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Brandeis  Review 


Summer  1993 


Volume  13  Number  1 


Dear  Readers 


Brandeis  Review 


Editor 

Design  Director 

Brenda  Marder 

Charles  Dunham 

Associate  Vice  President 

Senior  Designer 

for  University  Affairs 

Sara  Beniaminsen 

lohn  Hose 

Design  Assistant 

Assistant  Editor 

Jeremy  Spiegel 

Elizabeth  McCarthy 

Distribution/ 

Editorial  Assistant 

Coordination 

Veronica  Blacquier 

Nancy  Maitland 

Student  Assistants 

Review  Photographer 

Ahssa  DuBrow  '96 

Julian  Brown 

Stacy  Lefkowitz  '93 

James  Toole,  Graduate 

Staff  Photographer 

Student 

Heather  Pillar 

Alumni 

Editor,  Class  Notes 

Catherine  R.  Fallon 

Brandeis  Review 

Teresa  Amabile 

Advisory  Committee 

Gerald  S.  Bernstein 

1993 

Edward  Engelberg 

Irving  R.  Epstein 

LoriGans'83,  M.M.H.S.'86 

Janet  Z,  Giele 

Jeffrey  GoUand '61 

Lisa  Berman  Hills  '82 

Michael  Kalafatas  '65 

Jonathan  Margolis  '67 

Arthur  H.  Reis,  Jr. 

Adrienne  Rosenblatt  '61 

Stephen  J.  Whitfield, 

m 

PhD  '72 

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Volume  13 

Number  1,  Season  1993 

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University  Magazine 

is  published  by 

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Suite  #2F 

Waltham,  Massachusetts 

New  York,  NY  10003 

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alumni,  Trustees,  friends. 

parents,  faculty  and  staff. 

Cover:  Photographs  on 
front  and  hack  covers 
by  Lois  Greenfield  70 


For  those  of  us  who  spend  our  days 
working  at  Brandeis, 
Commencement  jars  us  out  of  our 
work-a-day  mode,  stimulating  a  raft 
of  emotions.  The  celebration  brings 
on  a  period  of  stock-taking, 
prt)dding  us  to  entertain  the  great 
imponderable — what  does  the 
institution  really  stand  for. 

Hypersusceptible  to  sentiment  at 
this  time  of  year,  we  read  with 
heightened  intensity  a  13-year-old 
speech  that  recently  crossed  our 
desk.  We  offer  a  few  lines  from  it 
here  because  the  speaker,  Saul 
Touster,  is  on  to  a  significant  aspect 
of  the  University.  In  discussing  the 
difference  between  ours  and  other 
universities,  Touster  pointed  out 
that  our  namesake  hovers  over  us  as 
a  continuous  challenge,  "the  name 
of  Justice  Brandeis  and  what  he 
represents.  I  say,"  he  continued, 
"represents  rather  than  represented, 
since. ..as  the  years  have  passed, 
what  remains  of  his  work  is  a  vision 
of  the  law.  The  Progressive  Era,  the 
Twenties  and  the  Thirties,  and  their 
special  problems...,  and  the  creative 
responses  to  them  in  the  refonn 
movements,  the  New  Deal,  and  the 
new  social  consciousness,  in  all  of 
which  Justice  Brandeis  played  so 
important  a  part — these  years 
recede.  The  vision,  however, 
remains.  It  is  one  well  expressed  in 
the  phrase  'the  Brandeis  brief:  That 
is,  argument  based  upon  command 
of  facts  and  of  the  social  sciences, 
and  fueled  by  a  passion  for  social 
justice....  Justice  Brandeis  gave  us 
the  larger  view  of  what  he  called  the 
'living  law'  upon  which  all 
compelling  knowledge  and 
argument  in  law  must  rest.... 
Brandeis  called  for  a  'broader 
education'  to  correct  the  distortions 
of  specialization.  He  asked  that     ;     ?: 
lawyers  and  judges  continue,      -^^    "-* 
'throughout  life,'  that  broader  study^ 


'of  economics  and  sociology  and 
politics  which  embody  the  facts  and 
present  the  problems  of  today.' 
Thus,  without  doubt  for  this 
university,  the  legacy  of  a  name  and 
an  idea — Brandeis — must  be  a 
difference  that  we  respond  to." 

Touster,  the  Joseph  M.  Proskauer 
Professor  in  Law  and  Social  Welfare 
and  director  of  the  Legal  Studies 
Program,  has  just  retired.  His  words, 
delivered  in  1980,  still  express  so 
well  the  essence  of  the  University's 
ethos,  the  insistence  on  a  broad 
education. 

In  this  issue,  which  covers 
Commencement  and  Reunion,  we 
hope  the  spirit  of  the  event  shines 
vividly.  In  the  first  lead  article,  let 
yourself  be  carried  aloft  by  the 
soaring  figures  in  Lois  Greenfield's 
stunning  photography  and 
fascinated  by  the  imaginative 
drawings  of  stage  and  costume 
designer  Charles  Berliner.  Another 
alum,  dynamic  feminist  Susan 
Weidman  Schneider,  will  hold  your 
attention  as  she  explains  how  she 
has  created  ripples  large  enough  to 
make  waves  throughout  the  Jewish 
community  and  beyond.  Referring 
back  to  World  War  II,  faculty 
member  Tom  Doherty  makes  some 
arresting  points  about  "politically 
correct"  movies  long  before  the 
idiom  was  coined.  Marc  Brettlcr, 
alum  and  faculty  member,  who  has 
won  recognition  for  his  teaching, 
shares  his  winning  methods  with 
us.  The  last  article,  by  recent 
graduate  Heidi  Fleisher,  chronicles 
what  a  Brandeis  student  with  get- 
up-and-go  can  accomplish  on  a 
semester  abroad.  i' A*", 

The  Brandeis  Review  plans  to 
enliven  its  forum  by  starting  a 
letters-to-the-editor  column.  For 
details  see  page  5 1 . 


Brenda  Marder 
The  Editor 


Please  see 


Class  Notes  to 


complete 

the  prospective 


student 


referral  card. 


ndeis  Review 


Number  1 


'ommencement 

8 

■r  liberates  the 
le  dance 

Lois  Greenfield  '70 

10 

,  a  Brandeisian  Faust 
leles)  still  inspires 

Charles  Berliner,  M.F.A.  71 

14 

],  Susan  Weidman 

speaks  for 

L  in  the  general 

ement 

Brenda  Marder 

20 

wartime  politically- 

Thomas  Doherty 

26 

correct  celluloid  celebration 

Moving  Students  from  A  to  Z: 
A  Portait  of  a  Teacher 

An  award-winning  teacher 
watches  the  students'  eyes,  their 
smiles,  their  yawns 

Brenda  Marder 

32 

Town  Called  Kuranda 

A  human  adventure  durmg  the 
junior  year  abroad 

Heidi  Fleisher  '93 

36 

Around  the  University 


2     Alumni 


47 


Bookshelf 


42      Class  Notes 


54 


Faculty  Notes 


45 


Dear  Read 


Brandeis  Review 


Editor 

Design  Director 

Brenda  Marder 

Charles  Dunham 

Associate  Vice  President 

Senior  Designer 

for  University  Affairs 

Sara  Benjaminsen 

John  Hose 

Design  Assistant 

Assistant  Editor 

Jeremy  Spiegel 

Elizabeth  McCarthy 

Distribution/ 

Editorial  Assistant 

Coordination 

Veronica  Blacquier 

Nancy  Maitland 

Student  Assistants 

Review  Photographer 

Alissa  DuBrow  '96 

Julian  Brown 

Stacy  Lefkowitz  '93 

James  Toole,  Graduate 

Staff  Photographer 

Student 

Heather  Pillar 

Alumni 

Editor,  Class  Notes 

Catherine  R.  Fallon 

Brandeis  Review 

Teresa  Amabile                t 

Advisory  Committee 

Gerald  S.  Bernstein           1 

1993 

Edward  Engelberg 

Irving  R.  Epstein 

LoriGans'83,  M.M.H.S'86 

Janet  Z.  Giele 

Jeffrey  Golland '61 

Lisa  Berman  HiUs  '82 

Michael  KaLitatas  '65 

Jonathan  Margolis  '67 

Arthur  H.  Reis,  Jr. 

Adrienne  Rosenblatt  '61 

Stephen  J.  Whitfield, 

Ph.D.  '72 

Unsolicited  manuscripts 

Postmaster: 

are  welcomed  by  the 

Send  address  changes 

editor.  Submissions  must 

to  Brandeis  University 

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Btandeis  Review 

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envelope  or  the 

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Review  will  not  return 

02254-9110 

the  manuscript. 

Opinions  expressed 

Send  to:  The  Editor, 

in  the  Brandeis  Review 

Brandeis  Review 

are  those  of  the 

Brandeis  University 

authors  and  not 

P.O.  Box  9110 

necessarily  of  the  Editor 

Waltham,  Massachusetts 

or  Brandeis  University. 

02254-9110 

S  1993  Brandeis  University 

Brandeis  Review, 

Office  of  Publications 

Volume  13 

Number  1,  Season  1993 

National  Advertising 

Brandeis  Review 

Handled  by: 

(ISSN  0273-71751 

University  Magazine 

is  published  by 

Network 

Brandeis  University 

15  East  Tenth  Street 

P.O.  Box  91 10 

Suite  #2F 

Waltham,  Massachusetts 

New  York,  NY  10003 

02254-9110 

212-228-1688 

with  free  distribution  to 

FAX  212-228-3897 

alumni,  Trustees,  friends. 

parents,  faculty  and  staff. 

Cover:  Photographs  on 
front  and  hack  covers 
by  Lois  Greenfield  '10 


For  those  of  us  who  spen 
working  at  Brandeis, 
Commencement  jars  us  ( 
work-a-day  mode,  stimu] 
of  emotions.  The  celebra 
on  a  period  of  stock-taldi 
prodding  us  to  entertain 
imponderable — what  doc  mv. 
institution  really  stand  for. 

Hypersusceptible  to  sentiment  at 
this  time  of  year,  we  read  with 
heightened  intensity  a  13-year-old 
speech  that  recently  crossed  our 
desk.  We  offer  a  few  lines  from  it 
here  because  the  speaker,  Saul 
Touster,  is  on  to  a  significant  aspect 
of  the  University.  In  discussing  the 
difference  between  ours  and  other 
universities,  Touster  pointed  out 
that  our  namesake  hovers  over  us  as 
a  continuous  challenge,  "the  name 
of  Justice  Brandeis  and  what  he 
represents.  I  say,"  he  continued, 
"represents  rather  than  represented, 
since. ..as  the  years  have  passed, 
what  remains  of  his  work  is  a  vision 
of  the  law.  The  Progressive  Era,  the 
Twenties  and  the  Thirties,  and  their 
special  problems...,  and  the  creative 
responses  to  them  in  the  reform 
movements,  the  New  Deal,  and  the 
new  social  consciousness,  in  all  of 
which  Justice  Brandeis  played  so 
important  a  part — these  years 
recede.  The  vision,  however, 
remains,  h  is  one  well  expressed  in 
the  phrase  'the  Brandeis  brief:  That 
is,  argument  based  upon  command 
of  facts  and  of  the  social  sciences, 
and  fueled  by  a  passion  for  social 
justice....  Justice  Brandeis  gave  us 
the  larger  view  of  what  he  called  the 
'living  law'  upon  which  all 
compelling  knowledge  and 
argument  in  law  must  rest.... 
Brandeis  called  for  a  'broader 
education'  to  correct  the  distortions 
of  specialization.  He  asked  that 
la^ryers  and  judges  continue, 
'throughout  life,'  that  broader  study 


In  this  issue,  which  covers 
Commencement  and  Reunion,  we 
hope  the  spirit  of  the  event  shines 
vividly.  In  the  first  lead  article,  let 
yourself  be  carried  aloft  by  the 
soaring  figures  in  Lois  Greenfield's 
stunning  photography  and 
fascinated  by  the  imaginative 
drawings  of  stage  and  costume 
designer  Charles  Berliner.  Another 
alum,  dynamic  feminist  Susan 
Weidman  Schneider,  will  hold  your 
attention  as  she  explains  how  she 
has  created  ripples  large  enough  to 
make  waves  throughout  the  Jewish 
community  and  beyond.  Referring 
back  to  World  War  11,  faculty 
member  Tom  Doherty  makes  some 
arresting  points  about  "politically 
correct"  movies  long  before  the 
idiom  was  coined.  Marc  Brettler, 
alum  and  faculty  member,  who  has 
won  recognition  for  his  teaching, 
shares  his  winning  methods  with 
us.  The  last  article,  by  recent 
graduate  Heidi  Fleisher,  chronicles 
what  a  Brandeis  student  with  get- 
up-and-go  can  accomplish  on  a 
semester  abroad. 

The  Brandeis  Review  plans  to 
enliven  its  forum  by  starting  a 
letters-to-the-editor  column.  For 
details  see  page  5 1 . 


Brenda  Marder 
The  Editor 


Summer  1993 


Brandeis  Review 


Volume  13 


Number  1 


Graduates  Keep  Their 
"Eyes  on  the  Prize" 
Commencement  Number  42 

Images  from  Commencement 

8 

Breaking  Bounds 

A  photographer  hberates  the 
dancer  from  the  dance 

Lois  Greenfield  '70 

10 

Bringing  Images  Full  Circle 

After  a  decade,  a  Brandeisian  Faust 
(or  Mephistopheles)  still  inspires 
designer 

Charles  Berliner,  M.F.A.  '71 

14 

The  Devil's  Advocate 

Through  Lilith,  Susan  Weidman 
Schneider  '65  speaks  for 
Jewish  women  in  the  general 
women's  movement 

Brenda  Marder 

20 

Americans  All 

Hollywood's  wartime  politically- 
correct  celluloid  celebration 

Thomas  Doherty 

26 

Moving  Students  from  A  to  Z: 
A  Portait  of  a  Teacher 

An  award-winning  teacher 
watches  the  students'  eyes,  their 
smiles,  their  yawns 

Brenda  Marder 

32 

Town  Called  Kuranda 

A  human  adventure  during  the 
junior  year  abroad 

Heidi  Fleisher  '93 

36 

Around  the  University 


2      Alumni 


47 


Bookshelf 


42     Class  Notes 


54 


Faculty  Notes 


45 


Around  the  University 


Board  of  IVustees 
Approves  Budget 


The  Board  of  Trustees 
approved  an  operating  budget 
of  $150,957,000  for  the  1993- 
94  fiscal  year.  As  part  of  a 
four-year  effort  to  reduce 
operating  costs  by  $12 
million,  the  budget  reflects 
an  effort  to  hold  costs  at 
current  levels  except  for  four 
major  areas:  undergraduate 
need-based  financial  aid, 
faculty  and  staff  salary 
increases,  money  for  the 
Libraries  and  utility  and 
plant  costs. 

Undergraduate  need-based 
financial  aid  is  projected  to 
increase  by  $2.5  million  or 
15.8  percent  over  1992-93. 


This  reflects  the  fact  that 
half  of  the  incoming  student 
body  will  require  need-based 
financial  aid  in  1993-94  as 
compared  with  45  percent 
this  year.  Because  of  the 
skyrocketing  costs  of  books 
and  periodicals,  the  1993-94 
budget  contains  a  $260,000 
increase  for  the  Libraries.  All 
other  operating  costs  will 
receive  no  budget  increase 
for  inflation  next  year.  The 
net  result  is  an  overall 
budget  increase  of  6.8 
percent.  The  budget  also 


reflects  an  increase  in 
budget-relieving  gifts  from 
$10  million  in  1992-93  to 
$12.5  million  in  1993-94  to 
defray  costs  borne  by 
students  and  their  families. 

In  addition,  the  Board  of 
Trustees  announced  an 
increase  of  5.7  percent  in 
billed  charges  for  the  1993-94 
academic  year,  the  lowest 
increase  in  almost  20  years. 
The  combined  tuition,  fees 
and  room  and  board  costs 
will  increase  from  $24,051 
in  1992-93  to  $25,415  in 
1993-94. 


Cummencement  speaker 
and  honorary  degree 
recipient  Liv  UUmann 
addresses  the  Class  of  1 993 


Brandeis  Awards 
George  Burns 
Honorary  Degree 


M.  Anthony  Fisher  and 
Emily  Fisher  Landau  unveil 
a  plaque  designating  the 
rededicated  Martin  A.  Fisher 
School  of  Physics 


Martin  A.  Fisher 
School  of  Physics 
Rededicated 


Brandeis  recently  marked  the 
25th  anniversary  of  the 
founding  of  the  Martin  A. 
Fisher  School  of  Physics  by 
rededicating  the  program.  In 
a  ceremony  that  included  a 
tribute  to  Martin  Fisher  by 
his  son,  Richard,  and  his 
daughter,  Irma  Mann 
Steams,  members  of  the 
University  community  noted 
the  contributions  the  physics 
department  has  made  to  a 
range  of  scientific  pursuits, 
including  the  search  for  the 
sixth  and  final  quark, 
development  of  the  first 
high-resolution  anti-matter 
microscope  and  the  mapping 


of  magnetic  fields 
surrounding  black  holes  in 
distant  quasars. 

The  daylong  rededication 
included  a  keynote  address 
by  Irwin  Shapiro,  director  of 
the  Harvard-Smithsonian 
Center  for  Astrophysics;  a 
description  of  work  at 
Brandeis's  Benjamin  and  Mae 
Volen  National  Center  for 
Complex  Systems  by 
Laurence  Abbott,  professor  of 
physics;  and  a  discussion  of 
the  Superconducting  Super 
Collider,  including  the  latest 
results  on  the  hunt  for  the 
top  quark,  by  James 
Bensinger,  professor  of 
physics. 


Brandeis  awarded  George 
Bums,  the  97-year-old 
entertainer  and  author,  an 
honorary  Doctor  of  Humane 
Letters  in  Los  Angeles  in 
June.  This  was  the  first 
occasion  where  the 
University  has  presented  an 
honorary  degree  off  campus. 
For  the  past  15  years,  he  has 
enjoyed  success  as  an  author, 
including  the  bestseller. 
Grade:  A  Love  Story,  and 
Wisdom  of  the  90s.  In 
addition  to  performing  in 
vaudeville,  Bums  and  his  late 
wife,  Gracie  Allen,  had  their 
own  radio  show  in  the  1930s 
and  television  show  in  the 
1950s.  Burns  went  on  his 
own  in  the  1960s  to  perform 
in  nightclubs  and  theaters 
with  other  entertainers.  In 
the  1970s,  Bums  began  his 


Commencement 

Keynoted 

by  Liv  Ullmann 


At  Brandeis's  42nd 
Commencement  exercises, 
actress  and  humanitarian  Liv 
Ullmann  addressed  over  700 
graduates  and  their 
approximately  7,000  family 
and  friends,  urging  them  to 
shun  deceiving  labels  like 
"ethnic  cleansing"  and  strive 
to  expose  and  change  the  real 
horrors  they  depict. 
Challenging  the  graduating 
class  to  embark  on  a  quest 
for  change,  she  said,  "May  it 
be  a  quest  based  on  a  new 
ethical  way  of  thinking,  a 
new  language,  representing 
vision  instead  of  slogan, 
representing  sharing  instead 
of  domination,  representing 
freedom  instead  of 
demagogues."  UUman 
received  an  honorary  Doctor 
of  Humane  Letters  for  more 
than  12  years  of  devotion  to 
humanitarian  causes  for  the 
International  Refugee 


Committee  and  UNICEF. 
She  has  specialized  in 
children's  causes  in  recent 
years,  after  starring  in  many 
stage  productions  and  in  nine 
Ingmar  Bergman  films  during 
her  acting  career. 

Other  honorary  degree 
recipients  were:  Derek  Bok, 
president  of  Harvard 
University  from  1971  to 
1990;  Henry  E.  Hampton, 
creator  of  the  highly- 
acclaimed  "Eyes  on  the 
Prize,"  the  14-hour  PBS  film 
series  of  America's  civil 
rights  movement  and  author 
of  its  companion  volume, 
Voices  of  Freedom:  An  Oral 
History  of  America's  Civil 
Rights  Movement;  Max  M. 
Kampelman,  chief  United 
States  nuclear  and  space 
arms  negotiator  for  the  INF 
and  START  treaties,-  Bernard 
Lewis,  professor  emeritus  of 
Near  Eastern  studies  at 
Princeton  University  and 
distinguished  scholar  and 


Ph.D.  '72  hooding  Henry  E. 
Hampton  as  President 
Samuel  O.  Thier  looks  on 


Middle  East  expert;  and 
Sheldon  M.  Wolff,  M.D., 
Endicott  Professor  and  chair 
of  the  Department  of 
Medicine  of  Tufts  University 
School  of  Medicine  and 
physician  m  chief  at  the  New 
England  Medical  Center. 

(Photographic  coverage  of 
Commencement  follows  on 
page  8.) 


V 

y 

1 

George  Burns 


second  film  career,  appearmg 
in  The  Sunshine  Boys,  for 
which  he  received  an  Oscar; 
Oh.  God:  Oh.  God— Book  11. 
Oh  God.  You  Devil!:  and  / 
Wish  IWas  18  Agam. 
Participating  in  the  program 
from  the  Brandeis  campus 
were  President  Samuel  O. 
Thier;  Michael  Murray, 
Blanche,  Barbara  and  Irving 


Laurie  Professor  of  Theater 
ArtS;  John  Hose,  associate 
vice  president  for  university 
affairs  and  executive 
assistant  to  the  president; 
Carolyn  Adelman  '94  and 
graduate  student  Edward 
Vassallo,  students  in  the 
theater  arts  program;  and 
from  the  West  Coast,  Barbara 
C.  Rosenberg  '54,  Trustee 
of  Brandeis,  and  Barry 
Mirkin,  longtime  friend  of 
George  Bums. 


Samuel  O.  Thier 

Scholarships 

Established 


Three  scholarships  have  been 
established  at  Brandeis  in 
honor  of  President  Samuel  O. 
Thier.  The  Samuel  O.  Thier 
Scholarships,  which  will  be 
awarded  each  year  to  a 
Brandeis  sophomore,  junior 
and  senior,  were  conceived 
of,  created  by  and  are  funded 
by  the  Richard  and  Hinda 
Rosenthal  Foundation  of 
Stamford,  Connecticut,  as  an 
expression  of  regard  for  and 
as  a  tribute  to  Thier. 

The  scholarships  will  be 
awarded  on  the  basis  of  three 
criteria:  intellectual  ability, 
academic  achievement  and 
athleticism.  Recipients  will 
be  students  who  best 


demonstrate  these  traits  as 
exemplified  by  Thier;  they 
will  retain  the  scholarships 
through  their  undergraduate 
careers  as  long  as  they 
continue  to  meet  those 
criteria. 

The  Richard  and  Hinda 
Rosenthal  Foundation  was 
established  in  1948,  the  same 
year  Brandeis  was  founded. 
The  foundation  is  nationally 
known  for  its  innovation, 
including  awards  it  confers 
fjra  hievement  and 
excellence  in  the  arts,  social 
sciences,  medical  and 
scientific  research  and 
clinical  medicine. 


3  Summer  1993 


President  Thier 
Joins  National 
Search  Team 


Development 
Reports  increased 
Giving 


In  the  fiscal  year  just 
completed,  total  private 
support  for  Brandeis  showed 
its  first  increase  in  the  last 
three  years.  Individuals, 
corporations  and  foundations 
contributed  a  total  of 
$11, 828  million,  an  increase 
of  one  percent  over  fiscal 
year  1991-92.  This  year, 
realized  trusts  and  estates 
showed  the  largest  gain, 
providing  $8,131  million  as 
compared  to  $3,957  million 
m  1991-92. 

Among  the  important 
commitments  that  the 
University  received  were 
$2  million  from  the  Carl  and 
Ruth  Shapiro  Foundation, 


$1  million  from  Norman  S. 
and  Eleanor  E.  Rabb, 
$500,000  from  Joseph 
Schwartz  and  $150,000  from 
Marjorie  Grodner  Housen  '56 
and  Charles  Housen.  The 
University's  $10  million 
campaign  to  fund  the 
Benjamin  and  Mae  Volen 
National  Center  for  Complex 
Systems  was  launched 
successfully  in  the  past  year, 
having  raised  more  than 
$2.8  million  in  cash  and 
pledges,  including 
commitments  from  the 


Howard  Hughes  Medical 
Institute  and  the  Raytheon 
Company.  For  the  first  time 
in  the  University's  history, 
the  endowment  reached  the 
$200  million  level. 

Having  completed  his  first 
full  year  as  senior  vice 
president  for  development 
and  alumni  relations,  Daniel 
Mansoor  commented,  "I  am 
very  encouraged  by  the 
results  of  fiscal  year  1992-93. 
They  show  broad  support  for 
Brandeis  from  alumni, 
friends,  institutions,  the 
American  Jewish  community 
and  beyond.  I  am  especially 
pleased  by  the  number  of 
new  donors." 


Serge  M.  Timasheff,  professor 
of  biochemistry 


Professors  Receive 
Humboldt  Award 
and  Guggenheim 
Fellowship 


Brandeis  Professor  of 
Biochemistry  Serge  M. 
Timasheff  has  been  awarded 
the  prestigious  Humboldt 
Research  Award  for  Senior 
U.S.  Scientists.  The  German 
prize,  which  recognizes  the 
achievements  of  senior 
foreign  scientists,  will  allow 
Timasheff  to  collaborate 
with  researchers  in  Germany 
on  experiments  on  the 
molecular  mechanisms  of 
protein  stabilization.  His 
research  focuses  on 
the  molecular  mechanisms 
by  which  certain 
anti-cancer  drugs  fimction 


and  may  eventually  aid  in 
the  development  of  better 
cancer  drugs. 

Samuel  Kline  Cohn,  Jr., 
professor  of  history,  and  Ray 
Jackendoff,  professor  of 
linguistics  and  National 
Center  for  Complex  Systems, 
were  named  as  John  Simon 
Guggenheim  Memorial 
Foundation  Fellows. 
Guggenheim  Fellows  are 
named  on  the  basis  of 
unusually  distinguished 
achievement  in  the  past  and 
exceptional  promise  for 
future  accomplishment.  This 
year  146  artists,  scholars  and 
scientist  were  selected  from 
among  2,989  applicants  for 
Fellowship  awards. 


President  Samuel  O.  Thier 
has  been  appointed  to  a 
national  search  committee 
for  a  new  director  of  the 
National  Institutes  of 
Health.  Thier,  former  head  of 
the  Institute  of  Medicine,  is 
well-known  for  his  expertise 
in  the  areas  of  national 
health  policy,  medical 
education  and  biomedical 
research.  Thier,  along  with 
Barbara  Hazard  Munro,  dean 
and  professor  at  Boston 
College  School  of  Nursing, 
and  Meizhu  Lui,  director  of 
the  Boston  Health  Access 
Project,  led  a  committee  on  a 
discussion  on  training 
physicians,  nurses  and  other 
health  care  workers  as  part  of 
a  health  care  reform 
conference  at  New  England 
Medical  Center.  The  event, 
which  drew  some  700 
participants,  was  organized 
by  U.S.  Senator  Edward  M. 
Kennedy  (D-Mass.)  chair  of 
the  Senate  Committee  on 
Labor  and  Human  Resources 
and  longtime  health  care 
advocate  in  the  federal 
government. 

TJiier  also  gave  a  speech  on 
ADDS  to  the  American 
Philosophical  Society  in 
March,  focusing  on  society's 
response  to  the  epidemic.  He 
criticized  the  government  for 
failing  to  address  the  social 
and  behavioral  aspects  of  the 
disease  and  recommended 
concrete  steps  to  deal  with 
the  health  hazard,  including 
having  the  medical 
profession  state  that  it  is 
unethical  not  to  treat  the 
disease,  launching  behavioral 
studies  of  sexuality, 
providing  public  education 
on  the  subject  and  reforming 
the  health  care  system. 

In  addition,  he  has  been 
named  an  honorary  member 
of  the  American  Association 
of  Dental  Schools  for  his 
significant  efforts,  when  he 
was  president  of  the  Institute 
of  Medicine,  in 
implementing  the  Institute's 
study  of  dental  education. 


4  Brandeis  Review 


students  Win 
Scholarships 


Michelle  Liblanc  '94  received 
a  Goldwater  Scholarship  for 
1993-94,  providing  $7,000  in 
support.  Liblanc  was  one  of 
233  Goldwater  Scholarship 
winners  chosen  from  over 
2,000  nominees.  Rachel 
Blitzblau  '93  and  Alexandra 
Haber  '93  each  received  a 
DAAD  award  from  the 
German  government  for 
1993-94.  The  awards  provide 
full  tuition,  room,  board  and 
travel  expense  coverage. 
Miriam  Louisa  Steinberg  '93 
was  awarded  a  Mortimer 
Hays-Brandeis  Traveling 
Fellowship  to  survey  public 
arts  projects  in  Paris, 
Brussels,  Stockholm, 
Cologne  and  Vienna.  The 
one  year,  $12,000  fellowships 
are  awarded  to  three  students 
annually  from  10  different 
colleges  and  universities  for 
arts-related  graduate  work 


abroad.  In  addition  to 
Brandeis,  the  participating 
institutions  are  Boston 
University,  The  City  College 
of  New  York,  Columbia 
University,  Connecticut 
College,  Gallaudet 
University,  Harvard 
University,  Rochester 
Institute  of  Technology, 
Wesleyan  University  and 
Yale  University.  The 
fellowships  are  supported  by 
income  from  the  Mortimer 
and  Sara  Hays  Endowment 
Fund  at  Brandeis  and  provide 
support  for  travel  and  hving 
expenses  to  students  in 
visual  and  fine  arts, 
including  art  history, 
conservation,  studio  art  and 
photography. 


Radovic  '93  Wins 
Watson  TVaveling 
Fellowship 


A  Brandeis  senior  from  the 
war-torn  Republic  of  Croatia 
has  been  awarded  a  Thomas 
I.  Watson  Fellowship  for 
1993-94.  Niksa  Radovic,  a 
computer  science  major,  will 
use  the  $15,000  grant  to 
conduct  a  one-year  study  of 
parallel  computing  in 
Europe.  Radovic  has  been 
accepted  as  a  visiting 
researcher  at  institutes  in 
France,  Germany,  Greece, 
Scotland  and  Switzerland 
startmg  in  the  fall. 


Moral  and  Ethical 
Implications 
of  Health  Care 
Featured  at 
Fellows  Conference 


On  Friday  and  Saturday, 
October  15  and  16,  the 
Brandeis  University  Fellows 
will  sponsor  a  National 
Fellows  Conference  to  be 
held  m  conjunction  with 
Founders'  Day  weekend.  The 
general  theme  will  be 
"Health  Care  in  the  United 
States  and  its  Moral  and 
Ethical  Implications." 

The  conference  will  begin  on 
Friday  evening  with  a 
program  of  readings  from  the 
play  Miss  Evers'  Boys. 
written  by  David  Feldshuh, 
M.D.  These  readings  will  be 
follov.'ed  by  a  panel 
discussion  on  medical  ethics 
with  Feldshuh;  Arthur  L. 
Caplan  '71,  director  of  the 
Center  for  Biomedical  Ethics 
at  the  University  of 
Minnesota;  and  Denise 
Dianni,  producer  of  the 
"Nova"  show  based  on  the 
play.  Miss  Evers'  Boys  refers 
to  the  controversial 
"Tuskegee  Study  of 
Untreated  Syphilis  in  the 
Negro  Male,"  in  which 
treatment  of  the  afflicted 


Radovic,  a  Wien 
International  Scholar,  has 
been  fascinated  with  new 
developments  in  parallel 
computing  since  he  began 
taking  courses  in  computer 
science  under  the  guidance  of 
Professor  Jacques  Cohen. 
After  his  Watson  year, 
Radovic  plans  to  pursue  a 
doctorate  in  computer 
science,  focusing  on  the  field 
of  computer  simulations.  But 
first,  he  said,  he  will  return 
to  Croatia  to  use  what  he  has 
learned  to  help  rebuild  his 
country. 


men  was  withheld  after  the 
discovery  of  penicillin  so 
that  the  ravages  of  the 
untreated  disease  could  be 
observed.  That  scientific 
curiosity  about  the  effects  of 
untreated  syphilis 
completely  outweighed  the 
moral  question  of  the 
suffering  and  disease  the 
study  caused  the  patients 
sets  the  tone  of  the 
conference. 

A  symposium  featuring 
Brandeis  President  Dr. 
Samuel  O.  Thier;  Dr.  Stanley 
Wallack,  director  of  the 
Institute  for  Health  Policy  at 
The  Heller  School;  and  Dr. 
Deborah  A.  Stone,  the  David 
R.  Pokross  Professor  of  Law 
and  Social  Policy  at  The 
Heller  School,  will  take  place 
Saturday  afternoon.  The 
topic  will  be  the  ethical  and 
moral  aspects  of  treatment  of 
the  ill  and  the  elderly, 
particularly  in  the  last  year 
of  life  and  in  light  of 
proposed  health  care  reforms 
and  cutbacks  in 
expenditures. 

On  Saturday  evening,  the 
traditional  Founders'  Day 
dinner  will  be  held.  At  the 
cocktail  reception  a  Fellow's 
hooding  ceremony  will  take 
place,  along  with  the 
presentation  of  several 
alumni  awards.  Alumni 
Achievement  Awards  will  be 
presented  at  the  dinner. 

Inner  Family  members, 
Justice  Brandeis  Society 
members  and  alumni  and 
National  Women's 
Committee  leadership  will 
receive  a  formal  invitation 
in  September.  Any 
others  wishing  to  attend 
this  conference  or  the 
Saturday  dinner,  please 
call  617-736-4145  for 
information. 


Niksa  Radovic 


5  Summer  1993 


Sports  Notes 


Lemberg  Program 
Hosts  Conference 


Massachusetts  Governor 
William  Weld  (left)  and  U.S. 
Representative  Edward 
Markey  (D-Mass.)  joined  top 
business  leaders  and 
economists  for  a  major 
conference  on  campus  on 
government,  international 
competition  and  emerging 
markets  for  New  England 
businesses  sponsored  by  the 
Lemberg  Program  in 
International  Economics  and 
Finance  and  Babson 
College.  Shown  here  is 
Governor  Weld  addressing 
the  conference 


New  Israeli 
Ambassador  Visits 
Brandeis 


Israeli  Ambassador  to  the 
United  States  Itamar 
Rabinovich  spoke  at 
Brandeis  in  March. 
Rabinovich  is  head  of  the 
Israeli  delegation  for  peace 
talks  with  Syria  and  his  visit 
to  campus  marked  the  first 
speech  he  had  made  at  an 
American  university  since 
his  appointment  as 
ambassador 


Brandeis  Athletes  Win 
Awards 

The  winners  of  the  1992-93 
athletic  awards  were  honored 
at  the  Athletic  Recognition 
and  Awards  Banquet  held  in 
May.  A  pair  of  versatile 
senior  athletes,  Rob  Bilsbury 
and  Lynne  Dempsey,  topped 
the  list  of  year-end  athletic 
award  winners  at  Brandeis. 

Dempsey  won  the  Max 
Silber  Award  presented  each 
year  to  the  outstanding 
female  student-athlete.  She 
was  captain  of  three  sports, 
soccer,  basketball  and 
Softball,  and  was  the  only 
female  athlete  to  play  three 
distinctly  different  varsity 
sports.  Dempsey  played  four 
years  of  soccer  and  basketball 
and  three  years  of  Softball. 
She  was  a  New  England 
Women's  Eight  (NEW  8)  all- 
star  and  a  UAA  all-star  in 
soccer  as  a  senior.  Dempsey 
was  a  four-year  starter  in 
soccer  and  a  three-year 
starter  in  softball.  In 
basketball,  she  was  the 
team's  top  guard  off  of  the 
bench  in  her  first  three  years 
and  then  a  starter  in  the  first 
four  games  of  her  senior  year, 
prior  to  a  season-ending 
injury.  She  was  MVP  of  the 
soccer  team  as  a  senior, 
voted  most  dedicated  as  a 
junior  and  most  improved  as 
a  sophomore.  As  a 
sophomore,  she  led  the 
soccer  team  to  a  school 
record  16  wins  and  the  NEW 
8  title  and  played  on  three 
NEW  8  championship  teams 
in  basketball.  As  a  junior,  she 
led  the  basketball  team  to  a 
school  record  21  wins  and 
first-ever  ECAC  tourney. 

Rob  Bilsbury  won  the  Harry, 
loseph  and  Ida  Stein 
Memorial  Award,  presented 
annually  to  the  outstanding 
male  student-athlete. 
Bilsbury  captained  both  the 
soccer  and  tennis  teams.  He 
was  a  four-year  member  of 
both  teams  and  a  three-year 
starter  in  goal  for  the  soccer 
team.  He  was  a  four-year 


starter  in  tennis  and  was  a 
UAA  all-star  in  both  sports. 
He  was  selected  to  play  in 
the  Senior  Soccer  Bowl  all- 
star  game  and  led  the  team  to 
a  pair  of  ECAC  Division  III 
tourney  berths  in  the  last 
three  years. 

Jason  Bessett,  a  four-year 
varsity  member  of  the 
baseball  team,  won  the 
Morris  J.  Sepinuck 
Sportsmanship  Award.  This 
is  presented  annually  to  a 
senior  athlete  who  makes  a 
significant  contribution  to 
the  athletic  program  and  to 
campus  life.  Bessett  was  a 
four-year  member  of  the 
varsity  baseball  team  and  a 
work  study  student  for  the 
athletic  department  in  the 
equipment  room  for  four 
years.  He  also  worked  the  45- 
second  shot  clock  at  the 
men's  and  women's  varsity 
basketball  games.  In 
addition,  he  was  the  top 
student  assistant  to  the 
facilities  manager  at  the 
Gosman  Sports  and 
Convocation  Center. 

Karen  Chambers  was  the 
winner  of  the  Charles  Napoli 
Scholar- Athlete  Award, 
presented  annually  to  the  top 
scholar-athlete.  Two-year 
captain  of  both  the  volleyball 
and  Softball  teams,  she  was  a 
four-year  starter  in  each 
sport.  She  was  honored  as  a 
NEW  8  all-star  in  volleyball 
twice  and  was  selected  to 
play  in  the  Senior  Volleyball 
Classic.  In  softball,  she  led 
Brandeis  to  the  NEW  8 
championship. 

Steve  Fletcher  won  the 
Markson  Award,  given  to  the 
athlete  with  the  highest 
grade  point  average  in  the 
humanities.  Fletcher  was  the 
number-one  golfer  for  four 


6  Brandeis  Review 


Left  to  right.  Steve  Fletcher. 
Lynne  Dempsey.  Karen 
Chambers.  Jason  Bessett  and 
Rob  Bilsbury 


years.  He  won  the  UAA 
individual  title  as  a  freshman 
and  was  in  the  top  15  the 
other  years.  He  also  won  the 
Little  Four  individual  title 
the  past  three  years  and 
never  missed  a  meet  or  a 
practice. 

The  Jim  McCully  Award  is 
presented  annually  to  a 
student-athlete  who  best 


Obituary 


With  the  death  of  writer, 
editor  and  literary  critic 
Irving  Howe,  the  country  lost 
one  of  Its  most  engaging 
minds.  For  nearly  50  years, 
Howe  promoted  a  unique 
version  of  democratic 
socialism,  which  often  put 
him  at  odds  with  people  on 
both  the  right  and  the  left  of 
the  political  spectrum. 
Among  his  many  books  was 
World  of  Our  Fathers,  a 
National  Book  Award- 
winning  account  of  East 
European  immigration  in  the 
United  States. 


exemplifies  the  character, 
dedication  and  good 
sportsmanship  of  McCully's 
All-American  soccer  career. 
This  year  it  was  awarded  to 
cowinners,  Bilsbur>'  and 
Amy  Sullivan.  Sullivan  was  a 
four-year  starter  at  guard  on 
the  women's  basketball  team 
and  also  was  a  three-year 
starter  in  softball.  She  was  a 
UAA  all-star  and  NEW  8  all- 
star  in  basketball  and  a  major 
contributor  to  both  team's 
successes. 


Howe  served  for  many  years 
as  a  distinguished  professor 
of  English  at  the  City 
University  of  New  York  but 
began  his  academic  career  in 
the  English  department  at 
Brandeis,  where  he  was  a 
faculty  member  from  1953  to 
1961.  During  his  years  at 
Brandeis  he  helped  to  found 
the  ioumal  Dissent,  which 
he  edited  for  nearly  four 
decades. 


National  Women's 
Committee  Elects 
First  Alum  as 
President 


Belle  lurkowitz  '55  of  Miami 
Beach  was  elected  president 
of  the  Brandeis  University 
National  Women's 
Committee  at  the 
organization's  45th  Annual 
National  Conference,  held 
on  campus  this  past  fune. 
She  is  the  first  alumna  to 
head  the  Women's 
Committee,  which  was 
established  in  1948  to 
support  the  Brandeis 
Libraries. 

More  than  200  National 
Women's  Committee  leaders 
came  from  all  over  the 
countiy  to  the  Conference, 
where  outgoing  president 
Marsha  Stoller  presented  a 
gift  of  $2,91 1,887  to  the 
University  on  behalf  of  the 
Women's  Committee. 

At  the  Conference  Letty 
Cottin  Pogrebin  '59  was 
awarded  the  Abram  L.  Sachar 
Medallion  for  her 
outstanding  contributions  to 
public  education  and 
awareness,  and  a  panel  of 
distinguished  alumni 
discussed  higher  education  in 
the  21st  century.  Pogrebin  is 
the  founding  editor  of  Ms. 
magazine  and  cofounder  of 
the  National  Women's 
Political  Caucus.  Panel 
participants  included 
President  Samuel  O.  Thier, 
moderator;  Paula  Apsell  '69, 
executive  producer  of  the 
Public  Television  series 
"NOVA"  at  WGBH-TV, 
Boston;  Andrew  Billingsley 
'64,  professor  of  family  and 
community  development. 
University  of  Maryland;  and 
Arthur  Levine  '70,  chairman 
of  the  Institute  for 
Educational  Management, 
the  Harvard  Graduate  School 
of  Education. 

lurkowitz  has  been  active  in 
the  Women's  Committee 
since  joining  as  a  student  and 
in  the  Alumni  Association 
since  the  1960s.  She  followed 
in  her  mother's  footsteps  as 
one  of  the  first  presidents  of 
the  Scranton,  Pennsylvania, 
Chapter  of  the  Women's 


Newly-elected  Brandeis 
University  National 
Women 's  Committee 
President  Belle  fmkowitz 
'55,  right,  visits  with  Letty 
Cottin  Pogrebin  '59,  winner 
of  the  Women's  Committee's 
Abiam  L.  Sachar  Medallion, 
at  the  organization's  45th 
Annual  National  Conference 
on  campus 


Committee  and  later  served 
as  president  of  the  Miami 
Beach  Chapter  when  she 
moved  to  Florida.  A  Fellow 
of  the  University,  she  has 
also  been  a  member-at-large 
of  the  National  Alumni 
Association  Board  of 
Directors  and  served  for  10 
years  as  regional  chair  of  the 
Alumni  Advisory  Council. 

Serving  most  recently  as 
national  chair  of  new 
membership,  she  has 
maintained  the 
organization's  level  of 
membership  during  a  period 
when  the  memberships  of 
similar  groups  have  suffered 
significant  declines.  She  was 
also  instrumental  in 
persuading  the  Women's 
Committee  to  change  its 
bylaws  so  that  men  could  be 
accepted  into  the 
organization. 


7  Summer  1993 


Graduates  Keep  Their    Commencement 
"Eyes  on  the  Prize"  Number  42 


when  honorary  degree 
recipient  Henry  Hampton 
talks  about  his  documentary, 
"Eyes  on  the  Prize,"  he  is 
referring  of  course  to  the 
goals  of  the  civil  rights 
movement.  But  the  title  is  so 
irresistable,  so  full  of 
resonance,  that  it  has  entered 
the  language  as  an 
expressive  idiom.  We  hope 


Mr.  Hampton  doesn't  mind 
our  appropriating  it  for 
Commencement  Day  as  a 
means  of  describing  the 
ambitions  and  hopes  of  our 
graduates. 

After  four  years  of  hard  work, 
933  seniors  and  graduate 
students  came  with  high 
expectations.  The  day  was  all 
that  the  Class  of  1993  hoped 
it  would  be,  with  blue  skies, 
warm  weather  and  a  crowd 


of  thousands  celebrating  its 
achievements  in  the  Gosman 
Sports  and  Convocation 
Center. 

As  the  ceremony  ended  the 
graduates  possessed  the 
cherished  diploma,  the  prize 
that  can  never  be  taken 
away. 


(above)  Mailinda  McPhail, 
a  Martin  Luther  King 
Scholar  from  Hattiesburg, 
Mississippi,  delivering  the 
senior  address 


(below  left)  Left  to  right. 
Pich  Hoiit  '93  with  friends 
Kitty  Dukakis  and  former 
governor  of  Massachusetts 
Michael  Dukakis 


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ibelow)  Left  to  right.  Krister 
Stendahl,  Myra  and  Robert 
Kraft  and  Jacob  Hiatt 
Distinguished  Professor  of 
Christian  Studies,  with 
honorary  degree  recipients 
Derek  Bok  and  Max  M. 
Kampelman 


(right)  Honorary  degree 
recipient  Sheldon  Wolff, 
M.D..  right,  talks  with 
President  Samuel  O.  Thier. 
left,  at  the  Fellow's  Dinner 
Saturday  night 


9  Summer  1993 


Lois  Greenfield,  a  world-renowned 
artist,  insists  she  is  not  a 
dance  photographer.  Her  subject 
is  movement  and  dance  is  her 
landscape.  Abandoning 
choreography  for  improvisation,  the 
dancers  become  raw  material  for 
her  own  aesthetic  preoccupations. 


Breaking     Bounds 


by  Lois  Greenfield  70 


1 0  Brandeis  Review 


Greenfield  works  exclusively  in  her 
studio  with  an  electronic  flash  that 
allows  her  to  capture  the  elegance 
and  power  of  the  body  in  flight. 
The  movements  she  captures  may 
look  impossible,  but  are  really 
"simple  snapshots."  There  is  no 
technical  manipulation  either  in 
taking  or  printing  the  photographs. 


Breaking  Bounds:  The  Dance 
Photography  of  Lois  Greenfield  by 
William  A.  Ewing,  a  book  featuring 
87  of  her  duotones,  captures 
the  explosive  energy  of  dancers 
In  motion.  Shown  here  and 
on  the  covers  are  nine  images  from 
that  publication. 


11  Summer  1993 


For  nearly  20  years 
Greenfield  has  been 
photographing  dance  for  the 
Village  Voice.  Her  work  has 
appeared  In  Elle,  Esquire, 
Mademoiselle,  Rolling 
Stone,  Newsweek,  Time, 
Vanity  Fair,  Vogue  and  other 
magazines,  and  has  been 
exhibited  throughout  the 
world.  She  also  works  on 


commercial  assignments 
and  counts  Kodak.  Cutty 
Sark  Liquor.  Walt  Disney 
and  others  among  her 
clients.  At  Brandeis  she 
majored  in  anthropology,  but 
took  all  the  filmmaking 
courses  she  could.  She  lives 
In  New  York  with  her 
husband,  Stuart  Llebman 
70,  and  her  two  sons. 


Lois  Greenfield,  self-portrait 


13  Summer  1993 


1. 


Faust 


Bringing  Images 
Full  Circle 

By  Charles  Berliner,  M.F.A.  71 


Shown  here,  spanning  20 
years  of  my  career,  are 
sketches  and  photographs 
from  three  productions 
and  a  project  that  has  yet 
to  be  produced.  First, 
costumes  for  the  theater 
arts  department's  mime 
version  of  Faust,  created 
when  I  was  a  graduate 
student  at  Brandels 


(1971);  second,  costumes 
and  scenery  for  lonesco's 
Exit  the  King,  the 
Cleveland  Play  House 
(1988);  third,  costumes 
for  A  Flea  in  Her  Ear  by 
Georges  Feydeau, 
currently  In  repertory 
through  the  end  of 
October,  Oregon 
Shakespeare  Festival, 


Ashland;  and  fourth, 
costumes  and  scenery  for 
a  visual  scenario  I  call 
Perform  Project  for  the 
future,  in  collaboration 
with  choreographer  Rudy 
Perez  and  composer 
Daniel  Lentz.  The  source 
of  inspiration  for  this 
performance  event  was 
the  Faust  that  I  worked  on 


as  a  graduate  student  at 
Brandels,  bringing  my 
ideas  full  circle.  Unlike  the 
mediums  of  film  and 
television  that  have  a 
repetitive  life,  the  world  of 
theater  can  continue  to 
exist  only  In  photographs, 
sketches  and  the  memory 
of  people  who  witnessed 
the  performance. 


Mephistopheles,  the 
puppeteer,  with 
Gluttony  and  Pride 
(original  sketches) 


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From  Director 
Kenyon  Martin's 
1971  production 
of  Faust  at  Brandeis: 
costumes  for 
(top  to  bottom) 
Gluttony,  Greed, 
Envy  and  Sloth 


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unless  otherwise  noted, 
photographs  ot  sketches  and 
black  and  white  transfers  are 
by  Black  and  Color  Photo  Lab, 
Hollywood 


15  Summer  1993 


Exit  the  King 


The  walls  of  the  set  were 
26  feet  high  at  the  point 
closest  to  the  opening  of 
the  proscenium;  the  width 
of  the  stage  opening  was 
44  feet.  The  stage 
directions  have 


everything  disappearing 
at  the  end  except  for  the 
king's  center  throne. 
There  is  something 
thrilling  and  frightening 
about  being  responsible 
for  a  kingdom  that  self- 
destructs  on  cue 


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Photo  of  a  painting 
of  the  stage  design 
for  Exit  the  King 
(from  the  cover  of 
Theater  Design  and 
Technology,  Spring 
1988) 


Although  the 
painting  changed 
slightly  In 
actual  execution 
on  the  stage,  the 
larger-than-life 
quality  remained 


In  response  to 
Director  Will  Rhys's 
request  that  the 
characters  and 
environment  appear 
to  be  from  a 
surrealist  painting  in 
operatic  scale,  I 
created  the  acrylic 


painting  to  begin 
the  design  process. 
The  painting 
was  exhibited  at 
the  Milwaukee  Art 
Museum's 
Contemporary 
American  Stage 
Design  exhibit  (1987) 


1 6  Brandeis  Review 


A  Flea  in  Her  Ear 


The  evocation  of  a 
particular  historical  period 
will  In  some  way  reflect 
current  visual  sensibilities 
regardless  of  how  hard 
one  tries  to  be  historically 
accurate.  So  why  not, 
especially  in  farce,  just 
have  fun. 


The  designer  often 
attempts  to 
convey  through  the 
costume  sketch 
a  sense  or  illusion 
of  movement 


The  flurry  of  chiffon 
and  exaggeration 
of  period  detail  help 
to  support  the 
agitation  expressed 
by  Fredi  Olster  as 


Raymonde.  Her 
suspicions  have 
been  awakened,  or 
to  paraphrase 
the  French,  she  has 
a  flea  In  her  ear 


Robynn  Rodriquez, 
Ray  Porter,  Fredi 
Olster,  Dennis  Smith 
and  Dan  Kremer  as 
domestic  staff, 
family  and  friends 
expressing 
Feydeau's 
first  commandment: 
"When  two 
of  my  characters 
should  under 
no  circumstances 
encounter  one 
another,  I  throw 
them  together  as 
quickly  as  possible" 


17  Summer  1993 


Perform  Project 


My  paintings  are 
from  a  series,  "Inner 
Images,"  which 
create  stage 
pictures.  Two  from 
the  series  are 
"Encounter  #9"  and 
"Encounter  #2,"  as 
envisioned  in 
Perform  Project 


Perform  Project 
is  an  investigation 
of  artistic  form, 
expressed  through 
figurative  and 
literal  projection 
of  the  graphic, 
choreographic  and 
musical 


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Charles  Berliner.  M.F.A.  '71. 
has  done  costume  and 
stage  design  for  theater, 
film,  television  and  dance. 
He  has  also  taught  theatrical 
design.  For  10  years,  he 
was  the  resident  costume 
and  scenery  designer  for  the 
University  of  California  at 
Los  Angeles  dance 
department,  as  well  as  guest 
artist/lecturer  at  the 
professional  theater  program 
at  the  University  of  Delaware 


and  theater  arts  department 
at  San  Francisco  State 
University,  where  he 
received  his  B.A.  In  the  fall 
of  1979,  courtesy  of  the 
Martin  Weiner  Distinguished 
Lecturer  Fund,  he  returned 
to  Brandeis  with  an 
illustrated  lecture  reviewing 
his  work  covering  the 
decade  following  the 
commencement  of  his  study 
at  Brandeis.  As  western 
regional  representative  of 


One  movement  will 
explore  the  graptilc, 
choreographic  and 
musical 

relationships  of  four 
distinct  characters 


Another  movement 
will  focus  on  the 
compositional 
complexity  of 
building  new 
relationships 


Berliner  checks  a  costume  for 
Debra  Funkhouser  as 
Antionette  at  a  first  fitting  for 
A  Flea  In  Her  Ear 


the  United  Scenic  Artists 
Local  829.  the  union 
representing  theatrical 
designers  in  the  United 
States,  he  has  participated 
in  various  negotiations  and 
activities  for  the 
improvement  of  conditions 
for  members  of  the  theatrical 
design  profession. 

He  received  a  Design  Arts 

Fellowship  from  the  National 
Endowment  of  the  Arts,  and 


his  theatrical  designs  have 
been  included  in  national 
and  international  exhibitions. 
He  has  recently  completed 
the  manuscripts  of  three 
illustrated  books  for  children: 
Believe  You  Me.  A  Colorful 
Color  and  I  Want  Much  More 
Than  a  Dinosaur;  as  well  as 
a  nonfiction  illustrated 
manuscript.  Inner  Images 
Unknown:  A  Theatrical 
Designer's  Visualizations. 


19  Summer  1993 


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The  Devil's 


"I  am  a  fairly  new  Jew-by- 
choice.  This  magazine  has 
been  a  true  blessing  in 
my  life.  It  has  given  me  the 
confidence  to  do  things 
that  I  would  not  have 
dared  to  do  on  my  own." 


by  Brenda  Marder 


20  Brandeis  Review 


A  pacesetter  in  the  world  of  Jewish 
feminism?  An  agent  for  change  in 
Jewish  hfe?  A  mirror  of  how  things 
stand?  An  agitator  stirring  up 
dissension?  Yes,  to  all  of  those 
questions.  Just  read  the  letters  to 
the  editor  and  the  prime  coverage 
the  editor  in  chief  receives  from  the 
national  media  to  measure  the 
impact  of  this  plucky  organization. 

No  weak  sister  among  the 
outspoken  media  of  the  day,  Lilith 
speaks  its  mind  about  the  most 
divisive,  repugnant  and  explosive 
issues  while  maintaming  a  steady, 
modulated  pitch.  Such  problems  as 
incest  in  Holocaust  survivor 
families,  AIDS  in  the  Jewish 
community  or  lesbian  weddings, 
matters  that  the  fainthearted  would 
prefer  to  see  closeted,  are  aired  with 
a  disarming  fort  brightness.  Clearly 


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"It  has  been  a  revelation 
to  me  to  find  many  of 
my  thoughts  and  concerns 
in  print.  It  has  been 
difficult  enough  to  be 
Jewish,  but  to  be  a  Jewish 
feminist  woman  often 
lends  itself  to  paradox." 


"I  have  found  a  place 
where  I,  as  a 
Jewish  woman,  can 
cooperate  with 
other  Jewish  women.' 


"The  diversity, 
honesty,  ingenuity  and 
passion  of  the 
work  collected  in 
these  issues  impressed 
and  moved  me. 
Even  your  advertising 
is  provocative  and 
suggests  to  me,  as  a 


new  reader,  a  world  of 
Jewish  feminism 
I  am  deeply  gratified  to 
know  of." 

quotes  from  letters-to-the- 
editor,  Lilith 


"the  independent  Jewish  women's 
magazine,"  as  declared  on  its 
banner,  is  exerting  a  fair  share  of 
influence  not  only  among  feminists 
but  also  on  society  at  large  by 
setting  the  agendas  and  framing  the 
issues  that  are  crucial  to  feminists. 

That  the  founders  chose  as  their 
symbol  the  courageous  and  fiercely 
independent  progenitor  Lilith — a 
woman  willing  to  defy  God  and 
man  to  defend  her  freedom — speaks 
volumes.  What  better  role  model  for 
women  who,  as  they  enter  a  new 
millennium,  feel  keenly  the  politics 
of  exclusion,  a  marginality  they 
trace  all  the  way  back  to  the 
creation,  and  anticipate  the  heady 
possibilities  for  change  in  Jewish 
life. 


A  major  editorial  force  since  the 
founding  of  the  periodical,  Susan 
Weidman  Schneider  '65  betrays  a 
touch  of  Lilith  as  she  takes  on 
subjects  that  were  only  a  few  years 
ago  taboo  in  the  Jewish  community 
and  that  still  raise  hackles  in  the 
more  conventional  sectors  of  Jewish 
life.  An  articulate,  incisive,  even- 
toned  speaker  who  appears  in 
forums  throughout  the  country  to 
discuss  women's  issues,  she  sets  the 
tenor  of  the  periodical.  "I  don't 
believe  that  anger  is  a  useful  tool," 
she  says  levelly.  Brandeis  Professor 
of  Sociology  and  Director  of  the 
Women's  Studies  Program  Shulamit 
Reinharz,  M.A.  '66,  Ph.D.  '77  says 
Schneider  "is  one  of  the  many 
feminist  Brandeis  alumnae  who 
have  done  what  many  of  our  current 
students  say  they  want  to  do  when 
they  graduate — work  for  change." 


Critics  who  charge  the  feminist 
movement  with  the  "hell-hath-no- 
fury-like-a-woman-scomed" 
opprobrium,  will  find  no  hot-headed 
target  here.  Schneider  keeps  her 
balance,  but  argues  her  position 
skillfully  and  thoughtfully  as  issues 
of  abortion,  anti-Semitism, 
women's  leadership  role  in  religion, 
Jewish  law  and  divorce,  and 
homosexuals'  religious  rights  swirl 
about  her.  In  fact,  as  editor  in  chief 
of  the  only  nonprofit  independent 
Jewish  women's  magazine  in  the 
country,  she  and  the  other  members 
of  the  magazine's  activist  editorial 
staff  serve  as  a  nerve  center  for  some 
of  the  key  social  issues  of  the  day. 
Lilith  "speaks  very  frequently  for 
Jewish  women  in  the  general 
women's  movement,"  claims 


21  Summer  1993 


Lilith:  Eve's 
Legendary  Predecessor 


The  namesake  for  the 
magazine  is  Lilith,  the 
legendary  predecessor  of 
Eve,  who  insisted  on 
equality  with  Adam. 

The  legend,  taken  from 
"Alphabet  of  Ben  Sira, "  Is 
one  of  the  most 
complicated  and 
sophisticated  of  Hebrew 
stories  written  in  the  early 
Middle  Ages  but  based  on 
a  myth  that  goes  back  to 
pre-lsrael  times.  Scholars 
believe  the  author  did  not 
belong  to  any  organized 
group  but  merely  wanted 
to  satirize  the  institutions 
of  organized  religion  of  his 
day. 

The  story  goes  as  follows: 
After  the  Holy  One  created 
the  first  human  being, 
Adam.  He  said:  "It  Is  not 


Schneider.  "While  issues  affecting 
Jewish  women  are  often  the  same  as 
those  affecting  all  women,  Jewish 
women  have  special  concerns,"  she 
claims. 

When  Schneider  made  the  voyage 
from  Winnipeg  to  Waltham  in  1961, 
she  changed  planets,  moving  from 
the  Victorian-like  world  of  her 
Anglophile,  public  school  in  Canada 
to  the  superheated  cosmos  of  the 
Brandeis  campus  during  the 
Vietnam  War.  To  make  a  proper 
arrival,  she  was  dressed  primly  in 
pumps  and  carried  a  handbag, 
comme  il  faut  for  Canadian  girls  in 
her  social  circle,  but  she  speedily 
adapted  to  the  turtleneck  sweater, 
the  campus  uniform.  Due  to  her 
upbringing,  temperament  and 


good  for  Adam  to  be 
alone."  He  created  a 
woman,  also  from  the 
earth,  and  called  her  Lilith. 

They  quarreled 
Immediately.  She  said:  "I 
will  not  lie  below  you."  He 
said,  "I  will  not  lie  below 
you,  but  above  you." 

She  responded:  "We  are 
both  equal  because  we 
both  come  from  the 
earth." 

When  Lilith  realized  that 
Adam  was  being 
intractable,  she 
pronounced  the  ineffable 
name  of  God  and  flew  off 
into  the  air. 

Adam  rose  in  prayer 
before  the  Creator,  saying, 
"The  woman  you  gave  me 
has  fled  from  me." 
Immediately  the  Holy  One 
sent  three  angels  after  her. 


The  Holy  One  said  to 
Adam:  "If  she  wants  to 
return,  all  the  better.  If  not, 
she  will  have  to  accept 
that  one  hundred  of  her 
children  will  die  every 
day." 

The  Angels  went  after  her, 
finally  locating  her  in  the 
sea,  in  the  powerful  waters 
in  which  the  Egyptians 
were  destined  to  perish. 
They  told  her  what  God 
had  said,  and  she  did  not 
want  to  return." 

Later  Jewish  tradition 
characterized  Lilith  as  a 
demon.  The  demonic  Lilith 
came  to  overshadow  the 
original  independent  Lilith 
in  subsequent  legends. 


Canadian  citizenship,  she  never 
abandoned  her  sangfroid  to  leap 
headlong  into  the  hotbed  of 
American  college  activism. 

While  she  was  fascinated  by  the 
student  turmoil  and  political 
exuberance  of  the  Vietnam  period, 
she  stayed  aloof  from 
demonstrations.  "I  looked  on  the 
political  activity  with  excitement 
but  at  a  definite  remove."  Although 
she  makes  her  home  in  a  New  York 
City  suburb  with  her  American 
husband  (a  professor  of  medicine), 
she  says  she  still  is  not  totally 
Americanized,  and  is  sometimes 
criticized  for  being  "too  polite  to 
people  who  make  me  angry,"  a 
mannerism  that  stems  from  her 
upbringing.  Yet  the  ease  with  which 
she  handles  the  subjects  that  are  of 
burning  interest  to  American 
women,  and  the  feminist  flash 
words  that  are  so  fluently  at  her 
command,  mark  her  as  one  who 
lives  in  the  full-tide  of  American 
life. 

The  magazine  was  founded  in  1976 
through  the  collaboration  of  six 
women  editors  coming  from  widely 
diverse  backgrounds,  but  who  found 
common  ground  in  their  strong 
identification  in  two  powerful 
isms — feminism  and  Zionism. 
Schneider  asserts  it  is  run  as  a 
collective;  although  she  holds  the 
top  title  and  responsibility  for  its 
day-to-day  operation,  she  has  kept 
the  organizational  lines  horizontal, 
not  hierarchical.  Even  the  student 
interns,  some  of  whom  have  come 
from  Brandeis,  participate  in  the 
editorial  discussions. 

The  magazine  grew  out  of  a 
confluence  of  general  social 
influences,  Schneider  explains. 
"First,  the  burgeoning  ethnic 
consciousness  of  the  late  1960s  with 
such  concepts  as  black-is-beautiful 
prompted  Jews  too  to  think  about 
Jewish  as  beautiful."  The  mood  of 
the  times,  created  in  part  by  the 
1967  Six  Day  War  in  Israel, 
encouraged  Diaspora  Jews  to  feel 
and  express  their  ethnicity  with  an 
openness  and  excitement  that 
probably  had  never  before  been 
possible. 

"Second,  the  women's  movement, 
which  was  gathering  speed  in  the 
early  1970s,  gave  a  powerful 


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Schneider  strolls  on  campus  with 
her  daughter,  Rachel  Schneider  '95 


impetus  to  the  magazine,"  says 
Schneider.  "In  the  chorus  of 
advocates  who  took  up  various 
feminist  causes,  we  fek  a  need  to 
provide  a  medium  for  many  reasons: 
to  explore  options  that  women  were 
beginning  to  create  for  themselves 
in  male-dominated  Jewish 
communal  and  religious  life,  to  offer 
a  voice  for  Jewish  women  in  the 
general  women's  movement  and  to 
prod  Jewish  women's  organizations 
to  take  a  more  forceful  stand  on  a 
range  of  women's  issues." 

How  much  credit  can  Lilith  take  for 
the  sea  change  that  has  occurred  on 
the  stands  that  organizations  like 
Hadassah,  the  National  Council  of 
Jewish  Women  and  B'nai  B'rith 
Women  are  now  willing  to  take 
concerning  such  issues  as 
reproductive  choice,  religious  ritual, 
pay  equality,  child  care  and  images 
of  Jewish  women  in  the  popular 
media?  "I  don't  have  a  grandiose 
sense  that  the  magazine  played  the 
dominant  role  in  galvanizing  the 
organizations  to  become  more 
activist,  but  the  magazine  has 
challenged  them  to  change  in  a 
variety  of  areas,"  says  Schneider. 
Charles  Silberman,  author  of  the 
1985  book  A  Certain  People: 
American  Jews  and  Their  Lives 
Today,  claims  "the  magazine  plays 
an  enormous  role  in  helping  men 
and  women  think  through  the 
issues  raised  by  feminism  in  a 
Jewish  context." 

All  along  Lilith  has  been  the 
national  address  and  telephone 
number  for  Jewish  women's 
concerns  across  the  country.  For 
instance,  before  the  negative 
stereotyping  of  Jewish  women  as 
JAPs  became  recognized  by  the 
public  in  its  full  insidious 
dimensions,  Lilith  had  run  a  series 
of  articles  decrying  its  true  nature. 
In  fact  on  feminist  issues  that  are 
laced  with  anti-Semitic  overtones, 
like  the  JAP  epithet  and  the  right- 
wing  antiabortion  movement, 
Schneider  is  usually  among  the  first 
to  realize  their  infectious  sting  and 
to  take  her  opinions  to  the  national 
press.  Concerning  the  JAP  issue,  she 
called  Jewish  males  to  task  in  the 
boldest  terms  for  originating  the 
jibes  and  blamed  segments  of  the 


Jewish  community  for  hhndly 
furthering  and  toleratmg  the  vicious 
humor.  She  told  the  Jerusalem  Post 
that  "U.S.  Jewish  communities  are 
the  only  ones  in  the  country  that 
allow  its  women  to  be  so 
maligned."  Her  trenchant  remarks 
reported  by  The  New  York  Times, 
The  Philadelphia  Inquirer, 
Newsweek,  Seventeen  and  other 
media  were  instrumental  in  making 
the  public  aware  of  the  menace.  Her 
analysis  in  the  summer  1990  issue 
of  Lilith  and  elsewhere  of  the  anti- 
Jewish  innuendoes  concealed  in  the 
antiabortion  movement,  where  anti- 
choice  protesters  make  veiled  (and 
sometimes  overt)  accusations  that 
Jewish  doctors  are  baby  killers, 
makes  her  a  one-woman  anti- 
defamation  league. 

Schneider  derives  satisfaction  from 
the  knowledge  that  Lilith  reaches  so 
many  different  kinds  of  people.  "I 


.should  cmphasiZL-  that  the  magaznie 
often  attracts  women  who  are 
unaffiliated  with  Jewish 
organizations:  about  40  percent  of 
our  readers  do  nothing  else  Jewish 
when  they  first  read  the  magazine. 
It  wasn't  our  initial  goal  to  reach 
these  unconnected  individuals 
deliberately,  but  through 
happenstance,  simply  by  our 
existence,  we  have  been  drawing 
them  into  the  larger  community  of 
Jews,"  she  says.  Although  the 
readership  is  diverse  on  the 
extremes  of  its  spectrum,  the 
magazine's  demographics  are 
homogeneous  on  average,  and  reveal 
a  strikingly  upscale  audience.  The 
results  of  a  readership  survey 
completed  in  1991  indicate  that  the 
average  reader  is  a  well-read,  well- 
educated  woman:  she  holds  a 


23  Summer  1993 


An  aulhoi,  jouinalist  and 
lecturer,  Susan  Weidman 
Schneider  '65  cofounded 
Lilith  magazine  in  1976 
and  serves  as  editor  in 
chief.  She  has  written 
Jewish  and  Female: 
Choices  and  Changes  in 
Our  Lives  Today,- 
Intermarriage:  The 
Challenge  of  Living  with 
Differences  Between 
Christians  and  Jews;  and 
has  coauthored  Head  & 
Heart:  A  Woman's  Guide 
to  Financial 
Independence.  She  has 
also  written  book 
chapters  on  Jewish 
women  in  the  nuclear 
family.  Her  work  has 
been  featured  in  The  New 
York  Times,  Newsweek, 
The  Chicago  Tribune, 
L.A.  Times,  Newsday, 
The  Washington  Post, 
Ms.,  USA  Today  and 
other  periodicals.  She  has 
appeared  on  CNN, 
"Oprah  Winfrey, " 
"Donahue,"  "Good 
Morning  America"  and 
"Sally  Jessy  Raphael. " 


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Schneider  has 
participated  in  the 
American  Jewish 
Congress  Dialogue  in 
Jerusalem,  the  Jewish- 
Christian-Muslim 
Trialogue,  the  Women's 
Studies  Department 
Anniversary  Symposium 
at  Brandeis  University 
and  the  recent  conference 
at  Brandeis.  Developing 
Images:  Representations 
of  Jewish  Women  in 
American  Culture.  She  is 
a  member  of  the 
Commission  on  Women's 
Equality,  American 
Jewish  Congress;  the  Task 
Force  on  the  Role  of  the 
Jewish  Woman,  UJA/ 
Federation  of  New  York; 
the  American  Jewish 
Press  Association;  and  the 
American  Society  of 
Journalists  and  Authors; 
and  is  a  founding  board 
member  of  U.S. -Israel 
Women-to-Women,  a 
national  philanthropy 


established  to  fund 
women's  projects  in 
Israel. 

