legal journals for Hong Work at San Diego State Regina Massachusetts Bay Transit O'Grady-LeShane Kong and the Southeast Asian University, where he was Authority, (Ph.D. '82) was appointed deputy commissioner to the region and spends the rest of her employed for 21 years and of the Massachusetts Department Women and Retirement time working for environmental authored or coauthored more than of Public Welfare and director of Congressional Study Group causes. Mark Sokoll (M.A. '90) was 50 articles and books. His Vice examining Social President Mondale's Task Security issues. appointed executive director of outstanding career in social work Force She is on Youth Employment. an assistant professor at Leventhal-Sidman lewish was recognized in 1991, when he Roger '75) Boston College's A. Lohmann's (Ph.D. Graduate School Community Center in Newton, received the two highest state new of Social Work. Rosalie book. The Commons: New S. Wolf MA. Constance W. Williams awards in the field: the California Perspectives (Ph.D. '76) on Nonprofit was chosen as 1992 (Ph.D. '89) received the Social Worker of the Year and the Organization and Voluntary honoree by the Worcester Massachusetts Chapter of the Koshland Award. He had served as Action, was awarded the Staley- National Association of Social an advisor to both the City and Robeson-Ryan-St. Lawrence award Workers' 1993 award for Greatest County of San Diego, and was a by the National Society of Fund- Contribution to Social Policy and delegate to presidential Change. Her research and social conferences during the Truman, policy recommendations m the Eisenhower and Kennedy area of African-American teenage administrations. He is survived by pregnancy was cited by the awards his wife, Josephine, his daughter, committee. 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Elinor T. Adman (MA '67, chemistry) is in tt Department of Biologi at the University of W Seattle and was name( president of the Amer Prospective Student Referral Crystallographic Asso Office of 1993. Robert B. Horwi Admissions '83, Ph.D. sociologyl i: Brandeis University the Department of P.O. Box 91 10 Communication at th of California at San D Waltham, MA 02254-91 10 author of The Irony of Reform: The Deregula American Telecommi which won the 1990 I Policy Award for Corr Research from the Do McGarmon Communi Research Center. Wal

Jr. |M.A. '72, Ph.D. '7; Mediterranean studie; of Old Testament at 1 .„„.., "o- -*-••/ Evangelical Divinity School m published From Marketplaces to a Autonomy in Nineteenth-Century Blake's Illustrations to Pilgrim's Chicago, was appointed to the Market Economy: The Britain and several articles on the Progress Naomi Pasachoff (Ph.D. newly-endowed position of the Transformation of Rural subject of class, gender and the '74) has written several textbooks, Colman M. Mockler Distinguished Massachusetts. 1750-1850. Victorian masculine subject. He is including Great fewish Thinkers: Professor of Old Testament and Marilyn S. Rueschemeyer (Ph.D. also at work on another book to be Their Lives and Work and Basic director of the Colman M. Mockler '78, sociology) was appointed entitled Ideologies at Work: fudaism for Young People, as well Program in Biblical Foundations cochair of the Committee on Victorian Representation and the as coauthored several books on for Ethics at the Boston International Sociology of the Division of Labor. Anita DeVivo earth science. Linda Simon (Ph.D. American Sociological Association (M.A. '59) is a self-employed '83) is a preceptor in expository where she had served as Eastern editorial management consultant writing at Harvard University and European liaison. She coordinated and has served as executive editor IS coauthoring The Harper Collins a conference on women in Eastern of the American Psychological Guide to Writing and authoring a Europe for the International Association. In addition, she is a book entitled William lames. C. Research and Exchange Board in founding member of the Choral Robert Sprich |M A. '63) is a Prague. In addition, her book. Arts Society of Washington, DC, lecturer at the Boston AUTHORS Women m the Politics of Post- and sang on a Grammy Award- Psychoanalytic Institute, founding Communist Eastern Europe, has winning record with Bernstein for member of the board of directors of See Your Book In Print been published. Sheila Silver (MA. Nixon's counter-inaugural. Peter The Friends of Dr. Burney, a '74, Ph.D. '76, music) had the Elbow (Ph.D. '70) is a professor of historic musical theater and Enjoy the personal satisfaction of world premiere of her "Three English at the University of performance group, and founding seeing your manuscript professionally Preludes" composition when it Massachusetts at Amherst and the member of the board of directors of produced in book form. Dorreince, tfie was performed by The American recipient of the "Rhetorician of the the Coolidge Corner Theater oldest name in subsidy publishing, Composers Orchestra in Carnegie Year" award from the Annual Foundation. 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The flood of tributes that poured into translating them into reality. Just look the University from around the globe at Brandeis University today! He was testifies to the charismatic personahty an extraordinary presence. We offer ofAbram Sachar. How many Uves this photo essay with the hope that we he touched and touched profoundly! can convey something of his essence He had a fascinating turn of mind a nearly impossible task Better, both ideahstic and practical. IdeaUstic perhaps, to have shown pictures of in that he had dreams and schemes, the campus and the flocks of students but praaical in that he was capable of for whom he toiled.

A patriotfrom the Sachar standingfourth He was bom in 1899 in brother Morris, wife beginning, Sachar enlisted from left with classmates at New York, but moved with Thelma, Sachar, brother in the army at age 17for Emmanuel College, hisfamily when he was Louis. Front row: sister service in World War I. Cambridge University. He seven to St. Louis, May, father Samuel (bom

(front cover ofthe insert) studied at Cambridgefor Missouri. Standing left to in Lithuania), mother three years, and in 1923 right, back row: sisterJune, Sarah (born in Palestine), became thefirst person ever sister Riva and an uncle, to be granted a Ph.D. from circa 1926. that university. He earned

his B.A. andM.A. i,t the University of Washington at St. Louis. Sachar and wife, Theltna, in Berlin in 1932for a researchlvacation trip.

He started teaching history organization 's national at the University ofIllinois directorfrom 1933 to 1948 in 1923, and became one of and as chairman ofthe the pioneers ofthe Hillel National Hillel Foundation, which began Commissionfrom 1948 to there. He served as the 1955. In 1960, David Ben- The University was named Gurion, then-prime for Supreme Court Justice minister ofIsrael, visited Louis D. Brandeis. At the the campusfor a special celebration ofthe centenary convocation, which, Sachar anniversary ofhis birth in writes in A Host at Last, 1956, his daughter. provided an occasion for Attorney Sttsan Brandeis Ben-Gurion to meet with Gilbert, lights the candles President Eisenhower, in with Sachar looking on. Washington, during a period ofstrained relations between the United States and Israel.

ChiefJustice Earl Warren Sachar with his wife and

visited campus twice: the children (left to right) first time to dedicate Edward (deceased);

Robert Berk 's statue of Howard, now professor of Louis Brandeis at the history at George convocation in 1956 and Washington University; in 1963 to be interviewed Thelma; Sachar; and by Sacharfor a television David, a professor at Mt. series called the "Dretzin Sinai Medical School, with Living Biography his wife Joanna, circa " Program. He is shown 1963.

here (left) with Sachar on

the second visit. Sachar became close friends The cluster ofthree with Archbishop (later chapels, Jewish, Protestant Cardinal) Cttshing and Catholic, symbolizes ofBoston, who defended Sachar's dream for a the building ofthe Jewish-sponsored university Catholic chapel on campus that would welcome people against the objections ofall creeds. ofthe radical Feeney clique.

At Brandeis 's second In 1966 Sachar signed on convocation in 1950, K. C. Jones, a Boston Celtics

Sachar (far left) smiles with star, as hiuketball coach, Eleanor Roosevelt, who was making Brandeis the first on the first Board of non-black-sponsored Trustees. Between them is university in the country to the then-governor of name a black as the coach Massachusetts, Paul Dever. ofa major sport. —

Present at the Creation: A Tribute to Abram L. Sachar

by John P. Roche

When I heard the news that Abe had died, it seemed man with the high-pitched voice was driven by an impossible. Abe gone? Was the Castle still there? Of educational dream. He could have been the model George course rationally we all Icnow that no one has survived this Bush had in mind when he bewailed the "vision thing." life, but if anyone was a candidate for a first, it was the The simplistic version of his dream was that Brandeis indomitable Abram L. Sachar. Like his other old friends, would be the Jewish Princeton, a nonsectarian place of my wife Connie and I grieved: in selfish terms it is hard to learning initiated by the Jewish community for the benefit lose a person who has been part of your life for roughly 40 of all faiths. years, and we thought of his bond with Thelma now except in memory—gone. Most of his questions focused on academic micromanagement. Brandeis was planning to go from four

But the shiva is over, and the time has come to celebrate divisions to the departmental pattern: "How do you pick the life and achievements of this human dynamo. In the good chairmen?" "Should the university try to cover the culture of my Irish ancestors, the worst offense against the board with graduate programs, or act selectively?" "Should deceased is to lie about him, so let me declare that Abe deans be drawn from the faculty and continue teaching?" could be a difficult person: God help the poor souls whom he perceived as standing between him and his vision. He The whole discussion was intriguing and I was could be amazingly temperamental, call distinguished bewildered: here was this eminent former history professor Americans nasty things that stretched my fairly wide from the University of Illinois asking me (age 31) how to knowledge of Brooklyn Yiddish, and wonder aloud if it run a school! However, I told him what I thought, and in would be possible to have a great university with no turn was immensely impressed by his view of academic faculty. Take the student newspaper: he was incredibly capital development: you do not try to climb the ladder sensitive to what those little-league Village Voicexs wrote. from mediocrity to excellence one rung at a time. You

When dean, I used to hide his copy oi x.\\e Justice. shoot for the top at the outset; avoid hiring "stars" who had probably run out of steam in favor of the risky gamble

How did I get to know this man, let alone become his of seeking out the "stars" of the future. If you make the dean of faculty and lifetime friend? Everybody secretly right picks, they will carry up the school's reputation with feels his or her autobiography is historically invaluable, their own. but for those who tuned in late, some background on my emigration from Haverford College to Brandeis in 1956 We parted warmly; I went home and immersed myself in will provide perspective. In 1954 we were peacefully teaching and writing. Brandeis was forgotten until perhaps settled at Haverford, our daughter Joanna (Brandeis '77) May, when I got a call from Max Lerner, Max Richer was en route, I had tenure and I couldn't have asked for Professor of American Civilization, who, as I realized later, better students than those I taught at Haverford and was Abe's talent scout in the social sciences. He said, after

Swarthmore. I had no desire to go anywhere. considerable consultation, President Sachar had decided I would be the ideal candidate to establish Brandeis's new

Then in the fall I got a call from President Sachar inviting politics department. Was I interested, and, if so, what did me for lunch in Philadelphia; he suggested I might be able I want? He noted Brandeis had no tenure system, but to give some advice on the development of the social tenure was not one of my concerns—either you are born sciences at his new university. I love to give advice and in with it, or you're not. the back of my mind was the question: "What kind of a loon would try to start a university from scratch?" So off I After visiting the campus where I sensed the throbbing went to that fateful lunch. vitality and the challenge, like dozens of others, I

succumbed. Haverford was, and is, a fine school but here As generations of policy-makers in both the academy and was a chance to build a department, a feat that was simply the government of the United States have learned (some not possible in a long-established institution. Ego the hard way), I am not overwhelmable. But Abram obviously played a role: to be a full professor and Sachar was in a class by himself—a combination of department chairman at 33 was an irresistible attraction. scholar, teacher, visionary and pirate. Our luncheon was a Beyond that, however, was the allure—almost fascinating experience. Far from being the opportunist I hypnotically presented by Abe—of being "present at the had suspected (all sorts of Mickey Mouse "colleges" had creation." We signed on. been set up in the era of the G.I. Bill), this short, intense John P. Roche retired as dean. He was a syndicated Distinguished Professor columnist for some 150 American Civilization and newspapers here and Foreign Affairs at the abroad from 1968 to 1982 Fletcher School of Law and was special consultant and Diplomacy, where he to the President of the went from Brandeis in United States from 1966 1973 to be professor and to 1969.

For the next decade, I worked intimately with President commotion and he, most deferentially, explained that

Sachar as inter al, a department chairman, dean of faculty, Dean Roche said the Trustees didn't know how to run a organizer of the graduate program in American history, university. She smiled a deceptively genial smile (she was chairman of the Faculty Senate and trusted "ear." He one tough woman) and said "Dean Roche is absolutely would have a bright idea and call me over to try it on for right. " —and dozed off. What happened between the size, knowing if I thought it was a bummer, I'd give it to chairman and Abe later 1 know not, except that the him straight: he would get mad as hell on occasion. The chairman refused to sign my contract unless I apologized. toughest one to dispose of was his quest for a medical Hence, I got the only faculty contract signed by the school. Mt. Sinai and three or four other New York treasurer of the Board! Abe's only comment to me was hospitals were seeking an academic base, and Abe fell in "Did you have to be so direct? With him a Wnle yikhes love with a potentially disastrous marriage. goes a long way."

Fortunately, our preeminent scientist, Saul G. Cohen, This anecdotage could run on, but 1 think the thing for professor of chemistry and my predecessor as dean of which I am most grateful to Abe Sachar was that he gave faculty, and 1 were in complete agreement that this project me basic training on how to deal with elemental geniuses. had to be deep-sixed, and we were on the joint faculty- Within two weeks after I became a top staff member in administration-Trustees committee chosen to evaluate its the LBJ White House in 1966, 1 felt completely at home. merits. Cohen savaged it in terms of the impact it would The man who built Brandeis and the President who got have on the educational objectives of the School of civil rights, Medicare, Medicaid, Voting Rights, the War

Science; 1 emphasized the command and control aspect: on Poverty, who, in short, brought the United States into how could Brandeis control this leviathan down in New the modern world, were temperamentally peas from the

York City, keep it from putting us into Chapter 1 1 ? Abe same pod. Both knew, to borrow from Harry Truman, "If was at his piratical best: it would bring money to the you want love in Washington (or from a faculty), buy a sciences, it would give him an entree to New York donors, dog," yet were horrendously sensitive to criticism. The it would—be a jewel in our crown, and control was no parallel hit me one morning in my West Wing office problem "after all, it was only about 1 50 miles to New when the President called to tell me, practically crying,

York." Saul was too serious to laugh, but a Trustee and that "they're lying about me in Los Angeles." 1 observed it old friend, Isador Lubin, and 1 burst into laughter. Abe could be wofse. "How's that?" "It could be true." Bang! I looked nonplussed, and—God be praised—the proposal suddenly recalled a call from Abe about the nasty coverage was "postponed" indefinitely. New York City has not of his accomplishments reported by the Justice to which I been moved since. had given the same reply—and the phone had slammed down. But trust remained.

1 told Abe what 1 thought with the bark off, and in return got his total trust and support. For example, when 1 was Well, he's gone and we who admired and held him in dean 1 had to present the Board of Trustees with the deep affection have a gap in our psyches. Now at 70, and projected academic budget that included a substantial declared senile by Act of Congress, 1 can rejoice in the fact increase in faculty. The then-chairman of the Board was that 1 have been lucky enough to have had as friends and much perturbed; he couldn't understand why we needed bosses two truly charismatic characters. Though his Great so many small classes. How could we justify' a seminar in Society legacy and breakthrough on civil rights are very Algebraic Topology or Biblical Aramaic with less than 10 much alive, LBJ died of a broken heart—his name should students? He got quite worked up and, in effect, called for be on the Vietnam Memorial. But Abe was fortunate: as 1 time and motion studies of the work of the faculty. I know from my last lunch with him about seven months patiently explained that a university was not the garment ago, he died happy in the knowledge that Brandeis is in trade, that if you offer elementary algebra, for example, safe hands. May God rest his soul and comfort Thelma, math majors need follow-on courses and seminars. who quietly gave him the sustenance to turn a vision into a reality. The outcome was hilarious: the chairman snarled, "Dean The editor thanks Mrs. Abram Sachar for use of her personal photos, Charles Roche, are you telling me I don't know how to run a Cutter from the Brandeis Libraries for access to the Ralph Norman photo archives. university?" 1 said, "Well, since you put it that way, yes." Professor Howard Sachar for verifying the facts and Marilyn Dtliberto for her He hit the table with his hand—and awakened Trustee assistance in coordination. Eleanor a for while Roosevelt, who had genius napping Compiled by Brenda Marder. editor of the Brandeis Review. seemingly alert. She asked the chairman the source of the 7 After retiringfrom the presidency, as chancellor he worked ceaselessly in behalfofthe University until his death in July. He

is shown here at the celebration for President Samuel O. Thier's inauguration in April 1992. Brandeis Review Fall 1993 Volume 13 Number 2

The University by 2003: President Thier imagines Brenda Marder 12 A Place of Controlled Ferment "a university without walls"

A High-Tech Solution for Vignettes on garbage collection or lacques Cohen 18 Monsieur Poubelle explaining computerese to nonspecialists

Isolating a Contemporary Whither goeth Ruth: to harassment Michael Carasik 22 Issue in the Bible in the barley fields? By throwing hght on the workplace m ancient Israel, a graduate student exposes a case of gender harassment

In Defense of History Around the University

Founding President Abram Sachar is Dead

The University mourns the After the services, Sachar's death of Founding President funeral cortege made a and Chancellor Emeritus farewell sweep around the Abram L. Sachar, who died at campus on the peripheral his home on July 24 at the road before proceeding to the age of 94. Temple Israel Cemetery in Wakefield, iVlassachusetts. A Sachar won recognition as a special on-campus memorial driving force in the founding service was held in of Brandeis and in molding it conjunction with the into one of the youngest Founders' Day celebration in major research universities October. in the United States. He served as the University's Sachar was bom in New Founding President from York City in 1899. The 1948 to 1968, recruiting author of several books, faculty members and among them A History of the students, and supervising the lews. The Course of Our construction of 56 buildings. Times and A Host at Last, a In 1968 he was appointed history of the University, he chancellor, and later received his B.A. and a chancellor emeritus, master's degree from specially-created positions Washington University, St. Abram Sachar that allowed him to continue Louis, and his Ph.D. from working for the welfare of Emmanuel College, the University. Cambridge University. For 24 years he taught in the Memorial services were held history department of the Grant Will Boost on luly 28 at Temple Israel in University of Illinois. He was Super Computing Boston. In his eulogy one of the pioneers of the Research University President Samuel Hillel Foundation and served O. Thier said, "Abe Sachar as its national director from will be missed by generations 1933 to 1948 before of his students, faculty, accepting the presidency of trustees and supporters, all of Brandeis. More than 30 whom know that no one can American colleges and Computer scientists at computer so that larger ever replace him. His vision, universities have awarded Brandeis will use a $1 amounts of data can be energy, charisma, him honorary degrees. million grant from the transmitted or stored more imagination, academic taste National Science Foundation effectively. A longer-range and indomitable spirit built For a tribute to Abram to study various areas of goal of the research is to Brandeis." Sachar's sons, Sachar, see insert. super computing, including understand how neural David, a physician, and computer languages, networks can be trained to Howard, a historian, also artificial intelligence and recognize special features in spoke, remembering their data compression. The grant a scene or drawing. father's warmth, energy and will allow purchase of a Additionally, the unit will be many talents. Besides his "super" parallel computer available to researchers from two sons, Sachar is survived that IS capable of multiplying other science departments by Thelma Horowitz Sachar, or dividing one billion who are collaborating in the his wife of 67 years who numbers per second. The Benjamin and Mae Volen shared his vision and worked University's parallel National Center for Complex as his helpmate in building languages group will work to Systems. the University. He also develop new computer leaves five grandchildren. languages that can be used with this system. Another team will attempt to compress data from units feeding into the super

2 Brandeis Review 1 Sakharov Archives Class of '97: to Be Established A Bumper Crop at Brandeis

Tatiana Yankelevitch

Elena Bonner, the widow of operations of the Archives, The Brandeis Class of 1997 esteemed physicist and including cataloguing, was chosen from the second human rights activist Andrei preservation, user assistance largest applicant pool in the Sakharov, has given the use and future expansion of the history of the University. and ownership of Sakharov's collection through new The applications numbered documents to the University. acquisitions. 4,186, just 14 short of the The Archives inchide record of 4,207 established manuscripts, letters, drafts of Also underway at Brandeis is for the Class of 1992. Dean of scientific papers, personal an interdisciplinary center Admissions and Financial and family archival devoted to research on Aid David Gould credits the documents, photographs, human rights and the history growth in the applicant pool audio and video recordings of of science, to be called the to the growing confidence his appearances and Andrei Sakharov Center. The and enthusiasm associated interviews, a 300-page Center will work closely seminars and workshops and with Brandeis. chronicle of his life and a with a similar center to be an active exchange of "Furthermore," Gould bibliography to be housed in founded in Moscow on the materials, the two centers explains, "faculty, students extremely the special collections basis of archives currently will foster international and alumni were department of the Library. A housed in the former Soviet cooperation and draw helpful in assisting the bilingtial consulting Union. Through joint Eastern and Western scholars admissions office in enrolling archivist, Tatiana together to discuss human the new class." Yankelevitch, Bonner's rights, world peace and daughter, assists in the science. The Archives New entering students oversight of all the received a generous grant number 824, first-year and from the John D. and transfer students combined. plus the Catherine T. MacArthur Thirty-eight states Foundation. District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands New Faculty are represented, and 5 Appointed students will enter from 37 countries.

