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Volumes of speakers at book fair
JCC will celebrate the world of words next month with a number of notable scribes.
From right to lett: Israel's poet laureate Yetiuda Amlctiai, Eleanor Wachtel ol CBC's Writers and Company ^ni llrst-time novelist Claudia Casper.
The Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver is holding its 12th annual Jewish Book Fair Nov. 2 to 7. Books on a r£uige of subjects of interest to both adults and children will be oflered for sale throughout the week, beginning Saturday at 6:30 p.m. and continuing through Thursday.
New features this year will be a used book sale, sponsored by the Isaac Waldman Library, and book appraiser Stephen Lunsford, who vsoll speak on rare books and give appraisals.
The fair will open Saturday evening with a keynote address
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The Jewish Book Fair will feature, among others: Yehuda Amichai. David Albahari. Ira Nadel, Claudia Casper. Miriam Waddington. SharLevine, Jeni Wright, Ellen Schwartz, Julie & Michael Seelig, Eleanor Wachtel and Seymour Levitan.
The Jewish Community Centre November 2 - 7 10a.m. - 10p.m.
by Yehuda Amichai, Israel's poet laureate, titled A Life of Poetry — Poetry of Life. Mr. Amichai has been a guest writer and professor at the University of California at Berkeley, New York University and Yale. He has taken part in numerous international poetry festivals and his works have been translated into 33 languages.
David Albahari, author and translator from the former Yugoslavia, will speak about his old Jewish community and read from his latest book of short stories, Worxis Are Something Else, his first book written in English. Mr. Albahari is a past lecturer at the Banflf Centre for Fine Arts and was in residency at the University of Calgary.
Eleanor Wachtel will be on hand to read from her new book. More Writers and Company, which features a compilation of conversations with contemporary writers. Her CBC Radio program. Writers and Company, won the 1995 CBC excellence award for best weekly show.
Mother and daughter Eva and Deborah Miller will also give a reading from their Holocaust writings. Eva is the author of The Last Expressionist, a novel about her life in pre-
war Germany. Her daughter will read from her book of poetry, / Will Burn Candles, as well as joining in a reading with fellow poet Susanne Heinz, granddaughter of a Nazi SS officer.
Author Ira Nadel, a University of B.C. English professor and book critic for CBC Radio, will give a talk on his recent biography. Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen. Also, Claudia Casper will read from and discuss her first novel. The Reconstruction, which was the cause of a bidding war between several Canadian publishers.
Yiddish translator Seymour Levitan will read I.L. Peretz and discuss the problems and challenges of translation. Paper Roses, his translation of Rachel Kom's poetry, was a 1988 winner of the Columbus University Translation Centre award.
In honor of Jerusalem 3000, city planners Michael and Julie Seelig will present an illustrated lecture. Beauty and Conflict: Architecture in Jerusalem. Mr. Seelig, a professor of city planning at the University of B.C., is the founder of the school's urban studies abroad program in Jerusalem. Mrs. Seelig is a private planning consultant and has worked with the Greater Vancouver Regional District, the City of Vancouver and the Vancouver City Planning Commission.
For more information, call Jeannie Kamins: 257-5111. □
Yaffa benefit
The Vancouver Yafia Housing Society is holding a musical benefit evening on Sunday, Oct. 27 at 7 p.m. at Temple Sholom.
A number of performers are slated to appear, including cellist Eugene Osadchy, the Sim-chaphonics klezmer band, soprano Ava Fisher, the Cana-dian Guitar Trio, Cantor Steve Levin and vocalist Shi-ra Elias. Master of ceremonies will be David Bemer, star of the play Shylock.
For more information, call 322-9557. □
D-Day meeting
The Lion's Gate Vancouver Lodge will be holding a meeting to commemorate Rem-brance Day at 7:30 p.m., October 21 at the Jewish Community Centre.
The guest speaker will be Harry Herman, a veteran of the Second World War. Mr. Herman is mentioned in the book. The D-Day Dodgers, a story of his and his comrades' exploits in the D-Day June 6, 1944 Allied landings.
For more information, call 263-8498. □