Schneider  lectures  and 
gives  presentations  each 
year  on  such  topics  as 
self-esteem  and  the 
Jewish  woman, 
intermarriage,  stereotypes 
and  the  Jewish  woman, 
family  issues  for  fewish 
professionals,  Jewish 
women  and  Jewish  men 
and  the  new  visions  of 
Jewish  women's 
philanthropy.  Her  work 
with  Lilith  has  received 
grants  and  recognition 
from  many  sources, 
including  the  Koret 
Foundation,  the  Lilly 
Endowment  and  the 
Nathan  Cummings 
Foundation. 


graduate  degree  (60  percent),  reads 
42  books  a  year,  is  between  25  and 
55  years  old  (75  percent)  and  is 
likely  to  be  married  (65  percent). 
Her  average  household  income  is 
over  $65,000.  Of  course,  readers  are 
not  all  women  and  include  a 
number  of  males,  many  of  whom 
are  rabbis,  scholars  and  community 
leaders. 

Just  how  diverse  Jewish  society 
actually  is  has  been  driven  home  to 
the  editorial  staff  through  the  years 
by  contact  with  its  audience,  a 
readership  that  now  includes  some 
25,000,  of  whom  6,500  are 
subscribers,  3,000  are  single-copy 
customers,  and  the  rest  readers  who 
receive  copies  passed  on  to  them  by 
others.  In  the  editorial  statement  in 
the  first  issue,  the  founders  stated 
that  they  themselves  wanted  to 
define  themselves,  and  not  accept 
the  limited  definition  of  Jewish 
women  that  others  had  laid  out  for 
them,  categories  that  did  not  allow 
for  the  vast  diversity  they  knew 
existed.  Schneider  mentions  that  in 
the  beginning  the  founders  kept 
huge  alphabetical  files  that  listed 
women  engaged  in  unconventional 
jobs  and  caught  up  in  unusual 
situations — women  in  jail,  women 
who  were  doctors  in  Eastern 
European  ghettos  before  and  during 
the  Holocaust,  women  in  the  Israeh 
army — "a  million  different  stories 
to  be  told." 

While  the  many  stories  that  Lilith 
has  told  in  the  past  few  years  may 
be  provocative  in  their  choice  of 
subject  matter  but  temperate  in 
tone,  it  was  not  always  so.  In  the 
early  years,  Schneider  typifies  its 
voice  as  "exhortatory."  A  good 
example  of  this  brand  of  writing  was 
one  set  of  articles  titled  "Vanguard 
or  Rear  Guard?,"  a  piece  on 
volunteers  in  the  Jewish 
community  whom  the  authors 
criticized  for  expending  their  efforts 
on  deciding  whether  they  ought  to 
serve  tuna  fish  or  egg  salad,  instead 
of  acting  to  promote  social  change. 
This  type  of  prescriptive  piece  lent 
to  the  magazine  a  more  militant 
posture. 

Today,  the  magazine,  although 
provocative,  does  not  read  like  a 
trumpet  call  to  the  trenches;  still 
when  Schneider  characterizes  it,  she 


24  Brandeis  Review 


draws  on  militant  metaphor.  "I  see 
the  magazine  as  providing 
ammunition  for  women's  battles  for 
equality.  Using  the  name  Lilith 
shows  that  we  have  a  hard  edge.  We 
don't  want  to  soft-pedal  change;  we 
want  to  make  change  possible  by 
diminishing  people's  resistance  to 
it."  Articles  in  the  winter  issue,  for 
instance,  dealing  with  the  feelings 
provoked  when  women  inherit  a  fur 
coat  from  a  mother  and  an 
insightful  in-depth  report  on  Jewish 
women's  philanthropy,  are  hardly 
the  stuff  of  combat.  Rather  they  are 
an  attempt  to  strike  a  variety  of 
chords  to  appeal  to  the  diverse 
readership. 

The  magazine's  lead  articles  often 
are  written  in  a  confessional  style, 
or  as  Schneider  calls  it,  "a  first- 
person  voice,"  to  get  across  the 
experience  of  an  individual  author,  a 
convention  that  can  be  off-putting 
to  readers  who  respect  an  expository 
or  journalistic  style.  At  the  heart  of 
this  first-person  approach  is  the 
outpouring  of  personal  problems 
that  can  embarrass  readers,  causing 
them  to  question  if  such  intimate 
details  deserve  to  be  broadcast,  or 
worse,  to  dismiss  them  as 
sensationalism.  Schneider  answers 
that  critique  in  a  couple  of  ways. 
Beyond  the  practical  matter  of 
commissioning  analytical  articles  is 
an  ideology  that  is  part  and  parcel  of 
feminism,  a  contribution,  says 
Schneider,  that  woman  have  made 
to  journalism:  the  belief  that  the 
personal  is  political.  "What  to  one 
reader  is  embarrassing  is  to  another 
reader  a  real  validation  of 
experience.  This  personal  detail 
becomes  a  click  of  recognition  when 
a  reader  says  to  herself  'Oh,  another 
person  has  had  the  same  experience 
I've  had.  I'm  not  alone.'  When 
enough  women  recognize  a 
common  response,  they  can 
provoke  authentic  and  positive 
social  change." 

She  offers  a  sobering  example  of 
when  the  personal  proved  to  be 
more  extensive  by  referring  to  the 
searing  article  Lilith  ran  on  incest  in 
Holocaust  families.  "We  first 
received  the  piece  from  a  well- 
known  journalist  who  told  us  that 


the  incest  survivor  had  approached 
her  with  the  written  article  and  a 
parallel  piece  that  described  how 
frustrated  she  was  when  she 
couldn't  get  anyone  in  the  Jewish 
community  to  believe  her.  We  then 
took  the  article  and  sent  it  around 
to  a  number  of  psychologists  and 
experts  who  counsel  children  of 
Holocaust  survivors.  Experts 
conoborated  the  story  and  the 
particular  became  more  general  as 
we  learned  of  other  adult  children 
with  similar  stories.  Bit  by  bit, 
services  and  support  groups  have 
formed  around  this  issue.  This  was 
not  a  story  we  treated  easily  or 
sensationally.  It  became  clear  to  us 
that  many  people  needed  to  speak 
out  about  this  painful  ordeal." 
Schneider's  grim  recital  offers 
insight  into  Lilith's  editorial 
process. 

Aiding  Schneider  in  shaping  the 
magazine  is  a  staff  that  she  praises 
amply.  Editor  Susan  Schnur,  a 
Reconstructionist  rabbi,  edits  much 
of  the  copy  and  deals  directly  with 
most  authors,  and  Brandeis  alum 
Alicia  Ostriker,  '59,  a  fine  poet,  is 
poetry  editor.  Add  Managing  Editor 
Naomi  Danis  and  Fiction  Editor 
Julia  Wolf  Mazow  and  you  have 
almost  the  whole  editorial  staff. 

Although  the  nonprofit  quarterly 
cannot  be  called  a  shoestring 
operation,  the  editor  in  chief  admits 
there  are  always  cash  flow 
difficulties — the  earned  income 
covers  barely  a  third  of  the  annual 
budget,  which  is  about  $250,000. 
The  rest  comes  from  tax-deductible 
contributions  donated  by 
individuals  and  foundation  grants. 

Lilith's  clout  extends  beyond  its 
readership  through  the  many 
projects  it  always  has  in  progress. 
The  latest  study  by  Schneider  to 
come  to  fruition  is  called  "Jewish 
Women's  Philanthropy:  Does 
Money  Buy  Power?"  Initiated  by  a 
grant  from  the  Lilly  Endowment 
and  the  Sophia  Fund,  its  useful 
conclusions  have  recently  been 
reported  in  the  press  and  will  surely 
influence  the  way  women  are 
solicited  for  philanthropic  gifts.  The 
reasons  women  donate,  the  study 
shows,  are  markedly  different  from 
traditional  male  motivation,-  if 
organizations  want  to  tap  into  the 


wealth  that  many  American  women 
now  command,  they  will  need  to 
revamp  their  strategies  to  accord 
with  the  findings.  A  sampling  of 
other  studies  that  Lilith  has  carried 
out  in  partnership  with 
organizations  or  for  which  Lilith 
obtained  grants  are  "Women  on  the 
Way  Up:  The  Challenge  of  Family 
Career  and  Community," 
"Reaching  Out  to  Jewish  Women  on 
College  Campuses,"  "Choosing 
Jews:  The  Endogamous  Minority," 
"Changing  Realities  for  Jewish 
Women  Worldwide:  Israel,  Russia, 
Latin  America."  A  project  now  in 
progress,  the  National  Jewish 
Women's  Talent  Bank  and 
Information  Service,  designed  to 
develop  and  promote  a  listing  of 
Jewish  women  experts,  has  been 
initiated  with  a  grant  from  the 
Nathan  Cummings  Foundation. 

In  the  last  18  years,  a  turbulent 
period  for  publishing  during  which 
other  magazines  were  launched  only 
to  be  swamped  due  to  the  vagaries 
of  taste  and  the  economy,  or  were 
shunted  like  Ms.  from  one  owner  to 
the  other,  Lilith,  with  its  clearly- 
defined  niche,  has  weathered  the 
storm.  In  fact  since  U.S.  business  in 
general  has  shifted  its  emphasis  on 
bigness  to  smaller-niche  markets, 
Lilith  ought  to  be  well  positioned. 
Writers  such  as  Cynthia  Ozick, 
Grace  Paley,  Adrienne  Rich,  Leslea 
Newman,  Yael  Dayan  and  Harriet 
Goldhor  Lemer  have  graced  its 
pages,  offering  a  luster  of  prestige, 
and  its  editor's  public  exposure 
validates  its  claims  as  a  national 
force.  As  Brandeis  Assistant 
Professor  Sylvia  Barack  Fishman,  a 
scholar  of  Jewish  feminism,  says, 
"Because  Lilith's  interests  cross 
denominational  and  sociopolitical 
lines,  it  continues  to  be  a  valuable 
resource  for  Jewish  women  across 
the  country  and  its  popularity 
shows  no  signs  of  abating."  ■ 


25  Summer  1993 


I 


Americans     All 


Whether  your  image  of  the  golden  age 
of  Hollywood  is  first  run  (from  the  big 
screen)  or  second  hand  (from  the  "Late 
Late  Show"),  one  cast  of  characters  is 
liable  to  be  indelible.  Recite  the  roll  call: 
the  Iowa  farm  boy,  baby-faced  and 
idealistic,  with  no  girl  back  home  save 
his  mom;  an  older,  heftier  fellow — 
inevitably  nicknamed  "Pops" — exempt 
from  the  draft,  but  who  pulled  some 
strings  to  get  in  and  do  his  bit;  the 
Italian  kid  from  Jersey,  fancies  himself 
something  of  a  ladies'  man;  the  lanky, 
molasses-mouthed  sharpshooter  from 
south  of  the  Mason-Dixon  line;  the 
Jewish  guy  from  Brooklyn,  devoted  in 
equal  measure  to  Old  Glory  and  the 
Brooklyn  Dodgers;  and,  on  the  edges 


by  Thomas  Doherty 


of  the  group,  a  cynical  loner  of 
indeterminate  origin  and  suspicious 
past,  who,  to  the  surprise  of  no 
one,  will  die  heroically  in  the  final  reel. 

Few  Hollywood  cliches  are  more 
resonant  than  the  demographically 
apportioned,  ethnically  diverse 
ingredients  of  the  World  War  II  combat 
unit.  Film  buffs  have  a  name  for  it:  "the 
Warner  Brothers  platoon."  Gazed  at 
from  the  1990s,  the  calibrated 
quotioning  of  the  wartime  melting  pot 
seems  a  bit  overdone.  Yet  from  1941- 
1945  the  movies  played  more  than  a 
supporting  role  in  nurturing  the  civil 
rights  revolution  that  was  to  break  out 
in  the  postwar  era.  Spurred  on  by  the 
Office  of  War  Information  (OWI),  the 
Hollywood  studios  began  to  recognize 
categories  of  Americans  long  excluded 
from  celluloid  celebration. 


For  the  duration  of  "the  present 
emergency,"  the  nation's  long-standing 
wars  at  home  over  class,  ethnicity, 
religion  and  race  were  negotiated, 
curtailed  and  denied.  In  official 
government  posters  and 
proclamations,  "Americans  All"  closed 
ranks.  The  native  melting  pot,  a 
harmonious  blend  of  ethnic  flavors  and 
class  elements,  became  the  dominant 
motif.  The  rough  egalitarianism  of  the 
military  and  the  universality  of  the  draft 
made  the  depiction  credible;  the  need 
to  unify  a  pluralistic  and  contentious 
people  made  it  urgent.  That  the 
American  strength-in-heterogeneity 
was  an  instant  rebuff  to  Master  Race 
eugenics  lent  the  motif  resonance  and 


depth.  Of  course  the  hyphenated 
Americans  who  got  the  wittiest  lines, 
most  extended  screen  time  and  best 
odds  for  end-reel  survival  tended  to 
be  prominent  in  assimilationist  success 
and  domestic  box  office  influence — 
Irish,  Italians  and  Jews.  But  with  an 
inclusiveness  remarkable  for  its  time, 
more  exotic  and  heretofore  invisible 
peoples — Hispanics,  Asians,  Native 
Americans  and  blacks — appear, 
and  not  always  as  expendable  tokens. 

The  melting  pot  was  the  insistent 
theme  of  a  wholly  new,  quickly 
improvised  film  genre:  the  combat  film. 
Whether  on  ground  or  in  the  air,  in 
Hollywood  entertainment  or  War 
Department  documentary,  the  real 
champion  of  the  World  War  II  combat 
film  is  not  the  individual  but  the  team. 
In  films  such  as  Flying  Tigers.  Air  Force 


Thomas  Doherty  (inset  left 
and  cluster  on  page  26)  Is 
an  assistant  professor  In  thie 
American  studies 
department  at  Brandeis.  He 
previously  taught  at  Boston 
University  and  the  University 
of  Iowa.  Doherty  earned  his 
B.A.  from  Gonzaga 
University  and  received  a 
Ph.D.  In  American  studies 
from  the  University  of  Iowa. 
His  disciplines  Include 
American  film  and  American 
culture.  Doherty  is  the 
author  o^Teenagers  and 
Teenpics:  The  Juvenilization 
of  American  Movies  in  the 
1 950s  and  the  forthcoming 
Projections  of  War: 
Hollywood,  American 
Culture,  and  World  War  II. 


Ecumenical  buddies 
in  Pride  of  the  Marines 


27  Summer  1993 


Few  Hollywood  cliches  are  more 
resonant  than  the  demographically 
apportioned,  ethnically  diverse 
ingredients  of  the  World  War  II  combat 
unit.  Film  buffs  have  a  name  for 
it:  "the  Warner  Brothers  platoon." 


and  Guadalcanal  Diary,  the  showoff, 
the  loner  and  the  outlaw  accept  military 
discipline,  repress  personal  desires 
and  sign  on  for  choral  contribution  in 
the  service  of  the  nation.  Typical  of  the 
genre  is  Walter  Wanger's  Gung  Ho! 
(1943),  a  blustery  tribute  to  Colonel 
Evan  Carlson's  Makin  Island  Raiders. 
Utterly  venomous  toward  the  Japanese 
enemy,  it  purrs  good-naturedly  at  a 
menagerie  of  divergent  ethnicities  and 
sensibilities.  A  recruitment  sequence 
efficiently  introduces  the  calculated 
quotient  of  Irish  brogues  and  Southern 
drawls,  Mediterranean  flavors  and 
Yankee  airs.  Dedicated  to  expunging 
every  "Jap"  from  the  face  of  the  earth, 
the  ruthless  warriors  nonetheless 
function  as  a  model  of  OWI  tolerance. 
Since  the  commanding  officer 
(Randolph  Scott)  wants  men  who  fight 
with  the  precision  of  "a  harmonious 
machine,"  he  orders  his  soldiers  to 
"cast  out  all  prejudices — racial, 
religious,  and  every  other  kind."  The 
film  helped  make  its  title  part  of  the 
language,  but  in  1943  it  was  an 
injunction  to  "work  together"  as 
"Americans  All,"  not  a  cry  of  homicidal 
enthusiasm. 


So  wide  was  the  open-armed  embrace 
of  the  family  of  man  that  it  stretched 
beyond  American  borders.  Determined 
by  theater  of  operation  and  the  desire 
to  cement  Allied  unity,  offshore 
nationalities  were  wedged  into  the 
American  combat  team.  Latins, 
Chinese,  Russians  and  Filipinos  served 
alongside  Midwest  farmers  and 
Brooklyn  Dodger  fans.  Always,  the 
boys  from  the  plains  of  the  Midwest 
and  the  peasants  from  the  Russian 
steppes  discover  they  have  more  than 
anti-Fascism  in  common. 

Given  the  racist  cast  of  the  war  against 
Japan,  Asians  presented  a  special 
problem.  Because  slanted  eyes  might 
send  out  crossed  signals,  Hollywood 
taught  Americans  to  keep  their  yellow 
perils  straight.  Chinese  and  Chinese- 
Americans  were  distinguished  from 
Japanese  and  eventually  Japanese- 
Americans  were  distinguished  from 
Japanese  enemies.  Shortly  after  Pearl 
Harbor,  Life  magazine  ran  an 
instructional  spread  headlined  "How  to 
Tell  Japs  from  the  Chinese."  "U.S. 
citizens  have  been  demonstrating  a 
distressing  ignorance  on  the  delicate 


28  Brandeis  Review 


Hollywood  projected 
racial  pluralism  onto  a 
landscape  beyond  American 
borders  in  Casablanca 


question  of  how  to  tell  a  Chinese  from 
a  Jap,"  reported  the  photo  magazine  of 
record.  "To  dispel  some  of  the 
confusion"  and  having  adduced  a  "rule 
of  thumb  from  the  anthropometric 
conformations  that  distinguish  friendly 
Chinese  from  enemy  alien  Japs,"  Life 
printed  mug  shots  of  representative 
models  of  the  no-longer-look-alike 
races.  With  arrows  and  helpful  asides 
("higher  bridge"/"higher  nose"),  points 
on  the  proboscis  pitted  "the  rational 
calm  of  tolerant  realists"  against  the 
"humorless  intensity  of  ruthless 
mystics." 

The  screen  underscored  the  lessons  of 
Life.  In  Sam  Goldwyn's  Tfiey  Got  l\/le 
Covered  (1942),  Bob  Hope  dials  a 
phone  number  at  random  and  pretends 
to  report  a  kidnapping  to  the  FBI.  On 
the  other  end  of  the  line  is  a  grinning 
Chinese  who  babbles,  "I  no  kidnap 
nobody.  Only  wash  laundry.  FBI?  You 
want  Japanese — me  Chinese.  Hundred 
percent  American!"  In  Mr. 
Blabbermouth  (1942),  an  MGM- 
produced  Victory  film  attacking 
rumormongers,  an  Asian  chef 
alleviates  any  ethnic  doubts  by  wearing 
a  sign  on  his  hat  reading,  "I  am  a 
Chinese  American."  From  such  small 
favors,  the  OWI  took  great 
encouragement.  The  OWI's  Hollywood 
branch  cabled  Bureau  of  Motion 
Picture  chief  Lowell  Mellett  to  call  his 
attention  to  Dr.  Glllispie's  Criminal 
Case  (1943),  where  Dr.  Lee  (Keye 
Luke),  "a  young  Chinese  American,  is 
presented  simply  as  a  citizen,  (who  is) 
treated  no  different  from  and  who  has 
no  less  privilege  than  other 
Americans." 

The  anti-Japanese  melodrama  Blood 
on  the  Sun  (1945)  provided  a  trenchant 
lesson  in  cross-Asian  stereotyping. 
James  Cagney,  a  reporter  in  prewar 
Tokyo,  plays  a  totally  assimilated  and 
sensitized  gaijin.  He  knows  judo  and 
karate,  speaks  Japanese  fluently  and 
bathes  (albeit  in  his  own  tub)  in  the 
public  baths.  When  a  woman  is 
murdered  aboard  a  ship  anchored  in 
Tokyo  Bay,  Cagney  spies  a  sinister 
dragon  lady  exiting  the  crime  scene. 
The  suspect  woman  (Sylvia  Sidney)  is 
later  spotted  serving  tea  to  two 
Japanese  politicians.  "She's  of  mixed 
parentage?"  inquires  one.  His 
companion  nods  affirmatively.  "Her 
mother  was — "  "Chinese,"  interjects  the 
other.  Typing  the  Eurasian  character  as 
half  Chinese  not  only  establishes  her 


innocence  of  the  murder  but  illustrates 
how  the  face  of  the  alien  "Other"  has 
been  reformulated  without  being 
redesigned — a  lesson  taught  by  raising 
and  then  exorcising  the  specter  of  the 
Asian  dragon  lady.  When  she  and 
Cagney  fall  in  love,  she  says  the  match 
is  doomed  because  "I'm  half  Chinese." 
"So  what?"  rejoins  Cagney  with  a 
colorblind  casualness  unimaginable  a 
few  years  previous.  "I'm  half  Irish  and 
half  Norwegian."  The  features  of 
actress  Sylvia  Sidney,  Euro-  not  Asian, 
mitigates  the  miscegenation,  but  Blood 
on  the  Sun  assumes  distinctions  that 
were  once  a  blur  and  approves 
interminglings  that  were  once 
unthinkable. 

Unfortunately,  the  nation's  generous 
embrace  of  ethnic  difference  overseas 
was  not  extended  to  one  of  its  own. 
Decreed  on  February  19,  1942  by 
Executive  Order  9066,  the  forced 
internment  of  120,000  native 
Japanese-Americans  ana  resident 
Japanese  aliens  on  the  West  Coast 
punctured  the  high  ideals  of 
assimilationist  OWI  rhetoric.  Hollywood 
screen  credits  likewise  ignored  the 
distinctions  among  Asians  asserted  so 
forcefully  in  the  narratives:  Central 
Casting  prejudice  foreclosed  what 
should  have  been  boon  times  for 
Asian-American  actors.  The  few 
Japanese-American  actors  working  in 
Hollywood  were  soon  cast  elsewhere 
by  the  War  Relocation  Authority,  but 
even  before  internment  they  had 
refused  to  play  the  enemy  in  Secret 
Agent  of  Japan  (1 942).  A  trade 
reviewer  with  an  eye  for  verisimilitude 
complained:  "Some  of  the  'Japs'  used 
in  the  picture  look  like  fugitives  from  a 
Chinese  hand  laundry."  Another  trouble 
with  cross-racial  optometries,  as 
Behind  the  Rising  Sun  (1943)  director 
Edward  Dmytryk  later  cracked,  was 
that  "fake  eyelids  don't  come  cheap," 
Eschewing  laugh  lines,  the  trade 
weekly  l/arie/y  spilled  the  truth.  The 
reason  so  many  Caucasian  actors 
"impersonated  Japs"  in  Blood  on  the 
Sun  was  "the  idea  that  Orientals  don't 
make  good  actors." 

Nonetheless,  though  the  inside  track 
was  given  to  eyeline-adaptable 
occidentals  like  J.  Carrol  Naish  and 
Walter  Huston,  Asians  of  extractions 
other  than  Japanese  were  more  in 
demand  than  before.  Reluctant  initially 
to  pass  themselves  off  as  nationals  of  a 
land  despised  for  centuries  before 
1941,  Chinese-  and  Korean-Americans 
such  as  Richard  Loo  and  Philip  Ahn 
sacrificed  ethnic  pride  to  contribute  to 
the  war  effort  as  morale-enhancing 


Japanese  villains.  Loo,  typed  forever 
as  the  oily,  overconfident,  American- 
educated  Japanese  officer,  gave  a  face 
to  the  enemy  that  wartime  audiences, 
to  flash  back  one  war,  loved  to  hate.  As 
the  lying  prosecutor  in  The  Purple 
Heart  (1943),  the  smirking  diplomat  in 
Jack  London  (1943),  the  taunting  Zero 
pilot  in  God  Is  My  Co-P;/o/  (1 945)  and 
the  sadistic  camp  commandant  in  First 
Yank  Into  Tokyo  (1945),  he 
mispronounced  Japanese  and  spat  out 
comic  balloon  dialogue  in  Pidgin 
English.  "0-kay,  you  Yankee  Doodle 
Dandies,  come  and  get  it!  Where  are 
you  gangsters?  Come  on  up  and  get  a 
load  of  that  scrap  metal  you  sold  us!" 

The  battlefield  contributions  of  women 
to  the  war  effort — especially  as 
nurses — created  a  distaff  variation  on 
the  Warner  Brothers  platoon.  The  war's 
two  big-budget  female-centered 
combat  films.  So  Proudly  We  Hall! 
(1943)  and  Cry  "Havoc!" (^943),  share 
a  setting  (the  Philippines  in  the  dark 
days  of  1942)  and  a  plot  outline 
(nurses  under  fire).  Unlike  the  boys' 
club,  the  all-girl  squad  was  not  as 
concerned  with  absorbing  ethnic 
difference  as  in  unifying  divergent 
female  stereotypes — the  man-hungry 
gal,  the  world-weary  dame,  the 
sheltered  rich  girl,  the  corn-fed  sweetie 
and  the  mother  hen.  Where  the 
featured  protagonist  in  the  male 
combat  team  is  torn  between  self- 
assertion  and  group  contribution,  the 
featured  female  protagonist  wrestles 
with  the  conflict  between  duty  and 
romance.  Where  men  prove  their 
mettle  by  suppressing  aggressiveness 
and  independence,  women  prove  theirs 
by  doing  the  exact  opposite: 
suppressing  docility  and  calling  up 
reservoirs  of  strength  and  endurance. 
In  Cry  "Havocf  a  delicate  writer  reveals 
a  sturdy  backbone,  a  plucky  lady 
masters  aerial  gunnery  and  a  bubbly 
Southern  belle  turns  efficiently 
unladylike.  Meanwhile,  by  way  of 
gender  equipoise,  the  stern  and  steady 
matriarchs  expose  underbellies  of 
feminine  vulnerability  and  romantic 
yearning — in  So  Proudly  We  Hail! 
Claudette  Colbert  cracks  during  an 
aerial  attack  and  pledges  to  sacrifice  all 
for  love,  in  Cry  "/-/avoc.'"  Margaret 
Sullavan's  chilly  exterior  conceals  her 
passion  for  a  barely-glimpsed 
lieutenant,  secretly  her  beloved 
husband. 

The  sole  personal  prejudice  not  only 
tolerated  but  sanctioned  was  against 


29  Summer  1993 


During  the  war,  such  overseas 
theaters  of  operation  hosted  a  goodly 
share  of  integrationist  action.  In  the 
jungle,  the  desert  and  the  smoky 
interiors  of  Rick's  Cafe,  Hollywood 
projected  racial  pluralism  onto  a 
landscape  beyond  American  borders. 


the  unbeliever.  There  were  no  atheists 
in  Hollywood's  foxholes.  Divine 
copilots,  repentant  sinners  and  clumsy 
but  heartfelt  prayers  spread  the  word 
that  a  quiet  devotion  to  generic 
religiosity  infused  "Americans  All." 
Being  tighter  with  the  ecclesiastical 
production  code,  Roman  Catholics 
were  granted  special  indulgence,  but 
denominational  differences  and 
theological  disputations  melted  away  in 
the  heat  of  battle.  In  20  economical 
seconds,  Guadalcanal  Diary  preached 
the  ecumenical  lesson  that  became 
holy  writ  for  wartime  cinema.  The 
camera  settles  in  on  the  deck  of  a 
transport  ship  in  the  Pacific.  A  religious 
service  is  in  progress,  packed  with 
devout  Marines  singing  "Rock  of  Ages." 
The  seemingly  Protestant  service  is 
presided  over  by  a  Roman  Catholic 
priest  in  full  vestments,  filling  in  for  his 
sick  Protestant  colleague.  Cut  to  a 
medium  shot  of  two  Marines  in  the 
congregation  who  deliver  the  following 
exchange: 

First  Marine:  Gee,  Sammy,  you  sing 
pretty  good. 

Second  Marine:  I  should.  My  father 
was  a  cantor. 

Pride  of  the  Marines  made  the  same 
point  with  the  symbols  decorating  the 
machine  gun  of  its  Judeo-Christian 
heroes:  a  Star  of  David  and  a 
shamrock. 

For  black  Americans,  alas,  the 
"Americans  All"  portrait  concealed  an 
ugly  truth.  Set  in  relief  against  a 


segregated  armed  forces  and  a  Jim 
Crow  culture,  the  rhetoric  and 
symbology  of  wartime  unity — lofty 
language  from  the  Office  of  War 
Information,  four  freedoms  promised  by 
President  Roosevelt,  melting  pot 
posters  of  "Amehcans  AH" — rang 
hollow.  However,  by  advancing  at  least 
the  Ideal  o\  a  colorblind  equality,  the 
movies  underwent  a  perceptible 
transformation.  For  the  first  time  in 
history,  Hollywood  opened  its  front 
doors  to  a  portion  of  the  population 
heretofore  admitted  only  through  the 
servants'  entrance. 

Indeed,  throughout  the  war,  the 
presentation  of  black  Americans  on  the 
motion  picture  screen  attracted  special 
attention  from  a  renascent  civil  rights 
movement.  Calculatingly  equating 
"Deutschland  and  Dixieland,"  "Hitlerism 
abroad  with  Hitlerism  at  home,"  the 
Negro  Press  and  the  National 
Association  for  the  Advancement  of 
Colored  People  (NAACP)  exploited 
wartime  exigencies  to  advance  their 
cause  throughout  the  entertainment 
industry  and  to  improve  the  lot  of  black 
actors  on  screen.  Just  as  the  preferred 
persuasive  technique  of  the  antebellum 
slave  narrative  was  to  cast  the  light  of 
Christian  ideals  on  the  darkness  of  the 
"peculiar  institution,"  the  wartime  civil 
rights  movement  turned  OWI-approved 
rhetoric  back  to  domestic  shores  and 
made  the  American  dilemma 
Hollywood's. 

As  a  result,  new  spaces  for  interracial 
mingling  opened  up  during  1941-1945 
as  never  before.  Traditionally  in 
classical  Hollywood  cinema,  the  arenas 
of  unrestricted  access  were  presocial, 
antisocial  or  offshore.  In  the  easy 
integration  of  Hal  Roach's  "Little 
Rascals,"  the  two-steps  between 
Shirley  Temple  and  Bill  "Bojangles" 
Robinson  and  the  multiethnic  Boy 
Rangers  in  Mr  Smith  Goes  to 
Washington,  childhood  suspended  the 
rules  of  Jim  Crow.  Likewise,  on  chain 
gangs  and  in  big  houses,  behind  the 
iron  bars  of  prison,  hardened  convicts 
enjoyed  a  freedom  of  loose  association 
unknown  in  civil  society.  Finally,  in 
adventures  in  Africa  and  romance  in 
the  South  Seas,  foreign  locales 
tolerated  a  casual  mix  and  match. 
During  the  war,  such  overseas  theaters 
of  operation  hosted  a  goodly  share  of 
integrationist  action.  In  the  jungle,  the 
desert  and  the  smoky  interiors  of  Rick's 


Cafe,  Hollywood  projected  racial 
pluralism  onto  a  landscape  beyond 
American  borders.  Casablanca, 
Bataan,  Sahara — the  titles  bespeak  the 
geographical  displacement  of  a 
national  dilemma  too  close  to  home  to 
address  on  native  soil. 

Above  all,  in  the  combat  zone,  under 
duress,  removed  from  the  codes  and 
morality  of  civilian  life,  normal 
hierarchies  and  social  customs  broke 
down.  As  a  sturdy  gunner  in  Bataan 
(1943),  black  actor  Kenneth  Spencer 
conforms  to  prewar  type  in  prayer  and 
song,  but  he  is  an  integral  member  of 
the  ragtag  squad  of  defenders, 
shirtless  and  powerful,  a  committed 
fighter.  In  Sahara  (1943)  Rex  Ingram 
played  a  gallant  Sudanese  sergeant 
who  confronts  a  Nazi  officer/Jim  Crow 
surrogate.  When  the  master  racist 
snarls  in  German  that  he  does  not  want 
to  be  touched  by  a  member  of  an 
"inferior  race,"  Humphrey  Bogart 
delivers  a  sensitivity  lesson  from 
screenwriter  and  future  Hollywood  Ten 
ringleader  John  Howard  Lawson.  "Tell 
him  not  to  worry  about  (the  sergeant's) 
being  black,"  commands  Bogart.  "It 
won't  come  off  on  his  pretty  uniform."  In 
a  replay  of  the  Joe  Louis-Max 
Schmeling  fight  of  1938,  the  Sudanese 
sergeant  beats  up  the  Nazi  and  puts 
him  out  for  the  count  in  the  desert 
sand.  On  behalf  of  the  NAACP,  Roy 
Wilkens  publicly  commended  Columbia 
for  the  "outstanding  contribution"  of 
Sahara  and  praised  MGM's  Bataan  as 
"a  film  that  shows  how  superfluous 
racial  and  religious  problems  are  when 
common  danger  is  faced." 

The  most  resounding  of  all  cinematic 
calls  for  interracial  equality  was  the 
March  of  Time's  "Americans  AH" 
(1944).  Before  the  war,  so  forthright  an 
integrationist  plea  would  have  been 
unthinkable.  In  fact  it  was.  In  January 
1941,  in  an  atmosphere  of  defense 
mobilization  that  saw  also  an  influx  of 
desperate  European  refugees,  the 
March  of  Time  had  issued  a  nearly 
identically  titled  entry,  "Americans 
All!"  The  difference  in  focus  and  spirit 
between  the  prewar  exclamatory 
"Amencans  All!"  and  the  declarative 
wartime  "Americans  AH"  is  a  sensitive 
barometer  of  historical  change.  The 
subject  of  the  first  March  of  Time  issue 
is  the  immigrant,  the  theme  tolerance. 
The  unspoken  (but  not  unscreened) 
beneficiary  is  the  refugee  European,  in 
particular  the  Jew  fleeing  Nazism.  The 
association  is  made  explicit  in  a  shot  of 
a  Jewish  dinner  blessing  and  in  the 
commentary  condemnation  of  the 
German-American  bund  as  anli- 


30  Brandeis  Review 


narration  tilts  noticeably  toward  the  less 
swarthy  European  immigrant  groups 
(Irish,  Germans,  Scandinavians  and 
Eastern  Europeans),  the  impulse  is 
assimilationist  and  generous. 
Significantly  too  the  narration  is  careful 
to  distinguish  between  "loyal  and 
peaceful  Japanese-Americans"  and 
alleged  Japanese  naval  reservists 
working  undercover  in  the  California 
fishing  fleet.  American  blacks, 
however,  are  never  mentioned,  implied 
or  shown.  In  a  prewar  call  for  national 
unity,  race  is  not  just  a  subject  too  hot 
to  handle;  it  is  totally  off  the  mass 
cultural  radar. 

Less  than  four  years  later,  race 
dominates  the  screen  space.  In  the 
second  "Americans  All"  the  voice-over 
commentary  and  the  eloquent  filmed 
spokesmen  forcefully  advocate 
integration  and  equality.  The  whole 


tenor  and  direction  of  the  issue,  which 
begins  with  several  pro  forma  pleas  for 
religious  tolerance  among  Catholic, 
Protestant  and  Jew,  directly  confronts 
the  crucial  problem.  A  Roman  Catholic 
priest  reads  a  pastoral  letter  against 
racism,  a  Southern  newspaper 
editorialist  calls  for  an  end  to  Jim  Crow 
ridership  and  an  Episcopalian  minister 
proclaims  equality  from  the  pulpit.  Most 
compellingly.  blacks  and  whites  mix 
socially  and  cinematically.  They  sit  in 
equality  around  conference  tables,  on 
rostrums  and  in  classrooms.  The 
polemical  call  for  equality  was  as 
dynamic  and  uncompromising  as  the 
visual  one.  Over  a  newsreel  montage 
of  black  troops  marching  in  column, 
jumping  from  airplanes  and  trekking 
through  Pacific  jungles,  the 
authoritative  voice  of  March  of  Time 
narrator  Westbrook  Van  Vorhees 
asserts; 


In  the  midst  of  a  war  which  is 
demanding  the  utmost  of  American 
manpower  and  resources,  the  United 
States  has  called  for  and  has  received 
in  full  measure  the  help  of  the  Negro.  In 
the  Armed  Services  are  more  than  half 
a  million  colored  men  and  women  who 
accept  the  same  hard  training  and 
discipline,  and  are  subject  to  the  same 
dangers  as  the  whites.  Many 
Southerners  are  aware  of  the  Injustice 
of  denying  to  the  Negro  the  rights  of 
American  citizenship  while  expecting 
him  to  shoulder  its  ultimate 
responsibility — that  of  defending  his 
country  with  his  life. 

Unlike  its  predecessor,  "Americans  All" 
lived  up  to  its  name.  For  once  too  the 
signature  sign-off  of  the  series — "Time 
Marches  On!" — was  a  portent  of 
cultural  progress  and  the  marches  to 
come.  ■ 


James  Cagney 
romances  Sylvia  Sidney 
in  Blood  on  the  Sun 


31  Summer  1993 


Moving  Students 
from  A  to  Z: 


A  Portrait 
of  a  Teacher 


by  Brenda  Marder 


Marder:  A  few  years  ago, 
you  were  awarded  the 
Michael  L.  Walzer  Award  for 
Teaching.  I  imagine  you 
must  be  in  harmony  with  the 
students  as  they  take  their 
seats  in  the  classroom. 

Brettler:  I  try  to.  One  thing  I 
stress  is  the  need  to 
empathize  with  the  students. 
Teachers  should  imagine 
themselves  in  the  classroom 
at  the  students'  level  with 
the  same  needs  and  desires 
to  master  the  material.  I 
watch  them  throughout  the 
lecture — I  follow  their  eyes, 
their  yawns,  their  smiles — 
and  I  react  accordingly.  If  I 
notice  that  the  lecture  is  not 
holding  their  attention,  I 
have  enough  flexibility  to 
change  my  approach. 
Students  really  come  to  the 
classroom  to  learn,  so  they 
are  quick  to  judge  if  the 
teacher  has  the  same 
commitment  to  teaching  as 
they  have  to  learning.  The 
major  task  for  the  teacher  is 
to  figure  out  how  to  get  the 
students  from  A  to  Z;  every 
class  meeting  is  an 
important  step  in  that 
progress.  As  the  teacher 
develops  the  material  during 


the  semester,  the  students 
really  should  feel  the  forward 
movement.  Every  week  or 
so,  if  the  students  were  to 
ask  themselves  "what  have  I 
done  this  week  that  I 
couldn't  have  done  the  week 
before?"  they  should  have 
an  answer  that  gives  them  a 
sense  of  accomplishment. 

Marder:  What  is  your  key  to 
progress  for 
undergraduates? 

Brettler:  Organization  is 
crucial.  In  fact  this  aspect  is 
so  important  that  I  have 
always  argued  that  it  is 
better  to  spend  an  hour 
plotting  how  you're  going  to 
get  from  A  to  Z  as  opposed 
to  investing  that  extra  time 
in  reading  a  book  or  a 
journal  to  reinforce  your 
lecture.  Along  with 
organization  goes  structure. 
My  syllabi  for  introductory 
courses  are  unusually 
detailed.  I  give  the  students 
a  number  of  questions  to 
help  them  focus  their 
reading.  These  questions 
will  act  as  the  backbone  of 
the  lecture. 

Marder:  What  is  the 
organizing  principle  around 
which  you  design  your 
courses? 

Brettler:  As  you  probably 
know,  there  are  different 
styles  in  teaching.  I  am  in 


Marc  Brettler.  associate 
professor  of  Near  Eastern 
and  Judaic  Studies,  lias 
taugfit  at  Brandeis  since 
1986.  l-lis  most  recent  bool< 
/sMinhah  le-Nahum:  Biblical 
and  Other  Studies 
Presented  to  Nahum  M. 
Sarna  in  Honour  of  his  70th 
Birthday,  coedited  witti 
IVIicliael  Fisfibane.  He  is  also 
tfie  auttior  of  God  is  King: 
Understanding  an  Israelite 
IVIetaphor.  Among  tiis  recent 
projects  Is  a  l\/laclntosh 
computer  program  for 
teacfiing  intermediate 
biblical  Hebrew.  He  fias 
recently  completed  a  bool< 
on  biblical  historiography 
entitled  The  Creation  of 
History  in  Ancient  Israel  and 


IS  at  work  on  a  book 
designed  to  introduce 
biblical  scholars  to  medieval 
Jewish  biblical  interpretation. 

Brettler  received  his  B.A. 
magna  cum  laude  from 
Brandeis  with  highest 
honors  in  Near  Eastern  and 
Judaic  Studies  and  received 
his  M.A.  with  high  distinction 
in  Near  Eastern  and  Judaic 
Studies  the  same  year.  He 
earned  his  Ph.D.  from 
Brandeis  and  was  a  visiting 
graduate  student  at  Hebrew 
University  in  Jerusalem. 
While  completing  his 
graduate  work,  Brettler 
taught  at  l\/liddlebury. 
Wellesleyand  Yale.  In  1991 
he  was  awarded  an 
American  Philosophical 
Society  Grant  for  Travel 
Abroad  and  a  Bernstein- 
Perlmutter  Fellowship  from 
Brandeis. 


the  beleaguered  minority 
because  I  insist  the  lecture 
course  is  a  useful  model  for 
undergraduates.  The  vast 
amount  of  material  can  be 
covered  only  in  lectures  and 
not  in  a  discussion  format. 
Students,  of  course,  can  ask 
questions  within  the  lecture. 

Marder:  If  you  speak  for 
most  of  the  hour,  how  do 
you  manage  to  keep  the 
students  engaged? 

Brettler:  Here's  where  the 
organizing  principle  moves 
in.  At  the  beginning  of  the 
lecture,  I  usually  pose  a 


problem;  I  then  spend  50 
minutes  of  lecture  unraveling 
it,  crafting  the  lecture  to 
dovetail  with  the  problem. 
Another  way  to  engage  the 
students  in  my  field  is  by 
encouraging  them  to 
examine  continuities  or 
discontinuities  between  the 
Bible  and  contemporary 
issues.  For  instance,  when  I 
teach  biblical  law,  I  start  out 
by  asking  students — all 
those  budding  Brandeis 
lawyers — "What  is  law  in 
America?"  "What  is  the 
function  of  law?"  "What  is 
the  relationship  of  law  to 
society?"  As  they  discuss 
these  questions  before  I 
begin  to  lecture,  I  gain  a 
sense  of  their  understanding 


32  Brandeis  Review 


of  the  contemporary  issue 
that  relates  to  the  material  I 
plan  to  cover  that  day. 

Marder:  Do  you  use  this 
routine  invariably? 

Brettler:  No,  I  try  to  vary  it. 
One  of  my  variations  when 
I'm  teaching  biblical 
prophecy  is  to  declaim  a 
two-minute  modern 
prophecy,  following  the  style 
of  the  Bible,  something  like 
this;  "Thus  says  the  God  of 
Hosts,  'You  are  cheating  on 
your  exams,  you  are 
plagiarizing  your  papers,  you 
are  not  helping  your  fellow 


students  when  they  need 
help  with  their  homework'; 
thus  says  the  Lord  of  Hosts, 
'A  fire  shall  come  out  of  the 
East,  a  conflagration  from 
Massell  Quad.'"  With  that 
recitation,  the  students 
suddenly  realize  that  in 
biblical  Israel,  when 
somebody  like  Amos,  whom 
that  prophecy  is  largely 
based  on,  stated  something 
similar,  the  audience  did  not 
laugh  like  they  deride  me. 
The  class  suddenly  grasps 
that  what's  in  my  mind  is  a 
fundamental  problem; 
why  is  it  that  in  ancient  Israel 
when  someone  like  Amos, 
Jeremiah  or  Isaiah  got  up, 
he  wasn't  treated  like  a 
lunatic.  My  satire  makes 


them  sensitive  to  the 
religious  differences 
between  contemporary 
American  life  and  ancient 
Israelite  society,  a  situation 
that  we  are  going  to  begin  to 
unravel  in  order  to 
understand  prophecy. 

Marder:  You  have  an 
interactive  format  then,  that 
carries  you  along.  Have  you 
always  been  successful  with 
this  kind  of  approach  or  has 
your  teaching  career  had  its 
ups  and  downs? 


Students  really  come  to 
the  classroom  to  learn, 
so  they  are  quick  to 
judge  if  the  teacher  has 
the  same  commitment 
to  teaching  as  they 
have  to  learning. 


Brettler:  One  experience 
really  nags  at  me.  I  have 
never  been  able  to  teach  the 
freshman  humanities  course 
well.  While  I  can't  figure  out 
exactly  why  I  haven't 
excelled  in  this  case,  I  have 
detected  one  of  my 
problems,  which  relates 
directly  to  the  empathy 
factor  I  spoke  about  a  few 
minutes  ago.  Because  my 
high  school  experience  at  a 
Jewish  day  school  was  so 
different  from  the  typical 
Brandeis  first-year  students', 
I  didn't  realize  how  much 
effort  it  took  for  them  to 
become  socialized  during 
their  first  year,  a  time  of 
great  emotional  and 
intellectual  change;  the 
course  work  has  to  be  a 
bridge  to  take  them  across 
to  the  new  environment.  The 
situation  is  different  in  my 
biblical  text  classes,  where 
the  students  who  have 
chosen  the  courses  come  in 
with  a  deep  interest  in  the 
subject  matter  and  have 
already  had  some 
background  in  the  area.  In 
contrast,  first-year  students 
in  the  humanities  courses 
arrive  cold  and  receive  a  lot 
of  new  ideas  and  materials, 
which  they  often  find  difficult 
to  process.  We  are  now 
changing  the  curriculum  and 
this  first-year  offering  will  be 
altered  in  a  manner  that  I 
think  will  work  better  for 
faculty  and  students. 


33  Summer  1993 


40th  Anniversary  of  NEJS 
at  Brandeis  University 


IVIarder:  You  spend  a  lot  of 
time  on  class  preparation 
and  in  thinking  about 
teaching  methods.  Does  this 
indicate  that  the  emphasis 
on  teaching  is  growing 
stronger  among  highly- 
selective  universities  and 
that  research  will  not  remain 
the  defining  factor  for 
faculty? 

Brettler:  At  Brandeis,  as 
well  as  other  institutions,  the 
faculty  is  very  torn.  Brandeis 
still  uses  publications  as  a 
major  criterion  to  grant 
tenure,  but  on  the  other 
hand,  the  ethos  of  this 
university  resembles  that  of 
a  small  liberal  arts  college, 
where  undergraduate 
teaching  is  taken  very 
seriously.  Take  my  case  as 
an  example  of  how  teaching 
is  valued  at  Brandeis. 
Several  years  ago,  if  you 
received  a  teaching  award 
as  an  untenured  faculty 
member,  it  would  have 
served  as  the  kiss  of 
death — you  would  not  have 
received  a  tenured  position. 
This  has  changed.  That  I 
was  granted  tenure  after  I 
received  my  award  is  an 
indication  of  how  things 
have  altered.  But  if  you  look 
at  recently  tenured  faculty  at 
Brandeis,  you'll  see  that 
research  is  absolutely 
paramount.  However, 
several  years  ago,  one  could 
say  that  teaching  was 
marginally  significant.  Now,  I 
think,  it  has  gained 
additional  significance  in 
terms  of  tenure,  at  least  in 
some  departments. 


Marder:  Of  course  teaching 
and  research  are 
interrelated. 

Brettler:  Yes.  I  handle  my 
program  by  spending  most 
of  the  summer  and 
vacations  doing  research 
and  writing,  and  the  rest  of 
the  time  on  the  courses  I'm 
teaching.  Often  articles  I 
publish  are  based  on  subject 
matter  that  I  have  prepared 
for  the  classroom,  and 
likewise  much  of  my 
research  is  basic  material  for 
teaching.  The  best  faculty 
members  are  people  who 
can  achieve  a  balance 
between  doing  interesting, 
important  and  contemporary 
research  and  at  the  same 
time  can  do  a  good  job  of 
conveying  that  new  and 
exciting  material  to  students. 

IVIarder:  I  note  that  at  other 
universities,  faculty  have 
complained  that  their 
colleagues  tend  not  to  share 
their  teaching  experiences. 
They  talk  about  hundreds  of 
topics  among  themselves, 
but  never  touch  on  the  craft 
of  teaching.  How  do 
exchanges  on  this  subject 
take  place  at  Brandeis? 

Brettler:  In  a  formal  setting 
there  are  many 
opportunities.  The  University 
does  conduct  workshops 
and  form  groups  with  the 
expressed  goal  of 
discussing  the  issue  of 
teaching.  But  it  is  true  on 
this  campus,  too,  that  for 
some  reason,  faculty 
members  do  not  engage  in 
informal  conversations  about 
teaching,  though  they  are 
generally  eager  to  talk  about 
their  research  and  the 
mundane  aspects  of 


teaching  like  how  many 
people  they  have  in  the 
class.  Unfortunately  such 
chitchat  moves  the 
conversation  away  from  the 
really  important  issues.  The 
Undergraduate  Fellows 
Program  has  offered 
important  opportunities  for 
faculty  to  discuss  issues 
relating  to  pedagogy.  I 
should  add  that  on  a  handful 
of  occasions,  colleagues 
have  come  to  me  with 
specific  teaching  problems 
when  they  might  say,  "I  am 
having  such  and  such  a 
problem.  Am  I  doing 
something  wrong?  Can  you 
help  me  analyze  it?" 

Marder:  Why  are  faculty  at 
so  many  institutions 
unwilling  to  discuss  the 
classroom? 

Brettler:  It's  difficult  to  say 
with  accuracy.  Maybe 
people  are  reluctant,  if  they 
have  problems  with 
students,  to  admit  their 
weakness. 

Marder:  Let's  turn  to  the 
student  mentality  for  a 
moment.  A  few  years  ago, 
when  Professor  Allen 
Grossman  taught  at 
Brandeis,  I  interviewed  him 
for  the  Brandeis  Review  and 
noted  his  insightful 
observations  on  which  I 
have  often  ruminated.  It  was 
his  opinion,  a  rather 
pessimistic  one,  that  as  "the 
lived  experience,"  as  he  put 
it,  of  the  students  moved 
further  away  from  what  went 
on  in  the  classroom,  the 
harder  it  would  be  for  the 


This  year  marks  the  40th 
anniversary  of  the 
establishment  of  the 
graduate  program  in  Near 
Eastern  and  Judaic 
Studies  (NEJS)  at 
Brandeis  University. 

When  Brandeis  was 
founded  in  1948, 
instruction  in  post-biblical 
Judaica  in  the  United 
States  was  confined  to  a 
few  individuals  at  a 
handful  of  universities,  for 
the  most  part  located  in 
New  York  City.  Virtually 
from  the  University's 
beginning,  Hebrew,  Judaic 
and  Near  Eastern  studies 
constituted  an  integral 
part  of  the  Brandeis 
curriculum.  A  program  in 
NEJS  was  one  of  the  initial 


teacher  to  get  the  material 
across  to  them.  How  do  you 
respond  to  that  thought? 

Brettler:  I  share  his 
pessimism  somewhat  in  my 
work  with  undergraduates.  I 
find  many  students  living  on 
the  practical  and  immediate 
plane.  While  students  have 
to  be  practical  to  face  the 
future,  their  university 
experience  should  take 
place  on  a  more  elevated 
level.  They  need  to  spend 
some  of  their  free  time 
thinking  about  serious 
subjects.  In  my  field,  the 
Bible  spends  a  fair  amount 
of  time  talking  about  what 
one  should  do  on  this  earth. 
If  you've  spent  no  time 
talking  and  thinking  about 
the  problems  of  the  human 
condition,  your 
understanding  of  the 
classroom  discussion  will  be 
limited. 

Marder:  That  is  a  problem 
you  will  be  encountering  for 
presumably  a  long  while. 


34  Brandeis  Review 


four  graduate  programs 
established  at  Brandeis 
University  in  fall  1953. 

Today  the  graduate 
program  of  the  NEJS 
department  constitutes 
the  largest  and  most 
comprehensive  program 
existing  in  a  university 
setting  outside  of  the  state 
of  Israel.  Its  Ph.D. 
graduates,  numbering  well 
over  a  hundred,  are  in  the 
forefront  of  the  field  and 
occupy  positions  of 
leadership  in  major 
universities  all  over  the 
world.  Recently,  the 
departmental  graduate 


program  has  been 
enhanced  by  the  addition 
of  joint  M.A.  programs 
with  the  Hornstein 
Program  in  Jewish 
Communal  Studies  and 
with  women's  studies, 
while  the  new  general  M.A. 
program  has  been 
attracting  growing 
numbers  of  students. 

When  formal 
undergraduate 
departments  were 
established  in  1956,  an 
undergraduate  major  in 
NEJS  was  put  in  place. 
Currently,  it  has  two 
separate  tracks,  one  in 
Judaic  studies  and  the 
other  in  Islamic  and 
Middle  Eastern  studies. 
Undergraduate  majors  in 
NEJS  subsequently 
pursue  successful  careers 
not  only  in  the  Jewish 


sector  but  also  in  all 
professions  that  require  a 
broad  liberal  arts 
education. 

Undergraduates  also  have 
the  options  of  undertaking 
a  double  major,  combining 
NEJS  with  any  other  area 
of  instruction  in  the 
University,  or  of  minoring 
in  NEJS.  Furthermore, 
numerous  students  avail 
themselves  of  the  Hebrew 
language  program,  either 
to  fulfill  the  University 
language  requirement  or 
for  its  own  sake,  making  it 
the  second  largest 


language  program  on 
campus  and  the  largest 
modern  Hebrew  program 
in  the  United  States. 
Additionally,  courses  are 
offered  in  Akkadian, 
Arabic,  Aramaic,  Ugaritic 
and  Yiddish. 

As  of  September  1993,  the 
department  will  consist  of 
16  full-time  faculty 
members,  in  addition  to 
the  Hebrew  language  staff 
and  21  faculty  members  of 
other  departments  who 
are  in  some  way  involved 
in  aspects  of  Near  Eastern 
and  Judaic  Studies  and 
have  been  designated  as 
NEJS  faculty  associates. 


draw  the  students  into  the 
subject  matter? 

Brettler:  Two  things  come 
to  mind.  First,  as  a  teacher  I 
try  to  keep  myself  current  on 
the  popular  culture  and  on 
student  life  as  a  way  of 
making  students  comfortable 
and  as  a  means  of  using 
analogies  in  the  lecture  that 
they  can  relate  to.  So  for 
example,  I  regularly  read  the 
Justice  and  bring  in 
references  from  the 
newspaper  that  deal  with 
current  student  concerns. 
This  has  been  especially 
useful  in  teaching  biblical 
historical  texts,  where  I  can 
use  the  conflicting 
perspectives  reflected  in  the 
Justice  to  show  that  events 
cannot  be  described  in  an 
objective,  unbiased  fashion. 
On  the  other  hand,  it's 
important  to  bring  in 
references  from  high  culture 


to  bear  on  the  matehal. 
Sometimes  these  high- 
culture  references  need  to 
be  explained  in  the 
classroom  and  that's  fine, 
too.  In  other  instances,  one 
would  hope  that  students 
would  go  to  the  library  to 
search  out  some  answers 
for  themselves. 

Marder:  If  you  bend  to 
popular  culture  by  using 
modern  analogies  to 
decipher  biblical  text,  do  you 
risk  trivializing  it? 

Brettler:  If  you  asked  me 
that  a  few  years  ago,  I  might 
have  answered  in  the 
positive.  But  by  using  new 
ideas  such  as  feminist  texts, 
I  often  find  myself 
comfortably  moving  out  of 
the  traditional  academic 
mode  and  really  explicitly 
acknowledging  what  is  so 
crucial  to  many  students.  I 
am  rather  committed  to 
dealing  with  the  material 
from  a  historical-critical 


perspective,  but  In  choosing 
my  materials  and  in  my 
presentation,  I  can  often 
connect  with  the 
fundamental  problems  the 
students  are  experiencing. 
You  can  ask  an  almost 
infinite  number  of  legitimate 
questions  about  the  text. 
The  text  doesn't  change, 
that  is  the  physical  black  and 
white  text,  but  the  text  as  an 
idea  does  change  in 
accordance  with  the  times — 
think  of  the  book  by  Stanley 
Fish,  Is  There  a  Text  in  Ttiis 
Class?  He  brings  that  out 
very  clearly. 

Marder:  So,  you  in  a  sense 
are  brought  along  by  the 
students  to  understand  the 
text  in  a  new  way. 

Brettler:  Yes,  that's  what 
keeps  teaching  exciting. 
OthenA/ise,  we'd  be  bored  to 
death.  ■ 


Every  week  or  so,  if  the 
students  were  to  ask 
themselves  "what  have 
I  done  this  week  that  I 
couldn't  have  done  the 
week  before?"  they 
should  have  an  answer 
that  gives  them  a  sense 
of  accomplishment. 


35  Summer  1993 


Town  Called 
Kuranda 


by  Heidi  Fleisher  '93 


Fleishei,  who  graduated 
cum  laude  with  a  major  in 
sociology  this  past 
spring,  is  working  and 
studying  in  Israel 


In  my  junior  semester 
abroad  I  participated  in  tlie 
School  for  International 
Training's  program,  The 
Natural  and  Human 
Environment  in  Australia, 
which  is  based  in  the 
tropical  rain  forest  region 


located  in  the  northeast 
corner  of  the  country.  One 
aspect  of  the  program  that 
fascinated  me  was  the 
history  and  culture  of  the 
Aboriginal  people.  During 
the  one-month 


independent  study  period 
at  the  end  of  the  program, 
I  lived  with  an  Aboriginal 
family  and  recorded 
the  life  stories  of  June  and 
Finley  Grogan.  The 
following  article  is  based 
on  that  experience. 


36  Brandeis  Review 


The  breakfast  dishes  have  aheady  been  cleared,  and 
the  grandkids  have  begun  to  argue  over  who  will  dry 
the  dishes  this  morning.  Finley  sits  down  next  to  me 
and  says,  "I'm  going  up  Oak  Forest  way  today  to  meet 
with  some  forestry  blokes.  You  comin'l" 

"Sure, "  /  say.  not  knowing  exactly  what  the  day  holds 
in  store  for  me. 

Many  a  morning  at  the  Grogan  household  began  like 
that:  the  places  we  explored  changed  from  day  to  day, 
but  a  basic  structure  emerged.  I  learned  that  each  day 
with  Finley  was  somewhat  of  an  adventure.  Simple 
errands,  such  as  a  run  to  the  gas  station,  stretched  into 
day-long  journeys.  Conversations  with  males  on  the 
street  led  to  invitations  for  afternoon  cuppas  (tea)  and 
walks  in  the  bush.  My  mini-tape  player  in  hand,  we'd 
spend  hours  bumping  along  country  bush  roads  in  "OV 
Faithful, "  Finley's  dilapidated  truck.  As  we  drove 
along,  he  would  break  into  stories  about  "the  oV 
timber  cuttin'  days, "  and  the  campfiies  they  had  on 
cold  mission  nights. 

Other  days  I'd  put  the  kettle  on  to  boil  and  talk  with 
June  over  tea.  She  smiled  as  she  remembered  the  good- 
ol'-days  on  mission.  "They  were  hard,  but  they  were 
good,  too, "  she'd  say.  It  felt  to  me  like  these  memories 
left  a  bittersweet  taste  in  her  mouth. 


June's  Story 

I  was  bom  in  Innisvale  in  1935. 1  grew  up  there.  My 
family's  all  in  Innisvale,  in  a  place  called  Malaytown. 
We're  half  Malayans.  My  dad  had  four  girls  and  two 
boys.  Mum  died  when  she  gave  birth  to  my  youngest 
sister,  so  we  were  sort  of  given  to  each  of  our  older 
sisters.  Between  them,  they  looked  after  us. 

My  dad  sort  of  got  converted  by  the  Seventh-day 
Adventist  Church,  and  that's  where  we  heard  about 
Mona  Mona.  Unlike  some  other  people,  my  dad  went  to 
Mona  Mona  on  his  own  accord.  The  minister  told  dad 
that  Mona  Mona  was  there.  It  was  of  our  own  religion, 
so  it  was  good.  So  that's  when  we  all  packed  up  and 
went  to  Mona  Mona.  That's  where  my  childhood 
started  from.  I  was  nine  years  old  then.  When  we  went 
to  mission  my  dad  met  another  lady,  so  he  married  her 
and  she  took  us  six  kids. 

I  went  to  school  until  I  was  like  in  grade  four  or  five. 
The  education  standards  were  so  low  there  at  mission. 
We  used  to  think  grade  five  was  top  class,  but  it  wasn't. 
It  was  only  about  up  to  grade  one  or  two  today.  We  sort 
of  learned  by  experience.  In  school  we  learned  reading, 
writing,  maths  and  we  were  taught  crafts,  playing  the 
piano,  cooking,  hygiene.  We  were  brought  up  in  a 
religious  community.  It  was  the  Seventh-day  Adventist 
community.  We  had  really  good  times  out  there.  But  it 
was  like  the  white  man  stood  over  you.  You  wasn't 
allowed  to  do  this.  You  wasn't  allowed  to  do  that. 

You  wasn't  allowed  to  leave  the  mission  unless  you  got 
permission.  I  like  it  at  Mona  Mona.  It  was  a  good 
life,  but  I  can't  sort  of  say  it  was  right,  though.  It  was 
law.  People  still  went  huntin'  and  things  like  that.  They 


didn't  stop  that.  They  did  stop  the  big  culture  like  the 
corroborees  (traditional  Aboriginal  tribal  dance),  and  the 
meetings — like  if  the  tribes  wanted  to  meet,  they 
weren't  allowed  to  do  it.  Some  used  to  sneak  it,  but  it 
was  law.  You  couldn't  do  it. 

We  never  had  a  traditional  culture  out  there.  Our 
tradition  was  religion.  That's  all  we  knew;  going  to 
church  all  the  time.  Our  religion  was  the  Seventh-day 
Adventist  religion.  Sabbath  goes  from  sundown  on 
Friday  to  sundown  Saturday.  We  had  church  Friday 
night.  We  all  enjoyed  that.  You  see  the  people  just  all 
walking  up  towards  the  church.  The  big  bells  ring.  We 
used  to  have  sing-songs,  and  then  we'll  bring  in  the 
Sabbath.  Saturday  we  go  to  church.  Nobody  was 
allowed  to  do  anything  on  Saturday.  Then  Saturday 
night  you  close  the  Sabbath,  and  maybe  there's  games 
or  concerts  and  things  like  that. 

As  far  as  I'm  concemed,  I  don't  think  there  was  a 
traditional  culture  on  Mona  Mona.  It  was  all  taken 
away  from  the  people.  They  wasn't  even  allowed  to  do 
corroboree  or  speak  their  language.  Everybody  had  to 
talk  English.  That's  why  none  of  us  are  talking  language 
today  The  Aboriginal  history  is  not  even  out  yet,  eh? 
The  white  people  in  Australia  don't  even  know  what's 
goin'  on.  They  always  say  that  the  blacks  are  causing  all 
the  trouble.  They're  finding  out  now  what  it's  all  about. 
But  they're  not  putting  it  into  history;  letting  everybody 
know  what  happened  to  the  Aboriginal  people. 

This  is  what  happened;  they  get  everybody  up  like 
cattle  and  put  them  on  this  one  place — mission  station. 
My  dad  used  to  tell  me,  and  probably  his  grandmother 
before  that  told  him,  that  the  police  used  to  call  them 
all  up  for  rations.  "Come  up  and  get  your  blankets 
now."  And  you  used  to  get  up  and  get  your  ration.  The 
police  used  to  shoot  'em  down  in  cold  blood.  My  dad 
was  saying  that  my  great  grandmother,  how  she  got 
away,  she  followed  a  cow.  When  she  came  to  a  gully, 
she  just  dropped  into  the  gully.  Otherwise  she  would 
have  been  dead  too.  This  is  how  people  were  treated. 
They  murdered  them. 

Most  of  our  parents  got  picked  up  when  they  were  kids 
and  were  taken  to  mission  station.  My  stepmother  was 
only  a  young  of  14.  Can  you  imagine,  when  they  got 
picked  up  there  must  have  been  screaming  and  all  by 
the  parents. 

I  can't  really  say  much  to  go  against  Mona  Mona.  It  was 
really  good-ol'-days.  That's  the  only  place  we  knew  as 
home.  They  used  to  have  the  big-girl  dormitories,  the 
little-girl  dormitories,  the  big-boy  dormitories  and  the 
small-boy  dormitories.  That's  how  they  called  it,  you 
know.  When  you  all  get  to  a  certain  age,  they  take 
you  away  and  put  you  into  the  dormitory.  But  I  was 
lucky.  My  dad  and  mum  was  house  parents.  They  look 
after  the  dormitory.  They  had  a  house  next  to 
the  dormitory,  so  we  were  more  or  less  in  the  same 
compound.  But  we  weren't  allowed  to  sleep  in 
their  house.  We  had  to  be  away  from  'em.  Sleep  in 
the  dormitory. 


37  Summer  1993 


We  used  to  watch  the  older  girls.  They  had  it  tougher 
than  we  did  in  our  age.  When  the  hig  girls  did  wrong 
they  put  these  sack  cloths  on  them,  and  shaved  their 
heads  and  put  them  out  to  do  hard  work.  But  as  for  us, 
we  were  younger  and  our  punishment  wasn't  that  bad. 
We  used  to  get  the  cane  and  that  from  the 
superintendent  or  whoever.  If  we  ever  did  anything 
wrong,  we  weren't  allowed  to  go  out  anywhere  or  have 
outings.  We  were  punished  if  we  spoke  to  a  boy.  It  was 
really  ridiculous.  And  the  older  fellas,  they  used  to  get 
hidings,  whippings  and  put  in  jail. 

Must  have  been  14  when  I  left  school.  I  married  Finley 
when  I  was  15. 1  had  two  kids  out  there. 

Finley  and  I  left  the  mission  in  1951.  Claud  was  only 
two  weeks  old  when  we  left  the  mission.  Before  we  left 
we  had  to  get  exempted;  it's  like  a  passport,  you  know. 
A  lot  of  people  were  still  left  on  the  mission.  They 
stayed  until  the  mission  broke  up  in  1962  because  of 
the  dam. 


It  was  hard  when  we  left  mission,  but  we  had  our  dad. 
We  all  came  to  Mum  and  Dad's.  He  wouldn't  leave  any 
of  us  kids  on  the  mission.  Whether  we  were  married  or 
not,  he  took  the  whole  lot  of  us  out  of  the  mission. 
There  was  work  in  this  place  called  Mirriwina.  That's 
where  we  went.  My  dad  was  a  timber  cutter,  so  Finley 
started  cutting  with  my  dad.  We  sort  of  adjusted  to  life 
off  the  mission.  It  took  us  awhile  though,  'cause  we 
used  to  come  out  of  there  talking  broken  English.  It 
took  us  a  long  time  to  get  out  of  that.  After  Mirriwina, 
we  come  back  to  Kuranda  in  1953. 


History  of  Aboriginal 

l\/iissions 

in  Australia 


The  Aborigines,  the 
Indigenous  people  of 
Australia,  have  Inhabited 
the  continent  for  at  least 
40,000  years.  Up  until 
1788,  the  time  of  European 
contact,  the  native 
Australians  led  a  nomadic 
lifestyle:  they  were 
hunters  and  gatherers, 
traveling  the  land  in 
search  of  food  and  water. 
Europeans  did  not 
approve  of  this  lifestyle 
because  to  them 
nomadism  was  a  sign  of 
savagery.  To  "civilize"  the 
native  people,  Christian 
missionaries  set  up 
mission  stations  to 
convert  Aborigines  to 
Christianity. 

During  this  time,  the 
government  stole  large 
tracts  of  Aboriginal  land 
and  gave  them  to  white 
settlers,  who  used  the 
land  for  agriculture  and 
mining.  The  Aborigines 
wanted  to  keep  their 
nomadic  culture  alive  but 
without  their  lands  on 
which  to  hunt  and  gather, 
their  culture  unraveled.  By 


the  late  1800s 
missionaries  became 
more  aggressive  in  their 
attempts  to  Christianize 
Aborigines.  Government 
policies  made  it  legal  for 
police  to  kidnap 
Aborigines  and  take  them 
forcefully  to  mission 
stations;  the  government 
stole  Aboriginal  children, 
separating  them  from  their 
families  and  culture  to 
absorb  them  into  white 
society.  They  were  placed 
in  missions,  training 
homes  and 
apprenticeships  to  be 
brought  up  in  the  "white 
way." 

Mission  stations  were 
carefully  organized  with 
the  intent  of  breaking 
down  the  Aboriginal 
culture.  Once  on  the 
mission,  the  Aborigines 
were  forbidden  to  speak 
their  traditional  languages 
or  perform  their  ritual 


ceremonies,  fi/lissionaries 
discovered  that  Aboriginal 
children  were  more 
accepting  of  Christianity 
than  their  elders,  so  they 
were  placed  in  dormitories 
and  educated  away  from 
their  families. 

In  the  205  years  since 
white  settlers  landed  on 
the  Australian  continent, 
the  Aboriginal  people  have 
witnessed  the  near 
destruction  of  their 
culture,  and  until  recently, 
the  harsh  treatment 
experienced  by  native 
Australians  was  not 
recorded  in  Australian 
history.  The  Aborigines 
currently  are  engaged  in 
rewriting  Australian 
history  from  their 
perspective  and  I  feel 
privileged  to  be  a  part  of 
this  process. 

June  and  Finley  Grogan 
are  a  part  of  this  first 
generation  of  Aboriginal 
children  brought  up  on 
missions.  In  their  stories 


they  uncover  the  racist 
tensions  that 
accompanied  the 
assimilation  of  black 
Australians  into  white 
Australian  society  and 
express  the  conflicts  they 
experience  as  they 
balance  their  traditional 
past  with  their  present  day 
sedentary  lifestyle. 