Among the new faculty of Tubingen and The Hebrew ensure recognition of world representing India. He appointed this fall is a University. Her first book. women's contributions to has been on the staff of the scholar of early Christianity, Women Lenders in the various religious traditions. India Embassy in Ankara and a poet, a Canadian Ancient Synagogue, is a She has been awarded the Bern; on the India High economist, an authority on classic in the field, American Council of Commission, Pakistan, as the Middle East, an expert on examining the role of women Learned Societies Grant-in- first secretary for political contemporary and American in ancient Judaism. Her work Aid; the American affairs and special duty Jewish sociology and a in progress. Early Christian Association of University officer for Pakistan affairs; former Indian ambassador to Responses to Female Women Faculty Career the India representative to the United States. Homoeroticism and Their Enhancement Grant; The Sikkini; and the India Historical Context, is a study Naruth Foundation ambassador to The Hague, Bemadette Brooten, a leading of gender and social relations Fellowship; the American Islamabad, Beijing and the scholar of early Christianity, that challenges both Academy of Religion Grant; United States. Bajpai has has been named the Myra Judaism's and Christianity's and the National been involved in the and Robert Kraft and Jacob views of men and women, Endowment for Humanities Commonwealth Prime Hiatt Associate Professor of religious authority and the Fellowship. In 1989 she was Ministers' Conferences, the Christian Studies. Brooten effect of culture on religion. a Bunting Institute Fellow. Tashkent India-Pakistan came to Brandeis from the Brooten has said the ultimate Dr. Brooten's research and Conference, the United Harvard Divinity School, purpose of her teaching and teaching interests will Nations Law of the Sea where she was associate research is to contribute to contribute to several Conferences I and D, the professor of scripture and interreligious understanding, interdisciplinary University India-China Boundary Talks interpretation. She was especially between programs. I-FV and the Non-Ahgned graduated from the Christians and Jews, and to Summit. Most recently he University of Portland and Madeleine Haas has been regents professor received her Ph.D. from Russell Visiting Professor and advisor to the chancellor Harvard Umversity. She has K. Shankar Bajpai is the first also studied at the University incumbent visiting professor to hold this chair in non- Western and comparative studies. He has traveled the

3 Fall 1993 Sylvia Barack Pishman

at the University of She graduated from Yeshiva Mysticism of Late Antiquity Zvi Memorial Prize, the California-Berkeley and a University and received her and the Early Middle Ages. Itzhak Gruenbaum Memorial distinguished visiting fellow M.A. from New York which traces the origins and Award and the Bosphorus at the Netherlands Institute University and her Ph.D. development of these motifs University Medal for of Advanced Study. from Washington University. through various stages of Distinguished Research. He She was awarded the Jewish history and thought. is an honorary fellow of the David Barkin, visiting Danforth Graduate Turkish Historical Society, professor of Latin American Fellowship for Women and Lynda Hull, the Fannie Hurst sits on the editorial board of studies in the Department of the Samuel Belkin Award for Poet-in-Residence in the Sefunot: Annual for History, is a professor at Distinguished Professional Department of English and Researcli on the Jewish Umversidad Autonoma Achievement from Yeshiva American Literature, was Communities in the Orient Metropolitans, Mexico, and University. She is the author graduated summa cum laude and is the author of sits on the editorial board of of A Breath of Life: from the University of numerous books, including Review of Radical Political Feminism iri the American Arkansas and received her The Politics of Pan-Islam: Economics. He was awarded Jewish Community and M.A. from The Johns Ideology and Organization the U.S. Congress Follow My Footprints: Hopkins University. She was and Pan-Turkism in Turkey: Commission for Study of Changing Images of Women a visiting professor at DePaul A Study of Irredentism. International Migration and m American Jewish Fiction. University and teaches at Cooperative Economics Vermont College. Hull Alan M. Rugman, visiting Development Research Arthur Green, Ph.D. 75, an authored Ghost Money, professor of international Grant; the lohn D. and internationally-known which received the Juniper business in the Department Catherine T. MacArthur scholar in Jewish thought Prize, and Star Ledger, which of Economics, was graduated Foundation Essay Award; the and spiritual traditions and earned the Edwin Piper from the University of Leeds Rockefeller Foundation an authority on Hasidism, Poetry Prize. She was and received his M.A. from Research Grant; and the mysticism and the awarded the Pushcart Prize, the University of London and Mellon Postdoctoral exploration of Jewish the Illinois Arts Council his Ph.D. from Simon Fraser Fellowship, among others. religious experience, has Writing Fellowship in Poetry, University. He is a professor He has authored many been named as Lown the Carl Sandburg Award by at the University of Toronto books, including Professor of Jewish Thought the Friends of Chicago and has authored several Porcicultura: La produccion in the Department of Near Library, the Los Angeles books, including Global de Traspatio-Otra Eastern and Judaic Studies. Times Poetry Award and the Corporate Strategy and Alteinativa-, Distorted Former president of the Edwin Piper Poetry Prize, Trade Policy and Development: Mexico in the Reconstructionist Rabbinical among others. Her poems Multinationals and Canada- World Economy and Food College, Green has authored have appeared in numerous United States Free Trade. Corps vs. Feed Crops: The a number of books, including anthologies and journals. Rugman was made a Fellow Global Substitution of Tormented Master: A Life of of the Academy of Grains in Production. Barkin Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav, a Jacob Landau, visiting International Business, vice was graduated cum laude psychological analysis of the professor of Middle Eastern president of the Academy of from Columbia University Zaddik and the unfolding of studies in the Department of International Business and and received his Ph.D. from religious experience in the Near Eastern and Judaic was a member of the Yale University. Hasidie movement and early Studies, is an authority on Canadian International Kabbalistic literature; Seek politics in the Middle East. Trade Advisory Committee. Sylvia Barack Fishman, My Face, Speak My Name: A He received his M.A. magna assistant professor of Contemporary Jewish cum laude from The Hebrew contemporary lewry and Theology, an original work of University and his Ph.D. American Jewish sociology theology aimed at a from the University of in the Department of Near contemporary audience; and London. He was the Gersten Eastern and Judaic Studies, the forthcoming Keter: The Professor of Political Science has been senior research Coronation of God in Jewish at The Hebrew University associate and assistant and was a resident fellow at director at the Cohen Center the Netherlands Institute for for Modem Jewish Studies. Advanced Study and was a senior visiting research fellow at Oxford University. Landau has received the Ben

4 Brandeis Review Faculty Promotions Avigdor Levy Harry Mairson

The Board of Trustees fuan and the Point of Honor: approved the promotion of Seduction, Patriarchal four Brandeis facuky Society, and Literary members to full professor: Tradition and the translation Avigdor Levy, Near Eastern of "The Dandy" and Other and fudaic Studies; R. Shep Stories by Luis Cernuda. Melnick, politics; James forthcoming. Mandrell, who Olesen, music; and James won an Andrew W. Mellon Storer, computer science. Travel Grant, an American Olesen serves as director of Apprentice Program. He is Council of Learned Societies Levy, M.A. '60, a leading the University Chorus, the author of Data Travel Grant and the 1991- expert in the United States director of the Early Music Compression: Methods and 92 Marver and Sheva on the political and social Ensemble and Chamber Theory. Bernstein Faculty Choir director history of the Jews in the and of Fellowship, is a member of Ottoman Empire, has also performing activities. His The Board of Trustees also the Faculty Senate. published on the subjects of programs present stylistic approved the promotion of Balkan nationalism and variety, from Stravinsky to three Brandeis faculty to Oprian's research on the Syrian politics. Levy teaches "Most Happy Fella." A few associate professor with structure and mechanism of a broad range of courses years ago, he introduced tenure: Harry Mairson, membrane receptors using including Turkish, advanced "Brandeis Sings," in which computer science; James synthetic receptor genes has Arabic, the civilization and the entire University Mandrell, romance and established him as a leader in institutions of Islam, and community is invited to comparative literature; and the field of visual religion and nationalism in spend a Sunday afternoon Daniel Oprian, biochemistry. pigmentation and vision. His the Middle East. He is the performing a classic choral The Board also granted discoveries concerning a author of The Sephardim in work together. He has guest tenure to Constance mutant form of rhodopsin the Ottoman Empire and conducted the Emmanuel Williams, Ph.D. '89, The have implications for The lews of the Ottoman Church Music and the Heller School. imderstanding the Empire, forthcoming. He was Griffin Music Ensemble and mechanism of the disease given an award from the two years ago, he became Mairson's original research at retinitis pigmentosa. Serving Foundation for Promotion of director of The Oxford and Stanford the department, he has run Turkish Culture in 1989. MasterSingers, a Boston-area Universities in asymptotics, the seminar program and chamber chorus. combinatorics and journals club, was a member Melnick is a political algorithms was mainly of the graduate admission scientist interested in how Storer is both a theoretical mathematical; his current committee both for the characteristics peculiar and an experimental research interest in biochemistry and bioorganic to the American political computer scientist. He is one programming language chemistry and served as system (separation of powers, of the developers and top theory and logic combines overseer of the tissue-culture federalism, weak parties, researchers of a subdiscipline mathematics with computer facility shared among five distrust of bureaucracy, within computer science science. Situated at the laboratories. emphasis on individual known as data compression, interface of theory and rights) influence government which consists of reducing programming, his work is Williams, associate professor policy. His two books. the size or text of image data central to still-developing at The Heller School, Regulation and the Courts: in order to reduce areas of computer science. received her M.S.S.S. from The Case of the Clean Air transmission time and Mairson, who won the 1991- Boston College and her Ph.D. Act and The Politics of storage space in computers 92 Marver and Sheva from The Heller School and Statutory Rights: Courts and and communication Bernstein Faculty came to Brandeis in 1990 as Congress in the American systems. He led in the Fellowship, has spoken associate professor. She is the Welfare State, forthcoming, establishment of the masters several times in the author of Subsidizing the document the changing role and Ph.D. programs in "Forefront Topics in Poor: A Boston Housing of the federal judiciary over computer science; acted as Science" high school lecture Experiment and Black the past 30 years and how the computer science series at Brandeis; lectured at Teenage Mothers: Pregnancy that transformation affected department representative local high schools as a and Child Rearing from welfare and regulatory for the building of the representative of Brandeis; Their Perspective. Among programs. He has been the National Center for Complex and has been a mentor in the her many awards are an politics department's Systems; and participated in Undergraduate Fellows honorary Doctorate of Graduate I'rogram director the Summer Research Program. Humane Letters from Curry for the past three years and College and The Greatest serves on the selection board Mandrell's field of study Contribution to Social that nominates Brandeis ranges from the Spanish Change Award from the students for Congressional Golden Age to modernist National Association of internships. literature, mystical poetry, Social Workers. genre and gender in contemporary women's fiction and popular culture/ film. He is the author of Don

5 Fall 1993 New Trustees Appointed

The Brandeis University Gosman, who holds a B.A. Board of Trustees has from the University of New announced the appointments Hampshire and is the of six new Trustees. All took benefactor of the Gosman their seats on the Board Sports and Convocation following Commencement Center, is a trustee of Beth 1993. They are: Norman C. Israel Hospital, Boston Francis, president of Xavier University, Dana-Farber University of Louisiana; Cancer Institute and the Abraham D. Gosman, Recuperative Center

founder and CEO of The Association in Boston. He is Mediplex Group hiC; Robert the founding member and B. Haas, chairman of the director of the National board of Haas Wheat &. Association of Senior Living Partners Inc.; Mariorie G. Facilities and past president Housen '56, special events of the Connecticut coordinator for Royal Boston; Association of Health Care Belle D. Jurkowitz '55, Facilities. president of the Brandeis University National Haas has a B.A. from Yale Women's Committee; and University and a (.D. from Carol R. Saivetz '69, fellow Harvard Law School. He is a of the Russian Research trustee of the Dallas Chapter Center and lecturer in the of the American Jewish social studies department at Committee, the Anti- Harvard University. Defamation League and the Texas Mental Health an admissions Francis holds a J.D. from Association and an executive representative Global issues for Tel Aviv University. She Loyola University and a board member of Southern Discussed has been bachelor's degree from Methodist University. Haas past president of the Scranton, Miami Beach, at President's Xavier, and has received is also a member of Israeli and Southeast Region chapters honorary degrees from economic development for of Convocation the National Women's Marquette University, St. the Jewish Federation of Committee and Michael's College, Seton Greater Dallas and the was national vice Hall University, Holy Cross strategic planning committee president from 1975 to 1977 and national chair College and Villanova of the Jewish Federation of from 1988 to 1993. As part of this University. He is director of Greater Dallas. Jurkowitz is year's the Equitable Life Assurance also regional chair of the President's Convocation, Alumni Fund, incoming first-year Society of the United States, Housen, a Brandeis graduate, a member of students the leadership cabinet for the were asked to read over the vice chair of the Carnegie is on the board of directors of Alumni Fund and chair of summer Beyond the Limits Foundation for the Erving Paper Mills, Friends of the Florida Alumni by Donella Meadows, et. al. Advancement of Teaching Beth Israel Hospital and the Admissions Council. and An Enemy and past chair of the College Hebrew Center for of the People by Henri k Ibsen, as adapted Entrance Examination Board. Rehabilitation of the Aged Saivetz holds a B.A. from by Arthur Miller. Students Elected in 1992, he began and is an overseer for the Brandeis and a Ph.D. from joined some of Brandeis's serving this year. Lown Graduate School at Columbia University. She is most distinguished faculty Brandeis. Heavily involved in assistant treasurer of the members for a talk on "The Hadassah, she is a national associate Jewish Community Global Ecological Crisis and Printer's for life. National Error Nominating Committee Relations Council of the Role of the Individual," Metropolitan focusing on chair, National Constitution Boston and questions dealing past chair of with growth We regret that in the chair, national vice the Soviet Jewry and Committee. development Summer 1993 issue of the president, on the national She has been a and possible visiting associate consequences for Brandeis Review there was a board of the leadership task professor and lecturer with humankind. The student- printer's error. On page 35, in force and president of the rank of the interview with Marc Westem New England associate professor at faculty panel discussion at Brandeis and an associate the class-wide gathering was Brettler, the first paragraph region. Housen is also a professor at Tufts followed the same evening in the first column below the member of the United Way University. Saivetz has been a by small group sessions led rule should have read; Allocations Committee for Brandeis Fellow since by faculty "What can you as a dedicated Franklin County. 1985 and is a members in residence teacher do to draw the member of the National halls across Women's campus. The first-year students into the subject Jurkowitz holds a B.A. from Committee. class meeting at Convocation was matter?" Brandeis and is a board begun last year to engage member of the Greater students in a dialogue Miami Jewish Federation and about present-day issues.

6 Brandeis Review Gifts Increase National Women's Committee Offers Brandeis Institute in Florida, New York

Fiscal year 1992-93 saw a 26 "The challenge for the The e.xeellenee ot Brandeis is movies, the future of the percent increase in gifts to upcoming year will be to brought home to thousands Jewish family and other Brandeis from individuals, build on the growing interest of people across the United aspects of being an American the first increase in three and involvement of our States each year through the Jew in the last part of the years. Private gifts totaled alumni," said Larry Harris unique Study Group program 20th century. Discussions $26.7 million, while new '63, the incoming chair of the of the Brandeis University will be guided by materials major gift commitments Brandeis Annual Fund. He National Women's written for the Women's exceeded $13 million and reported that although only Committee. For nearly 40 Committee by Sociology included $9.3 million in new 29 percent of alumni made years members have been Professor Gordon Fellman, and additional commitments a gift in 1992-93, more than meeting in living rooms, Professor Stephen Whitfield from the Trustees of the 40 percent have made gifts clubhouses and community of American studies, University. Senior Vice within the last two years. centers, with one of their Professor James Schulz of President for Development Over 400 alumni made first- own as discussion leader, to The Heller School and the and Alumni Relations Daniel time gifts to the University study everything from late Marshall Sklare of the

J. Mansoor commented that in fiscal year 1992-93. Shakespeare to rationing Department of Near Eastern "the generosity of alumni, health care, based on syllabi and Judaic Studies. friends and Trustees of the The Reunion Fund program authored by Brandeis faculty. University represents a has expanded as well. Trained, experienced group tremendous vote of Volunteer committees from A sampling of these leaders will facilitate these confidence in the future of each of the Reunion classes challenging courses, which participatory sessions, the University." of "4's" and "9's" are making have been developed for the including some of the personal solicitations and exclusive use of the Women's Committee's most broad appeals to members of Women's Committee, is popular Study Group leaders. their anniversary class, being offered to alumni and Florida leaders include Sheila loining the Reunion others not affiliated with the Clemon-Karp '80, former volunteers are a new cadre of Women's Committee in assistant secretary of Elder volunteers who will be southern Florida and New Affairs for the State of Public Gordon personally contacting many York City through a series of Massachusetts, who earned Policy Center Gives of our supporting alumni and one-day programs called her Ph.D. in English and Award friends. "Brandeis Institute Days." American Literature from Brandeis; Joyce Reider, A new program, the Brandeis The Third Annual Florida former president of the Legacy Circle, was Brandeis Institute Days will Women's Committee Florida inaugurated in 1992-93. be held in four locations Region, who has conducted Two hundred and eighty from November 8 to programs in American The Gordon Puhlic Policy individuals joined this December 2. Under the studies for United Nations Center honored Eugene recognition society of those theme "Power to the diplomats and discussion Roherts, editor of the who have taken the People?: How the Great programs for retired school Philadelphia Inquirer, with University into consideration Changes of the '60s Affect teachers, and has led Study the Burton Gordon Feldman in their estate and tnist our Lives Today," Groups for the Women's Award, which honors plans. In the coming year, participants will explore in Committee for 30 years; and outstanding contributions in the program will expand its small groups the pop culture Muriel Bermar, a former efforts to include even more of the 1960s, the drastic history teacher will lead public policy. Roberts is who credited with transforming alumni and friends. revisions in the political discussions on civil rights. the Philadelphia Inquirer process that have taken place from one of the ten worst Changes in the tax laws may since the 1968 piesidential A national fund-raising and city newspapers to one that have a dramatic impact on election and the "fracturing education organization, the the timing, method and of America," reflected in its Brandeis University National acquired 1 7 Pulitzer Prizes under his leadership. During amounts of charitable giving many ethnic and cultural Women's Committee has for divisions Discussion his 18-year tenure at the the Brandeis community. today. raised more than $47 million Inquirer, the paper earned a The development office has guides were prepared by for the Brandeis Libraries. (800-333- professors reputation as a journalistic set up a hot line American studies Since American Studies gem, as demonstrated by the 1948) to provide information Jacob Cohen and Thomas Professor Lawrence Fuchs about the new tax laws and Doherty. wrote the first Study Group Pulitzer Prizes it won for investigative reporting as their effect on making gifts syllabus in the mid-fifties. Brandeis. well as for analysis of to The New York program, Study Groups have become systemic public policy entitled "Is There a Future the most popular program issues. After the presentation for the Jewish Family': Being among the organization's of the award, Roberts spoke Jewish in America," is being 55,000 members and on "Creating Innovation in sponsored by the Manhattan continually attract new the Media." Chapter of the Women's members. For information on Committee and will be held membership and Study on November 15 at Brandeis Groups, call 617-736-4160. House, 12 East 77th Street. The program will focus on American Jewish humor, images of Jews in American

7 Fall 1993 Sports Notes Liia Kitamura '95 (left) and Stephanie Shapiro '93 fhght) cross paths during a meet

Scholar-Athletes Ranked "Tops" The Brandeis men's and women's swimming and diving teams are perfect examples of the concept that academic achievement and athletic excellence can go hand-in-hand. In the classroom, for the past eight semesters, the teams have been ranked among the top schools in the country in overall team grade-point average for each semester. In fall 1991, the men's team was ranked number one in the country in grade-point average for that semester.

The men's team was undefeated at home in dual meets in the 1990-91 season and had only one loss at home last year. Combined, the teams have qualified at least one individual for the NCAA championships in eight of the past 10 years. Brandeis has had eight all- Erie Theise '95, the team 's top diver, glances into the water while finishing one of his dives

Three of Brandeis's top American performers, over in their 1992-1993 season, divers, (left to right) Kirah 20 all-New England capturing the spirit of Frankel '94, Eric Theise '95 performers and eight all- competitive swimming and Dana Romalis '96, UAA performers. above and below the water. practice in their specialty She developed the project for The Linsey Center pool was a documentary photography the scene of several course at the Art Institute of exciting dual meets during Boston. Fifteen of the the 1992-93 season. photographs were exhibited last spring at the Institute Brandeis photographer and at Brandeis's Gosman Heather Pillar documented Center. the men's and women's swimming and diving teams

9 Fall 1993 Caleb Davis '95 bursts out of the water while practicing the butterfly stroke

Erica Schwartz '95 receives encouragement from her teammates (standing left to right) Ben Phillips '95. Stephanie Shapiro '93, Aaron See '93, (kneeling left to right) Joanne Shapiro '93 and John Farnsworth '94

10 Brandeis Review Elias Falcon '93 perfects his butterfly stroke

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Three of Brandeis's top divers (left to right) Kirah Frankel '94. Eric Theise '95 and Dana Romalis '96 practice their specialty The ThJer's Stewardship

University Samuel O. Thier, M.D. and Johann A Place Wolfgang von Goethe are not two people you might readily pair together by 2003: as kindred souls. Could Goethe have of Controlled framed the adage that describes perfectly Samuel O. Thier's tactics?

"Whatever you can do, do it now. Ferment Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now," said the Old World German writer.

In the two years that Thier has served by Brenda Marder as President of Brandeis, boldness has been the hallmark of his decision-making process. During his brief tenure, he has identified the University's major problems and audaciously set them on their way to solution. Through a process that stands

President Thier at Commencement 1993

12 Brandeis Review as a model for other institutions, mucli Finance and Administration Stanley The new curriculum, considered a to his credit and to the amazement of Rumbaugh headed up the review of the national model for the 21st century, is

many onlookers, he has orchestrated a nonacademic components, using a due to be implemented in 1994. It series of remedies, some of them similar process. He told the Brandeis disputes the traditional notion that each painful, that have placed the University Review. "Collectively, we went through student should satisfy the same set of on a fast track to financial equilibrium. hundreds of hours with faculty and requirements, and focuses on the Doubtless, Brandeis's small size and administrators. After nine months of development of writing skills throughout lack of professional schools lends itself work, when we added the fund-raising the four years of study; encourages to change more readily than the piece to the equilibrium report, which cross-disciplinary study of a single country's gigantic universities with contained the findings and theme or problem; exposes students to sprawling or multiple campuses and recommendations from the academic the skills necessary for absorbing

independent-minded professional and nonacademic reviews, and sent it quantitative reasoning: ensures a

schools. to the Board of Trustees for approval, small-class seminar experience in the

the faculty had endorsed it." The plan first year of college through the

What seemed clear to Thier when he was adopted in October 1992. record University Seminars in Humanistic assumed the presidency in September time compared to the snail pace that Inquines; and makes the foreign 1991 was that a new curriculum to most universities keep when they language requirement more intensive. strengthen student skills and a financial restructure. plan to close a $12 million structural "Because we want our students to gap in the budget were central to Reinharz reports that, "The group of make connections between ideas

ensuring financial and academic provosts and chief academic officers I emanating from a variety of fields, we equilibrium. He decided to act almost meet with periodically from the New have mapped the courses in a cluster

immediately to establish equilibrium in England Resource Center is amazed arrangement, " says Epstein. Every the budget by 1996-97. with the speed, efficiency, consensus student will take a set of three courses and lack of rancor that accompanied from at least two different schools, Outlining the problems to the faculty the changes at Brandeis." Business probably from three different and senior administrators, he asked for Weel<. which did a piece on departments, organized around a their cooperation. Since part of the restructuring of American universities central theme, say, "health, community solution lay in pruning certain academic last May editorialized that and society," or "medieval art and programs and reducing others, as well '...restructuring in higher education will literature" or "conflict management and as introducing new offerings, some spark a lot of infighting and will take peace building." Groups of faculty will faculty members were bound to be hurt many more years than the typical get together to design a cluster; this by reshaping the curriculum. Hence, corporate overhaul." Brandeis format will lead faculty and students

Thier reasoned, the faculty, by represents an exception to that rule. into an interdisciplinary mode, which is consensus, would have to devise the Not that Brandeis's restructuring has the wave of the future.

plan to facilitate its successful reached a finale. Rumbaugh warns

implementation and avoid the that, "Achieving equilibrium after five Is boldness the better part of valor? It bitterness that has often surged on years doesn't mean that we will be on appears so. At this point, the

other campuses as the result of a top- easy street. We will have arrived at a equilibrium plan, claims Rumbaugh, is

down process. "These are our goals; level playing field where the various on target, "and in sum total is actually recommend to me," he charged both needs of the University can compete better than on target, being slightly faculty and administration, "how you on a priority basis for resources." ahead of the original projections for would go about making cuts and 1992-93." revamping the curriculum." As a result of the plan, the faculty members who are supported by In summing up the accomplishments of Faculty committees were formed and University funds will be reduced in size, the Thier stewardship, Reinharz their findings argued in a series of town primarily through attrition, declining explains, "In these two years or so. meetings held with the President, the from 362 to 31 5. Teaching there have been some wide-ranging debate set in the context of how assignments have been adjusted to and incredibly complicated changes Brandeis will look in the future. For nine ensure that members are teaching full that have taken place at Brandeis. The

months a group of faculty and loads in all departments. "We hope," establishment of the Academic administrators under the leadership of says Irving Epstein, dean of arts and Planning Group is not a minor matter: Provost and Senior Vice President for sciences, "that by offering very small using that consensus process Academic Affairs Jehuda Reinharz, classes less frequently and by fully represents a totally different view of

Ph.D. 72, who headed the Academic utilizing the faculty, we will be able to running a university. We all realized Planning Group, undertook an offer at least as many classes as we that whatever we decided would have extensive review of academic did previously. Departments have been an enormous impact on the institution programs and departments. In a provided with staffing schedules for years to come."

parallel effort to rein in administrative agreed upon with the administration to costs. Executive Vice President for allow wiser, long-range planning."

