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Washtenaw Jewish News Presort Standard In this issue… c/o Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor U.S. Postage PAID 2939 Birch Hollow Drive Ann Arbor, MI Ann Arbor, MI 48108 The Jewish Musical Permit No. 85 Urban Volunteers Theater Kibbutz and with Movement VNP Ari Axelrod page 16 page 19 page 21 October 2018 Tishrei/Cheshvan 5778 Volume XVIII Number 2 FREE Old world meets new world for the Arts Around Town: Jewish Book and Arts Festival Clara Silver, special to the WJN he Jewish Community Center of Friends of Magen David Adom at afmda.org/ On Thursday, Kahn’s unique contribution to the creation Greater Ann Arbor will present Arts event/talk-with-alan-dershowitz. October 25, the eve- of modern manufacturing as well as his role T Around Town: Jewish Book and Arts The annual Book and Gift Sale concur- ning will begin with in defending and preserving the famous Di- Festival beginning Thursday, October 18, rent with Arts Around Town will open the the annual sponsor ego Rivera mural at the Detroit Institute of and continuing through Monday, November same evening, Thursday, October 18, in the dinner at 6 p.m., for Art, and his role in helping the Soviets push 12. For 31 years the JCC has produced a fes- atrium of the JCC. A variety of books of those members of the back the Nazis in 1941–1942. tival — originally exclusively a book festival popular genres, as well as books from the Arts Around Town will host photographer — which has evolved to a broader festival presenters and authors who will be guest of Leslie Sobel on Sunday, October 29, for a recep- celebrating authors and artists of all kinds. the festival, and Chanukah gifts and supplies tion and exhibition of some of the 5,000 pho- In addition, events now take place both at will be available through Friday, November tographs she took documenting the Eclipse Ice the Ann Arbor JCC as well as in partnership 30. The Book and Gift Sale will be open any- Michael Hodges field, one of the largest non-polar ice fields on with local organizations at venues in the city time the JCC is open, and proceeds support community who earth in the Kluane National Park in Canada’s of Ann Arbor spread over four weeks. continued cultural arts programming. donate at least Yukon Territoy. Literati Books about partners Arts Around Town opens at the JCC on The festival continues with a special evening $180 or more to with Arts Around Town on Tuesday, October Thursday, October 18, at 7 p.m. when well- of Yiddish-American Operetta at the Univer- this year’s Arts 30, at 7 p.m., to present Harvey Ovshinksy, known attorney and law professor Alan sity of Michigan’s Britton Hall. On Tuesday, Around Town. who will present about his father, Stanford Dershowitz will speak with a representative October 23, at 7:30 p.m., guest musicologist The evening Ovshinksy, and the biography about his father, of the American Friends of Magen David and retired music librarian from Harvard Dr. will continue The Man Who Saw Tomorrow. Adom, the organization that helps support Michael Ochs will introduce the audience to with guest au- On Thursday, November 1, at 7:30 p.m. the Israel’s Magen David Adom, an organization Di Goldene Kale, an internationally performed thor, Michael Eastern Michigan University Center for Judaic similar to the American Red Cross. Tickets Yiddish-American production that originally Hodges, who will present his book Building Studies will host an actor’s studio-style event for the event cost $18 each and must be pur- opened in 1923 at the famous Second Avenue the Modern World: Albert Kahn in Detroit. with Lisa Kron, the playwright who won the chased in advance as space is limited and Theater on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Uni- The event is free and open to the public Tony Award for authoring the hit Broadway walk-ins may not be able to be accommo- versity of Michigan faculty and students will and will include a dessert reception and dated. Tickets are available from American perform selections from Di Goldene Kale. book signing. This book chronicles architect continued on page 2 Immigrants and refugees — Tony Award winner Lisa Kron to speak at EMU today, yesterday, and tomorrow Martin B. Shichtman, special to the WJN n Thursday, November 1, at 7:30 an associate Laurie Cohen, special to the WJN p.m. in the EMU Student Center professor in he United States has a checkered Symposium will be held on October 22 and 23 O Auditorium, the Eastern Michi- the depart- history of alternatively welcoming at Rackham Graduate School at the University gan University Center for Jewish Studies ment of Film T and rejecting immigrants and refu- of Michigan. This is a collaboration between will host “A Conversation With Lisa Kron.” and Media gees. Jews have stood Writer and performer Lisa Kron is the win- Studies at on both sides of the ner of two Tony