June  and  Finley  are 
descendants  of  Mona 
Mona  Mission,  a  self- 
supporting  mission 
located  in  North 
Queensland,  started  by 
the  Seventh-day  Adventist 
Church.  In  1962  the 
mission  was  broken  up  on 
account  of  a  government 
proposal  to  construct  a 
dam  that  would  flood 
mission  land:  all  the 
people  living  there  were 
forced  to  move.  As  of  yet 
the  dam  has  not  been 
constructed. 

H.F. 


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Finley's  Story 


He  said,  "I  come  from  Palm. 


Mona  Mona  was  a  nice  place.  I  was  bom  there.  My  old 
dad,  he  come  from  Normington.  He  spoke  about  seven 
different  Aboriginal  languages.  My  dad  was  a  stockman. 
My  mother  came  from  Lora.  She  got  sent  to  Mona 
Mona  by  the  police.  The  police  used  to  go  out  and  pick 
all  the  kids  up  here  and  there  and  send  them  to  this 
mission  station.  Then  Dad,  they  took  him  to  Mona 
Mona  too.  Mom  and  Dad  got  married  there  I  reckon 
when  they  was  young.  There's  nine  in  our  family.  All 
my  brothers  and  sisters  were  all  bom  and  bred  at  Mona 
Mona.  We  grew  up  and  went  to  school  at  the  mission. 

We  had  to  go  to  school  and  learn  English.  I  can  still  talk 
to  my  people  in  bits  and  pieces.  If  I  had  to  stay  with 
them  for  a  week  or  two  I'd  be  back  in  the  language 
form.  I  used  to  know  it,  and  it'd  be  easy  to  catch  on. 
Mum  and  Dad  used  to  talk  to  us  in  language. 

Mum  and  Dad,  they  used  to  tell  us  about  the  old  days, 
how  they  were  up  in  Lora  and  Normington.  They  were 
all  living  in  primitive  style.  Policemen  went  up  there 
and  roimded  them  all  up  when  they  were  only  kids  and 
sent  them  off  to  different  missions.  They  sent  them  to 
all  different  places.  When  they  grew  up  they  didn't 
know  where  all  their  brothers  and  sisters  were  at.  In 
later  years  they  start  tracing  them  up. 

When  we  were  at  Mona  Mona  this  one  special  night 
there  were  two  policemen  in  from  Palm  Island.  They 
stayed  at  my  dad's  place  because  he  was  sergeant  at 
Mona  Mona.  They  were  talking  this  one  night  and 
Mum  said,  "See  that  bloke  there.  I  think  he's  my 
relation.  That's  my  brother." 


"No.  Where  do  you  really  come  from?"  asked  Dad. 

"Maytown." 

Mum  looked  at  him  and  she  said,  "Reuban?"  He  looked 
at  her.  He  had  found  a  long-lost  sister  from  all  that 
time.  It  musta  been  30  years.  She  wanted  to  know 
where  her  other  brothers  and  sisters  had  been.  He  said, 
"Two  in  Palm  Island." 

When  he  went  back  to  Palm,  he  told  these  two  old 
ladies  that  Mum  was  in  Mona  Mona.  They  was  on  the 
next  boat  up.  But  there  were  still  two  sisters  missing. 
Five  years  went  by  and  Mum  found  her  other  sister.  She 
was  at  Yarrabah.  Then  there  was  still  one  missing.  She 
found  her  before  she  died.  She  was  in  Mossman.  White 
peoples  grow  her  up.  You  know,  they  didn't  sent  her  to 
the  mission.  They  adopted  her.  Two  months  later  Mum 
died.  It  was  good  to  know  she  found  all  her  sisters 
before  she  passed  on. 

When  I  worked  on  mission  driving  the  bullock  team  I 
used  to  get  six  pence  a  day.  Tucker  (food)  was  free. 
Clothes  was  free,  and  we  had  a  home.  If  you're  out 
walking  when  you're  not  supposed  to  be,  the  local 
police  will  get  you  and  want  to  know  what  you're  doing 
here.  If  you  didn't  have  an  excuse,  well,  in  the  click  you 
go  for  a  few  days.  Oh,  they  were  pretty  tough  here. 

Sometimes  at  night  we  used  to  go  pig  shootin'  for  a  bit 
of  fun.  You  have  about  half  a  dozen  dogs.  Dog  will  find 
the  pigs.  When  they  bark,  you  run  down  with  a  torch 


Dad  said  to  this  fellow,  "Where  do  you  come  from, 
mate?" 


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photographs  of  ariifacls  brought  back 

from  Australia  by  Fleisher 


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and  you  get  your  pigs.  Take  them  to  eat.  This  one 
special  night  Uncle  Philip  said,  "You  comin'  pig 
shootin'?"  Uncle  Philip  was  about  six  foot  six.  A  big 
tall  man. 

His  mate  shot  him  accidentally.  We  made  an  old  bush 
striker  and  about  six  of  us  carried  him  through  the  rain 
forest.  We  carried  him  down  to  the  dispensary.  We  had 
a  matron  there  used  to  look  alter  girls.  Stuck  him  up 
tryin  to  keep  the  blood  from  runnin'  out.  Boss  came. 
They  got  a  car.  It  was  a  couple  of  hours  run  from  there 
to  Mareeba.  Instead  of  tryin'  to  cut  off  his  leg,  they  try 
to  save  it.  Then,  a  few  weeks  after,  he  got  lockjaw.  We 
were  sittin'  around  the  fire.  My  old  dad  was  sittin'  near 
the  fireplace  and  somethin'  happened.  A  dog  yelled.  Dad 
said,  "Uncle  Philip  dead."  In  the  Aboriginal  way  you 
always  get  a  sign.  The  phone  call  came  through  five 
minutes  later  saying  Uncle  Philip  was  dead. 

I  left  the  mission  when  I  was  about  24. 1  went  out  and 
timber  cut  for  about  45  years.  My  family  was  still  on 
the  mission.  I  was  the  timber  cutter.  I  had  to  work  for 
about  three  months,  and  all  my  money  went  into  the 
bank.  And  when  I  got  it,  it  was  two  bob  mission  fund, 
two  bob  church  fund  and  two  bob  tax  fund.  I  got  40 
cents  out  of  a  dollar. 

Timber  was  good.  We  didn't  go  and  cut  everything. 
Timber  was  selected.  The  forestry  used  to  go 
around  and  look  at  a  tree,  put  an  X  on  it.  If  it's  got  an 
X  on  it,  well  that's  the  one  you  take  out.  And  when 
you  fall  it,  you  gotta  steer  it  so  you  won't  damage  any 
tree  in  front  of  it.  It  keeps  you  in  good  condition. 


I  worked  for  a  bloke  in  the  cattle  station.  Morris  Moss 
was  his  name.  I  used  to  have  tucker  with  him.  I  stayed 
in  a  little  barrack.  Tucker-time  I  used  to  have  dinner 
with  him  at  one  side  of  the  table.  This  one  special  day 
his  brother-in-law  come  from  Georgetown.  I  wasn't 
allowed  to  have  tucker  with  them  at  the  table  because 
his  brother-in-law  wasn't  used  to  that.  In  those  days  all 
the  Aborigines  used  to  work  for  different  station 
owners,  and  you  weren't  allowed  to  have  meals  with 
them  at  the  table.  You  go  out  woody,  you  know,  a  place 
to  sit.  This  happened  to  me. 

The  day  Morris's  brother-in-law  arrived  they  sang  out, 
"Dinner  time."  So  I  went  out,  washed  me  face  and 
combed  me  hair.  Went  in,  and  old  Morris  met  me  at  the 
door  with  this  tucker.  I  say,  "What's  that  for?" 

He  said,  "You  go  out  and  eat  in  the  woody,  boy." 

I  said,  "Oh  good.  Thanks.  If  I'm  not  good  enough  to  eat 
with  you,  then  I'm  not  good  enough  to  work  for  you. 
Righto,  you  wanta  get  into  me.  Go  outside  and  I'll  fight 
ya."  But  it  didn't  happen.  So  I  told  'em  I  was  finished. 
Packed  all  my  gear,  got  on  my  horse  and  rode  home.  I 
told  him,  "Send  my  pay  over  in  the  next  couple  of 
days."  He  promised  he  will. 

No  pay.  It  went  up  to  about  six  weeks.  Didn't  get 
anything.  So  I  went  up  to  the  superintendent  at  Mona 
Mona.  I  said,  "Did  Morris  Moss  put  my  pay  in?" 

"No  pay  here."  I  rang  Morris  up  and  he  start  wingin' 
and  moanin'.  I  went  to  the  union  and  told  'em  what 
happened.  So  they  went  out  there.  About  a  week  after,  I 
got  all  my  pay  plus  my  waitin'  time.  That  really  hurt 
him.  He  thought  I  don't  do  that  to  him,  because  up  the 
back  country  they  used  to  put  it  over  these  poor  black 
fellas.  "Oh,  I'll  give  it  to  you  next  time,"  and  next  time 
will  never  come.  That's  how  they  use  to  treat  them 
poor  old  aborigines  in  the  back  country. 

Sometime  you  get  caught  in  the  bush  eight,  nine 
o'clock  at  night.  One  time  that  happened.  We  came 
home,  but  my  horse  got  away  so  I  rode  double  back 
with  me  old  dad.  We  come  to  a  certain  place  and  this 
horse  wouldn't  go.  There  was  somethin'  in  front 
there.  We  had  to  ride  around  the  big  hills  to  get  past  this 
thing  whatever  it  was.  Aborigines  believe  in  ghost,  or 
biddu  we  used  to  call  'em.  Your  hair  on  end  and  you  get 
a  funny  feelin'.  We  go  around.  You  sort  of  past  their 
territory,  and  then  everything's  normal  again. 

In  Mareeba  we  were  walking  down  this  road.  It  was 
night.  I  wasn't  drinkin'.  I  didn't  get  up  from  sleep  so  I 
wasn't  half  asleep.  A  moonlit  night  it  was.  I  was  on  the 
road  and  there  was  two  dogs.  One  was  big  and  one  was  a 
little  one.  I  said  to  this  old  fella,  "Hey,  look  at  that. 
That's  a  big  dog." 

He  said,  "That's  not  a  dog.  That's  biddu."  That  means 
some  sort  of  thing  that  happened.  I  don't  loiow  if  it  ever 
happens  in  white  society  or  not.  But  I've  seen  some 
queer  things.  Biddu,  they  call  it.  That's  like  a  devil.  We 
raced  towards  it.  It  disappeared.  I  had  a  funny  feelin'. 
This  thing  disappeared  in  front  of  my  eyes.  I  told  one  of 
me  mates  about  it.  He  said,  "You  believe  in  that?  You 


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see,  we  come  from  mission.  They're  tryin'  to  teach  us 
not  to  beUeve  in  that  sort  of  thing."  I  said,  "Well  it 
happened.  I  seen  it.  It  just  disappeared  in  front  of  my 
eyes.  Whatever  happened,  I  don't  know." 

In  the  bush  there's  a  certain  little  bush.  You  break  it. 
You  got  no  toothpaste,  no  Colgate,  you  rub  that  around 
your  teeth  and  rinse  your  mouth  out.  Just  like  Colgate. 
Take  the  foul  taste  outa  your  mouth.  It's  good  stuff.  We 
used  to  call  it  toothbrush  tree. 

For  medicine,  if  you  had  diarrhea,  or  runny  stomach 
you  can't  cure,  there's  a  bush  plant.  It's  a  bud  wood 
gum.  One  of  the  eucalyptus.  It's  a  sure  medicine.  I'll 
guarantee  it  to  anybody.  There's  an  old  bookie  bloke. 
He  come  here  one  day  and  I  said,  "How  are  you,  Tom?" 

He  said,  "Boy,  I'm  jolly  crook." 

I  said,  "What's  wrong  with  ya?" 

He  said,  "I  got  a  runny  stomach.  I  been  to  the  doctor. 
They  can't  fix  me." 

I  said,  "I'll  give  you  some  blackfella  medicine.  It'll  fix 
your  turn." 

"Will  ya?"  I  went  out  and  got  some  plant  for  him.  He 
wasn't  game  though.  I  had  to  chew  it  first  to  show  him 
that  it  was  alright.  Then  he  done  it.  The  next  day  he 
come  back  to  me.  He  gave  me  $80  for  that.  I  said,  "I 
don't  want  that,  Tom." 

He  said,  "No.  You  fixed  me.  That  really  fixed  me."  And 
he  swore  by  that. 

Nineteen  sixty-two,  mission  broke  up.  Everybody  got 
out.  That's  why  they're  all  livin'  in  Kuranda,  Korowa, 
Kowa,  Caims.  Scattered  all  over  the  place.  I  bought  that 
place  where  I  am  now.  It  was  about  35  years  ago.  I'm 
still  there  today. 

As  years  go  by,  all  the  Aboriginal  culture's  nearly  dyin' 
out.  We're  tryin'  to  keep  it  goin'.  We  know  that  a  lot  of 
young  people  don't  want  to  know.  The  older  people 
know  what's  goin'  on.  But  the  younger  people,  they  just 
don't  give  a  damn.  They  joinin'  the  white  way.  You 
know,  drinkin'.  And  when  they're  in  strife  they  come 
back  to  us. 

When  they  get  drunk  and  get  in  trouble — go  in  jail — 
they  come  back  to  us  for  our  support,  which  we'll 
always  give  them.  Like  Claud,  my  boy.  He's  got  a 


problem  with  that.  He's  good  now  for  awhile,  but  when 
he  gets  money,  you  wouldn't  want  to  see  him.  Grog  is  a 
very  bad  thing. 

I  taught  my  family  the  culture;  you  gotta  respect  your 
elders.  In  the  Aborigmal  way,  if  someone's  very  badly 
behaved,  they'll  try  to  get  away  from  all  that.  You  can't. 
That's  how  it's  got  to  be.  If  an  old  fella  asks  you  to  go 
and  do  something,  if  you  don't  do  it,  and  you  insult 
him,  then  you  done  wrong.  In  the  Aboriginal  law,  the 
penalty  for  anybody  that  do  wrong,  the  penalty  is  death. 
If  they  had  that  Aboriginal  law  today  you  wouldn't  see 
no  grog,  because  they  would  be  too  frightened  to  do  any 
of  it  because  they  get  speared. 

Now,  all  my  kids  are  grown  up.  We've  got  hardly 
anyone  at  home.  Just  June,  Claud,  at  home.  When  the 
kids  and  grandkids  come  home  for  holiday,  then  we  got 
a  big  mob.  Last  school  holiday  we  musta  had  about  30 
people  in  the  place.  It's  a  four  bedroom  house.  It's  a  big 
house  for  us  three,  but  when  the  family  comes  home, 
it's  too  small. 

My  intention  now  is  to  buy  a  place  out  of  town  about 
half  a  mile  drive  out  of  Kuranda.  It's  about  88  acres.  On 
the  other  place  I'm  planning  to  build  a  house.  Have 
fowls  and  stuff  like  that  and  start  an  artifact  shop.  I  got 
a  few  artists  m  the  family.  Have  a  bush  walk  for 
tourists.  I've  got  horses.  I  can  make  up  a  wagon.  Take 
'em  for  a  ride  around  the  property. 

I'll  build  some  old  Aboriginal  turnout.  Just  a  shelter  to 
put  tables  in  so  you  can  have  a  cup  of  tea  or  somethin' 
to  eat  there.  Be  all  old  bush  food  cooldn'.  Even  have 
boomerang  throwin'  out  there. 

I  made  my  way  in  the  world.  I  found  it  hard,  but  I  got 
by.  There's  an  old  sayin',  "There's  no  such  thing  as 
can't.  If  you  don't  try,  you'll  never  get  anywhere." 
That's  the  idea,  eh?  This  tourist  turnout  I  want  to  build, 
it'll  be  an  asset  for  the  children  when  they  grow  up. 
That's  what  I'm  lookin'  foi-ward  for.  Somethin'  they  can 
look  back  to.  I  can  get  them  all  workin'  there  doin' 
somethin'  in  the  place  instead  of  roamin'  the  street. 

To  get  'em  interested  in  things  like  this  tourist  turnout 
would  be  a  good  thing.  Not  only  to  help  my  family,  but 
to  help  a  lot  of  younger  people.  You  know,  there's  a  lot 
of  street  kids  around  the  place.  Nowhere  to  go.  Little 
trouble  makers.  They  go  breaking  and  entrance,-  bashin' 
people  up.  You  get  those  kids  in  a  place  like  mine  out 
there,  give  'em  something  to  do.  Might  change  their 
way  of  livin',  or  change  their  young  minds. 

I'm  happy  for  what  I've  done  in  my  life.  I  didn't  get  it 
easy.  If  I  sell  my  house  and  get  that  land  out  there  it'd 
be  a  start  all  over.  In  my  family,  I've  got  about  three 
carpenters.  I've  got  a  secretary  and  the  college  students 
like  Lila  and  Glenys.  They're  smart  to  do  the  books, 
'cause  I  won't  be  able  to  do  that.  I'll  be  able  to  organize 
work  and  get  things  goin'.  If  I  got  it  today  I'd  be  workin' 
on  it  startin'  this  afternoon.  ■ 


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Bookshelf 


Love  Beyond  Death: 

The  Anatomy  of  a  Myth  in 

the  Arts 

New  York  University  Press 

What  were  the  source  and 
the  sense  of  eroticization  of 
death  in  the  arts  from  the 
late  18th  century  to  the  early 
20th  century?  To  answer  this 
question,  Binion  explores  a 
variety  of  prose  and  poetry, 
painting  and  sculpture, 
lyrical  and  instrumental 
music,  interlacing  love  and 
death.  He  compares  modem 
with  premodem  treatments 
of  key  subjects  such  as 
Salome  and  Mary  Magdalen, 
supporting  his  text  with 
illustrations.  In  conclusion, 
he  traces  this  fantasy  of 
carnal  love  beyond  death  to 
the  Christian  message  of 
spiritual  love  beyond  death, 
which  modern,  post- 
Christian  culture  has  both 
discarded  and  salvaged. 

Sylvia  Barack  Fishman 

assistant  professor  of 
contemporary  American 
Jewish  life  in  the 
Department  of  Near  Eastern 
and  Judaic  Studies  and  senior 
research  associate  at  the 
Cohen  Center  for  Modern 
Jewish  Studies 

A  Breath  of  Life:  Feminism 
in  the  American  fewish 
Community 
The  Free  Press 

Today's  Jewish  women  are 
taking  advantage  of  increased 
educational  and  occupational 


opportunities.  Yet  as 
feminist  advances  have 
opened  possibilities,  they 
also  have  called  into 
question  traditional  roles. 
The  challenge  to  Jewish 
women  today  is  to  preserve 
the  Jewish  community  and 
guarantee  its  survival  while 
creating  meaningful  new 
social  and  spiritual  models 
that  respond  to  feminist 
enlightenment.  Drawing  on 
interviews  with  Jewish 
women  from  1 8  to  80  across 
the  United  States,  the  author 
explores  the  wide  range  of 
contemporary  options  for 
Jewish  women  striving  to 
combine  community,  family 
and  individual  needs  and  she 
demonstrates  the  ways 
feminism  has  transformed 
both  their  secular  and 
spiritual  lives. 


OTiiiiam  Flesch 

associate  professor  of  English 

and  American  literature 

Generosity  and  the  Limits  of 
Authority:  Shakespeare, 
Herbert.  Milton 
Cornell  University  Press 

In  new  readings  of 
Shakespeare,  Herbert  and 
Milton,  the  author 
illuminates  the  personal 
authority  that  is  bound  with 
acts  of  generosity.  As 
different  as  their  theological 
and  political  commitments 
are,  Milton,  Shakespeare  and 
Herbert  share  a  deep  interest 
in  a  particular  kind  of 
personal  authority — the 
authority  that  comes  from 
having  "a  privileged  relation 
to  the  sources  of  being" — and 
all  three  explore  on  a 
fundamental  level  the 
question  of  the  relationship 
of  the  individual  psyche  to 
such  a  privileged  authority. 
Flesch  maintains  that  the 
literary  power  of 
Shakespeare,  Herbert  and 
Milton  is  at  its  most  intense 
when  they  are  exploring  the 
limits  of  generosity. 


Janet  Z.  Giele 

and  Hilda  Kahne,  eds. 
Giele  is  professor  of 
sociology  and  family  policy 
and  acting  dean  of  The 
Florence  Heller  Graduate 
School  for  Advanced  Studies 
in  Social  Welfare. 

Women 's  Work  and 
Women's  Lives:  The 
Continuing  Struggle 
Worldwide 
Westview  Press 

Our  global  society,  marked 
not  only  by  change  hut  also 
by  growing  interdependence, 
throws  into  sharp  relief  the 
similarities  and  differences 
among  nations  as  well  as  in 
the  lives  of  individuals.  The 
main  focus  of  the  book  is 
women's  paid  work  but  the 
chapters  devoted  to  working 
women  in  specific  countries 
sketch  a  larger  picture  of 
women's  lives,  showing  the 
relationships  of  paid  work  to 
education,  family  life  and  the 
larger  social,  economic  and 
political  contexts. 


42  Brandeis  Review 


Alumni 


Roberta  J.  Apfel  '58  and 
Maryellen  H.  Hander  '60 

Apfel,  who  holds  an  M.D. 
and  M.P.H.,  is  associate 
professor  of  clinical 
psychiatry  at  Harvard 
Medical  School,  The 
Cambridge  Hospital  and  the 
former  Metropolitan  State 
Hospital  in  Waltham, 
Massachusetts,  and  Handel, 
who  holds  a  Ph.D.,  is  director 
of  Psychiatric  Ambulatory 
Services  at  Newton- 
Wellesley  Hospital,  Newton, 
Massachusetts,  and  clinical 
assistant  professor  of 
psychiatry  at  Tufts 
University  School  of 
Medicine. 

Madness  and  Loss  of 
Motherhood:  Sexuality. 
Reproduction,  and 
Long-Term  Mental  Illness 
American  Psychiatric 
Press,  Inc. 

The  need  for  intimacy  is 
present  in  everyone,  perhaps 
even  more  so  among  persons 
with  long-term  mental 
illness.  For  some  of  these 
persons,  parenting  a  child 
provides  an  instant  identity, 
a  valued  status.  From  helping 
an  individual  make  decisions 
about  his  or  her  sexuality  to 
stabilizing  a  woman  with 
long-term  mental  illness 
throughout  pregnancy,  the 
clinician  is  faced  with  many 
challenges.  This  volume 
examines  issues  surrounding 
sexuality  and  reproduction 
among  persons  with  long- 
term  mental  illness.  Specific 
chapters  present  clinical 
information  on  medication 
use  during  pregnancy,  and  on 
prenatal  and  postpartum 
care,  with  special  emphasis 
on  the  problems  encountered 
when  working  with  this 
special  population. 


MM  if  Madness 
and  loss  of 
motherhood 

Sfxujlily  Rcpnxiucuon.  and 
Long-Tfrm  Mciual  Illness 


Roo«na  J  Apfel  M  D  M  P  H 


Andrew  Billingsley, 
Ph.D.  '64 

Billingsley  is  professor  and 
chair  of  the  Department  of 
Family  Studies  at  the 
University  of  Maryland  and 
visiting  scholar-in-residence 
at  Spelman  College,  Atlanta. 

Climbing  Jacob's  Ladder: 
The  Enduring  Legacy  of 
African-American  Families 
Simon  and  Schuster 

Chmbmg  Jacob's  Ladder 
traces  the  evolution  of 
African-American  families.  It 
describes  the  major  forces 
that  have  shaped  these 
families,  the  major  patterns 
of  adaptation  they  have  made 
and  reveals  the  African- 
American  family  as  strong, 
enduring,  adaptive  and 
resilient.  The  author  shows 
that  class,  race,  gender  and 
age  are  all  critical 
dimensions  of  life  that  may 
be  used  to  understand 
families  better  as  well  as  to 
discriminate  against  them. 
He  delineates  five  levels  of 
socioeconomic  structure 
common  m  the  black 
community  that  impact  on 
the  functioning  of  its 
families,  and  sets  forth 
specific  recommendations 
for  action  by  African- 
American  families,  their 
institutions,  family 
specialists,  family  agencies 
and  family  policies  that  can 
minimize  the  destructive 
impact  of  societal  changes. 


CLIMBING 
JACOB'S 
LADDER 

1  he  Enduring  Legacy 

of  African-American 

Families 


Andrew  Billingsley,  PI1.D. 

Author  of  Black  Fainilies  in  White  America 
FOREWORD      BY      PAULA      GIDDINGS 


Daniel  A.  Cohen,  Ph.D.  '89 

Cohen  is  assistant  professor 
of  history  at  Florida 
International  University. 

Pillars  of  Salt,  Monuments  of 

Grace:  New  England  Crime 

Literature  and  the  Origins  of 

American  Popular  Culture, 

1674-1860 

Oxford  University  Press 

Crime  and  punishment  were 
sources  of  endless  fascination 
for  the  readers  ot  colonial 
and  early  national  New 
England.  Between  1674  and 
1860,  printers  in  the  region 
issued  hundreds  of  books, 
pamphlets  and  broadsides 
relating  to  the  lives  and 
deaths  of  criminals.  The 
literature  consisted  of  a  wide 
variety  of  genres,  including 
execution  sermons, 
conversion  narratives,  dying 
verses  and  last  stories. 
During  the  late  1 7th  century 
when  ministers  still 
dominated  the  local  print 
culture,  the  first  publications 
served  as  instruments  of 
religious  authority.  The 
author  uses  unpublished 


court  records  and  an  array  of 
popular  literary  sources, 
revealing  insights  into 
American  society  from 
colonial  times  to  the  Civil 
War  and  probes  the  forgotten 
origins  of  our  own  modem 
mass  media's  preoccupation 
with  crime  and  punishment. 

Marcia  Falk  '68 

Falk  is  a  poet  and  translator 
of  Hebrew  and  Yiddish 
poetry.  She  is  an  affiliated 
scholar  at  Stanford's  Institute 
for  Research  on  Women  and 
Gender  and  at  the  Beatrice 
M.  Bam  Research  Group  of 
the  University  of  California 
at  Berkeley. 

The  Song  of  Songs: 

A  New  Translation  and 

Interpretation 

HarperCollins 

One  of  the  most  celebrated 
collections  of  ancient  love 
poetry,  the  "Song  of 
Songs" — also  known  as  the 
"Song  of  Solomon" — is  the 


43  Summer  1993 


only  book  of  love  poetry  in 
the  Bible.  For  centuries,  both 
Jewish  and  Christian 
traditions  viewed  the  "Song" 
as  spiritual  allegory, 
justifying  its  place  in  the 
biblical  canon,  but  this  mode 
of  interpretation  does  not 
explain  the  text's  primary 
level  of  meaning.  She  argues 
for  viewing  the  "Song"  as  a 
collection  of  lyrics, 
demonstrating  that  over  half 
the  poems  are  love 
monologues  or  dialogues  and 
are  remarkable  for  their  lack 
of  sexual  stereotyping  and 
their  expression  of  mutuality 
in  relationships  between 
women  and  men. 

Ruth  Harriet  Jacobs, 
M.A.  '66,   Ph.D  '69,  ed. 

Jacobs  is  a  research  scholar  at 
the  Wellesley  College  Center 
for  Research  on  Women, 
Wellesley,  Massachusetts. 

We  Speak  for  Peace 
Knowledge,  Ideas  and 
Trends,  Inc. 

We  Speak  For  Peace  is  an 
anthology  of  over  200  poems 
culled  from  inore  than  3,000 
contributions  the  editor 
received  from  people  of  all 
ages,  from  each  of  the  50 
states  and  of  all  occupations, 
when  she  placed  an  ad  in  two 
poetry  journals  asking  for 
antiwar,  propeace 
submissions.  The  subjects  of 
the  poems  are  either  related 
to  the  atrocities  of  war  or  the 
benefit  of  peace,  and  fall 
under  several  different 
categories,  including  the 
Vietnam  War,  nuclear 
weapons,  war  and  children, 
war  and  women,  and 
soldiers.  Jacob  cites  her  deep- 
seated  opposition  to  the  1991 
Gulf  War  as  the  inspiration 
behind  the  book. 


AN  ANTHOLOGY 


Edltalbv- 
RUTH  HARRIETJACOBS.  Ph.D- 


Richard  Kopley  '71,  ed. 

Kopley  is  associate  professor 
of  English  at  the 
Pennsylvania  State 
University-DuBois. 

Poe's  Pym:  Critical 

Explorations 

Duke  University  Press 

Confinement,  mutiny, 
shipwreck,  starvation, 
cannibalism,  mysterious 
vision — all  are  within  the 
compass  of  The  Narrative  of 
Arthur  Gordon  Pym,  Edgar 
Allan  Poe's  only  novel.  To 
celebrate  the 
sesquicentennial  of  the 
book's  first  publication,  a 
conference  was  held  in  1988; 
16  essays  are  drawn  from 
that  meeting.  The  authors 
offer  a  factual  basis  for  some 
of  the  most  fantastic 
elements  in  the  novel  and 
uncover  a  surprising  number 
of  connections  between  Poe's 
text  and  exploration 
literature,  nautical  lore, 
Arthurian  narrative,  19th- 
century  journalism,  Moby 
Dick  and  other  writings. 

Karin  McQuillan  '71 

McQuillan,  who  has  spent 
time  in  Africa  as  a  Peace 
Corps  volunteer,  is  also  a 
naturalist.  She  is  now 
writing  the  third  novel  in  the 
Jazz  Jasper  series. 

Elephants'  Graveyard 
Ballantine  Books 

McQuillan's  Kenya,  the 
setting  for  her  second  novel, 
is  Isak  Dinesen's,  70  years 
later,  a  paradise  lost  but  still 
breathtaking  and  rich  in 
wildlife.  Recovering  from  a 


KARIN  McQuillan 

AUTHOR  OF  DEADLY     SAFARI 

ELEPHANTS' 
GKAVEYARD 


Mltoi4 


bad  marriage  and  a  worse 
divorce,  American  expatriate 
Jazz  Jasper  happily  ekes  out  a 
living  running  safari  tours 
and  advocating  for  animal 
rights.  But  the  Kenyan  life  of 
another  American,  wealthy 
Emmet  Laird,  has  just  ended. 
His  lifeless  body  is  found 
beside  an  elephants'  watering 
hole.  Emmet's  grieving  lover, 
Mikki,  presses  her  friend  Jazz 
to  investigate  the  crime.  Jazz 
agrees,  aware  that  her  friend. 
Police  Inspector  Ormondi, 
will  severely  disapprove  of 
her  interference. 
Nonetheless,  Jazz  stalks  her 
game,  certain  that  the 
murderer  she  seeks  will  be 
someone  she  knows  well. 

Karen  L.  Palmer  '81, 

Molly  K.  Macauley  and 
Michael  D.  Bowes. 
Palmer  is  a  fellow  in  the 
Quality  of  the  Environment 
Division  at  Resources  for  the 
Future,  Washington,  DC 

Using  Economic  Incentives 

to  Regulate  Toxic 

Substances 

Resources  for  the  Future 

More  than  60,000  chemicals 
enter  into  the  many  products 
and  services  that  shape 
today's  life-styles.  The  sheer 


variety,  ubiquity  and 
economic  importance  of 
chemicals  means  that 
effective  regulation  to 
safeguard  against  undesirable 
health  or  environmental  side 
effects  is  quite  challenging. 
Traditionally,  regulation  to 
bring  about  these  safeguards 
has  taken  the  form  of 
"command  and  control,"  but 
incentive-based  schemes  can 
offer  a  flexible  alternative. 
Using  case  studies,  the 
authors  evaluate  the 
potential  attractiveness  of 
incentive-based  policies  for 
the  regulation  of  four  specific 
toxic  substances:  chlorinated 
solvents,  formaldehyde, 
cadmium  and  brominated 
flame  retardants. 

Lisa  Vogel,  M.A.  '80, 
Ph.D.  '81 

Vogel  teaches  sociology  and 
women's  studies  at  Rider 
College,  Lawrenceville,  New 
Jersey. 

Mothers  on  the  Job: 

Maternity  Policy  in  the  U.S. 

Workplace 

Rutgers  University  Press 

What  kinds  of  benefits  do 
working  mothers  need?  How 
can  the  ideals  of  equality  be 
reconciled  with  the  gender 
specificity  of  motherhood? 
Vogel  examines  the  way 
these  questions  have  long 
constituted  a  dilemma  both 
for  U.S.  public  policy  and  for 
feminist  thought.  Several 
pages  are  devoted  to  the  brief 
written  by  Louis  Brandeis 
and  Josephine  Goldmark  for 
MuUer  vs.  Oregon,  which 
reached  the  Supreme  Court, 
offering  the  legal  argument 
that  female-specific  hours 
laws  are  rational. 


44  Brandeis  Review 


Faculty  Notes 


Eric  Chasalow 

assistant  professor  of 
composition,  was  awarded  a 
$7,500  commission  by  the 
Fromm  Foundation  for 
Music  at  Harvard  University 
to  compose  a  piece  for  six 
instruments.  Two  of  his 
works  were  performed  at  the 
conference  of  the  Society  for 
Electro-Acoustic  Music  in 
the  United  States,  Austin. 
Fast  Forward  for  two 
percussion  and  tape  was 
performed,  and  The  Fury  of 
Rainstorms  for  tape  was 
presented  as  part  of  a 
choreography  workshop. 

Jacob  Cohen 

associate  professor  of 
American  studies,  had  his 
essay,  "Yes,  Oswald  Alone 
Killed  Kennedy"  chosen  for 
inclusion  in  the  1993  volume 
of  The  Best  American 
Essays. 

Martin  Cohn 

lecturer  and  senior  research 
associate  m  computer 
science,  was  program  chair 
and  James  A.  Storer 
associate  professor  of 
computer  science  and 
National  Center  for  Complex 
Systems,  was  general  chair  of 
the  annual  Data 
Compression  Conference, 
held  in  Snowbird,  Utah. 
Storer  was  coauthor  of  the 
presentation  by  Brandeis 
graduate  student  Cornel 
Constantinescu. 

Samuel  K.  Cohn,  Jr. 

professor  of  history,  was 
awarded  The  John  Simon 
Guggenheim  Fellowship, 
The  Villa  I  Tatti  Fellowship 
and  The  Institute  for 
Advanced  Study,  Princeton, 
Fellowship  for  the  academic 
year  1993-94. 


Peter  Conrad 

professor  of  sociology,  has 
coedited  with  Eugene 
Gallagher  Heahh  and  Health 
Care  in  Developing 
Countries:  Sociological 
Perspectives,  which  includes 
his  article  "Urgency  and 
Utilization  of  Emergency 
Medical  Services  in  Urban 
Indonesia:  A  Report  and 
Reflection." 

Edward  Engelberg 

professor  of  comparative 
literature  and  European 
cultural  studies,  chaired  a 
panel  on  "In  Search  of  the 
Self"  at  the  annual  American 
Comparative  Literature 
Association  Conference, 
Indiana  University. 

Gerald  D.  Fasman 

Louis  and  Bessie  Rosenfield 
Professor  of  Biochemistry, 
delivered  "Distinguishing 
Transmembrane  Helices  by 
the  Deconvolution  of 
Circular  Dichroism  Spectra 
of  Membrane  Proteins"  at 
the  Department  of 
Chemistiy,  Pennsylvania 
State  University;  the 
Department  of  Chemistry, 
SUNY-Albany;  Biophysics 
Seminar,  Bar  Elan 
University,  Ramat  Gan, 
Israel;  Life  Sciences 
Colloquium,  Weizmann 
Institute  of  Science, 
Rehovoth,  Israel;  and  the 
Department  of  Biochemistry, 
The  University  of  Alabama 
at  Birmingham. 

Margot  Fassler 

associate  professor  of  music, 
had  "Christian  Chant  from 
the  Bible  through  the 
Renaissance"  published  in 
Sacred  Sound  and  Social 
Change:  Liturgical  Music  in 
Jewish  and  Christian 
Experience. 

Gordon  Fellman 

associate  professor  of 
sociology  and  chair.  Peace 
and  Conflict  Program, 
delivered  a  paper,  "On 
Teaching  the  Sociology  of 


Empowerment,"  about  an 
experimental  course  he 
designed  with  the  help  of 
four  students  at  the  annual 
spring  conference  of  the 
Peace  Studies  Association. 

Gregory  Freeze 

professor  of  history,  is 
director  and  chief  editor  of 
the  Russian  Archive  Project, 
which  is  funded  by  the 
National  Council  for 
Research  on  Russia  and 
Eastern  Europe.  The  project 
will  prepare  and  publish 
guides  to  the  main  Russian 
archives,  including  the 
Central  Party  Archive,  which 
have  only  recently  become 
accessible  to  scholars.  He 
was  also  the  director  of  the 
Summer  Seminar  for  College 
Teachers  held  in  Moscow 
and  sponsored  by  the 
National  Endowment  of 
Humanities  to  provide 
faculty  with  the  opportunity 
to  conduct  research  in  the 
newly  opened  archival 
collections. 

Lizbeth  Hedstrom 

Lucille  P.  Markey  Assistant 
Professor  of  Biochemistry, 
was  named  Searle  Scholar  for 
1993-96. 

Jane  Hughes 

adjunct  professor  of 
economics,  spoke  on 
"Emerging  Economies — 
Marketing  Opportunities  on 
Investment  Realities"  at  the 
Thamesway-Syracuse 
University  Global 
Perspectives  Conference, 
Beaver  Creek,  Colorado. 
Conference  participants 
included  Dick  Cheney, 
former  defense  secretary; 
Richard  Breeden,  SEC 
chairman;  and  Bowman 
Cutter,  deputy  assistant  to 
President  Clinton  for 
economic  policy. 


Edward  K.  Kaplan 

professor  of  French  and 
comparative  literature, 
published  "Solipsism  and 
Dialogue  in  Baudelaire's 
Prose  Poems"  in  Modernity 
and  Revolution  in  Late 
Nineteenth-Century  France 
and  "Baudelaire  and  the 
Vicissitudes  of  Venus: 
Ethical  Irony  in  Fleurs  du 
Mai"  in  The  Shaping  of  Text: 
Style.  Imagery,  and 
Structure  in  French 
Literature.  He  also 
contributed  a  chapter  on  the 
life  and  thought  of  Abraham 
Joshua  Heschel  in 
Interpreters  of  Judaism  in 
the  Late  Twentieth  Century. 
He  spoke  at  Smith  College  as 
a  respondent  to  two  papers, 
"Emmanuel  Levinas  and 
French  (ewish  Philosophy" 
and  "Levinas  and  the 
Talmud  in  Christian 
Thought,"  in  a  symposium, 
"New  Perspectives  on 
Jewish-Christian  Relations." 

Ethan  B.  Kapstein 

assistant  professor  of 
international  relations,  had 
his  book.  The  Political 
Economy  of  National 
Security,  recognized  as  an 
"Outstanding  Academic 
Book"  for  1992  by  the  editors 
of  Choice  magazine. 

Lydian  String  Quartet 

artists-in-residence,  was 
presented  an  award  from  the 
American  Society  of 
Composers,  Authors  and 
Publishers  (ASCAP)  for 
adventuresome  programming 
in  chamber  music  at  the 
Chamber  Music  America 
conference  in  New  York. 
They  also  received  a  grant 
from  The  Aaron  Copland 
Foundation  that  will  enable 
them  to  present  a  series  of 
concerts  featuring 
contemporary  American 
music  next  season.  The 
Lydians  have  been  appointed 
to  the  faculty  of  the  Yale 
Summer  School  of  Music  and 


45  Summer  1993 


Art  and  their  Harmonia 
Mundi  recording,  "The 
Quartets  of  John  Harbison," 
was  named  Best 
Contemporary  Recording  of 
1992  m  the  Boston  Globe. 

Robert  L.  Marshall 

Louis,  Frances  and  Jeffrey 
Sachar  Professor  of  Music, 
delivered  "Bach's  tempo 
oidinario:  A  Plaine  and  Easie 
Introduction  to  the  System" 
and  "Origins  of  the  Weil- 
Tempered  Clavier"  as  the 
principal  speaker  at  the  1993 
Festival  Johann  Sebastian 
Bach,  Boston  University. 

Jessie  Ann  Owens 

associate  professor  of  music, 
presented  her  paper, 
"Palestrina  at  Work,"  at  the 
Music,  Musicians  and 
Musical  Culture  in 
Renaissance  Rome 
Conference  that  was  held  in 
conjunction  with  the  Vatican 
exhibit  "Rome  Reborn," 
Library  of  Congress, 
Washington,  DC. 

Thomas  Pochapsky 

assistant  professor  of 
chemistry,  has  received  the 
Camille  and  Henry  Dreyfus 
Teacher-Scholar  Award  for 
1993.  The  award  mcludes  the 
allocation  of  $5,000  to  the 
chemistry  department  for 
undergraduate  educational 
puiposes. 

Antony  Polonsky 

visiting  professor  of  East 
European  Jewish  history, 
edited  volume  7  of  Polin:  A 
Journal  of  Polish-Jewish 
Studies:  Sara  Rosen's  My 
Lost  World:  A  Survivor's 
Tale:  and  Jacob  Gerstenfeld- 
Maltiel's  My  Private  War: 
One  Man 's  Struggle  to 
Survive  the  Soviets  and  the 
Nazis. 

Benjamin  C.I.  Ravid 

Jennie  and  Mayer  Weisman 
Professor  of  Jewish  History, 
chaired  a  panel  on  "Medieval 
Jewish  History"  at  the 
annual  conference  of  the 


Association  for  Jewish 
Studies.  His  article,  "A  Tale 
of  Three  Cities  and  Their 
Raison  d'Etat:  Ancona, 
Venice,  Livorno  and  the 
Competition  for  Jewish 
Merchants  in  the  Sixteenth 
Century,"  appeared  in  the 
Mediterranean  Historical 
Review. 

Rhonda  Rider 

artist-in-residence  in  music 
and  a  member  of  the  Lydian 
String  Quartet,  was 
presented  in  concert  with 
pianist  Lois  Shapiro  at  the 
University  of  Qregon,  San 
Francisco  State  University 
and  California  State 
University  at  Davis.  She  also 
worked  with  student 
composers  and  performed 
with  members  of  the  Pacific 
Rim  Gamelon  in  a  new  work 
by  composer  Robert  Kyr.  In 
New  York,  Rider  took  part  in 
the  "Wall  To  Wall,  Off  The 
Wall"  new  music  series  at 
Symphony  Space,  performing 
a  piece  for  amplified  cello  by 
Lee  Hyla.  She  was  featured  in 
Mobius  Band  for  solo  cello, 
soprano  and  orchestra  on  a 
compact  disc  of  the  works  of 
composer  Steve  Mackey, 
Ph.D.  '83,  released  on 
Newport  Classics. 

Jonathan  D.  Sarna 

Joseph  H.  and  Belle  R.  Braun 
Professor  of  American  Jewish 
History,  spoke  at  the 
University  of  Michigan's 
Conference  on  Jews  and  the 
Encounter  with  the  New 
World.  He  also  coedited  A 
Double  Bond:  The 
Constitutional  Documents 
of  American  Jewry. 


Silvan  S.  Schweber 

professor  of  physics  and 
Richard  Koret  Professor  in 
the  History  of  Ideas, 
delivered  two  lectures  at 
Cornell  University:  "Telling 
the  life  of  H.A.  Bethe"  to  the 
Newman  Laboratory  of 
Nuclear  Studies  and  "The 
Present  Crisis  in  the  Physical 
Sciences"  to  the  Department 
of  Social  Studies  of  Science. 
As  the  invited  speaker  at  the 
annual  meeting  of  the 
American  Physical  Society  in 
Washington,  he  spoke  on 
"Physics  at  Cornell:  The  Post 
World  War  II  Period." 

William  Shipman 

lecturer  in  physical 
education,  was  named  to 
serve  a  three-year  term  on 
the  National  Collegiate 
Athletic  Association  (NCAA) 
Fencing  Committee  by  the 
NCAA.  The  Fencing 
Committee  oversees  the 
NCAA  regional  and  national 
championships  and  governs 
the  sport's  collegiate 
competition. 

Stephen  J.  Whitfield 

Max  Richter  Professor  of 
American  Civilization, 
lectured  on  Jewish  histoiy  at 
the  University  of  Colorado 
and  at  Michigan  State 
University.  He  also  served  as 
Fulbright  Visiting  Professor 
of  American  Studies  at  the 
Catholic  University  of 
Louvain,  Belgium.  He 
published  two  articles: 
"Value  Added:  Jews  in 
Postwar  American  Culture" 
in  volume  8  of  Studies  in 
Contemporary  Jewry  and 
"The  Jew  as  Wisdom  Figure" 
in  Modern  Judaism. 

Constance  W.  Williams 

associate  professor.  The 
Heller  School,  was  awarded  a 
Doctorate  of  Humane  Letters 
honoris  causa  at  the 
commencement  ceremony 
for  Curry  College,  Milton, 
Massachusetts. 


Staff 

Albert  S.  Axelrad 

Jewish  chaplain,  traveled  to 
Warsaw  to  lecture  and  teach 
in  the  local  Jewish 
community  and  conduct 
memorial  services  at  the  site 
of  Auschwitz-Birkenau  and 
Treblinka.  He  also  was  the 
subject  of  a  profile,  in 
Swedish,  by  Ingrid  Lomfers,  a 
former  student  in  the 
Hornstein  Graduate 
Program. 

Brenda  Marder 

director  of  publications, 
announces  that  the  catalog 
for  the  Rose  Ait  Museum's 
exhibit,  Kiki  Smith: 
Unfolding  the  Body,  has 
been  selected  as  a  winner  in 
the  category  of  exhibition 
catalogs  by  the  1993 
American  Association  of 
Museums  Pubhcations 
Design  Competition.  The 
catalog,  designed  by 
Charles  Dunham, 
design  director  in  the 
publications  office,  and 
written  by  Susan  Stoops, 
curator  of  the  museum,  won 
second  prize.  The  catalog, 
Stanley  Boxer:  45  Years,  also 
designed  by  Dunham, 
and  written  by  the  Rose  Art 
Museum's  director 
Carl  Belz,  received 
honorable  mention. 


46  Brandeis  Review 


Alumni 


Alums  Make  Aliyah 


when  I  visited  Israel  this 
past  January  I  met  with  as 
many  Brandeis  alumni  as 
possible.  I  wanted  to  hear 
firsthand  about  their  lives  in 
Israel,  what  it  might  be  like 
to  grow  up  there,  or  to  be 
bom  in  North  America  and 
move  to  Israel  as  an  adult. 
The  10  alums  I  interviewed 
eagerly  invited  me  into  their 
workplaces  and  homes  to  tell 
their  stories. 

Unlike  most  American-bom 
Israelis,  Minam  Laufer  '79 
had  the  opportunity  to  live  in 
Israel  as  a  teenager  from  1971 
to  1973  when  her  family 
made  aliyah.  "I  was  very 
committed  to  coming  back 
and  living  in  Israel  forever." 
Laufer  met  her  future 
husband,  Peretz  Rodman  '75, 
M.A.  '83,  at  Brandeis  when 
he  was  in  his  second  year  of 
graduate  school  and  she  was 
a  transfer  sophomore.  They 
were  married  a  week  after 
her  graduation  on  the 
Brandeis  campus. 

In  1982  Rodman,  who  had 
already  been  to  Israel  on 
Hebrew  University's  One 
Year  Program  and  had  stayed 
on  an  additional  year,  applied 
and  was  accepted  for 
Jerusalem  Fellows,  a  project 
of  the  World  Zionist 
Organization  to  train 
professionals  for  senior 
positions  in  Jewish 
education.  Says  Laufer,  "We 
did  that  from  '82  to  '85.  They 
paid  for  everything.  The  idea 
is  after  three  years,  you  give 
five  years  to  Jewish 
education  in  America,  or 
wherever  you  came  from. 

"But  we  came  here  for  this 
program  because  it  seemed  it 
was  a  good  way  to  get  to 
Israel  sooner  than  we  might 
otherwise. 


"We  ended  up  in 
Washington,  D.C.,  and  he 
had  to  work  for  five  years  in 
Jewish  education:  those  were 
the  terms  of  the  fellowship." 
But  in  1990  Rodman  and 
Laufer,  together  with  their 
three  small  children,  made 
aliyah  back  to  Israel. 

Many  of  the  Brandeis  alums  I 
spoke  with  moved  to  Israel 
without  job  offers.  David 
Eisenstodt  '84  arrived  in 
1985.  "The  employment 
conditions  m  Israel  at  the 
time  were  horrendous.  I  took 
the  first  job  I  got.  But  then  I 
started  getting  all  kinds  of 
free-lance  jobs  in  Jewish 
education  and  in  writing 
through  friends  I  had  met  as 
a  Zionist  activist  in  America. 
I  think  what  it  ultimately 
comes  down  to  is  a  desire  not 
to  give  up  after  some  hard 
knocks  m  the  beginning." 

After  completing  his  army 
service,  Eisenstodt  found 
work  with  the  Society  for  the 
Protection  of  Nature  in 
Israel.  He  became  editor  of 
Israel:  Land  and  Nature,  and 
is  now  an  environmental 
guide.  "Working  as  an 
environmental  educator  in 
this  country,  taking  people 
around  the  Judean  Desert 
and  speaking  about  what  my 
ancestors  did  out  there  and 
their  connection  with  the 
environment  and  what  it 
should  mean  about  our 
connection  with  the 
environment  today,  is  much 
more  meaningful  for  me  than 
if  I  were  an  environmental 
educator  in  some  place  in  the 
Adirondacks  or  Colorado,  as 
beautiful  as  those  places 
are." 


Debbie  Rittner 


Norma  Schneider  '55  went  to 
Israel  as  a  temporary  resident 
in  1970  at  the  age  of  36, 
without  knowing  a  soul 
there.  "While  I  was  still  in 
Ulpan  I  went  to  the 
Academic  Placement  Center 
of  the  Sochnut.  It  tumed  out 
the  guy  wasn't  supposed  to 
deal  with  people  who  were 
here,  but  only  with  people 
who  hadn't  come  to  the 
country  yet.  But  he  sent  out 
my  resume  to  about  a  dozen 
places  and  I  got  three  or  four 
interviews;  one  of  them  was 
at  the  Israel  Academy  of 
Sciences  and  Humanities  as 
a  copy  editor,  a  job  I  had 
never  done.  But  I  had  always 
wanted  to  be  in  publishing.  I 
stayed  there  for  nine  years, 
later  becoming  the  director 
of  English  publications." 

Linda  Scherzer  '82,  like 
Schneider,  arrived  in  Israel 
with  few  prior  connections 
m  1988.  "I  wanted  to  leam 
what  it  was  like  to  shop  in 
an  Israeli  supennarket,  to 
deal  with  that  horrible  Israeli 
bureaucracy,  to  make  Israeli 
friends,  to  leam  the  language, 
to  experience  life  here  to  the 
fullest  extent  that  an 
American  or  Canadian  can.  I 
came  with  the  idea  that  I 
wanted  to  spend  at  least  two 


months,  or  possibly  the  rest 
of  my  life.  My  goal  was  to 
find  work  in  broadcast 
television.  And  I  got  the 
proverbial  lucky  break. 

"What  happened  to  me 
doesn't  happen  to  very  many 
people  in  life.  I  went  from 
the  95th  television  market  in 
the  United  States, 
Burlington,  Vermont, 
covering  cow  auctions  and 
city  council  meetings,  to 
Israel  where  I  was  hired 
within  a  month  by  CNN  and 
started  covering  the  intifada, 
which  at  the  time  was  the 
hottest  story  on  the 
international  scene."  Later, 
Scherzer  gained  TV  celebrity 
when  she  covered  the  Gulf 
War  for  CNN  in  Tel  Aviv. 

Linda  Cohen  Maurice  '84 
was  also  a  television 
journalist  and  had  visited 
Israel  three  times,  including 
Hebrew  University's  One 
Year  Program.  She  was 
working  as  a  desk  assistant 
for  NBC  m  1986  when  NBC 
started  going  into  financial 
trouble.  "So  I  came  to  Israel 
and  hung  out  at  the  NBC 


47  Summer  1993 


Baruch  Levy 


bureau  here,  with  the  hLiie.ui 
chief.  He  introduced  me  to 
different  organizations,  and  I 
met  the  head  of  what  was 
going  to  be  the  brand  new 
CBC,  the  Canadian 
Broadcasting  Bureau.  He  had 
already  hired  a  producer  but 
before  even  starting  the  job, 
the  candidate  had  left.  So  he 
interviewed  me,  and  I  got  the 
job." 

But  once  one  finds  work,  the 
challenge  comes  in  settling 
into  Israeli  life  for  the  long 
haul.  Laufer  and  Rodman 
explained,  "We  have  jobs  but 
we  don't  make  enough 
money.  We  each  work  more 
than  a  full-time  job.  So  we 
feel  very  strapped 
economically,  and  that's  new 
for  us." 

According  to  Maurice,  who 
is  now  married  and  raising  an 
infant,  "It  is  hard  to  be  apart 
from  family.  It  bothered  me 
before,  pre-baby,  but  not  as 
much  as  it  does  now.  I  like 
my  life  here,  but  since  I've 
had  Meirah,  I'm  a  bit  more 
torn  than  I  was.  It's  very  hard 
knowing  my  family  won't 
see  her  in  all  her 
development." 


1  hen  thcu  ciie  the  cultural 
adjustments.  Steve  Kaplan 
'75,  chair  of  the  African 
studies  department  at 
Hebrew  University, 
explained  it  to  me.  "When 
you  come  here  initially, 
suddenly  you  acquire  a  much 
stronger  American  identity 
than  you  ever  had  before  in 
your  life.  If  in  America  you 
were  a  lew,  you  come  to 
Israel  and  you're  an 
American.  Clearly  there  are 
elements  about  me  that  are 
very  American.  People  often 
comment  on  it:  most  of  the 
reading  I  do  is  in  English;  I 
follow  American  sportS; 
there's  something  about  the 
way  I  dress." 

Says  Eisenstodt,  "As  a  tour 
guide  and  an  environmental 
educator,  I  see  certain 
aspects  of  environmental 
awareness  that  have  come  of 
age  in  America  that  haven't 
yet  taken  root  here.  Litter  is 
a  huge  problem  in  this 
country  and  I  think,  while  all 
other  environmental  groups 


in  this  country  care  about  it, 
it  doesn't  seem  as 
screamingly  obvious  to  them 
as  it  does  to  me  sometimes." 

But  North  American-born 
Brandeis  alums  know  their 
American-ness  can  play  a 
positive  role  in  the  society 
they  now  live  in,  "like  the 
level  of  service  when  dealing 
with  people,"  as  Eisenstodt 
puts  it.  "But  that  level  of 
service  that  I  think  is 
basically  an  American 
quality  has  worked  very 
much  to  my  benefit  in  terms 
of  receiving  specific  jobs 
where  they  want  somebody 
whom  they  can  trust  to  give 
a  higher  level  of  service 
when  dealing  with  people." 

One's  American-ness  is, 
perhaps,  even  a  necessary 
contribution  for  the  future  of 
Israeli  society  as  a  whole. 
Says  Rodman,  "Cultural 
pluralism,  religious 
pluralism,  democratic  values, 
American  liberal  political 
values  are  very  important  to 
us.  That's  part  of  what  I  can 
contribute  here." 

Of  course,  there  are  many 
positives  about  the  quality  of 
life  in  Israel.  Says  Eisenstodt, 
"There's  a  whole  other  side 
of  Israeli  life  that's  very 
comfortable  and  fulfilling 
and  nice  and  friendly  and  I  do 
miss  it  even  when  I  go  back 
to  the  States  for  short  periods 
of  time."  Laufer  explained  it 
to  me.  "Here  people  aren't 
always  necessarily  nice  to 
you  but,  at  the  same  time,  if 
you're  in  trouble  they  will  go 
out  of  their  way  for  you. 

"My  son  was  three  and  my 
mother  was  waiting  with 
him  at  a  bus  stop  and  the  bus 
came  and,  while  they  were 
sitting  there,  my  son  had 
somehow  managed  to  get  his 
knee  caught  in  the  seat  of  the 
bus  stop.  There  were  two 
slats  of  wood  and  there  was  a 
space  in  between  and  the 
child  said,  'I  can't  move,  my 
leg  is  stuck.'  So  did  the  bus 
driver  close  the  door  and 
drive  away?  No.  My  mother 
said  'Wait,  help  me!'  He  said 


'What's  wrong;'  She  said  'My 
grandson  is  stuck.'  Well,  the 
bus  driver  gets  down  and  half 
the  people  get  down  off  the 
bus  and  there's  a  big 
conference  about  how  to  get 
the  child's  leg  out.  They  take 
10  minutes  to  do  this.  They 
finally  get  his  leg  unstuck. 
Everybody  was  overly 
concerned.  There  was  a  child 
in  trouble.  It  was  their  duty 
to  help." 

And  then  there  are  the 
advantages  of  living  in  a 
country  of  only  five  million 
people,  according  to  Kaplan, 
author  of  six  books  on 
Ethiopia  and  Ethiopian  Jews. 
"Ethiopian  history  and 
culture  is  about  as  obscure  as 
you  can  get  in  terms  of  areas 
to  study.  I've  met  with 
cabinet  ministers  about  it, 
which  is  one  of  the  things  I 
like  about  Israel.  It's  so 
small.  Can  you  imagine  in 
the  States  meeting  with 
cabinet-level  people?" 

But  what  is  the  most 
important  reason  for  staying 
on  in  Israel  10,  15,  20  years 
or  more?  Says  Kaplan,  "Most 
of  the  people  I  know  stay 
basically  because,  in  the  end, 
it's  home.  It's  where  your 
friends  are,  it's  where  your 
kids  go  to  school,  it's  where 
your  job  is,  it's  where  your 
apartment  is.  There's 
obviously  an  ideological 
component,  but  I  don't  wake 
up  in  the  morning  thinking 
I'm  here  because  of  some 
Zionist  dream.  You  end  up 
staying  because  it's  where 
you  live." 

And  for  those  Brandeis  alums 
born  or  brought  up  there, 
Israel  has  been  home  for 
most  of  their  lives.  Mordy 
Hurwich  '79  left  New  York 
for  good  in  1968  when  he 
was  10.  How  did  Hurwich 
end  up  at  Brandeis?  "In  what 
would  have  been  12th  grade 
here  my  father  accepted  a 


48  Brandeis  Review 


Peretz  Rodman  and  Miriam 
Laufer 


i 


position  at  Harvard  Medical 
School,  his  sabbatical  year. 
Rather  than  attend  12th 
grade  m  the  States,  I  applied 
for  early  admission.  My 
parents  wanted  it  to  be  in  the 
Boston  area.  And  it  was  so 
late  in  the  year  that  not  too 
many  schools  considered  my 
application.  Brandeis  did  and 
accepted  me,  so  I  got  to 
Brandeis." 

But  he  cotildn't  take  for 
granted  having  four  years  to 
study  for  a  bachelor's  degree. 
"I  received  my  first  draft 
notice.  After  my  first  year  at 
Brandeis,  1  was  supposed  to 
be  drafted  into  the  Israeli 
army.  But  I  kind  of  battled 
the  army  into  allowing  me  to 
continue  my  studies  until 
completion.  And,  at  first,  the 
army  didn't  want  me  to 
continue  my  studies  until 
completion  and  I  was  even 
listed  as  AWOL,  a  draft 
dodger,  I  guess.  But 
eventually  we  came  to  an 
agreement  whereby  they 
would  permit  me  to  continue 
my  studies,  to  complete  my 
degree  on  condition  that,  in 
addition  to  the  three 
obligatory  years,  I'd  sign  on 
for  two  additional  years.  I 
was  concentrating  in 
computer  science  and  history 
at  Brandeis.  The  computer 
science  was  something  that 
interested  them.  I  graduated 
May  27,  1979.  I  got  back  to 
Israel  mid-July.  Two  weeks 
later  I  was  in  the  army." 


Baruch  Levy,  Ph.D.  '80,  came 
to  Brandeis  from  Israel  under 
a  very  different  set  of 
circumstances.  He  had 
served  as  the  advisor  on 
social  policy  to  the  late 
Prime  Minister  Golda  Meir 
from  1973  to  1977.  "In  1977 
there  was  a  change  of 
administrations  so  I  found 
myself  out  of  office,  as  many 
officers  do  when  there  is  a 
change  of  political 
administration,  and  I  said  to 
myself  that  I  should  seize 
that  opportunity  and  try  to 
pursue  my  academic  studies. 

"Prime  Minister  Begin  gave 
me  a  letter  of 
recommendation.  He,  of 
course,  asked  me  to  stay  on 
in  spite  of  the  change  of  the 
government.  But  I  said  to 
him  that  I've  already 
arranged  for  the  Ph.D. 
studies  at  Brandeis  and  he 
agreed  with  me,  that  that 
was  an  opportunity  I 
shouldn't  miss." 

Levy  was  45  years  old  when 
he  arrived  on  campus  and 
had  already  completed  23 
years  of  military  service, 
including  a  position  as 
commanding  officer  of 
Gadna,  the  youth  command. 
"And  at  that  age  I  got  to 
Brandeis  and  I  forgot  all  the 
stars  and  all  the  higher 


positions  I  had  and  I  began 
my  studies  and  work  as  a 
student,  as  a  Ph.D.  candidate 
at  The  Heller  School.  I  didn't 
have  time  to  slow  down,  so  I 
worked  day  and  night,  and 
after  two  and  a  half  years  I 
got  my  Ph.D.  in  1980." 

Chaim  Kalcheim,  M.A.  '61, 
on  the  other  hand,  never 
planned  to  come  to  Brandeis 
at  all.  He  was  completing  his 
master's  degree  at  Columbia 
in  public  law  and 
government  and  he  was 
looking  for  some  income  for 
continuing  his  studies  in 
Paris.  He  had  a  diploma  from 
the  Teachers'  Institute  of 
Yeshiva  University  "so  that  I 
could  earn  a  living  while 
being  in  the  States  as  a 
certified  teacher." 

In  the  summer  of  1960  he 
met  Professor  Nahum 
Glatzer  who,  at  the  time, 
was  the  head  of  the  Near 
Eastern  and  Judaic  Studies 
department.  Glatzer  offered 
Kalcheim  a  scholarship  for 
graduate  studies  at  NEJS.  "I 
told  him  'I'm  packing  up  to 
go  to  Israel.'  But  I  had  a  very 
good  background  in  Jewish 
studies  and  he  felt  that  that 
might  contribute  to  the 
discussion  in  class.  I 
answered  'I  don't  intend  to 
stay  more  than  that  year.  I'm 
not  taking  upon  myself  any 
obligations  for  a  diploma.'  He 
said  'Okay,  it's  fine.  You 
won't  have  to  pay  for  your 
studies.  Just  come  to  class.' 
So  I  did.  And,  within  two 
months,  my  appetite  grew 


and  I  decided  that  I  was  going 
to  go  through  with  all  the 
requirements  for  the  master's 
degree.  I  must  say  that  my 
years  at  Brandeis  were  some 
of  the  most  beautiful  that  I 
had  because  it  was  the  first 
time  that  I  studied  for  the 
sake  of  study  and  not  for  any 
stepping  stone  in  a  career,  or 
for  advancing  my  status." 

All  the  alums  I  interviewed, 
native  Israeli  and  North 
American-born  alumni  alike, 
value  their  Brandeis 
connection  and  maintain 
strong  ties  with  one  another. 
Scherzer  helped  Maurice 
land  free-lance  work  with 
CNN  during  the  Gulf  War. 
Schneider,  who  serves  as  an 
advisory  editor  to  New  York 
University  Press,  found 
Kaplan  a  publisher  for  his 
two  most  recent  books.  Levy 
was  back  at  Brandeis  just  last 
November.  "I  am  assisting 
The  Heller  School  to  select 
students,  especially  for  its 
master's  program,  the 
master's  in  management  of 
human  services." 

Brandeis  University  is  alive 
and  well  in  Israel. 

Debbie  Rittner  '79 

Debbie  Rittner  '79,  a 
professional  storyteller, 
specializes  in  "real  life" 
stories. 


49  Summer  1993 


Plan  Now  for  Fall 

Campus 

Celebrations 


Max  Lerner 
Symposium 


Three  concurrent  alumni 
events  will  take  place  on  the 
weekend  of  October  1-3: 
Reunion  for  the  classes  of 
1973,  1978,  1983  and  1988, 
Homecoming  and  the  35th 
anniversary  of  the  founding 
of  the  Wien  International 
Scholarship  Program. 

"We  are  really  looking 
forward  to  this  first  fall 
Reunion  under  our  new  dual 
Reunion  program,"  says  Lori 
B.  Cans  '83,  M.M.H.S.  '86, 
director  of  alumni  relations. 
"There  will  be  many 
opportunities  for  faculty, 
alumni  and  student 
interaction  that  simply 
cannot  take  place  during 
Commencement  weekend." 

A  welcome-back  dinner  will 
feature  Jehuda  Reinharz, 
Ph.D.  '72,  provost  and  senior 
vice  president  for  academic 
affairs,  addressing  Reunion 
classes  about  the  state  of  the 
academy.  Individual  class 
gatherings  will  follow  that 
evening.  A  barbecue  and 
family  picnic  will  bring 
together  Reunion  alumni 
from  the  5th,  lOth,  I5th  and 
20th  classes,  recent  alumni 
and  Wien  International 
Scholar  alumni  on  campus 
for  a  variety  of  Homecoming 
activities  and  to  enjoy  the 
New  England  foliage  and  the 
festivities  of  a 
comprehensive  Brandeis 
weekend. 


After  the  Nuptials 


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longer  accepts  engagement 
announcements.  Please  save 
the  good  news  until  after  the 

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Each  Reunion  class  will  have 
its  own  activities  on 
Saturday,  and  a  separate 
Wien  program  will  include 
members  of  the  late 
Lawrence  Wien's  family, 
current  Wien  students  and 
returning  Wien  alumni. 

Saturday  afternoon  will 
feature  a  keynote  address  by 
a  prominent  international 
alumnus,  an  alumni  authors 
reception  and  a  President's 
reception  where  President 
Samuel  O.  Thier  will  greet 


Alumni  Join 
Government 


Joining  other  alumni  already 
serving  in  Washington  are 
Fernando  Torres-Gil  '72, 
M.S.W.,  Ph.D.  '76,  Stanley 
Roth  '75  and  Ira  Shapiro  '62. 
Torres-Gil  has  been 
appointed  by  President 
Clinton  to  be  the  new 
assistant  secretary  of  aging  in 
the  Department  of  Health 
and  Human  Services.  Shapiro 
is  serving  as  general  counsel 
to  United  States  Trade 
Representative  Michael 
(Mickey)  Cantor.  Shapiro's 
job  is  to  ensure  that  the 
Office  of  the  Trade 
Representative,  which 
reports  directly  to  President 
Clinton,  adheres  to  the  scope 
and  purposes  for  which  the 
position  was  founded  by 
Congress  and  acts  in 
compliance  with  the 
provisions  of  the  Trade  Act 
of  1974. 


returning  alumni.  Individual 
dinner  dances  for  each 
Reunion  class  and  a  special 
Wien  dinner  will  follow. 

Sunday  brunches  for 
Reunion  alumni  and  Wien 
alumni  will  precede  the 
Homecoming  soccer  games 
vs.  Washington  University. 
Additional  Homecoming 
events  will  be  sponsored  by 
Friends  of  Brandeis  Athletics 
and  various  Brandeis  student 
organizations. 

For  further  information 
about  any  of  these  events, 
please  contact  the  Office  of 
Alumni  Relations  at 
617-736-4110. 


Alumni  Authors 
Archive  Grows 
during  First  Year 


Brandeis  alumni  authors 
have  responded  to  a  call  to 
contribute  signed  volumes  of 
their  books  to  the  year-old 
AJumni  Authors  Archive  in 
the  Farber/Goldfarb  Library. 
In  its  first  year,  more  than 
200  volumes  have  been 
received  by  the  Office  of 
Alumni  Relations  and 
contributed  to  the  Library. 

University  Librarian  Bessie 
Hahn  is  pleased  with  the 
initial  response  and  is  proud 
to  include  works  by  alumni 
in  the  special  Alumni 
Authors  Archive  collection. 
Lori  B.  Cans  '83,  M.M.H.S. 
'86,  director  of  alumni 
relations,  encourages  more 
alumni  authors  to  contribute 
their  books  to  inspire 
students  and  future  scholars 
with  the  intellectual 
accomplishments  of  alumni. 

Books  should  be  sent  to 
Brandeis  University,  Office 
of  Alumni  Relations, 
P.O.  Box  9110,  Waltham, 
MA  02254-91 10. 


Approximately  200  persons 
came  to  Hassenfeld 
Conference  Center  to  hear 
tributes  to  Max  Lerner,  the 
holder  of  the  first  endowed 
professorship  at  Brandeis 
University,  and  one  of  the 
20th  century's  leading 
joumalist-scholars,  who 
taught  at  Brandeis  between 
1949  and  1973. 

Three  of  Lemer's  former 
students  joined  Lawrence  H. 
Fuchs,  Meyer  and  Walter 
Jaffe  Professor  in  American 
Civilization,  in  speaking  on 
the  topic  that  Lerner 
addressed  in  his  1,000-page 
volume,  America  as  a 
Civilization,  by  asking:  What 
do  we  mean  by  American 
civilization,  and  what  holds 
it  together?  Martin  Peretz 
'59,  editor  in  chief  of  The 
New  Republic,  was  joined  by 
Philippa  Strumm  '59, 
professor  of  political  science 
at  Brooklyn  College,  and 
Professor  Sanford  Lakoff  '54, 
founder  of  the  Department  of 
Political  Science  at  the 
University  of  Cahfomia,  San 
Diego. 