13 Fall 1993 Thier Defines the Problems

Marder: A major problem nagging the numbers of faculty members institutions of higher learning now and increase, so do the salaries. Next, into the future is finances. How will they research universities, like Brandeis, cope? strive to remain competitive in the most recent research. Generally, research in Thier: A vast number of American the sciences requires progressively schools lived beyond their resources more expensive equipment and during the 1980s. Scaling down to live facilities, items that cut deeply into the

within their means is not an easy budget. Also, a preponderance of chore, because some of the expenses institutions have deferred maintenance are generated by factors they can't of their facilities over the years.

control very well. First of all, Consequently, run-down buildings are universities employ a tenure system demanding costly attention. A fourth and many tenured faculty members are concern, which has a profound impact on the high end of the salary scale. As on university budgets, is financial aid.

To meet these expenses, institutions rely on the three or four sources of

revenue available to them. One is tuition and fees, and most universities have pushed that source of income to the limit. In this regard, a second option that some schools may exercise, but one that Brandeis has not, is increasing the student body. Another dependable

source, at least for the near future, is grant and contract funds for research. Brandeis has been very successful in this area—we have located some new potential sources of support in the corporate sector that may join with us

in partnership arrangements. A fourth

source to consider is fund-raising, which represents significant income for Brandeis, In this respect, Brandeis needs short- and long-term strategies. We must raise annual support to help with operations, while raising the endowment to assure the long-term viability of the institution.

Apart from revenue, another way to

improve the ledger is to reduce faculty or create tremendous efficiencies, and Bill Rakip Photo President Thier talking witti many universities, including Brandeis, students from ti~ie Orientation are looking in these directions by '93 Core Committee at a sharing faculty, libraries and other barbecue at the President's resources so that access for students House is high and individual institutional costs are less.

Marder: Financial aid looms as an intractable and growing problem. What strategies can institutions adopt to

control its escalation?

14 Brandeis Review President Thier regularly hosts informal dinners for faculty members at the President's House

Thier: I don't have a definitive answer recession has really wreaked havoc on Thier: I have not read any well- for financial aid at tfiis moment, but we the public's ability to pay tuition. If we enunciated position on higher are doing some serious studies on this ever dig our way out of the recession, it education. The administration has

subject. I do know that there is a point would help solve the financial-aid shown an interest in community when raising tuition becomes self- burden. colleges and technical schools, which defeating, because the financial-aid are important sectors. But about the increases erode the tuition hikes. Many IVIarder: Will universities continue to research university and its unique role institutions like Brandeis have exercise a responsibility toward in the culture of this country for the last

experienced tremendous increases in students who cannot afford tuition? five or 10 decades, I haven't heard financial aid. This is a national problem anything. Research universities have

and extremely difficult for a single Thier: Each school has its own received less attention than I think institution acting unilaterally to solve. mission: Brandeis's mission appropriate for their relative unequivocally states that we must offer contribution. It's one thing to contribute

Marder: What is the outlook for access to students, regardless of their to the workforce as the technical Brandeis in the short run, then, ability to pay. schools do, but it's another matter to concerning financial aid? educate individuals who will conceive

Marder: is there anything you detect in ideas that actually shape the economy Thier: For the next two or three years, the Clinton administration that signals and improve the productivity of the

we can manage. Some institutions some help with loans? I note that there country. have remained needs-blind, as has been talk of a direct-plan payment Brandeis has, but unlike Brandeis, they whereby funds will be transferred from Marder: Speaking about the have controlled the rise of financial aid the student to the university without government, are you optimistic about by saying that the financial-aid package passing through the banks. Will this support from federally sponsored can't rise at a higher percentage than procedure be helpful? research, the largest single source of tuition increase. A cap like that would funding for research for universities?

represent a major difference for Thier: It will be helpful only if the

Brandeis, because our tuition has been government returns the administrative Thier: Federally sponsored research, I going up five to six and a half percent savings in the form of more financial think, will continue at present levels, the last few years, while financial aid aid to students. The National Service, keep up with inflation or perhaps

has skyrocketed to 1 5 or 20 percent. recently adopted, represents an increase, if the President means what Such a cap may constitute part of a intriguing mix of social responsibility he says about investment in ideas and

long-term solution to the problem. The and financial aid. I only wish this could intellectual capital. reach more students.

Marder: Generally, how do you interpret the Clinton administration's policy toward shaping conditions for higher education?

15 Fall 1993 Marder: Increasingly sophisticated Brandeis has already set up an inquiry build, and then move apart as technology will force not only scholars intercultural center, has reorganized scholars find new partners for to change the way they work, but student services and will continue to cooperation. Some members of these institutions to reorganize themselves. make adjustments for diversity. federations will emerge from outside For instance, the proposed National the university: there will be people from Information Network will link Students are exhibiting a new anxiety industry, hospitals, banks or even universities to banks, hospitals, in their outlook. They perceive that they government. businesses and homes. Can you are entering a time of uncertainty and describe the influence this network will are apprehensive about what's in store Along with this interdisciplinary exert on universities? for them economically, and in many approach, scholars and students will other situations. Universities need to become far more dependent on

Thier: Presumably it will allow us to do furnish them with skills and principles, information management, using our administrative business much more enabling them to develop an internal different methods of accessing efficiently, and may lead us to explore compass as they deal with uncertainty information and learning. They will whole new ways of doing things. In a and change. discover more fluid ways of structuring few years, you might think of solutions to problems. The university institutions of higher learning as Marder: How, specifically, must should, by 2003, be a place of "universities without walls." The institutions hone their programs to controlled ferment. infrastructure to accomplish this linkage meet the new circumstances? will cost tens of millions of dollars. So if Marder: Your description sounds the administration really wants to hook Thier: Universities will adopt, I'm sure, plausible, but does the structure of the people up, it will have to design a a new emphasis. At Brandeis, say. 10 university foster this fluidity?

national plan. Brandeis can't be left out. years ago, we offered a breadth of Let me add a word or two of intellectual experiences and content, Thier: No, the typical departmental perspective here about the use of not necessarily a set of skills. Now we structures impede this intermingling. technology—rather than using will be stressing intellectual skills: that So, it will happen in spite of and with technology to its optimum, we need to doesn't mean that students will not be the relative inertia of the structure. examine whether we are doing our getting the traditional academic tasks to the optimum degree. One of experience— it just means that they Marder: One last question. You are the things that troubles me about the receive with equal intensity important considered a successful president.

information glut is that people, when skills such as writing, language and What qualities do you think a university they gather a lot of information, think exposure to the principles of sciences president must possess to keep a that they are all set, because they have so that they have the tools to analyze university on a steady course as we an array of answers at their disposal. and apply intellectual concepts. enter the new millennium?

What they really require is a keen

sense of judgment in using that Marder: Suppose you look at the Thier: I tend to the following scheme.

information. American university 10 years from now, When I examine an issue, a problem or

will you see a totally transformed an organization, I search for a set of Marder: What about the students institution in 2003? principles, a history, a mission to guide

entering the university in the next my thinking. I look at how the

decade? Who will they be and what Thier: No. Not at all. You can envision operations are fulfilling that mission

kind of education will they require? greater fluidity, interchange of and determine if there are ways to do

academic skills among disciplines: things better. Then I build a set of Thier: The demographics of the sociologists, for example working with solutions. The solutions may come

country show that the trend toward a psychologists to explore questions in a from the ways in which I involve

diverse student population will loose federation where academic people, or they may depend on how I

increase. As schools make themselves issues move together as new areas of approach various groups. IVlainly, I sensitive to students of various ethnic keep a certain flexibility.

backgrounds, they will have to improve

the quality of life on campus for University presidents must be able to everyone. formulate the right question and define the problem, and then determine what

16 Brandeis Review Paula Thier: The wife of a university an earlier generation, she events around the country Striking a Balance president can easily be expresses gratitude for such as the annual Palm drawn into his shadow opportunities that her Beach fund-raiser and the and assume the sole husband's career has George Burns celebration identity of, well, "the provided for her. In turn, in Los Angeles in July, president's wife." Paula when she does something and the meetings of the

Thier does not, in her own for Brandeis, she thinks it National Women's words, "stand in her only fair that she would Committee, of which she husband's shadow." take part in her husband's is a life member and an While being attentive to professional life. But that honorary board member. serving the University, she participation is double-

is also enthusiastic about edged. "When I take part Along with her job, information they need to answer the the niche she has carved in activities connected to another organization with question. That information may be out for herself in Boston Brandeis, I always meet which she feels a strong sought in the form of consultation from over the last two years. interesting people. I learn personal affinity is the faculty, in the form of economic data or She believes she has something new each time I Brandeis Women's some other form. If the president needs struck a neat balance attend an event. In that Studies Program. consultative support, he or she between the two spheres sense whatever I do for "I am a member of its shouldn't be afraid to ask. You must of her life. Brandeis is rewarding to board and work on its take action based on the data available me personally." fund-raising efforts. I feel to you at the time. One principle every Even though she might be it is an exciting program university president should learn, accused, she says, of When she first came to and I have learned so and President Clinton is learning it too expressing the values of Brandeis, Thier had much from it already. I find as he proceeds through the health decided to devote most of a great deal of care reform, is that the process is as her effort, for the first camaraderie with the other important as the solution. year, to the University. members of the group, so

Other than volunteering I consider this activity one

for a local Jewish day that I do for myself." school, she made herself totally accessible. Since As you talk with Paula February, however, she Thier, you realize that has been working half- whether she is doing time for the things for Brandeis Massachusetts officially or for her own Foundation for the enjoyment, she derives Humanities in the area of deep satisfaction from her membership development, association with the resuming a career she had University. "I am reading pursued in Washington at the two books sent out to the National Trust for all first-year students to be Historic Preservation discussed when they enter before her husband this fall: Arthur Miller's assumed the presidency adaptation of An Enemy of

of Brandeis. "When I the People by Henrik

reentered the work world, I Ibsen and Beyond the opted for a part-time Limits: Confronting Global

position because I want to Collapse, Envisioning a give Brandeis 50 percent Sustainable Future by Paula Thier of my time," she told the Meadows, Meadows and

Brandeis Review in an Panders. I plan to attend interview at her home. the discussions: activities like these make me feel Among the Brandeis like a student again." activities she participates in officially are key events that are held on campus, periodic dinners with student leaders, two or three functions held monthly at the President's residence, a few major

17 Fall 1993 Jacques Cohen is the Zayre/ Feldberg Professor in the Michtom School of Computer Science and member of the National Center for Complex Systems at Brandeis. He holds doctorates in engineering

from the University of Illinois and in computer science from the University of Grenoble. France. He has been a member of the

This dialogue typifies the with grabbing people's

conversation that all too attention before introducing often arises between a them to a new subject. The layperson and a computer second provides an answer

• I'm in computers professional. It has to the last question happened to me. My ("What?") in the dialogue.

interlocutor is smart but Finally, the third describes

nontechnical and I have to an amusing experience that What are you struggle to come up with a actually occurred. working on now? convincing answer to the last question. First, there is a fascination with the term "garbage

This type of interaction collection" that is akin to the • Garbage collection. prompted me to write this attraction most people have unusual piece. My message to scrap yards, landfills and

is that specialists can and debris. It may be ultimately should sime to explain related to the hope of finding • What? clearly what they do. On this something valuable in a pile matter the philosopher and of rubbish. Within computer logician Wittgenstein stated: science, "garbage collection"

"// // can be said at all. It can (or its acronym, G.C.) stands

be said clearly. " I dare to go for the process of detecting a bit farther by using two and reusing computer qualifiers instead of one: memory. The euphemistic

clearly and Interestingly. counterpart of G.C. is High-Tech Solution "storage reclamation." The A In this article I also collection" attempt term "garbage to reduce the often seems to have been coined for Monsieur Poubelle preconceived (yet by John McCarthy in the late unjustifiable) differences 1950s when he implemented between the so-called the Lisp language. "humanistic" and "scientific"

approaches to a subject. I The fascination with garbage

hope to show that technical collection is shared by many

presentations can be made scholars. I have recently attractive to nonscientists by discovered a French

by Jacques Cohen' embedding them in a dissertation with an

carefully chosen and imposing title: The Saga of amusing context. Garbage: From the l[/liddle Ages to Our Present Time.

In what follows I compiled In a recent issue of The three vignettes on the topic of computer-garbage

collection. The first has to do

18 Brandeis Review collection. The term mark- Another way to perform G.C. A term described earlier is Some time later, my office and-sweep corresponds to IS by copying. Let's return to mart<-and-sweep. which had to be moved to another

the second solution provided our main example. Suppose involves separating garbage location on campus. I was by Professor Litterberg, that, instead of marking from useful records. The told to pack all my books namely the one that scans references while the text is New Vorker cartoon shows and files in cardboard boxes the text only once and marks scanned, one copies the text how important it is to for transportation by a

used cells as it sweeps the and each referenced item in distinguish garbage from moving company. I

entire memory to detect the bibliography into a new non garbage. As in real life, remember quite well that I useless cells. area. Items that are not mistaking precious packed on a Saturday and referenced will not be information as useless can labeled two boxes with We can distinguish two copied, thus accomplishing have catastrophic "GARBAGE COLLECTION"

types of collection: one, the collection at the extra consequences. using big letters. It was only

which I like to call the cost of copying and the on Sunday that it dawned on manana type, only starts additional memory space Let me conclude by sharing me that the labeling could be reclaiming useless space needed to store the copy. with you a short story about misinterpreted by the

after the entire memory is Once the entire copying has my own amusing experience movers! Fortunately, I exhausted. In that case, the been accomplished, the with garbage collection. In rushed back to my office on

task of collecting can be area corresponding to the the late 1970s, while I was Sunday in time to avert a extremely time-consuming "old" text and biography can writing a paper on this topic potential disaster.

since it involves scanning be reused for the next round that appeared in the ACf^

the entire memory, an of copying. Computing Surveys, I I hope to have shown

operation that can take methodically collected about through an example that it is minutes in a fast workstation More recently, the notion of 100 references mentioned in possible to provide with a large memory. (An generatona/ collection has the paper and saved them in interesting, and perhaps

amusing example of G.C. is been introduced, a feature two large drawers in a file even amusing, explanation the case of a robot designed that doesn't take time in re- cabinet. for apparently "dry" technical to play tennis, which misses marking "old" records, which subjects. A late colleague,

a ball because its computer have a tendency to remain Alan Perils, who was chair of was garbage collecting.) The useful. The net effect is to the computer science

other type of collection is save some of the collection department at Yale

called incremental, in the time. University, said: "I hope the sense that collection takes field of computer science place while new cells are The term on-the-fly never loses its sense of fun." being used. In other words, collection is applicable to the Let's make that "sense of

a little bit of collection work case of parallel computers, fun" contagious by sharing it

is intermingled with the where at least one of them is with our nonspecialist actual work of constructing responsible only for garbage friends. new records. collection. In the case of distributed G.C. the text and * ©1993 Jacques Cohen The notion of reference bibliography are scattered in counting can also be the various memories of explained. To each interlinked computers.

reference in the Figuring out how to detect bibliography, one assigns a and reuse cells under those counter establishing how circumstances can indeed many times that reference is become a tricky problem. mentioned in the text. The

counter is increased when From time to time, experts

an additional reference is propose new clever made and decreased when approaches to perform

a reference is no longer garbage collections. A great necessary. When the deal of the effort in these counter becomes zero the proposals is spent in

corresponding item is providing detailed proofs

useless and its space can that the approaches are be reclaimed. safe, i.e., they do succeed in

collecting all {or perhaps

almost all) useless records, and, God forbid, will not mistake a useful record as useless. 21 Fall 1993 — Sexual harassment in the ancient sraelite workplace? There is a book in the Bible that revolves around the fact that, in biblical society, iimttached women were economically, socially and even physically in danger. The Book of Ruth describes the triumphant story of how Ruth, a Moabite woman and hence alien in every way to the Israelites—saved herself and her mother-in-law, Naomi, and eventually, despite a series of obstacles, married the noble Boaz and became the great-grandmother of the holy and heroic King David, (see sidebar for a synopsis of the story)

In the particular part of the book

that I refer to, Naomi has returned to Bethlehem after a 10-year absence, bringing Ruth, her foreign daughter-in-law, with her. Now the two widows face the dilemma of Contemporary how to support themselves. The Isolating a New Jewish Publication Society (NJPS) translation of Ruth 2:2-7 Issue in the Bible " presents the situation this way: ^Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, "I would hke to go to the fields and by Michael Carasik * glean among the ears of grain, behind someone who may show me This difficult phrase has always diligent worker. Nonetheless, a kindness." "Yes. daughter, go." she been called, in the parlance of succession of scholars has spent rephed: ^and off she went. She came biblical scholarship, the crux of the most of this century trying to figure and gleaned in a field, behind the verse. Yet crux ought to imply not out a series of scribal errors that reapers: and. as luck would have it. only that it is a problem, but that its might have transformed the original it was the piece of land belonging to correct understanding is crucial for Hebrew phrase into our own current

Boaz, who was of Elimelech 's the inteipretation of the verse. text. This scholarly method is called family. Surprisingly, however, most "emendation." That means a commentators do not consider the scholar "emends" the current ^Presently Boaz arrived from phrase a significant one. All agree Hebrew text of the Bible by Bethlehem. He greeted the reapers, that the four Hebrew words, replacing the "mistaken" words "The Lord be with you!" And they whatever they mean, must paint a with the words that the scholar responded, "The Lord bless you!" picture of Ruth's diligence. Most claims were originally written in ^Boaz said to the servant who was in translations of the phrase fall mto their place. charge of the reapers, "Whose girl is the following four basic categories, thatr' "The servant in charge of the nicely summarized 20 years ago by a The basic problem with this reapers replied, "She is a Moabite French commentator: approach is that most of the girl who came back with Naomi suggested emendations have really from the country of Moah. ^She said. • "Ruth has taken a little rest." amounted to radical textual surgery. 'Please let me glean and gather All of these suggestions are based on among the sheaves behmd the • "Ruth has not taken any rest." the assumption of an implausibly

reapers. ' She has been on her feet long chain of scribal errors. But the ever since she came this morning. • "Ruth has taken only a little rest." attempt to translate the phrase as it " She has rested but little in the hut. stands is also foredoomed to failure. • "Ruth has scarcely taken any It is not intelligible, simply not My investigation started with the rest." tolerable Hebrew. What is more, the final phrase of verse seven: the four generally accepted conclusion is Hebrew words zeh shivtah habayit As you can see, though the that, whatever its specific meaning, me'at. The difficulty they present meanings vary widely, the the phrase as it stands emphasizes stems from the simple fact that they significance of the phrase is the that Ruth has been in the field all are not grammatical Hebrew. A same in all four cases—Ruth is a moming. But the foreman (the literal English rendering would go servant in charge of the reapers in more or less as follows: "This—her 2:5) has just finished saying exactly sitting the house a little."

Sexual harassment in the ancient Israehte workplace? There is a book in the Bible that revolves around the fact that, in bibHcal society, unattached women were economically, socially and even physically in danger.

Michael Carasik is a doctoral He gave a paper at the publication of an English candidate in the Department December 1992 meeting of translation of S. D. Goitein's of Near Eastern and Judaic the Association for Jewish long-neglected essay. Studies at Brandeis. He Is Studies here in Boston on "Women as Creators of

currently writing a this crux in the Book of Ruth. Biblical Literary Genres. " He dissertation on biblical was the founding publisher attitudes on the A former computer and is editor of the NEJS psychological phenomena of programmer. Carasik department's annual Purim memory and creative received an M.A. in Jewish publication, f/ve Journal of thought. In addition, he Studies from Spertus Jocular Studies. He is a teaches biblical and rabbinic College of Judaica, and has rabid White Sox fan. Hebrew at Hebrew College also worked as a translator in Brookline. Massachusetts. from Hebrew. In this latter capacity, he was instrumental in arranging the

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that: "She has been on her feet ever since she came this morning." Why would the author wish to give us this information twice? More importantly, why would the foreman waste his employer's time that way? Boaz was a generous man, but not one tolerant of incompetence.

