The Charlotte Jewish News - June-Juiy 2001 - Page 9
Speizman Jewish Library
From the Librarian’s Desk
By Amalia Warshenbrot, Librarian, Speizman Jewish Library
Mah Nishtana?
So, Mah Nishtana? How is this
coming summer different from the
past school year? In all of the past
months, children were allowed to
borrow ONE book for ONE week.
This summer children may borrow
up to THREE books for THREE
weeks.
In the past months the library
was opened one night a week and
on Sundays. This summer the
library will be open four days a
week (see hours below).
During the past months borrow
ers were unable to search books on
our online catalog. This summer a
part of our collection will be cata
logued.
In all of the past months our
users had to wait a long time for
books that were in high demand.
This summer, thanks to many
donations, we will be able to pur
chase more than one copy of pop
ular books. ^
Library Summer Hours
Mondays and Thursdays: 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM
and 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
Thesdays: Closed
Wednesdays and Fridays: 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM
The Following is a
Small Sample of the
Recent Additions to
Our Book Collection
This will be great reading for
the summer.
If you wish to reserve a book,
please call 704-944-6763.
The Big Silence; an Abe
Lieberman mystery by Stuart M.
Kaminsky
The Family Orchard; a novel by
Nomi Eve
How I Came into My Inheritance;
and other true stories by Dorothy
Gallagher
If I Told You Once; a novel by
Judy Budnitz
Never Nosh a Matzo Ball; a Ruby,
the rabbi’s wife, mystery by
Sharon Kahn
Portrait of an Artist as an Old
Man by Joseph Heller
Ravelstein by Saul Bellow
Setting Fires by Kate Wenner
Six Figures by Fred Leebron
The Spider's Web by Laura E.
Williams
Swimming Toward the Ocean; a
novel by Carole L. Glickfeld ^
Recommended Reading for Those Long
Summer Days
We Welcome the
Following who Joined
the Friends of the
Library Campaign
Iwona and David Hopkins
Ronna and Keith Pandres
Rosalia and Benjamin Weiner
We acknowledge with
gratitnde the following
donations to the:
SPEIZMAN LIBRARY FUND
In honor of the Bar Mitzvah of
Alan Platock from Ruth and Jerry
Hannes
In honor of the Bat Mitzvah of
Jordana Weiner from Ruth and
Alan Goldberg
CHERYL KATZ MEMORIAL
LIBRARY FUND
In memory of Elissa Joy Ennison
Barman from Ellie and Ron Katz
We apologize to Cheri and Marc
Titlebaum for omitting their name
from our acknowledgement of
their donation to the Speizman
Library Fund in appreciation of
Randy DeFilipp, Susan
Rabinovich, Lari Massachi, Claire
Putterman, Linda Spil and Lisa
Fischbeck. Thanks again for your
continued - support of the
Speizman Jewish Library, please
accept my apology,
By Rita Mond
A View from My Rooftop:
Reflections of an Inner Life by
Renee Garfinkel, BIC Publishing,
525 14th St., #1115, Washington,
DC, 184 pp. $12.95 (paperback).
The author, turning 50, took a
one year sabbatical during which
she wrote this one year travel Jour
nal that takes the reader through
her heritage and spiritual inner life.
To quote her: “I’m thinking a lot
about religion lately. But, then, reli
gion has always been an important
tone in my life. Even when I was
most distant from it, and most
rebellious against it, Judaism per
vaded my life. My consciousness is
Jewish, just as surely as it is
female. Today religion is hot in
America, and Christianity and
Buddhism seem to be vying for the
public soul. The struggle between
their messages make for an active
backdrop against which to look at
my own Judaism.”
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About the Author
Renee Garfinkel received her
Ph.D. in clinical psychology from
the University of Lund in Sweden
in 1975. She joined the University
of Pennsylvania Medical School
faculty and the University
Graduate Hospital as a psycholo
gist with a specialty in
Gerontology. She founded and
edited “Adoption Quarterly,” the
first peer reviewed academic jour
nal in the field of adoption. In
1991, she joined the Red Cross dis
aster mental health unit assigned to
plane crashes and natural disaster
sites. Living in Washington, DC,
she has a private therapy practice
there and is a member of the facul
ty of George Washington
University’s Institute for Crisis
Disaster and Risk Management.
Neighbors: The Destruction of the
Jewish Community in Jedwabne,
Poland by Jan T. Gross, Princeton
University Press, 41 William St.,
Princeton, N.J. 08540. 216 pp., 27
halftones, 3 maps. $12.95.
This is not a book for the squea
mish. It is the true story of what
happened to the approximately
1,600 Jewish men, women and
children who were murdered on
July 10, 1941 in the town of
Jedwabne, Poland (one half of the
town’s population) by the very
people whom they called their
neighbors. Jedwabne’s Jews were
clubbed, drowned, gutted and
burned not by the faceless Nazis
but by their former Polish school
mates, by those who sold them
food, bought their milk and were
formerly on a friendly basis.
Only seven of the 1,600 man
aged to escape and live to tell the
tale of what happened that sum
mer’s eve. After the war, the near
by family who saved them was
derided and driven from the area.
The single Jew offered mercy by
the town declined it.
This is a must for those especial
ly interested in the Holocaust. The
publication of this book has already
“ruffled a good many feathers” and
brought old tensions back to the
fore.
About the Author
Jan T. Gross is Professor of
Politics and European Studies at
New York University. He is the
author of, among other books,
“Revolution from Abroad: Soviet
Conquest of Poland’s Western
Ukraine and Western Belorussia”
and is coeditor of “The Politics of
Retribution in Europe: World War
II and Its Aftermath.”
When I Lived in Modem Times by
Linda Grant, Dutton (Penguin
Putnam Inc.), 375 Hudson St., New
York, NY 10014. 260 pp. $23.95.
This is the story of Evelyn Sert,
who at the age of 20, left her home
in London on false papers for
Palestine. She first joined a kibbutz
and moved to Tel Aviv. There,
unfortunately, she finds love with a
man who is not what he seems to
be. She is swept up as an unwilling
spy in an underground army for a
nation fighting to be bom.
This novel is the story of one
woman’s discovery of herself, her
heritage and the nation that would
one day become Israel. It won the
prestigious Orange Prize in June
2000, which was established in
1996 to honor novels of excellence,
originality and accessibility by
women writers.
About the Author
Linda Grant is one of England’s
leading journalists and writers.
This book is her first work of fic
tion published in the U.S. She is the
author of three previous books,
including “The Cast Iron Shore”
(winner of the David Higham Prize
for best first novel of 1995) and
“Remind Me Who I Am, Again,”
her acclaimed account of her moth
er’s dementia.
Motherland by Fern Schumer
Chapman, Penguin Putnam Inc.,
375 Hudson St., New York, NY
10014. 208 pp. $13 (paperback).
This book is subtitled “Beyond
the Holocaust: A Mother-Daughter
Journey to Reclaim the Past.” For
years, Fem Schumer Chapman was
rankled by an incomplete sense of
identity: her mother, Edith
WesleiTield Schumer, refused to
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