Attending  the  event  was 
Lemer's  former  wife,  Edna 
Lerner,  and  their  son,  Adam 
Lerner.  Also  at  the  event 
were  several  professors 
emeriti  who  knew  Lerner  in 
the  1950s  and  1960s. 
Speaking  for  them  were 
professors  emeriti  Frank 
Manuel  and  Saul  Cohen. 

The  Max  Richter  chair  in 
American  Civilization,  now 
held  by  Professor  Stephen 
Whitfield,  Ph.D.  '72,  was 
created  when  Charles  Segal, 
the  trustee  of  the  Richter 
Foundation,  decided  to 
endow  the  first  professorship 
at  Brandeis.  Segal,  who  died 
in  January  1993,  lived  to  see 
two  of  his  grandchildren, 
Mark  Gatof  '77  and  Wendy 
Gatof  Malina  '74,  graduate 
from  Brandeis. 


50  Brandeis  Review 


Nominations 
Sought  for 
Association,  Term 
TVustee 


Starting  Letters- 
to-the-Editor 


Each  summer,  alumni  are 
encouraged  to  reflect  on 
fellow  Brandeisians  they 
believe  can  represent  the 
interests  of  the  Alumni 
Association  and  the 
University  in  responsible 
positions  by  nominating 
such  individuals  for  positions 
on  the  Alumni  Association 
Board  of  Directors  and  for  a 
single  position  as  Alumni 
Term  Trustee. 

Nominations  are  now  in 
order  for  four  member-at- 
large  positions  for  the  1994 
ballot.  These  individuals  will 
serve  a  three-year  term  on 
the  Alumni  Association 
Board  of  Directors. 
Nominations  may  be  sent 
with  personal 
recommendations  and 
supporting  biographical 
materials  to  the  attention  of 
nominating  committee  chair; 
Charles  S.  Eisenberg  70 


c/o  the  Office  of 
Development  and  Alumni 
Relations  at  the  address 
below. 

Michael  Sandel  '75,  chair  of 
the  Alumni  Term  Trustee 
Nominating  Committee, 
seeks  nominations  and 
credentials  of  alumni 
qualified  to  serve  a  five-year 
term  as  Alumni  Term 
Trustee  on  the  University's 
Board  of  Trustees.  This 
position  requires  a  prior 
record  of  leadership,  service 
and  commitment  to  Brandeis 
and  significant  experience  in 
other  organizations  as  well. 
Nominations  for  this 
position  should  be  sent  to: 
Michael  Sandel  '75,  chair. 
Alumni  Term  Trustee 
Nominating  Committee 
c/o  Brandeis  University, 
Office  of  Development  and 
Alumni  Relations,  P.O.  Box 
9110,  Waltham,  MA  02254- 
9110. 


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^  The  Greening  of  America 
Starts  at  Brandeis 


Let  us  explain.  You  can  make  a  minimum  gift  of  $10,000  to  a 
Brandeis  life-income  plan  and  beat  the  annual  income  retum 
of  many  blue-chip  stocks,  CDs  and  other  investment  vehicles. 

Every  quarter  for  the  rest  of  your  life  you  will  receive  a  check 
from  Brandeis — putting  a  little  extra  green  in  your  pocket. 

At  the  same  time,  your  unrestricted  gift  will  help  support  a  full 
range  of  important  Brandeis  programs,  such  as  environmental 
workshops  on  the  Charles  River,  toxicology  research  and 
our  students'  recycling  initiatives. 

The  government  will  even  give  you  a  charitable  tax  deduction 
as  an  extra  thank  you. 

To  learn  more  about  the  many  benefits  of  Brandeis's  life-income 
plans,  please  contact  the  Brandeis  University  Office  of  Planned  Giving, 
P.O.  Box  91 10,  Waltham,  MA  02254-91 10  617-736-4030  or 
1-800-333-1948. 

Our  professional  staff  is  available  to  you  and  your  advisors  for 
consultation  and  assistance. 


51  Summer  1993 


Four  Classes  Enjoy 
Intimate  Reunions 


Perfect  weather  and  a  late- 
blossoming  spring  created  a 
picture-book  campus 
backdrop  for  the  reunion  of 
over  300  alumni  and  guests 
from  the  classes  of  1953, 
1958,  1963  and  1968  for  a 
weekend  that  began  with 
Alumni  College  and 
concluded  with 
Commencement  '93.  This 
Reunion,  marking  the  first 
time  in  over  20  years  that 
only  four  classes  returned  to 
campus,  allowed  the 
University  to  provide  quality 
meeting  spaces  and  more 
attention  by  faculty,  staff  and 
administration  than  in  the 
recent  past. 

This  year's  Reunion 
combined  intellectual 
offerings  with  social  ones, 
starting  with  Alumni 
College  '93,  "Inquiry  and 
Imagination."  A  highlight  of 


the  day  was  a  three-way 
round  robin  match  of  wits 
between  three  College  Bowl 
teams:  the  championship 
team  of  1968,  returning  to 
campus  for  their  25th 
Reunion;  the  faculty  team, 
known  as  "The  Brats";  and 
the  current  1993  College 
Bowl  team.  In  two  warm-up 
rounds.  The  Brats  blew  away 
the  alumni  team  315  to  75 
and  the  students  trounced 
The  Brats  324  to  135.  The 
final  match  between  the 
1968  team  and  the  1993 
team  was  a  close  one  during 
the  first  seven-minute  half, 
with  the  students  holding  a 
narrow  lead  of  20  points. 


However,  the  1993  team 
could  do  no  wrong  in  the 
second  half,  and  surged  ahead 
to  end  the  match  with  a  100- 
point  margin  of  victory,  280 
to  180,  in  a  demonstration 
that  the  old  order  has 
changed,  yielding  to  a  more 
practiced  and  youthful  squad, 
and  dashing  alumni  fantasies 
of  revisiting  their  still- 
standing  records  of  the 
televised  GE  series  in  the 
1950s  and  1960s. 

Moderator  of  the  match  was 
physics  professor  Hugh 
Pendleton,  who  had  coached 
both  the  1968  and  1993 
teams.  Team  players  for  the 
1968  team  included  Jack 
Feirman  '68,  Alan  Ehrenhalt 
'68,  Anita  Siskind  '69  and 
team  captain  Eric  Wexler  '70, 
with  altemates  Jack  Bierig 


'68,  Lee  Schlesinger  '69  and 
Arthur  Chemoff  '68. 
Members  of  The  Brats 
included  William  R.  Kenan, 
Jr.,  Professor  of  Astrophysics 
David  Roberts  and  Associate 
Professor  Eric  Jensen  of  the 
physics  department,  and 
associate  professors  John 
Burt  and  William  Flesch 
from  the  English  department. 
Members  of  the  student 
team  were  Ross  Garmil  '93, 
Andrew  Weiskopf  '93,  Adam 
Diamond  '93,  Jonathan 
Schaerf  '94  and  Eli  Mlawer,  a 
graduate  student  in  physics., 

The  welcome-back  dinner 
featured  opening  remarks  by 
Alumni  Association 
president  Bruce  Litwer  '61, 
who  presented  gifts  to 


(abovcjRobeit  Gallucci, 
M.A.  73,  Ph.D.  '74.  assistant 
secretary  of  state,  delivers 
Alumni  College  keynote 
address  on  national  security 


f right IClassmates  Maurice 
Stein  '58,  left,  and  Lenore 
Edelnwn  Saltman  '58.  right, 
recognize  Class  Program 
Chair  Judith  Brecher 
Borakove  '58,  center,  for  her 
extraordinary  contribution 
and  commitment  to  the  class 


(left)Left  to  right,  Maurice 
Stein  '58,  Lawrence  Fields 
'63.  Stephen  R.  Reiner  '61 
and  Allan  Goroll  '68  present 
a  check  for  $948,125. 
representing  the  aggregate 
total  of  Reunion  giving 
as  of  May  20.  to  President 
Samuel  O.  Thier 


52  Brandeis  Review 


fie  ft)  Noah  Carp  '95  presents 
Student  Alumni  Association 
Pride  Award  to  Lois  Lindauer 
'53.  founder  of  The  Diet 
Workshop 


(above)Left  to  right.  Ron 
Hollander  '63,  Ibrahim 
Sundiata,  professor  of 
African  and  Afro-American 
studies,  and  Herman  W. 
Hemingway  '53  on  an 
Alumni  College  panel  on 
Black-fewish  relations 


Reunion  class  program  chairs 
Leila  Troyansky  '53,  ludith 
Brecher  Borakove  '58, 
Stephen  Cohen  '63  and  Jay 
Kaufman  '68  and  to  Reunion 
Gift  chairs,  Maurice  "Morry" 
Stein  '58,  Lawrence  Harris 
'63  and  Allan  Goroll  '68. 
Stephen  R.  Reiner  '61,  chair 
of  Annual  Giving,  and  the 
Reunion  Gift  chairs 
presented  a  check  for 
$948,125  to  President  Thier, 
an  aggregate  total  of  gifts  and 
pledges  received  by  Reunion 
Weekend  from  four  1993 
Reunion  classes.  Jason 
Schneider  '93  and  Jim  Herbst 
'94,  representatives  of  the 
Student  Alumni  Association, 
presented  the  first  annual 
Pride  Awards  to  a  member  of 
each  Reunion  class  whose 
accomplishments  made  the 
members  of  the  student 
association  most  proud. 
These  awards  were  presented 
to  Lois  Lindauer  '53,  founder 
and  chairman  of  The  Diet 
Workshop,  Inc.;  Elaine 


lright)1968  College  Bowl 
champions,  front  row,  left  to 
right,  fack  Fierman  '68,  Eric 
Wexler  '70,  Anita  Siskind 
Blumenthal  '69,  Alan 
Ehrenhalt  '68;  standing,  left 
to  right.  Professor  of  Physics 
Hugh  Pendelton,  Lee 
Schlesinger  '69,  Arthur 
Chernoff,  M.D.  '68  and  f. 
Bierig  '68 


Heumann  Gurian  '58,  deputy 
director  of  the  United  States 
Holocaust  Memorial 
Museum  in  Washington, 
D.C.  and  former  deputy 
director  for  public  program 
planning  for  the  National 
Museum  of  the  American 
Indian  at  the  Smithsonian 
Institute;  Charles  Teller  '63, 
United  Nations  expert  on  the 
social  demography  of 
malnutrition  at  the 
Nutrition  Institute  in 
Central  America  and  director 
of  the  International 
Nutrition  Unit  of  the  Office 
of  International  Health;  and 
Alan  Ehrenhalt  '68,  founder 
and  executive  editor  of 
Governing  magazine  and 
author  of  The  United  States 
of  Ambition:  Politicians, 
Power  and  the  Pursuit  of 
Office. 


Ronni  Yellen  '78  and  Kristen 
Petersen  Farmelant  '85  were 
recognized  on  Saturday 
morning  at  Charlie's 
Breakfast,  named  in  honor  of 
the  late  Charles  Napoli  '58, 
while  a  display  of 
photographs  taken  by  the 
University's  original 
photographer  were  featured 
at  the  Ralph  Norman 
Emeritus  Breakfast.  Two 
panels  followed,  the  first  on 
"Activism  in  the  1990s  and 
the  Brandeis  Legacy"  and  the 
second  on  "History  and 
Hope:  A  Discussion  on 
Black/Jewish  Relations." 

On  Saturday  afternoon, 
Herbert  Gross  '53  gave  the 
Phi  Beta  Kappa  address  and 
three  alumni,  Abraham 
Heller  '53,  Joan  Shapiro  '56 
and  Harvey  Pressman  '58, 
who  were  members  of  the 
Honor  Society  before  there 
was  a  Phi  Beta  Kappa 
Chapter,  were  inducted  into 
the  Mu  Chapter.  At  an 
afternoon  baccalaureate 
ceremony  for  the  Class  of 
1993,  two  alumni  received 


the  Sanctity  of  Life  Award: 
Arthur  Pepine  '53,  financial 
aid  officer  at  the  Yale 
University  School  of  Drama 
and  past  president  of  the 
Connecticut  Coalition  of 
Citizens  with  Disabilities, 
and  Evan  Stark  '63,  a 
nationally-recognized 
authority  on  woman 
battering,  child  abuse, 
minority  youth  violence  and 
health  and  family  policy. 

A  reception  sponsored  by  the 
Alumni  Association 
celebrated  the  literary 
accomplishments  of 
members  of  the  Reunion 
classes  and  included  a 
display  of  books  that 
members  of  these  classes  had 
inscribed  and  donated  to  the 
Alumni  Authors  Archive  in 
the  Farber/Goldfarb 
Libraries.  Class  dinners  were 
held  on  campus  and  at 
nearby  hotels. 


53  Summer  1993 


Class  Notes 


'53 


Dr.  Norman  Diamond,  Class 
Correspondent,  240  Kendrick 
Street,  Newton,  MA  02158 

William  Wiener,  M.D.  is  a  clinical 
neurologist  in  Framingham,  MA, 
who  still  tries  to  find  time  for 
nonmedical  pursuits  such  as 
swimming.  He  and  his  wife,  Ita  K. 
Wiener  '54,  have  five  children  and 
reside  in  Brookline,  MA. 

'54 

Miriam  Feingold  d'Amato,  Class 
Correspondent,  62  Floyd  Street, 
Winthrop,  MA  02152 

Shimon  S.  Gottschalk  (Ph.D.  72, 
The  Heller  School)  retired  from  his 
position  as  professor  at  Florida 
State  University  to  enjoy  a  third 
career  as  a  househushand  caring 
for  newborn  twins  and  a  total  of 
seven  children. 

'55 

Judith  Paull  Aronson,  Class 
Correspondent,  767  South  Windsor 
Blvd.,  Los  Angeles,  CA  90005 

Fine  color,  acid-free  laser  prints  of 
Evi  Buckler  Sheffres's  art  piece 
"Balance,"  a  work  designed  and 
created  specifically  for  the 
Brandeis  Women's  Studies 
Program,  are  heing  made  available 
to  program  donors  of  $1,000  or 
more.  Her  work  was  on  display  in 
June  and  July  at  the  Cape  Museum 
of  Fine  Arts  in  Dennis,  MA. 

'56 

Leona  Feldman  Curhan,  Class 
Correspondent,  6  Tide  Winds 
Terrace,  Marblehead,  MA  01945 

Sidney  Hurwitz's  pastel  paintings 
were  exhibited  at  the  Randall  Beck 
Gallery  in  Boston  last  winter. 

'58 

Allan  W.  Drachman,  Class 
Correspondent,  1 15  Mayo  Road, 
Wellesley,  MA  02181 

David  G.  Lehrman,  M.D.  is  chief 
of  orthopedics  at  St.  Francis 
Hospital  in  Miami  Beach.  Three 
years  ago  he  started  a  residential 
treatment  center  that  emphasizes 
back  strengthening,  education 
about  body  mechanics  and  weight 
control. 

'59 

Sunny  Sunshine  Brownrout,  Class 
Correspondent,  87  Old  Hill  Road, 
Westport,  CT  06880 

Joy  Zacharia  Applebaum  is 

director  of  development  and  public 
relations  for  the  Hebrew  Hospital 
Home,  a  long-term  health  care 
facility  in  the  Bronx.  She  is  also  a 
free-lance  lecturer  on  Sephardic 


studies.  Marilyn  Goretsky  Becker 

has  become  a  cantor  and  serves  a 
congregation  outside  Boston.  She 
also  officiates  at  life  cycle  events 
such  as  weddings  and  bahy 
nammgs.  Letty  Cottin  Pogrebin's 
seventh  book,  Deborah.  Gohii!. 
and  Me,  has  been  published  m 
paperback.  She  was  a  recipient  of 
the  Brandeis  University  Alumni 
Achievement  Award,  which  was 
presented  to  her  at  the  Founders' 
Day  Annual  Dinner,  and  also  of 
the  1993  Sachar  Award  of  the 
National  Women's  Committee. 
She  is  currently  serving  as  cochair 
of  Americans  for  Peace  Now,  the 
U.S.  branch  of  the  Israeli  Peace 
Now  Movement.  After  receiving 
her  M.L.S.  in  library  and 
information  science.  Sunny 
Brownrout  continued  her  studies 
in  the  field  of  data  processing  and 
IS  a  senior  systems  analyst  in 
Stamford,  CT.  She  is  working  in 
the  newly  formed  Connecticut 
Chapter  of  the  Brandeis  Alumni 
Association.  Harry  Cohen  is 
clinical  director  for  Orange 
County's  Drug  Abuse  Services  for 
the  Newport  Beach/Costa  Mesa 
area.  He  and  his  wife,  Adrienne 
Mann  Cohen  '57,  share  a 
psychotherapy  practice.  They  are 
both  active  in  the  Southern 
California  chapter  of  the  Brandeis 
Alumni  Association,  Martin  J. 
Fiala  took  early  retirement  from 
Exxon  in  1986  and  now  lives  in 
Aspen,  CO.  Maine  is  home  to  Ann 
Bobrick  Friedlander,  where  she 
owns  and  operates  a  garden  center/ 
florist  shop  in  Bethel.  Edward 
Friedman  spent  part  of  the 
summer  of  1992  in  Alabama 
working  on  a  decoUectivization 
project  for  U.S.  AID.  Autumn 
found  him  in  China  on  a  rural 
development  project  for  the  Ford 
Foundation,  and  in  March  he  was 
in  Tokyo  on  a  human  rights  effort. 
His  book,  Chinese  Village, 
Socialist  State,  will  be  issued  in 
paperback  this  year,  and  another. 
Backward  Toward  Revolution,  is 
being  translated  into  Chinese.  A 
third  book.  The  Politics  of 
Democratization,  will  also  be 
published  this  year.  Two  more  of 
his  books  are  at  press:  Nationalism 
Against  Democracy  and  The 
Struggle  to  Reform  China's 
Socialist  Countryside.  Steven 
Fishman  received  an  M.S.W.  in 
1961  from  the  University  of 
Chicago  and  makes  his  home  in 
Los  Angeles,  where  he  is  a 
manager  for  the  Department  of 
Mental  Health,  County  of  Los 
Angeles,  After  receiving  her  f.D.  in 
1977,  Judith  Sanders  Goodie  is  a 


law  enforcement  attorney  with  the 
U.S.  Commodity  Futures  Trading 
Commission  in  Chicago.  Michael 
Kirsch  is  an  internist  in  Sherman 
Oaks,  CA.  Barbara  Levine  Leons  is 
a  professor  of  anthropology  at 
Towson  State  University  and 
conducts  research  m  Bolivia, 
where  she  spent  last  year  on  a 
sabbatical.  Elaine  Rosenblatt 
Levitin  is  in  her  23rd  year  of 
teaching,  and  her  19th  at  the 
middle  school  in  Scarsdale,  NY. 
Martin  Levy  is  living  in  Barbados 
after  retiring  from  the  fields  of  law 
and  accounting.  Becky  Cohen 
Long  is  happily  retired  and  living 
in  Tampa,  FL,  where  she  heads  the 
Tampa  Bay  Area  Alumni 
Admissions  Council.  Alan  Miller 
uses  his  talents  as  a  clothing 
designer  in  his  business  as  a  men's 
personal  clothier  and  custom 
designer  in  the  Washington,  DC, 
area.  Beverly  Nadelman  is  on  the 
faculty  of  the  photography 
department.  School  of  Visual  Arts, 
New  York  City,  and  Nassau 
Community  College  in  Garden 
City,  NY.  She  is  represented  in  the 
west  by  Stewart -Thomas  Galleries. 
Gloria  Feman  Orenstein  is  a  full 
professor  in  the  field  of 
comparative  literature  at  the 
University  of  Southern  California 
and  has  written  or  coedited  three 
books:  The  Theater  of  the 
Marvelous:  Surrealism  and  the 
Contemporary  Stage;  The 
Reflowering  of  the  Goddess:  and 
Reweaving  the  World:  The 
Emergence  of  Ecofeminism.  She  is 
working  on  a  forthcoming  book  as 
well.  Multi-cultural  Celebrations: 
Bettv  La  Duke  Paintings  1972- 
1992.  In  addition,  she  reports  that 
her  two  daughters  have  both 
received  their  Ph.D.  Alicia  Suskin 
Ostriker  is  the  author  of  the 
recently  published  book.  The  Bible 
and  Feminist  Revision,  and  has 
written  seven  volumes  of  poetry, 
including  Green  Age.  She  is  a 
member  of  the  English  department 
at  Rutgers  University,  New 
Brunswick,  NJ.  Barbara  Bolotin 
Rosen  has  a  full-time  private 
psychotherapy  practice  and  also 
spends  time  lecturing  on  her 
specialties — treating  people  who 
have  eating  disorders  or  those  who 
have  survived  sexual  abuse.  Robert 
Rosenblum  writes  fiction  under 
several  pseudonyms.  Some  of  his 
books  have  been  filmed  for  movies 
and  TV  including  In  The  Deep 
Woods  written  under  the  name  of 
Nicholas  Cowe,  which  became  a 
TV  movie  starring  Anthony 
Perkins.  Emanuel  Schreiber  is  a 
psychotherapist,  specializing  in 
adolescents  and  relationship 
therapy.  Mayer  Schwartz  practices 
medicine  in  Johnson  City,  NY, 
where  he  specializes  in  allergy  and 
immunity.  Amy  Medine  Stein  is 
semi-retired,  although  the  family- 


run  summer  camp  is  still  going 
strong.  Philippa  Strum's  book.  The 
Women  Are  Marching:  The  Second 
Sex  In  The  Palestinian  Revolution 
was  published  last  July.  Her  new 
book.  Beyond  Progressivism:  The 
Political  Thought  of  Louis  D. 
Brandeis.  is  out  this  month.  She 
delivered  a  paper  at  a  human  rights 
conference  sponsored  by  the 
Institute  of  Law  of  the 
Czechoslovakian  Academy  of 
Sciences  in  Prague  and  another  at 
the  Centre  for  Postgraduate 
Hebrew  Studies  at  Oxford 
University.  In  addition,  she  was 
recently  re-elected  to  the  executive 
committee  of  the  board  of 
directors  of  the  American  Civil 
Liberties  Union.  Marilyn  Siegel 
Weene  is  senior  placement 
counselor  at  Network  Personnel 
Inc.  in  Billerica,  MA.  She  can  be 
found  at  the  Brandeis  chapel  most 
Saturdays  during  the  school  year. 

'60 

Abby  Brown,  Class  Correspondent, 
4  Jeffrey  Circle,  Bedford,  MA 
01730 


Eh'onorc  Kessler  Cohen 

Eleonore  Kessler  Cohen,  the  newly 
elected  mayor  of  Livingston,  NJ, 
was  named  a  member  of  the 
Springfield,  NJ,  law  firm  of 
Kraemer,  Burns  &  Lovell,  P. A. 
where  she  specializes  in  real  estate 
and  family  law.  A  member  of  the 
Livingston  Planning  Board,  she  has 
also  been  a  three-term  member  of 
the  board  of  education,  serving  as 
president  and  vice  president.  In 
addition,  she  is  on  the  advisory 
board  of  Broad  National  Bank,  a 
trustee  of  the  Livingston 
Symphony,  secretary  to  the  Essex 
County  Bar  Association  Family 
Law  Executive  Committee  and  a 
member  of  the  executive 
committee  of  the  United  Jewish 
Appeal  Women's  Business  and 
Professional  Council.  Muriel 
(Mimi)  Berenson  Silberstein  has 
been  appointed  coordinator  of 
special  education  and  guidance 
counselor  for  the  Bangor,  PA,  area 
school  district. 


54  Brandeis  Review 


'61 


Judith  Leavitt  Schatz,  Class 
Correspondent,  139  Cumberland 
Road,  Leominster,  MA  01453 

Zina  Jordan  has  been  named 

assistant  provost  for  academic 
affairs  at  Brandeis  University. 
Sharon  P.  Rivo,  executive  director 
of  the  National  Center  for  Jewish 
Film  at  Brandeis  University, 
accepted  the  second  Annual 
Preservation  Award  from  the 
Anthology  Film  Archives  of  New 
York  for  the  restoration  and 
distribution  of  historic  works  on 
the  Jewish  experience. 

'64 

Rochelle  A.  Wolf,  Class 
Correspondent,  113Naudain 
Street,  Philadelphia,  PA  19477 

Peter  A.  Berkowsky  has  been 
promoted  to  colonel,  U.S.  Air 
Force  Reserve.  A  graduate  of  the 
Air  War  College  and  a  veteran  of 
Operation  Desert  Storm,  he  will  be 
"returning  home"  to  the  Boston 
area  as  senior  reserve  attorney  at 
the  Electronic  Systems  Center  at 


Peter  A.  Berk(}wsky  with  Sin}on 
rienthal,  during  the  famed 
-1  hunter's  1991  visit  to  the 
:'ellate  Division  courthouse  in 
nhattan 

Hanscom  Air  Force  Base  and  as 
admissions  liaison  officer  for  the 
Air  Force  Academy.  In  civilian  life, 
he  has  served  as  law  secretary  to  a 
justice  of  the  Appellate  Division  of 
the  New  York  Supreme  Court  in 
Manhattan  and  as  the  organizer  of 
the  International  Minyan  for  the 
New  York  City  Marathoners,  a 
program  he  founded  in  1983. 
Azuka  A.  Dike,  Ph.D.  teaches  at 
the  University  of  Nigeria  with  his 
wife,  Virginia  W.  Dike,  Ph.D.  He  is 
chair  of  the  governing  board  of  the 
Nigeria  National  Commission  for 
Museums  and  Monuments  and 
was  elected  secretary  general  of 
the  Pan  African  Association  of 
Anthropologists  as  well  as 
president  of  its  subdisciplinary 
Network  of  African  Medical 
Anthropologists.  They  have  five 
children,  two  of  whom  are 
studying  in  the  United  States. 
Alan  E.  Katz  was  elected  to  the 
board  of  directors  of  Norcrown 


Bank  in  Roseland,  NJ,  while  his 
wife,  Laura,  works  at  the  Early 
Childhood  Direction  Center  of  St. 
Agnes  Hospital  in  White  Plains, 
NY.  They  have  two  daughters  and 
reside  in  Scarsdale,  NY.  Estelle 
Sacknoff  Kluft  edited  a  book 
intended  for  readers  in  the  mental 
health  profession  entitled 
Expressive  and  Functional 
Therapies  in  the  Treatment  of 
Multiple  Personality  Disorder. 
Peter  Zassenhaus  Zoll  is  managing 
director  of  Swiss  Bank  Portfolio 
Management  International  in 
London,  while  bis  wife,  Laura,  is 
owner  of  a  Tafilmusik  franchise. 


'65 


Daphnah  Sage,  Class 
Correspondent,  1435  Centre 
Street,  Newton  Centre,  MA  02159 

Janet  Akyuz  Mattei,  Ph.D. 

received  the  George  Van 
Biesbroeck  Award  in  recognition  of 
her  enthusiastic  and  unselfish 
leadership  of  the  American 
Association  of  Variable  Star 
Observers  and  for  making  the 
AAVSO  database  available  to  the 
astronomical  community.  In  her 
work  she  computerizes,  analyzes 
and  dissimulates  about  250,000 
observations  a  year  to  observers, 
mostly  amateur  astronomers 
around  the  world.  She  has 
pubhshed  125  articles  in 
professional  journals  and  has 
collaborated  with  astronomers  m 
variable  star  research  as  well  as 
been  the  principal  invcstigatf)r  m 
grants  funded  by  the  National 
Science  Foundation  (NSF)  and  the 
National  Aeronautics  and  Space 
Administration  (NASA). 

'66 

Kenneth  E.  Davis,  Class 
Correspondent,  28  Mary  Chilton 
Road,  Needham,  MA  02192 

Lucy  Rose  Fischer,  Ph.D.  is  a 

geriatric  research  scientist  at  the 
Group  Health  Foundation,  a 
support  organization  of  Group 
Health,  Inc.,  in  the  Twin  Cities. 
An  extensively  published  author 
on  topics  in  aging  and  health  care, 
she  provides  leadership  for 
geriatrics  research  for  the 
Foundation  and  for  Group  Health's 
geriatric  department. 

'67 

Arme  ReiUy  Hort,  Class 
Correspondent,  4600  Livingston 
Avenue,  Riverdale,  NY  10471 

Allan  J.  Lichtman,  Ph.D.  was 

selected  as  American  University's 
1993  Scholar/Teacher  of  the  Year, 
receiving  praise  as  one  of  "the 
university's  most  diverse  and 
accomplished  scholars"  from  the 
dean  of  the  College  of  Arts  and 
Sciences.  In  addition  to  being  a 


professor  of  history,  he  recently 
developed  a  presidential  election 
prediction  system.  Thirteen  Keys 
to  the  Presidency,  with  earthquake 
specialist,  Volodia  Keilis-Borok. 

'68 

Jay  R.  Kaufman,  Class 
Correspondent,  One  Childs  Road, 
Lexington,  MA  02 173 

Charles  Hoffman,  author  of  Gray 
Dawn:  the  fews  of  Eastern  Europe 
in  the  Post-Communist  Era,  was  a 
speaker  at  a  conference  in  New 
York  City  on  the  awakening  of 
East  European  Jewry.  Stephen  G. 
Lisansky,  Ph.D.  is  cofounder  and 
director  of  CPL  Scientific  Ltd.,  a 
consulting  and  publishing 
company  in  Newbury,  England, 
focusing  on  the  areas  of 
agriculture,  food,  biotechnology 
and  scientific  employment 
services.  He  is  a  specialist  in 
biopesticides,  author  of  780  books, 
articles,  special  studies  and  papers 
as  well  as  editor  of  Impact,  an 
agriculture/biology  industry 
journal  Natasha  C.  Lisman  was 


Natasha  C.  Lisman 

appointed  to  the  board  of  directors 
of  the  New  England  Council,  an 
organization  that  promotes  federal 
legislation  benefitting  the  region's 
economy.  In  addition,  she  is  a 
senior  partner  in  the  firm  of 
Sugarman,  Rogers,  Barshak  & 
Cohen  in  Boston  and  the  past 
president  of  the  Massachusetts 
Civil  Liberties  Union. 

'69 

Jo  Anne  Chemev  Adlerstein,  Class 
Correspondent,  76  Glenview  Road, 
South  Orange,  NJ  07079 

Phoebe  J.  Epstein  continues  to 
work  for  American  Express  in  New 
York  City  as  vice  president  of 
worldwide  employee  relations.  She 
bought  a  250-year-old  farmhouse 
in  Kent,  CT,  that  she  says  is  "tiny, 
but  with  plenty  of  room  for  a 
vegetable  garden  and  a  few  fruit 
trees  "  Lois  Sabath  Fried,  CPA, 
was  made  a  partner  at  the  firm 
Capaldi,  Reynolds  ik  Associates  in 
Northfield,  NJ.  Sam  Hilt  is  self- 
employed  as  a  computer 
consultant,  while  pursuing  a  Ph.D. 


in  archetypal  psychology  through 
the  Union  Institute.  He  and  his 
wife,  Pamela  Mercer,  reside  in 
Petaluma,  CA,  Shulamit  T. 
Reinharz,  professor  of  sociology 
and  director  of  women's  studies  at 
Brandeis  University,  and  her 
husband,  (ehuda  Reinharz  (Ph.D. 
'72,  NEJS),  Richard  Koret  Professor 
of  Modern  Jewish  History  and 
Brandeis  University  provost,  are 
compiling  their  extensive  research 
on  kibbutzim  originator,  Manya 
Wilbushewitz  Shohat,  into 
published  works  and  a  future 
biography.  In  addition,  Shulamit 
has  published  Feminist  Methods  in 
Social  Research  as  a  textbook  for 
the  study  of  social  science  and 
women's  studies.  Nanette  (Nina) 
Haber-Rosenthal  Sheftman  moved 
from  Haifa  to  Karmiel,  Israel, 
where  she  teaches  English  at  a 
local  high  school.  She  and  her 
husband,  Israel,  are  busy 
renovating  their  new  home  and 
supporting  the  movement  for 
Conservative  Judaism  in  Israel. 
They  have  three  sons,  Raanan,  15, 
and  Yonie  and  Danny,  13. 

'70 

Carol  Stein-Schulman,  Class 
Correspondent,  7  Stonehenge, 
Great  Neck,  NY  11023 

Judith  Lowitz  Adler  has  been 
elected  partner  in  the  Detroit  law 
firm  of  [affe,  Raitt,  Heuer  and 
Weiss  where  she  specializes  in 
financing  and  corporate 
transactions.  Penelope  Wise  Shar, 
M.D.  was  graduated  from  Albert 
Emstein  College  of  Medicine  in 
1989,  completed  a  residency  in 
internal  medicine  at  Rhode  Island 


Penelope  Wise  Shnr 

Hospital  and  is  in  private  practice 
in  Bangor,  ME.  She  and  her 
husband,  Arthur  Jones,  live  in 
Hampden,  ME,  on  a  farm  with 
cows,  horses,  geese,  ducks,  cats 
and  a  dog.  She  has  two  children. 
Brad,  a  junior  at  Marlboro  College 
m  Vermont,  and  Tracy,  a  junior  at 
Emerson  College.  Robert  F.X. 
Sillerman,  a  communications 
executive  and  one  of  the  largest 


55  Summer  1993 


'75 


Robert  F.  X.  SilleTmar. 

investors  of  radio  in  the  world,  has 
been  appointed  Chancellor  of  Long 
Island  University's  Southampton 
Campus.  In  April,  Deborah  M. 
Spitalnik,  Ph.D.  received  the 
highest  honor  of  the  New  lersey 
United  Cerebral  Palsy  Association, 
the  Elizabeth  Boggs  Citizenship 
Award.  She  is  executive  director  of 
New  lersey's  center  for 
developmental  disabilities  at 
Robert  Wood  lohnson  Medical 
School,  In  addition,  she  served  as 
president  of  the  American 
Association  of  University 
Affiliated  Facilities  in  1992.  She 
lives  in  Sergeantsville,  Nf,  with 
her  husband,  John  R.  Weingart, 
and  their  daughter,  Molly,  age  8. 

'71 

Mark  L.  Kaufman,  Class 
Correspondent,  28  Devens  Road, 
Swampscott,  MA  01907-2014 

Steven  L.  Berk,  M.D.  was  the  1992 
recipient  of  the  Distinguished 
Faculty  Award  at  East  Tennessee 


ll\ 


Steven  L.  Berk 

State  University,  where  he  is  a 
professor  and  chairman  of  the 
Department  of  Internal  Medicine 
at  the  lames  H.  Quillen  College  of 
Medicine.  One  of  ETSU's  two 
highest  honors,  the  award  is 
presented  to  a  nominee  with  deep 


commitment  to  scholarship  and 
academic  excellence.  Leonard  A. 
lason,  Ph.D.,  a  professor  of 
psychology  at  EJePaul  University, 
published  Helping  Transfer 
Students:  Strategies  for 
F.ducational  and  Social 
Readjustment,  a  book  based  on  a 
tour-year  study  of  over  1,000 
transfer  students  in  the  third, 
tciurth  and  fifth  grades  in  31 
schools.  Philip  Rubin,  Ph.D,  was 
appointed  vice  president  for 
technical  resources  at  Haskins 


Philip  Rubin 

Laboratories  in  New  Haven. 
Haskins  is  a  Yale-affiliated 
research  laboratory  working  in  a 
variety  of  areas,  including  speech 
perception,  speech  production, 
reading,  cognitive  and  ecological 
psychology,  linguistics,  motor 
behavior  and  robotics.  Philip  is 
married  to  )oette  Katz  '74,  a  justice 
on  the  Connecticut  State  Supreme 
Court;  they  have  two  children, 
Jason,  age  9,  and  Samantha,  age  7. 

'72 

Marc  L.  Eisenstock,  Class 
Correspondent,  Plastics  Unlimited 
Inc.,  80  Winter  Street,  Worcester, 
MA,  01604 

Carol  L.  Cone  is  founder,  chief 
executive  officer  and  partner  of 
Cone  Communications,  a 
marketing  communications  firm 
in  Boston  David  G.  Gotthelf  is 
department  head  for  special 
education  services  at  Wellesley 
High  School  in  Wellesley,  MA.  He 
IS  also  completing  his  Ph.D.  in 
counseling  psychology  at  Boston 
College  and  has  two  daughters, 
Rachel,  age  6,  and  Sara,  age  4. 
After  spending  some  time  working 
as  a  technical  writer  for  a  software 
company  and  a  magazine  editor  in 
New  York,  Elliot  S.  Maggin 
remarried  his  ex-wife,  Pam,  and 
moved  back  to  Los  Angeles  in 
1990  where  he  has  been  spending 
much  of  his  time  writing  teleplays 
and  screenplays  "on  spec," 
including  animated  scripts  for  the 
Fox  Network's  "Batman"  and  "X- 
Men"  series.  He  reports  that  his 
graphic  novel.  The  Blue,  the  Grey 


and  the  Bat,  is  selling  well  and 
that  he  has  awaiting  the 
publication  of  his  series  of  four 
graphic  novels  called  Tree  of  Life. 
about  a  rabbi  in  space  in  the  27th 
century.  In  addition,  he  has  a  pilot 
TV  script  making  the  rounds  that 
he  says  is  "pretty  good;  trust  us  on 
this."  loumahst,  political  advisor 
and  communications  specialist 
Michal  A.  Regunberg  was  named 
director  of  public  affairs  at 
Brandeis  Umversity  in  March. 
Previously,  she  held  a  number  of 
positions:  director  of  the  Institute 
for  Democratic  Communication  at 
Boston  University,  where  she  also 
taught  undergraduate  and  graduate 
courses;  editorial  director  of  WEEI/ 
CBS  Radio  in  Boston;  producer  of  a 
news  show  in  Dallas;  and  director 
of  communications  for  the 
Massachusetts  Department  of 
Public  Welfare,  Rabbi  Avi  B. 
Winokur  was  installed  as  rabbi  of 
the  West  End  Synagogue,  a 
Reconstructionist  synagogue  on 
Manhattan's  Upper  West  Side. 
Previously,  he  was  rabbi  of 
Congregation  Shirei  Shalom  in 
Monroe,  CT,  and  director  of  the 
community  relations  committee  of 
the  Jewish  Federation  of  Greater 
New  Haven. 

'73 

Paula  L.  Scheer,  Class 
Correspondent,  133  Park  Street, 
Brooklme,  MA  02146 

Janet  Besso  Becker  and  her 

husband,  Neil,  are  living  in  St. 
Vincent,  West  Indies,  where  they 
operate  the  waterfront  Sugar  Reef 
Restaurant  and  Bar  at  the  Lagoon 
Marina  and  Hotel.  "We  love 
visitors,  so  pencil  it  into  your 
vacation  plans,"  Janet  writes. 
Their  address  is  P.O,  Box  133,  St. 
Vincent,  West  Indies.  Ellen 
Morgan  Lodgen  is  assistant 
principal  at  Cohen  HiUel  Academy 
in  Marblehead,  MA,  where  she  has 
taught  for  19  years. 

'74 

Elizabeth  Sarason  Pfau,  Class 
Correspondent,  80  Monadnock 
Road,  Chestnut  Hill,  MA  02167 

Denise  W.  LaMaute  is  president  of 
the  Los  Angeles  City  Employees' 
Retirement  System's  five-member 
board  of  commissioners,  which 
runs  pension  operations,  including 
investments  and  the 
administration  of  benefits.  Ernest 
H.  Rubinstein  is  enrolled  in  a 
Ph.D.  program  in  religion  at 
Northwestern  University  in 
Evanston,  IL.  In  addition,  he  and 
his  partner,  Paul,  celebrated  a 
commitment  ceremony  attended 
by  several  supportive  friends. 


Leslie  Perm,  Class  Correspondent, 
Marshall  Leather  Finishing, 
43-45  Wooster  Street,  New  York, 
NY  10013 

Faye  Pollock  Cohen  lives  in 
Jerusalem  where  she  is  the 
manager  of  CNN  and  hotel 
services  at  Direct  Satellite 
Television.  She  and  her  husband, 
Dror  Cohen,  are  the  parents  of  two 
girls,  Meromi,  age  4,  and  Michaela, 
age  2.  Betty  (.  Harris  published 
The  Political  Economy  of  the 
Southern  African  Periphery: 
Cottage  Industries,  Factories,  and 
Female  Wage  Labor  m  Swaziland 
Compared.  She  is  an  associate 
professor  of  anthropology  and 
director  of  women's  studies  at  the 
University  of  Oklahoma.  Joshua  Z. 
Schoffman  is  legal  director  of  the 
Association  for  Civil  Rights  in 
Israel,  which  works  to  protect  the 
civil  liberties  of  all  Israelis  in  light 
of  the  turmoil  in  the  region.  He 
was  instrumental  in  attempts  to 
prevent  the  forced  expulsion  of  415 
Palestinians  deported  to  Southern 
Lebanon. 

'76 

Beth  Pearlman  Rotenberg,  Class 
Correspondent,  2743  Dean 
Parkway,  Minneapolis,  MN  55416 

Lewis  Kachur  was  selected  for  a 
Fulbright  lectureship.  He  is 
teaching  American  art  at  Osaka 
University  in  Japan  and  was 
cocurator  of  the  exhibition  "The 
Drawings  of  Stuart  Davis,"  which 
opened  at  the  Terra  Museum  in 
Chicago  last  December,  The 
exhibit  will  be  circulated  by  the 
American  Federation  of  Arts  to 
Middlebury,  VT;  San  Antonio,  TX; 
Andover,  MA;  Omaha,  NE;  and 
Washington,  DC,  with  an 
accompanying  book  published  by 
Abrams.  Alan  L.  Mittleman  was 
promoted  to  associate  professor  of 
religion  and  granted  tenure  at 
Muhlenberg  College  in  Allentown, 
PA,  Julieanna  L.  Richardson  was 
named  executive  producer  for 


lulicanna  L   KiLiiutu^iut 

Showcase  Chicago,  Cable  25,  She 
was  previously  cable  administrator 
of  the  City  of  Chicago,  Raina 
Chamovitz  Rosenberg,  M.D.  is  a 


S6  Brandeis  Review 


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'80 


family  physician  in  lerusalem, 
Israel,  and  the  only  life  member  of 
the  Hadassah  Women's 
Organization  to  graduate  from 
Hadassah  Medical  School.  She  is 
mamed  to  Zviha  (a  Sabra)  and  the 
mother  of  two  children,  Maia,  age 
8Vi,  and  Tamar,  age  3.  Daniel 
Sreebny  was  named  chief  of  the 
North  Africa,  Middle  East  and 
South  Asia  Division  at  the  Bureau 
of  Broadcasting,  part  of  the  United 
States  Information  Agency's  Voice 
of  America  in  Washington,  DC.  He 
is  now  responsible  for  broadcast 
operations  in  the  languages  Arabic, 
Kurdish,  Hindi,  Bangla  and  Urdu. 
Donald  B.  Stewart  is  director  of 
public  affairs  at  Lawrence 
University  in  Appleton,  WI,  where 
his  wife,  Karen  A.  Engelbourg  '79, 
is  director  of  ma|or  gifts.  The 
college  has  not  yet  hired  their  two- 
year-old  son,  Michael. 

'77 

Fred  Berg,  Class  Correspondent, 
150  East  83rd  Street,  Apt.  2C,  New 
York,  NY  10028 

Julie  Black  was  promoted  to  press 
spokesperson  for  the  Committee 
on  Bankmg,  Finance  and  Urban 
Affairs,  U.S.  House  of 
Representatives.  She  is  also 
publicity  vice  president  for  B'nai 
B'rith  women's  chapter  for  young 
Jewish  professionals  in 
Washington,  DC.  Debra  Katz 
Weber  is  assistant  wardrobe 
supervisor  for  "The  Will  Rogers 
Follies"  on  Broadway  and  resides 
in  Warwick,  NY,  with  her 
husband.  Rick,  and  3-year-old, 
Natalia  Rose. 


'78 


Valene  Troyansky,  Class 
Correspondent,  210  West  89th 
Street  #6C,  New  York,  NY  10024 

Brad  A.  Bederman  is  a  systems 
engineer  with  the  Electronic  Data 
Systems  Corporation  in  Dallas, 
TX.  He  remains  single  and  enjoys 
dancing,  skiing,  hiking  and  playing 
the  stock  market.  Ruth  Kessler 
Danielson  received  her  MB. A. 
from  Boston  University  in  1986 
and  works  as  assistant  director  of 
investments  at  the  Boston 
University  Treasury  Office.  She  is 
the  mother  of  three  boys,  John,  age 
5,  Bobby,  age  3,  and  Brian,  age  2, 
and  in  her  spare  time  enjoys 
running  and  entering  races.  Lauta 
Bailen  Kaufman  has  been  in 
private  dental  practice  in  the 
greater  Tel  Aviv  area  for  the  past 
10  years  while  her  husband, 
Howard  A.  Kaufman  76,  has  been 
in  private  law  practice  and  serves 
in  the  Israeli  Defense  Forces 
reserves  Mary  G.  Porter  was 
appointed  senior  vice  president  in 
the  auditing  division  of  the  Audit 


Mary  C.  Poitei 

and  Compliance  Group  at  The 
Boston  Company.  Margo  L. 
Rosenbach  (PhD.  '85,  The  Heller 
School!  was  awarded  a  contract 
from  the  Health  Care  Financing 
Administration  to  evaluate  the 
impact  of  extending  Medicaid 
coverage  to  low-mcome  families 
and  individuals.  Her  doctoral 
dissertation,  "Use  of  Physicians' 
Services  by  Low-Income 
Children,"  was  published  by 
Garland  Publishing.  She  is  vice 
president  of  Health  Economics 
Research  m  Waltham,  MA,  where 
she  has  worked  since  1985.  Robert 
M.  Schaufeld  moved  his  law 
practice  to  Garden  City,  NY,  and 
IS  president  of  the  Nassau  County 
Jewish  Lawyers  Association.  He 
and  his  wife,  Caryn  Greenvald,  a 
vice  president  of  marketing  for 
CitiBank,  have  moved  into  their 
new  house  in  Great  Neck,  NY. 
David  F.  Schneiderman  is  working 
in  the  computer  consulting/ 
support  field,  providing  clients 
with  technology  planning  with 
special  focus  on  the  investment 
and  financial  communities.  He  and 
his  wife,  Julia  A.  Benson,  a 
designer  of  fashion  jewelr\',  reside 
in  Pacific  Palisades,  CA,  where 
they  remain  active  m  politics. 


'79 


Ruth  Strauss  Fleischmann,  Class 
Correspondent,  8  Angier  Road, 
Lexington,  MA  02 173 

Jeff  Burman,  an  associate  film 
editor  at  Universal  Studios,  won 
re-election  to  the  hoard  of  directors 
of  his  craft  local,  coming  in  first  in 
his  classification.  He  is  also 
nearing  completion  of  a  screenplay 
on  the  life  of  Eugene  V.  Debs 
called  Captivated.  Myrna  Barkey 
Mitnick  works  as  a  CPA  with 
Kamanitz,  Uhlfelder  and 
Permison,  P. A.  in  Baltimore.  Carol 
E.  Rosenthal  is  a  partner  m  the 
New  York  City  law  firm  of  Berle, 
Kass  &.  Case,  where  she  specializes 
in  zoning,  environmental,  real 
estate  and  other  areas  of  land  use 
law.  She  and  her  husband.  Dr. 
Frank  Schneier,  an  assistant 
professor  of  clinical  psychiatry  at 
Columbia  University,  spent  last 
April  in  Botswana  and  Zimbabwe. 


Lisa  Gelfand,  Class  Correspondent, 
19  Winchester  Street  #404, 
Brooklme,  MA  02146 

Kisa  Janoff  Bernstein  and  Sol  W. 
Bernstein  '81  bought  a  house  in 
New  Jersey  and  are  enioymg  their 
newborn  son,  Beniamin  Samuel. 
Deborah  G.  Cummis  has  opened 
her  law  office  in  Beverly  Hills,  CA, 
practicing  family  law,  criminal 
defense  and  general  civil  litigation. 
She  and  her  fiance,  Richard  Klein, 
a  senior  corporate  accounts 
manager  for  Sterling  Software,  live 
in  West  Los  Angeles  with  their 
three  dogs.  Anne  R.  Exter 
temporarily  returned  to  her  home 
state  of  New  Jersey  where  she  is 
participating  in  a  technology 
internship  program  for  New 
England  Telephone.  She  plans  to 
return  to  the  Boston  area  in  luly. 
Lisa  A.  ICitinoja,  Ph.D.  has 
relocated  her  consulting  firm. 
Extension  Systems  International, 
to  Woodland,  CA.  Her  recent 
projects  include  training  in  post- 
harvest  handling  methods  in  Chad 
and  research  studies  in  Trinidad 
and  Tobago  and  Nigeria.  Judy 
Mejias  Ortiz  is  pursuing  a  master's 
degree  in  management  and  public 
administration  from  Webster 
University  while  acting  as  a 
volunteer  mediator  with  the 
Cumberland  County  Dispute 
Resolution  Center.  She  and  her 
husband,  U.S.  Army  Chief  Warrant 
Officer  3  Michael  Ortiz,  and  three 
children,  Michael,  age  7,  Janelle, 
age  3,  and  Elizabeth  Marie,  age  2, 
live  in  Fayetteville,  NC.  Meryl  R. 
Ostrow  works  for  the  City  of 
Philadelphia  as  a  social  worker  in 
the  Office  of  Mental  Retardation 
while  her  husband,  Alan  C. 
Ostrow,  IS  an  assistant  city 
solicitor  for  the  City  of 
Philadelphia  Julia  Reiss  Penan  is  a 
full-time  mother/homemaker  for 
her  husband,  Daniel,  and  their  two 
daughters,  JiUian,  age  5,  and 
Allison,  age  1,  in  historic 
Sturbridge,  MA.  Edward  H. 
Pendergast  moved  to  Troy,  NY, 
where  he  is  vice  president  of 
product  development  at  Maplnfo 
Inc,  a  desktop  mapping  software 
company.  He  and  his  wife,  Laura 
Stephens  Pendergast  '82,  have  two 
children,  a  daughter,  Kelly,  age  3, 
and  a  son,  Teddy,  18  months. 
Barbara  G.  Rabson  is  director  of 
managed  care  at  Beth  Israel 
Hospital  in  Boston.  She  continues 
to  play  the  French  horn  and  is  the 
first  hom  for  the  Memmack 
Valley  Philharmonic.  In  her 
remaining  time,  she  bikes,  hikes 
and  skis  with  her  husband,  John 
Silletto  Susan  Ludwig  Rosenberg, 
Pli.D.  received  her  doctorate  in 


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clinical  psychology  from  Yeshiva 
University  in  1986  and  is  in 
private  practice  in  Voorhees,  NJ, 
while  her  husband,  Lawrence 
Rosenberg,  M.A.  '80,  is  an 
orthopedic  surgeon  at  Kessler 
Memorial  Hospital.  Together  they 
have  two  daughters,  Marlee,  age  4, 
and  Sarah,  age  1 '/;.  Jenirifer  A. 
Roskies  lives  in  Montreal  with  her 
husband.  Brad,  and  children, 
Aviva,  age  4,  and  Beniamin, 
age  2Vi.  She  joined  the  federation 
of  the  Montreal  Jewish  community 
as  a  planning  associate,  where 
some  of  her  responsibilities 
include  the  planning  and 
coordination  of  services  for  newly 
arrived  immigrants.  Robert  I. 
Rubin,  a  partner  at  Gordon  & 
Silber,  P.C.  in  New  York  City, 
published  an  article  entitled 
"Tainted  Food"  in  the  March  IWi 
issue  of  Trial  magazine.  Jeffrey  P. 
Schachne  lives  in  Katonah,  NY, 
with  his  wife  Susan  Snyder 
Schachne  '81  and  their  three 
children,  Daniel,  age  .5,  Ryan, 
age  3,  and  Ariana,  6  months. 
George  M.  Seremitis  is  finishing 
his  urology  residency  at 
Dartmouth  this  year.  He  and  his 
fiancee,  Laurie  Vedder,  will  be 
moving  to  Chicago  in  July,  where 
he  will  be  a  pediatric  urology 
fellow  at  the  children's  hospital 
and  she  will  practice  psychiatry  at 
Evanston  Hospital.  Amy  Beth 
Taublieb,  Ph.D.  has  been  offered  a 
contract  by  HarperCollins 
Publishing  Company  in  New  York 
City  to  write  an  undergraduate 
textbook  on  the  psychopathology 
of  childhood  and  adolescence.  In 
addition  to  maintaining  an  active 
private  practice.  Dr.  Taublieb  is  an 
associate  professor  at  the  Camsius 
College  psychology  department 
and  an  associate  psychologist  on 
the  screening/admissions  unit  of 
Buffalo  Psychiatric  Center 

'81 

Matthew  B.  Hills,  Class 
Correspondent,  Ifi  Harcourt,  Apt 
3E,  Boston,  MA  021 16 

Barbara  Angelucci  Giammona  is 

vice  president  of  SUBA 
Corporation  and  resides  in  La  JoUa, 
CA,  with  her  husband,  Joseph,  an 
attorney,  and  their  2-year-old  son, 
James.  Stuart  Moser  and  Meryl 
Resnick  Moser  live  in  Riverdale, 
NY,  and  are  looking  forward  to 
their  ISth  Reunion.  He  practices 
cardiology  in  the  Bronx/ 
Westchester  area  while  she  works 
as  an  R.N.  at  White  Plains 
Hospital.  They  have  two  children, 
Sharon,  age  6,  and  Benny,  age  4. 
Wendy  S.  Rubinstein  received  her 
M.D.  and  Ph.D.  degrees  from  the 
Mount  Sinai  School  of  Medicine  in 
1989  and  completed  a  residency  in 
internal  medicine  at  Strong 
Memorial  Hospital  in  1992.  She 
enjoys  her  work  as  an  internist 


with  Rochester  Park  Medical 
Group  and  has  an  appointment  at 
Strong  Memorial  as  an  instructor 
in  medicine  and  genetics.  She  and 
her  husband,  Milton  Stamos,  were 
married  in  1990  and  have  a 
newborn  son,  Moshe  Chaim.  She 
says  she  is  looking  forward  to 
starting  a  human  genetics 
fellowship  at  the  University  of 
Pittsburgh  in  1994.  Terry  Martin 
Zingman  and  Barry  Zingman  have 
moved  to  Rye  Brook,  NY,  where 
they  reside  with  their  newborn 
son,  Michael,  and  daughter,  Lisa 

'82 

Ellen  Cohen,  Class  Correspondent, 
1  75  15th  Street  NE  #318,  Atlanta 
GA  30309 

Stacey  Cushner  is  a  director  of  the 
Boston  firm  of  Bernstein,  Cushner 
and  Kimmell,  PC,  where  she 
practices  employment  law  and 
civil  litigation.  She  is  married  and 
has  two  children,  Benjamin  and 
Ally  Bernstein,  ages  4  and  2 

'83 

Eileen  Isbitts  Weiss,  456  9th  Street 
#30,  Hoboken,  NJ  07030 

Jennifer  Porder  Gurvits  and 
Eugene  Gurvits  '81  moved  into  a 
new  house  in  Newton,  MA,  where 
they  live  with  their  children, 
newborn  son,  leremy,  Alex,  age  3, 
and  Laura,  age  6.  Ian  Finnell  is  a 
financial  counselor  for  Fidelity 
Investments  in  New  York  City. 
Rebecca  C.  Hall  is  a  senior 
consultant  at  Strategic  Technology 
Resources  in  Chicago.  Debra  Sands 
Kraft  manages  a  boutique  on 
Newbury  Street  m  Boston  while 
her  husband,  Michael,  a  graduate 
of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania 
and  Boston  University  Law  School, 
has  his  own  law  practice  at  Faneuil 
Hall  Market  Place.  After  working 
in  corporate  human  resources  and 
job  placement  for  3  years,  Deborah 
E.  Lipton  earned  a  master's  in 
human  resource  counseling  from 
Northeastern  University,  is  a 
career  counselor  in  the  Boston  area 
and  coordinates  workshops  for 
dislocated  workers.  Richard  P. 
Schwartz  was  elected  junior 
partner  m  the  Real  Estate  and 
Finance  Department  of  the  law 
firm  Nutter,  McClennen  and  Fish 
in  Boston.  Scott  (.  Thaler,  M.D. 
completed  a  combined  clinical  and 
research  fellowship  m  the 
laboratory  of  Bernard  Fields  '58  in 
the  Department  of  Microbiology  at 
Harvard  Medical  School.  He  is  an 
attending  physician  in  the 
infectious  disease  division  of  the 
Brigham  and  Women's  Hospital 
and  a  member  of  the  faculty  of  the 
Harvard  Medical  School,  where  he 
studies  the  risk  factors,  causes  and 


Class   Name 


Date 


1970 
1973 
1979 
1980 
1983 
1984 
1986 


1987 


1989 


1991 


Penelope  Wise  Shar,  M.D.  to  Arthur  Jones 

Ellen  Morgan  to  Larry  Lodgen 

Carol  E.  Rosenthal  to  Dr.  Frank  Schneier 

William  S.  Gorin  to  Jody  Louis 

Debra  Sands  to  Michael  S.  Kraft 

Heidi  Terkel  to  Barry  Daitch 

Julie  F.  Grasfield  to  Steven  Weil 

Robert  Marcus,  M.D.  to  Evelyn  Morales 

Gary  S.  Zel  to  Antoinette  Colartc 

Adriane  (Suzy)  Glazer  to  David  Spilcr  '86 

Louise  D.  Gross  to  Nevin  Reynolds 

Abigail  Nagler  to  Steven  E.  Sender 

Ora  L.  Schorr  to  Alan  M.  Kriegstein 

Adam  J.  Brauer  to  Bonnie  Ellen  Weiser 

Toby  E.  Boshak  to  Paul  Eisenberg  '87 

Renee  W.  Kwait  to  David  S.  Rettig  '87 

Harold  G.  Belkowitz  to 

Cheryl  L.  Grossman  '91 

David  J.  Chase  to  Sharyn  F.  Levine  '90 

Katherine  D.  Spivak  to 

Dr.  Mark  D.  Friedman 

(ill  C.  Hammer  to  Jeremy  P.  Goldman 

Holly  R.  Litwin  to  Tod  Andrew  Northman 


October  10,  1992 
August  11,  1991 
April  12,  1992 
February  28,  1993 
June  27,  1992 
September  21,  1992 
November  28,  1992 
November  7,  1992 
February  13,  1993 
May  31,  1992 
May  1,  1993 
February  21,  1993 
June  16,  1991 
June  6,  1993 
November  1,  1992 
November  26,  1992 
July  26,  1992 

August  18,  1991 
January  23,  1993 

August  16,  1992 
December  27,  1992 


treatment  of  organ  transplant- 
associated  infectious  diseases.  His 
wife,  Wendy  Finn  '85,  is  director  of 
development  and  community 
relations  for  the  Children's 
Medical  Center  at  the  University 
of  Massachusetts  Medical  Center. 
In  addition,  she  serves  as  president 
of  the  Greater  Boston  Chapter  of 
the  Brandeis  University  Alumni 
Association.  They  reside  m 
Framingham,  MA,  with  Sheba, 
their  two-year-old  German 
shepherd.  At  the  1992  American 
Society  of  Criminology 
Conference,  Michael  A.  White 
presented  a  paper  entitled 
"Identifying  Characteristics  that 
Distinguish  Recidivists  from  Non- 
Recidivists."  He  continues  to  work 
as  a  research  analyst  with  the 
Massachusetts  Department  of 
Corrections. 

'84 

Marcia  Book,  Class  Correspondent, 
98-01  67th  Avenue  #14N, 
Flushing,  NY  1 1374 

Martin  K.  Alintuck  was  elected  to 
the  California  Democratic  Party 
State  Central  Committee  from 
Marin  and  Sonoma  counties,  as 
well  as  to  the  Mann  County 
Democratic  Central  Committee. 
Steven  E.  Bizar  of  Center  City 
Philadelphia  received  his  J.D.  from 
Columbia  Law  School  and  is  an 
associate  in  the  litigation 
department  of  Montgomery, 
McCracken,  Walker  &  Rhoads. 
Heidi  Terkel  Daitch  is  a  product 
manager  for  Interleaf,  a  publishing 
software  company.  She  and  her 
husband,  Barry  Daitch,  reside  in 
South  Natick,  MA. 


'86 

Illyse  Shindler  Habbe,  Class 
Correspondent,  89  Turner  Street, 
Brighton,  MA  02135 

Andrew  Cardin  will  be  chief 
resident  in  pediatrics  at  Children's 
Hospital  of  Philadelphia,  starting 
in  July  1994.  Illyse  Shindler  Habbe 
finished  a  book  for  children  with 
cancer  as  her  dissertation  for  a 
Ph.D.  m  psychology  at  the  MPPH 
and  says  she  is  looking  lor  both  an 
illustrator  and  a  job.  Robert 
Marcus  finished  his  residency  in 
internal  medicine  at  Emory 
University  Hospital  in  Atlanta, 
GA.  His  wife,  Evelyn  Morales,  is 
an  intensive  care  neonatal  nurse. 
Rebecca  Rae  Miller  is  living  with 
her  pet  rabbit  on  New  York's 
Upper  West  Side  and  working  as  a 
trial  attorney  in  the  Office  of  the 
Solicitor  lor  the  United  States 
Department  of  Labor  where  she 
investigates  and  enforces  federal 
labor  statutes.  She  and  her 
husband,  a  fourth-year  medical 
student  at  Mt.  Sinai  Medical 
School,  were  married  in  May  in 
Boston,  llene  Goldenberg  Moss 
finished  her  residency  in  pediatrics 
at  Momstown  Memorial  Hospital 
and  has  joined  the  association  of 
Dr.  Richard  Lander  and  Dr.  Vito 
Petrozino  in  the  practice  of 
pediatric  medicine  at  their 
Momstown  and  Livingston,  NJ, 
offices.  Her  husband.  Dr.  Leonard 
Moss,  is  a  second-year  cardiology 
fellow  at  the  University  of 


58  Brandeis  Review 


'90 


Medicine  and  Dentistry  at  Robert 
Wood  lohnson  University  Hospital 
and  together  they  published  a  case 
report  on  endocarditis  in  the  April 
1993  issue  of  Piunary  Cardiology. 
David  Spiler  and  Adriane  (Suzy) 
Glazer  '87  have  moved  to  Glen 
Ridge,  NI,  where  he  is 
simultaneously  a  marketing 
specialist  at  Medco  Containment 
Services  and  completing  his 
M.B.A.  at  Seton  Hall  University 
and  she  is  special  projects 
coordinator  at  Cancer  Care. 
Douglas  A.  Steinberg  was 
promoted  to  manager  in  the 
business  assurance/audit  practice 


of  the  Boston  office  of  Coopers  & 
Lybrand,  the  international 
accounting  and  consulting  firm. 
Kenneth  L.  Wolf,  who  is  active  in 
the  Democratic  Party  as  vice 
president  of  the  Greater  Fort 


Kenneth  L.  Wull 

Lauderdale  Democratic  Club  and 
with  various  civic  groups, 
including  the  Environmental 
Coalition,  the  United  Way  and 
Educational  Foundation, 
announced  that  he  will  run  for  a 
Fort  Lauderdale  city  commissioner 
seat.  He  is  the  branch  manager  for 
the  public  relations  firm  of  Hill  & 
Knowlton  and  serves  on  the  public 
policy  panel  of  the  Greater  Fort 
Lauderdale  Chamber  of  Commerce 
as  well  as  on  the  city's 
Community  Appearance  Board.  In 
addition,  he  served  on  President 


Bill  Clinton's  Florida  steering 
committee  and  as  the  South 
Florida  coordinator  for  Governor 
Lawton  Chiles's  election 
campaign.  In  lanuary,  Cary  S.  Zel 
began  a  new  job  as  marketing 
manager  at  Time  magazine  in 
midtown  Manhattan. 

'87 

Vanessa  B.  Newman,  Class 
Correspondent,  4.S  East  End 
Avenue,  Apt.  .SH,  New  York,  NY 
10028 

Paul  Eisenberg  is  communications 
coordinator  at  the  Freedom  Forum 
Media  Studies  Center  at  Columbia 
University  while  his  wife,  Toby  E. 
Boshak  '88,  is  the  assistant 
director  of  development  at  the 
Bronx  Museum  of  the  Arts  in  New 
York  City.  Louise  D.  Gross  was 
graduated  from  medical  school  in 
May  and  began  a  residency  in 
family  practice.  Laura  E.  Ross  is  a 
first-year  resident  in  orthopedic 
surgery  at  Brighton  Medical  Center 
in  Portland,  ME.  Abigail  Nagler 
Sender  received  her  master's 
degree  in  nonprofit  organization 
management  from  Case  Western 
Reserve  University.  She  lives  in 
Cleveland  Heights,  OH,  with  her 
husband,  Steven,  a  corporate  tax 
officer  and  CPA  with  National 
City  Corporation,  a  bank  holding 
company. 

'88 

Susan  Tevelow,  Class 
Correspondent,  268  Grove  Street, 
Apt.  5,  Auburndale,  MA  02166 

Mari  J.  Cartagenova  has  left  the 
field  of  TV  production  and  is 
pursuing  a  master's  of  social  work 
at  the  University  of  Southern 
California.  She  loves  Los  Angeles 
and  hopes  to  seek  a  career  as  a 
therapist  Paul  A.  Cohen  was 
graduated  from  New  York  College 
of  Medicine  and  will  begin  an 
internship  at  Cornell  Medical 
Center.  Sara  Brownstein  Goldman 
received  a  master's  degree  in  social 
work  in  1990  from  Columbia 
University  and  is  studying 
psychotherapy  at  the  American 
Institute  for  Psychoanalysis  and 
Psychotherapy.  She  married  Dr. 
Benjamin  Goldman  in  1989  and 
has  a  one-year-old  son,  Daniel 
Lorence  Tamara  A.  Greelish  was 
graduated  cum  laude  from  Suffolk 
Law  School  in  1991  and  was 
admitted  to  the  Massachusetts  and 
New  Hampshire  bars.  Sheri  Slusky 
Lanzarone  was  married  in 
November  and  is  putting  her 
master's  in  counseling  psychology 
to  work  as  a  counselor  in 


Wakefield,  MA.  After  receiving  his 
Master  of  Arts  in  teaching  from 
the  University  of  North  Carolina 
at  Chapel  Hill,  Steven  |.  Lauridsen 
moved  to  Oak  Park,  IL,  where  he  is 
certified  to  teach  high  school 
social  studies  and  is  substitute 
teaching  as  well  as  tutoring  at  the 
Huntington  Learning  Center. 
Renee  Kwait  Rettig  is  an  attorney 
m  the  legal  department  of 
Prudential  Securities  in  New  York 
City.  She  and  her  husband,  David 
S.  Rettig  '87,  reside  in  Brooklyn, 
NY.  Susan  Kanarfogel  Shapiro  was 
graduated  from  Boston  University 
School  of  Education  with  a  Ed.M. 
in  educational  media  and 
technology.  She  has  been  a  "home 
mom"  since  the  birth  of  her 
daughter,  Aliza,  but  plans  to  return 
to  elementary  school  teaching. 

'89 

Karen  L.  Gitten,  Class 
Correspondent,  35  Crosby  Road 
2nd  Floor,  Newton,  MA  02167 

Amy  B.  Eisenberg  was  graduated 
from  Mt.  Sinai  School  of  Medicine 
and  began  her  residency  in 
pediatrics.  Scott  W.  Elton 
completed  his  third  year  of 
medical  school  at  the  University  of 
Pittsburgh  and  passed  the  first  part 
of  the  National  Medical  Boards, 
and  has  completed  rotations  in 
pediatrics,  surgery  and  neurology. 
Katherine  Spivak  Friedman  passed 
the  Massachusetts  bar  exam  and  is 
practicing  with  a  small  law  firm  in 
Saugus,  MA.  Douglas  Fuchs  moved 
to  Farmmgton,  CT,  where  he 
works  for  the  Farmington  Police 
Department.  Karen  L.  Gitten  is 
working  for  Bishoff  Solomon 
Communications,  a  public 
relations  agency  that  handles 
political  and  governmental  clients. 
Stephen  D.  Krause  is  in  his  second 
year  of  a  two-year  Master  of 
Science  program  m  exercise 
physiology  at  the  University  of 
Nevada  at  Las  Vegas.  He  presented 
research  results  at  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  southwest  chapter 
of  the  American  College  of  Sports 
Medicine.  Michelle  J.  Long  is 
living  in  Rochester,  NY,  where  she 
is  director  of  planning  and 
development  for  the  law  firm  of 
Woods,  Oviatt,  Gilman,  Sherman 
&  Clarke.  Steven  Rappaport  is  in 
his  second  year  of  a  Ph.D.  program 
in  fewish  and  Russian  history  at 
Stanford  University.  Jared  Slosberg 
was  graduated  from  Boalt  Hall 
School  of  Law  last  spring  and  took 
the  California  bar  exam  before 
embarking  on  an  1,100-mile 
bicycle  trip  through  Europe.  He 
has  returned  to  California  where 
he  practices  law  in  Palo  Alto. 
Katherine  D.  Spivak  passed  the 
Massachusetts  bar  exam  in 
November  and  is  practicing  law  in 
Saugus,  MA. 