About 10 years ago, a strikingly different approach to the question appeared in an article by Avi Hurvitz, professor of Bible at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Hurvitz's contribution was to recognize that the problem was insoluble by the emendation method and to create a new frame of reference for resolving

the difficulty, one that I believe is correct. He draws his inspiration

from 1 Samuel 9:12-13, the story of Saul looking for Samuel to help him find his lost asses. Saul and his servant encounter a group of young women and ask them, quite tersely, "Is the seer around?" They reply, "Yes"—quite enough if all they wanted to do was answer his question. But they continue:

^^"Yes, " they replied. "He is up there ahead of you. Hurry, for he has just come to the town because the people have a sacrifice at the shrine today. "As soon as you enter the town, you will find him before he goes up to the

Chapter 1 Chapter 2:

Synopsis of Famine drives Elimelech, mother-in-law with the Since the two women have the Book of Ruth his wife, Naomi, and their famous words, "Wherever no resources, Ruth

two sons out of Bethlehem you go, I will go; wherever decides to glean behind

and across the Jordan to you lodge, I will lodge; the harvesters in a nearby IVIoab, where the young your people shall be my field. The first field she men marry local women. people, and your God my chances upon belongs to a Eventually all three men God." When they return to man named Boaz. Ruth

die. Hearing that God has Bethlehem, at the doesn't know it, but he is at last eased the famine, beginning of the barley one of Naomi's in-laws. He

Naomi sets out to return to harvest, the whole city is sees to it that the regular

Bethlehem. Her two abuzz: "Can It be? workers don't harass her daughters-in-law, Ruth Naomi!" and, at the end of the day, and Orpah, accompany gives her a huge load of her. She beseeches them barley to take home to her to turn back and stay with mother-in-law. He tells their own people, insisting Ruth to glean in his field that she has no more sons until all the barley is to give them as husbands harvested. At home, Naomi to preserve the explains to Ruth that Boaz continuation of her own is their relative. As such, family, as was the Israelite he has responsibility not custom. Orpah does turn only for their support, but back, but Ruth insists on also (though Naomi accompanying her doesn't let on) to see that Elimelech's name and 24 Brandeis Review family do not die out. " " " shrine to cat: the people will not eat farm workers in ancient Israel, nor, Art can be an improvement upon until he comes; for he must first if they did exist, is there any clear truth, but even in real life it is hard bless the sacrifice and only then reason in the story for Ruth to to see why Boaz would need such a will the guests eat. Go up at once, request, or the foreman to offer, this fact explained to him, or why we for you will find him right away. privilege. Is there anything else that would need it explained to us. Just might have caused the foreman to like the reiteration that Ruth is a In the NJPS translation given here, confuse his speech? hard worker, the outhouse solution you can't fully hear the nan-on does not explain why the problem feeling of the sentences in the The most mtuitive solution to fit phrase was necessary in the first Hebrew; at the end (in the original) the possibility of embarrassment is place—or why Boaz reacted, as we even the syntax breaks down. that the "house" Ruth visited was shall see, so strongly to it. According to Hurvitz, the style of an outhouse. This could certainly the Hebrew here "is an attempt to explam some hesitation or Edward Campbell (who despaired of reproduce the effect of the girls all embanassment in the foreman's understanding the verse and talking at once in their excitement speech. Alternatively, the phrase actually left a blank space instead of at meeting Saul," —that is, a might have been clear to the translating v. 7 in his Anchor Bible deliberate, and I would say quite original readers, but so colloquial commentary) reminds us that the successful, literary effect. (A similar that it would create some difficulty confusion here already existed when suggestion has been made about for modern readers, who don't have the earliest of the ancient versions Isaiah 28:10, that the strange sounds much information about the were made, and he concludes that it there are deliberately intended to bathroom slang of ancient Israel. It was the result of a sequence of represent the babbling of would also make sense of the scribal errors that is probably drunkards.) Similarly, Hurvitz "house" in the field, though this unrecoverable. If this is so, it would suggests, the confused wording of usage is never actually found mean that any linguistic solution to our phrase is "an artistic device elsewhere in the Bible. Nor, as far as the problem must ultimately fail to deliberately employed for dramatic I am aware, do we know of the convince as completely as we would purposes by the original author of actual usage of such a building in like. Instead, let us leave the Ruth" to portray confusion and ancient Israel—at least not for the linguistic aspect of the problem embarrassment. farm workers. alone, and try to determine what meaning the author was trying to Hurvitz thinks that the foreman's To deal with the story in concrete, convey here. embarrassment was due to his physical terms, the fact of Ruth's having permitted Ruth to sit for a having to relieve herself at some Rather than continue fruitless bit in the bayit (field house) tune during the morning is rather guessing, I will proceed by following reserved specifically for Boaz's likely. But why it should be the methodology recommended by workers, a permission he was not mentioned in our story is a mystery. Campbell for filling in his blank authorized to grant. But we have no space: "The bracketed blank space knowledge of such a "house" for may help the reader to see where

Chapter 3: Chapter 4:

Naomi feels obligated to the land and preserve Meanwhile, at the gate of will. All of you are find Ruth some sort of Elimelech's family by the city where public witnesses." He marries settled home life. She has fathering children in his business is conducted, Ruth and they have a baby a plan. She sends her to name. He sends Ruth Boaz spots the closer boy. All the women of the the place where Boaz is home before dawn with relative. "Hey, So-and-So, town rejoice with the sleeping alone after a another load of grain for he calls. "Come over words, "Naomi has a son!" day's work of threshing Naomi, so that no one here. " Assembling the This son of Ruth and Boaz grain. Ruth sneaks in and should see that she has elders of the city as is to become the lies down next to Boaz. In been with him. Naomi witnesses, he tells the grandfather of King David. the middle of the night, he advises Ruth to sit tight: unnamed man, "You have awakes and finds her Boaz is sure to insist on the right of first refusal to there. She asks him to the matter's being redeem Naomi's land, "spread the shelter of his resolved this very day. which once belonged to cloak" over her and serve our kinsman Elimelech. as their official legal The man agrees. But Boaz kinsman. Boaz reveals goes on, "When you that there is another acquire the land you also relative of closer kin who acquire Ruth, the Moabite. has the prior right and You must have children responsibility to redeem with her so that Elimelech's own family can continue to live on his

land. " The man balks, and

Boaz announces, "Then I

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things stand before these words and There is a similar string of three where they stand after them. converted imperfects. Somehow the intervening words provided the transition." So let us Now what does this mean?—"she look at Boaz's immediate reaction went and she came." Those two to what he has been told (NJPS, vv. quick verbs are rushing through a 8-9): change in the reader's point of view.

It's best to look at it cinematically. '^Boaz said to Ruth, "Listen to me, Between "she went" and "she daughter. Don't go to glean in came" the scene switches; we another field. Don't go elsewhere, watch Ruth leave Naomi's house but stay here close to my girls. ("she went"), and find ourselves in "Keep your eyes on the field they Boaz's barley field watching her are reaping, and follow them. I have approach us ("she came"). Now ordered the men not to molest you. come back to v. 7, our problem And when you are thirsty, go to the verse, and prepare to think jars and drink some of [the water] cinematically again. that the men have drawn. Verse 7 does in fact, as so many of That is, he tells her the following the commentators have speculated, five things: hint at Ruth's momentary departure from working in the field. • don't glean in another field; Remember the first thing that Boaz says to her: "Listen to me, daughter. • don't leave my field, but glean Don't go to glean in another field. with my female workers (until now Don't go elsewhere ..." I conclude we have understood her to be that these words are trying to show working behind a group of male or us the following picture: at least grammatically male harvesters); Ruth was at some distance from Boaz, with her back turned to him, • don't leave the women's field; and on her way out of the field, when he called out after her, • I've seen to it that the men will "Listen to me!" (In Hebrew the not molest you; words are actually a question "Don't you hear me?") • feel free to drink my worker's water when you are thirsty. Why was Ruth leaving? When we recall what Boaz says next ("Stay To explain the setting for Boaz's close to my girls. Keep your eyes on

remark as I see it, we will look the field they are reaping, and follow

briefly at v. 3 of our chapter. But to them. I have ordered the men not to explain my approach, we need to molest you."), this conclusion is turn for a moment to the story of evident. She is leaving because she Jacob, Esau and the birthright has been molested by one or more of (Genesis 25:34). To make clear the the male harvesters. Whether the nuance of the Hebrew, I would confusion and embarrassment of v. translate it this way: 7 is that of the text and its transmitters or deliberately placed Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil in the mouth of the foreman by the stew; and Esau ate and drank and author, it conceals an incident of got up and went out and spurned what today we would call sexual the birthright. harassment experienced by Ruth.

The series of "converted As Boaz's words further show, the imperfects" (as this particular form incident may have occtirred when of the Hebrew verb is called)— she sought to slake her thirst with a strmg of five straight verbs, drink of water: "And when you are italicized above—hurries the action thirsty, go to the jars and drink along with no extraneous detail, so some of [the water] that the men the reader can see Esau despise his have drawn." Not an implausible birthright in an almost comic fast- scenario at all—remember Exodus forward mode. Now look at Ruth 2:17, where the shepherds drive 2:3 (again, in my translation): Jethro's daughters away from the well until Moses shows up and She went and she came and she rescues them. gleaned in the field behind the reapers.

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Ruth has decided not to put up with order? I suggest that the author of I want to emphasize that the harassment and has just the Book of Ruth is using the word interpreters have been trying to detemiined to seek "favor in the ga'ar (which ordinarily means solve this crux at least since the eyes" of the owner of some other "rebuke" or "speak hostilely to") to time of Ibn Ezra, the 12th-century field, when Boaz providentially indicate verbal sexual harassment. commentator, and that other appears, sizes up the sittiation and The incident that we were interpreters have picked upon calls out to her. She turns at his concerned with in v. 7, which Boaz Boaz's instructions in v. 9 to find a voice and comes back to him as he promises will not happen again, tale of sexual harassment here reassures her that he will see to it perhaps involved actual physical (though of course not expressed in she is treated decently. She can contact—hence his instruction to 20th-century terms), also since at safely glean among his female the workers "not to touch you." least the 12th centui-y. But no one workers, who perhaps only now Here in v. 16, he is warning them has put these two problems have come out to the fields with against even a remark that would together. Two things need to Boaz to help with the harvest after make Ruth uncomfortable. Again, happen: one, that those who are completing the early morning the fact that in both chapters Boaz particularly interested in women's household chores. By mealtime (v. goes out of his way to give Ruth an issues, in addition to asking new 14, presumably the midday meal), unusually large amount of barley questions, ought not to ignore the she can sit safely down to eat next might be regarded as compensation traditional paths of biblical to the "reapers"—males included for the incident of harassment. scholarship; and two, that those being now under Boaz's protection. who pursue traditional paths must She is treated with special favor in The technical knowledge required integrate so-called "women's the afternoon, perhaps to make up for biblical scholarship sometimes issues" into the everyday work of for her treatment before Boaz's gives outsiders the impression that arrival, as a prelude to Naomi's the assertions of scholarship can be revelation in v. 20 that he is one of "proven." They cannot. But I have We have a case their redeeming kinsmen—someone seven solid reasons for asserting that of the ideal confluence with the obligation to get my reconstruction of events is the Elimelech's land back for Naomi correct solution to the problem: of the traditional and and, what is more, to carry on the innovative in Elimelech's line of descent by • It explains why Boaz noticed her. scholarship a confluence making Ruth his wife. — • It makes Boaz's remarks in w. 8-9 in which both approaches It is still not perfectly possible to a response that is immediately require each other. the original phrase in appropriate to its context. reconstruct Cooperating, they our verse that would have delineated this situation—the • It explains the current form of the give us new insight into phrase that the foreman garbled into text and the inability of the ancient the text of the Bible. zeh sbivtah habayit meat—but I versions to translate it. will make a few basic suggestions. The masculine demonstrative • It is a useful hypothesis: I've given pronoun zeh, at least, which has no two examples (and there are more) biblical studies. I believe Ruth 2:7 is referent in v. 7 as it stands, becomes where this interpretation would add a case where the women's issue simple. The foreman cotdd be significance to other parts of the provides the correct answer to the pointing at the man responsible, book. traditional ciuestion. about to say "This guy was hassling

her a little bit." Then he became too • It brings our passage up to the I am well aware of Campbell's embarrassed to describe what had marvelous stylistic level of the rest warning in his Anchor Bible actually happened, and tried to play of the Book of Ruth. commentary that "a hundred down Ruth's leaving: "Uh, she's just conjectures about a badly disrupted going home for a little bit." In any • It adds another element to one of text are all more likely to be wrong case, the ancient Israelite reader the major themes of the Book of than any one of them absolutely

would have been able to understand Ruth: Ruth's untenable and even right!" Still, if the conclusion from this remark that Ruth was dangerous social status as long as offered here is even partially right, leaving, and Boaz's answer (or, in an she lacks a connection to a male then our understanding of the Book oral context, perhaps even the provider. of Ruth is much richer. So too is our storyteller's delivery) would have feel for the reality of the conditions made clear the reason why. • It adds to the "Perils of Pauline" under which ancient Israelites, aspect of Ruth, providing still including ancient Israelite women, One can push this interpretation a another occasion when Ruth and worked. In addition, we have a case little farther. In v. 16, after the meal Boaz came that close to not of the ideal confluence of the break, Boaz tells the reapers even to meeting. Instead, of course, Boaz's traditional and the innovative in go so far as to pull stalks out from appearance at just the right moment scholarship—a confluence in which the sheaves and let Ruth pick them was another example of both approaches reciuire each other. up, ve-lo tig am bah—usually "providential" interference invisibly Cooperating, they give us new translated something like "don't guiding the story along to its insight into the text of the Bible. scold her." But why should they conclusion with the birth of Ruth's scold her for picking up something son Obed, the grandfather of King •©1993 Michael Carasik they dehberately dropped for her, David. and what's more, at the boss's 27 Fall 1993 —

Bernard Lewis, the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus at Princeton University, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Brandeis in May 1993. A distinguished scholar and Middle East expert, Lewis is the author of The Arabs in History, The Emergence of Modem Turkey, The Middle East and the West, The Jews of Islam, Semites and Anti- Semites, The MusHm Discovery of Europe and The Political Language of Islam, among other works. His most recent book is a wide-ranging volume of essays entitled Islam and the West.

philosophy and history we may hope to achieve some understanding of man's place in the universe and of his experience in the past; through language and literature we may be able to receive, and be enriched by, the understanding which the great minds of the past have achieved, and the experiences which they have recorded and transmitted for our guidance. In this way, the It IS generally accepted study of the humanities In Defense of History that the sciences has, at all times, made and the social sciences, in an essential contribution addition to their intrinsic to the refinement of the intellectual merits, mind, the ennoblement serve useful and practical of the soul and, by these purposes. The one means, the education may provide us with new of the young to take by Bernard Lewis tools and weapons,- their place, fittingly, in a the other may, with luck, civilized society. help us to live with

their consequences. It was Yet today the humanities believed in the past have been sadly neglected indeed, there are still in many of our schools some places where it is and universities, and there believed today—that are some indeed who go for the humanities their beyond passive neglect to intrinsic intellectual active rejection. History merit is sufficient, and that their study is its own more than adequate reward. Through

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Born in London, Lewis of Princeton's Kenial received a B.A. from the Ataturk Professorship in University of London and Ottoman and Turkish a Ph.D. from the same Studies. university. From 1 949 to 1974 he served as Lewis is a fellow of the professor of history of the British Academy and a Near and Middle member of the American East in the University of Academy of Arts

London 's School of and Sciences, and was Oriental and African awarded The Harvey Studies. He joined Prize in 1978. He is also a the Near Eastern studies member of the Board of faculty at Princeton in Overseers of the Tauber 1974 and was named a Institute for the Study of long-term member of the European fewry at Institute for Advanced Brandeis. He has taught Orientalism: In recent years Bernard Study in the same year. at the Ecole des Hautes A Heated Debate Lewis has found himself at During the 1992-93 Etudes en Sciences the center of a controversy academic year he was Sociales, UCLA, over the nature and honorary incumbent Columbia, Cornell and direction of Middle Eastern Chicago, has lectured in and Asian studies. The many countries and holds tradition he represents, a number of honorary which has been labeled degrees from universities Orientalism, values

around the world. serious scholars of all ethnic backgrounds who possess knowledge in particular has come fragmentary, often of archeological, of Eastern languages and under attack both from contradictory. Yet it is epigraphical, archival and cultures. It Is criticized the ignorant or precisely for these reasons documentary studies has by detractors such as simpleminded who that it is valuable, in that vastly increased the Professor Edward Said of despise anything that is it accurately reflects amount of evidence at our Columbia University, who not of immediate and the human predicament, disposal, while the prefer scholars indigenous visible utility, and from and is therefore an progress of both the to the regions under study the more sophisticated essential ingredient of linguistic and social as a means of reducing enemies who argue that our education, of our sciences has given us new Western influence and history is not "relevant" perception of ourselves, of methodologies for the exploitation. As Lewis puts a word that has acquired our understanding not exploitation of this new it in Islam and the West, new and menacing only of our past but of our evidence. A very large part critics attack Orientalism implications in our time. present, and of what there of humanistic and social for an alleged may be of our future. The science research is "unsympathetic or hostile The neglect of historical past does not change, but concerned with these treatment of Oriental study and the erosion of our perception of the past tasks. peoples." But anti- historical knowledge have is constantly changmg, Orientalists, he says, already reached alarming and every generation There is, however, a third reduce "all the complex levels. Recent surveys reexamines the past in the kind of revision of history, national, cultural, religious, have shown that a large light of its own concerns arising not from the social and economic proportion of high-school and to the extent of its opportunities but from the problems of the Arab seniors know little about own capabilities. needs—or the passions world to a single grievance their own time and of our time. Basically, all directed against a small their own country, and The rewriting of the past research means putting group of easily-identified virtually nothing about derives from three questions, and historical and immediately- other times and places. sources, two of them research means putting recognizable malefactors." Yet knowledge of relatively straightforward, questions to the past and The debate is unlikely our cultural heritage, the third complex and trying to find answers to cease anytime soon. and more generally, difficult. The first two are there. But the questions knowledge of the past, the discovery of new which we put to the past The editor is essential to the evidence and the are necessarily those health and well-being of development of new suggested to us by our human societies. techniques of enquiry. In own times and our own day, the advance preoccupations, and these True, history is in many differ from generation to ways a very unsatisfactory generation and from group subject—unreliable, to group. It is legitimate changeable, inconsistent, and inevitable that

29 Fall 1993 this should be so. What is those places where the i'rovost and Senior Vice neither legitimate nor past can be researched and President for Academic inevitable is that not only discussed freely and Affairs fehuda Reinharz, Ph.D. the questions which we objectively, to pursue this 72 congratulates Lewis for put to the past, but also work to the limit of his honorary degree received the answers which our abilities. It has been at Commencement 1993 we find there, should be argued that complete detennined by our present objectivity is impossible, concerns and needs. since scholars are human We live in an age when immense This can lead, particularly beings with their ov«i energies are devoted to under authoritarian loyalties and biases. This regimes, but also in free is surely true, but does not the falsification of the past, societies affect the issue. Any under the and it is therefore all the more pressure of fads and surgeon will admit that important, in those places fashions, to the complete asepsis is also falsification of the past in impossible, but one does where the past can be researched order to serve some not, for that reason, and discussed freely and present purpose. perfonn surgery in a objectively, to pursue this sewer. There is no need Much of what purports to to write or teach work to the limit of our abilities. be history at the present history in an intellectual time, in the greater part of sewer either. the world, is of this kind. We Hve in an age Let us have no illusions when immense energies about this—while experience of our society. record—useful if true, are devoted to the some of us may prefer Without it, we are like fraudulent if not. The falsification of the past, to forget history, or blundering amnesiacs. needs of a community, a

and it is therefore all to rewrite history Even the marketing of a country or a civilization the more important, in to serve some present commodity or the running are incomparably more purpose, the facts of the of a business requires complex, and the past cannot be changed, some knowledge dangers of ignorance and the consequences and therefore some correspondingly greater. of those facts cannot be research in the recent averted by ignorance or past. Even a balance In our own time there misinterpretation, sheet is a historical has been a considerable whether self-serving or change in our own compassionate. History perception of the scope is the collective and scale and content of memory, the guiding history. In bygone times.

30 Brandeis Review scriptures and classics, Our education today formed by different should be concemed with experiences and the development of many cherishing different cultures, m all their aspirations. Not a few of diversity, with the great our troubles at the present ideas that inspire them time spring from a failure and the texts in which to recognize or even those ideas are enshrined, see these differences, an with the achievements inability to achieve some which they made possible understanding of the and with the common ways of what were once heritage which their Any surgeon will admit that remote and alien societies. followers and successors They are now no longer share. complete asepsis is also impossible, remote, and they should but one does not, for that not be alien. Part of the material in reason, perform surgery in a this article was included Nor, for that matter, in a speech delivered sewer. There is no need to write or should we be alien to by Bernard Lewis at the teach history in an intellectual them. Between the inauguration of President sewer either. various countries and John Agresto, St. John's cultures that make up this College, Santa Fe. world, the forces of modernization are it was considered creating, however much History is the sufficient if a country, a we may resist it, a global collective memory, society or a community community in which we concerned itself with its are all in touch with, the guiding experience own history. In these and dependent on, one of our society. days, when ahnost every another. Even within each Without it, we action or policy has country, modernization a global dimension, we is destroying the barriers are like blundering icnow better. We also have which previously divided amnesiacs. a broader and deeper us into neatly segregated idea of wbu constitutes communities, each our own history. living its own life in its own way, suffering The rapid changes of minimal contacts with recent years have forced the outsider. All that us—sometimes is ending, and we must painfully—to realize that learn to live together. the world is a much more Unfortunately, diverse place than we intercommunication has had previously thought. not kept pace with As well as other countries interaction, and we are and nations, there are still deplorably ignorant of also other cultures and each other's ways and civilizations, separated values and aspirations. from us by differences far greater than those of Ignorance is, of coiu'se, nationality or even of not the only problem. language. In the modem There are real differences world, we may find which must be recognized ourselves obliged to deal and accepted, real issues with societies professing which must be confronted different religions, and resolved. But even nurtured on different real differences are exacerbated, real problems are aggravated, by ignorance, and a host of difficulties may reasonably be ascribed to ignorance alone.

