Music Festival To Be Held
At Temple Israel
Page 11-THE NEWS-February, 1985
A Jewish Music Festival
will be held at Temple Israel
on Sunday, M£u*ch 17 at 8 p.m.
Guests artist will be Cantor
Louis Danto from Toronto,
Canada. Participating in the
program will be Dr. Albert
Kossove, pianist; Cheryl
Ackerman, flutist; and
members of the Charlotte
Symphony: Dennis Spring and
Ali Kavadlo, violinists; Jan
Daugherty, violist; Carol Bjor-
lie, cellist; Leo Bjorlie, on the
double bass; Eugene Kavadlo,
clarinetist; John Pickett,
pianist; Alan Kaufman, per
cussionist.
A1 Rousso is chairman of
this event and Cantor Frank
Birnbaum is the musical
director.
To make the evening even
more exciting, the raffles will
be drawn for Temple Israel's
“Italian Connection”. The en
tire community is invited to
attend.
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JLUB
Jewish Books in Review
;s a sprv/re of (he /WB lewish Book Council,
15 East 26th New York. N.Y. 10010
A Spy for Freedom: The Story
of Sarah Aaronsohn. Ida
Cowen and Irene Gunther.
E.P. Dutton, 2 Park Avenue,
New York, NY 10016. 1984.
Ages 10 up. $11.95 (cloth).
Reviewed by Sue Barancik
When Judaic librarians,
gathered at a conference,
clamored loudly for more
biographies of Jewish heroes
and heroines for their young
patrons, E.P. Dutton listened.
The publishing company in
itiated the Jewish Biography
Series as a component of their
Lodestar Books division. This
book being reviewed is one of
the first offerings.
Sarah Aaronsohn was ex
tremely advanced in her think
ing for the time period in
which her brief life was lived.
A sabra from the turn of the
century (her parents were
among the first pioneers), she
rejected the traditional
women’s role of hearth and
home for the far more
dangerous role of spy.
Authors Cowen and Gun
ther bring to life the stirring
story of a young woman’s
strong-willed determination to
fight for a cause which she
believed to be right. The
reader leams in this fictioncdiz-
ed biography about the terri
ble plight of Palestinian Jews
under Turkish control. The
courage of Sarah, her older
brother, Aaron, her love, Ab
salom, and the other fervent
Jews they gathered around
them is well depicted.
The creation of their es
pionage group, NILI,
established to sneak in
telligence information to the
British so that the British
might capture Palestine and
free the Jews from Turkish
domination, is explained in
simple enough terms for the
young adolescent to
understand.
The authors’ experiences
tracing the footsteps of this
courageous young woman, go
ing to her home in Zikhron
Yaacov and living there for
awhile, talking to such impor
tant people in Sarah’s life as
her sister and former members
of NILI, enhance the telling of
the story and bring additional
credibility.
I do think, however, that the
publisher’s age group recom
mendation may not be quite
appropriate. It would take a
very special reader under the
age of 13 or 14 to select £ind en
joy this book.
Our Jewish youngsters need
J[ Spy for Freedom
THE STORY OF SARAH AARONSCWN
BY IDA COWEN AND IRENE GUNTHER
role models. Sarah Aaronsohn
takes a place of importance
among Jewish heroines such
as Hannah Senesh and Anne
Frank. The moral values in
culcated in biographies pro
vides a needed aspect to our
religious school curriculums.
Thank you, E.P. Dutton, for
meeting the challenge!
Sue Barancik is the
Librarian at Temple Adath
B’nai Israel in Evansville, In
diana. She is also a free-lance
storyteller traveling to loca
tions from nursery schools to
nursing homes and telling her
tales.
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