Judith  Libhaber,  Class 
Correspondent,  745  North  Shore 
Drive,  Miami  Beach,  FL  33141 

Sheryl  L.  Axelrod  completed  her 
final  year  of  law  school  at  Temple 
University,  where  she  placed  first 
in  the  Samuel  J.  Polsky  Moot 
Court  Competition,  and  has  begun 
a  judicial  clerkship  with  the 
Honorable  Sandra  Mazer  Moss. 
Elise  M.  Golden  works  for 
Scudder,  Stevens  &  Clark  where 
she  was  promoted  to  the  London 
office  and  works  with  offshore 
mutual  fund  investors.  Barak 
Kushner  is  living  in  Yamada, 
Japan,  studying  Japanese  and 
teaching  English  in  a  junior  high 
school.  Steven  Levine  accepted  an 
assistant  economic  research 
consultant  position  with  the 
Helmans'  condiment  division  of 
Kraft  Foods,  Inc  Rowena  E.  Pineda 
has  worked  since  graduation  for 
the  Center  for  Third  World 
Organizing,  a  nonprofit  training 
institute  by  and  for  people  of  color, 
in  Oakland,  CA  Dean  J.  Shalit  and 
his  fiancee,  Melissa  Feldman,  are 
both  at  Cardozo  School  of  Law. 
Julian  S.  Steinberg  is  a  computer 
graphics  technician  with  clients 
that  include  MultiMedia  Artist, 
Apple  Computer,  University  of 
California  at  San  Francisco  and 
Ziff  Davis  Publishing. 

'91 

Andrea  C.  Kramer,  Class 
Correspondent,  5343  Washington 
Street,  West  Roxbury,  MA  02132 

Elisa  J.  Aberman  is  teaching  first 
grade  in  the  Bronx,  NY,  and  plans 
to  pursue  her  master's  in  early 
education  this  fall  Ronald  Ash 
completed  his  second  year  at  the 
Medical  College  of  Virginia  in  the 
graduate  program  in  health 
administration.  His  fiancee, 
Jennifer  Brenner,  is  attending 
Boston  University  where  she  is  a 
second-year  doctoral  student  in 
clinical  psychology.  Deborah 
Brody  started  graduate  school  last 
September  in  a  mass 
communication  program  at  Boston 
University's  College  of 
Communication.  'Theodore  H. 
Frank  spent  much  of  his  second 
year  of  law  school  working  as  a 
staff  member  of  the  University  of 
Chicago  Law  Review.  He  was  the 
recipient  of  an  Olin  Law  and 
Economics  Fellowship  and  will  be 
working  this  summer  in  the 
Chicago  office  of  Kirkland  and 
Ellis.  In  addition,  he  will  start  a 
clerkship  with  Judge  Frank 
Easterbrook  after  graduation  in 
1994  Jeremy  P.  Goldman 
completed  his  second  year  of  a 
doctoral  chemistry  program  at 
Yale  University  while  his  wife,  Jill 


59  Summer  1993 


Births 


Class 

Brandeis  Parent(s) 

Child's  Name 

Date 

1964 

Peter  Zassenhaus  Zoll 

Rebecca 

May  27,  1992 

1971 

David  P.  Bell 

Elena  Claire 

October  12,  1992 

Amelia  Beth 

October  12,  1992 

1972 

Dan  L.  Garfinkel 

Benjamin  lames 

January  6,  1993 

1973 

Ellen  Light 

Aliza  Rachel  Ray 

July  20,  1992 

Ellen  Morgan  Lodgen 

Sara  Anne 

November  21,  1992 

Francine  Koslow  Miller,  Ph.D 

.  Rebecca  Ins 

October  18,  1992 

1975 

Jeffrey  Oberlander 

Lillian  Simone 

September  13,  1992 

1977 

Rabbi  Robert  Dobrusin 

Avi  Benjamin 

January  13,  1993 

Rabbi  Larry  Milder 

Avram  Lev 

December  5,  1992 

1978 

Laura  Bailen  Kaufmanm  and 

Yael 

August  25,  1992 

Howard  A.  Kaufman  '76 

Merav 

August  25,  1992 

1979 

Dr.  Robert  Bernstein 

Alyssa  Mara 

September  10,  1992 

Farley  Frydman 

Benjamin  Jacob 

October  31,  1992 

Myrna  Barkey  Mitnick 

Yonatan  Ezra 

September  22,  1992 

Kate  Dunn  Nikitas 

Sophie 

January  2,  1992 

1980 

Risa  Janoff  Bernstein  and 
Sol  W.  Bernstein  '81 

Benjamin  Samuel 

December  3,  1992 

Hilene  Sfiarpless  Flanzbaum 

Susannah  Penn 

December  4,  1992 

Steven  M.  Hamburg 

Zachary  Caleb 

December  7,  1992 

Meryl  R.  Ostrow  and 

Haley  Joy 

May  18,  1992 

Alan  C.  Ostrow 

David  S.  Rapkin,  M.D. 

Evan  Daniel 

July  29,  1991 

Alison  Bermack  Rubenfeld 

Charles  Lee 

November  30,  1992 

Lydia  Zimmerman  Saravis 

Marissa  Arielle 

September  30,  1992 

1981 

Pamela  Siegel  Berk 

Charles  Jason 

November  24,  1992 

Laura  Miller  Maim 

Rachel  Jaclyn 

August  9,  1991 

Esther  Leigh 

December  26,  1992 

Susan  Synder  Schachne  and 

Ariana  Renee 

February  12,  1993 

Jeffrey  P.  Schachne,  M.D.  '80 

Terry  Martin  Zingman  and 

Michael  Aaron 

October  30,  1992 

Barry  Zingman 

1982 

Amy  Lee  Grief  and 
Stuart  1.  Grief 

Brooke  Hannah 

April  28,  1992 

Cynthia  Solov  Kagno  and 

Ruth 

November  22,  1992 

David  Karger  Wittenberg 

1983  Jennifer  Porder  Gurvits  and 
Eugene  Gurvits  '81 
Rebecca  C.  Hall  and 
Michael  R.  Fortner 

Amy  Oshansky  Knopf 

1984  Steven  E.  Bizar 
Karen  Kolber  Ersted 
Linda  Cohen  Maurice 

1985  Lisa  Sachs  Baum 
Susan  Hurowitz  Fink 
Jacqueline  Wolfman 
Shapiro 

1986  Susannah  Cohen  Altman  and 
Joseph  B.  Altman  '85 

Jan  H.  K.  Cardin  and 
Andrew  J.  Cardin,  M.D. 
Elizabeth  Gold-Somekh 

1987  Dena  Citron  Samuels  and 
Steven  M.  Samuels  '86 
Ivette  Rodriguez  Stern  and 
Jeffrey  D.  Stern  '88 

Julia  Schonfeld-Zeuner  and 
Michael  Zeuner  '86 

1988  Jacqueline  Glantz  Geschwind 
Susan  Kanarfogel  Shapiro  and 
Marc  B.  Shapiro  '89 

Bruce  Loren 


Jeremy  David 

Elizabeth  Carr  Fortner 

Alexa  Janelle 
Emily  Julia 
Rachel  Elise 
Meira  Yael 
Jeremy  Samuel 
Gregory  Lloyd 
Zoe  Lynn 
Zachary  Joseph 
Craig  Nathan 

Zachary  Aaron 
Max  Daniel 
Amanda  Nicole 
Alex  Wilson 

Elise  Jay 

Rachael  Anna 

Alexandra  Eva 
Aliza  Naomi 

Jamie  Sarah 


January  11,  1993 

October  31,  1992 

February  11,  1993 
March  1,  1993 
November  14,  1991 
June  18,  1992 
January  27,  1993 
April  6,  1992 
January  29,  1993 
June  17,  1991 
March  16,  1992 

December  18,  1992 
December  18,  1992 
August  6,  1992 
December  26,  1992 

February  6,  1993 

July  20,  1992 

October  10,  1992 
August  20,  1992 

October  6,  1992 


Hammer-Goldman,  finished  her 
second  year  of  a  doctoral  program 
at  the  University  of  Connecticut. 
They  heard  from  Sheri  Allen  who 
is  teaching  English  at  "Czech 
Tech"  in  the  Czech  Republic  and 
being  active  m  the  local  Jewish 
community.  Jonathan  C.  Hamilton 
traveled  to  Belarus  and  Russia  to 
shoot  footage  for  a  documentary  he 
is  producing  on  the  cultural  and 
ideological  background  of 
missionaries  from  America's  rural 
South,  as  revealed  through  their 
work  in  the  former  Soviet  Union. 
He  completed  coursework  for  a 
master's  degree  from  the 
University  of  North  Carolina  at 
Chapel  Hill,  and  works  with  an 
independent  producer  in  the 
Washington,  DC,  area.  Fred  B. 
Jacob  is  in  his  second  year  at 
William  and  Mary  Law  School.  He 
was  selected  to  serve  as  the 
research  editor  of  the  William  and 
Mary  Law  Review.  Richard 
Kimmel  cofounded  the 
multimedia  performance  group 
Empty  Gate  in  1991  where  he  is 
artistic  director.  The  group  has 
produced  several  plays  in  the 
United  States,  including  an 
adaptation  of  Euripides'  Baccbae,  a 
4D  installation/performance 
entitled  Grapefruit  Detective  and 
Other  Mysteries.  Samuel  Beckett's 
Endgame  and  Sam  Shepard's  The 
Tooth  of  Crime  at  the  New  Grove 
Theatre  in  London  this  spring.  Lisa 
J.  Kolton  has  started  graduate 
school  in  social  work  at  New  York 
University  Raquel  (Riqi)  S. 
Kosovske  is  production  editor  for 
Kidney  International,  continues  to 
pursue  coursework  on  women  in 
Jewish  and  Hebrew  literature  at 
Hebrew  College  and  plans  to  lead 
Reform  youth  through  Israel  this 
summer.  Some  exciting  proiects 
include  collaborating  with  her 
companion,  Ann  Hennessey,  on  a 
book  on  Catholic-Jewish  lesbian 
identity,  transcribing  Israeli 
lesbian  oral  histories.  She  lives 
with  her  cat,  Shalvah,  and  says 
that  she  "voted  for  Clinton  twice." 
Andrea  C.  Kramer  left  her  position 
as  assistant  director  of  financial 
aid  at  Regis  College  in  Weston, 
MA,  to  return  to  Brandeis  where 
she  IS  an  assistant  director  of 
financial  aid.  In  his  second  year  at 
Harvard  Law  School,  Jason  Levine 
was  elected  editor-in-chief  of  the 
Harvard  fournal  of  Law  &)  Public 
Policy  and  served  as  director  of  the 
Federalist  Society's  national 
symposium  on  law  and  public 
policy.  He  is  spending  this 
summer  with  Cravath,  Swaine  & 
Moore  in  New  York,  whose 
litigation  department  he  plans  to 
join  after  graduation.  Amanda 
Willow  Luell  works  in  Alaska  as 
an  assistant  steward  on  a  factory 
trawler  fishing  vessel.  Daniel  I. 
Richer  is  excited  to  be  spending 
the  year  in  London  working  with 


Extel  Financial  Inc.,  a  provider  of 
international  financial  data 
worldwide.  As  a  customer  support 
representative,  he  works  directly 
with  British  clients  to  resolve 
problems  and  maintain  healthy 
customer  relations.  Suzanne 
Reindorf  will  begin  a  Ph.D. 
program  in  human  genetics  at  Mt. 
Sinai  Graduate  School  of  Biological 
Sciences  in  the  fall.  Randi  S. 
Sumner  says  that  lull-time 
activism  can  pay  the  bills:  she  is  a 
canvass  manager  for  three 
organizations,  New  Jersey 
Environmental  Federation,  Citizen 
Action  and  the  Human  Rights 
Campaign  Fund.  She  is  active  in 
issues  relating  to  non-bum 
alternatives  to  the  waste  crisis, 
national  health  care  and  gay  and 
lesbian  civil  rights.  David  Sitzman 
made  a  guest  appearance  in  a 
supporting  role  on  CBS's  "Jackie 
Thomas  Show"  this  spring. 
Kermetb  H.  Wong  is  working  as  a 
research  assistant  at  the  Harvard 
Cyclotron  Laboratory,  a  radiation 
therapy  laboratory  associated  with 
Massachusetts  General  Hospital. 
Michael  Zinger  is  completing  his 
second  year  at  Einstein  Medical 
School  and  continues  to  live  in 
New  York  City. 

'92 

Beth  C.  Manes,  Class 
Correspondent,  c/o  Brandeis  Office 
of  Alumni  Relations,  P.O.  Box 
9110,  Waltham,  MA  02254-91 10 

Roxanne  E.  Alarcon  is  pursuing  a 
J.D.  at  the  University  of  Denver 
College  of  Law.  Carol  Aschner  is 
in  graduate  school  for  elementary 
education.  Kimberly  Beck  won  a 
Thomas  J.  Watson  fellowship  upon 
graduating  from  Brandeis 
University  and  has  traveled  to 
Copenhagen,  Denmark,  several 
cities  in  Poland  and  Budapest, 
Hungary.  Amy  Becker  is  still 
looking,  but  she'll  let  us  know 
when  she  finds  it!  Janine 
Berkowitz  traveled  through  Europe 
and  is  in  a  graduate  sociology 
program.  Hayden  Boswoth  is  at 
Pennsylvania  State  University  in  a 
doctorate  program  in  human 
development  and  family  studies. 
Jill  A.  Breslow  is  a  paralegal  at  a 
legal  services  organization  that 
provides  legal  representation  for 
people  who  cannot  afford  to  pay 
private  attorneys.  She  specializes 
in  the  employment  area, 
specifically  m  unemployment 
compensation  cases  and 
discrimination  in  employment 
cases.  Jessica  Cecchine  is  working 
three  jobs;  part-time  as  a  research 
assistant  in  the  programming 
office  at  Philadelphia's  QIOZ- 


60  Brandeis  Review 


Brandeis  University 
Hall  of  Fame 
Nomination  Form 


The  Brandeis 
University  Athletic  Hall 
of  Fame  has  been 
established  by 
Brandeis  University 
and  is  administered  by 
the  Friends  of 
Brandeis  Athletics 
(FOBA)  with  the 
purpose  of  honoring 
the  accomplishments 
of  the  University's 
greatest  scholar- 
athletes. 


Nominee's  Name 

Class  Year 

Name  at  Graduation 

Ptione 

Address 

City 

State             Zip  Code 

In  what  varsity  spon(s)  did  ttie  nominee  participate? 
(Years  of  participation. ..individual  tionors  or  awards., 
captain. ..post-season  etc.) 


M- 


Why  do  you  think  this  nominee  should  be  named  a  member 
of  the  Hall  of  Fame?  (use  additional  sheet  if  necessary) 


Eligibility  consists  of  the  following: 

Eligibility  shall  not  begin  until  five 
years  after  the  class  of  which 
the  scholar-athlete  was  a  member  is 
graduated  from  Brandeis  University. 

Any  Brandeis  University  alumnus 
who  has  earned  a  letter  in  any  varsity 
sport(s)  or  has  achieved  superior 
accomplishments  is  eligible  for 
nomination. 

The  nominees  shall  be  chosen  on  the 
basis  of  playing  ability,  integrity, 
sportsmanship,  character  and 
contribution  to  the  team  on  which 
they  played. 

Nominations  may  include  individuals 
who  do  not  qualify  as  alumni  or 
athletes,  but  whom  the  Committee 
feels  should  be  in  the  Hall  of 
Fame  because  of  contributions  to 
Brandeis's  athletic  program. 

This  nomination  form  must  be 
received  by  the  Hall  of  Fame 
Selection  Committee  no  later  than 
October  1  of  each  year. 


How  do  you  know  the  nominee? 


Nominator 

Class  Year 

Ptione 

Address 

City 

State            Zip  Code 

Signature 


Date 


Nominees  must  by  dues-paid  members  of  the  Alumni 
Association  and/or  FOBA.  Deadline  for  nominations 
is  October  1 .  Return  this  nomination  form  to:  Jack  l\/lolloy, 
Assistant  Athletic  Director,  Brandeis  University,  Gosman 
Center,  Waltham,  MA  02254  Phone:  617-736-3631 


WIOQ-FM,  a  popular  rap/dance 
station;  teaching  Jewish  rehgious 
school  twice  a  week  to  5th  graders; 
and  teaching  beginning  English 
full-time  at  a  private  business 
school  to  adult  immigrants.  A 
week  after  graduation,  Kimberly 
Center  moved  to  Philadelphia  and 
started  taking  physics  (that's  right) 
as  a  member  of  Bryn  Mawr 
College's  Post-Baccalaureate 
Premedical  Program  and  she  spent 
the  year  taking  premed  sciences; 
then  she  will  attend  The  Medical 
College  of  Pennsylvania,  where 
she  expects  to  receive  an  M.D.  in 
1997.  Quite  a  change  of  pace  for 
this  music  major!  She  misses  New 
England  in  the  autumn  and  can't 
wait  to  have  a  free  weekend  to 
visit  Brandeis  again,  Jeffrey  H. 
CJiester  is  completing  his  first  year 
as  a  medical  student  at  the 
University  of  Medicine  of  New 
Jersey  School  of  Osteopathic 
Medicine.  David  Colin  is  a 
purchasing  agent  with  a  South 
Elorida  company  that  exports 
electronics.  David  Cooke  spent  the 
summer  after  graduation  touring 
Israel  for  six  weeks  and  is 
attending  the  University  of 
Michigan  Medical  School.  Dawn  L. 
Cohen  is  taking  two  years  off 
before  medical  school  and  is  a 
research  assistant  in  a  neurology 
lab  at  Case  Western  Reserve 
University  for  a  doctor  who  is 
studying  Alzheimer's  disease.  Lisa 
B.  Davidson  started  a  master's 
program  at  Tufts  University  in 
their  child  study  department.  She 
says  it's  nice  to  finally  focus  her 
learning  and  experiences  on  her 
future  career  with  children. 
Tabitha  Dowling  reports  she  has  a 
husband,  a  job  (management 
position  at  Gap  Kidsj,  a  place  to 
live,  three  kitties  and  friends  that 
are  too  far  away!  Sam  Lyons 
Elowitch  IS  studying  for  his 
master's  degree  in  Near  Eastern 
studies  at  the  University  of 
California  at  Berkeley  and  may 
thereafter  pursue  a  Ph.D.  Vincent 
Eng  is  attending  law  school  at 
American  University  where  he  is 
pursuing  a  J.D.  and  M.A.  in 
international  affairs.  Jason  Ensler 
IS  working  in  New  York  City 
trying  to  get  acting  and  movie- 
making experience.  He  plans  to  go 
to  New  York  University  Film 
School.  David  K.  Epstein  is 
spending  a  year  in  Israel  where  he 
is  participating  in  a  10-month 
program  consisting  of  a  four- 
month  Kibbutz  Ulpan  and  a  six- 
month  work  period.  He  is  also 
volunteering  in  the  Haifa 
Environmental  Quality  office, 
helping  to  establish  recycling 
programs  and  tutoring  recent 
immigrants  in  English.  Lisa  B. 
Feldman  is  attending  graduate 
school  at  Rutgers  University 


where  she  is  pursuing  a  degree  in 
human  resources  and  labor 
relations.  She  loves  her  new  school 
but  she  misses  Brandeis  a  lot, 
especially  her  friends.  Daniel 
Fishman  is  working  at  Bio  Pure  in 
research  and  development  for  an 
artificial  blood  substitute,  which 
he  finds  to  be  very  exciting  work. 
He  hopes  to  attend  medical  school 
in  fall  '94.  Eric  Fontano  is  still 
living  m  Waltham  with  good  ol' 
Mom  and  Dad.  He  is  even  working 
at  Brandeis  as  a  research  assistant 
to  Dr.  Don  Caspar  in  Rosenstiel 
Center.  As  a  full-time  employee, 
he  is  eligible  to  take  courses  in 
math,  physics  and  computer 
science,  and  plans  to  do  so  over  the 
next  two  years.  He  is  leaning 
towards  a  career  in  research,  which 
calls  for  a  graduate  degree  in 
biophysics.  In  his  free  time,  he 
enjoys  volleyball,  hockey  and  golf. 
Tammy  Friedman  is  working  as  a 
human  resources  assistant  and 
attending  Boston  University  part- 
time  for  an  MBA.  After  spending 
the  summer  and  fall  of  1992 
theater  season  acting  in  Vermont, 
Leah  Rachel  Froum  is  living  in 
New  York  City  pursuing  a  career 
off-off-off-off  Broadway.  She  was 
pleased  to  leam  that  there  are 
scores  of  Class  of  '90,  '91  and  '92 
people  there,  forming  a  mini- 
Brandeis  on  the  West  side!  Sherri 
L.  Geller  is  in  graduate  school  at 
Boston  University,  pursuing  a 
master's  in  public  relations  and 
working  as  a  graduate  assistant  in 
the  Center  for  the  Study  of 
Disinformation.  Daniel  Gewanter 
IS  attending  Columbia  Law  School, 
Mark  J.  Ginsberg  is  concentrating 
in  environmental  law  at  the  Lewis 
&  Clark-Northwestern  School  of 
Law,  Sarina  Glazer  is  pursuing  a 
certificate  to  teach  English  at  the 
secondary  level  and  English  as  a 
second  language,  Erin  A.  Glassman 
is  attending  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania  School  of  Social 
Work  for  her  master's,  Lisa 
Goldman  works  for  the  United 
States  Senate  Joint  Economic 
Committee  in  Washington,  DC, 
Lori  A.  Goldsmith  is  attending  the 
University  of  Delaware  for  her 
master's  m  life  span  development, 
after  which  she  hopes  to  continue 
on  for  her  PhD.  Miriam  R. 
Greenburg  is  completing  her 
certification  for  teaching  and  then 
plans  to  look  for  work  in  theater  in 
the  Boston  area.  Rachel  S.  Haas  is 
very  happily  married  to  Norman 
Barth  and  began  attending  Drisha 
Yeshiva  in  January.  Marny  Joy 
Held  is  working  full-time  for  a 
small  marketing  group  whose 
customers  are  pharmaceutical 


companies.  She  has  also  applied  to 
18  law  schools  for  fall  199,^ 
admission.  Rachel  Hernandez  is 
attending  the  University  of 
California  Hastings  Law  School  in 
San  Francisco.  Eugene  Hoffman  is 
a  trading  assistant  at  Cantor, 
Fitzgerald  L.P.,  in  New  York  City, 
where  he  works  with  bond  brokers 
and  customers.  Upon  graduation. 
Marc  Horowitz  began  work  with 
the  learning  disabled  in  residential 
homes  on  Long  Island  and  plans  to 
go  back  for  his  master's  in  social 
work  in  the  New  York  area  in 
September.  John  Hsu  is  working 
right  up  the  street  from  Brandeis  at 
New  York  Life  and  is  planning  to 
obtain  a  master's  in  financial 
services  through  the  company. 
Davida  Isaacs  spent  part  of  the 
summer  following  graduation 
traveling  through  Europe.  She  is 
presently  at  New  York  University 
Law  School  Lorraine  Jablowsky  is 
a  paralegal  in  a  small  law  firm 
dealing  in  commercial  litigation, 
in  midtown  Manhattan  where  she 
hopes  to  go  to  law  school.  Jennifer 
Kalm  completed  her  first  year  of 
medical  school  at  the  University  of 
Florida.  Jennifer  Karas  is  working 
for  First  State  Management  Group 
in  Boston.  Amir  Kami  is  presently 
in  Block  II  of  Medical  Scfiool  at 
Baylor  College  of  Medicine  in 
Houston,  and  is  happy  to  report 
that  he  loves  it.  Dylan  Kaufman  is 
taking  pre-med  classes  at  San 
Francisco  State  University,  but 
hopes  to  transfer  to  the  University 
of  California  at  Berkeley  in  the 
fall.  Heather  Parkoff  Kibel  is 
married  and  working  as  assistant 
director  of  New  Jersey  Young 
Judaea,  a  Zionist  youth  movement. 
Inbar  Kirson  is  attending  medical 
school  at  Rush  Medical  College  in 
Chicago  and  is  involved  in  the 
Women's  International  Zionist 
Organization,  as  well  as  RATS 
(Rush  Aid  Through  Sports)  which 
IS  similar  to  a  weekly  Special 
Olympics.  Cheryl  Knoepler  is 
volunteering  at  a  local  elementary 
school  and  hopes  to  attend 
graduate  school  next  year  to 
become  a  counselor.  Julie 
Krasnogor  is  a  student  at  the 
University  of  Connecticut  Law 
School.  Taria  Lambert  completed  a 
graduate  program  in  education  at 
the  Institute  of  Education  at  the 
University  of  London.  Marlyssa  A. 
Landesman  is  pursuing  an  M.B.A. 
at  the  State  University  of  New 
York  at  Buffalo  School  of 
Management  and  working  m  the 
Public  Defenders  Office  at  Erie 
County  Court,  interviewing 
clients  and  conducting  factual 
investigations.  Jodi  Lazar  worked 
for  EF  Foundation  for  Foreign 
Exchange,  an  international  student 
exchange  organization,  and  in  the 
legal  department  at  Lotus  in 


Cambridge,  MA,  before  traveling 
to  Israel  to  leam  Hebrew  and  live 
on  a  kibbutz,  Naomi  R.  Leeds  lives 
in  Boston's  Back  Bay  and  is  an 
associate  editor  of  a  health  and 
wellness/fitness  magazine.  Dawn 
Lerman  is  pursuing  an  M.B.A.  in 
marketing  and  international 
business  at  the  Stern  School  of 
Business  at  New  York  University. 
Sarah  B.  Levin  is  attending  the 
University  of  Maryland  School  of 
Medicine  Miriam  R.  Linver  is 
working  toward  an  M.S.  and  Ph.D. 
in  family  studies  at  the  University 
of  Arizona.  Craig  H.  Lipset  is 
pursuing  a  master's  degree  at 
Columbia  University  School  of 
Public  Health  division  of 
epidemiology.  Lisa  M.  Lividini  is 
working  in  a  library  on  Port 
Hueneme  Naval  Base  in  California 
and  hopes  to  go  back  to  grad 
school.  Janis  A.  Loewengart  is 
living  in  Randolph,  NJ,  and 
working  for  The  New  Yorker.  Beth 
C.  Manes  is  attending  the 
University  of  Michigan  Law 
School  Shari  R.  Mendelson  co- 
recorded  six  children's  albums  and 
is  working  with  Pat  Collins  and 
John  Velasco  on  an  upcoming 
video  for  the  project.  She  lives  in 
Teaneck,  NJ,  where  she  is 
auditioning,  taking  dance  classes 
and  waitressing  like  every  other 
"aspiring  actor."  Amy  S.  Merget  is 
working  as  a  program  coordinator 
for  Reading,  PA,  urban  ministry. 
Her  first-of-its-kind  program  in  the 
area,  family  action  support  team 
(FAST),  reaches  out  to  single 
parents  and  their  children  to  take 
control  of  an  often  unstable  family 
unit.  Steven  W.  Rabitz  is  attending 
New  York  University  School  of 
Law  and  expects  to  graduate  in 
May  1995.  Sheri  C.  Newman  is  in 
a  post-baccalaureate  pre-medical 
program  at  Tufts  University.  Peter 
B.  Nickowitz  is  in  a  master's/ 
Ph.D.  program  in  English  literature 
at  New  York  University.  He  enjoys 
living  in  Greenwich  Village,  but 
misses  the  green  grass  and  fauna  of 
Waltham.  Larissa  Pelc  completed 
her  first  year  at  Brooklyn  Law 
School  in  New  York  City  and  is 
living  in  Brooklyn  Heights.  She 
says  that  it's  tons  of  work,  but  she 
loves  it.  Jeffrey  S.  Peters  completed 
the  Kibbutz  Ulpan  volunteer 
program  in  Israel  and  worked  with 
new  immigrants,  trying  out  his 
new  language  skills  at  an 
absorption  center.  When  he 
returns  to  the  United  States,  he 
will  attend  law  school  at 
Pennsylvania  State  University. 
Leila  Porter  is  a  research  assistant 
in  Bastrop,  TX,  with  MD  Anderson 
Cancer  Center's  Veterinary  Park, 


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where  she  is  studying  the  behavior 
of  a  colony  of  rhesus  monkeys. 
Asad  Rahman  spent  three  months 
studying  Arabic  in  Jordan  as  part  of 
his  Middle  Eastern  studies 
program  and  traveled  extensively 
through  Jordan  and  Syria  before 
returning  to  Karachi,  Pakistan.  He 
works  for  ICI,  the  largest  British 
multinational  corporation  in 
Pakistan,  and  says  graduate  school 
is  somewhere  down  the  road.  Ellen 
Rappaport  completed  her  first  year 
at  Boston  College  Law  School.  She 
misses  Brandeis,  but  is  glad  to  be 
in  the  Boston  area.  Gyodi  L.  Reid 
is  working  for  W.W.  Norton  &  Co. 
book  publishers  m  New  York  City 
and  living  in  Freehold,  NJ.  Susan 
Rosen  is  attending  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania  where  she  is 
pursuing  a  master's  degree  in 
psychology  Michael  Rosenthal  is 
attending  Yale  University  School 
of  Law.  Jonathan  D.  Rothberg  is 
attending  Loyola  Medical  School 
in  Chicago,  IL.  Amy  B.  Rubman  is 
in  medical  school  at  the 
University  of  Vermont.  She  says 
that  she  is  deeply  appreciative  of 
her  Brandeis  education  as  she  finds 
herself  well-prepared  for  the  rigors 
of  medical  school.  Shelley  Savage 
is  a  health  e.xtension  project 
volunteer  in  Togo,  West  Africa. 
Miriam  Schoeman  is  enjoying  the 
master's  program  at  the  University 
of  Michigan's  Center  for  Middle 


Eastern  and  North  African  Studies. 
Elena  (Lenna)  Silberman  is 
finishing  up  a  master's  program  at 
Northwestern  University's  Medill 
School  of  Journalism.  This 
summer  she  is  serving  as  a 
Washington,  DC,  correspondent 
for  a  television  and  radio  station. 
Stephen  Silverman  is  working  for 
Chase  Manhattan  Bank  in  New 
York  City.  Michael  Sinert  is 
working  as  a  reporter  covering 
local  politics  for  the  Daily 
Transcript  in  Dedham,  MA. 
However,  he  still  lives  in  Waltham 
where  he  enjoys  playing  squash  at 
Brandeis's  new  gym.  Adam  Smith 
IS  attending  Temple  Law  School 
and  hopes  to  pursue  a  career  in 
sports  law.  Olga  Stambler  is  a  first- 
year  student  at  Fordham  Law 
School  in  New  York  City.  Mikhal 
E.  Stein  is  assistant  director  of  the 
Anti-Defamation  League's  New 
England  region  and  resides  in 
Brookline,  MA.  Pia  N.  Strother  is 
working  for  Fleet  Bank  of 
Massachusetts  as  a  financial 
analyst  in  the  managed  assets 
division.  She  is  living  with  three 
other  Brandeis  alumni,  all  former 
members  of  the  Brandeis  women's 
track  team,  in  Brighton,  MA. 


Lauren  Sueskind  is  an  account 
executive  with  Bayard  Advertising 
Agency,  Inc.,  a  recruitment 
advertising  agency  in  New  York 
City  Lynne  M.  Sundblad  is 
working  at  an  advertising/ 
marketing  agency  in  Newton,  MA. 
Sydnie  Suskind  worked  on  the 
Paramount  lot  as  a  production 
assistant  on  "Brooklyn  Bridge"  and 
previously  was  assistant  to  the 
producer  of  iooA-  Who's  Talking. 
Asta  Kristjana  Sveinsdottir  is 
teaching  math  at  the  Gymnasium 
of  Reykjavik,  Iceland,  and  taking 
courses  in  old  Icelandic, 
philosophy  and  French  at  the 
University  of  Iceland.  She  plans  to 
begin  graduate  studies  in 
philosophy  in  the  fall  in  the 
United  States.  Inci  Tonguch  is 
attending  Duke  University  Law 
School  where  she  is  pursuing  a  J.D. 
and  master's  m  international  law. 
Abigail  Weiner  is  in  the  Ph.D. 
program  at  Brown  University's 
Center  for  Old  World  Archaeology 
and  Art.  Richard  Weiner 
completed  Lord  iSi.  Taylor's 
executive  training  program  and 
was  promoted  to  area  sales 
manager  in  Boston.  After  surviving 
Hurricane  Andrew,  Jaime  S. 
Wengroff  has  settled  into  a  dual 
degree  MB. A.  and  M.S.  program  in 
international  business,  at  the 
University  of  Miami  School  of 
Business.  He  lives  in  an  apartment 
in  South  Miami  Beach's  art  deco 


district,  six  blocks  from  the  beach, 
and  has  a  part-time  job  as  a  sales 
assistant  to  a  stockbroker  in  the 
Miami  office  of  Smith  Barney. 
Sean  D.  Wengroff  is  attending 
Tulane  Medical  School  where  he 
hopes  to  receive  his  M.D.  and 
possibly  a  master's  in  public 
health  and  tropical  medicine.  He  is 
enjoying  New  Orleans  where  he 
lives  within  walking  distance  to 
the  French  Quarter  and  says  he  is 
getting  acclimated  to  "po'  boys, 
jambalaya,  red  beans  and  nee." 
Ronald  B.  West  is  a  first-year  law 
student  at  the  University  of  San 
Diego.  Darren  S.  Witte  is  a  first- 
year  medical  student  at  the 
Medical  College  of  Virginia  in 
Richmond.  Joshua  Wyte  lives  in 
Vail,  CO,  where  he  is  working  at  a 
sports  store.  He  has  plans  to  apply 
to  law  school  for  the  fall.  Yinlee 
Yoong  is  completing  her  first  year 
at  Harvard  Medical  School  and 
hopes  to  do  some  research  in 
cardiology  upon  graduation. 


63  Summer  1993 


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Elinor  T.  Adman  (MA.  '66,  Ph.D. 
'67,  chemistry)  is  in  the 
Department  of  Biological  Structure 
at  the  University  of  Washington  in 
Seattle  and  was  named  vice 
president  of  the  American 
Crystallographic  Association  for 
1993.  Robert  B.  Horwitz  |M  A.  '82, 
Ph.D.  '83,  sociology)  is  the  chair  of 
the  Department  of 
Communication  at  the  University 
of  California  at  San  Diego  and  the 
author  of  The  Irony  of  Regulatory 
Reform:  The  Deregulation  of 
American  Telecommunications. 
which  won  the  1990  Ethics  and 
Policy  Award  for  Communications 
Research  from  the  Donald 
McGannon  Communications 
Research  Center.  Walter  C.  Kaiser, 
Jr.  |M.A.  '72,  Ph.D.  '73, 
Mediterranean  studies),  professor 
of  Old  Testament  at  Trinity 
Evangelical  Divinity  School  in 
Chicago,  was  appointed  to  the 
newly-endowed  position  of  the 
Colman  M.  Mockler  Distinguished 
Professor  of  Old  Testament  and 
director  of  the  Colman  M.  Mockler 
Program  in  Biblical  Foundations 
for  Ethics  at  the  Boston 


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Theological  Institute.  Fatima 
itternissi  |M.A.  '72,  Ph.D.  '74, 
sociology)  tries  to  explain  the  roles 
of  Muslim  women  without 
apologetics  in  her  book  Islam  and 
Democracy:  Fear  of  the  Modern 
World.  Shulamit  T.  Reinharz 
(M.A.  '69,  Ph.D.  '77,  sociology), 
director  of  the  Women's  Studies 
Program  and  professor  of  sociology 
at  Brandeis  University,  has 
received  an  Outstanding  Academic 
Book  award  for  1993  from  Choice 
magazine,  the  book  review  journal 
for  academic  libraries.  Her  book, 
Femmist  Methods  in  Social 
Research,  was  honored  for  its 
wide-ranging  survey  of  feminist 
projects  in  the  social  sciences,  the 
methods  employed  and  the  value 
of  the  work  produced.  In 
November,  Winifred  B. 
Rothenberg  (Ph.D.  '85,  history) 
published  from  Market-Places  to  a 
Market  Economy:  The 
Transformation  of  Rural 
Massachusetts.  17S0-18S0. 
Marilyn  S.  Rueschemeyer  (Ph.D. 
'78,  sociology)  was  appointed 
cochair  of  the  Committee  on 
International  Sociology  of  the 
American  Sociological  Association 
where  she  had  served  as  Eastern 
European  liaison.  She  coordinated 
a  conference  on  women  in  Eastern 
Europe  for  the  International 
Research  and  Exchange  Board  in 
Prague.  In  addition,  her  book. 
Women  m  the  Politics  of  Post- 
Communist  Eastern  Europe,  has 
been  published.  Sheila  Silver  |M.A. 
'74,  Ph.D.  '76,  music)  had  the 
world  premiere  of  her  "Three 
Preludes"  composition  when  it 
was  performed  by  The  American 
Composers  Orchestra  m  Carnegie 
Hall  on  March  21. 

Enj;lish  and  American  Literature 

Charles  Bazerman  (MA.  '68, 
Ph.D.  '71)  IS  a  professor  of 
literature,  communication  and 
culture  as  well  as  director  of 
graduate  studies  at  Georgia 
Institute  of  Technology.  He  is  the 
author  of  several  books  including, 
A  Constructive  Experience,  due 
out  in  1994,  and  Shaping  Written 
Knowledge:  The  Genre  and 
Activity  of  the  Experimental 
Article  in  Science,  which  won  the 
1990  McGovern  Medal  of  the 
American  Medical  Writer's 
Association  and  the  1990  National 
Council  of  Teachers  of  English 
Award  for  Excellence  in  Technical 
and  Scientific  Writing.  Joan  F. 
Berns  (M.A.  '71,  Ph.D.  '74)  is  a 
teaching  assistant  at  Wayland 
High  School  in  Wayland,  MA,  an 
adult  tutor  in  French  language  and 
culture  and  a  certified  English  as  a 
Second  Language  tutor.  Rosellen 
Brown  (M.A.  '62)  is  a  professor  in 


the  English  Department  at  the 
University  of  Houston  in  Texas 
and  has  published  a  novel  entitled 
Before  and  After,  a  book  of  essays, 
poet  and  short  stories  called  A 
Rosellen  Brown  Reader  and  Street 
Games:  A  Neighborhood,  a  reissue 
of  a  1974  book  of  short  stories. 
Marilyn  L.  Brownstein  (M.A.  '70, 
Ph.D.  '79)  IS  assistant  professor  of 
English  at  the  University  of 
Georgia  and  the  author  of  several 
chapters  including  "Class 
Consciousness  and  Non-identity" 
in  A  Berlin  Chronicle  and  "Three 
Guineas"  in  Post/Modernist 
Negotiations:  Gender,  Race  and 
Aesthetics.  Martin  A.  Danahay 
(M.A.  '83,  Ph.D.  '87)  is  assistant 
professor  of  English  at  Emory 
University  in  Atlanta  and  the 
author  of  A  Community  of  One: 
Masculine  Autobiography  and 
Autonomy  in  Nineteenth-Century 
Britain  and  several  articles  on  the 
subject  of  class,  gender  and  the 
Victorian  masculine  subject.  He  is 
also  at  work  on  another  book  to  be 
entitled  Ideologies  at  Work: 
Victorian  Representation  and  the 
Division  of  Labor.  Anita  DeVivo 
(M.A.  '59)  IS  a  self-employed 
editorial  management  consultant 
and  has  served  as  executive  editor 
of  the  American  Psychological 
Association.  In  addition,  she  is  a 
founding  member  of  the  Choral 
Arts  Society  of  Washington,  DC, 
and  sang  on  a  Grammy  Award- 
winning  record  with  Bernstein  for 
Nixon's  counter-inaugural.  Peter 
Elbow  (Ph.D.  '70)  is  a  professor  of 
English  at  the  University  of 
Massachusetts  at  Amherst  and  the 
recipient  of  the  "Rhetorician  of  the 
Year"  award  from  the  Annual 
Young  Rhetoricians  Conference. 
Robert  E.  Frank  (MA.  '71 1  is  an 
English  teacher  and  computer 
coordinator  at  Weston  High  School 
in  Weston,  MA.  He  also  edits  the 
newsletter  of  the  Lexington 
Council  for  the  Arts.  Daniel  Fuchs 
(M.A.  '56)  is  a  professor  of  English 
at  the  College  of  Staten  Island  and 
the  author  of  Saul  Bellow:  Vision 
and  Revision.  Steven  L. 
Hamelman  (Ph.D.  '91)  is  assistant 
professor  of  English  at  the 
University  of  South  Carolina/ 
Coastal  Carolina  College.  Barry  W. 
Hohz(M.A.  '71,  Ph.D.  '73)  is 
codirector  of  the  Melton  Research 
Center  for  Jewish  Education  and 
associate  professor  of  Jewish 
education  at  the  Jewish 
Theological  Seminary  of  America 
in  New  York  City.  Gray  Jacobik 
(M.A.  '85,  Ph.D.  '89)  is  assistant 
professor  of  English  at  Eastern 


Connecticut  State  University  and 
has  published  over  120  poems.  He 
also  served  as  president  of  a 
cooperatively-run  small  press  that 
published  23  books  of  poetry. 
Susanne  Schloetelburg 
Klingenstein  (M.A.  '83)  is  a 
research  associate  at  the  Tauber 
Institute  at  Brandeis  University 
and  the  author  of  lews  in  the 
American  Academy.  1900-1940: 
The  Dynamics  of  Intellectual 
Assimilation.  Marcia  R. 
Lieberman  (Ph.D.  '66)  published 
The  Outdoor  Traveler's  Guide: 
The  Alps  in  1991,  and  her  1987 
book.  Walking  Switzerland:  The 
Swiss  Way,  is  in  its  second  edition. 
Gerda  S.  Norvig  (M.A.  '70,  Ph.D. 
'79)  IS  teaching  in  the  English 
Department  at  the  University  of 
Colorado  and  published  Dark 
Figures  in  the  Desired  Country: 
Blake's  Illustrations  to  Pilgrim's 
Progress  Naomi  Pasachoff  (Ph.D. 
'74)  has  written  several  textbooks, 
including  Great  fewish  Thinkers: 
Their  Lives  and  Work  and  Basic 
fudaism  for  Young  People,  as  well 
as  coauthored  several  books  on 
earth  science.  Linda  Simon  (Ph.D. 
'83)  IS  a  preceptor  in  expository 
writing  at  Harvard  University  and 
IS  coauthonng  The  Harper  Collins 
Guide  to  Writing  and  authoring  a 
book  entitled  William  fames.  C. 
Robert  Sprich  (M.A.  '63)  is  a 
lecturer  at  the  Boston 
Psychoanalytic  Institute,  founding 
member  of  the  board  of  directors  of 
The  Friends  of  Dr.  Bumey,  a 
historic  musical  theater  and 
performance  group,  and  founding 
member  of  the  board  of  directors  of 
the  Coolidge  Comer  Theater 
Foundation.  Timothy  Steele  (M.A. 
'72,  Ph.D.  '77)  IS  a  professor  of 
English  at  California  State 
University  in  Los  Angeles  and  the 
recipient  of  numerous  honors 
including  the  California  State 
University  Outstanding  Professor 
Award  1991-92,  the  Los  Angeles 
PEN  Center  Literary  Award  for 
Poetry  1987,  National  Books 
Critics  Circle  Finalist  for  Poetry 
Award  1 986,  a  Guggenheim 
Fellowship  1984-85  and  Pushcart 
Prize  1983.  Ronald  R.  Thomas 
(M.A.  '78,  Ph.D.  '83)  is  associate 
professor  of  English  at  Trinity 
College  and  the  author  of  Dreams 
of  Authority:  Freud  and  the 
Fictions  of  the  Unconscious.  He 
was  nominated  for  the  1990  British 
Council  Prize  in  the  Humanities 
by  the  North  American 
Conference  on  British  Studies  for 
the  James  Russell  Lowell  Prize.  In 
addition,  he  was  the  recipient  of 
the  Margaret  Church  Modern 
Fiction  Studies  Memorial  Prize  for 
the  year's  best  published  essay,  in 
1986.  Robert  Wexelblatt  (Ph.D. 
'73)  is  a  professor  of  Humanities  at 
Boston  University  and  the 
recipient  of  numerous  awards. 


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family  studies  department  at  the 
University  of  Maryland,  visitmg 
scholar-in-residence  at  Spelman 
College  in  Atlanta  and  member  ot 
the  board  of  overseers  of  Brandeis 
University's  Heller  School, 
published  Climbing  [acob's 
Ladder:  The  Enduring  Legacy'  of 
African-American  Families,  a 
sequel  to  his  Black  Families  m 
White  America.  Betty  J.  Cleckley 
(Ph.D.  '74),  vice  president  for 
multicultural  affairs,  has  been 
appointed  to  the  executive 
committee  of  the  Defense 
Advisory  Committee  on  Women 
in  the  Services  (DACOWTTSl, 
which  assists  and  advises  the 
secretary  of  defense  on  policies  and 
matters  relating  to  women  in  the 
military  services.  She  also  serves 
as  vice  chair  of  the  DACOWITS 
quality  of  life  committee.  Thomas 
P.  Glynn  (M.S.W,  '72,  Ph.D.  '77| 
was  nominated  by  President 
Clinton  to  be  deputy  secretary  of 
labor.  Previously,  he  was  senior 
vice  president  for  finance  and 
administration  at  Brown 
University  in  Providence.  He  also 
served  as  general  manager  of  the 
Massachusetts  Bay  Transit 
Authority,  deputy  commissioner 
of  the  Massachusetts  Department 
of  Public  Welfare  and  director  of 
Vice  President  Mondale's  Task 
Force  on  Youth  Employment. 
Roger  A.  Lohmann's  (Ph.D.  '75) 
new  book.  The  Commons:  New 
Perspectives  on  Nonprofit 
Organization  and  Voluntary 
Action,  was  awarded  the  Staley- 
Robeson-Ryan-St.  Lawrence  award 
by  the  National  Society  of  Fund- 


professor  of  social  work  and 
director  of  the  Nonprofit 
Management  Academy  at  West 
Virginia  University.  Richard  E. 
Isralowitz  (Ph.D.  '78],  director  of 
the  Hubert  H.  Humphrey  Institute 
for  Social  Ecology  at  Ben-Gurion 
University  of  the  Negev  (Israel),  is 
serving  as  project  codirector  for  the 
development  of  a  model  education 
improvement  program  for 
Bedouin-Arab  and  Native 
American  youth.  He  is  also  editor 
of  a  special  edition  of  the  Israel 
Social  Science  Research  fournal.  a 
publication  of  the  Israel 
Sociological  Society  entitled  the 
"Kibbutz  in  Transition."  Karen 
Devereaux  JVlelillo  (Ph  D.  ''■;0), 
associate  professor  m  the 
department  of  nursing  of  the 
College  of  Heath  Care  Professions 
at  the  University  of  Massachusetts 
at  Lowell,  was  named  the  recipient 
of  the  Foundation  of  American 
College  of  Heath  Care 
Administrators'  Long-Term  Care 
Research  Award.  The  award  is 
presented  annually  for  original 
contributions  to  knowledge  related 
to  the  organization,  finance  or 
delivery  of  long-term  health  care. 
Regina  O'Grady-LeShane 
(Ph.D.  '82)  was  appointed  to  the 
Women  and  Retirement 
Congressional  Study  Group 
examining  Social  Security  issues. 
She  is  an  assistant  professor  at 
Boston  College's  Graduate  School 
of  Social  Work.  Rosalie  S.  Wolf 
(Ph.D.  '76)  was  chosen  as  1992 
honoree  by  the  Worcester 


enlightened  values  during  an 
active  career  of  community 
service.  She  is  a  national  authority 
on  gerontology  and  chair  of  the 
committee  on  older  adults  for 
Worcester  Fights  Back. 

Near  Eastern  and  Judaic  Studies 

Oral  Collins  (Ph.D.  '77)  is  teaching 
Bible  courses  part-time  at  the 
Berkshire  Institute  for  Christian 
Studies,  where  he  conducts  an 
annual  academic  travel  seminar  to 
Egypt,  lordan  and  Israel.  In 
addition,  he  is  also  working  on  a 
commentary  on  the  Apocalypse. 
Lynn  Hazan  (MA.  '80)  is  executive 
recruiter  for  Beverly  Von  Winckler 
^  Associates,  a  communications 
and  marketing  firm  in  Chicago, 
and  teaches  at  Lakeside 
Congregation  in  Highland  Park,  IL. 
She  also  runs  a  free-lance  business 
as  a  professional  storyteller  and 
has  presented  numerous  programs 
for  CAJE,  the  ADL  and  other 
lewish  organizations  throughout 
the  country.  Audrey  Mindlin 
Poppy  (M.A.  '84)  is  working  part- 
time  as  consultant  editor  to  a 
publisher  of  legal  journals  for  Hong 
Kong  and  the  Southeast  Asian 
region  and  spends  the  rest  of  her 
time  working  for  environmental 
causes.  Mark  Sokoll  (M.A.  '90)  was 
appointed  executive  director  of 
Leventhal-Sidman  lewish 
Community  Center  in  Newton, 
MA.  Constance  W.  Williams 
(Ph.D.  '89)  received  the 
Massachusetts  Chapter  of  the 
National  Association  of  Social 
Workers'  1993  award  for  Greatest 
Contribution  to  Social  Policy  and 
Change.  Her  research  and  social 
policy  recommendations  m  the 
area  of  African-American  teenage 
pregnancy  was  cited  by  the  awards 
committee.  In  May,  she  was 
awarded  an  honorary  Doctorate  of 
Humane  Letters  from  Curry 
College  in  Milton,  MA. 


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in  Englewood, 
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fellowships  from 
:)wment  for  the 
Humanities,  the  National 
Endowment  for  the  Arts  and  the 
National  Humanities  Institute  at 
the  University  of  Chicago.  In 
addition,  he  was  a  member  of 
several  national  sociological 
professional  organizations.  He 
leaves  his  companion,  William  G. 
Hungerford;  two  brothers,  Roger  of 
Monmouth,  CA,  and  Richard  of 
Ojai,  CA;  and  his  stepmother, 
(anette  Rainwater  of  Pacific 
Palisades,  CA.  Anthony  Sabatino, 
M.F.A.  '69,  died  on  April  10,  1993 
in  Los  Angeles  of  AIDS.   He  was 
an  award  winning  art  director 
whose  proiects  included  "The 
Golden  Globes,"  "The  People's 
Choice  Awards,"  and  production 
of  "The  Soul  Train  Music 
Awards."  He  had  eight  Emmy 
nominations,  receiving  the 
Daytime  Emmy  for  "Fun  House" 
for  the  1988-89  season.  He  is 
survived  by  his  companion,  Leslie 
Miller,  his  parents  and  a  sister. 
Fack  E.  Stumpf,  Ph.D.  '71,  died  of 
pneumonia  on  January  IS,  1993  at 
his  home  in  San  Diego.  He  was  a 
founder  and  one  of  five  original 
professors  of  the  School  of  Social 
Work  at  San  Diego  State 
University,  where  he  was 
employed  for  21  years  and 
authored  or  coauthored  more  than 
50  articles  and  books.  His 
outstanding  career  in  social  work 
was  recognized  in  1991,  when  he 
received  the  two  highest  state 
awards  in  the  field:  the  California 
Social  Worker  of  the  Year  and  the 
Koshland  Award.  He  had  served  as 
an  advisor  to  both  the  City  and 
County  of  San  Diego,  and  was  a 
delegate  to  presidential 
conferences  during  the  Truman, 
Eisenhower  and  Kennedy 
administrations.  He  is  survived  by 
his  wife,  Josephine,  his  daughter, 
Dana  Bear,  and  by  two  sisters. 


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Elinor  T.  Adman  (MA 

'67,  chemistry)  is  in  tt 
Department  of  Biologi 
at  the  University  of  W 
Seattle  and  was  name( 
president  of  the  Amer 
Crystallographic  Asso 
1993.  Robert  B.  Horwi 
Ph.D.  '83,  sociologyl  i: 
the  Department  of 
Communication  at  th 
of  California  at  San  D 
author  of  The  Irony  of 
Reform:  The  Deregula 
American  Telecommi 
which  won  the  1990  I 
Policy  Award  for  Corr 
Research  from  the  Do 
McGarmon  Communi 
Research  Center.  Wal 
Jr.  |M.A.  '72,  Ph.D.  '7; 
Mediterranean  studie; 
of  Old  Testament  at  1  .„„.., 
Evangelical  Divinity  School  m 
Chicago,  was  appointed  to  the 
newly-endowed  position  of  the 
Colman  M.  Mockler  Distinguished 
Professor  of  Old  Testament  and 
director  of  the  Colman  M.  Mockler 
Program  in  Biblical  Foundations 
for  Ethics  at  the  Boston 


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Marilyn  S.  Rueschemeyer  (Ph.D. 
'78,  sociology)  was  appointed 
cochair  of  the  Committee  on 
International  Sociology  of  the 
American  Sociological  Association 
where  she  had  served  as  Eastern 
European  liaison.  She  coordinated 
a  conference  on  women  in  Eastern 
Europe  for  the  International 
Research  and  Exchange  Board  in 
Prague.  In  addition,  her  book. 
Women  m  the  Politics  of  Post- 
Communist  Eastern  Europe,  has 
been  published.  Sheila  Silver  (MA. 
'74,  Ph.D.  '76,  music)  had  the 
world  premiere  of  her  "Three 
Preludes"  composition  when  it 
was  performed  by  The  American 
Composers  Orchestra  in  Carnegie 
Hall  on  March  21. 

English  and  American  Literature 

Charles  Bazerman  (MA.  '68, 
Ph.D.  '71)  IS  a  professor  of 
literature,  communication  and 
culture  as  well  as  director  of 
graduate  studies  at  Georgia 
Institute  of  Technology.  He  is  the 
author  of  several  books  including, 
A  Constructive  Experience,  due 
out  in  1994,  and  Shaping  Written 
Knowledge:  The  Genre  and 
Activity  of  the  Experimental 
Article  in  Science,  which  won  the 
1990  McGovem  Medal  of  the 
American  Medical  Writer's 
Association  and  the  1990  National 
Council  of  Teachers  of  English 
Award  for  Excellence  in  Technical 
and  Scientific  Writing.  Joan  F. 
Bems(M.A.  '71,  Ph.D.  '74)  is  a 
teaching  assistant  at  Wayland 
High  School  in  Wayland,  MA,  an 
adult  tutor  in  French  language  and 
culture  and  a  certified  English  as  a 
Second  Language  tutor.  Rosellen 
Brown  (M.A.  '62(  is  a  professor  in 


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Autonomy  in  Nineteenth-Century 
Britain  and  several  articles  on  the 
subject  of  class,  gender  and  the 
Victorian  masculine  subject.  He  is 
also  at  work  on  another  book  to  be 
entitled  Ideologies  at  Work: 
Victorian  Representation  and  the 
Division  of  Labor.  Anita  DeVivo 
(M.A.  '59)  is  a  self-employed 
editorial  management  consultant 
and  has  served  as  executive  editor 
of  the  American  Psychological 
Association.  In  addition,  she  is  a 
founding  member  of  the  Choral 
Arts  Society  of  Washington,  DC, 
and  sang  on  a  Grammy  Award- 
winning  record  with  Bernstein  for 
Nixon's  counter-inaugural.  Peter 
Elbow  (Ph.D.  '70)  is  a  professor  of 
English  at  the  University  of 
Massachusetts  at  Amherst  and  the 
recipient  of  the  "Rhetorician  of  the 
Year"  award  from  the  Annual 
Young  Rhetoricians  Conference. 
Robert  E.  Frank  (M.A.  '7 1 )  is  an 
English  teacher  and  computer 
coordinator  at  Weston  High  School 
in  Weston,  MA.  He  also  edits  the 
newsletter  of  the  Lexington 
Council  for  the  Arts.  Daniel  Fuchs 
(M.A.  '56)  is  a  professor  of  English 
at  the  College  of  Staten  Island  and 
the  author  of  Saul  Bellow:  Vision 
and  Revision.  Steven  L. 
Hamelman  (Ph.D.  '91)  is  assistant 
professor  of  English  at  the 
University  of  South  Carolina/ 
Coastal  Carolina  College.  Barry  W. 
Holtz(M.A.  '71,  Ph.D.  '73)  is 
codirector  of  the  Melton  Research 
Center  for  lewish  Education  and 
associate  professor  of  [ewish 
education  at  the  fewish 
Theological  Seminary  of  America 
in  New  York  City.  Gray  |acobik 
(M.A.  '85,  Ph.D.  '89)  is  assistant 
professor  of  English  at  Eastern 


Blake's  Illustrations  to  Pilgrim's 
Progress  Naomi  Pasachoff  (Ph.D. 
'74)  has  written  several  textbooks, 
including  Great  fewish  Thinkers: 
Their  Lives  and  Work  and  Basic 
fudaism  for  Young  People,  as  well 
as  coauthored  several  books  on 
earth  science.  Linda  Simon  (Ph.D. 
'83)  is  a  preceptor  in  expository 
writing  at  Harvard  University  and 
IS  coauthoring  The  Harper  Collins 
Guide  to  Writing  and  authoring  a 
book  entitled  William  lames.  C. 
Robert  Sprich  |M  A.  '63)  is  a 
lecturer  at  the  Boston 
Psychoanalytic  Institute,  founding 
member  of  the  board  of  directors  of 
The  Friends  of  Dr.  Burney,  a 
historic  musical  theater  and 
performance  group,  and  founding 
member  of  the  board  of  directors  of 
the  Coolidge  Corner  Theater 
Foundation.  Timothy  Steele  (M.A. 
'72,  Ph.D.  '77)  is  a  professor  of 
English  at  California  State 
University  in  Los  Angeles  and  the 
recipient  of  numerous  honors 
including  the  California  State 
University  Outstanding  Professor 
Award  1991-92,  the  Los  Angeles 
PEN  Center  Literary  Award  for 
Poetry  1987,  National  Books 
Critics  Circle  Finalist  for  Poetry 
Award  1986,  a  Guggenheim 
Fellowship  1984-85  and  Pushcart 
Prize  1983  Ronald  R.  Thomas 
(MA.  '78,  Ph.D.  '83)  is  associate 
professor  of  English  at  Trinity 
College  and  the  author  of  Dreams 
of  Authority:  Freud  and  the 
Fictions  of  the  Unconscious.  He 
was  nominated  for  the  1990  British 
Council  Prize  in  the  Humanities 
by  the  North  American 
Conference  on  British  Studies  for 
the  James  Russell  Lowell  Prize.  In 
addition,  he  was  the  recipient  of 
the  Margaret  Church  Modern 
Fiction  Studies  Memorial  Prize  for 
the  year's  best  published  essay,  in 
1986.  Robert  Wexelblatt  (Ph.D. 
'73)  is  a  professor  of  Humanities  at 
Boston  University  and  the 
recipient  of  numerous  awards, 


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including  the  Siin  lose  Studies 
Annual  Award  tor  Best  Essay  1990, 
First  Prize  Award  for  Fiction  from 
the  Kansas  Quarterly /Kansas  Arts 
Commission  1987-88,  San  lose 
Studies  Annual  Award  for  Best 
Story  1987  and  a  listing  in  both 
Who's  Where  Among  Writers  and 
Who's  Who  in  American 
Education.  Steven  Zemelman 
(PhD.  '701  coauthored  the  hook. 
Best  Practice:  New  Standards  for 
Learning  and  Teaching  m 
America  s  Schools.  He  is  a 
professor  of  humanities  at 
Roosevelt  University  where  he 
teaches  both  undergraduate  and 
graduate  level  courses. 

Heller  School 

Andrew  Billingsley  (Ph.D.  '641, 
professor  and  chairman  of  the 
family  studies  department  at  the 
University  of  Maryland,  visiting 
scholar-in-residence  at  Spelman 
College  in  Atlanta  and  member  of 
the  board  of  overseers  of  Brandeis 
University's  Heller  School, 
published  Climbmg  lacob's 
Ladder:  The  Enduring  Legacy  of 
African-American  Families,  a 
sequel  to  his  Black  Families  m 
White  America.  Betty  J.  Cleckley 
(Ph.D.  '74),  vice  president  for 
multicultural  affairs,  has  been 
appointed  to  the  executive 
committee  of  the  Defense 
Advisory  Committee  on  Women 
in  the  Services  (DACOWITS), 
which  assists  and  advises  the 
secretary  of  defense  on  policies  and 
matters  relating  to  women  in  the 
military  services.  She  also  serves 
as  vice  chair  of  the  DACOWITS 
quality  of  life  committee.  Thomas 
P.  Glynn  IM.S.W.  '72,  Ph.D.  '77| 
was  nominated  by  President 
Clinton  to  be  deputy  secretary  of 
labor.  Previously,  he  was  senior 
vice  president  for  finance  and 
administration  at  Brown 
University  in  Providence.  He  also 
served  as  general  manager  of  the 
Massachusetts  Bay  Transit 
Authority,  deputy  commissioner 
of  the  Massachusetts  Department 
of  Public  Welfare  and  director  of 
Vice  President  Mondale's  Task 
Force  on  Youth  Employment. 
Roger  A.  Lohmann's  (Ph.D.  '75) 
new  book,  The  Commons:  New 
Perspectives  on  Nonprofit 
Organization  and  Voluntary 
Action,  was  awarded  the  Staley- 
Robeson-Ryan-St.  Lawrence  award 
by  the  National  Society  of  Fund- 


Roger  A.  Lohmann 

Raising  Executives  as  the 
outstanding  new  work  on 
nonprofit  organizations,  voluntary 
action  and  philanthropy.  Roger  is  a 
professor  of  social  work  and 
director  of  the  Nonprofit 
Management  Academy  at  West 
Virginia  University.  Richard  E. 
Isralowitz  (Ph.D.  '781,  director  of 
the  Hubert  H.  Humphrey  Institute 
for  Social  Ecology  at  Ben-Gurion 
University  of  the  Negev  (Israel),  is 
serving  as  project  codirector  for  the 
development  of  a  model  education 
improvement  program  for 
Bedouin-Arab  and  Native 
American  youth.  He  is  also  editor 
of  a  special  edition  of  the  Israel 
Social  Science  Research  lournal.  a 
publication  of  the  Israel 
Sociological  Society  entitled  the 
"Kibbutz  in  Transition."  Karen 
Devereaux  Melillo  (Ph.D.  '901, 
associate  professor  in  the 
department  of  nursing  of  the 
College  of  Heath  Care  Professions 
at  the  University  of  Massachusetts 
at  Lowell,  was  named  the  recipient 
of  the  Foundation  of  American 
College  of  Heath  Care 
Administrators'  Long-Term  Care 
Research  Award.  The  award  is 
presented  annually  for  original 
contributions  to  knowledge  related 
to  the  organization,  finance  or 
delivery  of  long-term  health  care. 
Regina  O'Grady-LcShane 
(Ph.D.  '82)  was  appointed  to  the 
Women  and  Retirement 
Congressional  Study  Group 
examining  Social  Security  issues. 
She  is  an  assistant  professor  at 
Boston  College's  Graduate  School 
of  Social  Work.  Rosalie  S.  Wolf 
(Ph.D.  '76)  was  chosen  as  1992 
honoree  by  the  Worcester 


Rosalie  S.  Wolf 

County  National  Conference  of 
Christians  and  lews  in  recognition 
for  her  contributions  to  the 
betterment  of  society  and  to 
enlightened  values  during  an 
active  career  of  community 
service.  She  is  a  national  authority 
on  gerontology  and  chair  of  the 
committee  on  older  adults  for 
Worcester  Fights  Back. 

Near  Eastern  and  ludaic  Studies 

Oral  Collins  (Ph.D.  '77|  is  teaching 
Bible  courses  part-time  at  the 
Berkshire  Institute  for  Christian 
Studies,  where  he  conducts  an 
annual  academic  travel  seminar  to 
Egypt,  Jordan  and  Israel.  In 
addition,  he  is  also  working  on  a 
commentary  on  the  Apocalypse. 
Lynn  Hazan  (M.A.  '80)  is  executive 
recruiter  for  Beverly  Von  Winckler 
(^  Associates,  a  communications 
and  marketing  firm  in  Chicago, 
and  teaches  at  Lakeside 
Congregation  in  Highland  Park,  IL. 
She  also  runs  a  free-lance  business 
as  a  professional  stor>'teller  and 
has  presented  numerous  programs 
for  CAJE,  the  ADL  and  other 
lewish  organizations  throughout 
the  country.  Audrey  Mindlin 
Poppy  (M.A.  '84|  is  working  part- 
time  as  consultant  editor  to  a 
publisher  of  legal  journals  for  Hong 
Kong  and  the  Southeast  Asian 
region  and  spends  the  rest  of  her 
time  working  for  environmental 
causes.  Mark  Sokoll  (M.A.  '90)  was 
appointed  executive  director  of 
Leventhal-Sidman  lewish 
Community  Center  in  Newton, 
MA.  Constance  W.  Williams 
(Ph.D.  '89)  received  the 
Massachusetts  Chapter  of  the 
National  Association  of  Social 
Workers'  1993  award  for  Greatest 
Contribution  to  Social  Policy  and 
Change.  Her  research  and  social 
policy  recommendations  in  the 
area  of  African-American  teenage 
pregnancy  was  cited  by  the  awards 
committee.  In  May,  she  was 
awarded  an  honorary  Doctorate  of 
Humane  Letters  from  Curry 
College  in  Milton,  MA. 


Peter  C.  Billig  '6.S,  passed  away 
February  18,  199,3  in  Englewood, 
Nl  Mark  L.  Hamlin  '79,  died  of 
lung  cancer  on  November  13,  1992 
at  his  home  in  San  Mateo,  CA.  He 
was  graduated  from  Brandeis 
summa  cum  laude  and  received 
his  M.B.A.  from  Stanford 
University  before  becoming  a 
partner  in  a  financial  management 
company.  He  is  survived  by  his 
mother,  Sonja  Hamlin,  his  wife, 
Susan,  two  sons  and  two  brothers. 
Word  has  been  received  of  the 
death  of  Arthur  S.  Parsons,  M.A. 
'73,  Ph.D.  '77.  Mr.  Parsons  passed 
away  March  6,  1993  in 
Northampton,  MA,  from 
complications  from  ADDS.  He  was 
a  professor  of  sociology  at  Smith 
College  and  held  fellowships  from 
the  National  Endowment  for  the 
Humanities,  the  National 
Endowment  for  the  Arts  and  the 
National  Humanities  Institute  at 
the  University  of  Chicago.  In 
addition,  he  was  a  member  of 
several  national  sociological 
professional  organizations.  He 
leaves  his  companion,  William  G. 
Hungerford;  two  brothers,  Roger  of 
Monmouth,  CA,  and  Richard  of 
Ojai,  CA;  and  his  stepmother, 
Janette  Rainwater  of  Pacific 
Palisades,  CA.  Anthony  Sabatino, 
M.F.A.  '69,  died  on  April  10,  1993 
in  Los  Angeles  of  AIDS.   He  was 
an  award  winning  art  director 
whose  projects  included  "The 
Golden  Globes,"  "The  People's 
Choice  Awards,"  and  production 
of  "The  Soul  Train  Music 
Awards."  He  had  eight  Emmy 
nominations,  receiving  the 
Daytime  Emmy  for  "Fun  House" 
for  the  1988-89  season.  He  is 
survived  by  his  companion,  Leslie 
Miller,  his  parents  and  a  sister. 
Jack  E.  Stumpf,  Ph.D.  '71,  died  of 
pneumonia  on  lanuary  15,  1993  at 
his  home  in  San  Diego.  He  was  a 
founder  and  one  of  five  original 
professors  of  the  School  of  Social 
Work  at  San  Diego  State 
University,  where  he  was 
employed  for  21  years  and 
authored  or  coauthored  more  than 
50  articles  and  books.  His 
outstanding  career  in  social  work 
was  recognized  in  1991,  when  he 
received  the  two  highest  state 
awards  in  the  field:  the  California 
Social  Worker  of  the  Year  and  the 
Koshland  Award.  He  had  served  as 
an  advisor  to  both  the  City  and 
County  of  San  Diego,  and  was  a 
delegate  to  presidential 
conferences  during  the  Truman, 
Eisenhower  and  Kennedy 
administrations.  He  is  survived  by 
his  wife,  Josephine,  his  daughter, 
Dana  Bear,  and  by  two  sisters. 


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Abram  Sachar  bv  A. 

Jonniaux  bangs  in  the 

Goldtarb  Library 

With  smiles,  some  laughter  and  not 
a  little  trepidation,  the  entering 
class  rolls  onto  campus  each  fall, 
jolting  us  with  a  surge  of 
exhilaration.  But  this  year,  because 
of  the  death  of  Founding  President 
Abram  Sachar  in  July,  the  season 
has  taken  on  a  darker,  autumnal 
tinge.  For  over  four  decades  he 
inspired  students,  and  this  year,  the 
first  since  the  beginning,  the 
consummate  host  will  not  be  here. 

For  an  appropriate  passage 
describing  autumn,  we  turned  to 
Sachar  himself,  the  most  articulate 
of  people,  who  concluded  his  A 
Host  at  Last  with  a  salute  to  the 
first  fall  of  his  retirement  from  the 
presidency  of  Brandeis.  He  wrote: 
"Above  all,  the  autumns,  when  year 
after  year  the  change  of  season  flung 
a  Joseph's  coat  over  the  campuS;  the 
annual  wonder  of  the  freshman 
class  lining  up  to  board  the  buses  to 
go  to  the  President's  House  for  the 
get-acquainted  tea;  the  faculty 
receptions  at  our  home  beginning 
with  the  thirteen  in  the  first  year, 
the  entire  group  and  their  wives 
greeted  in  the  living  room... all  the 
autumns  back  to  that  first  October 
morning  of  my  inauguration  in 
Symphony  Hall,  when  my  father, 
once  a  poor  immigrant  from 
Lithuania  who  had  made  possible 
everything  good  that  came  to  his 
family  in  this  country,  was  unable 
to  attend  the  greatest  triumph  of  his 
courage  and  perseverance  because 
he  lay  dying  in  a  St.  Louis  hospital, 
waiting  for  word  that  his  son  was 
now  officially  inducted  as  president 
of  the  university  that  made  the 
American  Jewish  community  a  host 
at  last."  To  document  the  important 
stages  of  his  extraordinary  life,  we 
have  designed  a  photo  essay  as  an 
insert  to  this  issue. 