31 Fall 1993 Modest Monuments Bearing Witness to of Words on Paper: the Holocaust through Memoirs and Diaries

by Antony Polonsky

Le 26 novembre, Lewin donfie des chiffres precis qui ont ete confirmes par les rgeherches ulterieures:

On m'a ditjurfles SS ont transmis au Conseil juif les chiffres

concernapH« action » sanglante menee a partir du 22 juiliet. I voicj>tfansportes (lire: annihiles a Treblinka): 254000: p""^ ,-f€ndant les rafles: 5000; envoyes trava-"—^

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for wljich thev had waite^o loi In his last book, The Drowned and the Saved, the Itahan novelist and Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi imagines members of the S.S. taunting their Jewish victims:

end. the war this war may we have won iet.iAii __ »«* However /^a _ '} tKt. yameMa f^«*mni. Sac, m6 ^ttt* tut^ejmt* against you-, none of you will be left to bear witness, but even if someone were to survive, the world would |

The Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe seem to have sensed «, ^. rv- tftveme.. 2fn/-^ the Nazis' intent. They perceived that the threat they faced was not only of physical annihilation but of the A letter written by a Mrs. destruction of the very record of their existence. They Lipmska, former slave laborer, were thus determined to chronicle all aspects of their to a fellow survivor after the tragic ordeal. In the words of the Warsaw historian war. mentioning her horrific Emanuel Ringelblum, "Everyone wrote—journalists, experience in passing authors, teachers, social activists, young people, even children." They wrote for posterity. According to another of the members of the underground archive, Menahem Kon: The Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe seem to have sensed the Nazis' intent. They perceived that the / consider it a sacred duty for everyone, scholarly or not. to write dovim everything that be has seen or heard threat they faced was not only of physical from those who witnessed the murderous actions annihilation but of the destruction of the very committed by the barbarians in every Jewish record of their existence. settlement, so that, when the time comes—as it surely will—the world will read and learn what they have done. This will be the richest material for the lamenter who will write the elegy of our times: it will be the most potent inspiration for those who will avenge our sufferings. to bring my account to its end and trust that it will see The last words recorded in the diary of Chaim Kaplan the light of day when the time is right. ..and people will before he was deported to his death in Treblinka were, know what happened. ..and they will ask, is this the

"If I die—what will become of my diary?" His words truth! I reply in advance: No this is not the truth, this were echoed by the doyen of Jewish historians, Shimon is only a small part, a tiny fraction of the truth.... Even Dubnov. Dubnov's final exhortation before he was shot the mightiest pen could not depict the whole, real at the age of 81, in the Riga ghetto, was "Write down essential truth. and record everything." Stefan Ernest escaped from the Warsaw ghetto and was compelled to hide on the Because it was so important to record what was "Aryan" side in appalling conditions and under happening, people undertook the task in a number of constant threat of discovery and death. But he rejoiced places on an organized and collective basis. The best at his ability to put down what he had seen. He example is the underground archive Oneg Shabbes, concluded his unpublished diary: which was established in the Warsaw ghetto by Ringelblum with a number of other prominent Warsaw / am hiding in a cellar without any fresh air, without Jewish figures. As its name implies, the Oneg Shabbes adequate or regular food, with no toilet facilities, with directorate met weekly on Saturday evening at the end no prospect of any change in these conditions in which of the Sabbath to exchange news and infonnation. I vegetate and which enjoin me to value every hour I Abraham Lewin, one of its members, has described survive as if it were gold...! can clearly feel that I am these meetings: losing strength, it's becoming harder and harder to breathe.... But that's not important. Because I am able In these tragic times, whenever several fews gather together and each recounts just a part of what he has heard and seen, it becomes a mountain or a swollen Moshe Flinker. hidden in sea of misfortune and Jewish blood. Jewish blood pure Belgium, kept a diary from and simple. We gather every Sabbath, a group of November 1 942 to September 1943. Shown here is the cover of his diary, which was found after the war 33 FaU 1993 activists in the Jewish community, to discuss our Historical Institute in Warsaw with a complete diaries and writings. We want our sufferings, these photocopy in Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Some of this "birth-pangs of the Messiah, " to be impressed upon the has been published in English, Polish, Hebrew and memories of future generations and on the memory of Yiddish, including a one-volume English language the whole world. anthology entitled To Live with Honor and To Die with Honor (Jerusalem, 1986), as well as the diaries of a Conscious of the momentous times in which they hved number of its members, includmg Ringelblum hmiself, and of the deadly peril facing the Jews of Europe, they Abraham Lewin and Rabbi Shmul Huberbrand. There is were determined to chronicle all aspects of life in the also a project to publish the entire contents of the ghetto to serve as a record for the future. Ringelblum collection in Hebrew. described the organization as follows: In the Lodz ghetto, the vain and ambitious chairman of The members of Oneg Shabbes have constituted and the fudenrat. Chaim Rumkowski, established an still constitute a homogeneous body, ruled by a single official archive in order to record the history of his spirit and pervaded by a single idea. Oneg Shabbes is mini-state. It was staffed both by local Jews and by Jews not an association of scholars who compete and strive from German-speaking Central Europe who had been against each other. It is a single entity, a brotherhood deported to Lodz. They took seriously their obligation where all help each other and strive to achieve a to assemble what one of their members, Henryk common goal... Naftalin, described as a basis of source materials "for future scholars studying the life of a Jewish society in Every member of Oneg Shabbes knows that his devoted one of its most difficult periods." This includes a labour and effort, the severe hardships he undergoes, chronicle of life in the ghetto, written in both Polish the risks he takes 24 hours a day while engaged in the and German, which, in spite of its bald style and many undercover work of carrying documents from place to omissions occasioned by the fear of Nazi censorship, is place—all are undertaken for an exalted ideal and that one of the most chilling accounts of the character of the in the days of freedom to come, society will know how Nazi genocide of the Jews. In addition, like the Warsaw to evaluate his contribution and will reward it with the group, the members wrote a history of the ghetto, highest honours available in liberated Europe. Oneg commissioned studies of specific topics, such as the Shabbes is a fellowship, a fraternal order on whose effects of malnutrition, and encouraged the writing of banner is inscribed its members' willingness to memoirs that it then collected. dedicate themselves completely to their cause and keep faith with each other in the service of the Much of this material has survived. Two volumes of the community. chronicle edited by Danuta Dabrowska and Lucjan Dobroszycki were published in Polish in Lodz in 1965 The Oneg Shabbes archives were buried in a number of and 1966. These covered the years 1941 and 1942. The milk chums and tin chests, some of which were found after the war in September 1946 and December 1950. The material in them is now lodged in the Jewish

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34 Brandeis Review publication of the remainder, which had already been announced, fell victim to the "anti-Zionist" campaign m Poland, which followed the Six-Day War in 1967. A one-volume abridgment edited by Dobroszycki was published by Yale University Press in 1984. In addition, a one-volume collection of materials from the archive entitled Lodz Ghetto: Inside a Community under Siege. and edited by Alan Adclson and Robert Lapides, was in 1989. published in New York "Because I am able to bring my account to its end

and trust that it will see the light of day when hidividuals took pains to write down their experiences in diaries, a fair number of which have been published. the time is right.. .and people will know what They include those by Chaim Kaplan, Mary Berg, happened...and they will ask, is this the truth? Stanislaw Adler, Anne Frank and Abraham Lewin, to I reply in advance: No this is not the truth, this is name only a few. Some efforts have also been made by Yad Vashem, by Holocaust survivors' groups in the only a small part, a tiny fraction of the truth.... United States and a number of publishers, including the Even the mightiest pen could not depict the London-based firm Valentine Mitchell, to organize the whole, real essential truth." publication of the many diaries that have survived.

What is unique about the diaries? This body of literature differs from memoir accounts, some of which have become classics, like the work of Elie Wicsel and Primo Levi, by their immediacy. They were written during or immediately after the events they describe, by Speaking of the expulsion from Tluszcz, she said: There individuals who did not always know what the future is no way to put into words what happened to us. I would be. They are the authentic voice of the victims, thought over what the woman had said and concluded the voice the Nazis aimed to silence. They give back to that she is right. There can be no words, no images, no the millions of nameless dead a face and a voice and embellishments—just cold hard facts. The day will enable them to speak to us directly. come when these facts will shake the world and will be transformed into an impassioned appeal "Remember!" The diaries differ enormously both in literary quality against hatred and shame and agamst the degenerate and in the nature of the authors' perceptions. Yet a murders. As for us—tortured and murdered though we number of common themes echo through them. Their are innocent of any crime—the world will be duty authors are fully aware of the cataclysmic nature of the bound to show love and compassion for our suffering. events they were describing and of the impossibility of finding words to describe them. Jacob Gerstenfeld- The diaries stress the importance of hope, of that Maltiel, who survived the Lvov ghetto, wrote: "Jewish optimism" that enabled individuals to carry on in appalling conditions. According to Lewin:

/ struggled hard to find words which would help the reader understand the nightmare I was trying to One of the most remarkable incidental phenomena describe. The reader, I knew, had not experienced all seen in the present war is the clinging to life, the those things and would frequently be unable to grasp almost complete cessation of suicides. People are dying events which have no equal in human history in the in vast numbers of the typhus epidemic, are being immensity of theu cruelty and the degree of brutality tortured and murdered by the Germans in vast employed in the implementation of the cruel design numbers, but people do not try to escape from life. In (this inability may be one of the givens of human fact just the contrary: people are bound to life, body personality). and soul, and want to survive the war at any price. The tension of this epoch-making conflict is so great that These doubts are echoed by Lewin: everybody, young and old, great and small, wants to live to see the outcome of this giant struggle, and the ...perhaps because the disaster is so great, there is new world order. Old men have only one wish: to live nothing to be gained by expressing in words everything to see the end and to sur\'ive Hitler. that we feel. Only if we were capable of tearing out by the force of our pent-up anguish the greatest of all I know an old few, grey with age, about 80 years old. mountains, a Mount Everest, and with all our hatred This old man was hit by a terrible misfortune last and strength hurling it down on the heads of the winter: he had an only son aged 52 who died of typhus. German murderers of our young and old—this would He had no other children. The son is dead. He hadn't be the only fitting reaction on our part. Words are remarried and had lived together with his son. A few beyond us now. Our hearts are empty and made of days ago I visited the old man. As I was saying stone. goodbye to him (he is still in complete command of his

Yet he was determined to find the appropriate expressions. After talking to a simple meat vendor from Tluszcz, he recorded her words:

35 Fall 1993 an elemental calamity that had invaded and paralysed every mind. Human beings felt like dust in the face of the vast power that opposed them. The feeling of fright during such a moment can be compared to that of an animal running from a prairie-fire.

Levin wrote of this phenomenon:

"One of the most remarkable incidental phenomena An unremitting insecurity, a never-ending fear, is the most terrible aspect of all our tragic and bitter in the present war is the clinging to life, seen experiences. If we ever live to see the end of this cruel the almost complete cessation of suicides.... war and are able as free people and citizens to look back on the war-years that we have lived through, then In fact just the contrary: people are bound to life, we will surely conclude that the most terrible and to survive the war body and soul, and want unholy, the most destructive aspect for our nervous at any price." system and our health was to live day and night in an atmosphere of unending fear and terror for our physical survival, in a continual wavering between life and death—a state where every passing minute brought with it the danger that our hearts would literally burst faculties), he burst into tears and said to me: I want to with fear and dread. live to see the end of the war and then live for just another half hour longer. They are moved to anger at the murderous brutality of the Nazis. Levin, a school teacher, was particularly We may well ask: what has such an old man to live affected by the slaughter of children: fori But he does have something: he too wants to live "for just half an hour" after the last shot is fired and There is no greater crime, no greater savagery than the this is the passionate desire of all fews. murder of young and innocent children. The blood of our children will never be erased from the mark of His views are echoed by Gerstenfeld-Maltiel: Cain of the German people. Only now in these days have I come to appreciate and understand Bialik's song " People got together for half an hour's injection of of anguish and rage: "The Slaughter. I must confess optimism. During the day, the theme was the horror of that, though I am one of Bialik's most fervent the day. so in the evening, the radio news was commented upon with perpetual optimism, despite the nightmare awaiting us in the morning: our fewish optimism dictated our opinions. Although the Russians were hundreds of kilometers away from Lvov, we saw our saviours already at the gates of the town. If someone reminded us that an Aktion or some other Nazi harassment threatened, he would receive from all sides the answer that surely the Germans would wait before acting, as for example, in another town there i)lin^-'tl>r' f^ k-^'Oa were riots because of the lack of potatoes.... One man i-bf Id,} r^jh •"' claimed: "Stalin has decided by a certain date to clear knu .Mcif '•>loii Ml'T> .^y i0it if^^ilylfzs)

Russian soil of every German".... A quietly expressed .),} >S v/ /L'f/i ntci ,-)uli. Icnl ^mplc doubt that this news originated perhaps from the "A.f.W. " (as fews want) news-agency was drowned in the flood of optimism without anybody paying attention.

The importance of fear in undermining the abiUty of 1-% jsijifi ijV^z fi^^nu pYti -jvf the Jews to withstand the Nazis emerges clearly. Y '^k->i.0(i) mI.h According to Gerstenfeld-Maltiel: ,,^^ tJr^i \jf,h ^K^\

On the night of 15-16 November, about midnight, people knew that on the following morning an Aktion would begin. The fewish militia was ordered to be in .\n i} fLfZ /,(), :,u\*In,!',-)?,.v,K readiness. Warnings were at once sent to relatives and (Ji.) \ s\U , ^J" friends, to be prepared. AKTION! The sound of this word—even now a year later—when I write it, the very thought of it makes my blood run cold. I cannot find the few words to put onto a scrap of paper, to describe the stream of blood and tears, implicit in the word. Before, we never had any real idea of what fear meant. A page from Abraham

Now, a few hours before an Aktion. people in the Lewin 's diary ghetto understood. Wild primeval animal terror, before

36 Brandeis Review .

Antony Polonsky, 1941-1945. Ht' is the Active m numerous professor of East European editor of Abraham professional

fewish history, was born Lewin 's A Cup of Tears: A organizations, Polonsky is in Johannesburg, South Diary of the Warsaw the vice president of the Africa. He studied histor}' Ghetto, which was American Institute for and pohtical science at awarded the Joseph and Polish-Jewish Studies in the University of Edith Sunlight Literary Cambridge. He is a Witwatersrand, and went Prize in 1989 and the member of the to Oxford as a Rhodes prize of the Jewish Book International Council of Scholar. Before coming to Council of America in the the State Museum in Brandeis, he was a Holocaust section in Auschwitz Concentration lecturer and professor at 1 990, and is an editor of Camp. In addition. the London School of The Library of Survivors' Polonsky is the secretary Economics and Political Memoirs. He is coauthor of the Association of Science, and a Visiting of The Beginnings of Contemporary Historians Professor at the Communist Rule in and a member of the University of Warsaw. Poland and coeditor of Interuniversity Film The Jews in Poland. Consortium. He was the Polonsky is the author of producer and director of Politics in Independent the documentary Fascism, Poland, The Little and has been a consultant Dictators: The History of for the documentary Eastern Europe Since 1918 series The Struggles for and The Great Powers Poland. and the Polish Question

admirers, his "In the Town of Murder" and "The Most of the diaries of the Holocaust years still remain Slaughter, " where there is such fiery talk of blood, unpublished, in spite of efforts to bring them before a murder and revenge, have never been my favourites. I wider audience. The resources of modem technology have always been drawn to his transcendent lyrics and should surely make it possible to increase their his superb, brilliant epic poetry. But now I recall his cry availability. Yet a huge number of manuscripts in many from the heart: "Accursed be he who cries out Avenge languages still languish in Yad Vashem, in the Jewish this!' Vengeance for this, for the blood of a small child, Historical histitute in Warsaw and elsewhere. A the devil himself has not created. " Or "If there is such Holocaust Memorial will shortly be unveiled in Boston. a thing as justice, let it show itself now! But if only This is an important and worthy project. But these after my destruction, justice appears under the diaries are also monuments. Henryk Bryskier was a heavens, may its seat be destroyed for ever!" leading figure in the Warsaw ghetto, where he was vice chairman of the Jewish Social Welfare Organization. He But they rise above more calls for revenge. Levin survived the occupation, in which his wife perished, concluded: only to die of angina in October 1945. He wrote his diary (still unpublished) on the "Aryan" side in 1943 Nowadays, death rules in all its majesty-, while life and 1944 and preceded it with the following dedication: hardly glows under a thick layer of ashes. Even this faint glow of life is feeble, miserable and weak, poor, Dear wife and mother, brutally murdered in Warsaw in devoid of any free breath, deprived of any spark of May 1943. I cannot create for you a granite tombstone, spiritual content. The very soul, both in the individual because there is no trace of the resting place of your and in community, seems to have starved and remains. Therefore, accept from me and our daughter perished, to have dulled and atrophied. There remains this modest monument made of words on paper, which only the needs of the body-, and it leads merely an we place in your grave with reverence and love.

organic-physiological existence. . And you who read these words, pay homage to her Yet, we wish to live on, to continue as free and creative memory, so dear to us, and when you have perused our

men. This shall be our test. If, under the thick layer of account, an epitaph which contains a portion of ashes our life is not extinguished, this will prove the history^ think with contempt of the German Fascists triumph of the human over the inhuman and that our whose barbarity was without parallel, m wiU to live is mightier than the will to destruction-, that we are capable of overcoming all evil forces which attempt to engulf us.

37 Fall 1993 The Pied Piper of Tanzania

Leads His Kids to by James Toole

W r m

It is increasingly clear that the AIDS In Mwanza, Tanzania, a city of 500,000 student at an international school in epidemic will have a tremendous people on the southern shores of Lake Tanzania, Rajani had already been impact on the lives of many children in Victoria-Nyanza, a new nonprofit exposed to political diversity and social Eastern Africa. At present 800,000 to organization has begun to respond to concern, but he began to think

one million people are infected with the situation. It is called kuleana. which seriously about the social situation in

HIV in Tanzania alone, and in some in Swahili means to nurture and Tanzania during the time he spent in areas over 20 percent of the population support one another. The organization the United States. At Brandeis, through

is HIV positive. At current rates of has two aims: to promote street his coursework and involvement with

increase, it is estimated that one million children's rights through community AZAAD. an activist student group

children will be orphaned by AIDS in advocacy and practical help, and to act focusing on Third World politics, Rajani Tanzania by the year 2000. as a catalyst for neighborhood-based acquired a new perspective on issues action against AIDS, with a special of power, equality and social justice.

The strain this places on children is focus on HIV prevention among Beginning in 1986, he became already palpable. Many children are young people. In April of this year, intimately involved with Boston's growing up watching their parents and kuleana opened the Center for homeless as a counselor and

relatives fall ill and eventually die from Children's Rights in Mwanza, the first advocate. By the time he enrolled in a a disease that wears down body and institution of its kind in Tanzania. master's program at Harvard spirit. Children as young as four find Its full AIDS program is planned to University. Rajani knew what kind of themselves having to take care of begin in late 1993. work he wanted to do. His studies there parents and siblings—of tending the included a detailed examination of farm, hawking wares, cooking, keeping Spearheading the effort is Rakesh programs for impoverished women house. Traditional extended family Rajani '89, a cotounder and coordinator and children in urban areas of support structures, already stretched to of kuleana. A former Wien scholar, he the Third World. Those findings and the limit by very difficult economic graduated summa cum laude with a experiences provided a strong conditions, are increasingly unable to B.A. in philosophy and literature. As a foundation for the work he returned to care for children orphaned by AIDS. do in his home country. Forced to find alternative ways of making ends meet, more and more Rajani, a bearded man of medium build children are opting to live and work on in his late twenties, is clearly committed the streets. to his work. He is, however, neither pedantic nor strident; one senses, on meeting him, a mixture of confidence and moderation. Linda Nathanson, associate director of the Office of International Programs at Brandeis, describes Rajani as a talented scholar "who loved to study poetry, literature and philosophy." At the same time, she says, "he had this practicality that would just amaze me. He had never been to this country before, and within a very short time of his arrival at Brandeis he knew just how to go about getting things done. He can always figure out how to solve a problem."

A member of Tanzania's small Indian minority, Rajani is a fourth-generation Tanzanian whose forebears were shipped over by the British to work on the railroads. His humanitarian work has surprised the Indian community, which holds professional careers and successful businesses in high regard. Rakesh Rajani '89, a former America have organized programs. He returned to his Wien scholar, is cofounder themselves in small native Tanzania in 1991 and and coordinator o^kuleana, Christian-based conducted a UNICEF- a nonprofit organization tliat communities in their funded situation analysis of works on AIDS and street struggles against oppressive the condition of street children issues in Mwanza, conditions. children in Mwanza. He and Tanzania. Rajani came to his colleagues have just Brandeis in 1985 and Rajani earned a master's published Life First! A Ik graduated summa cum degree from Harvard practical guide to people laude in philosophy and University in 1991. At with AIDS and their families literature, and was a Harvard he studied the in both English and member of Phi Beta Kappa. situations of urban women Swahili. He cofounded His senior thesis examined and children in the kuleana in 1992. how poor people in Latin developing world and evaluated various Latin American street children's

..... :: "2^ ^ J -• _-^ but he reports that his family supports Street children are a relatively new and respects what he does. Rajani's phenomenon in Tanzania, a result of work is unusual to begin with: Tanzania tremendous pressures on the social has few organizations that actively fabric during the past decade. Soon marginalized after independence in 1961 great stand up for the rights of , children. improvements in social services were made under an innovative socialist Rajani and his colleague, Mustafa program known as ujamaa. A good Kudrati, a friend from high school, primary health care network was began their work by going into the developed, and primary and adult streets of Mwanza and building education was built up virtually from friendships with the children. With scratch. Tanzania now has one funding from UNICEF, they conducted of the highest literacy rates in the a more systematic situation analysis developing world. between August 1992 and April 1993,

focusing on children aged five to 14. In the 1 980s, however, several factors Rajani says that they learned a lot by combined to stretch the system to its accompanying the children through limits. The terms of international trade their jumbled routine. Recently, they had become ruthlessly unfavorable to have begun a second phase of crop-exporting economies like

research in which they work to compile Tanzania's, and the related costs of

careful case histories in an effort to debt servicing drained national understand better the complex factors resources. The social service system, that propel children onto the streets. for all its benefits, became a bloated and inefficient bureaucracy that

As the initial study progressed and discouraged popular participation in relationships with the children became decision-making. Exploding

established, Rajani and Kudrati found it urbanization weakened family support impossible to isolate the study from the systems and introduced new hazards, problems they saw around them. and the emergence of AIDS in the Gradually their apartment became late 1980s placed an enormous strain known as a place where the children on already depleted community could come for practical support and resources. Children began to fall

companionship. "On the one hand it through the cracks. was ovenwhelming," said Rajani, during an interview with the Brandeis Review In the past year kuleana has leased an on a May visit to campus, "because old building that has become a drop-in children would come at all hours of the center for the street children and a

day and night. But if a child who is nine place from which to organize

knocks and says, 'I am being beaten community action. It is called the

up by the police,' you can't just say 'It's Center for Children's Rights. "The midnight, go away.'" Kuleana's name," says Rajani, "is deliberate. We formation became inevitable. are trying to move away from a patronizing welfare approach and instead focus on rights. Only in this way will we be able to avoid piecemeal, handout approaches and reverse the street children's marginalization." The Center offers such services as learning is used to overcome the In most cases, says Rajani, the showers, a place to do laundry, basic deficiencies of traditional methods. children can do a lot for themselves, health care, counseling and informal "One child, for example, had the given some encouragement and educational activities. Most importantly, hardest time grasping how to do basic support. "We don't think of them as poor little victims who need help," he it gives the children a place to call their addition and subtraction," Rajani says, own. At the community level the Center "until we talked about buying and says. "They're incredibly resourceful provides legal support, lobbies for selling bananas. He was an expert people who've created effective protective legislation, holds awareness within minutes." strategies to survive on the streets. We workshops and pushes the media to can do well if we recognize and support pay attention to children's issues. Often the children need an advocate these strategies." who can negotiate the channels of a Kuleana uses innovative approaches in bureaucracy unaccustomed to Kuleana's approach to basic health addressing problems of health, food recognizing the rights of street children. care reflects this commitment. Children and education. To treat scabies, a skin As Rajani explains, "The children face are encouraged to handle some first disease affecting many street children, tremendous discrimination in society. aid and are taught how to diagnose is of ailments. of it organizes "health picnics," where For instance, health care officially symptoms common One sports are combined with treatment free. But in reality, people with little Rajani's colleagues, for instance, works and role-playing on how to avoid clout, like the street children, fall pretty with street girls and teaches them how infection. To avoid creating a much at the bottom of the ladder. to help each other recognize and get dependency, kuleana does not give out Essentially they don't get care and are treatment for sexually transmitted applies food. Instead it supports children's often mistreated. They get pushed diseases. The same philosophy efforts to obtain food from local around, asked all sorts of mean to the way in which the Center is run. restaurants and food stalls, usually in questions, are told to 'come back The children have many exchange for a reasonable amount of tomorrow.' In the courts they are work. To educate the children, practical presumed guilty from the start. So we intervene. We go with the children to the hospitals and courts and stand by them. We cajole, push and sweet-talk to try to get the best deal for them."

