Page 8-THE NEWS-November 1992
Annual Jewish Book Fair
To Take Place at Shalom Park
By Amalia Warshenbrot
Librarian, Speizman Jewish
Library
The Jewish Book Fair will be
held on Dec. 6, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
and 6-7 p.m. in the Jaffa Adult
Lounge at Shalom Park.
For those who do not have
access to Jewish bookstore
shelves, we offer a wide range
of titles. This is your once a year
opportunity to browse through
hundreds of Jewish best sellers
and recently published books for
all ages. All books are available
for immediate purchase.
It presents the opportunity to
purchase a unique Chanukah
gift, especially for children. The
collection of children’s books is
outstanding.
An exhibit of children’s works
in honor of Jewish Book Month
will be on display in the Speiz
man Galleries. This year’s motto
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Nov. 20 - Dec. 20 is Jewish Book Month. Please avail yourselves
of the opportunity of purchasing books for adults and children
at our Book Fair on Dec. 6 at Shalom Park. Below are some
interesting books recently published which may interest you.
JEWISH BOOK MONTH
NOVEMBER 20 - DECEMBER 20. 1992
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is “Explore Your Jewish
World—Read.”
Proceeds of sales will go to the
JCC and to the Speizman Jewish
Library Fund to be used to buy
new books. For more informa
tion call Amalia Warshenbrot,
366-5007, ext. 258.
Mingled Roots: A Guide for
Jewish Grandparents of Inter
faith Children. Sunie Levin;
illustrations by Margaret Scott.
B'nai B'rith Women. 1828 L
Street, N. W., Suite 250, Wash
ington, DC 20036. 83 pages.
$13.95. Must be purchased di
rectly from publisher.
This highly-useful book is a
loving “how-to” which offers
grandparents specific sugges
tions for sharing their Jewish
heritage with interfaith grand
sons and granddaughters in
ways that do not threaten the
children’s parents.
The author, Sunie Levin, is
from Shawnee Mission, Kansas,
and holds degrees in education
and psychology and is a popular
lecturer and teacher of commu
nication skills. Ms. Levin ga
thered material for Mingled
Roots by interviewing rabbis,
priests, ministers and scores of
grandparents and interfaith
couples. The book’s purpose, she
writes in her introduction, “is to
help you teach your grandchild
ren in a non-proselytizing man
ner about your background,
your tradition, your way of life.”
There are chapters covering
such topics as “Grandparent
Diplomacy,” “What to Say and
How to Say It,” “Jewish Ethics
and Values,” “Anti-Semitism,”
“Jewish Customs and Supersti
tions,” “The Holocaust” and
“Long-Distance Grandparent-
ing.” Also included is a bibliog
raphy of Jewish source material.
Although published with Jewish
grandparents specifically in
mind, the guide can also be read
with profit by non-Jewish grand-
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parents, since the wisdom and
practical advise it depenses
would appear to have universal
application, regardless of reli
gious or cultural boundaries.
Deena the Damselfly. Steven
M. Rosman; illustrated by Giora
Carmi. UAHC Press. 838 Fifth
Avenue, New York, NY I002I.
30 pages. $10.95. Ages 5-8.
This delightfully illustrated
and well-told children’s story is
about a damselfly nymph who
vows to solve the mystery of why
older nymphs are disappearing
when they reach maturity. How
ever, she is not prepared for her
own startling transformation.
Steven M. Rosman, rabbi of
the Jewish Family Congrega
tion, South Salem, NY, is a
storyteller, author and lecturer.
He is currently completing his
Ph.D. in Education at New York
University. He is also the author
of Sid rah Stories: A Torah
Companion.
“Future Leaders” to Meet
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Goodman, Lawrence Margolis
and Ken Stern, Hirschmann has
collected valuable input in devel
oping a creative and focused
program.
This significant program will
lay the framework as an entry for
many young Jewish leaders in the
community. With the growth of
the Charlotte Jewish community,
this program is an invaluable
experience for many to gain
exposure to the dynamics of
enhancing Jewish life in Charlotte.
A concerted effort is made to ask
all agencies and organizations to
nominate potential participants to
the program. And, upon gradu
ation, emphasis is placed on
ensuring for placement in the
community. Indeed, Future Lead
ers recognizes the mitzvah of
Paul Hirschmann
planting seeds for the continuity
and survival of the Jewish com
munity.
If you are interested in the
“Future Leaders,” please call Pam
Appelbaum at the Federation
office, 366-5007, Ext. 209.
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Making Peace with My Mother.
Sylvia Grossman. KIT Publishing
Co. 1131-0 Tolland Turnpike,
Suite 175, Manchester, CT 06040.
210 pages. $14.95. Paperback.
After more than 50 years of
bitter relations with her mother,
Sylvia Grossman, the author of a
singular new autobiography,
wanted “...a mother 1 can love.”
As Sylvia painfully rises above
her own anger, a moving trans
formation occurs. From the ruins
of her childhood, where family
relationships grew like a garden
of nettles, she fearlessly educates
herself and changes her attitudes.
The lifelong negative feelings
recede and are replaced with the
glorious bloom of a happy, warm
and accepting mother.
How much easier it would have
been to let the past lie dormant.
But Sylvia opens her Pandora's
box of painful emotions, and as
she works toward solving her
problems, there are remarkable
glimpses of the culture of an
educated Jewish family in Russia
during the tumultuous post-revo
lutionary twenties. Dvorah, Syl
via’s mother, was the beautiful
oldest daughter of a family of
thirteen. Her autocratic father
kept her from marriage with one
suitor after another. Papa, a
revered Talmudic scholar des
cended from a long line of scho
lars, even turned down the writer
who came wooing because “he will
never earn a living.” (The writer
eventually won the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1966), No one was
good enough for Dvorah; she
finally marries in her thirties, long
after her younger sisters, as she
prepares for emigration to Pales
tine, Upon a later emigration to
Canada, the marriage collapses
physically and spiritually. Devor-
ah’s love then transfers to Sylvia’s
youngest brother.
Certainly this is not a book for
those who enjoy tell-alls from
daughters like Christina Crawford
in “Mommy Dearest” or Pattie
Davis in “The Way I See It.” This
is a book for those who want to
put the misery of an unloving
mother-daughter relationship be
hind, who want to heal the sting
ing wounds of childhood. Readers
will applaud Grossman for her
commitment, courage and her
generosity in sharing her painful
metamorphosis from wounded
child to caring adult.
Sylvia Grossman, a successful
family counselor for the last 20
years, writes a monthly column for
two Long Island magazines on
parenting problems and lives in
Long Island, NY and Tucson,
Arizona.