In  the  first  lead  article,  the  Brandeis 
Review  will  bring  you  up  to  date  on 
President  Thier's  stewardship  of 
Brandeis  and  his  opinions  on  higher 
education.  Next,  computer  professor 
Jacques  Cohen  comes  clean  on  how 
he  uses  high  tech.  Graduate  student 
Michael  Carasik  manages  to  link 
the  high-tech  era  to  biblical 
sociology  by  probing  the  Book  of 
Ruth,  followed  by  Bernard  Lewis,  a 
guest  contributor,  who  makes  a 
forceful  argument  for  accurate 
history.  Lest  anyone  forget. 
Professor  Antony  Polonsky  helps  to 
perpetuate  the  voices  of  first-hand 
witnesses  to  the  Holocaust.  Another 
graduate  student,  James  Toole,  ends 
the  lead  article  section  with  an 
example  of  how  Wien  scholar 
Rakesh  Rajani,  with  grit  and 
compassion,  has  improved  the  life 
of  street  children  in  his  country. 

This  is  indeed  a  season  of  farewell. 
After  eight  and  a  half  years  as  editor 
of  the  Brandeis  Review,  I  leave  the 
magazine  to  return  to  earlier 
endeavors  and  to  begin  new  ones. 
As  I  thumb — already  nostalgic — 
through  the  stack  of  correspondence 
I  have  received  from  readers  over 
time,  it's  not  ironic  that  the  most 
effecting  letter  was  written  by 
Abram  Sachar  in  September  1992. 

Dear  Brenda, 

I  have  been  busily  engaged  in 
revising  my  Host  at  Last,  which  is 
scheduled  for  publication  next 
summer.  Among  data  of  the  last 
decade  that  I  have  been  consulting 
are  the  Brandeis  Reviews  that  you 
have  been  editing.  Apart  from  the 
contents,  the  aesthetic,  elite 
appearance  of  each  issue  sends  a 
message  of  real  class  to  our 
constituency  and  our  academic 
friends,  and  adds  to  our  pride.  Your 
superb  editorial  judgment  makes 
the  Review  a  very  effective 
interpreter.  Stay  with  us,  dear 
Brenda,  far  into  the  next  century. 

To  him,  the  last  word. 


Brenda  Marder 
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The  flood  of  tributes  that  poured  into 
the  University  from  around  the  globe 
testifies  to  the  charismatic  personahty 
of  Abram  Sachar.  How  many  Uves 
he  touched  and  touched  profoundly! 
He  had  a  fascinating  turn  of  mind — 
both  ideahstic  and  practical.  IdeaUstic 
in  that  he  had  dreams  and  schemes, 
but  praaical  in  that  he  was  capable  of 


translating  them  into  reality.  Just  look 
at  Brandeis  University  today!  He  was 
an  extraordinary  presence.  We  offer 
this  photo  essay  with  the  hope  that  we 
can  convey  something  of  his  essence — 
a  nearly  impossible  task  Better, 
perhaps,  to  have  shown  pictures  of 
the  campus  and  the  flocks  of  students 
for  whom  he  toiled. 


A  patriot  from  the 
beginning,  Sachar  enlisted 
in  the  army  at  age  17 for 
service  in  World  War  I. 
(front  cover  of  the  insert) 


Sachar  standing  fourth 
from  left  with  classmates  at 
Emmanuel  College, 
Cambridge  University.  He 
studied  at  Cambridge  for 
three  years,  and  in  1923 
became  the  first  person  ever 
to  be  granted  a  Ph.D.  from 
that  university.  He  earned 
his  B.A.  andM.A.  i,t  the 
University  of  Washington 
at  St.  Louis. 


He  was  bom  in  1899  in 
New  York,  but  moved  with 
his  family  when  he  was 
seven  to  St.  Louis, 
Missouri.  Standing  left  to 
right,  back  row:  sister  June, 


brother  Morris,  wife 
Thelma,  Sachar,  brother 
Louis.  Front  row:  sister 
May,  father  Samuel  (bom 
in  Lithuania),  mother 
Sarah  (born  in  Palestine), 
sister  Riva  and  an  uncle, 
circa  1926. 


Sachar  and  wife,  Theltna, 
in  Berlin  in  1932  for  a 
researchlvacation  trip. 


He  started  teaching  history  organization 's  national 

at  the  University  of  Illinois  director  from  1933  to  1948 

in  1923,  and  became  one  of  and  as  chairman  of  the 

the  pioneers  of  the  Hillel  National  Hillel 

Foundation,  which  began  Commission  from  1948  to 

there.  He  served  as  the  1955. 


In  1960,  David  Ben- 
Gurion,  then-prime 
minister  of  Israel,  visited 
the  campus  for  a  special 
convocation,  which,  Sachar 
writes  in  A  Host  at  Last, 
provided  an  occasion  for 
Ben-Gurion  to  meet  with 
President  Eisenhower,  in 
Washington,  during  a 
period  of  strained  relations 
between  the  United  States 
and  Israel. 


The  University  was  named 
for  Supreme  Court  Justice 
Louis  D.  Brandeis.  At  the 
celebration  of  the  centenary 
anniversary  of  his  birth  in 
1956,  his  daughter. 
Attorney  Sttsan  Brandeis 
Gilbert,  lights  the  candles 
with  Sachar  looking  on. 


Chief  Justice  Earl  Warren 
visited  campus  twice:  the 
first  time  to  dedicate 
Robert  Berk 's  statue  of 
Louis  Brandeis  at  the 
convocation  in  1956  and 
in  1963  to  be  interviewed 
by  Sachar  for  a  television 
series  called  the  "Dretzin 
Living  Biography 
Program.  "  He  is  shown 
here  (left)  with  Sachar  on 
the  second  visit. 


Sachar  with  his  wife  and 
children  (left  to  right) 
Edward  (deceased); 
Howard,  now  professor  of 
history  at  George 
Washington  University; 
Thelma;  Sachar;  and 
David,  a  professor  at  Mt. 
Sinai  Medical  School,  with 
his  wife  Joanna,  circa 
1963. 


Sachar  became  close  friends 
with  Archbishop  (later 
Cardinal)  Cttshing 
of  Boston,  who  defended 
the  building  of  the 
Catholic  chapel  on  campus 
against  the  objections 
of  the  radical  Feeney  clique. 


The  cluster  of  three 
chapels,  Jewish,  Protestant 
and  Catholic,  symbolizes 
Sachar's  dream  for  a 
Jewish-sponsored  university 
that  would  welcome  people 
of  all  creeds. 


At  Brandeis  's  second 
convocation  in  1950, 
Sachar  (far  left)  smiles  with 
Eleanor  Roosevelt,  who  was 
on  the  first  Board  of 
Trustees.  Between  them  is 
the  then-governor  of 
Massachusetts,  Paul  Dever. 


In  1966  Sachar  signed  on 
K.  C.  Jones,  a  Boston  Celtics 
star,  as  hiuketball  coach, 
making  Brandeis  the  first 
non-black-sponsored 
university  in  the  country  to 
name  a  black  as  the  coach 
of  a  major  sport. 


Present  at  the  Creation:    A  Tribute  to 

Abram  L.  Sachar 


by  John  P.  Roche 


When  I  heard  the  news  that  Abe  had  died,  it  seemed 
impossible.  Abe  gone?  Was  the  Castle  still  there?  Of 
course  rationally  we  all  Icnow  that  no  one  has  survived  this 
life,  but  if  anyone  was  a  candidate  for  a  first,  it  was  the 
indomitable  Abram  L.  Sachar.  Like  his  other  old  friends, 
my  wife  Connie  and  I  grieved:  in  selfish  terms  it  is  hard  to 
lose  a  person  who  has  been  part  of  your  life  for  roughly  40 
years,  and  we  thought  of  his  bond  with  Thelma  now — 
except  in  memory — gone. 

But  the  shiva  is  over,  and  the  time  has  come  to  celebrate 
the  life  and  achievements  of  this  human  dynamo.  In  the 
culture  of  my  Irish  ancestors,  the  worst  offense  against  the 
deceased  is  to  lie  about  him,  so  let  me  declare  that  Abe 
could  be  a  difficult  person:  God  help  the  poor  souls  whom 
he  perceived  as  standing  between  him  and  his  vision.  He 
could  be  amazingly  temperamental,  call  distinguished 
Americans  nasty  things  that  stretched  my  fairly  wide 
knowledge  of  Brooklyn  Yiddish,  and  wonder  aloud  if  it 
would  be  possible  to  have  a  great  university  with  no 
faculty.  Take  the  student  newspaper:  he  was  incredibly 
sensitive  to  what  those  little-league  Village  Voicexs  wrote. 
When  dean,  I  used  to  hide  his  copy  oi  x.\\e  Justice. 

How  did  I  get  to  know  this  man,  let  alone  become  his 
dean  of  faculty  and  lifetime  friend?  Everybody  secretly 
feels  his  or  her  autobiography  is  historically  invaluable, 
but  for  those  who  tuned  in  late,  some  background  on  my 
emigration  from  Haverford  College  to  Brandeis  in  1956 
will  provide  perspective.  In  1954  we  were  peacefully 
settled  at  Haverford,  our  daughter  Joanna  (Brandeis  '77) 
was  en  route,  I  had  tenure  and  I  couldn't  have  asked  for 
better  students  than  those  I  taught  at  Haverford  and 
Swarthmore.  I  had  no  desire  to  go  anywhere. 

Then  in  the  fall  I  got  a  call  from  President  Sachar  inviting 
me  for  lunch  in  Philadelphia;  he  suggested  I  might  be  able 
to  give  some  advice  on  the  development  of  the  social 
sciences  at  his  new  university.  I  love  to  give  advice  and  in 
the  back  of  my  mind  was  the  question:  "What  kind  of  a 
loon  would  try  to  start  a  university  from  scratch?"  So  off  I 
went  to  that  fateful  lunch. 

As  generations  of  policy-makers  in  both  the  academy  and 
the  government  of  the  United  States  have  learned  (some 
the  hard  way),  I  am  not  overwhelmable.  But  Abram 
Sachar  was  in  a  class  by  himself — a  combination  of 
scholar,  teacher,  visionary  and  pirate.  Our  luncheon  was  a 
fascinating  experience.  Far  from  being  the  opportunist  I 
had  suspected  (all  sorts  of  Mickey  Mouse  "colleges"  had 
been  set  up  in  the  era  of  the  G.I.  Bill),  this  short,  intense 


man  with  the  high-pitched  voice  was  driven  by  an 
educational  dream.  He  could  have  been  the  model  George 
Bush  had  in  mind  when  he  bewailed  the  "vision  thing." 
The  simplistic  version  of  his  dream  was  that  Brandeis 
would  be  the  Jewish  Princeton,  a  nonsectarian  place  of 
learning  initiated  by  the  Jewish  community  for  the  benefit 
of  all  faiths. 

Most  of  his  questions  focused  on  academic 
micromanagement.  Brandeis  was  planning  to  go  from  four 
divisions  to  the  departmental  pattern:  "How  do  you  pick 
good  chairmen?"  "Should  the  university  try  to  cover  the 
board  with  graduate  programs,  or  act  selectively?"  "Should 
deans  be  drawn  from  the  faculty  and  continue  teaching?" 

The  whole  discussion  was  intriguing  and  I  was 
bewildered:  here  was  this  eminent  former  history  professor 
from  the  University  of  Illinois  asking  me  (age  31)  how  to 
run  a  school!  However,  I  told  him  what  I  thought,  and  in 
turn  was  immensely  impressed  by  his  view  of  academic 
capital  development:  you  do  not  try  to  climb  the  ladder 
from  mediocrity  to  excellence  one  rung  at  a  time.  You 
shoot  for  the  top  at  the  outset;  avoid  hiring  "stars"  who 
had  probably  run  out  of  steam  in  favor  of  the  risky  gamble 
of  seeking  out  the  "stars"  of  the  future.  If  you  make  the 
right  picks,  they  will  carry  up  the  school's  reputation  with 
their  own. 

We  parted  warmly;  I  went  home  and  immersed  myself  in 
teaching  and  writing.  Brandeis  was  forgotten  until  perhaps 
May,  when  I  got  a  call  from  Max  Lerner,  Max  Richer 
Professor  of  American  Civilization,  who,  as  I  realized  later, 
was  Abe's  talent  scout  in  the  social  sciences.  He  said,  after 
considerable  consultation,  President  Sachar  had  decided  I 
would  be  the  ideal  candidate  to  establish  Brandeis's  new 
politics  department.  Was  I  interested,  and,  if  so,  what  did 
I  want?  He  noted  Brandeis  had  no  tenure  system,  but 
tenure  was  not  one  of  my  concerns — either  you  are  born 
with  it,  or  you're  not. 

After  visiting  the  campus  where  I  sensed  the  throbbing 
vitality  and  the  challenge,  like  dozens  of  others,  I 
succumbed.  Haverford  was,  and  is,  a  fine  school  but  here 
was  a  chance  to  build  a  department,  a  feat  that  was  simply 
not  possible  in  a  long-established  institution.  Ego 
obviously  played  a  role:  to  be  a  full  professor  and 
department  chairman  at  33  was  an  irresistible  attraction. 
Beyond  that,  however,  was  the  allure — almost 
hypnotically  presented  by  Abe — of  being  "present  at  the 
creation."  We  signed  on. 


John  P.  Roche  retired  as 
Distinguished  Professor 
American  Civilization  and 
Foreign  Affairs  at  the 
Fletcher  School  of  Law 
and  Diplomacy,  where  he 
went  from  Brandeis  in 
1973  to  be  professor  and 


dean.  He  was  a  syndicated 
columnist  for  some  150 
newspapers  here  and 
abroad  from  1968  to  1982 
and  was  special  consultant 
to  the  President  of  the 
United  States  from  1966 
to  1969. 


For  the  next  decade,  I  worked  intimately  with  President 
Sachar  as  inter  al,  a  department  chairman,  dean  of  faculty, 
organizer  of  the  graduate  program  in  American  history, 
chairman  of  the  Faculty  Senate  and  trusted  "ear."  He 
would  have  a  bright  idea  and  call  me  over  to  try  it  on  for 
size,  knowing  if  I  thought  it  was  a  bummer,  I'd  give  it  to 
him  straight:  he  would  get  mad  as  hell  on  occasion.  The 
toughest  one  to  dispose  of  was  his  quest  for  a  medical 
school.  Mt.  Sinai  and  three  or  four  other  New  York 
hospitals  were  seeking  an  academic  base,  and  Abe  fell  in 
love  with  a  potentially  disastrous  marriage. 

Fortunately,  our  preeminent  scientist,  Saul  G.  Cohen, 
professor  of  chemistry  and  my  predecessor  as  dean  of 
faculty,  and  1  were  in  complete  agreement  that  this  project 
had  to  be  deep-sixed,  and  we  were  on  the  joint  faculty- 
administration-Trustees  committee  chosen  to  evaluate  its 
merits.  Cohen  savaged  it  in  terms  of  the  impact  it  would 
have  on  the  educational  objectives  of  the  School  of 
Science;  1  emphasized  the  command  and  control  aspect: 
how  could  Brandeis  control  this  leviathan  down  in  New 
York  City,  keep  it  from  putting  us  into  Chapter  1 1  ?  Abe 
was  at  his  piratical  best:  it  would  bring  money  to  the 
sciences,  it  would  give  him  an  entree  to  New  York  donors, 
it  would  be  a  jewel  in  our  crown,  and  control  was  no 
problem — "after  all,  it  was  only  about  1 50  miles  to  New 
York."  Saul  was  too  serious  to  laugh,  but  a  Trustee  and 
old  friend,  Isador  Lubin,  and  1  burst  into  laughter.  Abe 
looked  nonplussed,  and — God  be  praised — the  proposal 
was  "postponed"  indefinitely.  New  York  City  has  not 
been  moved  since. 

1  told  Abe  what  1  thought  with  the  bark  off,  and  in  return 
got  his  total  trust  and  support.  For  example,  when  1  was 
dean  1  had  to  present  the  Board  of  Trustees  with  the 
projected  academic  budget  that  included  a  substantial 
increase  in  faculty.  The  then-chairman  of  the  Board  was 
much  perturbed;  he  couldn't  understand  why  we  needed 
so  many  small  classes.  How  could  we  justify'  a  seminar  in 
Algebraic  Topology  or  Biblical  Aramaic  with  less  than  10 
students?  He  got  quite  worked  up  and,  in  effect,  called  for 
time  and  motion  studies  of  the  work  of  the  faculty.  I 
patiently  explained  that  a  university  was  not  the  garment 
trade,  that  if  you  offer  elementary  algebra,  for  example, 
math  majors  need  follow-on  courses  and  seminars. 

The  outcome  was  hilarious:  the  chairman  snarled,  "Dean 
Roche,  are  you  telling  me  I  don't  know  how  to  run  a 
university?"  1  said,  "Well,  since  you  put  it  that  way,  yes." 
He  hit  the  table  with  his  hand — and  awakened  Trustee 
Eleanor  Roosevelt,  who  had  a  genius  for  napping  while 
seemingly  alert.  She  asked  the  chairman  the  source  of  the 


commotion  and  he,  most  deferentially,  explained  that 
Dean  Roche  said  the  Trustees  didn't  know  how  to  run  a 
university.  She  smiled  a  deceptively  genial  smile  (she  was 
one  tough  woman)  and  said  "Dean  Roche  is  absolutely 
right. " — and  dozed  off.  What  happened  between  the 
chairman  and  Abe  later  1  know  not,  except  that  the 
chairman  refused  to  sign  my  contract  unless  I  apologized. 
Hence,  I  got  the  only  faculty  contract  signed  by  the 
treasurer  of  the  Board!  Abe's  only  comment  to  me  was 
"Did  you  have  to  be  so  direct?  With  him  a  Wnle  yikhes 
goes  a  long  way." 

This  anecdotage  could  run  on,  but  1  think  the  thing  for 
which  I  am  most  grateful  to  Abe  Sachar  was  that  he  gave 
me  basic  training  on  how  to  deal  with  elemental  geniuses. 
Within  two  weeks  after  I  became  a  top  staff  member  in 
the  LBJ  White  House  in  1966,  1  felt  completely  at  home. 
The  man  who  built  Brandeis  and  the  President  who  got 
civil  rights,  Medicare,  Medicaid,  Voting  Rights,  the  War 
on  Poverty,  who,  in  short,  brought  the  United  States  into 
the  modern  world,  were  temperamentally  peas  from  the 
same  pod.  Both  knew,  to  borrow  from  Harry  Truman,  "If 
you  want  love  in  Washington  (or  from  a  faculty),  buy  a 
dog,"  yet  were  horrendously  sensitive  to  criticism.  The 
parallel  hit  me  one  morning  in  my  West  Wing  office 
when  the  President  called  to  tell  me,  practically  crying, 
that  "they're  lying  about  me  in  Los  Angeles."  1  observed  it 
could  be  wofse.  "How's  that?"  "It  could  be  true."  Bang!  I 
suddenly  recalled  a  call  from  Abe  about  the  nasty  coverage 
of  his  accomplishments  reported  by  the  Justice  to  which  I 
had  given  the  same  reply — and  the  phone  had  slammed 
down.  But  trust  remained. 

Well,  he's  gone  and  we  who  admired  and  held  him  in 
deep  affection  have  a  gap  in  our  psyches.  Now  at  70,  and 
declared  senile  by  Act  of  Congress,  1  can  rejoice  in  the  fact 
that  1  have  been  lucky  enough  to  have  had  as  friends  and 
bosses  two  truly  charismatic  characters.  Though  his  Great 
Society  legacy  and  breakthrough  on  civil  rights  are  very 
much  alive,  LBJ  died  of  a  broken  heart — his  name  should 
be  on  the  Vietnam  Memorial.  But  Abe  was  fortunate:  as  1 
know  from  my  last  lunch  with  him  about  seven  months 
ago,  he  died  happy  in  the  knowledge  that  Brandeis  is  in 
safe  hands.  May  God  rest  his  soul  and  comfort  Thelma, 
who  quietly  gave  him  the  sustenance  to  turn  a  vision  into 
a  reality. 

The  editor  thanks  Mrs.  Abram  Sachar  for  use  of  her  personal  photos,  Charles 
Cutter  from  the  Brandeis  Libraries  for  access  to  the  Ralph  Norman  photo  archives. 
Professor  Howard  Sachar  for  verifying  the  facts  and  Marilyn  Dtliberto  for  her 
assistance  in  coordination. 

Compiled  by  Brenda  Marder.  editor  of  the  Brandeis  Review. 

7 


After  retiring  from  the 
presidency,  as  chancellor  he 
worked  ceaselessly  in 
behalf  of  the  University 
until  his  death  in  July.  He 
is  shown  here  at  the 
celebration  for  President 
Samuel  O.  Thier's 
inauguration  in  April  1992. 


Fall  1993 


Brandeis  Review 


Volume  13 


Number  2 


The  University  by  2003: 

A  Place  of  Controlled  Ferment 


President  Thier  imagines 
"a  university  without  walls" 


Brenda  Marder 


12 


A  High-Tech  Solution  for 
Monsieur  Poubelle 


Vignettes  on  garbage  collection  or 
explaining  computerese  to 
nonspecialists 


lacques  Cohen 


18 


Isolating  a  Contemporary 
Issue  in  the  Bible 


Whither  goeth  Ruth:  to  harassment 
in  the  barley  fields?  By  throwing 
hght  on  the  workplace  m  ancient 
Israel,  a  graduate  student  exposes  a 
case  of  gender  harassment 


Michael  Carasik 


22 


In  Defense  of  History 

A  distinguished  historian  insists 
on  responsible  accounting 

Bernard  Lewis 

28 

iModest  Monuments  of 
Words  on  Paper: 
Bearing  Witness  to  the 
iHolocaust  through  Memoirs 
and  Diaries 

Victims  were  determined  to 
chronicle  all  aspects  of  their  ordeal 
for  the  record 

Antony  Polonsky 

32 

The  Pied  Piper  of 
Tanzania  Leads  His  Kids 
to  Empowerment 

A  former  Wien  scholar  aids  the 
street  children  of  Tanzania 

lames  Toole 

38 

Around  the  University 


2      Alumni 


Bookshelf 


43     Class  Notes 


Faculty  Notes 


Around  the  University 


Founding  President 
Abram  Sachar 
is  Dead 


The  University  mourns  the 
death  of  Founding  President 
and  Chancellor  Emeritus 
Abram  L.  Sachar,  who  died  at 
his  home  on  July  24  at  the 
age  of  94. 

Sachar  won  recognition  as  a 
driving  force  in  the  founding 
of  Brandeis  and  in  molding  it 
into  one  of  the  youngest 
major  research  universities 
in  the  United  States.  He 
served  as  the  University's 
Founding  President  from 
1948  to  1968,  recruiting 
faculty  members  and 
students,  and  supervising  the 
construction  of  56  buildings. 
In  1968  he  was  appointed 
chancellor,  and  later 
chancellor  emeritus, 
specially-created  positions 
that  allowed  him  to  continue 
working  for  the  welfare  of 
the  University. 

Memorial  services  were  held 
on  luly  28  at  Temple  Israel  in 
Boston.  In  his  eulogy 
University  President  Samuel 
O.  Thier  said,  "Abe  Sachar 
will  be  missed  by  generations 
of  his  students,  faculty, 
trustees  and  supporters,  all  of 
whom  know  that  no  one  can 
ever  replace  him.  His  vision, 
energy,  charisma, 
imagination,  academic  taste 
and  indomitable  spirit  built 
Brandeis."  Sachar's  sons, 
David,  a  physician,  and 
Howard,  a  historian,  also 
spoke,  remembering  their 
father's  warmth,  energy  and 
many  talents.  Besides  his 
two  sons,  Sachar  is  survived 
by  Thelma  Horowitz  Sachar, 
his  wife  of  67  years  who 
shared  his  vision  and  worked 
as  his  helpmate  in  building 
the  University.  He  also 
leaves  five  grandchildren. 


After  the  services,  Sachar's 
funeral  cortege  made  a 
farewell  sweep  around  the 
campus  on  the  peripheral 
road  before  proceeding  to  the 
Temple  Israel  Cemetery  in 
Wakefield,  iVlassachusetts.  A 
special  on-campus  memorial 
service  was  held  in 
conjunction  with  the 
Founders'  Day  celebration  in 
October. 

Sachar  was  bom  in  New 
York  City  in  1899.  The 
author  of  several  books, 
among  them  A  History  of  the 
lews.  The  Course  of  Our 
Times  and  A  Host  at  Last,  a 
history  of  the  University,  he 
received  his  B.A.  and  a 
master's  degree  from 
Washington  University,  St. 
Louis,  and  his  Ph.D.  from 
Emmanuel  College, 
Cambridge  University.  For 
24  years  he  taught  in  the 
history  department  of  the 
University  of  Illinois.  He  was 
one  of  the  pioneers  of  the 
Hillel  Foundation  and  served 
as  its  national  director  from 
1933  to  1948  before 
accepting  the  presidency  of 
Brandeis.  More  than  30 
American  colleges  and 
universities  have  awarded 
him  honorary  degrees. 

For  a  tribute  to  Abram 
Sachar,  see  insert. 


Abram  Sachar 


Grant  Will  Boost 
Super  Computing 
Research 


Computer  scientists  at 
Brandeis  will  use  a  $1 
million  grant  from  the 
National  Science  Foundation 
to  study  various  areas  of 
super  computing,  including 
computer  languages, 
artificial  intelligence  and 
data  compression.  The  grant 
will  allow  purchase  of  a 
"super"  parallel  computer 
that  IS  capable  of  multiplying 
or  dividing  one  billion 
numbers  per  second.  The 
University's  parallel 
languages  group  will  work  to 
develop  new  computer 
languages  that  can  be  used 
with  this  system.  Another 
team  will  attempt  to 
compress  data  from  units 
feeding  into  the  super 


computer  so  that  larger 
amounts  of  data  can  be 
transmitted  or  stored  more 
effectively.  A  longer-range 
goal  of  the  research  is  to 
understand  how  neural 
networks  can  be  trained  to 
recognize  special  features  in 
a  scene  or  drawing. 
Additionally,  the  unit  will  be 
available  to  researchers  from 
other  science  departments 
who  are  collaborating  in  the 
Benjamin  and  Mae  Volen 
National  Center  for  Complex 
Systems. 


2  Brandeis  Review 


Sakharov  Archives 
to  Be  Established 
at  Brandeis 


Class  of  '97: 
A  Bumper  Crop 


Tatiana  Yankelevitch 


Elena  Bonner,  the  widow  of 
esteemed  physicist  and 
human  rights  activist  Andrei 
Sakharov,  has  given  the  use 
and  ownership  of  Sakharov's 
documents  to  the  University. 
The  Archives  inchide 
manuscripts,  letters,  drafts  of 
scientific  papers,  personal 
and  family  archival 
documents,  photographs, 
audio  and  video  recordings  of 
his  appearances  and 
interviews,  a  300-page 
chronicle  of  his  life  and  a 
bibliography  to  be  housed  in 
the  special  collections 
department  of  the  Library.  A 
bilingtial  consulting 
archivist,  Tatiana 
Yankelevitch,  Bonner's 
daughter,  assists  in  the 
oversight  of  all  the 


New  Faculty 
Appointed 


operations  of  the  Archives, 
including  cataloguing, 
preservation,  user  assistance 
and  future  expansion  of  the 
collection  through  new 
acquisitions. 

Also  underway  at  Brandeis  is 
an  interdisciplinary  center 
devoted  to  research  on 
human  rights  and  the  history 
of  science,  to  be  called  the 
Andrei  Sakharov  Center.  The 
Center  will  work  closely 
with  a  similar  center  to  be 
founded  in  Moscow  on  the 
basis  of  archives  currently 
housed  in  the  former  Soviet 
Union.  Through  joint 


seminars  and  workshops  and 
an  active  exchange  of 
materials,  the  two  centers 
will  foster  international 
cooperation  and  draw 
Eastern  and  Western  scholars 
together  to  discuss  human 
rights,  world  peace  and 
science.  The  Archives 
received  a  generous  grant 
from  the  John  D.  and 
Catherine  T.  MacArthur 
Foundation. 


The  Brandeis  Class  of  1997 
was  chosen  from  the  second 
largest  applicant  pool  in  the 
history  of  the  University. 
The  applications  numbered 
4,186,  just  14  short  of  the 
record  of  4,207  established 
for  the  Class  of  1992.  Dean  of 
Admissions  and  Financial 
Aid  David  Gould  credits  the 
growth  in  the  applicant  pool 
to  the  growing  confidence 
and  enthusiasm  associated 
with  Brandeis. 
"Furthermore,"  Gould 
explains,  "faculty,  students 
and  alumni  were  extremely 
helpful  in  assisting  the 
admissions  office  in  enrolling 
the  new  class." 

New  entering  students 
number  824,  first-year  and 
transfer  students  combined. 
Thirty-eight  states  plus  the 
District  of  Columbia,  Puerto 
Rico  and  the  Virgin  Islands 
are  represented,  and  5 1 
students  will  enter  from  37 
countries. 


Among  the  new  faculty 
appointed  this  fall  is  a 
scholar  of  early  Christianity, 
a  poet,  a  Canadian 
economist,  an  authority  on 
the  Middle  East,  an  expert  on 
contemporary  and  American 
Jewish  sociology  and  a 
former  Indian  ambassador  to 
the  United  States. 

Bemadette  Brooten,  a  leading 
scholar  of  early  Christianity, 
has  been  named  the  Myra 
and  Robert  Kraft  and  Jacob 
Hiatt  Associate  Professor  of 
Christian  Studies.  Brooten 
came  to  Brandeis  from  the 
Harvard  Divinity  School, 
where  she  was  associate 
professor  of  scripture  and 
interpretation.  She  was 
graduated  from  the 
University  of  Portland  and 
received  her  Ph.D.  from 
Harvard  Umversity.  She  has 
also  studied  at  the  University 


of  Tubingen  and  The  Hebrew 
University.  Her  first  book. 
Women  Lenders  in  the 
Ancient  Synagogue,  is  a 
classic  in  the  field, 
examining  the  role  of  women 
in  ancient  Judaism.  Her  work 
in  progress.  Early  Christian 
Responses  to  Female 
Homoeroticism  and  Their 
Historical  Context,  is  a  study 
of  gender  and  social  relations 
that  challenges  both 
Judaism's  and  Christianity's 
views  of  men  and  women, 
religious  authority  and  the 
effect  of  culture  on  religion. 
Brooten  has  said  the  ultimate 
purpose  of  her  teaching  and 
research  is  to  contribute  to 
interreligious  understanding, 
especially  between 
Christians  and  Jews,  and  to 


ensure  recognition  of 
women's  contributions  to 
various  religious  traditions. 
She  has  been  awarded  the 
American  Council  of 
Learned  Societies  Grant-in- 
Aid;  the  American 
Association  of  University 
Women  Faculty  Career 
Enhancement  Grant;  The 
Naruth  Foundation 
Fellowship;  the  American 
Academy  of  Religion  Grant; 
and  the  National 
Endowment  for  Humanities 
Fellowship.  In  1989  she  was 
a  Bunting  Institute  Fellow. 
Dr.  Brooten's  research  and 
teaching  interests  will 
contribute  to  several 
interdisciplinary  University 
programs. 

Madeleine  Haas 
Russell  Visiting  Professor 
K.  Shankar  Bajpai  is  the  first 
incumbent  visiting  professor 
to  hold  this  chair  in  non- 
Western  and  comparative 
studies.  He  has  traveled  the 


world  representing  India.  He 
has  been  on  the  staff  of  the 
India  Embassy  in  Ankara  and 
Bern;  on  the  India  High 
Commission,  Pakistan,  as 
first  secretary  for  political 
affairs  and  special  duty 
officer  for  Pakistan  affairs; 
the  India  representative  to 
Sikkini;  and  the  India 
ambassador  to  The  Hague, 
Islamabad,  Beijing  and  the 
United  States.  Bajpai  has 
been  involved  in  the 
Commonwealth  Prime 
Ministers'  Conferences,  the 
Tashkent  India-Pakistan 
Conference,  the  United 
Nations  Law  of  the  Sea 
Conferences  I  and  D,  the 
India-China  Boundary  Talks 
I-FV  and  the  Non-Ahgned 
Summit.  Most  recently  he 
has  been  regents  professor 
and  advisor  to  the  chancellor 


3  Fall  1993 


Sylvia  Barack  Pishman 


at  the  University  of 
California-Berkeley  and  a 
distinguished  visiting  fellow 
at  the  Netherlands  Institute 
of  Advanced  Study. 

David  Barkin,  visiting 
professor  of  Latin  American 
studies  in  the  Department  of 
History,  is  a  professor  at 
Umversidad  Autonoma 
Metropolitans,  Mexico,  and 
sits  on  the  editorial  board  of 
Review  of  Radical  Political 
Economics.  He  was  awarded 
the  U.S.  Congress 
Commission  for  Study  of 
International  Migration  and 
Cooperative  Economics 
Development  Research 
Grant;  the  lohn  D.  and 
Catherine  T.  MacArthur 
Foundation  Essay  Award;  the 
Rockefeller  Foundation 
Research  Grant;  and  the 
Mellon  Postdoctoral 
Fellowship,  among  others. 
He  has  authored  many 
books,  including 
Porcicultura:  La  produccion 
de  Traspatio-Otra 
Alteinativa-,  Distorted 
Development:  Mexico  in  the 
World  Economy  and  Food 
Corps  vs.  Feed  Crops:  The 
Global  Substitution  of 
Grains  in  Production.  Barkin 
was  graduated  cum  laude 
from  Columbia  University 
and  received  his  Ph.D.  from 
Yale  University. 

Sylvia  Barack  Fishman, 
assistant  professor  of 
contemporary  lewry  and 
American  Jewish  sociology 
in  the  Department  of  Near 
Eastern  and  Judaic  Studies, 
has  been  senior  research 
associate  and  assistant 
director  at  the  Cohen  Center 
for  Modem  Jewish  Studies. 


She  graduated  from  Yeshiva 
University  and  received  her 
M.A.  from  New  York 
University  and  her  Ph.D. 
from  Washington  University. 
She  was  awarded  the 
Danforth  Graduate 
Fellowship  for  Women  and 
the  Samuel  Belkin  Award  for 
Distinguished  Professional 
Achievement  from  Yeshiva 
University.  She  is  the  author 
of  A  Breath  of  Life: 
Feminism  iri  the  American 
Jewish  Community  and 
Follow  My  Footprints: 
Changing  Images  of  Women 
m  American  Jewish  Fiction. 

Arthur  Green,  Ph.D.  75,  an 
internationally-known 
scholar  in  Jewish  thought 
and  spiritual  traditions  and 
an  authority  on  Hasidism, 
mysticism  and  the 
exploration  of  Jewish 
religious  experience,  has 
been  named  as  Lown 
Professor  of  Jewish  Thought 
in  the  Department  of  Near 
Eastern  and  Judaic  Studies. 
Former  president  of  the 
Reconstructionist  Rabbinical 
College,  Green  has  authored 
a  number  of  books,  including 
Tormented  Master:  A  Life  of 
Rabbi  Nahman  of  Bratslav,  a 
psychological  analysis  of  the 
Zaddik  and  the  unfolding  of 
religious  experience  in  the 
Hasidie  movement  and  early 
Kabbalistic  literature;  Seek 
My  Face,  Speak  My  Name:  A 
Contemporary  Jewish 
Theology,  an  original  work  of 
theology  aimed  at  a 
contemporary  audience;  and 
the  forthcoming  Keter:  The 
Coronation  of  God  in  Jewish 


Mysticism  of  Late  Antiquity 
and  the  Early  Middle  Ages. 
which  traces  the  origins  and 
development  of  these  motifs 
through  various  stages  of 
Jewish  history  and  thought. 

Lynda  Hull,  the  Fannie  Hurst 
Poet-in-Residence  in  the 
Department  of  English  and 
American  Literature,  was 
graduated  summa  cum  laude 
from  the  University  of 
Arkansas  and  received  her 
M.A.  from  The  Johns 
Hopkins  University.  She  was 
a  visiting  professor  at  DePaul 
University  and  teaches  at 
Vermont  College.  Hull 
authored  Ghost  Money, 
which  received  the  Juniper 
Prize,  and  Star  Ledger,  which 
earned  the  Edwin  Piper 
Poetry  Prize.  She  was 
awarded  the  Pushcart  Prize, 
the  Illinois  Arts  Council 
Writing  Fellowship  in  Poetry, 
the  Carl  Sandburg  Award  by 
the  Friends  of  Chicago 
Library,  the  Los  Angeles 
Times  Poetry  Award  and  the 
Edwin  Piper  Poetry  Prize, 
among  others.  Her  poems 
have  appeared  in  numerous 
anthologies  and  journals. 

Jacob  Landau,  visiting 
professor  of  Middle  Eastern 
studies  in  the  Department  of 
Near  Eastern  and  Judaic 
Studies,  is  an  authority  on 
politics  in  the  Middle  East. 
He  received  his  M.A.  magna 
cum  laude  from  The  Hebrew 
University  and  his  Ph.D. 
from  the  University  of 
London.  He  was  the  Gersten 
Professor  of  Political  Science 
at  The  Hebrew  University 
and  was  a  resident  fellow  at 
the  Netherlands  Institute  for 
Advanced  Study  and  was  a 
senior  visiting  research 
fellow  at  Oxford  University. 
Landau  has  received  the  Ben 


Zvi  Memorial  Prize,  the 
Itzhak  Gruenbaum  Memorial 
Award  and  the  Bosphorus 
University  Medal  for 
Distinguished  Research.  He 
is  an  honorary  fellow  of  the 
Turkish  Historical  Society, 
sits  on  the  editorial  board  of 
Sefunot:  Annual  for 
Researcli  on  the  Jewish 
Communities  in  the  Orient 
and  is  the  author  of 
numerous  books,  including 
The  Politics  of  Pan-Islam: 
Ideology  and  Organization 
and  Pan-Turkism  in  Turkey: 
A  Study  of  Irredentism. 

Alan  M.  Rugman,  visiting 
professor  of  international 
business  in  the  Department 
of  Economics,  was  graduated 
from  the  University  of  Leeds 
and  received  his  M.A.  from 
the  University  of  London  and 
his  Ph.D.  from  Simon  Fraser 
University.  He  is  a  professor 
at  the  University  of  Toronto 
and  has  authored  several 
books,  including  Global 
Corporate  Strategy  and 
Trade  Policy  and 
Multinationals  and  Canada- 
United  States  Free  Trade. 
Rugman  was  made  a  Fellow 
of  the  Academy  of 
International  Business,  vice 
president  of  the  Academy  of 
International  Business  and 
was  a  member  of  the 
Canadian  International 
Trade  Advisory  Committee. 


4  Brandeis  Review 


Faculty  Promotions 


The  Board  of  Trustees 
approved  the  promotion  of 
four  Brandeis  facuky 
members  to  full  professor: 
Avigdor  Levy,  Near  Eastern 
and  fudaic  Studies;  R.  Shep 
Melnick,  politics;  James 
Olesen,  music;  and  James 
Storer,  computer  science. 

Levy,  M.A.  '60,  a  leading 
expert  in  the  United  States 
on  the  political  and  social 
history  of  the  Jews  in  the 
Ottoman  Empire,  has  also 
published  on  the  subjects  of 
Balkan  nationalism  and 
Syrian  politics.  Levy  teaches 
a  broad  range  of  courses 
including  Turkish,  advanced 
Arabic,  the  civilization  and 
institutions  of  Islam,  and 
religion  and  nationalism  in 
the  Middle  East.  He  is  the 
author  of  The  Sephardim  in 
the  Ottoman  Empire  and 
The  lews  of  the  Ottoman 
Empire,  forthcoming.  He  was 
given  an  award  from  the 
Foundation  for  Promotion  of 
Turkish  Culture  in  1989. 

Melnick  is  a  political 
scientist  interested  in  how 
the  characteristics  peculiar 
to  the  American  political 
system  (separation  of  powers, 
federalism,  weak  parties, 
distrust  of  bureaucracy, 
emphasis  on  individual 
rights)  influence  government 
policy.  His  two  books. 
Regulation  and  the  Courts: 
The  Case  of  the  Clean  Air 
Act  and  The  Politics  of 
Statutory  Rights:  Courts  and 
Congress  in  the  American 
Welfare  State,  forthcoming, 
document  the  changing  role 
of  the  federal  judiciary  over 
the  past  30  years  and  how 
that  transformation  affected 
welfare  and  regulatory 
programs.  He  has  been  the 
politics  department's 
Graduate  I'rogram  director 
for  the  past  three  years  and 
serves  on  the  selection  board 
that  nominates  Brandeis 
students  for  Congressional 
internships. 


Avigdor  Levy 
Harry  Mairson 


Olesen  serves  as  director  of 
the  University  Chorus, 
director  of  the  Early  Music 
Ensemble  and  Chamber 
Choir  and  director  of 
performing  activities.  His 
programs  present  stylistic 
variety,  from  Stravinsky  to 
"Most  Happy  Fella."  A  few 
years  ago,  he  introduced 
"Brandeis  Sings,"  in  which 
the  entire  University 
community  is  invited  to 
spend  a  Sunday  afternoon 
performing  a  classic  choral 
work  together.  He  has  guest 
conducted  the  Emmanuel 
Church  Music  and  the 
Griffin  Music  Ensemble  and 
two  years  ago,  he  became 
director  of  The 
MasterSingers,  a  Boston-area 
chamber  chorus. 

Storer  is  both  a  theoretical 
and  an  experimental 
computer  scientist.  He  is  one 
of  the  developers  and  top 
researchers  of  a  subdiscipline 
within  computer  science 
known  as  data  compression, 
which  consists  of  reducing 
the  size  or  text  of  image  data 
in  order  to  reduce 
transmission  time  and 
storage  space  in  computers 
and  communication 
systems.  He  led  in  the 
establishment  of  the  masters 
and  Ph.D.  programs  in 
computer  science;  acted  as 
the  computer  science 
department  representative 
for  the  building  of  the 
National  Center  for  Complex 
Systems;  and  participated  in 
the  Summer  Research 


Apprentice  Program.  He  is 
the  author  of  Data 
Compression:  Methods  and 
Theory. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  also 
approved  the  promotion  of 
three  Brandeis  faculty  to 
associate  professor  with 
tenure:  Harry  Mairson, 
computer  science;  James 
Mandrell,  romance  and 
comparative  literature;  and 
Daniel  Oprian,  biochemistry. 
The  Board  also  granted 
tenure  to  Constance 
Williams,  Ph.D.  '89,  The 
Heller  School. 

Mairson's  original  research  at 
Oxford  and  Stanford 
Universities  in  asymptotics, 
combinatorics  and 
algorithms  was  mainly 
mathematical;  his  current 
research  interest  in 
programming  language 
theory  and  logic  combines 
mathematics  with  computer 
science.  Situated  at  the 
interface  of  theory  and 
programming,  his  work  is 
central  to  still-developing 
areas  of  computer  science. 
Mairson,  who  won  the  1991- 
92  Marver  and  Sheva 
Bernstein  Faculty 
Fellowship,  has  spoken 
several  times  in  the 
"Forefront  Topics  in 
Science"  high  school  lecture 
series  at  Brandeis;  lectured  at 
local  high  schools  as  a 
representative  of  Brandeis; 
and  has  been  a  mentor  in  the 
Undergraduate  Fellows 
Program. 

Mandrell's  field  of  study 
ranges  from  the  Spanish 
Golden  Age  to  modernist 
literature,  mystical  poetry, 
genre  and  gender  in 
contemporary  women's 
fiction  and  popular  culture/ 
film.  He  is  the  author  of  Don 


fuan  and  the  Point  of  Honor: 
Seduction,  Patriarchal 
Society,  and  Literary 
Tradition  and  the  translation 
of  "The  Dandy"  and  Other 
Stories  by  Luis  Cernuda. 
forthcoming.  Mandrell,  who 
won  an  Andrew  W.  Mellon 
Travel  Grant,  an  American 
Council  of  Learned  Societies 
Travel  Grant  and  the  1991- 
92  Marver  and  Sheva 
Bernstein  Faculty 
Fellowship,  is  a  member  of 
the  Faculty  Senate. 

Oprian's  research  on  the 
structure  and  mechanism  of 
membrane  receptors  using 
synthetic  receptor  genes  has 
established  him  as  a  leader  in 
the  field  of  visual 
pigmentation  and  vision.  His 
discoveries  concerning  a 
mutant  form  of  rhodopsin 
have  implications  for 
imderstanding  the 
mechanism  of  the  disease 
retinitis  pigmentosa.  Serving 
the  department,  he  has  run 
the  seminar  program  and 
journals  club,  was  a  member 
of  the  graduate  admission 
committee  both  for 
biochemistry  and  bioorganic 
chemistry  and  served  as 
overseer  of  the  tissue-culture 
facility  shared  among  five 
laboratories. 

Williams,  associate  professor 
at  The  Heller  School, 
received  her  M.S.S.S.  from 
Boston  College  and  her  Ph.D. 
from  The  Heller  School  and 
came  to  Brandeis  in  1990  as 
associate  professor.  She  is  the 
author  of  Subsidizing  the 
Poor:  A  Boston  Housing 
Experiment  and  Black 
Teenage  Mothers:  Pregnancy 
and  Child  Rearing  from 
Their  Perspective.  Among 
her  many  awards  are  an 
honorary  Doctorate  of 
Humane  Letters  from  Curry 
College  and  The  Greatest 
Contribution  to  Social 
Change  Award  from  the 
National  Association  of 
Social  Workers. 


5  Fall  1993 


New  Trustees 
Appointed 


The  Brandeis  University 
Board  of  Trustees  has 
announced  the  appointments 
of  six  new  Trustees.  All  took 
their  seats  on  the  Board 
following  Commencement 
1993.  They  are:  Norman  C. 
Francis,  president  of  Xavier 
University  of  Louisiana; 
Abraham  D.  Gosman, 
founder  and  CEO  of  The 
Mediplex  Group  hiC;  Robert 
B.  Haas,  chairman  of  the 
board  of  Haas  Wheat  &. 
Partners  Inc.;  Mariorie  G. 
Housen  '56,  special  events 
coordinator  for  Royal  Boston; 
Belle  D.  Jurkowitz  '55, 
president  of  the  Brandeis 
University  National 
Women's  Committee;  and 
Carol  R.  Saivetz  '69,  fellow 
of  the  Russian  Research 
Center  and  lecturer  in  the 
social  studies  department  at 
Harvard  University. 

Francis  holds  a  J.D.  from 
Loyola  University  and  a 
bachelor's  degree  from 
Xavier,  and  has  received 
honorary  degrees  from 
Marquette  University,  St. 
Michael's  College,  Seton 
Hall  University,  Holy  Cross 
College  and  Villanova 
University.  He  is  director  of 
the  Equitable  Life  Assurance 
Society  of  the  United  States, 
vice  chair  of  the  Carnegie 
Foundation  for  the 
Advancement  of  Teaching 
and  past  chair  of  the  College 
Entrance  Examination  Board. 
Elected  in  1992,  he  began 
serving  this  year. 


Printer's  Error 

We  regret  that  in  the 
Summer  1993  issue  of  the 
Brandeis  Review  there  was  a 
printer's  error.  On  page  35,  in 
the  interview  with  Marc 
Brettler,  the  first  paragraph 
in  the  first  column  below  the 
rule  should  have  read; 
"What  can  you  as  a  dedicated 
teacher  do  to  draw  the 
students  into  the  subject 
matter?" 


Gosman,  who  holds  a  B.A. 
from  the  University  of  New 
Hampshire  and  is  the 
benefactor  of  the  Gosman 
Sports  and  Convocation 
Center,  is  a  trustee  of  Beth 
Israel  Hospital,  Boston 
University,  Dana-Farber 
Cancer  Institute  and  the 
Recuperative  Center 
Association  in  Boston.  He  is 
the  founding  member  and 
director  of  the  National 
Association  of  Senior  Living 
Facilities  and  past  president 
of  the  Connecticut 
Association  of  Health  Care 
Facilities. 

Haas  has  a  B.A.  from  Yale 
University  and  a  (.D.  from 
Harvard  Law  School.  He  is  a 
trustee  of  the  Dallas  Chapter 
of  the  American  Jewish 
Committee,  the  Anti- 
Defamation  League  and  the 
Texas  Mental  Health 
Association  and  an  executive 
board  member  of  Southern 
Methodist  University.  Haas 
is  also  a  member  of  Israeli 
economic  development  for 
the  Jewish  Federation  of 
Greater  Dallas  and  the 
strategic  planning  committee 
of  the  Jewish  Federation  of 
Greater  Dallas. 

Housen,  a  Brandeis  graduate, 
is  on  the  board  of  directors  of 
Erving  Paper  Mills,  Friends  of 
Beth  Israel  Hospital  and  the 
Hebrew  Center  for 
Rehabilitation  of  the  Aged 
and  is  an  overseer  for  the 
Lown  Graduate  School  at 
Brandeis.  Heavily  involved  in 
Hadassah,  she  is  a  national 
associate  for  life.  National 
Nominating  Committee 
chair,  National  Constitution 
chair,  national  vice 
president,  on  the  national 
board  of  the  leadership  task 
force  and  president  of  the 
Westem  New  England 
region.  Housen  is  also  a 
member  of  the  United  Way 
Allocations  Committee  for 
Franklin  County. 

Jurkowitz  holds  a  B.A.  from 
Brandeis  and  is  a  board 
member  of  the  Greater 
Miami  Jewish  Federation  and 


an  admissions  representative 
for  Tel  Aviv  University.  She 
has  been  past  president  of  the 
Scranton,  Miami  Beach,  and 
Southeast  Region  chapters  of 
the  National  Women's 
Committee  and  was  national 
vice  president  from  1975  to 
1977  and  national  chair  from 
1988  to  1993.  Jurkowitz  is 
also  regional  chair  of  the 
Alumni  Fund,  a  member  of 
the  leadership  cabinet  for  the 
Alumni  Fund  and  chair  of 
the  Florida  Alumni 
Admissions  Council. 

Saivetz  holds  a  B.A.  from 
Brandeis  and  a  Ph.D.  from 
Columbia  University.  She  is 
assistant  treasurer  of  the 
Jewish  Community 
Relations  Council  of 
Metropolitan  Boston  and 
past  chair  of  the  Soviet  Jewry 
Committee.  She  has  been  a 
visiting  associate  professor 
and  lecturer  with  rank  of 
associate  professor  at 
Brandeis  and  an  associate 
professor  at  Tufts  University. 
Saivetz  has  been  a  Brandeis 
Fellow  since  1985  and  is  a 
member  of  the  National 
Women's  Committee. 


Global  issues 
Discussed 
at  President's 
Convocation 


As  part  of  this  year's 
President's  Convocation, 
incoming  first-year  students 
were  asked  to  read  over  the 
summer  Beyond  the  Limits 
by  Donella  Meadows,  et.  al. 
and  An  Enemy  of  the  People 
by  Henri  k  Ibsen,  as  adapted 
by  Arthur  Miller.  Students 
joined  some  of  Brandeis's 
most  distinguished  faculty 
members  for  a  talk  on  "The 
Global  Ecological  Crisis  and 
the  Role  of  the  Individual," 
focusing  on  questions  dealing 
with  growth  and 
development  and  possible 
consequences  for 
humankind.  The  student- 
faculty  panel  discussion  at 
the  class-wide  gathering  was 
followed  the  same  evening 
by  small  group  sessions  led 
by  faculty  members  in 
residence  halls  across 
campus.  The  first-year  class 
meeting  at  Convocation  was 
begun  last  year  to  engage 
students  in  a  dialogue  about 
present-day  issues. 


6  Brandeis  Review 


Gifts  Increase 


National  Women's 
Committee 
Offers  Brandeis 
Institute  in  Florida, 
New  York 


Fiscal  year  1992-93  saw  a  26 
percent  increase  in  gifts  to 
Brandeis  from  individuals, 
the  first  increase  in  three 
years.  Private  gifts  totaled 
$26.7  million,  while  new 
major  gift  commitments 
exceeded  $13  million  and 
included  $9.3  million  in  new 
and  additional  commitments 
from  the  Trustees  of  the 
University.  Senior  Vice 
President  for  Development 
and  Alumni  Relations  Daniel 
J.  Mansoor  commented  that 
"the  generosity  of  alumni, 
friends  and  Trustees  of  the 
University  represents  a 
tremendous  vote  of 
confidence  in  the  future  of 
the  University." 


Gordon  Public 
Policy  Center  Gives 
Award 


The  Gordon  Puhlic  Policy 
Center  honored  Eugene 
Roherts,  editor  of  the 
Philadelphia  Inquirer,  with 
the  Burton  Gordon  Feldman 
Award,  which  honors 
outstanding  contributions  in 
public  policy.  Roberts  is 
credited  with  transforming 
the  Philadelphia  Inquirer 
from  one  of  the  ten  worst 
city  newspapers  to  one  that 
acquired  1 7  Pulitzer  Prizes 
under  his  leadership.  During 
his  18-year  tenure  at  the 
Inquirer,  the  paper  earned  a 
reputation  as  a  journalistic 
gem,  as  demonstrated  by  the 
Pulitzer  Prizes  it  won  for 
investigative  reporting  as 
well  as  for  analysis  of 
systemic  public  policy 
issues.  After  the  presentation 
of  the  award,  Roberts  spoke 
on  "Creating  Innovation  in 
the  Media." 


"The  challenge  for  the 
upcoming  year  will  be  to 
build  on  the  growing  interest 
and  involvement  of  our 
alumni,"  said  Larry  Harris 
'63,  the  incoming  chair  of  the 
Brandeis  Annual  Fund.  He 
reported  that  although  only 
29  percent  of  alumni  made 
a  gift  in  1992-93,  more  than 
40  percent  have  made  gifts 
within  the  last  two  years. 
Over  400  alumni  made  first- 
time  gifts  to  the  University 
in  fiscal  year  1992-93. 

The  Reunion  Fund  program 
has  expanded  as  well. 
Volunteer  committees  from 
each  of  the  Reunion  classes 
of  "4's"  and  "9's"  are  making 
personal  solicitations  and 
broad  appeals  to  members  of 
their  anniversary  class, 
loining  the  Reunion 
volunteers  are  a  new  cadre  of 
volunteers  who  will  be 
personally  contacting  many 
of  our  supporting  alumni  and 
friends. 

A  new  program,  the  Brandeis 
Legacy  Circle,  was 
inaugurated    in    1992-93. 
Two  hundred  and  eighty 
individuals  joined  this 
recognition  society  of  those 
who  have  taken  the 
University  into  consideration 
in  their  estate  and  tnist 
plans.  In  the  coming  year, 
the  program  will  expand  its 
efforts  to  include  even  more 
alumni  and  friends. 

Changes  in  the  tax  laws  may 
have  a  dramatic  impact  on 
the  timing,  method  and 
amounts  of  charitable  giving 
for  the  Brandeis  community. 
The  development  office  has 
set  up  a  hot  line  (800-333- 
1948)  to  provide  information 
about  the  new  tax  laws  and 
their  effect  on  making  gifts 
to  Brandeis. 


The  e.xeellenee  ot  Brandeis  is 
brought  home  to  thousands 
of  people  across  the  United 
States  each  year  through  the 
unique  Study  Group  program 
of  the  Brandeis  University 
National  Women's 
Committee.  For  nearly  40 
years  members  have  been 
meeting  in  living  rooms, 
clubhouses  and  community 
centers,  with  one  of  their 
own  as  discussion  leader,  to 
study  everything  from 
Shakespeare  to  rationing 
health  care,  based  on  syllabi 
authored  by  Brandeis  faculty. 

A  sampling  of  these 
challenging  courses,  which 
have  been  developed  for  the 
exclusive  use  of  the 
Women's  Committee,  is 
being  offered  to  alumni  and 
others  not  affiliated  with  the 
Women's  Committee  in 
southern  Florida  and  New 
York  City  through  a  series  of 
one-day  programs  called 
"Brandeis  Institute  Days." 

The  Third  Annual  Florida 
Brandeis  Institute  Days  will 
be  held  in  four  locations 
from  November  8  to 
December  2.  Under  the 
theme  "Power  to  the 
People?:  How  the  Great 
Changes  of  the  '60s  Affect 
our  Lives  Today," 
participants  will  explore  in 
small  groups  the  pop  culture 
of  the  1960s,  the  drastic 
revisions  in  the  political 
process  that  have  taken  place 
since  the  1968  piesidential 
election  and  the  "fracturing 
of  America,"  reflected  in  its 
many  ethnic  and  cultural 
divisions  today.  Discussion 
guides  were  prepared  by 
American  studies  professors 
Jacob  Cohen  and  Thomas 
Doherty. 

The  New  York  program, 
entitled  "Is  There  a  Future 
for  the  Jewish  Family':  Being 
Jewish  in  America,"  is  being 
sponsored  by  the  Manhattan 
Chapter  of  the  Women's 
Committee  and  will  be  held 
on  November  15  at  Brandeis 
House,  12  East  77th  Street. 
The  program  will  focus  on 
American  Jewish  humor, 
images  of  Jews  in  American 


movies,  the  future  of  the 
Jewish  family  and  other 
aspects  of  being  an  American 
Jew  in  the  last  part  of  the 
20th  century.  Discussions 
will  be  guided  by  materials 
written  for  the  Women's 
Committee  by  Sociology 
Professor  Gordon  Fellman, 
Professor  Stephen  Whitfield 
of  American  studies, 
Professor  James  Schulz  of 
The  Heller  School  and  the 
late  Marshall  Sklare  of  the 
Department  of  Near  Eastern 
and  Judaic  Studies. 

Trained,  experienced  group 
leaders  will  facilitate  these 
participatory  sessions, 
including  some  of  the 
Women's  Committee's  most 
popular  Study  Group  leaders. 
Florida  leaders  include  Sheila 
Clemon-Karp  '80,  former 
assistant  secretary  of  Elder 
Affairs  for  the  State  of 
Massachusetts,  who  earned 
her  Ph.D.  in  English  and 
American  Literature  from 
Brandeis;  Joyce  Reider, 
former  president  of  the 
Women's  Committee  Florida 
Region,  who  has  conducted 
programs  in  American 
studies  for  United  Nations 
diplomats  and  discussion 
programs  for  retired  school 
teachers,  and  has  led  Study 
Groups  for  the  Women's 
Committee  for  30  years;  and 
Muriel  Bermar,  a  former 
history  teacher  who  will  lead 
discussions  on  civil  rights. 

A  national  fund-raising  and 
education  organization,  the 
Brandeis  University  National 
Women's  Committee  has 
raised  more  than  $47  million 
for  the  Brandeis  Libraries. 
Since  American  Studies 
Professor  Lawrence  Fuchs 
wrote  the  first  Study  Group 
syllabus  in  the  mid-fifties. 
Study  Groups  have  become 
the  most  popular  program 
among  the  organization's 
55,000  members  and 
continually  attract  new 
members.  For  information  on 
membership  and  Study 
Groups,  call  617-736-4160. 


7  Fall  1993 


Sports  Notes 


Liia  Kitamura  '95  (left)  and 
Stephanie  Shapiro  '93 
fhght)  cross  paths  during 
a  meet 


Scholar-Athletes 
Ranked "Tops" 

The  Brandeis  men's  and 
women's  swimming  and 
diving  teams  are  perfect 
examples  of  the  concept  that 
academic  achievement  and 
athletic  excellence  can  go 
hand-in-hand.  In  the 
classroom,  for  the  past  eight 
semesters,  the  teams  have 
been  ranked  among  the  top 
schools  in  the  country  in 
overall  team  grade-point 
average  for  each  semester.  In 
fall  1991,  the  men's  team 
was  ranked  number  one  in 
the  country  in  grade-point 
average  for  that  semester. 

The  men's  team  was 
undefeated  at  home  in  dual 
meets  in  the  1990-91  season 
and  had  only  one  loss  at 
home  last  year.  Combined, 
the  teams  have  qualified  at 
least  one  individual  for  the 
NCAA  championships  in 
eight  of  the  past  10  years. 
Brandeis  has  had  eight  all- 


Erie  Theise  '95,  the  team 's 
top  diver,  glances  into 
the  water  while  finishing 
one  of  his  dives 


Three  of  Brandeis's  top 
divers,  (left  to  right)  Kirah 
Frankel  '94,  Eric  Theise  '95 
and  Dana  Romalis  '96, 
practice  in  their  specialty 


American  performers,  over 
20  all-New  England 
performers  and  eight  all- 
UAA  performers. 

The  Linsey  Center  pool  was 
the  scene  of  several 
exciting  dual  meets  during 
the  1992-93  season. 

Brandeis  photographer 
Heather  Pillar  documented 
the  men's  and  women's 
swimming  and  diving  teams 


in  their  1992-1993  season, 
capturing  the  spirit  of 
competitive  swimming 
above  and  below  the  water. 
She  developed  the  project  for 
a  documentary  photography 
course  at  the  Art  Institute  of 
Boston.  Fifteen  of  the 
photographs  were  exhibited 
last  spring  at  the  Institute 
and  at  Brandeis's  Gosman 
Center. 


9  Fall  1993 


Caleb  Davis  '95  bursts 
out  of  the  water 
while  practicing  the 
butterfly  stroke 


Erica  Schwartz  '95  receives 
encouragement  from  her 
teammates  (standing  left  to 
right)  Ben  Phillips  '95. 
Stephanie  Shapiro  '93,  Aaron 
See  '93,  (kneeling  left  to 
right)  Joanne  Shapiro  '93  and 
John  Farnsworth  '94 


10  Brandeis  Review 


^^^^i 


Elias  Falcon  '93  perfects  his 
butterfly  stroke 


Three  of  Brandeis's  top 
divers  (left  to  right)  Kirah 
Frankel  '94.  Eric  Theise  '95 
and  Dana  Romalis  '96 
practice  their  specialty 


The 

University 
by  2003: 


ThJer's  Stewardship 


A  Place 

of  Controlled 

Ferment 

by  Brenda  Marder 


Samuel  O.  Thier,  M.D.  and  Johann 
Wolfgang  von  Goethe  are  not  two 
people  you  might  readily  pair  together 
as  kindred  souls.  Could  Goethe  have 
framed  the  adage  that  describes 
perfectly  Samuel  O.  Thier's  tactics? 
"Whatever  you  can  do,  do  it  now. 
Boldness  has  genius,  power  and  magic 
in  it.  Begin  it  now,"  said  the  Old  World 
German  writer. 

In  the  two  years  that  Thier  has  served 
as  President  of  Brandeis,  boldness 
has  been  the  hallmark  of  his 
decision-making  process.  During 
his  brief  tenure,  he  has  identified  the 
University's  major  problems  and 
audaciously  set  them  on  their  way  to 
solution.  Through  a  process  that  stands 


President  Thier  at 
Commencement  1993 


12  Brandeis  Review 


as  a  model  for  other  institutions,  mucli 
to  his  credit  and  to  the  amazement  of 
many  onlookers,  he  has  orchestrated  a 
series  of  remedies,  some  of  them 
painful,  that  have  placed  the  University 
on  a  fast  track  to  financial  equilibrium. 
Doubtless,  Brandeis's  small  size  and 
lack  of  professional  schools  lends  itself 
to  change  more  readily  than  the 
country's  gigantic  universities  with 
sprawling  or  multiple  campuses  and 
independent-minded  professional 
schools. 

What  seemed  clear  to  Thier  when  he 
assumed  the  presidency  in  September 
1991  was  that  a  new  curriculum  to 
strengthen  student  skills  and  a  financial 
plan  to  close  a  $12  million  structural 
gap  in  the  budget  were  central  to 
ensuring  financial  and  academic 
equilibrium.  He  decided  to  act  almost 
immediately  to  establish  equilibrium  in 
the  budget  by  1996-97. 

Outlining  the  problems  to  the  faculty 
and  senior  administrators,  he  asked  for 
their  cooperation.  Since  part  of  the 
solution  lay  in  pruning  certain  academic 
programs  and  reducing  others,  as  well 
as  introducing  new  offerings,  some 
faculty  members  were  bound  to  be  hurt 
by  reshaping  the  curriculum.  Hence, 
Thier  reasoned,  the  faculty,  by 
consensus,  would  have  to  devise  the 
plan  to  facilitate  its  successful 
implementation  and  avoid  the 
bitterness  that  has  often  surged  on 
other  campuses  as  the  result  of  a  top- 
down  process.  "These  are  our  goals; 
recommend  to  me,"  he  charged  both 
faculty  and  administration,  "how  you 
would  go  about  making  cuts  and 
revamping  the  curriculum." 

Faculty  committees  were  formed  and 
their  findings  argued  in  a  series  of  town 
meetings  held  with  the  President,  the 
debate  set  in  the  context  of  how 
Brandeis  will  look  in  the  future.  For  nine 
months  a  group  of  faculty  and 
administrators  under  the  leadership  of 
Provost  and  Senior  Vice  President  for 
Academic  Affairs  Jehuda  Reinharz, 
Ph.D.  72,  who  headed  the  Academic 
Planning  Group,  undertook  an 
extensive  review  of  academic 
programs  and  departments.  In  a 
parallel  effort  to  rein  in  administrative 
costs.  Executive  Vice  President  for 


Finance  and  Administration  Stanley 
Rumbaugh  headed  up  the  review  of  the 
nonacademic  components,  using  a 
similar  process.  He  told  the  Brandeis 
Review.  "Collectively,  we  went  through 
hundreds  of  hours  with  faculty  and 
administrators.  After  nine  months  of 
work,  when  we  added  the  fund-raising 
piece  to  the  equilibrium  report,  which 
contained  the  findings  and 
recommendations  from  the  academic 
and  nonacademic  reviews,  and  sent  it 
to  the  Board  of  Trustees  for  approval, 
the  faculty  had  endorsed  it."  The  plan 
was  adopted  in  October  1992.  record 
time  compared  to  the  snail  pace  that 
most  universities  keep  when  they 
restructure. 

Reinharz  reports  that,  "The  group  of 
provosts  and  chief  academic  officers  I 
meet  with  periodically  from  the  New 
England  Resource  Center  is  amazed 
with  the  speed,  efficiency,  consensus 
and  lack  of  rancor  that  accompanied 
the  changes  at  Brandeis."  Business 
Weel<.  which  did  a  piece  on 
restructuring  of  American  universities 
last  May  editorialized  that 
'...restructuring  in  higher  education  will 
spark  a  lot  of  infighting  and  will  take 
many  more  years  than  the  typical 
corporate  overhaul."  Brandeis 
represents  an  exception  to  that  rule. 
Not  that  Brandeis's  restructuring  has 
reached  a  finale.  Rumbaugh  warns 
that,  "Achieving  equilibrium  after  five 
years  doesn't  mean  that  we  will  be  on 
easy  street.  We  will  have  arrived  at  a 
level  playing  field  where  the  various 
needs  of  the  University  can  compete 
on  a  priority  basis  for  resources." 

As  a  result  of  the  plan,  the  faculty 
members  who  are  supported  by 
University  funds  will  be  reduced  in  size, 
primarily  through  attrition,  declining 
from  362  to  31 5.  Teaching 
assignments  have  been  adjusted  to 
ensure  that  members  are  teaching  full 
loads  in  all  departments.  "We  hope," 
says  Irving  Epstein,  dean  of  arts  and 
sciences,  "that  by  offering  very  small 
classes  less  frequently  and  by  fully 
utilizing  the  faculty,  we  will  be  able  to 
offer  at  least  as  many  classes  as  we 
did  previously.  Departments  have  been 
provided  with  staffing  schedules 
agreed  upon  with  the  administration  to 
allow  wiser,  long-range  planning." 


The  new  curriculum,  considered  a 
national  model  for  the  21st  century,  is 
due  to  be  implemented  in  1994.  It 
disputes  the  traditional  notion  that  each 
student  should  satisfy  the  same  set  of 
requirements,  and  focuses  on  the 
development  of  writing  skills  throughout 
the  four  years  of  study;  encourages 
cross-disciplinary  study  of  a  single 
theme  or  problem;  exposes  students  to 
the  skills  necessary  for  absorbing 
quantitative  reasoning:  ensures  a 
small-class  seminar  experience  in  the 
first  year  of  college  through  the 
University  Seminars  in  Humanistic 
Inquines;  and  makes  the  foreign 
language  requirement  more  intensive. 

"Because  we  want  our  students  to 
make  connections  between  ideas 
emanating  from  a  variety  of  fields,  we 
have  mapped  the  courses  in  a  cluster 
arrangement, "  says  Epstein.  Every 
student  will  take  a  set  of  three  courses 
from  at  least  two  different  schools, 
probably  from  three  different 
departments,  organized  around  a 
central  theme,  say,  "health,  community 
and  society,"  or  "medieval  art  and 
literature"  or  "conflict  management  and 
peace  building."  Groups  of  faculty  will 
get  together  to  design  a  cluster;  this 
format  will  lead  faculty  and  students 
into  an  interdisciplinary  mode,  which  is 
the  wave  of  the  future. 

Is  boldness  the  better  part  of  valor?  It 
appears  so.  At  this  point,  the 
equilibrium  plan,  claims  Rumbaugh,  is 
on  target,  "and  in  sum  total  is  actually 
better  than  on  target,  being  slightly 
ahead  of  the  original  projections  for 
1992-93." 

In  summing  up  the  accomplishments  of 
the  Thier  stewardship,  Reinharz 
explains,  "In  these  two  years  or  so. 
there  have  been  some  wide-ranging 
and  incredibly  complicated  changes 
that  have  taken  place  at  Brandeis.  The 
establishment  of  the  Academic 
Planning  Group  is  not  a  minor  matter: 
using  that  consensus  process 
represents  a  totally  different  view  of 
running  a  university.  We  all  realized 
that  whatever  we  decided  would  have 
an  enormous  impact  on  the  institution 
for  years  to  come." 


13  Fall  1993 


Thier  Defines  the  Problems 


Marder:  A  major  problem  nagging 
institutions  of  higher  learning  now  and 
into  the  future  is  finances.  How  will  they 
cope? 