The Wien Program Celebrates

Approximately 40 Wien scholarship, only the most International Scholarship outstanding applicants Program alumni trooped from each country find back to campus to themselves under serious celebrate the Wien consideration for the program's 35th award. One of the main anniversary during the criteria is that the October Homecoming applicant possess the Weekend. potential to make a contribution both to the The Wien program was Brandeis campus and to established by Lawrence his or her home country A. and Mae Wien In 1958 upon return. In 1993, only

to provide foreign 1 1 students were chosen students with from over 700 applicants. opportunities for study in the United States and The amount of the award satisfactory academic The late Lawrence A. Wien, enrich the intellectual and Is based on the needs of performance, until the benefactor of the Wien cultural life of the the individual applicant completion of degree International Scholarship Brandeis campus. In the and may include full studies. Program, with students during 35 years since its tuition, room and board, the early years of the program founding, the program has medical fees and Many Wien scholars have brought 700 scholars to insurance, books and a become leaders in their Brandeis from 100 stipend for personal countries. Alumni include countries, from France to expenses. Although each a member of the Japanese Sri Lanka to Japan to award is made for one House of Councillors, a

Uruguay. year only, it is renewable top secretary in the Indian annually, contingent upon Ministry of Health and Although all foreign Family Welfare, one of applicants to Brandeis are Africa's leading medical considered for a Wien experts and the foreign minister of Slovenia.

40 Brandeis Review Bookshelf Challenge Faculty of Feminist Biography

Joyce Antler '63 Marc Brettler '78, and Sara Alpcrn, Elisabeth Ph.D. '87 Israels Perry, Ingrid Winther and Michael Fishbane, eds. Scobie, eds. Brettler is associate professor Writing the Lives of Antler is associate professor of Near Eastern and Judaic of American studies. Studies. Modern American Women

The Challenge of Feminist Minhah le-Nahum: Biblical Biography: Writing the Lives and Other Studies Presented of Modern American Women to Nahmn M. Sarna in University of Illinois Press Honour of his 70th Birthday Sheffield Academic This anthology is a look at Press, Ltd. EDITED liY the lives of 10 influential 20th-century American This collection of essays by vi'omen and the challenges colleagues, students and experienced by the women friends was written out of who have written about gratitude for the careful opiate addiction, leaders of synagogues, them. In 1988 the editors of scholarship in many areas of homosexuality, delinquency federations and other Jewish this volume participated in a biblical studies by Nahum and child abuse and draw organizations prepare panel called "Biographies of M. Sama, who is professor — out their theoretical and constitutions and keep them Women in Public Life: emeritus of biblical studies policy implications. A new up-to-date, the documents Challenges and Results," at at Brandeis University. The chapter addresses themselves are rarely the first Southern list of contributors includes developments of the last examined. Double Bond Conference on Women's Marc Brettler and Marvin A decade, including AIDS, examines the constitutional History. The excitement Fox of the Department of domestic violence, framework of American generated at this conference Near Eastern and Judaic codependcncy, hyperactivity Jewry. Part I includes led to the publication of Studies and other professors in children and learning introductory essays by the these essays. The authors from across the United States disabilities. three editors concerning the assert that the writing of and Israel. overall content of the women's biographies '75, constitutional documents. In changes the nature and Peter Conrad Jonathan D. Sarna M.A. '75 Part II, the essays by Hannah practice of the biographical and Joseph W. Schneider Daniel Elazar and Rela G. Kliger and Nitza Druyan craft. First, a different type of Conrad is professor of J. Monson, eds. illuminate key parts of person now receives sociology. is Joseph H. and Belle American Jewish history biographical treatment: not Sama R. Braun Professor of through their analysis of the all of the subjects have Deviance and American Jewish History. constitutional documents achieved the kind of Medicalization: From of major Jewish institutions celebrity status that many Badness to Sickness Double Bond: The and finally, a close male biographical subjects Temple University Press A Constitutional Documents look at excerpts from the have enjoyed. Secondly, of American Jewry actual documents when the subject is female, A gradual social change in University Press of America, themselves, included in Part gender moves to the center of the definitions of deviance in Inc. UI, makes a reference source the analysis: women's lives the past two centuries from for the reader. differ from men's, often in "badness" to "sickness" is It has been said that the profound ways. This the subject of this book. average American takes anthology is offered to There is a dual focus: a scant interest in the nature celebrate and ensure the historical and sociological of the Constitution. The continuing development of inquiry into the changing same is true today of the genre. definitions of deviance and American Jews and their an analysis of the transformation from constitutions. Although religious and criminal to medical designations and control of deviance. The authors examine specific cases—madness, alcoholism.

43 Fall 1993 HEBREW and the Bible in America

Brandeis University Alumni Press Series

Neil J. Kressel '78, M.A. '78, ed. Kressel is chair of the Department of Psychology at William Paterson College of New lersey.

Political Psychology: Classic -mrD I'D nnin dh'j^n na "ly wtX and Contemporary Readings Paragon House Publishers

Political psychology applies theory and research methods from psychology to the comprehension and Shalom Goldman, .ej improvement of political processes. This interdisciplinary endeavor The Brandeis Series in Taking Root: The Origins of other provides the reader has developed steadily during American Jewish History, the Canadian Jewish with important keys to the past few decades and, as a Culture and Life Community, by Gerald understanding the history of result, political psychology Jonathan Sarna '75, Tulchinsky, is a the Jews in Poland in the 1990s looks very M.A. '75, Editor comprehensive history of throughout the modem different than it did in the Canadian lewry from its period. 1960s. Political psychologists Hebrew and the Bible in origins m the 18th century also have enriched our America: The First Two through its maturation in Confronting the Nation: understanding of how policy Centuries, edited by Shalom 1920. With meticulous Jewish and Western elites make decisions, how Goldman, considers the scholarship, Tulchinsky Nationalism, hy George L. the mass media influence the tradition and legacy of portrays the story of Mosse, brings together some public and how genocidal Hebraism in 17th- and 18th- Canada's Jews on a broad of the most important and massacres can occur. This century America. In wide- canvas, comparing and original work of this volume provides a ranging, interdisciplinary contrasting the Canadian and renowned cultural and representative sampling of essays, 15 scholars examine United States experiences, intellectual historian on the important and influential America's historical while being sensitive to changing concept of the works by psychologists, "romance" with the Hebrew European roots as well. nation in Western Europe political scientists, language, including themes and how the Jews confronted psychiatrists, sociologists such as the rise of Hebraism The Tauber Institute for this change. These and others. in Europe and its the Study of European provocative essays touch transference to America, the Jewry Series upon such themes as the June Namias, Ph.D. '89 of early identification of Native Jehuda Reinharz, content and significance Namias is associate professor Americans with the Ten Lost Ph.D. '72, Editor national anthems, the of history at the University Tribes, the ambiguous nature myths and symbols of of Alaska-Anchorage. of Hebraism among the Poles and Jews: A Failed national self-representation, Puritans, the role of Hebrew Brotherhood, by Magdalena and the political culture White Captives: Gender and in the early American Jewish Opalski and Israel Bartal, and activity of the radical Ethnicity on the American community and the reconstructs Polish and right in Germany. Frontier intellectual legacy of Jewish visions of their The University of North Hebraism in America's mutual relations as they are Carolina Press earliest universities. reflected in literary works of the 19th and early From conventional literature 20th centuries. This and history we are used to a unique cooperative effort at frontier of Indian fighters and analyzing the dissonant war whoops, but this is an and historically-conditioned exaggerated, one- refractions of the cultural stereotypes that Jews and Poles held of each

44 Brandeis Review NAnilAS The Regenerate Lyric

Theology and Innuvation

in Ajnerican Raetry JUNE NAMIAS

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Chapel Hill dimensional, melodramatic Elisa New '80 view of America's frontier New IS the Esther K. and M. history. The author offers a Mark Watkins Assistant new analysis of Indian-white Professor in the Humanities coexistence on the American at the University of frontier. Her studies reveal a Pennsylvania. different picture, more involved with encounters The Regenerate Lyric: across cultural lines, and Theology and Innovation in including women and American Poetry children as opposed to only Cambridge University Press men. Namias shows that accounts of the capture of In The Regenerate Lyric, the Euro-Americans, especially author presents a major white women and children, revision of the accepted are commentaries on the historical account of uncertain boundaries of Emerson as the source of the gender, race and culture. She American poetic tradition. begins by comparing the She challenges the majority experiences and opinion that Emerson not representations of male and only overthrew New England female captives over time religious orthodoxy but and on successive frontiers founded a poetic tradition and then uses the narratives that fundamentally of three captives as case renounced that orthodoxy in studies to provide a favor of a secular framework for notions of Romanticism. Instead, she gender and cultural conflict treats the classic American on the frontier. poem as the religious center of an already religiocentric literature. She contends that Emerson's reinvention of religion as a species of poetry was tested and found wanting by the very poetic innovators Emerson addressed. New examines the poems in great detail, and concludes finally that "it is — Faculty Notes

Tzvi Abusch, M.A. '64 Fragment about Mourning served as chair; Gerald Rose B. and Joseph H. Cohen and Celebration," in The Showstack, M.A. '72, M.A. Professor of Assyriology and fournal of the Ancient Near '80, M.A. '81, Ph.D. '83; and Ancient Near Eastern Eastern Society. Deborah Dash Moore '67 and Religion, was named a fellow S. Ilan Troen '63, who of the Annenberg Research Eric Chasalow delivered papers. The Institute at the University of assistant professor of conference was sponsored by Pennsylvania, where he will composition, was a winner Ben-Gurion University and continue his research on in the New Publications by the American Jewish Henry Sussman '68 Babylonian magic and Competition of the National Congress. The papers Sussman is director of mythology. He also was Flute Association with his delivered at the conference comparative literature at the awarded a Senior Fulbright composition. Over the Edge are expected to be published State University of New Scholarship to support his for Flute and Electronic in Hebrew and Enghsh. York at Buffalo. study at the British Museum Sounds, which was of cuneiform tablets dealing performed at their national Eberhard Frey The Trial: Kafka's Unholy with witchcraft. He was convention in Boston. associate professor of Trinity named an honorary research German, was invited to Twayne Publishers fellow at University College, Peter Conrad present a paper, "Exile London. For the academic professor of sociology, Experience in Berthold Few writers of fiction year 1994-95, Abusch was published the fourtli edition Viertel's Poetry," at the anticipate the preoccupations named a resident fellow of of Sociology of Health and Berthold Viertel Symposium, of 20th-century culture with the Netherlands Institute for Illness: Critical Perspectives Vienna. This paper will also violence, derangement and Advanced Study in the with St. Martin's Press. appear in the "Proceedings of language with the lucidity Humanities and Social the Symposium." He is that Franz Kafka achieved in Sciences, Royal Netherlands Stanley Deser coeditor of Das graue Tuch: his novel The Trial. Academy of Arts and Enid and Nathan Ancell Gedichte, the collected "Someone must have been Sciences. On the occasion of Professor of Physics, was poems of Berthold Viertel as telling lies about Joseph K., his appointment, the elected chair of the Scientific volume in of a new edition of for without having done Institute is inviting a group Board and Steering his works. anything wrong he was of scholars to participate in a Committee of the Institute arrested one fine morning." research theme group for Theoretical Physics, Lawrence H. Fuchs The novel, dealing with focusing their work upon University of California- Meyer and Walter Jaffe Joseph K.'s incredulity, his magic and religion in the Santa Barbara. The Institute Professor in American outraged and somewhat ancient Near East. He is a national facility of the Civilization and Politics, contemptuous performance delivered papers and lectures National Science received the first Carey at a preliminary at the meetings of the Foundation. McWilliams Award for The interrogation, his active Rencontre Assyriologique American Kaleidoscope: efforts to master his Internationale, the American Sylvia Barack Fishman, Race, Ethnicity and the circumstances by applying Oriental Society and the assistant professor of Civic Culture from The common sense to them and World Congress of Jewish contemporary Jewry and Multicultural Review and the impact of the proceedings Studies as well as to the American Jewish sociology; the Kidger Distinguished upon his personal and ancient studies programs at Jonathan Sarna '75, M.A. Historian Award from the professional lives, furnishes a the University of '75, Joseph H. and Belle R. New England History snapshot of not just the Pennsylvania. His topics Braun Professor of American Teachers Association. The author's time and place, but included analyses of sections Jewish History; and Stephen U.S. Commission on the whole of the 20th of the Epic of Gilgamesh and Whitfield, Ph.D. '72, Max Immigration Reform elected century. In The Trial: the identification of shared Richter Professor of him actmg chair of the Kafka 's Unholy Trinity, cosmological and legal American Civilization, commission. He delivered Sussman places the novel in patterns in prophetic and delivered papers at the the keynote address, its historical, aesthetic magical literatures of ancient international conference, "Prospects for Immigration and philosophical contexts, Israel and Mesopotamia. "Envisioning Israel: The Policy Change," at a and examines Kafka's Published this year were Changing Ideals and Images conference sponsored by the insight as a psychologist of "Gilgamesh's Request and of North American Jews," Urban Institute, Washington, the artistic process. He Siduri's Denial. Part 1: The held in Beer-Shcva, Israel. DC, and he gave a talk, also examines the writers Meaning of the Dialogue and Brandeis alumni who also "Immigration Policy and Kafka cherished its Implications for the participated in the Immigration Law," to a Dostoevsky, Gogol, Balzac History of the Epic," in The conference were Allon Gal, United States appellate and Dickens—and the Tablet and the Scroll: Near M.A. '70, Ph.D. '76, who judges meeting at the sustained influence of filial, Eastern Studies in Honor of Smithsonian Institution. He aesthetic and messianic William W. Hallo-, and published two articles: mentalities in his work. "Gilgamesh's Request and "Migration Research and Siduri's Denial. Part 2: An Immigration Policy" in the Analysis and Interpretation International Migration of an Old Babylonian

46 Brandeis Review Review, Winter 1992, and Ray Jackendoff problems in management, workshop on case and "An Agenda for Action: professor of linguistics and distribution, medical risk grammatical functions Immigration Policy and National Center for Complex and liability, and organized by the Linguistic Ethnic Policies" in the Systems, presented an recommends taking action Society of Finland. She gave Annals of the American invited address, "Is There a now, before a vaccine is colloquia presentations at Academy of Political and Capacity for Social available, to minimize these the University of Califomia- Social Sciences, November Cognition?," and a issues. Irvine, the University of 1993. workshop, "On Natural Massachusetts-Amherst and Language Semantics," at the Michael Macy the University of Iceland and Janet Z. Giele Third International associate professor of presented a paper, "Lexical professor and director of the Colloquium on Cognitive sociology, was awarded the Case in Middle Formation: Family and Children's Policy Science, University of the 1993 Theory Prize of the German vs. Icelandic," at the Center at The Florence Basque Country, San American Sociological annual meeting of the Fiellcr School for Advanced Sebastian, Spain. His paper Association for his Linguistic Society of Studies in Social Welfare, "'What' and 'Where' in forthcoming paper, "The America. wsLS appointed acting dean of Spatial Language and Spatial Structure of Collective The Heller School. Cognition," coauthorcd with Action," which will appear Alfred Nisonoff Barbara Landau, appeared in in volume 10 of Advances in professor of biology and Ruth Gollan Behavioral and Brain Group Processes. He has also Rosenstiel Basic Medical adjunct associate professor of Sciences. been elected to the editorial Sciences Research Center, Near Eastern and fudaic board of American has been awarded an Studies and director, Hebrev^f Reuven Kimelman Sociological Review. He $88,000, one-year grant from and Oriental Language associate professor of Near presented a paper recently, the American Cancer Programs, was invited to Eastern and Judaic Studies, "What is Critical about the Society. The grant, which is chair a session on contrastive addressed the 1993 Critical Mass," at the in effect through June 1994, analysis in the teaching of Washington Conference of International Institute of is to support his program foreign and second languages the American Association of Sociology at the Sorbonne. entitled "Mechanisms of at the Third International Jewish Newspapers on Macy was also invited to an Tolerance and Conference on the Teaching "Community Building and international workshop on Autoimmunity to an of Hebrew in Diverse the Jewish Tradition." He structuralism and rational Edogenous Protein." Educational Contexts, published "The Shema and choice theory held at the Nisonoff was also approved Hebrew University, Its Rhetoric: the Case for the Netherlands Institute for for an additional year of Jerusalem. Shema Being More than Advanced Study. He was support m the amount of Creation, Revelation, and invited to participate in a $91,000 beginning in July Jane Hale Redemption," in The journal workshop on artificial 1994, provided funds are associate professor of French of Jewish Thought and intelligence applications in available. and comparative literature, Philosophy; "Ashre: Psalm the social sciences held at received a Fulbright grant for 145 and the Liturgy," in the National Center for Benjamin C.I. Ravid '57 research at Cheikh Anta Proceedmgs of the Supercomputing at the Jennie and Mayer Weisman Diop University in Dakar, Rabbinical Assembly 1992; University of Illinois. He was Professor of Jewish History, Senegal, under the African and "Jewish Community invited to participate on a delivered an invited lecture Regional Research Program. Centers as Jewish panel on group processes and on "Shylock and the Jewish Environment Centers," in social theory at the Annual Merchants of Venice" at the Erica Harth the Journal of Jewish Meeting of the American University of Toronto. His professor of humanities and Communal Service. Sociological Association in article, "New Light on the women's studies and Miami. Ghetti of Venice," appeared director, Center for the Martin Levin in the Shlomo Simonsohn Humanities, cotaught professor of politics and Joan Maling Jubilee Volume: Studies on "Boundaries of Domesticity director, Gordon Public professor of linguistics and the History of the Jews in the in Early Modern Europe," Policy Center, had a report, National Center for Complex Middle Ages and with Elizabeth Honig, an art "The Day after the AIDS Systems, was invited to Renaissance Period. historian from Tufts Vaccine is Discovered: lecture at the University of University, and Anne Management Matters," Helsinki. Her lecture, Joseph Reimer, M.A. '70 McCants, an economic published in The Journal of "Unpassives of associate professor in the historian from MIT, for the Policy Analysis and Unaccusatives," offered a Homstein Program, prepared new Radcliffe Graduate Management. In this report, cross-linguistic perspective a paper, "Where School and Consortium in Women's he details numerous on so-called impersonal Synagogue are Joined," for Studies, of which Brandeis is potential pitfalls involved in passives, comparing the Consultation for the a founding member. implementing a campaign to constructions in Polish, Experiment in inoculate all Americans. Ukrainian, Irish, Finnish and Congregational Education Urging political leaders, Turkish. Also, she was the sponsored by Hebrew Union health policy makers and featured speaker at a College, Los Angeles. His public managers to learn article, "Between Parents and from the unsuccessful swme Principal: Social Drama in a flu vaccination program. Synagogue School," appeared Levin foresees tremendous

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in Contemporary Jewry and Synthesis and Properties of As a Fellow of Brandeis Your letters, 250 words or he contributed a portrait of Polymeric Stacked Face-to- University, I enjoyed reading less, should offer interesting best practice in the Face Metallocenes" at your Summer 1993 issue of and informative reactions to supplementary school to the Northeastern University, the Brandeis Review. I the articles appearing in the Best Practices Project of the Boston. especially enjoyed reading Brandeis Review or Council for Initiatives in the article about how comments about the Jewish Education. Jonathan D. Sarna '75, Brandeis awarded George University. Priority will be M.A. '75 Bums, the wonderful given to readers affiliated Jehuda Reinharz, Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun entertainer and author, an with the University (alumni, Ph.D. '72 Professor of American Jewish Honorary Doctor of Humane faculty, donors, members of provost and senior vice History, delivered the Letters, in Los Angles, last the National Women's president for academic affairs opening paper, "Revitalizing lune. The article then said, Committee and current and Richard Korct Professor Jewish Peoplehood in "This was the first occasion parents) and if space of Modern Jewish History, America," at the Wilstein where the University has permits, to readers who have was elected fellow of the Institute Colloquium; and presented an honorary degree no official affihation with Royal Historical Society of the opening paper, off campus." the University. The editor England and fellow of the "Envisioning Israel: The reserves the right to select American Academy for Changing Ideals and Images In 1980, my late father-in- and edit the most Jewish Research. He was of North American Jews," at law, Rubin Epstein, then a appropriate letters for invited to serve on the the Ben-Gurion University Trustee of Brandeis publication. Please sign your Academic Council of the Leo conference. University, was awarded an name with your affiliation to Baeck Institute and was honorary degree at the New the University (your class appointed to the editorial Stephen J. Whitfield, England Deaconess Hospital. numerals if you are an alum) advisory boards of Jewish Ph.D. '72 He was unfortunately ill and your hometown. History and Jewish Studies Max Richter Professor of with kidney failure, and Quarterly. He also delivered American Civilization, therefore unable to receive Please send your letters to: lectures in Munich and presented papers at his honorary degree at the The Editor Jerusalem and presented the conferences at the University University. Dr. Abram Brandeis Review Chaim Weizmann Lecture in of Pittsburgh and at Ben- Sachar and Henry Foster, Brandeis University the Humanities on Gurion University in Beer- then chairman of the Board P.O. Box 9110 "Statecraft as the Art of the Sheva, Israel. He published of Trustees, awarded him Waltham, MA 02254-9110 Possible" at the Weizmann his essay, "The Cultural this degree at a ceremony at Institute of Science. The Cold War as History," in the the hospital, something lecture was issued as a Virginia Quarterly Review. neither he, nor any other special publication of the members of the family, have Institute. Harry Zohn ever forgotten. Since he beat

professor of German, George Burns by 12 years, I Bernard Reisman, delivered a "Wiener have to presume that his Ph.D. '70 Vorlesung" at the Vienna honorary degree was actually Klutznick Professor of City Hall. He has published the first ever presented by Contemporary Jewish three articles in the the University off campus. Studies and director, Encyclopedia of World

Homstein Program, worked Literature in the 20th I am sure Ruby would be with leaders of Jewish Century and one each in Inn delighted today, if he knew communities in Brazil and (Innsbruck), Pataphysics that the illustrious George Alaska on building (Melbourne) and Jiidische Bums followed in his community cohesion, Kulturwoche (Vienna). footsteps at Brandeis establishing Jewish social University. services and enhancing Irving K. Zola religious life. His work in Mortimer Gryzmish Herbert Carver Brazil was concentrated in Professor of Human Fellow of the University Sao Paulo, home to 46,000 Relations, was named the Yarmouthport, Jews, and in Alaska in the 1993 recipient of the Lee- Massachusetts Jewish communities of Founders Award of the Correction Anchorage, Fairbanks, Society for the Study of In the summer issue of the Juneau and Ketcliikan. Social Problems. This award Brandeis Review. Shulamit is made in recognition of Reinharz's class numerals Myron Rosenblum significant achievements in should have read M.A. '69, Charles A. Breskin Professor the study of ethnic and/or Ph.D. 77. of Chemistry, delivered an racial conflict and social invited seminar talk on "The movements, and the role of mass media as related to social problems, to provide understanding and insight for practical applications.