awards and was finalist for Emory Uni- metaphorical Ameri- the Pulitzer Prize for the book and lyrics to versity, brings can fence as natives the musical Fun Home. Her work has been together and strangers, as im- widely produced in New York, regionally, documentary migrants (legal and and internationally. and concep- illegal) and refugees. This event is co-sponsored by the Jewish tual art. His Lisa Kron How have Jews re- Federation of Greater Ann Arbor, the Jew- photos and writings focus on the complica- sponded to crises in ish Community Center of Greater Ann Ar- tions of historical memory, the inheritance the past? How does Mark Hetfield Dr. Jeff Crisp Debbie Dingell bor 2018 Books and Arts Festival, the EMU of trauma, and new directions in the art of examining that past help us understand what Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw County Honors Program, the EMU English depart- witness. Francisco will address “The Holo- is happening today? As the premier resettle- and the U-M School of Social Work. The two- ment, EMU Women’s and Gender Studies, caust at 75: Remembrance as Public Prac- ment agency in Southeast Michigan, Jewish day symposium will consider the most signifi- and EMU Communication, Media, and The- tice” in the EMU Student Center Ballroom Family Services will present two programs this cant aspects in the present international and ater Arts. Admission is free. on Monday, November 19, at 7:30 p.m. This month about refugees. domestic refugee system with four tracks: 1) Also in November, the EMU Center for event is co-sponsored by the EMU program Keeping Our Door Open: A Multi-Di- Impact and Integration; 2) Transformative Jewish Studies will offer a lecture by acclaimed in Creative Writing and the Department of mensional Approach to Refugee Resettlement artist and essayist Jason Francisco. Francisco, Art. Admission is free. n continued on page 2 Community Downsizing? I We can help! Jewish Book and Arts Festival, continued from page 1 show, Fun Home. The conversation will be Studies and Frankel Center for Judaic Stud- 2935 Birch Hollow Drive hosted by Jessica “Decky” Alexander in the ies. This is a rare silent film, staring Pola Ne- Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108 EMU Student Center auditorium. gri, who became a huge silent film star, and voice: 734/971-1800 Let Encore Sell It For You: Sunday, November 4, there will be two follows a bright Jewish girl from the ghetto e-mail: [email protected] Electronics • Musical Instruments Arts Around Town events at the JCC. At 10 of Warsaw to the university in St. Petersburg. www.washtenawjewishnews.org Designer Items • Antiques & Collectibles Along the way she finds Sterling Silver • Sporting Goods out that Jewish women Editor and Publisher Camera & Audio/Visual Equipment may only live in St. Peters- Susan Kravitz Ayer burg as legal sex workers; 1954-D South Industrial Calendar Editor (in the Revel & Roll Plaza) hence, she applies for the Claire Sandler required “yellow ticket” 734.761.6187 Advertising Manager EncoreOnlineResale.com and begins her double life as a medical student by Gordon White day, party girl by night. Design and Layout Accompanying the Dennis Platte film will be Alicia Svi- gals, the world-renowned Staff Writers klezmer violinist/vocalist/ Lois Godel, Emily Slomovits, and Pola Negri - Scene from The Yellow Ticket composer who is a found- Lonnie Sussman er of the Grammy win- a.m., author Judy Seid will discuss her book, ning Klezmatics. She composed an original Contributing Writers God Optional Judaism: Alternatives for Cul- score for the film and will play live along with Barb Banet, Stacy Carroll, Laurie Cohen, Margo Dickstein, Linda Jo Doctor, Sharyn J. Gallatin, tural Jews Who Love Their History. At 4 p.m., Toronto’s virtuoso pianist, Marilyn Lerner. Rabbi Aharon Goldstein, Claudia Halpern, Peretz holocaust survivor Irene Butter, will discuss Tickets for this film range in cost based on Hirshbein, Rachael Hoffenblum, Julia Kessler Hollar, her book, Shores Beyond Shores: From Holo- proximity to the stage, and can be purchased Abigail Klein Leichman, Carol Lessure, Miriam caust to Hope: My True Story, in conversation at the Michigan Theater website, michtheater. Lipschutz, Dan Meisle, Kelsey Robinette, Jennifer with Kenneth C. Fischer, retired president of org/the-yellow-ticket, or the box office. Arts Rosenberg, Martin Shichtman, Clara Silver, Elliot the University Musical Society of the Uni- Around Town sponsors may attend at no Sorkin, Nellie Stansbury versity of Michigan. Dr. Maya Barzilai, au- charge, but must RSVP in advance. The Washtenaw Jewish News is published thor and University of Michigan professor, All events and presentations are free and monthly, with the exception of January and will visit the festival on Thursday, November open to the public unless otherwise noted.
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