Thier:  A  vast  number  of  American 
schools  lived  beyond  their  resources 
during  the  1980s.  Scaling  down  to  live 
within  their  means  is  not  an  easy 
chore,  because  some  of  the  expenses 
are  generated  by  factors  they  can't 
control  very  well.  First  of  all, 
universities  employ  a  tenure  system 
and  many  tenured  faculty  members  are 
on  the  high  end  of  the  salary  scale.  As 


President  Thier  talking  witti 
students  from  ti~ie  Orientation 
'93  Core  Committee  at  a 
barbecue  at  the  President's 
House 


Bill  Rakip  Photo 


the  numbers  of  faculty  members 
increase,  so  do  the  salaries.  Next, 
research  universities,  like  Brandeis, 
strive  to  remain  competitive  in  the  most 
recent  research.  Generally,  research  in 
the  sciences  requires  progressively 
more  expensive  equipment  and 
facilities,  items  that  cut  deeply  into  the 
budget.  Also,  a  preponderance  of 
institutions  have  deferred  maintenance 
of  their  facilities  over  the  years. 
Consequently,  run-down  buildings  are 
demanding  costly  attention.  A  fourth 
concern,  which  has  a  profound  impact 
on  university  budgets,  is  financial  aid. 

To  meet  these  expenses,  institutions 
rely  on  the  three  or  four  sources  of 
revenue  available  to  them.  One  is 
tuition  and  fees,  and  most  universities 
have  pushed  that  source  of  income  to 
the  limit.  In  this  regard,  a  second  option 
that  some  schools  may  exercise,  but 
one  that  Brandeis  has  not,  is  increasing 
the  student  body.  Another  dependable 
source,  at  least  for  the  near  future,  is 
grant  and  contract  funds  for  research. 
Brandeis  has  been  very  successful  in 
this  area — we  have  located  some  new 
potential  sources  of  support  in  the 
corporate  sector  that  may  join  with  us 
in  partnership  arrangements.  A  fourth 
source  to  consider  is  fund-raising, 
which  represents  significant  income  for 
Brandeis,  In  this  respect,  Brandeis 
needs  short-  and  long-term  strategies. 
We  must  raise  annual  support  to  help 
with  operations,  while  raising  the 
endowment  to  assure  the  long-term 
viability  of  the  institution. 

Apart  from  revenue,  another  way  to 
improve  the  ledger  is  to  reduce  faculty 
or  create  tremendous  efficiencies,  and 
many  universities,  including  Brandeis, 
are  looking  in  these  directions  by 
sharing  faculty,  libraries  and  other 
resources  so  that  access  for  students 
is  high  and  individual  institutional  costs 
are  less. 


Marder:  Financial  aid  looms  as  an 
intractable  and  growing  problem.  What 
strategies  can  institutions  adopt  to 
control  its  escalation? 


14  Brandeis  Review 


President  Thier  regularly 
hosts  informal  dinners 
for  faculty  members  at  the 
President's  House 


Thier:  I  don't  have  a  definitive  answer 
for  financial  aid  at  tfiis  moment,  but  we 
are  doing  some  serious  studies  on  this 
subject.  I  do  know  that  there  is  a  point 
when  raising  tuition  becomes  self- 
defeating,  because  the  financial-aid 
increases  erode  the  tuition  hikes.  Many 
institutions  like  Brandeis  have 
experienced  tremendous  increases  in 
financial  aid.  This  is  a  national  problem 
and  extremely  difficult  for  a  single 
institution  acting  unilaterally  to  solve. 

Marder:  What  is  the  outlook  for 
Brandeis  in  the  short  run,  then, 
concerning  financial  aid? 

Thier:  For  the  next  two  or  three  years, 
we  can  manage.  Some  institutions 
have  remained  needs-blind,  as 
Brandeis  has,  but  unlike  Brandeis,  they 
have  controlled  the  rise  of  financial  aid 
by  saying  that  the  financial-aid  package 
can't  rise  at  a  higher  percentage  than 
tuition  increase.  A  cap  like  that  would 
represent  a  major  difference  for 
Brandeis,  because  our  tuition  has  been 
going  up  five  to  six  and  a  half  percent 
the  last  few  years,  while  financial  aid 
has  skyrocketed  to  1 5  or  20  percent. 
Such  a  cap  may  constitute  part  of  a 
long-term  solution  to  the  problem.  The 


recession  has  really  wreaked  havoc  on 
the  public's  ability  to  pay  tuition.  If  we 
ever  dig  our  way  out  of  the  recession,  it 
would  help  solve  the  financial-aid 
burden. 

IVIarder:  Will  universities  continue  to 
exercise  a  responsibility  toward 
students  who  cannot  afford  tuition? 

Thier:  Each  school  has  its  own 
mission:  Brandeis's  mission 
unequivocally  states  that  we  must  offer 
access  to  students,  regardless  of  their 
ability  to  pay. 

Marder:  is  there  anything  you  detect  in 
the  Clinton  administration  that  signals 
some  help  with  loans?  I  note  that  there 
has  been  talk  of  a  direct-plan  payment 
whereby  funds  will  be  transferred  from 
the  student  to  the  university  without 
passing  through  the  banks.  Will  this 
procedure  be  helpful? 

Thier:  It  will  be  helpful  only  if  the 
government  returns  the  administrative 
savings  in  the  form  of  more  financial 
aid  to  students.  The  National  Service, 
recently  adopted,  represents  an 
intriguing  mix  of  social  responsibility 
and  financial  aid.  I  only  wish  this  could 
reach  more  students. 

Marder:  Generally,  how  do  you 
interpret  the  Clinton  administration's 
policy  toward  shaping  conditions  for 
higher  education? 


Thier:  I  have  not  read  any  well- 
enunciated  position  on  higher 
education.  The  administration  has 
shown  an  interest  in  community 
colleges  and  technical  schools,  which 
are  important  sectors.  But  about  the 
research  university  and  its  unique  role 
in  the  culture  of  this  country  for  the  last 
five  or  10  decades,  I  haven't  heard 
anything.  Research  universities  have 
received  less  attention  than  I  think 
appropriate  for  their  relative 
contribution.  It's  one  thing  to  contribute 
to  the  workforce  as  the  technical 
schools  do,  but  it's  another  matter  to 
educate  individuals  who  will  conceive 
ideas  that  actually  shape  the  economy 
and  improve  the  productivity  of  the 
country. 

Marder:  Speaking  about  the 
government,  are  you  optimistic  about 
support  from  federally  sponsored 
research,  the  largest  single  source  of 
funding  for  research  for  universities? 

Thier:  Federally  sponsored  research,  I 
think,  will  continue  at  present  levels, 
keep  up  with  inflation  or  perhaps 
increase,  if  the  President  means  what 
he  says  about  investment  in  ideas  and 
intellectual  capital. 


15  Fall  1993 


Marder:  Increasingly  sophisticated 
technology  will  force  not  only  scholars 
to  change  the  way  they  work,  but 
institutions  to  reorganize  themselves. 
For  instance,  the  proposed  National 
Information  Network  will  link 
universities  to  banks,  hospitals, 
businesses  and  homes.  Can  you 
describe  the  influence  this  network  will 
exert  on  universities? 

Thier:  Presumably  it  will  allow  us  to  do 
our  administrative  business  much  more 
efficiently,  and  may  lead  us  to  explore 
whole  new  ways  of  doing  things.  In  a 
few  years,  you  might  think  of 
institutions  of  higher  learning  as 
"universities  without  walls."  The 
infrastructure  to  accomplish  this  linkage 
will  cost  tens  of  millions  of  dollars.  So  if 
the  administration  really  wants  to  hook 
people  up,  it  will  have  to  design  a 
national  plan.  Brandeis  can't  be  left  out. 
Let  me  add  a  word  or  two  of 
perspective  here  about  the  use  of 
technology — rather  than  using 
technology  to  its  optimum,  we  need  to 
examine  whether  we  are  doing  our 
tasks  to  the  optimum  degree.  One  of 
the  things  that  troubles  me  about  the 
information  glut  is  that  people,  when 
they  gather  a  lot  of  information,  think 
that  they  are  all  set,  because  they  have 
an  array  of  answers  at  their  disposal. 
What  they  really  require  is  a  keen 
sense  of  judgment  in  using  that 
information. 

Marder:  What  about  the  students 
entering  the  university  in  the  next 
decade?  Who  will  they  be  and  what 
kind  of  education  will  they  require? 

Thier:  The  demographics  of  the 
country  show  that  the  trend  toward  a 
diverse  student  population  will 
increase.  As  schools  make  themselves 
sensitive  to  students  of  various  ethnic 
backgrounds,  they  will  have  to  improve 
the  quality  of  life  on  campus  for 
everyone. 


Brandeis  has  already  set  up  an 
intercultural  center,  has  reorganized 
student  services  and  will  continue  to 
make  adjustments  for  diversity. 

Students  are  exhibiting  a  new  anxiety 
in  their  outlook.  They  perceive  that  they 
are  entering  a  time  of  uncertainty  and 
are  apprehensive  about  what's  in  store 
for  them  economically,  and  in  many 
other  situations.  Universities  need  to 
furnish  them  with  skills  and  principles, 
enabling  them  to  develop  an  internal 
compass  as  they  deal  with  uncertainty 
and  change. 

Marder:  How,  specifically,  must 
institutions  hone  their  programs  to 
meet  the  new  circumstances? 

Thier:  Universities  will  adopt,  I'm  sure, 
a  new  emphasis.  At  Brandeis,  say.  10 
years  ago,  we  offered  a  breadth  of 
intellectual  experiences  and  content, 
not  necessarily  a  set  of  skills.  Now  we 
will  be  stressing  intellectual  skills:  that 
doesn't  mean  that  students  will  not  be 
getting  the  traditional  academic 
experience — it  just  means  that  they 
receive  with  equal  intensity  important 
skills  such  as  writing,  language  and 
exposure  to  the  principles  of  sciences 
so  that  they  have  the  tools  to  analyze 
and  apply  intellectual  concepts. 

Marder:  Suppose  you  look  at  the 
American  university  10  years  from  now, 
will  you  see  a  totally  transformed 
institution  in  2003? 

Thier:  No.  Not  at  all.  You  can  envision 
greater  fluidity,  interchange  of 
academic  skills  among  disciplines: 
sociologists,  for  example  working  with 
psychologists  to  explore  questions  in  a 
loose  federation  where  academic 
issues  move  together  as  new  areas  of 


inquiry  build,  and  then  move  apart  as 
scholars  find  new  partners  for 
cooperation.  Some  members  of  these 
federations  will  emerge  from  outside 
the  university:  there  will  be  people  from 
industry,  hospitals,  banks  or  even 
government. 

Along  with  this  interdisciplinary 
approach,  scholars  and  students  will 
become  far  more  dependent  on 
information  management,  using 
different  methods  of  accessing 
information  and  learning.  They  will 
discover  more  fluid  ways  of  structuring 
solutions  to  problems.  The  university 
should,  by  2003,  be  a  place  of 
controlled  ferment. 

Marder:  Your  description  sounds 
plausible,  but  does  the  structure  of  the 
university  foster  this  fluidity? 

Thier:  No,  the  typical  departmental 
structures  impede  this  intermingling. 
So,  it  will  happen  in  spite  of  and  with 
the  relative  inertia  of  the  structure. 

Marder:  One  last  question.  You  are 
considered  a  successful  president. 
What  qualities  do  you  think  a  university 
president  must  possess  to  keep  a 
university  on  a  steady  course  as  we 
enter  the  new  millennium? 

Thier:  I  tend  to  the  following  scheme. 
When  I  examine  an  issue,  a  problem  or 
an  organization,  I  search  for  a  set  of 
principles,  a  history,  a  mission  to  guide 
my  thinking.  I  look  at  how  the 
operations  are  fulfilling  that  mission 
and  determine  if  there  are  ways  to  do 
things  better.  Then  I  build  a  set  of 
solutions.  The  solutions  may  come 
from  the  ways  in  which  I  involve 
people,  or  they  may  depend  on  how  I 
approach  various  groups.  IVlainly,  I 
keep  a  certain  flexibility. 

University  presidents  must  be  able  to 
formulate  the  right  question  and  define 
the  problem,  and  then  determine  what 


16  Brandeis  Review 


Paula  Thier: 
Striking  a  Balance 


information  they  need  to  answer  the 
question.  That  information  may  be 
sought  in  the  form  of  consultation  from 
faculty,  in  the  form  of  economic  data  or 
some  other  form.  If  the  president  needs 
consultative  support,  he  or  she 
shouldn't  be  afraid  to  ask.  You  must 
take  action  based  on  the  data  available 
to  you  at  the  time.  One  principle  every 
university  president  should  learn, 
and  President  Clinton  is  learning  it  too 
as  he  proceeds  through  the  health 
care  reform,  is  that  the  process  is  as 
important  as  the  solution.  ■ 


The  wife  of  a  university 
president  can  easily  be 
drawn  into  his  shadow 
and  assume  the  sole 
identity  of,  well,  "the 
president's  wife."  Paula 
Thier  does  not,  in  her  own 
words,  "stand  in  her 
husband's  shadow." 
While  being  attentive  to 
serving  the  University,  she 
is  also  enthusiastic  about 
the  niche  she  has  carved 
out  for  herself  in  Boston 
over  the  last  two  years. 
She  believes  she  has 
struck  a  neat  balance 
between  the  two  spheres 
of  her  life. 

Even  though  she  might  be 
accused,  she  says,  of 
expressing  the  values  of 


Paula  Thier 


an  earlier  generation,  she 
expresses  gratitude  for 
opportunities  that  her 
husband's  career  has 
provided  for  her.  In  turn, 
when  she  does  something 
for  Brandeis,  she  thinks  it 
only  fair  that  she  would 
take  part  in  her  husband's 
professional  life.  But  that 
participation  is  double- 
edged.  "When  I  take  part 
in  activities  connected  to 
Brandeis,  I  always  meet 
interesting  people.  I  learn 
something  new  each  time  I 
attend  an  event.  In  that 
sense  whatever  I  do  for 
Brandeis  is  rewarding  to 
me  personally." 

When  she  first  came  to 
Brandeis,  Thier  had 
decided  to  devote  most  of 
her  effort,  for  the  first 
year,  to  the  University. 
Other  than  volunteering 
for  a  local  Jewish  day 
school,  she  made  herself 
totally  accessible.  Since 
February,  however,  she 
has  been  working  half- 
time  for  the 
Massachusetts 
Foundation  for  the 
Humanities  in  the  area  of 
membership  development, 
resuming  a  career  she  had 
pursued  in  Washington  at 
the  National  Trust  for 
Historic  Preservation 
before  her  husband 
assumed  the  presidency 
of  Brandeis.  "When  I 
reentered  the  work  world,  I 
opted  for  a  part-time 
position  because  I  want  to 
give  Brandeis  50  percent 
of  my  time,"  she  told  the 
Brandeis  Review  in  an 
interview  at  her  home. 

Among  the  Brandeis 
activities  she  participates 
in  officially  are  key  events 
that  are  held  on  campus, 
periodic  dinners  with 
student  leaders,  two  or 
three  functions  held 
monthly  at  the  President's 
residence,  a  few  major 


events  around  the  country 
such  as  the  annual  Palm 
Beach  fund-raiser  and  the 
George  Burns  celebration 
in  Los  Angeles  in  July, 
and  the  meetings  of  the 
National  Women's 
Committee,  of  which  she 
is  a  life  member  and  an 
honorary  board  member. 

Along  with  her  job, 
another  organization  with 
which  she  feels  a  strong 
personal  affinity  is  the 
Brandeis  Women's 
Studies  Program. 
"I  am  a  member  of  its 
board  and  work  on  its 
fund-raising  efforts.  I  feel 
it  is  an  exciting  program 
and  I  have  learned  so 
much  from  it  already.  I  find 
a  great  deal  of 
camaraderie  with  the  other 
members  of  the  group,  so 
I  consider  this  activity  one 
that  I  do  for  myself." 

As  you  talk  with  Paula 
Thier,  you  realize  that 
whether  she  is  doing 
things  for  Brandeis 
officially  or  for  her  own 
enjoyment,  she  derives 
deep  satisfaction  from  her 
association  with  the 
University.  "I  am  reading 
the  two  books  sent  out  to 
all  first-year  students  to  be 
discussed  when  they  enter 
this  fall:  Arthur  Miller's 
adaptation  of  An  Enemy  of 
the  People  by  Henrik 
Ibsen  and  Beyond  the 
Limits:  Confronting  Global 
Collapse,  Envisioning  a 
Sustainable  Future  by 
Meadows,  Meadows  and 
Panders.  I  plan  to  attend 
the  discussions:  activities 
like  these  make  me  feel 
like  a  student  again." 


17  Fall  1993 


•  I'm  in  computers 


What  are  you 
working  on  now? 


•  Garbage  collection. 


•   What? 


A  High-Tech  Solution 
for  Monsieur  Poubelle 


by  Jacques  Cohen' 


This  dialogue  typifies  the 
conversation  that  all  too 
often  arises  between  a 
layperson  and  a  computer 
professional.  It  has 
happened  to  me.  My 
interlocutor  is  smart  but 
nontechnical  and  I  have  to 
struggle  to  come  up  with  a 
convincing  answer  to  the 
last  question. 

This  type  of  interaction 
prompted  me  to  write  this 
unusual  piece.  My  message 
is  that  specialists  can  and 
should  sime  to  explain 
clearly  what  they  do.  On  this 
matter  the  philosopher  and 
logician  Wittgenstein  stated: 
"//  //  can  be  said  at  all.  It  can 
be  said  clearly. "  I  dare  to  go 
a  bit  farther  by  using  two 
qualifiers  instead  of  one: 
clearly  and  Interestingly. 

In  this  article  I  also  attempt 
to  reduce  the  often 
preconceived  (yet 
unjustifiable)  differences 
between  the  so-called 
"humanistic"  and  "scientific" 
approaches  to  a  subject.  I 
hope  to  show  that  technical 
presentations  can  be  made 
attractive  to  nonscientists  by 
embedding  them  in  a 
carefully  chosen  and 
amusing  context. 

In  what  follows  I  compiled 
three  vignettes  on  the  topic 
of  computer-garbage 
collection.  The  first  has  to  do 


Jacques  Cohen  is  the  Zayre/ 
Feldberg  Professor  in  the 
Michtom  School  of 
Computer  Science  and 
member  of  the  National 
Center  for  Complex  Systems 
at  Brandeis.  He  holds 
doctorates  in  engineering 
from  the  University  of  Illinois 
and  in  computer  science 
from  the  University  of 
Grenoble.  France.  He  has 
been  a  member  of  the 


with  grabbing  people's 
attention  before  introducing 
them  to  a  new  subject.  The 
second  provides  an  answer 
to  the  last  question 
("What?")  in  the  dialogue. 
Finally,  the  third  describes 
an  amusing  experience  that 
actually  occurred. 

First,  there  is  a  fascination 
with  the  term  "garbage 
collection"  that  is  akin  to  the 
attraction  most  people  have 
to  scrap  yards,  landfills  and 
debris.  It  may  be  ultimately 
related  to  the  hope  of  finding 
something  valuable  in  a  pile 
of  rubbish.  Within  computer 
science,  "garbage  collection" 
(or  its  acronym,  G.C.)  stands 
for  the  process  of  detecting 
and  reusing  computer 
memory.  The  euphemistic 
counterpart  of  G.C.  is 
"storage  reclamation."  The 
term  "garbage  collection" 
seems  to  have  been  coined 
by  John  McCarthy  in  the  late 
1950s  when  he  implemented 
the  Lisp  language. 

The  fascination  with  garbage 
collection  is  shared  by  many 
scholars.  I  have  recently 
discovered  a  French 
dissertation  with  an 
imposing  title:  The  Saga  of 
Garbage:  From  the  l[/liddle 
Ages  to  Our  Present  Time. 
In  a  recent  issue  of  The 


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collection.  The  term  mark- 
and-sweep  corresponds  to 
the  second  solution  provided 
by  Professor  Litterberg, 
namely  the  one  that  scans 
the  text  only  once  and  marks 
used  cells  as  it  sweeps  the 
entire  memory  to  detect 
useless  cells. 

We  can  distinguish  two 
types  of  collection:  one, 
which  I  like  to  call  the 
manana  type,  only  starts 
reclaiming  useless  space 
after  the  entire  memory  is 
exhausted.  In  that  case,  the 
task  of  collecting  can  be 
extremely  time-consuming 
since  it  involves  scanning 
the  entire  memory,  an 
operation  that  can  take 
minutes  in  a  fast  workstation 
with  a  large  memory.  (An 
amusing  example  of  G.C.  is 
the  case  of  a  robot  designed 
to  play  tennis,  which  misses 
a  ball  because  its  computer 
was  garbage  collecting.)  The 
other  type  of  collection  is 
called  incremental,  in  the 
sense  that  collection  takes 
place  while  new  cells  are 
being  used.  In  other  words, 
a  little  bit  of  collection  work 
is  intermingled  with  the 
actual  work  of  constructing 
new  records. 

The  notion  of  reference 
counting  can  also  be 
explained.  To  each 
reference  in  the 
bibliography,  one  assigns  a 
counter  establishing  how 
many  times  that  reference  is 
mentioned  in  the  text.  The 
counter  is  increased  when 
an  additional  reference  is 
made  and  decreased  when 
a  reference  is  no  longer 
necessary.  When  the 
counter  becomes  zero  the 
corresponding  item  is 
useless  and  its  space  can 
be  reclaimed. 


Another  way  to  perform  G.C. 
IS  by  copying.  Let's  return  to 
our  main  example.  Suppose 
that,  instead  of  marking 
references  while  the  text  is 
scanned,  one  copies  the  text 
and  each  referenced  item  in 
the  bibliography  into  a  new 
area.  Items  that  are  not 
referenced  will  not  be 
copied,  thus  accomplishing 
the  collection  at  the  extra 
cost  of  copying  and  the 
additional  memory  space 
needed  to  store  the  copy. 
Once  the  entire  copying  has 
been  accomplished,  the 
area  corresponding  to  the 
"old"  text  and  biography  can 
be  reused  for  the  next  round 
of  copying. 

More  recently,  the  notion  of 
generatona/ collection  has 
been  introduced,  a  feature 
that  doesn't  take  time  in  re- 
marking "old"  records,  which 
have  a  tendency  to  remain 
useful.  The  net  effect  is  to 
save  some  of  the  collection 
time. 

The  term  on-the-fly 
collection  is  applicable  to  the 
case  of  parallel  computers, 
where  at  least  one  of  them  is 
responsible  only  for  garbage 
collection.  In  the  case  of 
distributed  G.C.  the  text  and 
bibliography  are  scattered  in 
the  various  memories  of 
interlinked  computers. 
Figuring  out  how  to  detect 
and  reuse  cells  under  those 
circumstances  can  indeed 
become  a  tricky  problem. 

From  time  to  time,  experts 
propose  new  clever 
approaches  to  perform 
garbage  collections.  A  great 
deal  of  the  effort  in  these 
proposals  is  spent  in 
providing  detailed  proofs 
that  the  approaches  are 
safe,  i.e.,  they  do  succeed  in 
collecting  all  {or  perhaps 
almost  all)  useless  records, 
and,  God  forbid,  will  not 
mistake  a  useful  record  as 
useless. 


A  term  described  earlier  is 
mart<-and-sweep.  which 
involves  separating  garbage 
from  useful  records.  The 
New  Vorker  cartoon  shows 
how  important  it  is  to 
distinguish  garbage  from 
non  garbage.  As  in  real  life, 
mistaking  precious 
information  as  useless  can 
have  catastrophic 
consequences. 

Let  me  conclude  by  sharing 
with  you  a  short  story  about 
my  own  amusing  experience 
with  garbage  collection.  In 
the  late  1970s,  while  I  was 
writing  a  paper  on  this  topic 
that  appeared  in  the  ACf^ 
Computing  Surveys,  I 
methodically  collected  about 
100  references  mentioned  in 
the  paper  and  saved  them  in 
two  large  drawers  in  a  file 
cabinet. 


Some  time  later,  my  office 
had  to  be  moved  to  another 
location  on  campus.  I  was 
told  to  pack  all  my  books 
and  files  in  cardboard  boxes 
for  transportation  by  a 
moving  company.  I 
remember  quite  well  that  I 
packed  on  a  Saturday  and 
labeled  two  boxes  with 
"GARBAGE  COLLECTION" 
using  big  letters.  It  was  only 
on  Sunday  that  it  dawned  on 
me  that  the  labeling  could  be 
misinterpreted  by  the 
movers!  Fortunately,  I 
rushed  back  to  my  office  on 
Sunday  in  time  to  avert  a 
potential  disaster. 

I  hope  to  have  shown 
through  an  example  that  it  is 
possible  to  provide 
interesting,  and  perhaps 
even  amusing,  explanation 
for  apparently  "dry"  technical 
subjects.  A  late  colleague, 
Alan  Perils,  who  was  chair  of 
the  computer  science 
department  at  Yale 
University,  said:  "I  hope  the 
field  of  computer  science 
never  loses  its  sense  of  fun." 
Let's  make  that  "sense  of 
fun"  contagious  by  sharing  it 
with  our  nonspecialist 
friends.  ■ 

*  ©1993  Jacques  Cohen 


21  Fall  1993 


Isolating  a  Contemporary 
Issue  in  the  Bible     " 


by  Michael  Carasik  * 


Sexual  harassment  in  the  ancient 
sraelite  workplace?  There  is  a  book 
in  the  Bible  that  revolves  around  the 
fact  that,  in  biblical  society, 
iimttached  women  were 
economically,  socially  and  even 
physically  in  danger.  The  Book  of 
Ruth  describes  the  triumphant  story 
of  how  Ruth,  a  Moabite  woman — 
and  hence  alien  in  every  way  to  the 
Israelites — saved  herself  and  her 
mother-in-law,  Naomi,  and 
eventually,  despite  a  series  of 
obstacles,  married  the  noble  Boaz 
and  became  the  great-grandmother 
of  the  holy  and  heroic  King  David, 
(see  sidebar  for  a  synopsis  of  the 
story) 

In  the  particular  part  of  the  book 
that  I  refer  to,  Naomi  has  returned 
to  Bethlehem  after  a  10-year 
absence,  bringing  Ruth,  her  foreign 
daughter-in-law,  with  her.  Now  the 
two  widows  face  the  dilemma  of 
how  to  support  themselves.  The 
New  Jewish  Publication  Society 
(NJPS)  translation  of  Ruth  2:2-7 
presents  the  situation  this  way: 

^Ruth  the  Moabite  said  to  Naomi, 
"I  would  hke  to  go  to  the  fields  and 
glean  among  the  ears  of  grain, 


behind  someone  who  may  show  me 
kindness."  "Yes.  daughter,  go."  she 
rephed:  ^and  off  she  went.  She  came 
and  gleaned  in  a  field,  behind  the 
reapers:  and.  as  luck  would  have  it. 
it  was  the  piece  of  land  belonging  to 
Boaz,  who  was  of  Elimelech  's 
family. 

^Presently  Boaz  arrived  from 
Bethlehem.  He  greeted  the  reapers, 
"The  Lord  be  with  you!"  And  they 
responded,  "The  Lord  bless  you!" 
^Boaz  said  to  the  servant  who  was  in 
charge  of  the  reapers,  "Whose  girl  is 
thatr'  "The  servant  in  charge  of  the 
reapers  replied,  "She  is  a  Moabite 
girl  who  came  back  with  Naomi 
from  the  country  of  Mo  ah.  ^She  said. 
'Please  let  me  glean  and  gather 
among  the  sheaves  behmd  the 
reapers. '  She  has  been  on  her  feet 
ever  since  she  came  this  morning. 
She  has  rested  but  little  in  the  hut. " 

My  investigation  started  with  the 
final  phrase  of  verse  seven:  the  four 
Hebrew  words  zeh  shivtah  habayit 
me'at.  The  difficulty  they  present 
stems  from  the  simple  fact  that  they 
are  not  grammatical  Hebrew.  A 
literal  English  rendering  would  go 
more  or  less  as  follows:  "This — her 
sitting  the  house  a  little." 


This  difficult  phrase  has  always 
been  called,  in  the  parlance  of 
biblical  scholarship,  the  crux  of  the 
verse.  Yet  crux  ought  to  imply  not 
only  that  it  is  a  problem,  but  that  its 
correct  understanding  is  crucial  for 
the  inteipretation  of  the  verse. 
Surprisingly,  however,  most 
commentators  do  not  consider  the 
phrase  a  significant  one.  All  agree 
that  the  four  Hebrew  words, 
whatever  they  mean,  must  paint  a 
picture  of  Ruth's  diligence.  Most 
translations  of  the  phrase  fall  mto 
the  following  four  basic  categories, 
nicely  summarized  20  years  ago  by  a 
French  commentator: 

•  "Ruth  has  taken  a  little  rest." 

•  "Ruth  has  not  taken  any  rest." 

•  "Ruth  has  taken  only  a  little  rest." 

•  "Ruth  has  scarcely  taken  any 
rest." 

As  you  can  see,  though  the 
meanings  vary  widely,  the 
significance  of  the  phrase  is  the 
same  in  all  four  cases — Ruth  is  a 


diligent  worker.  Nonetheless,  a 
succession  of  scholars  has  spent 
most  of  this  century  trying  to  figure 
out  a  series  of  scribal  errors  that 
might  have  transformed  the  original 
Hebrew  phrase  into  our  own  current 
text.  This  scholarly  method  is  called 
"emendation."  That  means  a 
scholar  "emends"  the  current 
Hebrew  text  of  the  Bible  by 
replacing  the  "mistaken"  words 
with  the  words  that  the  scholar 
claims  were  originally  written  in 
their  place. 

The  basic  problem  with  this 
approach  is  that  most  of  the 
suggested  emendations  have  really 
amounted  to  radical  textual  surgery. 
All  of  these  suggestions  are  based  on 
the  assumption  of  an  implausibly 
long  chain  of  scribal  errors.  But  the 
attempt  to  translate  the  phrase  as  it 
stands  is  also  foredoomed  to  failure. 
It  is  not  intelligible,  simply  not 
tolerable  Hebrew.  What  is  more,  the 
generally  accepted  conclusion  is 
that,  whatever  its  specific  meaning, 
the  phrase  as  it  stands  emphasizes 
that  Ruth  has  been  in  the  field  all 
moming.  But  the  foreman  (the 
servant  in  charge  of  the  reapers  in 
2:5)  has  just  finished  saying  exactly 


Sexual  harassment 

in  the  ancient  Israehte 

workplace?  There 

is  a  book  in  the  Bible  that 

revolves  around 

the  fact  that,  in  bibHcal 

society,  unattached 

women  were  economically, 

socially  and  even 

physically  in  danger. 


Michael  Carasik  is  a  doctoral 
candidate  in  the  Department 
of  Near  Eastern  and  Judaic 
Studies  at  Brandeis.  He  Is 
currently  writing  a 
dissertation  on  biblical 
attitudes  on  the 
psychological  phenomena  of 
memory  and  creative 
thought.  In  addition,  he 
teaches  biblical  and  rabbinic 
Hebrew  at  Hebrew  College 
in  Brookline.  Massachusetts. 


He  gave  a  paper  at  the 
December  1992  meeting  of 
the  Association  for  Jewish 
Studies  here  in  Boston  on 
this  crux  in  the  Book  of  Ruth. 

A  former  computer 
programmer.  Carasik 
received  an  M.A.  in  Jewish 
Studies  from  Spertus 
College  of  Judaica,  and  has 
also  worked  as  a  translator 
from  Hebrew.  In  this  latter 
capacity,  he  was 
instrumental  in  arranging  the 


23  Fall  1993 


publication  of  an  English 
translation  of  S.  D.  Goitein's 
long-neglected  essay. 
"Women  as  Creators  of 
Biblical  Literary  Genres. "  He 
was  the  founding  publisher 
and  is  editor  of  the  NEJS 
department's  annual  Purim 
publication,  f/ve  Journal  of 
Jocular  Studies.  He  is  a 
rabid  White  Sox  fan. 


that:  "She  has  been  on  her  feet  ever 
since  she  came  this  morning."  Why 
would  the  author  wish  to  give  us  this 
information  twice?  More 
importantly,  why  would  the  foreman 
waste  his  employer's  time  that  way? 
Boaz  was  a  generous  man,  but  not 
one  tolerant  of  incompetence. 

About  10  years  ago,  a  strikingly 
different  approach  to  the  question 
appeared  in  an  article  by  Avi  Hurvitz, 
professor  of  Bible  at  the  Hebrew 
University  in  Jerusalem.  Hurvitz's 
contribution  was  to  recognize  that 
the  problem  was  insoluble  by  the 
emendation  method  and  to  create  a 
new  frame  of  reference  for  resolving 
the  difficulty,  one  that  I  believe  is 
correct.  He  draws  his  inspiration 
from  1  Samuel  9:12-13,  the  story  of 
Saul  looking  for  Samuel  to  help  him 
find  his  lost  asses.  Saul  and  his 
servant  encounter  a  group  of  young 
women  and  ask  them,  quite  tersely, 
"Is  the  seer  around?"  They  reply, 
"Yes" — quite  enough  if  all  they 
wanted  to  do  was  answer  his 
question.  But  they  continue: 

^^"Yes, "  they  replied.  "He  is  up  there 
ahead  of  you.  Hurry,  for  he  has  just 
come  to  the  town  because  the  people 
have  a  sacrifice  at  the  shrine  today. 
"As  soon  as  you  enter  the  town,  you 
will  find  him  before  he  goes  up  to  the 


Chapter  1 : 


Chapter  2: 


Synopsis  of 
the  Book  of  Ruth 


Famine  drives  Elimelech, 
his  wife,  Naomi,  and  their 
two  sons  out  of  Bethlehem 
and  across  the  Jordan  to 
IVIoab,  where  the  young 
men  marry  local  women. 
Eventually  all  three  men 
die.  Hearing  that  God  has 
at  last  eased  the  famine, 
Naomi  sets  out  to  return  to 
Bethlehem.  Her  two 
daughters-in-law,  Ruth 
and  Orpah,  accompany 
her.  She  beseeches  them 
to  turn  back  and  stay  with 
their  own  people,  insisting 
that  she  has  no  more  sons 
to  give  them  as  husbands 
to  preserve  the 
continuation  of  her  own 
family,  as  was  the  Israelite 
custom.  Orpah  does  turn 
back,  but  Ruth  insists  on 
accompanying  her 


mother-in-law  with  the 
famous  words,  "Wherever 
you  go,  I  will  go;  wherever 
you  lodge,  I  will  lodge; 
your  people  shall  be  my 
people,  and  your  God  my 
God."  When  they  return  to 
Bethlehem,  at  the 
beginning  of  the  barley 
harvest,  the  whole  city  is 
abuzz:  "Can  It  be? 
Naomi!" 


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Since  the  two  women  have 
no  resources,  Ruth 
decides  to  glean  behind 
the  harvesters  in  a  nearby 
field.  The  first  field  she 
chances  upon  belongs  to  a 
man  named  Boaz.  Ruth 
doesn't  know  it,  but  he  is 
one  of  Naomi's  in-laws.  He 
sees  to  it  that  the  regular 
workers  don't  harass  her 
and,  at  the  end  of  the  day, 
gives  her  a  huge  load  of 
barley  to  take  home  to  her 
mother-in-law.  He  tells 
Ruth  to  glean  in  his  field 
until  all  the  barley  is 
harvested.  At  home,  Naomi 
explains  to  Ruth  that  Boaz 
is  their  relative.  As  such, 
he  has  responsibility  not 
only  for  their  support,  but 
also  (though  Naomi 
doesn't  let  on)  to  see  that 
Elimelech's  name  and 
family  do  not  die  out. 


shrine  to  cat:  the  people  will  not  eat 
until  he  comes;  for  he  must  first 
bless  the  sacrifice  and  only  then 
will  the  guests  eat.  Go  up  at  once, 
for  you  will  find  him  right  away. " 

In  the  NJPS  translation  given  here, 
you  can't  fully  hear  the  nan-on 
feeling  of  the  sentences  in  the 
Hebrew;  at  the  end  (in  the  original) 
even  the  syntax  breaks  down. 
According  to  Hurvitz,  the  style  of 
the  Hebrew  here  "is  an  attempt  to 
reproduce  the  effect  of  the  girls  all 
talking  at  once  in  their  excitement 
at  meeting  Saul," — that  is,  a 
deliberate,  and  I  would  say  quite 
successful,  literary  effect.  (A  similar 
suggestion  has  been  made  about 
Isaiah  28:10,  that  the  strange  sounds 
there  are  deliberately  intended  to 
represent  the  babbling  of 
drunkards.)  Similarly,  Hurvitz 
suggests,  the  confused  wording  of 
our  phrase  is  "an  artistic  device 
deliberately  employed  for  dramatic 
purposes  by  the  original  author  of 
Ruth"  to  portray  confusion  and 
embarrassment. 

Hurvitz  thinks  that  the  foreman's 
embarrassment  was  due  to  his 
having  permitted  Ruth  to  sit  for  a 
bit  in  the  bayit  (field  house) 
reserved  specifically  for  Boaz's 
workers,  a  permission  he  was  not 
authorized  to  grant.  But  we  have  no 
knowledge  of  such  a  "house"  for 


farm  workers  in  ancient  Israel,  nor, 
if  they  did  exist,  is  there  any  clear 
reason  in  the  story  for  Ruth  to 
request,  or  the  foreman  to  offer,  this 
privilege.  Is  there  anything  else  that 
might  have  caused  the  foreman  to 
confuse  his  speech? 

The  most  mtuitive  solution  to  fit 
the  possibility  of  embarrassment  is 
that  the  "house"  Ruth  visited  was 
an  outhouse.  This  could  certainly 
explam  some  hesitation  or 
embanassment  in  the  foreman's 
speech.  Alternatively,  the  phrase 
might  have  been  clear  to  the 
original  readers,  but  so  colloquial 
that  it  would  create  some  difficulty 
for  modern  readers,  who  don't  have 
much  information  about  the 
bathroom  slang  of  ancient  Israel.  It 
would  also  make  sense  of  the 
"house"  in  the  field,  though  this 
usage  is  never  actually  found 
elsewhere  in  the  Bible.  Nor,  as  far  as 
I  am  aware,  do  we  know  of  the 
actual  usage  of  such  a  building  in 
ancient  Israel — at  least  not  for  the 
farm  workers. 

To  deal  with  the  story  in  concrete, 
physical  terms,  the  fact  of  Ruth's 
having  to  relieve  herself  at  some 
tune  during  the  morning  is  rather 
likely.  But  why  it  should  be 
mentioned  in  our  story  is  a  mystery. 


Art  can  be  an  improvement  upon 
truth,  but  even  in  real  life  it  is  hard 
to  see  why  Boaz  would  need  such  a 
fact  explained  to  him,  or  why  we 
would  need  it  explained  to  us.  Just 
like  the  reiteration  that  Ruth  is  a 
hard  worker,  the  outhouse  solution 
does  not  explain  why  the  problem 
phrase  was  necessary  in  the  first 
place — or  why  Boaz  reacted,  as  we 
shall  see,  so  strongly  to  it. 

Edward  Campbell  (who  despaired  of 
understanding  the  verse  and 
actually  left  a  blank  space  instead  of 
translating  v.  7  in  his  Anchor  Bible 
commentary)  reminds  us  that  the 
confusion  here  already  existed  when 
the  earliest  of  the  ancient  versions 
were  made,  and  he  concludes  that  it 
was  the  result  of  a  sequence  of 
scribal  errors  that  is  probably 
unrecoverable.  If  this  is  so,  it  would 
mean  that  any  linguistic  solution  to 
the  problem  must  ultimately  fail  to 
convince  as  completely  as  we  would 
like.  Instead,  let  us  leave  the 
linguistic  aspect  of  the  problem 
alone,  and  try  to  determine  what 
meaning  the  author  was  trying  to 
convey  here. 

Rather  than  continue  fruitless 
guessing,  I  will  proceed  by  following 
the  methodology  recommended  by 
Campbell  for  filling  in  his  blank 
space:  "The  bracketed  blank  space 
may  help  the  reader  to  see  where 


Chapter  3: 


Chapter  4: 


Naomi  feels  obligated  to 
find  Ruth  some  sort  of 
settled  home  life.  She  has 
a  plan.  She  sends  her  to 
the  place  where  Boaz  is 
sleeping  alone  after  a 
day's  work  of  threshing 
grain.  Ruth  sneaks  in  and 
lies  down  next  to  Boaz.  In 
the  middle  of  the  night,  he 
awakes  and  finds  her 
there.  She  asks  him  to 
"spread  the  shelter  of  his 
cloak"  over  her  and  serve 
as  their  official  legal 
kinsman.  Boaz  reveals 
that  there  is  another 
relative  of  closer  kin  who 
has  the  prior  right  and 
responsibility  to  redeem 


the  land  and  preserve 
Elimelech's  family  by 
fathering  children  in  his 
name.  He  sends  Ruth 
home  before  dawn  with 
another  load  of  grain  for 
Naomi,  so  that  no  one 
should  see  that  she  has 
been  with  him.  Naomi 
advises  Ruth  to  sit  tight: 
Boaz  is  sure  to  insist  on 
the  matter's  being 
resolved  this  very  day. 


Meanwhile,  at  the  gate  of 
the  city  where  public 
business  is  conducted, 
Boaz  spots  the  closer 
relative.  "Hey,  So-and-So, " 
he  calls.  "Come  over 
here. "  Assembling  the 
elders  of  the  city  as 
witnesses,  he  tells  the 
unnamed  man,  "You  have 
the  right  of  first  refusal  to 
redeem  Naomi's  land, 
which  once  belonged  to 
our  kinsman  Elimelech. " 
The  man  agrees.  But  Boaz 
goes  on,  "When  you 
acquire  the  land  you  also 
acquire  Ruth,  the  Moabite. 
You  must  have  children 
with  her  so  that 
Elimelech's  own  family 
can  continue  to  live  on  his 
land. "  The  man  balks,  and 
Boaz  announces,  "Then  I 


will.  All  of  you  are 
witnesses."  He  marries 
Ruth  and  they  have  a  baby 
boy.  All  the  women  of  the 
town  rejoice  with  the 
words,  "Naomi  has  a  son!" 
This  son  of  Ruth  and  Boaz 
is  to  become  the 
grandfather  of  King  David. 


25  Fall  1993 


things  stand  before  these  words  and 
where  they  stand  after  them. 
Somehow  the  intervening  words 
provided  the  transition."  So  let  us 
look  at  Boaz's  immediate  reaction 
to  what  he  has  been  told  (NJPS,  vv. 
8-9): 

'^Boaz  said  to  Ruth,  "Listen  to  me, 
daughter.  Don't  go  to  glean  in 
another  field.  Don't  go  elsewhere, 
but  stay  here  close  to  my  girls. 
"Keep  your  eyes  on  the  field  they 
are  reaping,  and  follow  them.  I  have 
ordered  the  men  not  to  molest  you. 
And  when  you  are  thirsty,  go  to  the 
jars  and  drink  some  of  [the  water] 
that  the  men  have  drawn. " 

That  is,  he  tells  her  the  following 
five  things: 

•  don't  glean  in  another  field; 

•  don't  leave  my  field,  but  glean 
with  my  female  workers  (until  now 
we  have  understood  her  to  be 
working  behind  a  group  of  male  or 
at  least  grammatically  male 
harvesters); 

•  don't  leave  the  women's  field; 

•  I've  seen  to  it  that  the  men  will 
not  molest  you; 

•  feel  free  to  drink  my  worker's 
water  when  you  are  thirsty. 

To  explain  the  setting  for  Boaz's 
remark  as  I  see  it,  we  will  look 
briefly  at  v.  3  of  our  chapter.  But  to 
explain  my  approach,  we  need  to 
turn  for  a  moment  to  the  story  of 
Jacob,  Esau  and  the  birthright 
(Genesis  25:34).  To  make  clear  the 
nuance  of  the  Hebrew,  I  would 
translate  it  this  way: 

Jacob  gave  Esau  bread  and  lentil 
stew;  and  Esau  ate  and  drank  and 
got  up  and  went  out  and  spurned 
the  birthright. 

The  series  of  "converted 
imperfects"  (as  this  particular  form 
of  the  Hebrew  verb  is  called) — a 
strmg  of  five  straight  verbs, 
italicized  above — hurries  the  action 
along  with  no  extraneous  detail,  so 
the  reader  can  see  Esau  despise  his 
birthright  in  an  almost  comic  fast- 
forward  mode.  Now  look  at  Ruth 
2:3  (again,  in  my  translation): 

She  went  and  she  came  and  she 
gleaned  in  the  field  behind  the 
reapers. 


There  is  a  similar  string  of  three 
converted  imperfects. 

Now  what  does  this  mean? — "she 
went  and  she  came."  Those  two 
quick  verbs  are  rushing  through  a 
change  in  the  reader's  point  of  view. 
It's  best  to  look  at  it  cinematically. 
Between  "she  went"  and  "she 
came"  the  scene  switches;  we 
watch  Ruth  leave  Naomi's  house 
("she  went"),  and  find  ourselves  in 
Boaz's  barley  field  watching  her 
approach  us  ("she  came").  Now 
come  back  to  v.  7,  our  problem 
verse,  and  prepare  to  think 
cinematically  again. 

Verse  7  does  in  fact,  as  so  many  of 
the  commentators  have  speculated, 
hint  at  Ruth's  momentary  departure 
from  working  in  the  field. 
Remember  the  first  thing  that  Boaz 
says  to  her:  "Listen  to  me,  daughter. 
Don't  go  to  glean  in  another  field. 
Don't  go  elsewhere  ..."  I  conclude 
that  these  words  are  trying  to  show 
us  the  following  picture: 

Ruth  was  at  some  distance  from 
Boaz,  with  her  back  turned  to  him, 
and  on  her  way  out  of  the  field, 
when  he  called  out  after  her, 
"Listen  to  me!"  (In  Hebrew  the 
words  are  actually  a  question — 
"Don't  you  hear  me?") 

Why  was  Ruth  leaving?  When  we 
recall  what  Boaz  says  next  ("Stay 
close  to  my  girls.  Keep  your  eyes  on 
the  field  they  are  reaping,  and  follow 
them.  I  have  ordered  the  men  not  to 
molest  you."),  this  conclusion  is 
evident.  She  is  leaving  because  she 
has  been  molested  by  one  or  more  of 
the  male  harvesters.  Whether  the 
confusion  and  embarrassment  of  v. 
7  is  that  of  the  text  and  its 
transmitters  or  deliberately  placed 
in  the  mouth  of  the  foreman  by  the 
author,  it  conceals  an  incident  of 
what  today  we  would  call  sexual 
harassment  experienced  by  Ruth. 

As  Boaz's  words  further  show,  the 
incident  may  have  occtirred  when 
she  sought  to  slake  her  thirst  with  a 
drink  of  water:  "And  when  you  are 
thirsty,  go  to  the  jars  and  drink 
some  of  [the  water]  that  the  men 
have  drawn."  Not  an  implausible 
scenario  at  all — remember  Exodus 
2:17,  where  the  shepherds  drive 
Jethro's  daughters  away  from  the 
well  until  Moses  shows  up  and 
rescues  them. 


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Ruth  has  decided  not  to  put  up  with 
the  harassment  and  has  just 
detemiined  to  seek  "favor  in  the 
eyes"  of  the  owner  of  some  other 
field,  when  Boaz  providentially 
appears,  sizes  up  the  sittiation  and 
calls  out  to  her.  She  turns  at  his 
voice  and  comes  back  to  him  as  he 
reassures  her  that  he  will  see  to  it 
she  is  treated  decently.  She  can 
safely  glean  among  his  female 
workers,  who  perhaps  only  now 
have  come  out  to  the  fields  with 
Boaz  to  help  with  the  harvest  after 
completing  the  early  morning 
household  chores.  By  mealtime  (v. 
14,  presumably  the  midday  meal), 
she  can  sit  safely  down  to  eat  next 
to  the  "reapers" — males  included — 
being  now  under  Boaz's  protection. 
She  is  treated  with  special  favor  in 
the  afternoon,  perhaps  to  make  up 
for  her  treatment  before  Boaz's 
arrival,  as  a  prelude  to  Naomi's 
revelation  in  v.  20  that  he  is  one  of 
their  redeeming  kinsmen — someone 
with  the  obligation  to  get 
Elimelech's  land  back  for  Naomi 
and,  what  is  more,  to  carry  on 
Elimelech's  line  of  descent  by 
making  Ruth  his  wife. 

It  is  still  not  perfectly  possible  to 
reconstruct  the  original  phrase  in 
our  verse  that  would  have 
delineated  this  situation — the 
phrase  that  the  foreman  garbled  into 
zeh  sbivtah  habayit meat — but  I 
will  make  a  few  basic  suggestions. 
The  masculine  demonstrative 
pronoun  zeh,  at  least,  which  has  no 
referent  in  v.  7  as  it  stands,  becomes 
simple.  The  foreman  cotdd  be 
pointing  at  the  man  responsible, 
about  to  say  "This  guy  was  hassling 
her  a  little  bit."  Then  he  became  too 
embarrassed  to  describe  what  had 
actually  happened,  and  tried  to  play 
down  Ruth's  leaving:  "Uh,  she's  just 
going  home  for  a  little  bit."  In  any 
case,  the  ancient  Israelite  reader 
would  have  been  able  to  understand 
from  this  remark  that  Ruth  was 
leaving,  and  Boaz's  answer  (or,  in  an 
oral  context,  perhaps  even  the 
storyteller's  delivery)  would  have 
made  clear  the  reason  why. 

One  can  push  this  interpretation  a 
little  farther.  In  v.  16,  after  the  meal 
break,  Boaz  tells  the  reapers  even  to 
go  so  far  as  to  pull  stalks  out  from 
the  sheaves  and  let  Ruth  pick  them 
up,  ve-lo  tig  am  bah — usually 
translated  something  like  "don't 
scold  her."  But  why  should  they 
scold  her  for  picking  up  something 
they  dehberately  dropped  for  her, 
and  what's  more,  at  the  boss's 


order?  I  suggest  that  the  author  of 
the  Book  of  Ruth  is  using  the  word 
ga'ar  (which  ordinarily  means 
"rebuke"  or  "speak  hostilely  to")  to 
indicate  verbal  sexual  harassment. 
The  incident  that  we  were 
concerned  with  in  v.  7,  which  Boaz 
promises  will  not  happen  again, 
perhaps  involved  actual  physical 
contact — hence  his  instruction  to 
the  workers  "not  to  touch  you." 
Here  in  v.  16,  he  is  warning  them 
against  even  a  remark  that  would 
make  Ruth  uncomfortable.  Again, 
the  fact  that  in  both  chapters  Boaz 
goes  out  of  his  way  to  give  Ruth  an 
unusually  large  amount  of  barley 
might  be  regarded  as  compensation 
for  the  incident  of  harassment. 

The  technical  knowledge  required 
for  biblical  scholarship  sometimes 
gives  outsiders  the  impression  that 
the  assertions  of  scholarship  can  be 
"proven."  They  cannot.  But  I  have 
seven  solid  reasons  for  asserting  that 
my  reconstruction  of  events  is  the 
correct  solution  to  the  problem: 

•  It  explains  why  Boaz  noticed  her. 

•  It  makes  Boaz's  remarks  in  w.  8-9 
a  response  that  is  immediately 
appropriate  to  its  context. 

•  It  explains  the  current  form  of  the 
text  and  the  inability  of  the  ancient 
versions  to  translate  it. 

•  It  is  a  useful  hypothesis:  I've  given 
two  examples  (and  there  are  more) 
where  this  interpretation  would  add 
significance  to  other  parts  of  the 
book. 

•  It  brings  our  passage  up  to  the 
marvelous  stylistic  level  of  the  rest 
of  the  Book  of  Ruth. 

•  It  adds  another  element  to  one  of 
the  major  themes  of  the  Book  of 
Ruth:  Ruth's  untenable  and  even 
dangerous  social  status  as  long  as 
she  lacks  a  connection  to  a  male 
provider. 

•  It  adds  to  the  "Perils  of  Pauline" 
aspect  of  Ruth,  providing  still 
another  occasion  when  Ruth  and 
Boaz  came  that  close  to  not 
meeting.  Instead,  of  course,  Boaz's 
appearance  at  just  the  right  moment 
was  another  example  of 
"providential"  interference  invisibly 
guiding  the  story  along  to  its 
conclusion  with  the  birth  of  Ruth's 
son  Obed,  the  grandfather  of  King 
David. 


I  want  to  emphasize  that 
interpreters  have  been  trying  to 
solve  this  crux  at  least  since  the 
time  of  Ibn  Ezra,  the  12th-century 
commentator,  and  that  other 
interpreters  have  picked  upon 
Boaz's  instructions  in  v.  9  to  find  a 
tale  of  sexual  harassment  here 
(though  of  course  not  expressed  in 
20th-century  terms),  also  since  at 
least  the  12th  centui-y.  But  no  one 
has  put  these  two  problems 
together.  Two  things  need  to 
happen:  one,  that  those  who  are 
particularly  interested  in  women's 
issues,  in  addition  to  asking  new 
questions,  ought  not  to  ignore  the 
traditional  paths  of  biblical 
scholarship;  and  two,  that  those 
who  pursue  traditional  paths  must 
integrate  so-called  "women's 
issues"  into  the  everyday  work  of 


We  have  a  case 
of  the  ideal  confluence 
of  the  traditional  and 
the  innovative  in 
scholarship — a  confluence 
in  which  both  approaches 
require  each  other. 
Cooperating,  they 
give  us  new  insight  into 
the  text  of  the  Bible. 


biblical  studies.  I  believe  Ruth  2:7  is 
a  case  where  the  women's  issue 
provides  the  correct  answer  to  the 
traditional  ciuestion. 

I  am  well  aware  of  Campbell's 
warning  in  his  Anchor  Bible 
commentary  that  "a  hundred 
conjectures  about  a  badly  disrupted 
text  are  all  more  likely  to  be  wrong 
than  any  one  of  them  absolutely 
right!"  Still,  if  the  conclusion 
offered  here  is  even  partially  right, 
then  our  understanding  of  the  Book 
of  Ruth  is  much  richer.  So  too  is  our 
feel  for  the  reality  of  the  conditions 
under  which  ancient  Israelites, 
including  ancient  Israelite  women, 
worked.  In  addition,  we  have  a  case 
of  the  ideal  confluence  of  the 
traditional  and  the  innovative  in 
scholarship — a  confluence  in  which 
both  approaches  reciuire  each  other. 
Cooperating,  they  give  us  new 
insight  into  the  text  of  the  Bible.  ■ 

•©1993  Michael  Carasik 


27  Fall  1993 


In  Defense  of  History 


by  Bernard  Lewis 


It  IS  generally  accepted 
that  the  sciences 
and  the  social  sciences,  in 
addition  to  their  intrinsic 
intellectual  merits, 
serve  useful  and  practical 
purposes.  The  one 
may  provide  us  with  new 
tools  and  weapons,- 
the  other  may,  with  luck, 
help  us  to  live  with 
their  consequences.  It  was 
believed  in  the  past — 
indeed,  there  are  still 
some  places  where  it  is 
believed  today — that 
for  the  humanities  their 
intrinsic  intellectual 
merit  is  sufficient,  and 
that  their  study  is  its 
own  more  than  adequate 
reward.  Through 


Bernard  Lewis,  the 
Cleveland  E.  Dodge 
Professor  of  Near  Eastern 
Studies  Emeritus  at 
Princeton  University, 
was  awarded  an  honorary 
Doctor  of  Humane 
Letters  degree  from 
Brandeis  in  May  1993. 
A  distinguished  scholar 
and  Middle  East  expert, 
Lewis  is  the  author  of 
The  Arabs  in  History,  The 
Emergence  of  Modem 
Turkey,  The  Middle  East 
and  the  West,  The  Jews  of 
Islam,  Semites  and  Anti- 
Semites,  The  MusHm 
Discovery  of  Europe  and 
The  Political  Language  of 
Islam,  among  other 
works.  His  most  recent 
book  is  a  wide-ranging 
volume  of  essays  entitled 
Islam  and  the  West. 


philosophy  and  history 
we  may  hope  to  achieve 
some  understanding 
of  man's  place  in  the 
universe  and  of  his 
experience  in  the  past; 
through  language  and 
literature  we  may  be  able 
to  receive,  and  be  enriched 
by,  the  understanding 
which  the  great  minds  of 
the  past  have  achieved, 
and  the  experiences  which 
they  have  recorded 
and  transmitted  for  our 
guidance.  In  this  way,  the 
study  of  the  humanities 
has,  at  all  times,  made 
an  essential  contribution 
to  the  refinement  of  the 
mind,  the  ennoblement 
of  the  soul  and,  by  these 
means,  the  education 
of  the  young  to  take 
their  place,  fittingly,  in  a 
civilized  society. 

Yet  today  the  humanities 
have  been  sadly  neglected 
in  many  of  our  schools 
and  universities,  and  there 
are  some  indeed  who  go 
beyond  passive  neglect  to 
active  rejection.  History 


28  Brandeis  Review 


Born  in  London,  Lewis 
received  a  B.A.  from  the 
University  of  London  and 
a  Ph.D.  from  the  same 
university.  From  1 949  to 
1974  he  served  as 
professor  of  history  of  the 
Near  and  Middle 
East  in  the  University  of 
London 's  School  of 
Oriental  and  African 
Studies.  He  joined 
the  Near  Eastern  studies 
faculty  at  Princeton  in 
1974  and  was  named  a 
long-term  member  of  the 
Institute  for  Advanced 
Study  in  the  same  year. 
During  the  1992-93 
academic  year  he  was 
honorary  incumbent 


of  Princeton's  Kenial 
Ataturk  Professorship  in 
Ottoman  and  Turkish 
Studies. 

Lewis  is  a  fellow  of  the 
British  Academy  and  a 
member  of  the  American 
Academy  of  Arts 
and  Sciences,  and  was 
awarded  The  Harvey 
Prize  in  1978.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Board  of 
Overseers  of  the  Tauber 
Institute  for  the  Study  of 
European  fewry  at 
Brandeis.  He  has  taught 
at  the  Ecole  des  Hautes 
Etudes  en  Sciences 
Sociales,  UCLA, 
Columbia,  Cornell  and 
Chicago,  has  lectured  in 
many  countries  and  holds 
a  number  of  honorary 
degrees  from  universities 
around  the  world. 


Orientalism: 
A  Heated  Debate 


in  particular  has  come 
under  attack  both  from 
the  ignorant  or 
simpleminded  who 
despise  anything  that  is 
not  of  immediate  and 
visible  utility,  and  from 
the  more  sophisticated 
enemies  who  argue  that 
history  is  not  "relevant" — 
a  word  that  has  acquired 
new  and  menacing 
implications  in  our  time. 

The  neglect  of  historical 
study  and  the  erosion  of 
historical  knowledge  have 
already  reached  alarming 
levels.  Recent  surveys 
have  shown  that  a  large 
proportion  of  high-school 
seniors  know  little  about 
their  own  time  and 
their  own  country,  and 
virtually  nothing  about 
other  times  and  places. 
Yet  knowledge  of 
our  cultural  heritage, 
and  more  generally, 
knowledge  of  the  past, 
is  essential  to  the 
health  and  well-being  of 
human  societies. 

True,  history  is  in  many 
ways  a  very  unsatisfactory 
subject — unreliable, 
changeable,  inconsistent, 


fragmentary,  often 
contradictory.  Yet  it  is 
precisely  for  these  reasons 
that  it  is  valuable,  in  that 
it  accurately  reflects 
the  human  predicament, 
and  is  therefore  an 
essential  ingredient  of 
our  education,  of  our 
perception  of  ourselves,  of 
our  understanding  not 
only  of  our  past  but  of  our 
present,  and  of  what  there 
may  be  of  our  future.  The 
past  does  not  change,  but 
our  perception  of  the  past 
is  constantly  changmg, 
and  every  generation 
reexamines  the  past  in  the 
light  of  its  own  concerns 
and  to  the  extent  of  its 
own  capabilities. 

The  rewriting  of  the  past 
derives  from  three 
sources,  two  of  them 
relatively  straightforward, 
the  third  complex  and 
difficult.  The  first  two  are 
the  discovery  of  new 
evidence  and  the 
development  of  new 
techniques  of  enquiry.  In 
our  own  day,  the  advance 


of  archeological, 
epigraphical,  archival  and 
documentary  studies  has 
vastly  increased  the 
amount  of  evidence  at  our 
disposal,  while  the 
progress  of  both  the 
linguistic  and  social 
sciences  has  given  us  new 
methodologies  for  the 
exploitation  of  this  new 
evidence.  A  very  large  part 
of  humanistic  and  social 
science  research  is 
concerned  with  these 
tasks. 

There  is,  however,  a  third 
kind  of  revision  of  history, 
arising  not  from  the 
opportunities  but  from  the 
needs — or  the  passions — 
of  our  time.  Basically,  all 
research  means  putting 
questions,  and  historical 
research  means  putting 
questions  to  the  past  and 
trying  to  find  answers 
there.  But  the  questions 
which  we  put  to  the  past 
are  necessarily  those 
suggested  to  us  by  our 
own  times  and 
preoccupations,  and  these 
differ  from  generation  to 
generation  and  from  group 
to  group.  It  is  legitimate 
and  inevitable  that 


In  recent  years  Bernard 
Lewis  has  found  himself  at 
the  center  of  a  controversy 
over  the  nature  and 
direction  of  Middle  Eastern 
and  Asian  studies.  The 
tradition  he  represents, 
which  has  been  labeled 
Orientalism,  values 
serious  scholars  of  all 
ethnic  backgrounds  who 
possess  knowledge 
of  Eastern  languages  and 
cultures.  It  Is  criticized 
by  detractors  such  as 
Professor  Edward  Said  of 
Columbia  University,  who 
prefer  scholars  indigenous 
to  the  regions  under  study 
as  a  means  of  reducing 
Western  influence  and 
exploitation.  As  Lewis  puts 
it  in  Islam  and  the  West, 
critics  attack  Orientalism 
for  an  alleged 
"unsympathetic  or  hostile 
treatment  of  Oriental 
peoples."  But  anti- 
Orientalists,  he  says, 
reduce  "all  the  complex 
national,  cultural,  religious, 
social  and  economic 
problems  of  the  Arab 
world  to  a  single  grievance 
directed  against  a  small 
group  of  easily-identified 
and  immediately- 
recognizable  malefactors." 
The  debate  is  unlikely 
to  cease  anytime  soon. 

The  editor 


29  Fall  1993 


this  should  be  so.  What  is 
neither  legitimate  nor 
inevitable  is  that  not  only 
the  questions  which  we 
put  to  the  past,  but  also 
the  answers  which 
we  find  there,  should  be 
detennined  by  our  present 
concerns  and  needs. 
This  can  lead,  particularly 
under  authoritarian 
regimes,  but  also  in  free 
societies  under  the 
pressure  of  fads  and 
fashions,  to  the 
falsification  of  the  past  in 
order  to  serve  some 
present  purpose. 

Much  of  what  purports  to 
be  history  at  the  present 
time,  in  the  greater  part  of 
the  world,  is  of  this 
kind.  We  Hve  in  an  age 
when  immense  energies 
are  devoted  to  the 
falsification  of  the  past, 
and  it  is  therefore  all 
the  more  important,  in 


those  places  where  the 
past  can  be  researched  and 
discussed  freely  and 
objectively,  to  pursue  this 
work  to  the  limit  of 
our  abilities.  It  has  been 
argued  that  complete 
objectivity  is  impossible, 
since  scholars  are  human 
beings  with  their  ov«i 
loyalties  and  biases.  This 
is  surely  true,  but  does  not 
affect  the  issue.  Any 
surgeon  will  admit  that 
complete  asepsis  is  also 
impossible,  but  one  does 
not,  for  that  reason, 
perfonn  surgery  in  a 
sewer.  There  is  no  need 
to  write  or  teach 
history  in  an  intellectual 
sewer  either. 

Let  us  have  no  illusions 
about  this — while 
some  of  us  may  prefer 
to  forget  history,  or 
to  rewrite  history 
to  serve  some  present 
purpose,  the  facts  of  the 
past  cannot  be  changed, 
and  the  consequences 
of  those  facts  cannot  be 
averted  by  ignorance  or 
misinterpretation, 
whether  self-serving  or 
compassionate.  History 
is  the  collective 
memory,  the  guiding 


i'rovost  and  Senior  Vice 
President  for  Academic 
Affairs  fehuda  Reinharz,  Ph.D. 
72  congratulates  Lewis  for 
his  honorary  degree  received 
at  Commencement  1993 


We  live  in  an  age  when  immense 
energies  are  devoted  to 
the  falsification  of  the  past, 
and  it  is  therefore  all  the  more 
important,  in  those  places 
where  the  past  can  be  researched 
and  discussed  freely  and 
objectively,  to  pursue  this 
work  to  the  limit  of  our  abilities. 


experience  of  our  society. 
Without  it,  we  are  like 
blundering  amnesiacs. 
Even  the  marketing  of  a 
commodity  or  the  running 
of  a  business  requires 
some  knowledge 
and  therefore  some 
research  in  the  recent 
past.  Even  a  balance 
sheet  is  a  historical 


record — useful  if  true, 
fraudulent  if  not.  The 
needs  of  a  community,  a 
country  or  a  civilization 
are  incomparably  more 
complex,  and  the 
dangers  of  ignorance 
correspondingly  greater. 

In  our  own  time  there 
has  been  a  considerable 
change  in  our  own 
perception  of  the  scope 
and  scale  and  content  of 
history.  In  bygone  times. 


30  Brandeis  Review 


Any  surgeon  will  admit  that 
complete  asepsis  is  also  impossible, 
but  one  does  not,  for  that 
reason,  perform  surgery  in  a 
sewer.  There  is  no  need  to  write  or 
teach  history  in  an  intellectual 
sewer  either. 


it  was  considered 
sufficient  if  a  country,  a 
society  or  a  community 
concerned  itself  with  its 
own  history.  In  these 
days,  when  ahnost  every 
action  or  policy  has 
a  global  dimension,  we 
icnow  better.  We  also  have 
a  broader  and  deeper 
idea  of  wbu  constitutes 
our  own  history. 


The  rapid  changes  of 
recent  years  have  forced 
us — sometimes 
painfully — to  realize  that 
the  world  is  a  much  more 
diverse  place  than  we 
had  previously  thought. 
As  well  as  other  countries 
and  nations,  there  are 
also  other  cultures  and 
civilizations,  separated 
from  us  by  differences  far 
greater  than  those  of 
nationality  or  even  of 
language.  In  the  modem 
world,  we  may  find 
ourselves  obliged  to  deal 
with  societies  professing 
different  religions, 
nurtured  on  different 


scriptures  and  classics, 
formed  by  different 
experiences  and 
cherishing  different 
aspirations.  Not  a  few  of 
our  troubles  at  the  present 
time  spring  from  a  failure 
to  recognize  or  even 
see  these  differences,  an 
inability  to  achieve  some 
understanding  of  the 
ways  of  what  were  once 
remote  and  alien  societies. 
They  are  now  no  longer 
remote,  and  they  should 
not  be  alien. 

Nor,  for  that  matter, 
should  we  be  alien  to 
them.  Between  the 
various  countries  and 
cultures  that  make  up  this 
world,  the  forces  of 
modernization  are 
creating,  however  much 
we  may  resist  it,  a  global 
community  in  which  we 
are  all  in  touch  with, 
and  dependent  on,  one 
another.  Even  within  each 
country,  modernization 
is  destroying  the  barriers 
which  previously  divided 
us  into  neatly  segregated 
communities,  each 
living  its  own  life  in  its 
own  way,  suffering 
minimal  contacts  with 
the  outsider.  All  that 
is  ending,  and  we  must 
learn  to  live  together. 
Unfortunately, 
intercommunication  has 
not  kept  pace  with 
interaction,  and  we  are 
still  deplorably  ignorant  of 
each  other's  ways  and 
values  and  aspirations. 

Ignorance  is,  of  coiu'se, 
not  the  only  problem. 
There  are  real  differences 
which  must  be  recognized 
and  accepted,  real  issues 
which  must  be  confronted 
and  resolved.  But  even 
real  differences  are 
exacerbated,  real  problems 
are  aggravated,  by 
ignorance,  and  a  host  of 
difficulties  may 
reasonably  be  ascribed  to 
ignorance  alone. 


Our  education  today 
should  be  concemed  with 
the  development  of  many 
cultures,  m  all  their 
diversity,  with  the  great 
ideas  that  inspire  them 
and  the  texts  in  which 
those  ideas  are  enshrined, 
with  the  achievements 
which  they  made  possible 
and  with  the  common 
heritage  which  their 
followers  and  successors 
share. 

Part  of  the  material  in 
this  article  was  included 
in  a  speech  delivered 
by  Bernard  Lewis  at  the 
inauguration  of  President 
John  Agresto,  St.  John's 
College,  Santa  Fe.  ■ 


History  is  the 
collective  memory, 
the  guiding  experience 
of  our  society. 
Without  it,  we 
are  like  blundering 
amnesiacs. 