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Expanding Influence Through Strategic Alliances

Women have made Norman Rockwell's vision of extraordmary gains in the family was Dad as sole leadership roles in business breadwinner and Mom at and government over the last home raising a couple of

decade. If the trend children. Eighty-five percent contmues, American life, not of Americans lived only in the workplace, but in accordingly, while today, society itself, will undergo a only 10 percent of Americans substantial transformation. live in that family unit. In The advances were made the workforce, the changes possible through a variety of are equally dramatic. By the efforts, some of them year 2000, white males will pioneered by women be a minority in California executives who sensed the a state where today more heady possibilities a couple than 70 languages are of decades ago, and set spoken. themselves to work as agents of change. This new order means that we'll have to change our The diversity of lifestyles attitudes, habits and and mindstyles in our society institutions. And this much is dramatically different than change means the future will the decade in which both

Playboy and I were bom the 1950s. At the time.

Christie Hefner, who joined restructured operations, serves on numerous boards Rogers Memorial Award Playboy in 1975, is chair and eliminated unprofitable including the American from the Beverly Hills chief executive officer of businesses and initiated Civil Liberties Union of Chamber of Commerce and Playboy Enterprises. Inc.. successful expansion in Illinois, the Magazine Civic Association for her overseeing policy, publishing and Publishers Association, The contributions to publishing management and strategy in entertainment. She has been Nation Institute and the and entertainment and her all areas of the $215 million instrumental in expanding National Council on Crime dedication to preserving the international publishing and Playboy's influence and Delinquency. In fuly principles of freedom and entertainment company. worldwide by forming 1990, the International democracy. Prior to her election to both strategic alliances with Platform Association posts in November 1988. she international partners. presented Hefner with the Hefner is a life member of was vice chair, president and Eleanor Roosevelt Award for the Brandeis National chief operating officer. At Hefner is active in a number her commitment to human Women's Committee and Brandeis. she was elected to of not-for-profit and political rights and civil liberties m was elected a President's Phi Beta Kappa in her junior organizations. She was the the tradition of the former Councilor in 1978. She was year and graduated summa first woman elected to the first lady. She was inducted elected to the Board of cum laude with a major in Chicago chapter of the into the Women's Business Trustees in 1991 and now English, and then worked as Young Presidents' Development Center Hall of also serves on the Executive a journalist for a year. Organization, and currently Fame in 1 991 for opening Committee and as the chair During her tenure as doors, paving roads, building of the Budget and Finance president and in her current opportunities and providing Committee. capacity. Hefner has inspiration for all women entrepreneurs. She recently received the 1993 Will

49 Fall 1993 shown here is Christie Hefner speaking to the Brandeis University Women's Network on campus in April

and encourage participation, you begin to understand the the authors predict that

are now much in demand. I inroads that women are women will hold at least 35 personally believe that these making. The Small Business percent of the governorships traits are as much Administration underscores in the United States by 2008, generational as they are this progress by predicting and that a woman will be gender-related. Regardless, that women will own 40 to elected president by 2002. these characteristics will 50 percent of small have an impact on how businesses by the year 2000. We know from the 1992 organizations manage an election that women can increasingly diverse Women are not only represent significant power workplace, which must contributing dramatically as since they compose 54 allow opportunities for entrepreneurs, but also in percent of the electorate. women and also people of redefining business There is a gender gap different ethnic backgrounds, relationships with between the ways men and cultures and family employees, driving home the women vote. The final relationships. realization that a balance adjusted poll results show must be struck between that Bill Clinton received 45 When thinking about the work and family, an percent of women's votes, future of business, it's equilibrium that both compared with 41 percent of important to adjust one's women and men who parent men's votes. Moreover, Voter perception away from large must find. At Playboy Research & Surveys' figures corporations to small and Enterprises, where almost 50 reported in The New York medium-sized businesses, percent of our managers are Times showed the gender gap the sector where the real women and 35 percent have was particularly pronounced growth in sales and jobs is children, we have very among younger voters, with being created. Companies successful flex time, flex 48 percent of women 18 to experiencing fast growth and benefits and permanent part- 29 years old, compared with be a time ot uncertainty. But rapid change are the types of time work status programs. only 38 percent of men the for some, particularly organizations most same age, voting for the women, it will be an age of hospitable to nontraditional The networking and Democratic ticket. Similarly, discovery and freedom. In management styles, and they partnership modes that have 49 percent of female college such an environment, are also, not coincidentally, been key to women's graduates compared with networks, teams and the best at providing business success are also only 40 percent of male coalitions will have more opportunities for women. In relevant to the recent college graduates voted for influence and power than fact, based on 1992 figures, achievements of women m Clinton. The fact that traditional hierarchical the five million plus women- politics. Qualities that many younger, better educated and institutions. Even business owned businesses now people want to see in the employed women were strategy itself is moving represent more jobs than the leaders of the future match major contributors to the away from the merger and Fortune 500. If you consider characteristics typically gender gap suggests that their acquisition focus of the that women-owned associated with women's influence will grow. 1980s to strategic alliances, businesses is one of the leadership style: openness, both domestically and fastest growing segments of trust, compassion, All of this new-found power internationally. the United States economy, understanding. Indeed, in a and opportunity in politics and that small-to-medium- U.S. News and World Report did not happen in a vacuum. While I have seen highly sized growth businesses will poll published last April, a Years of preparation, autocratic women managers become the fast growing stunning 61 percent of those including pioneering races in and very nurturing men companies of the future, then surveyed thought the the 1970s and the launching managers, women managers country would be governed of EMILY'S List (EMILY is an are considered, generally, to better if more women held acronym for Early Money Is be more humanistic and political office; that's up Like Yeast: it makes the involving, and what are from only 28 percent in considered traditional female 1984. In the recently personality traits, such as the published Megatrends for ability to build a consensus Women, by Patricia Aberdeen and John Neshitt,

50 Brandeis Review UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE NETWORK REACHING AMERICA'S EDUCATED ELITE

Association of Women Brandeis Review Business Owners and to finance a single conference Columns: The University of for the women to meet each other. Washington Magazine

The power that was CWRU: The Magazine of unleashed by those women Case Western Reserve at their first meeting in Los Angeles took on a life of its own, and now The Duke Magazine Committee of 200 has over 240 run members who Johns Hopkins Magazine multimilhon dollar companies, including over a dozen women's companies Northivestem Perspective with sales over $100 million.

As the members of both The Pitt Magazine dough rise), have paid off. By women of prominence from Chicago Network and The pinpointing one of the major a wide variety of interests, Committee of 200 have Rutgers Magazine hurdles for women including academics, gained confidence and power, candidates—the lack of early religion, the military, arts, the groups have become money—EMILY's List was professions, business and the outward looking, more Syracuse University Magazine founded by a group of us in media to share experiences setting up foundation, the mid-1980s to provide and to support each other. scholarship and mentoring that key support early on in a Today, there are almost 200 programs. Washington L'nitiersit;y Magazine number of races. In 1992, women in The Chicago List single Network, and we, along with EMILY'S was the All in all, women have made largest donor to political a handful of women's great strides during the last races, giving over $6 million networks in other cities, several decades. Individual Our 991,000 subscribers, to pro-choice Democratic formed an alliance 10 years leadership has been women candidates. ago to create the demonstrated repeatedly by 1.7 million readers, International Women's extraordinary have a median age of 42.8, consists I've been involved in starting Forum, which now accomplishments in all countries. an average household three women's networks in of 37 forums in 13 segments of society, addition to EMILY'S List. including finance, media, income of $8 1,200, Two years ago a group of In 1982 I was also one of 20 politics and law. Early efforts and are loyal readers activist women in Chicago women who founded The by the new administration in formed the Women's Issues Committee of 200. In fact. Washington, including some of their alumni magazines. Network (WIN) to work on Playboy Enterprises put up key appointments, should progressive political issues the seed money to do the provide women with together. Our first project research that identified over additional inspiration to was a documentary film and 200 successful female forge ahead. Networking has a series of leadership entrepreneurs and invited moved from women's-only Advertising Sales briefings on RU486, which them to each give $1,000 to groups to a more effective helped to raise awareness be used as seed money to way of "doing business." about this example of science rejuvenate the National Working together and UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE being held hostage to the utilizing our strengths, NETWORK politics of the right-to-lifers. women will shape and direct the future, not only for In 1979 I was one of a group our daughters, but our sons 15 East 10th Street, Suite 2F of women in Chicago who as well. formed The Chicago New York, NY 10003 Network to bring together (212)228-1688. Christie Hefner '74 Fax:(212)228-3897 Homecoming, Reunion, Wien Alumni Celebrate on Campus

New England foliage nearing marked the first time that today and work out with its peak sparked the Homecoming programs were them at the Gosman Sports atmosphere during a full designed for students and and Convocation Center, weekend of celebrations for alumni to attend such events which most of them had Homecoming, the Reunion as a showing of Dave, a never seen." classes of 1973, 1978, 1983 "Decadance" featuring and 1988 and a special 35th music of decades from the The weekend provided a Anniversary celebration of sixties to the nineties, a crew blend of intellectual, social the founding of the Wien exhibition on the Charles and both participatory and International Scholarship River, a comedy cabaret, a spectator athletic Program. rugby game, a Homecoming opportunities. Reunion barbecue and men's and classes heard Provost and The weekend marked the women's soccer games Senior Vice President for first time that Reunion was against both the University Academic Affairs Jehuda presented with Alumni held in the fall, allowing of Chicago and Washington '72 Reinharz, Ph.D. describe Achievement Awards by alumni the opportunity of University, Herbst '94, a the Brandeis Jim new curriculum President Thier. Other auditing classes and mingling of member the Student and comment on many of Reunion awards were with students and faculty in Alumni Association, said, the faculty new presented to a number of a way that has not been "The weekend provided so appointments, and joined the individuals, and the Student possible during the many opportunities to tell Wien international scholars Alumni Association traditional Reunions that alumni about life at Brandeis for a stirring keynote address presented Pride Awards to competed with by Dimitrij Rupel, Ph.D. '76, honor alumni in each Commencement. It also former foreign minister of Reunion class whose Slovenia and of now member accomplishments instill the Slovenian parliament and particular pride. Pride Award chair of the Culture, recipients were Dr. Lee Education and Sports Brooks '73, a Cleveland for the Committee now- specialist in pediatric sleep independent republic in the disorders and Sudden Infant former Yugoslavia. Alumni Death Syndrome; Marc and faculty authors were Draisen '78, Massachusetts honored at a reception where state representative and authors talked about and candidate for lieutenant displayed their works. governor; Jennifer Casolo '83, former church worker and Rupel and Marshall peace activist in Central Herskovitz '73, well-known TV and movie writer, director and producer of "thirtysomething," were

Reunion Gift leadership Spevak '73, Mitchel present University President Appelbaum '88, 10th Samuel O. Thier a check for Reunion Program cochairs $155,217, representing the Laura Rotenberg '83 and total funds raised by the David Levine '83 and Bruce Classes of 1973, 1978, 1983 B. Litwer '61, president of and 1988. Shown with the Alumni Association. President Thier are, left to Not shown are Renee right, Robin Sherman '83, Heyman Nachbar '78 and Stephen Harris '83. fan Susan Tevelow Feinstein '88 Solomon '73, Albert

Wien alumnus Dimitrij Rupel, Ph.D. '76 answers a student's question after receiving his 1993 Alumni Achievement Award 52 Brandeis Review Alumni Achievement Award Alumni Honored recipient Marshall at Founders' Day Herskovitz 73 speaks to students about careers Weekend in the film and 'TV industry

Alumni Association and Alumni Leadership Awards were presented by President Samuel O. Thier at a special recognition ceremony prior to the Founders' Day Dinner. Morry Stein 'uS8 received the Service to Association Award and Jeffrey Shapiro '84 received the Young Leadership Award. Recognized for their long- term exemplary leadership were Rena Blumberg '36 and America,- and David Victor Samuels '63, both of Roscnblum '88, an attorney J. whom recently concluded with the Equal Employment temis of service as Trustees Opportunity Commission m and Chairs of the Fellows, Philadelphia. Wien alumni Janet Mattel '65, [eannette Lerman '69, vice Adriano Arcelo '63 and president of corporate Meals ranged from casual '61 Masaoki Nagahama communications for Time outdoor barbecues to more celebrate the 35th anniversary Warner, was honored at the formal dinner dances at of the Wien International Founders' Day Dinner nearby hotels. The Wicn Scholarship Program with an Alumni Anniversary included a Board Achievement Award. of Overseers meeting, attended by current Wien scholars and alumni, and was Right. Marc Draisen '78, capped by a special dinner at Jennifer Casolo '83, David the home of President and Rosenblum '88 and Lee Mrs. Samuel O. Thier. Brooks '73 received Student Pride Awards from the Student Alumni Association in recognition of their professional achievements

Above. Stanley Porter, Jr. '96 Below right, Donald presents a gift sweatshirt to Lessem '73. founder of the Juan Marcehno '78 of the Dinosaur Society Securities and Exchange and consultant to the film Commission, who addressed Jurassic Park, explains a group of students and saurian theory to interested alumni at a Minority parties of all ages at the Alumni Network Luncheon Reunion Family Brunch at the Intercultural Center

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'56 '74

Leona Feldman Curhan, Class Elizabeth Sarason Pfau, Class Correspondent, 6 Tide Winds Correspondent, 80 Monadnock Terrace, Marblehead, MA 01945 Road, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167

Norma Rajeck Matder's first novel. Joel Fiedler, M.D. is secretary- An Eye for Dark Phiccs, was treasurer of the board of directors published in (uly. Formerly a of Garden State Medical Group, singer of avant garde music, the largest physician-run specializing in improvisation, she multispecialty group in New performed in New York and the Jersey. He is also on the executive Midwest until 1980 when she committee of the New Jersey began writing. Her fiction and Allergy Society and is interim nonfiction works have appeared in director of the Pediatric Asthma The Georgia Review, and a story, Clinic at Cooper Hospital, a major "Out of Sight, Out of Mind," teaching affiliate of Robert Wood appeared in the summer issue of Medical School. Anita Blau Nancy f. Kaplan The Gettysburg Review. f. '75

'58 community block grants, and the Amy, moved from Boston to Michael L. Leshin was elected vice in 1988. Neuwelt Allan W. Drachman, Class public schools' EEO Advisory Detroit Klari president of the Massachusetts law firm in Correspondent, 115 Mayo Road, Council. She is a member of the formed her own New Council on Family Mediation and of directors of Healing the York City, concentrating in Wellesley, MA 02181 board was appointed chair of the family Children, the Rotary Club of Rio securities, class actions and other law section of the Boston Bar Rancho, Mexico Odyssey of complex litigation. Bernard Rous Carol Shanis Feskin is a sales New Association for 1993-94. He is a and the Shepherd is associate director of publications representative for Staples, Inc., and the Mind Good divorce mediator and family law a shelter. She at the Association for Computing director for Communications Center, homeless attorney at Hemenway & Barnes also Interact Club, a Machinery in New York City Resource Center. She also writes, sponsors the in Boston. Joseph A. Reiman is where he manages the transition has two grown daughters and says community service organization chair and chief executive officer of for teenagers dedicated to helping from global communications based the bottom line is that she has a The Joey Reiman Agency, whose the needv of Albuquerque. on paper to electronic network great life. clients include General Tire, GTE, access and the distribution of '62 '68 digital information. He lives in with his wife. Sue Ann Lcder Sharon, Class Jay R. Kaufman, Class Teaneck, NJ, psychologist, and Correspondent, 13890 Ravenwood Correspondent, One Childs Road, Grand, a clinical 173 "five cats, no kids." Gila Brand Drive, Saratoga, CA 95070 Lexington, MA 02 Svirsky lives in Jerusalem where

Alex Barkas is a partner in Kleiner, she works as a translator and a Judith Giatzer Wechsler is chair of Caufield &. Byers, a consultant to foundations that the art and art history departments Perkins, that begins and make grants in Israel. Most of her and National Endowment for the venture company time goes to peace and human Humanities Professor of Art invests in new health care says he enjoys rights work: she is chair of History at Tufts University. She companies. He people convert B'Tselem (human rights in the published an article on "The helping other into territories), editor of the Illustrations of Samuel Beckett," leading-edge science occupied opportunities in Black newsletter and an which appeared in the summer Art commercial much Women active of the board of the Journal, and an essay that was more than he ever liked to work in member Wijcik, is Institute for Peace and included in the Metropolitan the lab. His wife, Lynda Adam She is also active in Museum of Art catalog Daumier a consultant on technology and Democracy. Drawings. Previously, she market issues in biotechnology, feminist and gay rights [oseph A. Reiman organizations. Svirsky has two produced and directed 13 films on pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. B. Cuyjet, daughters and lives with her art, most recently on Jasper Johns Aloysius M.D. was Days Inns, RJR/Nabisco, Turner and Aaron Siskind. appointed chief of medicine at partner of seven years. Network Television and more. United Hospitals Medical Center '69 The agency spearheaded Atlanta's '63 in Newark, NJ. He and his wife, successful bid for the 1996 received Miriam Osier Hyman, Class Beverly Granger, D.D.S., reside in Rachel Robin McCallister Olympic Games and has the highest Correspondent, 140 East 72nd Glen Cove, NY. Nancy Federman the Les Mason Award, dominated the Atlanta advertising given to a Publicist Guild of Street, Apt. 16B, New York, NY Kaplan was appointed director of honor market, winning Best of Show in 10021. the Midrasha College of Jewish America member for career each of the last four years' Altanta Studies, the adult education arm of achievements that reflect the Addy Award competition. It has picture and television Constance Berke Boykan is the metropolitan Detroit Agency motion also won over 300 awards in executive director of The Alumni for lewish Education. She is also profession's highest standards. national and international and Friends of LaGuardia High an adult and family education '72 competitions. Reiman authored School of Music and Art and consultant to the Hillel Day The Original Success Handbook, Performing Arts. School of Metropolitan Detroit. Marc L. Eisenstock, Class now in its second printing. She and her thyroidologist Correspondent, Plastics Unlimited Reiman's philanthropy includes '65 husband, Mike, 16-year-old son, Inc., 80 Winter Street, Worcester, ORFun, a nonprofit organization Dan, and 12-year-old daughter. 01604 Anita |. Blau received the Women MA he founded to raise money for on the Move Award from the emotionally battered children. He Albuquerque, NM, YWCA for her Aaron Spechler is managing also sits on the board of directors leadership in education and partner of a CPA firm in Santa of CampFire Boys and Girls, the community activism. In addition Barbara, and recently earned a Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and to teaching language arts and master's degree in taxation. The American Red Cross. Reiman social studies at Albuquerque High '73 School, she is a member of the Albuquerque Citizen Advisory Amy E. Golahny, Ph.D. is an associate professor of art and art Group, a task force dealing with department chair at Lycoming College, in Williamsport, PA.

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IS happily married to Cynthia et)rporate flight department in Wliat have you been doing Good, news anchor for Atlanta's White Plains, NY, says he really lately? Let the alumni office television station, WAGA. Lauren enioys seeing the world from know. We invite you to submit 41,000 feet. He and his wife, Lisa, Stiller Rikleen is chair of articles, photos (black and white environmental practice and a have two daughters. Brian R. photos are preferred) and news partner in the law firm of Cantor fonned an art collecting that would be of interest to Bowditch & Dewey. She was business. Gallery 613, in Santa your fellow classmates to: selected to receive the Monica, CA, that specializes in Toastmasters' International modem and contemporary works Communication and Leadership on paper by top international Office of Alumni Relations Award for her "outstanding artists Howard B. Cetel, D.D.S. Brandeis University commitment and service to her and his wife, Rosanne Levinson P.O. Box 91 10 community through Cetel '80, have two children, Jason Waltham, MA 02254-9 110 communication and leadership." and Steve. Cetel says that spending In addition to her professional time with his family is his biggest accomplishments, she is a founder |oy. Steven Cooper, M.D., is in Saiah A. Siegel of MetroWest Harvest, a surplus full-time practice of internal Name food distribution organization, and medicme and pediatrics. He and Louis, the Lawyers serves on numerous boards of Women his wife, Linda, have two children, the National Class nonprofit organizations. Association and Jackie and Ben Deborah Shalowitz Brandeis Degree and Year Association of Housing and Cowans is an associate editor at '76 Redevelopment. Business Insurance, a weekly Address Beth Pearlman Rotenberg, Class '79 business magazine published by Correspondent, 2743 Dean Cram Communications in Phone Tarkway, Minneapolis, MN 55416 Ruth Strauss Fleischmann, Class Chicago. She and her consultant Correspondent, 8 Angler Road, husband, Bruce, have two children, Home Work Lexington, 02 173 Liane Kupferberg-Carter enjoys MA Deena Shira and Aaron Isaac. raising her two sons and is a free- David L. Crane won a CableAce Adlerstein is the editor lance writer whose articles have David M. Award from the National small appeared m Child Magazine. of The Bellville Star, a Academy of Cable Programming Glamour and Newsday. newspaper serving the villages of for his writing of "Peter's Sake," Bellville and Butler, OH. Linda R. Linda S. Sher, M.D., assistant an episode of "Dream On," an works as a litigation director of liver transplants in the Alpert HBO comedy. Erika Wapner attorney and lives in New York Department of Surgery at Cedars- Degens is involved in volunteer with her husband, Mark, and sons, Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, work in video production and Jeffrey Daniel. Pamela K. lives in Beverly Hills with her and editing. She and her husband, husband, Barry Cynowieg, and Anderson is regional director of Sebastian Degens '80, live in the Peace Corps in Chicago, where daughter, Jessica, age 4. Portland with their two children. she is responsible for development William H. Diamond is a founding '78 and implementation strategies in partner of Decampo, Diamond & is Illinois Indiana. Please check here if address Valeric Troyansky, Class the states of and Ash, a New York City law firm different from mailing label. Correspondent, 210 West 89th She completed her master's degree specializing in complex in management from Street #6C, New York, NY 10024 commercial real estate and Northwestern University in 1984 corporate transactions. Marci B. Demographic News and was elected a member of the Carol Kaplan Breitner is a self- Dickman is director of educational (Marriages, Births) Association employed, part-time tax attorney National Black M.B.A. services for the Board of lewish Rachel who has earned her black belt in board of directors. Frydman Education of Baltimore, Inc. She Name is director of breast imaging the Korean martial art of tae kwon Brem and her husband, Ralph Schwartz, at St. Joseph's Hospital. She do. She studies and teaches at the have three children and live in Class graduate studies at Ihoon Rhee Institute of Tae Kwon completed her Randallstown, MD. Mohammad A. University School of Do in Annandale, VA, and lives in Columbia Faisal is in private practice in did her radiology Date Falls Church, VA, with her Medicine and gastroenterology in Florida and husband and two children. Marta residency at Johns Hopkins. Her was elected a fellow of the husband, Henry, is a full professor F. Kauffman won a CableAce American College of of neurosurgery and director of Award from the National Gastroenterology. He and his wife, If you know of any alumni who neurosurgical oncology at Johns Academy of Cable Programming Punam, have three children, are not receiving the Brandeis Hopkins. They have three Fahim, Farzana and Farha. Bruce for her writing of "Peter's Sake," J. Review, please let us know. age an episode of "Dream On," an daughters, Andrea, 10, and Fingeret works for an twins, Alisat and Sarah, age 7. entertainment and merchandising HBc3 comedy. Neil |. Kressel Name attorney for published articles in American John D. Berke is an company that represents such acts the FDIC. He and his wife have a as The Rolling Stones, Guns and journal of Sociology, Brandeis Degree and Class Year Contemporary Psychology, newborn daughter, Alexandra. Roses, Grateful Dead, Harry Drew Alan Brodsky, IH.D. joined Political Psychology and Connick, Jr. and Paul McCartney. the Cod Anesthesia Address Midstream. His wife is editor in Cape He and his wife, Rubi Finkelstein chief of the Fordham Law Review. Associates in Hyannis, MA. Jeff Fingeret '81, live in Guttenherg, Sarah A. Siegel was appointed as Burman is married to Tsilah NJ. with their son, Samuel. Alan E. '80, the attorney for the city of Soloman Burman has a Garfield is an associate professor of Zipporah Rose, and is Clayton, MO, and also works as an daughter, law at Widener University in Phone on associate with Suelthaus & working on a screenplav based Delaware. He and his wife, Phyllis of William L. Work Kaplan, P.C. Siegel earned her law the life Eugene Debs. Rubin, have a 1 -year-old daughter, Home degree from the University of Buttenwieser, a pilot with a Hannah Catharyn Blumberg Washington and is a member of Gildesgame is administrator of Due to space limitations, we the Missouri Bar Association, the radiology and radiation oncology at usually are unable to print lists Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Children's Hospital, Boston, and of classmates who attend each of three children, the mother other's weddings or other Sophie Rose, age Jesse, age 3, 1, functions. News of marriages and births are included in separate listings by class. Births

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director of communications for the married and enjoys the good life in Kabat Yellin, M.D. is director of Burbank Hospital Health System, the country. Serena B. Shapiro is pediatric outpatient services at overseeing pubhc relations for a working at Hospice of Cambridge Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, home care company, a long term as a social worker. She enjoys life NJ- She attended medical school at care center, a birth center and a with her lifetime partner, SUNY, Stony Brook, and child development center. Nechama Katz '81. Margaret Shea completed her pediatric residency Nahabedian received her master's is an attorney in Springfield, MA, at the Schneider Children's degree from Boston University's specializing in workers' Hospital of Long Island Jewish College of Communications in compensation law. She married Medical Center. She and her 1988, and last January married Mark Albano, another attorney, in husband, Stanley, have two Evie Kintzer Shorey is an children, Gregory Steven and liana Paul J. Carroll, president and 1992. founder of the Paren Company. attorney with WGBH-Channel 2 Robin. Allison S. Zaum and her Di;)ne B. Packer was a marketing Boston, part of the Public husband, Ed Roche, enjoyed a two- manager for Pfizer in New York. Broadcasting System. She and her month tour of the South Pacific, She and her husband, Paul Frontline production manager where they visited the Kingdom of Griesmer, have a newborn son, husband, Harold Shorey, have two Tonga, New Zealand, the Cook Sabrina, Islands of Bennett Paul Sander J. Paul, M.D. children, Plana, age 3, and and Fiji. She is in charge is in private practice in age 9 months. Jeremy I. Silverline corporate industrial hygiene metropolitan Detroit. He was IS an assistant attorney general in programs at Syntex. graduated from medical school at Boston assigned to the public '80 the University of Michigan in integrity division of the criminal 1983, and completed both his bureau. Previously he was an Lisa Gelfand, Class Correspondent, residency in internal medicine and assistant district attorney in 19 Winchester Street #404, a fellowship in endocrinology and Bristol County, MA. He keeps in Brooklme, MA 02146 metabolism Cynthia Peele is shape by running and riding his director of benefits at the Health bicycle against the wind. Stephen Janet S. Domenitz, executive Insurance Plan (HIP) of Greater A. Solovy !s an art dealer whose director of MASSPIRG, also serves New York. She previously held the gallery, Stephen Solovy Fme Art, on the executive committee of the position of assistant director of specializes in 20th-century modem board of Common Cause of marketing and customer service in and contemporary masters. He also Massachusetts, on the bc.ird of the HIP and received an MB.A. from established The Stephen Solovy Manhattan College in 1985. Stacy Art Foundation, a nonprofit Rothaus Poritzky resigned from foundation that collects her position as marketing director contemporary British paintings. 1 for Gillette to become the full- The collection is on long-term time mother of her son, )ustin. loan to the Haggerty Museum of Scott M. Reiner is working for the Art in Milwaukee. David A. Commonwealth of Virginia, Strumpf, a pulmonary specialist, managing substance abuse merged his firm with another programs for the luvemlc justice organization, forming an eight- system. He and his wife have a person group m Albany and Troy. daughter, Alexandra. Wendy L. He and his wife, Rosemary, have Robinson is director of education 2'/:-year-old triplets, Emily, at Temple Israel, Minneapolis, Rebecca and Lauren, Gregg B. MN. She was married to Ruven Sulkin has been married to his Schwartz in August, and plans to wife, Paula, since 19S8. They have 1 move on to other kinds of two sons, Matthew, 2'/' years old, employment. Amy Leavitt and Alex, 6 months old. Martin Rothschild is the vice president Wayne is vice president and responsible for new business director of North American development for the private Trading for A.I.G. Financial banking division of Chemical Bank Products Corporation. He has two Corp. She and her husband, children, (ustin, age 3, and Jessica, Ronald, have two children, age 2. David S. Wean is a Michael, age S, and David, age 3. consulting actuary with John Stephen A. Rubin is an Hancock Mutual Life in Boston. international banking officer at He was named a fellow of the Bank Leumi, Miami Beach, FL. He Society of Actuaries, an and his wife, Susan, have two international educational, research children, Yonaton, age 9, and and professional membership Racheli, age 4. Gayle L. organization for actuaries in life Schechtman is a music teacher, and health insurance, investments, actress and writer. She earned her pensions and employee benefits. master's degree in theater and lives His wife, Cynthia A. Zabin, is a in the Berkshircs. David A. policy and technical writer for the Schlesinger is a systems analyst for Department of Public Welfare. Lotus Development Corporation They each work three days at their and received a master's degree in jobs, sharing the care of their two

computer science from Boston children, Julia and Emily. Betty J. University in 1985. He and his Wytias received her J.D. from New wife, Jane, have two sons, Scott York University Law School in

and Eric. Robert J. Schuckit is a May. She and her husband, Robert partner in the trial department of a Sobel, have a son, Will, Loren law firm in Indianapolis, IN, and was previously a partner in a law firm in Chicago. He is happily '85 '87

academic excellence and also her Regina Medina was selected to be executive for Leo Burnett Vanessa B. Newman, Class R.N license. Maria Figman- a Knight-Ridder news intern in a Advertising in Chicago. Correspondent, 45 East End Pinsker is a self-employed attorney competitive nationwide Previously, he received an M.B.A. Avenue, Apt. 5H, New York, NY and lives in Livingston, Nl, with competition. She is based at The from the Harvard Business School. 10028 her husband, Neil G. Pinsker, a Philadelphia Inquirer for the first His wife, Elisabeth Escovitz consultant with Arthur Andersen, of two Knight-Ridder newpaper Kerness '87 was graduated from Heidi Halpern Kay and Alan N. P.C. Since moving back to the assignments. Previously, during medical school and is a resident in Kay are celebrating the arrival of United States from Hong Kong, the coups in Venezuela, she emergency medicine at their second child, Rachel Lynn. where they had been since 1990, reported for an English-language Northwestern University Hospital. Brother Joshua, now 17 months, is Wendi Zelkin Rosenstein and her newspaper m Caracas. Jeffrey S. Orkin completed his just realizing that although he is husband, Rick, have been living in '86 rabbinical degree at Rabbi Isaac king of the castle, there is now a Minneapolis, where their Elchanan Theological Seminary of queen! The whole family is international sourcing company, Illyse Shindler Habbe, Class Yeshiva University and he finished completing their migration south RC International, is thriving. Correspondent, 89 Turner Street, his third year as an assistant rabbi to Palm Harbor, PL, where they Andrew D. Sherman was Brighton, MA 02135 at the Jewish Home for the Elderly plan to enjoy the outdoors and not appointed vice president of The in Fairfield, CT. Steffanie Sabbaj get eaten by the alligators in their

Segal Company, a consulting firm Michael J. Gruber is pursuing a has been working on her Ph.D. back yard. Lisa Lederman Littman, that concentrates on employee master's degree in human services dissertation in immunt)logy from M.D. has moved to Rhode Island benefit and compensation management at the Heller School. Ohio State University. She and her to complete her residency in programs. Phyllis Hiller was graduated from husband, Barry Spieler, an obstetrics and gynecology at Hahnemann University School of assistant professor of mathematics Women and Infants Hospital of Medicine. She will complete her at Vanderbilt University, live in Rhode Island. Her husband, residency in family practice at the Nashville with their son, Gabriel. Michael, is working on his Ph.D. University of Massachusetts in computer science. Louise Gross Coordinated Programs, in Reynolds was graduated from Worcester. Jonathan (|ay) Kerness was promoted to account

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Hahiifmann University School of occupational therapy from Boston Class Name Date Medicuif and will complete a University, and is now working at family practice residency at the the New England Rehabilitation 1979 Wendy Robinson to Ruven Schwartz August 29, 1993 Fairfax Family Practice Center in Hospital, in Woburn, MA, as an 1982 Manln Milkman to Velvet Jones February 26, 1993 Falls Church, VA. occupational therapist on the 1983 Lois Kaplan to Geoff Solomon December 27, 1992 oncology unit David Feldbaum is 1984 Wendi Zellun to Rick Rosenstein October 28, 1989

'88 a general surgery resident at 1985 Deanna M. Davis to July 4, 1 993

Susan Tevelow Fcinstein, Class Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Prince Edward Bannister, Jr. Correspondent, 6830 Meadow Oak Einstein College of Medicine, Lauren Schwartz to Michael A. Lynfield June 16, 1991 Drive, Bldg #7, Columbus, OH Bronx, New York. He lives in 1986 Sucey Karlin to Alan Belsky March 27, 1993

43235 Westchester with his wife, Carrie, Michael J. Gruber to Jennifer VanderPloeg October 1 7, 1 993 and was glad to see his fellow Rebecca Rae Miller to John Martin Stem May 23, 1993 Michelle Sonier Dyson received an classmates and BEMCO alumni at Judith Shanok to Nathan Janette October 19, 1990 M.S.W. from the Boston his wedding. Sarah C. Gelbach was 1988 Marsha S. Fried to Drew N. Bamnson August 22, 1993 University School of Social Work graduated from the Hahnemann 1989 David Feldbaum to Carrie Rudder June 13, 1993 in 1992 and is employed as an University School of Medicine and Marc GeKen to Tracy Love '91 July 18, 1993 adolescent therapist. She and her will complete a psychiatry 1990 Elana Cohen to Steven Schwartz August 8, 1993 husband, James Dyson, jr., are residency at University of Charlee Leimberg and Robert Sterling February 21, 1993 living m Waltham, MA. Marci Pennsylvania Hospital in Barbara E. Schari to Adam M. Zeldes March 13, 1993 Weiser Gelb is workmg m Boston Philadelphia. Barbara |. Glaser is a 1991 Ronald Ash to Jeimifer Brenner May 29, 1993 as an attorney for an employment medical product software engineer and busmess litigation firm. Aaron at Hewlett-Packard, and has won M. Greenberg was graduated with HP's leadership award at their a master's in social work from the annual technical women's University of Pennsylvania. Last conference. She was graduated year, he took over as regional with a master's in computer director of the Philadelphia B'nai science from Boston University's metropolitan area to practice law. Geffen '89, was graduated from B'rith Youth Organization. Amy L. part-time/evening program. Steven H. Levine completed his law school in May 1992 and is a received Memis was ordained a rabbi by the Matthew L. Leraer his first year of the MBA. program at practicing attorney with plans to Hebrew Union College, Jewish M.D. from Yale University School Columbia Business School. take the California bar and set up a Institute of Religion, in May. In of Medieme m New Haven, CT, Previously, he worked at Putnam, practice in the San Diego area. July, she assumed her post as and began his residency in urologic Hayes & Bartlett, an economic Susannah R. Spodek has been assistant rabbi at B'nai |ehoshua surgery at New York Hospital's consulting firm in Cambridge, working a variety of jobs in Tokyo, Beth Elohim in Glenview, IL. Cornell Medical Center. Arthur MA. Rachel A. Rabinowitz earned including teaching English and Kenneth A. Osherow received his Ollendorff was graduated from her J.D. from the New York Law writing film subtitles. She would M.B.A. from Northeastern Northwestern Medical School and School in June. love to hear from her classmates University Sami Plotkin is IS doing his OB/GYN residency at who visit Japan, David F. Swirnoff working on her thesis for an Prentice Women's Hospital/ '91 works in the human resources M.F.A. in film at Columbia Northwestern Memorial Hospital Andrea C. Kramer, Class department of Bally Manufacturing University. Alan S. Waitze was in Chicago. Michelle Saidel was Correspondent, 5343 Washington Company and Bally's Health and graduated from Hahnemann graduated from the George Street, West Roxbury, MA 02132 Tennis Corporation. University School of Medicme, Washington University Schtiol of and will complete his residency in Medicine and will complete her Robert A. Finkel finished his '92 neurosurgery at the Emory psychiatry residency at second year at Cornell Law School Beth C. Manes, Class University School of Medicine in Georgetown University Medical where he is president of the Jewish Correspondent, The Lawyer's Atlanta. Center. Law Students' Association, and a Club, 551 S. State Street, Ann '89 '90 member of the Cotnell lournal of Arbor, Ml 48109 Law and Public Policy. Susan M. Karen L. Gitten, Class Judith Libhaber, Class Goren is a second year graduate Stacey Ballis is an English teacher Correspondent, 35 Crosby Road, Correspondent, 745 North Shore resident at the University of in the Chicago public schools. 2nd Floor, Newton, MA 02167 Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33141 Georgia, working toward her Marny Joy Held left a health care master's degree in higher data marketing firm to enroll in Robert Bernstone is working in Elana E. Cohen received a master's education, specializing in student DePaul Law School. She is looking equity derivatives for Morgan degree in environmental studies at personnel. She interned for the forward to practicing family and Stanley and is attending New York the Yale School of Forestry and summer in the Office of Family juvenile law. Joshua Peterson is a University Business School part- Environmental Studies, Housing at the University of graduate student in evolutionary time. David Blatteis was graduated concentrating on environmental Florida. Jennifer E. Kligfeld biology, and is attempting to start from American University Law education and education. She is completed her second year at the a career in writing. School. He joined the firm of now children's programming Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Tompkins, McGuire, and coordinator at the Massachusetts where her fiance is an M.D. and Grad Wacfienfeld after working for the Horticultural Society. Jonathan A. Ph.D. student. Tracy Love does Susan Ablon Cole |M.A. '71, Ph.D. assignment ludge in Essex County, Cordish is directing a short film. neuropsychological research with '72, English) was appointed the NJ. Miles S. Crakow worked for Lost Mojave, while in his second stroke victims for the Aphasia fourth president of Metropolitan the Christian Science Monitor year at the Graduate Film Program Research Center in Boston and is State University of Minnesota. She cable channel in Boston before at the University of Southern beginning a Ph.D. program in the has spent most of her professional moving to Los Angeles. He lives California. He recently won the cognitive neurosciences at the life in urban public institutions of with his partner of three years, U.S.C. prize for best screenplay for University of California at San higher education, starting at the Carl White, and hopes to start a his independent feature film. Diego. Her husband. Marc A. writing career. Theresa Ducharme Midnight Run, which he produced City University of New York, received her master's degree in while on leave for a year. After Antioch, and Rutgers. She was a graduation, Cordish moved to Los member of the Community Health Angeles, where he was executive Care Policy Task Force at Robert assistant to the producers of Point Wood Johnson University Hospital Break. Catl L. Finger received his and served on the New Jersey law degree from Boston University Governor's Management School of Law, and returned to his home in the New York

59 Fall 1993 thought at the University of and director of the American Toronto, Canada. They have tfu-ee Studies Program. Nancy M. children, lonathan, Alexander and Valentine (Ph.D. '91, Heller Daniel. Arthur E. Green (B.A. '61, School) was named assistant chief Ph.D. '75, NE|S) will |oin Brandeis medical director for nursing as Lown Professor of lewish programs for the Department of Philosophy m 1994. Mien-Chie Veterans Affairs, in Washington, Hung (Ph.D. '84, biochemistry) DC. She has served in the Army received the 1993 [ohn P. Nurse Corps Reserves, cofounded McGovern Outstanding Teaching the Nightingale Treatment Award at the University of Program, published numerous Texas— Houston Graduate School journal articles, and served in of Biomedical Sciences, where he many other admmistrative IS an associate professor of virology positions. in the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center's department Susan of tumor Ablon Cole Victor E. biology. He has also served as a Matthews Obituaries guest professor at Xiaman Cynthia Improvement Program. Todd W. S. Jordan, M.A. '79, Ph.D. University in the People's Faculty Achievement Award for Crosset '83, associate professor of English (B.A. '85, Ph.D. '92, outstanding scholarship Republic of China and a Ricardo and adjunct history) is an assistant associate professor of professor at consultant A. Millett (B.A. '68, M.A. '70 to National , the Taiwan women's studies at Indiana University of Massachusetts Ph.D. '74, University Hospital's Cancer Heller School) was University, sports studies department. passed away on May He was named director of evaluation Research Group. He has authored at the 20, 1993, in Bloomington, a senior research fellow at the IN. more than 60 articles, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, a private Center and is a While at Brandeis, she received her for the Study of Sport in Michigan grant-making member of several professional Ph.D. in Society at Northeastern American literature and organizations. Louise Levesque- organization that provides seed women's University, and was the North studies and received four Lopman (MA. '75, Ph.D. '77, money to "help people to help Atlantic Conference's Coach fellowships. She is survived by her of the sociology) works themselves." Previously he was Year at Regis College, mother and brother. Word was for women's swimming and senior vice president and released her most recent book, for the received of the death diving at Northeastern University. of Brian Cirtimin.v Reality: United Way of Massachusetts. He Ruth Phenomenology Kovler '84, who passed away on F. Deech (MA. '66, also serves and Women s Experience. Peter on the board of Hornstein Program) May 5, 1993. He is survived by his is principal of overseers of the Heller Ludes jM.A. '75, Ph.D. '8.?, School and parents. Burton St. Anne's College, and Rowena, of Oxford, IS actively involved sociology) is a professor in the Brandeis Surfside, FL. England. She is active in matters ("Hochschuldozent") for cultural Alumni Association. Bemadine concerning women, divorce, higher Foster and media studies at the German Nash (Ph.D. '86, Heller education, careers, child care and Universitat-Gesamthochschule- School) was elected to the In Remembrance student welfare, and initiated the Siegen, teaching media planning, statewide board of directors of the Vivien Tao-Wei Li '92 passed away first equal opportunity committee Massachusetts Society in Singapore development and consulting. He for on December 1, 1992. at St. Anne's College. Deech has also received a research fellowship Prevention of Cruelty to Chilchen. She grew up in Singapore, and also been active in committees She is from Sicgen University to study also the president and CEO came to the United States to concerned with student health, television news in the United of WILD-AM radio, and was the attend Brandeis in 1988. She child care, freedom of speech and administrative States, the Federal Republic of vice president and graduated magna cum laude with a sexual harassment. Her interest in Germany and the German president of the WILD Scholarship degree in English. Vivien was an family law started during her Democratic Republic. In addition, Foundations Inc. Previously she extremely generous and intelligent research for the Law Commission was he IS the author of several works, an assistant professor at young woman. She was always in London on divorce reform, Simmims including From the News to the College School of Social deeply concerned about the matrimonial property and News Show: Television News from Work and a fieldwork instructor at welfare of her friends, and was illegitimacy. She received her law the I'erspective the Boston University School of constantly helping and caring for degree of their Makers. in 196.S, followed by a Social Mihalis P. Maliakas '89, Work Alexandra Patera the people around her. She was master's (Ph.D. at Brandeis. Karen Elise (M.A. '91 mathematics) is an assistant chemistry) was also an excellent student and a Fields (MA '76, Ph.D. '77, incorrectly professor at the University of identified m the Spring talented writer. She was sociology) is a professor of religion Arkansas. Janet Mancini-BiHson Brandeis Review as Alexander. She continually exploring new places, at the University of Rochester and jM.A. '72, continues in the Brandeis different cultures, and was founding Ph.D. '76, sociology), director of the Frederick chemistry assistant executive officer of the department working deeply interested in the work of Douglass Institute for African and with American Sociological Association Dr. Thomas Pochapsky on contemporary and classical African-American Studies. In the in Washington, structure of a mutant of IL-IB artists. As her friend I will always D.C. , is writing a addition, she received a fellowship book concerning changing protein by multidimensumal NMR appreciate the knowledge she from the Woodrow Wilson gender roles among techniques. Robert E. Pollack shared with me of Asia, her travels International women in nine Center for Scholars (Ph.D. '66, cultural communities m Canada. biology) received a and the arts. I know that all of the Smithsonian Institution to Her other book. Cool fellowship from the John Simon her friends will miss her unique translate Emile Durkheim's Pose: Les Dilemmas Guggenheim Memorial and dynamic personality. Formes Elemenlanes of Black Manhood in de la Vie Foundation Leila '92 America, will be reissued in to write a book for the M. Porter Religieuse. Previously, she was an paperback. She and her general public on disease, which associate professor husband, in the sociology will explain Norman London, who is with the symptoms in terms of department at Brandeis University. Canadian Embassy, have four the underlying molecular events. After 22 years, )onathan A. children and two grandchildren. He IS also a member of the Board Freedman (M.A. '72, Ph.D. '73, of Victor H. Matthews (MA. '73, Trustees of Brandeis University sociology) retired as director of and the Ph.D. '77, NEIS) IS a professor'of New York Foundation. education and training at religious studies at Southwest Bernard Steinberg (M.A. '72, Hutchings Psychiatric Center in Missouri State University. He Jewish Communal Service) was Syracuse, NY and has moved to received the SMSU Foundation appointed director of the Harvard Atlanta Sharon Mintz Green (B.A. University Hillel. Eugene M. '79, MA. 'W, NEIS) teaches Tobin (M.A '70, Ph.D. '72, history) Yiddish literature and her was appointed acting president of husband, Kenneth H. Green (Ph D. Hamilton College. He previously '89, NE|S) teaches modern )ewish served as dean of the faculty, and as chair of the history department

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