31  Fall  1993 


Modest  Monuments 
of  Words  on  Paper: 


Bearing  Witness  to 
the  Holocaust 
through  Memoirs 
and  Diaries 


by  Antony  Polonsky 


Le  26  novembre,  Lewin  donfie  des  chiffres  precis  qui  ont 
ete  confirmes  par  les  rgeherches  ulterieures: 

On  m'a  ditjurfles  SS  ont  transmis  au  Conseil  juif  les  chiffres 
concernapH« action »  sanglante  menee  a  partir  du  22  juiliet.  I 
voicj>tfansportes  (lire:  annihiles  a  Treblinka):  254000:  p""^ 
,-f€ndant     les     rafles:     5000;     envoyes     trava-"—^ 
[Dwrc/jgangj/flger,  camp  de  transit];  11000   '      ^ 
chiffres  allemands,  270000  personr— 
probable  que  ces  chiffres  ' 
i'elenduereelledenoi       ^ 
la  que  les  vie 
d'Eurot 


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nsped^ion,  in  the  building  th^^ad  l^e|hi  fuf^l  f      Q 
"morAthan 4,000 people,  only  -,OOQ^<niain«l. 
hroat^  incapablV  even  of  sHStHing4n-_despair. 
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ntsia  became  itW-oftin.  Ai-last  the  Lrcst 
for  wljich  thev  had  waite^o  loi 


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In  his  last  book,  The  Drowned  and  the  Saved,  the 
Itahan  novelist  and  Auschwitz  survivor  Primo  Levi 
imagines  members  of  the  S.S.  taunting  their  Jewish 
victims: 

However  this  war  may  end.  we  have  won  the  war 
against  you-,  none  of  you  will  be  left  to  bear  witness, 
but  even  if  someone  were  to  survive,  the  world  would 
not  believe  him.  There  will  perhaps  be  suspicions, 
discussions,  research  by  historians,  but  there  will  be  no 
certainties,  because  we  will  destroy  the  evidence 
together  with  you.  And  even  if  some  proof  should 
remain  and  some  of  you  survive,  people  will  say  that 
the  events  you  describe  are  too  monstrous  to  be 
believed:  they  will  say  that  they  are  exaggerations  of 
Allied  propaganda  and  will  believe  us,  who  will  deny 
everything,  and  not  you. 

The  Jews  in  Nazi-occupied  Europe  seem  to  have  sensed 
the  Nazis'  intent.  They  perceived  that  the  threat  they 
faced  was  not  only  of  physical  annihilation  but  of  the 
destruction  of  the  very  record  of  their  existence.  They 
were  thus  determined  to  chronicle  all  aspects  of  their 
tragic  ordeal.  In  the  words  of  the  Warsaw  historian 
Emanuel  Ringelblum,  "Everyone  wrote — journalists, 
authors,  teachers,  social  activists,  young  people,  even 
children."  They  wrote  for  posterity.  According  to 
another  of  the  members  of  the  underground  archive, 
Menahem  Kon: 

/  consider  it  a  sacred  duty  for  everyone,  scholarly  or 
not.  to  write  dovim  everything  that  be  has  seen  or  heard 
from  those  who  witnessed  the  murderous  actions 
committed  by  the  barbarians  in  every  Jewish 
settlement,  so  that,  when  the  time  comes — as  it  surely 
will — the  world  will  read  and  learn  what  they  have 
done.  This  will  be  the  richest  material  for  the  lamenter 
who  will  write  the  elegy  of  our  times:  it  will  be  the 
most  potent  inspiration  for  those  who  will  avenge  our 
sufferings. 

The  last  words  recorded  in  the  diary  of  Chaim  Kaplan 
before  he  was  deported  to  his  death  in  Treblinka  were, 
"If  I  die — what  will  become  of  my  diary?"  His  words 
were  echoed  by  the  doyen  of  Jewish  historians,  Shimon 
Dubnov.  Dubnov's  final  exhortation  before  he  was  shot 
at  the  age  of  81,  in  the  Riga  ghetto,  was  "Write  down 
and  record  everything."  Stefan  Ernest  escaped  from  the 
Warsaw  ghetto  and  was  compelled  to  hide  on  the 
"Aryan"  side  in  appalling  conditions  and  under 
constant  threat  of  discovery  and  death.  But  he  rejoiced 
at  his  ability  to  put  down  what  he  had  seen.  He 
concluded  his  unpublished  diary: 

/  am  hiding  in  a  cellar  without  any  fresh  air,  without 
adequate  or  regular  food,  with  no  toilet  facilities,  with 
no  prospect  of  any  change  in  these  conditions  in  which 
I  vegetate  and  which  enjoin  me  to  value  every  hour  I 
survive  as  if  it  were  gold...!  can  clearly  feel  that  I  am 
losing  strength,  it's  becoming  harder  and  harder  to 
breathe....  But  that's  not  important.  Because  I  am  able 


Moshe  Flinker.  hidden  in 
Belgium,  kept  a  diary  from 
November  1 942  to  September 
1943.  Shown  here  is  the 
cover  of  his  diary,  which  was 
found  after  the  war 


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tftveme..  2fn/-^ 


A  letter  written  by  a  Mrs. 
Lipmska,  former  slave  laborer, 
to  a  fellow  survivor  after  the 
war.  mentioning  her  horrific 
experience  in  passing 


The  Jews  in  Nazi-occupied  Europe  seem  to  have 
sensed  the  Nazis'  intent.  They  perceived  that  the 
threat  they  faced  was  not  only  of  physical 
annihilation  but  of  the  destruction  of  the  very 
record  of  their  existence. 


to  bring  my  account  to  its  end  and  trust  that  it  will  see 
the  light  of  day  when  the  time  is  right. ..and  people  will 
know  what  happened. ..and  they  will  ask,  is  this  the 
truth!  I  reply  in  advance:  No  this  is  not  the  truth,  this 
is  only  a  small  part,  a  tiny  fraction  of  the  truth....  Even 
the  mightiest  pen  could  not  depict  the  whole,  real 
essential  truth. 

Because  it  was  so  important  to  record  what  was 
happening,  people  undertook  the  task  in  a  number  of 
places  on  an  organized  and  collective  basis.  The  best 
example  is  the  underground  archive  Oneg  Shabbes, 
which  was  established  in  the  Warsaw  ghetto  by 
Ringelblum  with  a  number  of  other  prominent  Warsaw 
Jewish  figures.  As  its  name  implies,  the  Oneg  Shabbes 
directorate  met  weekly  on  Saturday  evening  at  the  end 
of  the  Sabbath  to  exchange  news  and  infonnation. 
Abraham  Lewin,  one  of  its  members,  has  described 
these  meetings: 

In  these  tragic  times,  whenever  several  fews  gather 
together  and  each  recounts  just  a  part  of  what  he  has 
heard  and  seen,  it  becomes  a  mountain  or  a  swollen 
sea  of  misfortune  and  Jewish  blood.  Jewish  blood  pure 
and  simple.  We  gather  every  Sabbath,  a  group  of 


33  FaU  1993 


activists  in  the  Jewish  community,  to  discuss  our 
diaries  and  writings.  We  want  our  sufferings,  these 
"birth-pangs  of  the  Messiah, "  to  be  impressed  upon  the 
memories  of  future  generations  and  on  the  memory  of 
the  whole  world. 

Conscious  of  the  momentous  times  in  which  they  hved 
and  of  the  deadly  peril  facing  the  Jews  of  Europe,  they 
were  determined  to  chronicle  all  aspects  of  life  in  the 
ghetto  to  serve  as  a  record  for  the  future.  Ringelblum 
described  the  organization  as  follows: 

The  members  of  Oneg  Shabbes  have  constituted  and 
still  constitute  a  homogeneous  body,  ruled  by  a  single 
spirit  and  pervaded  by  a  single  idea.  Oneg  Shabbes  is 
not  an  association  of  scholars  who  compete  and  strive 
against  each  other.  It  is  a  single  entity,  a  brotherhood 
where  all  help  each  other  and  strive  to  achieve  a 
common  goal... 

Every  member  of  Oneg  Shabbes  knows  that  his  devoted 
labour  and  effort,  the  severe  hardships  he  undergoes, 
the  risks  he  takes  24  hours  a  day  while  engaged  in  the 
undercover  work  of  carrying  documents  from  place  to 
place — all  are  undertaken  for  an  exalted  ideal  and  that 
in  the  days  of  freedom  to  come,  society  will  know  how 
to  evaluate  his  contribution  and  will  reward  it  with  the 
highest  honours  available  in  liberated  Europe.  Oneg 
Shabbes  is  a  fellowship,  a  fraternal  order  on  whose 
banner  is  inscribed  its  members'  willingness  to 
dedicate  themselves  completely  to  their  cause  and 
keep  faith  with  each  other  in  the  service  of  the 
community. 

The  Oneg  Shabbes  archives  were  buried  in  a  number  of 
milk  chums  and  tin  chests,  some  of  which  were  found 
after  the  war  in  September  1946  and  December  1950. 
The  material  in  them  is  now  lodged  in  the  Jewish 


Historical  Institute  in  Warsaw  with  a  complete 
photocopy  in  Yad  Vashem  in  Jerusalem.  Some  of  this 
has  been  published  in  English,  Polish,  Hebrew  and 
Yiddish,  including  a  one-volume  English  language 
anthology  entitled  To  Live  with  Honor  and  To  Die  with 
Honor  (Jerusalem,  1986),  as  well  as  the  diaries  of  a 
number  of  its  members,  includmg  Ringelblum  hmiself, 
Abraham  Lewin  and  Rabbi  Shmul  Huberbrand.  There  is 
also  a  project  to  publish  the  entire  contents  of  the 
collection  in  Hebrew. 

In  the  Lodz  ghetto,  the  vain  and  ambitious  chairman  of 
the  fudenrat.  Chaim  Rumkowski,  established  an 
official  archive  in  order  to  record  the  history  of  his 
mini-state.  It  was  staffed  both  by  local  Jews  and  by  Jews 
from  German-speaking  Central  Europe  who  had  been 
deported  to  Lodz.  They  took  seriously  their  obligation 
to  assemble  what  one  of  their  members,  Henryk 
Naftalin,  described  as  a  basis  of  source  materials  "for 
future  scholars  studying  the  life  of  a  Jewish  society  in 
one  of  its  most  difficult  periods."  This  includes  a 
chronicle  of  life  in  the  ghetto,  written  in  both  Polish 
and  German,  which,  in  spite  of  its  bald  style  and  many 
omissions  occasioned  by  the  fear  of  Nazi  censorship,  is 
one  of  the  most  chilling  accounts  of  the  character  of  the 
Nazi  genocide  of  the  Jews.  In  addition,  like  the  Warsaw 
group,  the  members  wrote  a  history  of  the  ghetto, 
commissioned  studies  of  specific  topics,  such  as  the 
effects  of  malnutrition,  and  encouraged  the  writing  of 
memoirs  that  it  then  collected. 

Much  of  this  material  has  survived.  Two  volumes  of  the 
chronicle  edited  by  Danuta  Dabrowska  and  Lucjan 
Dobroszycki  were  published  in  Polish  in  Lodz  in  1965 
and  1966.  These  covered  the  years  1941  and  1942.  The 


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34  Brandeis  Review 


publication  of  the  remainder,  which  had  already  been 
announced,  fell  victim  to  the  "anti-Zionist"  campaign 
m  Poland,  which  followed  the  Six-Day  War  in  1967.  A 
one-volume  abridgment  edited  by  Dobroszycki  was 
published  by  Yale  University  Press  in  1984.  In  addition, 
a  one-volume  collection  of  materials  from  the  archive 
entitled  Lodz  Ghetto:  Inside  a  Community  under  Siege. 
and  edited  by  Alan  Adclson  and  Robert  Lapides,  was 
published  in  New  York  in  1989. 

hidividuals  took  pains  to  write  down  their  experiences 
in  diaries,  a  fair  number  of  which  have  been  published. 
They  include  those  by  Chaim  Kaplan,  Mary  Berg, 
Stanislaw  Adler,  Anne  Frank  and  Abraham  Lewin,  to 
name  only  a  few.  Some  efforts  have  also  been  made  by 
Yad  Vashem,  by  Holocaust  survivors'  groups  in  the 
United  States  and  a  number  of  publishers,  including  the 
London-based  firm  Valentine  Mitchell,  to  organize  the 
publication  of  the  many  diaries  that  have  survived. 

What  is  unique  about  the  diaries?  This  body  of 
literature  differs  from  memoir  accounts,  some  of  which 
have  become  classics,  like  the  work  of  Elie  Wicsel  and 
Primo  Levi,  by  their  immediacy.  They  were  written 
during  or  immediately  after  the  events  they  describe,  by 
individuals  who  did  not  always  know  what  the  future 
would  be.  They  are  the  authentic  voice  of  the  victims, 
the  voice  the  Nazis  aimed  to  silence.  They  give  back  to 
the  millions  of  nameless  dead  a  face  and  a  voice  and 
enable  them  to  speak  to  us  directly. 

The  diaries  differ  enormously  both  in  literary  quality 
and  in  the  nature  of  the  authors'  perceptions.  Yet  a 
number  of  common  themes  echo  through  them.  Their 
authors  are  fully  aware  of  the  cataclysmic  nature  of  the 
events  they  were  describing  and  of  the  impossibility  of 
finding  words  to  describe  them.  Jacob  Gerstenfeld- 
Maltiel,  who  survived  the  Lvov  ghetto,  wrote: 

/  struggled  hard  to  find  words  which  would  help  the 
reader  understand  the  nightmare  I  was  trying  to 
describe.  The  reader,  I  knew,  had  not  experienced  all 
those  things  and  would  frequently  be  unable  to  grasp 
events  which  have  no  equal  in  human  history  in  the 
immensity  of  theu  cruelty  and  the  degree  of  brutality 
employed  in  the  implementation  of  the  cruel  design 
(this  inability  may  be  one  of  the  givens  of  human 
personality). 

These  doubts  are  echoed  by  Lewin: 

...perhaps  because  the  disaster  is  so  great,  there  is 
nothing  to  be  gained  by  expressing  in  words  everything 
that  we  feel.  Only  if  we  were  capable  of  tearing  out  by 
the  force  of  our  pent-up  anguish  the  greatest  of  all 
mountains,  a  Mount  Everest,  and  with  all  our  hatred 
and  strength  hurling  it  down  on  the  heads  of  the 
German  murderers  of  our  young  and  old — this  would 
be  the  only  fitting  reaction  on  our  part.  Words  are 
beyond  us  now.  Our  hearts  are  empty  and  made  of 
stone. 

Yet  he  was  determined  to  find  the  appropriate 
expressions.  After  talking  to  a  simple  meat  vendor  from 
Tluszcz,  he  recorded  her  words: 


"Because  I  am  able  to  bring  my  account  to  its  end 
and  trust  that  it  will  see  the  light  of  day  when 
the  time  is  right.. .and  people  will  know  what 
happened...and  they  will  ask,  is  this  the  truth? 
I  reply  in  advance:  No  this  is  not  the  truth,  this  is 
only  a  small  part,  a  tiny  fraction  of  the  truth.... 
Even  the  mightiest  pen  could  not  depict  the 
whole,  real  essential  truth." 


Speaking  of  the  expulsion  from  Tluszcz,  she  said:  There 
is  no  way  to  put  into  words  what  happened  to  us.  I 
thought  over  what  the  woman  had  said  and  concluded 
that  she  is  right.  There  can  be  no  words,  no  images,  no 
embellishments — just  cold  hard  facts.  The  day  will 
come  when  these  facts  will  shake  the  world  and  will  be 
transformed  into  an  impassioned  appeal  "Remember!" 
against  hatred  and  shame  and  agamst  the  degenerate 
murders.  As  for  us — tortured  and  murdered  though  we 
are  innocent  of  any  crime — the  world  will  be  duty 
bound  to  show  love  and  compassion  for  our  suffering. 

The  diaries  stress  the  importance  of  hope,  of  that 
"Jewish  optimism"  that  enabled  individuals  to  carry  on 
in  appalling  conditions.  According  to  Lewin: 

One  of  the  most  remarkable  incidental  phenomena 
seen  in  the  present  war  is  the  clinging  to  life,  the 
almost  complete  cessation  of  suicides.  People  are  dying 
in  vast  numbers  of  the  typhus  epidemic,  are  being 
tortured  and  murdered  by  the  Germans  in  vast 
numbers,  but  people  do  not  try  to  escape  from  life.  In 
fact  just  the  contrary:  people  are  bound  to  life,  body 
and  soul,  and  want  to  survive  the  war  at  any  price.  The 
tension  of  this  epoch-making  conflict  is  so  great  that 
everybody,  young  and  old,  great  and  small,  wants  to 
live  to  see  the  outcome  of  this  giant  struggle,  and  the 
new  world  order.  Old  men  have  only  one  wish:  to  live 
to  see  the  end  and  to  sur\'ive  Hitler. 

I  know  an  old  few,  grey  with  age,  about  80  years  old. 
This  old  man  was  hit  by  a  terrible  misfortune  last 
winter:  he  had  an  only  son  aged  52  who  died  of  typhus. 
He  had  no  other  children.  The  son  is  dead.  He  hadn't 
remarried  and  had  lived  together  with  his  son.  A  few 
days  ago  I  visited  the  old  man.  As  I  was  saying 
goodbye  to  him  (he  is  still  in  complete  command  of  his 


35  Fall  1993 


"One  of  the  most  remarkable  incidental  phenomena 
seen  in  the  present  war  is  the  clinging  to  life, 
the  almost  complete  cessation  of  suicides.... 
In  fact  just  the  contrary:  people  are  bound  to  life, 
body  and  soul,  and  want  to  survive  the  war 
at  any  price." 


faculties),  he  burst  into  tears  and  said  to  me:  I  want  to 
live  to  see  the  end  of  the  war  and  then  live  for  just 
another  half  hour  longer. 

We  may  well  ask:  what  has  such  an  old  man  to  live 
fori  But  he  does  have  something:  he  too  wants  to  live 
"for  just  half  an  hour"  after  the  last  shot  is  fired  and 
this  is  the  passionate  desire  of  all  fews. 

His  views  are  echoed  by  Gerstenfeld-Maltiel: 

People  got  together  for  half  an  hour's  injection  of 
optimism.  During  the  day,  the  theme  was  the  horror  of 
the  day.  so  in  the  evening,  the  radio  news  was 
commented  upon  with  perpetual  optimism,  despite  the 
nightmare  awaiting  us  in  the  morning:  our  fewish 
optimism  dictated  our  opinions.  Although  the  Russians 
were  hundreds  of  kilometers  away  from  Lvov,  we  saw 
our  saviours  already  at  the  gates  of  the  town.  If 
someone  reminded  us  that  an  Aktion  or  some  other 
Nazi  harassment  threatened,  he  would  receive  from  all 
sides  the  answer  that  surely  the  Germans  would  wait 
before  acting,  as  for  example,  in  another  town  there 
were  riots  because  of  the  lack  of  potatoes....  One  man 
claimed:  "Stalin  has  decided  by  a  certain  date  to  clear 
Russian  soil  of  every  German"....  A  quietly  expressed 
doubt  that  this  news  originated  perhaps  from  the 
"A.f.W. "  (as  fews  want)  news-agency  was  drowned  in 
the  flood  of  optimism  without  anybody  paying 
attention. 

The  importance  of  fear  in  undermining  the  abiUty  of 
the  Jews  to  withstand  the  Nazis  emerges  clearly. 
According  to  Gerstenfeld-Maltiel: 

On  the  night  of  15-16  November,  about  midnight, 
people  knew  that  on  the  following  morning  an  Aktion 
would  begin.  The  fewish  militia  was  ordered  to  be  in 
readiness.  Warnings  were  at  once  sent  to  relatives  and 
friends,  to  be  prepared.  AKTION!  The  sound  of  this 
word — even  now  a  year  later — when  I  write  it,  the  very 
thought  of  it  makes  my  blood  run  cold.  I  cannot  find 
the  few  words  to  put  onto  a  scrap  of  paper,  to  describe 
the  stream  of  blood  and  tears,  implicit  in  the  word. 
Before,  we  never  had  any  real  idea  of  what  fear  meant. 
Now,  a  few  hours  before  an  Aktion.  people  in  the 
ghetto  understood.  Wild  primeval  animal  terror,  before 


an  elemental  calamity  that  had  invaded  and  paralysed 
every  mind.  Human  beings  felt  like  dust  in  the  face  of 
the  vast  power  that  opposed  them.  The  feeling  of  fright 
during  such  a  moment  can  be  compared  to  that  of  an 
animal  running  from  a  prairie-fire. 

Levin  wrote  of  this  phenomenon: 

An  unremitting  insecurity,  a  never-ending  fear,  is  the 
most  terrible  aspect  of  all  our  tragic  and  bitter 
experiences.  If  we  ever  live  to  see  the  end  of  this  cruel 
war  and  are  able  as  free  people  and  citizens  to  look 
back  on  the  war-years  that  we  have  lived  through,  then 
we  will  surely  conclude  that  the  most  terrible  and 
unholy,  the  most  destructive  aspect  for  our  nervous 
system  and  our  health  was  to  live  day  and  night  in  an 
atmosphere  of  unending  fear  and  terror  for  our  physical 
survival,  in  a  continual  wavering  between  life  and 
death — a  state  where  every  passing  minute  brought 
with  it  the  danger  that  our  hearts  would  literally  burst 
with  fear  and  dread. 

They  are  moved  to  anger  at  the  murderous  brutality  of 
the  Nazis.  Levin,  a  school  teacher,  was  particularly 
affected  by  the  slaughter  of  children: 

There  is  no  greater  crime,  no  greater  savagery  than  the 
murder  of  young  and  innocent  children.  The  blood  of 
our  children  will  never  be  erased  from  the  mark  of 
Cain  of  the  German  people.  Only  now  in  these  days 
have  I  come  to  appreciate  and  understand  Bialik's  song 
of  anguish  and  rage:  "The  Slaughter. "  I  must  confess 
that,  though  I  am  one  of  Bialik's  most  fervent 


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36  Brandeis  Review 


Antony  Polonsky, 
professor  of  East  European 
fewish  history,  was  born 
in  Johannesburg,  South 
Africa.  He  studied  histor}' 
and  pohtical  science  at 
the  University  of 
Witwatersrand,  and  went 
to  Oxford  as  a  Rhodes 
Scholar.  Before  coming  to 
Brandeis,  he  was  a 
lecturer  and  professor  at 
the  London  School  of 
Economics  and  Political 
Science,  and  a  Visiting 
Professor  at  the 
University  of  Warsaw. 

Polonsky  is  the  author  of 
Politics  in  Independent 
Poland,  The  Little 
Dictators:  The  History  of 
Eastern  Europe  Since  1918 
and  The  Great  Powers 
and  the  Polish  Question 


1941-1945.  Ht' is  the 
editor  of  Abraham 
Lewin  's  A  Cup  of  Tears:  A 
Diary  of  the  Warsaw 
Ghetto,  which  was 
awarded  the  Joseph  and 
Edith  Sunlight  Literary 
Prize  in  1989  and  the 
prize  of  the  Jewish  Book 
Council  of  America  in  the 
Holocaust  section  in 
1 990,  and  is  an  editor  of 
The  Library  of  Survivors' 
Memoirs.  He  is  coauthor 
of  The  Beginnings  of 
Communist  Rule  in 
Poland  and  coeditor  of 
The  Jews  in  Poland. 


Active  m  numerous 
professional 

organizations,  Polonsky  is 
the  vice  president  of  the 
American  Institute  for 
Polish-Jewish  Studies  in 
Cambridge.  He  is  a 
member  of  the 
International  Council  of 
the  State  Museum  in 
Auschwitz  Concentration 
Camp.  In  addition. 
Polonsky  is  the  secretary 
of  the  Association  of 
Contemporary  Historians 
and  a  member  of  the 
Interuniversity  Film 
Consortium.  He  was  the 
producer  and  director  of 
the  documentary  Fascism, 
and  has  been  a  consultant 
for  the  documentary 
series  The  Struggles  for 
Poland. 


admirers,  his  "In  the  Town  of  Murder"  and  "The 
Slaughter, "  where  there  is  such  fiery  talk  of  blood, 
murder  and  revenge,  have  never  been  my  favourites.  I 
have  always  been  drawn  to  his  transcendent  lyrics  and 
his  superb,  brilliant  epic  poetry.  But  now  I  recall  his  cry 
from  the  heart:  "Accursed  be  he  who  cries  out  Avenge 
this!'  Vengeance  for  this,  for  the  blood  of  a  small  child, 
the  devil  himself  has  not  created. "  Or  "If  there  is  such 
a  thing  as  justice,  let  it  show  itself  now!  But  if  only 
after  my  destruction,  justice  appears  under  the 
heavens,  may  its  seat  be  destroyed  for  ever!" 

But  they  rise  above  more  calls  for  revenge.  Levin 
concluded: 

Nowadays,  death  rules  in  all  its  majesty-,  while  life 
hardly  glows  under  a  thick  layer  of  ashes.  Even  this 
faint  glow  of  life  is  feeble,  miserable  and  weak,  poor, 
devoid  of  any  free  breath,  deprived  of  any  spark  of 
spiritual  content.  The  very  soul,  both  in  the  individual 
and  in  community,  seems  to  have  starved  and 
perished,  to  have  dulled  and  atrophied.  There  remains 
only  the  needs  of  the  body-,  and  it  leads  merely  an 
organic-physiological  existence. . . 

Yet,  we  wish  to  live  on,  to  continue  as  free  and  creative 
men.  This  shall  be  our  test.  If,  under  the  thick  layer  of 
ashes  our  life  is  not  extinguished,  this  will  prove  the 
triumph  of  the  human  over  the  inhuman  and  that  our 
wiU  to  live  is  mightier  than  the  will  to  destruction-,  that 
we  are  capable  of  overcoming  all  evil  forces  which 
attempt  to  engulf  us. 


Most  of  the  diaries  of  the  Holocaust  years  still  remain 
unpublished,  in  spite  of  efforts  to  bring  them  before  a 
wider  audience.  The  resources  of  modem  technology 
should  surely  make  it  possible  to  increase  their 
availability.  Yet  a  huge  number  of  manuscripts  in  many 
languages  still  languish  in  Yad  Vashem,  in  the  Jewish 
Historical  histitute  in  Warsaw  and  elsewhere.  A 
Holocaust  Memorial  will  shortly  be  unveiled  in  Boston. 
This  is  an  important  and  worthy  project.  But  these 
diaries  are  also  monuments.  Henryk  Bryskier  was  a 
leading  figure  in  the  Warsaw  ghetto,  where  he  was  vice 
chairman  of  the  Jewish  Social  Welfare  Organization.  He 
survived  the  occupation,  in  which  his  wife  perished, 
only  to  die  of  angina  in  October  1945.  He  wrote  his 
diary  (still  unpublished)  on  the  "Aryan"  side  in  1943 
and  1944  and  preceded  it  with  the  following  dedication: 

Dear  wife  and  mother,  brutally  murdered  in  Warsaw  in 
May  1943.  I  cannot  create  for  you  a  granite  tombstone, 
because  there  is  no  trace  of  the  resting  place  of  your 
remains.  Therefore,  accept  from  me  and  our  daughter 
this  modest  monument  made  of  words  on  paper,  which 
we  place  in  your  grave  with  reverence  and  love. 

And  you  who  read  these  words,  pay  homage  to  her 
memory,  so  dear  to  us,  and  when  you  have  perused  our 
account,  an  epitaph  which  contains  a  portion  of 
history^  think  with  contempt  of  the  German  Fascists 
whose  barbarity  was  without  parallel,  m 


37  Fall  1993 


The  Pied  Piper  of  Tanzania 
Leads  His  Kids  to 


by  James  Toole 


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It  is  increasingly  clear  that  the  AIDS 
epidemic  will  have  a  tremendous 
impact  on  the  lives  of  many  children  in 
Eastern  Africa.  At  present  800,000  to 
one  million  people  are  infected  with 
HIV  in  Tanzania  alone,  and  in  some 
areas  over  20  percent  of  the  population 
is  HIV  positive.  At  current  rates  of 
increase,  it  is  estimated  that  one  million 
children  will  be  orphaned  by  AIDS  in 
Tanzania  by  the  year  2000. 

The  strain  this  places  on  children  is 
already  palpable.  Many  children  are 
growing  up  watching  their  parents  and 
relatives  fall  ill  and  eventually  die  from 
a  disease  that  wears  down  body  and 
spirit.  Children  as  young  as  four  find 
themselves  having  to  take  care  of 
parents  and  siblings — of  tending  the 
farm,  hawking  wares,  cooking,  keeping 
house.  Traditional  extended  family 
support  structures,  already  stretched  to 
the  limit  by  very  difficult  economic 
conditions,  are  increasingly  unable  to 
care  for  children  orphaned  by  AIDS. 
Forced  to  find  alternative  ways  of 
making  ends  meet,  more  and  more 
children  are  opting  to  live  and  work  on 
the  streets. 


In  Mwanza,  Tanzania,  a  city  of  500,000 
people  on  the  southern  shores  of  Lake 
Victoria-Nyanza,  a  new  nonprofit 
organization  has  begun  to  respond  to 
the  situation.  It  is  called  kuleana.  which 
in  Swahili  means  to  nurture  and 
support  one  another.  The  organization 
has  two  aims:  to  promote  street 
children's  rights  through  community 
advocacy  and  practical  help,  and  to  act 
as  a  catalyst  for  neighborhood-based 
action  against  AIDS,  with  a  special 
focus  on  HIV  prevention  among 
young  people.  In  April  of  this  year, 
kuleana  opened  the  Center  for 
Children's  Rights  in  Mwanza,  the  first 
institution  of  its  kind  in  Tanzania. 
Its  full  AIDS  program  is  planned  to 
begin  in  late  1993. 

Spearheading  the  effort  is  Rakesh 
Rajani  '89,  a  cotounder  and  coordinator 
of  kuleana.  A  former  Wien  scholar,  he 
graduated  summa  cum  laude  with  a 
B.A.  in  philosophy  and  literature.  As  a 


student  at  an  international  school  in 
Tanzania,  Rajani  had  already  been 
exposed  to  political  diversity  and  social 
concern,  but  he  began  to  think 
seriously  about  the  social  situation  in 
Tanzania  during  the  time  he  spent  in 
the  United  States.  At  Brandeis,  through 
his  coursework  and  involvement  with 
AZAAD.  an  activist  student  group 
focusing  on  Third  World  politics,  Rajani 
acquired  a  new  perspective  on  issues 
of  power,  equality  and  social  justice. 
Beginning  in  1986,  he  became 
intimately  involved  with  Boston's 
homeless  as  a  counselor  and 
advocate.  By  the  time  he  enrolled  in  a 
master's  program  at  Harvard 
University.  Rajani  knew  what  kind  of 
work  he  wanted  to  do.  His  studies  there 
included  a  detailed  examination  of 
programs  for  impoverished  women 
and  children  in  urban  areas  of 
the  Third  World.  Those  findings  and 
experiences  provided  a  strong 
foundation  for  the  work  he  returned  to 
do  in  his  home  country. 

Rajani,  a  bearded  man  of  medium  build 
in  his  late  twenties,  is  clearly  committed 
to  his  work.  He  is,  however,  neither 
pedantic  nor  strident;  one  senses,  on 
meeting  him,  a  mixture  of  confidence 
and  moderation.  Linda  Nathanson, 
associate  director  of  the  Office  of 
International  Programs  at  Brandeis, 
describes  Rajani  as  a  talented  scholar 
"who  loved  to  study  poetry,  literature 
and  philosophy."  At  the  same  time,  she 
says,  "he  had  this  practicality  that 
would  just  amaze  me.  He  had  never 
been  to  this  country  before,  and  within 
a  very  short  time  of  his  arrival  at 
Brandeis  he  knew  just  how  to  go  about 
getting  things  done.  He  can  always 
figure  out  how  to  solve  a  problem." 

A  member  of  Tanzania's  small  Indian 
minority,  Rajani  is  a  fourth-generation 
Tanzanian  whose  forebears  were 
shipped  over  by  the  British  to  work  on 
the  railroads.  His  humanitarian  work 
has  surprised  the  Indian  community, 
which  holds  professional  careers  and 
successful  businesses  in  high  regard. 


Ik 


Rakesh  Rajani  '89,  a  former 
Wien  scholar,  is  cofounder 
and  coordinator  o^kuleana, 
a  nonprofit  organization  tliat 
works  on  AIDS  and  street 
children  issues  in  Mwanza, 
Tanzania.  Rajani  came  to 
Brandeis  in  1985  and 
graduated  summa  cum 
laude  in  philosophy  and 
literature,  and  was  a 
member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 
His  senior  thesis  examined 
how  poor  people  in  Latin 


America  have  organized 
themselves  in  small 
Christian-based 
communities  in  their 
struggles  against  oppressive 
conditions. 

Rajani  earned  a  master's 
degree  from  Harvard 
University  in  1991.  At 
Harvard  he  studied  the 
situations  of  urban  women 
and  children  in  the 
developing  world  and 
evaluated  various  Latin 
American  street  children's 


programs.  He  returned  to  his 
native  Tanzania  in  1991  and 
conducted  a  UNICEF- 
funded  situation  analysis  of 
the  condition  of  street 
children  in  Mwanza.  He  and 
his  colleagues  have  just 
published  Life  First!  A 
practical  guide  to  people 
with  AIDS  and  their  families 
in  both  English  and 
Swahili.  He  cofounded 
kuleana  in  1992. 


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but  he  reports  that  his  family  supports 
and  respects  what  he  does.  Rajani's 
work  is  unusual  to  begin  with:  Tanzania 
has  few  organizations  that  actively 
stand  up  for  the  rights  of  marginalized 
children. 

Rajani  and  his  colleague,  Mustafa 
Kudrati,  a  friend  from  high  school, 
began  their  work  by  going  into  the 
streets  of  Mwanza  and  building 
friendships  with  the  children.  With 
funding  from  UNICEF,  they  conducted 
a  more  systematic  situation  analysis 
between  August  1992  and  April  1993, 
focusing  on  children  aged  five  to  14. 
Rajani  says  that  they  learned  a  lot  by 
accompanying  the  children  through 
their  jumbled  routine.  Recently,  they 
have  begun  a  second  phase  of 
research  in  which  they  work  to  compile 
careful  case  histories  in  an  effort  to 
understand  better  the  complex  factors 
that  propel  children  onto  the  streets. 

As  the  initial  study  progressed  and 
relationships  with  the  children  became 
established,  Rajani  and  Kudrati  found  it 
impossible  to  isolate  the  study  from  the 
problems  they  saw  around  them. 
Gradually  their  apartment  became 
known  as  a  place  where  the  children 
could  come  for  practical  support  and 
companionship.  "On  the  one  hand  it 
was  ovenwhelming,"  said  Rajani,  during 
an  interview  with  the  Brandeis  Review 
on  a  May  visit  to  campus,  "because 
children  would  come  at  all  hours  of  the 
day  and  night.  But  if  a  child  who  is  nine 
knocks  and  says,  'I  am  being  beaten 
up  by  the  police,'  you  can't  just  say  'It's 
midnight,  go  away.'"  Kuleana's 
formation  became  inevitable. 


Street  children  are  a  relatively  new 
phenomenon  in  Tanzania,  a  result  of 
tremendous  pressures  on  the  social 
fabric  during  the  past  decade.  Soon 
after  independence  in  1961 ,  great 
improvements  in  social  services  were 
made  under  an  innovative  socialist 
program  known  as  ujamaa.  A  good 
primary  health  care  network  was 
developed,  and  primary  and  adult 
education  was  built  up  virtually  from 
scratch.  Tanzania  now  has  one 
of  the  highest  literacy  rates  in  the 
developing  world. 

In  the  1 980s,  however,  several  factors 
combined  to  stretch  the  system  to  its 
limits.  The  terms  of  international  trade 
had  become  ruthlessly  unfavorable  to 
crop-exporting  economies  like 
Tanzania's,  and  the  related  costs  of 
debt  servicing  drained  national 
resources.  The  social  service  system, 
for  all  its  benefits,  became  a  bloated 
and  inefficient  bureaucracy  that 
discouraged  popular  participation  in 
decision-making.  Exploding 
urbanization  weakened  family  support 
systems  and  introduced  new  hazards, 
and  the  emergence  of  AIDS  in  the 
late  1980s  placed  an  enormous  strain 
on  already  depleted  community 
resources.  Children  began  to  fall 
through  the  cracks. 

In  the  past  year  kuleana  has  leased  an 
old  building  that  has  become  a  drop-in 
center  for  the  street  children  and  a 
place  from  which  to  organize 
community  action.  It  is  called  the 
Center  for  Children's  Rights.  "The 
name,"  says  Rajani,  "is  deliberate.  We 
are  trying  to  move  away  from  a 
patronizing  welfare  approach  and 
instead  focus  on  rights.  Only  in  this 
way  will  we  be  able  to  avoid  piecemeal, 
handout  approaches  and  reverse  the 
street  children's  marginalization." 


The  Center  offers  such  services  as 
showers,  a  place  to  do  laundry,  basic 
health  care,  counseling  and  informal 
educational  activities.  Most  importantly, 
it  gives  the  children  a  place  to  call  their 
own.  At  the  community  level  the  Center 
provides  legal  support,  lobbies  for 
protective  legislation,  holds  awareness 
workshops  and  pushes  the  media  to 
pay  attention  to  children's  issues. 

Kuleana  uses  innovative  approaches  in 
addressing  problems  of  health,  food 
and  education.  To  treat  scabies,  a  skin 
disease  affecting  many  street  children, 
it  organizes  "health  picnics,"  where 
sports  are  combined  with  treatment 
and  role-playing  on  how  to  avoid 
infection.  To  avoid  creating  a 
dependency,  kuleana  does  not  give  out 
food.  Instead  it  supports  children's 
efforts  to  obtain  food  from  local 
restaurants  and  food  stalls,  usually  in 
exchange  for  a  reasonable  amount  of 
work.  To  educate  the  children,  practical 


learning  is  used  to  overcome  the 
deficiencies  of  traditional  methods. 
"One  child,  for  example,  had  the 
hardest  time  grasping  how  to  do  basic 
addition  and  subtraction,"  Rajani  says, 
"until  we  talked  about  buying  and 
selling  bananas.  He  was  an  expert 
within  minutes." 

Often  the  children  need  an  advocate 
who  can  negotiate  the  channels  of  a 
bureaucracy  unaccustomed  to 
recognizing  the  rights  of  street  children. 
As  Rajani  explains,  "The  children  face 
tremendous  discrimination  in  society. 
For  instance,  health  care  is  officially 
free.  But  in  reality,  people  with  little 
clout,  like  the  street  children,  fall  pretty 
much  at  the  bottom  of  the  ladder. 
Essentially  they  don't  get  care  and  are 
often  mistreated.  They  get  pushed 
around,  asked  all  sorts  of  mean 
questions,  are  told  to  'come  back 
tomorrow.'  In  the  courts  they  are 
presumed  guilty  from  the  start.  So  we 
intervene.  We  go  with  the  children  to 
the  hospitals  and  courts  and  stand  by 
them.  We  cajole,  push  and  sweet-talk 
to  try  to  get  the  best  deal  for  them." 


In  most  cases,  says  Rajani,  the 
children  can  do  a  lot  for  themselves, 
given  some  encouragement  and 
support.  "We  don't  think  of  them  as 
poor  little  victims  who  need  help,"  he 
says.  "They're  incredibly  resourceful 
people  who've  created  effective 
strategies  to  survive  on  the  streets.  We 
can  do  well  if  we  recognize  and  support 
these  strategies." 

Kuleana's  approach  to  basic  health 
care  reflects  this  commitment.  Children 
are  encouraged  to  handle  some  first 
aid  and  are  taught  how  to  diagnose 
symptoms  of  common  ailments.  One  of 
Rajani's  colleagues,  for  instance,  works 
with  street  girls  and  teaches  them  how 
to  help  each  other  recognize  and  get 
treatment  for  sexually  transmitted 
diseases.  The  same  philosophy  applies 
to  the  way  in  which  the  Center  is  run. 
The  children  have  many 


The  Wien  Program 
Celebrates 


Approximately  40  Wien 
International  Scholarship 
Program  alumni  trooped 
back  to  campus  to 
celebrate  the  Wien 
program's  35th 
anniversary  during  the 
October  Homecoming 
Weekend. 

The  Wien  program  was 
established  by  Lawrence 
A.  and  Mae  Wien  In  1958 
to  provide  foreign 
students  with 
opportunities  for  study  in 
the  United  States  and 
enrich  the  intellectual  and 
cultural  life  of  the 
Brandeis  campus.  In  the 
35  years  since  its 
founding,  the  program  has 
brought  700  scholars  to 
Brandeis  from  100 
countries,  from  France  to 
Sri  Lanka  to  Japan  to 
Uruguay. 

Although  all  foreign 
applicants  to  Brandeis  are 
considered  for  a  Wien 


scholarship,  only  the  most 
outstanding  applicants 
from  each  country  find 
themselves  under  serious 
consideration  for  the 
award.  One  of  the  main 
criteria  is  that  the 
applicant  possess  the 
potential  to  make  a 
contribution  both  to  the 
Brandeis  campus  and  to 
his  or  her  home  country 
upon  return.  In  1993,  only 
1 1  students  were  chosen 
from  over  700  applicants. 

The  amount  of  the  award 
Is  based  on  the  needs  of 
the  individual  applicant 
and  may  include  full 
tuition,  room  and  board, 
medical  fees  and 
insurance,  books  and  a 
stipend  for  personal 
expenses.  Although  each 
award  is  made  for  one 
year  only,  it  is  renewable 
annually,  contingent  upon 


satisfactory  academic 
performance,  until  the 
completion  of  degree 
studies. 

Many  Wien  scholars  have 
become  leaders  in  their 
countries.  Alumni  include 
a  member  of  the  Japanese 
House  of  Councillors,  a 
top  secretary  in  the  Indian 
Ministry  of  Health  and 
Family  Welfare,  one  of 
Africa's  leading  medical 
experts  and  the  foreign 
minister  of  Slovenia. 


The  late  Lawrence  A.  Wien, 
benefactor  of  the  Wien 
International  Scholarship 
Program,  with  students  during 
the  early  years  of  the  program 


40  Brandeis  Review 


Bookshelf 


Faculty 


Challenge 
of  Feminist 
Biography 


Joyce  Antler  '63 

and  Sara  Alpcrn,  Elisabeth 
Israels  Perry,  Ingrid  Winther 
Scobie,  eds. 

Antler  is  associate  professor 
of  American  studies. 

The  Challenge  of  Feminist 
Biography:  Writing  the  Lives 
of  Modern  American  Women 
University  of  Illinois  Press 

This  anthology  is  a  look  at 
the  lives  of  10  influential 
20th-century  American 
vi'omen  and  the  challenges 
experienced  by  the  women 
who  have  written  about 
them.  In  1988  the  editors  of 
this  volume  participated  in  a 
panel  called  "Biographies  of 
Women  in  Public  Life: 
Challenges  and  Results,"  at 
the  first  Southern 
Conference  on  Women's 
History.  The  excitement 
generated  at  this  conference 
led  to  the  publication  of 
these  essays.  The  authors 
assert  that  the  writing  of 
women's  biographies 
changes  the  nature  and 
practice  of  the  biographical 
craft.  First,  a  different  type  of 
person  now  receives 
biographical  treatment:  not 
all  of  the  subjects  have 
achieved  the  kind  of 
celebrity  status  that  many 
male  biographical  subjects 
have  enjoyed.  Secondly, 
when  the  subject  is  female, 
gender  moves  to  the  center  of 
the  analysis:  women's  lives 
differ  from  men's,  often  in 
profound  ways.  This 
anthology  is  offered  to 
celebrate  and  ensure  the 
continuing  development  of 
the  genre. 


Marc  Brettler  '78, 
Ph.D.  '87 

and  Michael  Fishbane,  eds. 
Brettler  is  associate  professor 
of  Near  Eastern  and  Judaic 
Studies. 

Minhah  le-Nahum:  Biblical 
and  Other  Studies  Presented 
to  Nahmn  M.  Sarna  in 
Honour  of  his  70th  Birthday 
Sheffield  Academic 
Press,  Ltd. 

This  collection  of  essays  by 
colleagues,  students  and 
friends  was  written  out  of 
gratitude  for  the  careful 
scholarship  in  many  areas  of 
biblical  studies  by  Nahum 
M.  Sama,  who  is  professor 
emeritus  of  biblical  studies 
at  Brandeis  University.  The 
list  of  contributors  includes 
Marc  Brettler  and  Marvin 
Fox  of  the  Department  of 
Near  Eastern  and  Judaic 
Studies  and  other  professors 
from  across  the  United  States 
and  Israel. 

Peter  Conrad 

and  Joseph  W.  Schneider 
Conrad  is  professor  of 
sociology. 

Deviance  and 
Medicalization:  From 
Badness  to  Sickness 
Temple  University  Press 

A  gradual  social  change  in 
the  definitions  of  deviance  in 
the  past  two  centuries  from 
"badness"  to  "sickness"  is 
the  subject  of  this  book. 
There  is  a  dual  focus:  a 
historical  and  sociological 
inquiry  into  the  changing 
definitions  of  deviance  and 
an  analysis  of  the 
transformation  from 
religious  and  criminal  to 
medical  designations  and 
control  of  deviance.  The 
authors  examine  specific 
cases — madness,  alcoholism. 


Writing  the  Lives  of 
Modern  American  Women 


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opiate  addiction, 
homosexuality,  delinquency 
and  child  abuse — and  draw 
out  their  theoretical  and 
policy  implications.  A  new 
chapter  addresses 
developments  of  the  last 
decade,  including  AIDS, 
domestic  violence, 
codependcncy,  hyperactivity 
in  children  and  learning 
disabilities. 

Jonathan  D.  Sarna  '75, 
M.A.  '75 

Daniel  J.  Elazar  and  Rela  G. 
Monson,  eds. 

Sama  is  Joseph  H.  and  Belle 
R.  Braun  Professor  of 
American  Jewish  History. 

A  Double  Bond:  The 
Constitutional  Documents 
of  American  Jewry 
University  Press  of  America, 
Inc. 

It  has  been  said  that  the 
average  American  takes 
scant  interest  in  the  nature 
of  the  Constitution.  The 
same  is  true  today  of 
American  Jews  and  their 
constitutions.  Although 


leaders  of  synagogues, 
federations  and  other  Jewish 
organizations  prepare 
constitutions  and  keep  them 
up-to-date,  the  documents 
themselves  are  rarely 
examined.  A  Double  Bond 
examines  the  constitutional 
framework  of  American 
Jewry.  Part  I  includes 
introductory  essays  by  the 
three  editors  concerning  the 
overall  content  of  the 
constitutional  documents.  In 
Part  II,  the  essays  by  Hannah 
Kliger  and  Nitza  Druyan 
illuminate  key  parts  of 
American  Jewish  history 
through  their  analysis  of  the 
constitutional  documents 
of  major  Jewish  institutions 
and  finally,  a  close 
look  at  excerpts  from  the 
actual  documents 
themselves,  included  in  Part 
UI,  makes  a  reference  source 
for  the  reader. 


43  Fall  1993 


HEBREW 

and  the  Bible 

in  America 


Brandeis  University 
Press  Series 


Alumni 


The  Brandeis  Series  in 
American  Jewish  History, 
Culture  and  Life 
Jonathan  Sarna  '75, 
M.A.  '75,  Editor 

Hebrew  and  the  Bible  in 
America:  The  First  Two 
Centuries,  edited  by  Shalom 
Goldman,  considers  the 
tradition  and  legacy  of 
Hebraism  in  17th-  and  18th- 
century  America.  In  wide- 
ranging,  interdisciplinary 
essays,  15  scholars  examine 
America's  historical 
"romance"  with  the  Hebrew 
language,  including  themes 
such  as  the  rise  of  Hebraism 
in  Europe  and  its 
transference  to  America,  the 
early  identification  of  Native 
Americans  with  the  Ten  Lost 
Tribes,  the  ambiguous  nature 
of  Hebraism  among  the 
Puritans,  the  role  of  Hebrew 
in  the  early  American  Jewish 
community  and  the 
intellectual  legacy  of 
Hebraism  in  America's 
earliest  universities. 


-mrD  I'D  nnin  dh'j^n  na  "ly  wtX 


Shalom  Goldman, .ej 


Taking  Root:  The  Origins  of 
the  Canadian  Jewish 
Community,  by  Gerald 
Tulchinsky,  is  a 
comprehensive  history  of 
Canadian  lewry  from  its 
origins  m  the  18th  century 
through  its  maturation  in 
1920.  With  meticulous 
scholarship,  Tulchinsky 
portrays  the  story  of 
Canada's  Jews  on  a  broad 
canvas,  comparing  and 
contrasting  the  Canadian  and 
United  States  experiences, 
while  being  sensitive  to 
European  roots  as  well. 

The  Tauber  Institute  for 
the  Study  of  European 
Jewry  Series 
Jehuda  Reinharz, 
Ph.D.  '72,  Editor 

Poles  and  Jews:  A  Failed 
Brotherhood,  by  Magdalena 
Opalski  and  Israel  Bartal, 
reconstructs  Polish  and 
Jewish  visions  of  their 
mutual  relations  as  they  are 
reflected  in  literary 
works  of  the  19th  and  early 
20th  centuries.  This 
unique  cooperative  effort  at 
analyzing  the  dissonant 
and  historically-conditioned 
refractions  of  the  cultural 
stereotypes  that  Jews 
and  Poles  held  of  each 


other  provides  the  reader 
with  important  keys  to 
understanding  the  history  of 
the  Jews  in  Poland 
throughout  the  modem 
period. 

Confronting  the  Nation: 
Jewish  and  Western 
Nationalism,  hy  George  L. 
Mosse,  brings  together  some 
of  the  most  important  and 
original  work  of  this 
renowned  cultural  and 
intellectual  historian  on  the 
changing  concept  of  the 
nation  in  Western  Europe 
and  how  the  Jews  confronted 
this  change.  These 
provocative  essays  touch 
upon  such  themes  as  the 
content  and  significance  of 
national  anthems,  the 
myths  and  symbols  of 
national  self-representation, 
and  the  political  culture 
and  activity  of  the  radical 
right  in  Germany. 


Neil  J.  Kressel  '78,  M.A. 
'78,  ed. 

Kressel  is  chair  of  the 
Department  of  Psychology  at 
William  Paterson  College  of 
New  lersey. 

Political  Psychology:  Classic 
and  Contemporary  Readings 
Paragon  House  Publishers 

Political  psychology  applies 
theory  and  research  methods 
from  psychology  to  the 
comprehension  and 
improvement  of  political 
processes.  This 
interdisciplinary  endeavor 
has  developed  steadily  during 
the  past  few  decades  and,  as  a 
result,  political  psychology 
in  the  1990s  looks  very 
different  than  it  did  in  the 
1960s.  Political  psychologists 
also  have  enriched  our 
understanding  of  how  policy 
elites  make  decisions,  how 
the  mass  media  influence  the 
public  and  how  genocidal 
massacres  can  occur.  This 
volume  provides  a 
representative  sampling  of 
important  and  influential 
works  by  psychologists, 
political  scientists, 
psychiatrists,  sociologists 
and  others. 

June  Namias,  Ph.D.  '89 

Namias  is  associate  professor 
of  history  at  the  University 
of  Alaska-Anchorage. 

White  Captives:  Gender  and 

Ethnicity  on  the  American 

Frontier 

The  University  of  North 

Carolina  Press 

From  conventional  literature 
and  history  we  are  used  to  a 
frontier  of  Indian  fighters  and 
war  whoops,  but  this  is  an 
exaggerated,  one- 


44  Brandeis  Review 


NAnilAS 


JUNE  NAMIAS 


Chapel  Hill 


dimensional,  melodramatic 
view  of  America's  frontier 
history.  The  author  offers  a 
new  analysis  of  Indian-white 
coexistence  on  the  American 
frontier.  Her  studies  reveal  a 
different  picture,  more 
involved  with  encounters 
across  cultural  lines,  and 
including  women  and 
children  as  opposed  to  only 
men.  Namias  shows  that 
accounts  of  the  capture  of 
Euro-Americans,  especially 
white  women  and  children, 
are  commentaries  on  the 
uncertain  boundaries  of 
gender,  race  and  culture.  She 
begins  by  comparing  the 
experiences  and 
representations  of  male  and 
female  captives  over  time 
and  on  successive  frontiers 
and  then  uses  the  narratives 
of  three  captives  as  case 
studies  to  provide  a 
framework  for  notions  of 
gender  and  cultural  conflict 
on  the  frontier. 


Elisa  New  '80 

New  IS  the  Esther  K.  and  M. 
Mark  Watkins  Assistant 
Professor  in  the  Humanities 
at  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania. 

The  Regenerate  Lyric: 
Theology  and  Innovation  in 
American  Poetry 
Cambridge  University  Press 

In  The  Regenerate  Lyric,  the 
author  presents  a  major 
revision  of  the  accepted 
historical  account  of 
Emerson  as  the  source  of  the 
American  poetic  tradition. 
She  challenges  the  majority 
opinion  that  Emerson  not 
only  overthrew  New  England 
religious  orthodoxy  but 
founded  a  poetic  tradition 
that  fundamentally 
renounced  that  orthodoxy  in 
favor  of  a  secular 
Romanticism.  Instead,  she 
treats  the  classic  American 
poem  as  the  religious  center 
of  an  already  religiocentric 
literature.  She  contends  that 
Emerson's  reinvention  of 
religion  as  a  species  of  poetry 
was  tested  and  found 
wanting  by  the  very  poetic 
innovators  Emerson 
addressed.  New  examines 
the  poems  in  great  detail,  and 
concludes  finally  that  "it  is 


The 

Regenerate 

Lyric 

Theology  and  Innuvation 
in  Ajnerican  Raetry 


/- 

Kaikh'- 
l'nliul>  Triiiil\ 

H^iir*  Sus-miin 

.>  -MMm 

'regeneracy'  rather  than 
'originality'  that  is  the 
American  poet's  modus 
operandi  and  native 
mandate." 

Jonathan  P.  Siegel, 
M.A. '71,  Ph.D.  '72 

and  Lewis  D.  Eigen 
Siegel  is  president  of 
Information  and 
Communication  Associates, 
Inc.,  a  public  relations  and 
marketing  firm,  and  the 
author  of  several  books  and 
articles. 

The  Macmillan  Dictionary 
of  Political  Quotations 
Macmillan  Publishing 
Company 

The  Macmillan  Dictionary 
of  Political  Quotations  is  a 
practical  tool  for  the 
politician,  speechwriter, 
joumalist,  political  scientist, 
historian,  student  of  politics 
or  anyone  interested  in 
politics  and  its  effect  on  our 
daily  lives.  This  book  is  the 
most  comprehensive  single- 
volume  collection  available 
on  the  subject,  with  more 
than  11,000  entries.  Those 
quoted  range  from  today's 
international  leaders  to 


rulers  of  classical 
civilizations,  and  the 
quotations  are  organized  by 
content  areas  such  as 
democracy;  freedom  and 
liberty;  congress;  voters, 
voting  and  elections; 
corniption  and  graft; 
education;  and  power.  The 
thematic  chapters  are 
arranged  alphabetically  and 
the  quotations  are  numbered 
within  each  chapter.  This 
dictionary  becomes  both  a 
research  tool  and  a 
fascinating  and  entertaining 
look  at  our  political  heritage. 

Lawrence  M.  Solan  '74 

Solan  IS  a  partner  in  the  law 
firm  of  Orans,  Elsen  and 
Lupert  in  New  York  City. 

The  Language  of  fudges 
The  University  of 
Chicago  Press 

Since  many  legal  disputes  are 
battles  over  the  meaning  of  a 
statute,  contract,  testimony 
or  the  Constitution,  judges 
must  interpret  language  in 
order  to  decide  why  one 
proposed  meaning  overrides 
another.  In  making  their 
decisions  about  meaning 
appear  authoritative  and  fair, 
judges  often  write  about  the 
nature  of  linguistic 
interpretation.  In  this  book, 
which  examines  the 
linguistic  analysis  of  law,  the 
author  shows  that  judges 
sometimes  inaccurately 
portray  the  way  we  use 
language,  creating 
inconsistencies  in  their 
decisions  and  threatening  the 
faimess  of  the  judicial 
system.  Solan  finds  that 
judges  often  describe  our  use 
of  language  poorly  because 
there  is  no  clear  relationship 
between  the  principles  of 
linguistics  and  the 
jurisprudential  goals  that  the 
judge  wishes  to  promote. 


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Faculty  Notes 


Henry  Sussman  '68 

Sussman  is  director  of 
comparative  literature  at  the 
State  University  of  New 
York  at  Buffalo. 

The  Trial:  Kafka's  Unholy 

Trinity 

Twayne  Publishers 

Few  writers  of  fiction 
anticipate  the  preoccupations 
of  20th-century  culture  with 
violence,  derangement  and 
language  with  the  lucidity 
that  Franz  Kafka  achieved  in 
his  novel  The  Trial. 
"Someone  must  have  been 
telling  lies  about  Joseph  K., 
for  without  having  done 
anything  wrong  he  was 
arrested  one  fine  morning." 
The  novel,  dealing  with 
Joseph  K.'s  incredulity,  his 
outraged  and  somewhat 
contemptuous  performance 
at  a  preliminary 
interrogation,  his  active 
efforts  to  master  his 
circumstances  by  applying 
common  sense  to  them  and 
the  impact  of  the  proceedings 
upon  his  personal  and 
professional  lives,  furnishes  a 
snapshot  of  not  just  the 
author's  time  and  place,  but 
the  whole  of  the  20th 
century.  In  The  Trial: 
Kafka 's  Unholy  Trinity, 
Sussman  places  the  novel  in 
its  historical,  aesthetic 
and  philosophical  contexts, 
and  examines  Kafka's 
insight  as  a  psychologist  of 
the  artistic  process.  He 
also  examines  the  writers 
Kafka  cherished — 
Dostoevsky,  Gogol,  Balzac 
and  Dickens — and  the 
sustained  influence  of  filial, 
aesthetic  and  messianic 
mentalities  in  his  work. 


Tzvi  Abusch,  M.A.  '64 

Rose  B.  and  Joseph  H.  Cohen 
Professor  of  Assyriology  and 
Ancient  Near  Eastern 
Religion,  was  named  a  fellow 
of  the  Annenberg  Research 
Institute  at  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  where  he  will 
continue  his  research  on 
Babylonian  magic  and 
mythology.  He  also  was 
awarded  a  Senior  Fulbright 
Scholarship  to  support  his 
study  at  the  British  Museum 
of  cuneiform  tablets  dealing 
with  witchcraft.  He  was 
named  an  honorary  research 
fellow  at  University  College, 
London.  For  the  academic 
year  1994-95,  Abusch  was 
named  a  resident  fellow  of 
the  Netherlands  Institute  for 
Advanced  Study  in  the 
Humanities  and  Social 
Sciences,  Royal  Netherlands 
Academy  of  Arts  and 
Sciences.  On  the  occasion  of 
his  appointment,  the 
Institute  is  inviting  a  group 
of  scholars  to  participate  in  a 
research  theme  group 
focusing  their  work  upon 
magic  and  religion  in  the 
ancient  Near  East.  He 
delivered  papers  and  lectures 
at  the  meetings  of  the 
Rencontre  Assyriologique 
Internationale,  the  American 
Oriental  Society  and  the 
World  Congress  of  Jewish 
Studies  as  well  as  to  the 
ancient  studies  programs  at 
the  University  of 
Pennsylvania.  His  topics 
included  analyses  of  sections 
of  the  Epic  of  Gilgamesh  and 
the  identification  of  shared 
cosmological  and  legal 
patterns  in  prophetic  and 
magical  literatures  of  ancient 
Israel  and  Mesopotamia. 
Published  this  year  were 
"Gilgamesh's  Request  and 
Siduri's  Denial.  Part  1:  The 
Meaning  of  the  Dialogue  and 
its  Implications  for  the 
History  of  the  Epic,"  in  The 
Tablet  and  the  Scroll:  Near 
Eastern  Studies  in  Honor  of 
William  W.  Hallo-,  and 
"Gilgamesh's  Request  and 
Siduri's  Denial.  Part  2:  An 
Analysis  and  Interpretation 
of  an  Old  Babylonian 


Fragment  about  Mourning 
and  Celebration,"  in  The 
fournal  of  the  Ancient  Near 
Eastern  Society. 

Eric  Chasalow 

assistant  professor  of 
composition,  was  a  winner 
in  the  New  Publications 
Competition  of  the  National 
Flute  Association  with  his 
composition.  Over  the  Edge 
for  Flute  and  Electronic 
Sounds,  which  was 
performed  at  their  national 
convention  in  Boston. 

Peter  Conrad 

professor  of  sociology, 
published  the  fourtli  edition 
of  Sociology  of  Health  and 
Illness:  Critical  Perspectives 
with  St.  Martin's  Press. 

Stanley  Deser 

Enid  and  Nathan  Ancell 
Professor  of  Physics,  was 
elected  chair  of  the  Scientific 
Board  and  Steering 
Committee  of  the  Institute 
for  Theoretical  Physics, 
University  of  California- 
Santa  Barbara.  The  Institute 
is  a  national  facility  of  the 
National  Science 
Foundation. 

Sylvia  Barack  Fishman, 

assistant  professor  of 
contemporary  Jewry  and 
American  Jewish  sociology; 
Jonathan  Sarna  '75,  M.A. 
'75,  Joseph  H.  and  Belle  R. 
Braun  Professor  of  American 
Jewish  History;  and  Stephen 
Whitfield,  Ph.D.  '72,  Max 
Richter  Professor  of 
American  Civilization, 
delivered  papers  at  the 
international  conference, 
"Envisioning  Israel:  The 
Changing  Ideals  and  Images 
of  North  American  Jews," 
held  in  Beer-Shcva,  Israel. 
Brandeis  alumni  who  also 
participated  in  the 
conference  were  Allon  Gal, 
M.A.  '70,  Ph.D.  '76,  who 


served  as  chair;  Gerald 

Showstack,  M.A.  '72,  M.A. 
'80,  M.A. '81,  Ph.D. '83;  and 
Deborah  Dash  Moore  '67  and 
S.  Ilan  Troen  '63,  who 
delivered  papers.  The 
conference  was  sponsored  by 
Ben-Gurion  University  and 
by  the  American  Jewish 
Congress.  The  papers 
delivered  at  the  conference 
are  expected  to  be  published 
in  Hebrew  and  Enghsh. 

Eberhard  Frey 

associate  professor  of 
German,  was  invited  to 
present  a  paper,  "Exile 
Experience  in  Berthold 
Viertel's  Poetry,"  at  the 
Berthold  Viertel  Symposium, 
Vienna.  This  paper  will  also 
appear  in  the  "Proceedings  of 
the  Symposium."  He  is 
coeditor  of  Das  graue  Tuch: 
Gedichte,  the  collected 
poems  of  Berthold  Viertel  as 
volume  in  of  a  new  edition  of 
his  works. 

Lawrence  H.  Fuchs 

Meyer  and  Walter  Jaffe 
Professor  in  American 
Civilization  and  Politics, 
received  the  first  Carey 
McWilliams  Award  for  The 
American  Kaleidoscope: 
Race,  Ethnicity  and  the 
Civic  Culture  from  The 
Multicultural  Review  and 
the  Kidger  Distinguished 
Historian  Award  from  the 
New  England  History 
Teachers  Association.  The 
U.S.  Commission  on 
Immigration  Reform  elected 
him  actmg  chair  of  the 
commission.  He  delivered 
the  keynote  address, 
"Prospects  for  Immigration 
Policy  Change,"  at  a 
conference  sponsored  by  the 
Urban  Institute,  Washington, 
DC,  and  he  gave  a  talk, 
"Immigration  Policy  and 
Immigration  Law,"  to  a 
United  States  appellate 
judges  meeting  at  the 
Smithsonian  Institution.  He 
published  two  articles: 
"Migration  Research  and 
Immigration  Policy"  in  the 
International  Migration 


46  Brandeis  Review 


Review,  Winter  1992,  and 
"An  Agenda  for  Action: 
Immigration  Policy  and 
Ethnic  Policies"  in  the 
Annals  of  the  American 
Academy  of  Political  and 
Social  Sciences,  November 
1993. 

Janet  Z.  Giele 

professor  and  director  of  the 
Family  and  Children's  Policy 
Center  at  The  Florence 
Fiellcr  School  for  Advanced 
Studies  in  Social  Welfare, 
wsLS  appointed  acting  dean  of 
The  Heller  School. 

Ruth  Gollan 

adjunct  associate  professor  of 
Near  Eastern  and  fudaic 
Studies  and  director,  Hebrev^f 
and  Oriental  Language 
Programs,  was  invited  to 
chair  a  session  on  contrastive 
analysis  in  the  teaching  of 
foreign  and  second  languages 
at  the  Third  International 
Conference  on  the  Teaching 
of  Hebrew  in  Diverse 
Educational  Contexts, 
Hebrew  University, 
Jerusalem. 

Jane  Hale 

associate  professor  of  French 
and  comparative  literature, 
received  a  Fulbright  grant  for 
research  at  Cheikh  Anta 
Diop  University  in  Dakar, 
Senegal,  under  the  African 
Regional  Research  Program. 

Erica  Harth 

professor  of  humanities  and 
women's  studies  and 
director,  Center  for  the 
Humanities,  cotaught 
"Boundaries  of  Domesticity 
in  Early  Modern  Europe," 
with  Elizabeth  Honig,  an  art 
historian  from  Tufts 
University,  and  Anne 
McCants,  an  economic 
historian  from  MIT,  for  the 
new  Radcliffe  Graduate 
Consortium  in  Women's 
Studies,  of  which  Brandeis  is 
a  founding  member. 


Ray  Jackendoff 

professor  of  linguistics  and 
National  Center  for  Complex 
Systems,  presented  an 
invited  address,  "Is  There  a 
Capacity  for  Social 
Cognition?,"  and  a 
workshop,  "On  Natural 
Language  Semantics,"  at  the 
Third  International 
Colloquium  on  Cognitive 
Science,  University  of  the 
Basque  Country,  San 
Sebastian,  Spain.  His  paper 
"'What'  and  'Where'  in 
Spatial  Language  and  Spatial 
Cognition,"  coauthorcd  with 
Barbara  Landau,  appeared  in 
Behavioral  and  Brain 
Sciences. 

Reuven  Kimelman 

associate  professor  of  Near 
Eastern  and  Judaic  Studies, 
addressed  the  1993 
Washington  Conference  of 
the  American  Association  of 
Jewish  Newspapers  on 
"Community  Building  and 
the  Jewish  Tradition."  He 
published  "The  Shema  and 
Its  Rhetoric:  the  Case  for  the 
Shema  Being  More  than 
Creation,  Revelation,  and 
Redemption,"  in  The  journal 
of  Jewish  Thought  and 
Philosophy;  "Ashre:  Psalm 
145  and  the  Liturgy,"  in 
Proceedmgs  of  the 
Rabbinical  Assembly  1992; 
and  "Jewish  Community 
Centers  as  Jewish 
Environment  Centers,"  in 
the  Journal  of  Jewish 
Communal  Service. 

Martin  Levin 

professor  of  politics  and 
director,  Gordon  Public 
Policy  Center,  had  a  report, 
"The  Day  after  the  AIDS 
Vaccine  is  Discovered: 
Management  Matters," 
published  in  The  Journal  of 
Policy  Analysis  and 
Management.  In  this  report, 
he  details  numerous 
potential  pitfalls  involved  in 
implementing  a  campaign  to 
inoculate  all  Americans. 
Urging  political  leaders, 
health  policy  makers  and 
public  managers  to  learn 
from  the  unsuccessful  swme 
flu  vaccination  program. 
Levin  foresees  tremendous 


problems  in  management, 
distribution,  medical  risk 
and  liability,  and 
recommends  taking  action 
now,  before  a  vaccine  is 
available,  to  minimize  these 
issues. 

Michael  Macy 

associate  professor  of 
sociology,  was  awarded  the 
1993  Theory  Prize  of  the 
American  Sociological 
Association  for  his 
forthcoming  paper,  "The 
Structure  of  Collective 
Action,"  which  will  appear 
in  volume  10  of  Advances  in 
Group  Processes.  He  has  also 
been  elected  to  the  editorial 
board  of  American 
Sociological  Review.  He 
presented  a  paper  recently, 
"What  is  Critical  about  the 
Critical  Mass,"  at  the 
International  Institute  of 
Sociology  at  the  Sorbonne. 
Macy  was  also  invited  to  an 
international  workshop  on 
structuralism  and  rational 
choice  theory  held  at  the 
Netherlands  Institute  for 
Advanced  Study.  He  was 
invited  to  participate  in  a 
workshop  on  artificial 
intelligence  applications  in 
the  social  sciences  held  at 
the  National  Center  for 
Supercomputing  at  the 
University  of  Illinois.  He  was 
invited  to  participate  on  a 
panel  on  group  processes  and 
social  theory  at  the  Annual 
Meeting  of  the  American 
Sociological  Association  in 
Miami. 

Joan  Maling 

professor  of  linguistics  and 
National  Center  for  Complex 
Systems,  was  invited  to 
lecture  at  the  University  of 
Helsinki.  Her  lecture, 
"Unpassives  of 
Unaccusatives,"  offered  a 
cross-linguistic  perspective 
on  so-called  impersonal 
passives,  comparing 
constructions  in  Polish, 
Ukrainian,  Irish,  Finnish  and 
Turkish.  Also,  she  was  the 
featured  speaker  at  a 


workshop  on  case  and 
grammatical  functions 
organized  by  the  Linguistic 
Society  of  Finland.  She  gave 
colloquia  presentations  at 
the  University  of  Califomia- 
Irvine,  the  University  of 
Massachusetts-Amherst  and 
the  University  of  Iceland  and 
presented  a  paper,  "Lexical 
Case  in  Middle  Formation: 
German  vs.  Icelandic,"  at  the 
annual  meeting  of  the 
Linguistic  Society  of 
America. 

Alfred  Nisonoff 

professor  of  biology  and 
Rosenstiel  Basic  Medical 
Sciences  Research  Center, 
has  been  awarded  an 
$88,000,  one-year  grant  from 
the  American  Cancer 
Society.  The  grant,  which  is 
in  effect  through  June  1994, 
is  to  support  his  program 
entitled  "Mechanisms  of 
Tolerance  and 
Autoimmunity  to  an 
Edogenous  Protein." 
Nisonoff  was  also  approved 
for  an  additional  year  of 
support  m  the  amount  of 
$91,000  beginning  in  July 
1994,  provided  funds  are 
available. 

Benjamin  C.I.  Ravid  '57 

Jennie  and  Mayer  Weisman 
Professor  of  Jewish  History, 
delivered  an  invited  lecture 
on  "Shylock  and  the  Jewish 
Merchants  of  Venice"  at  the 
University  of  Toronto.  His 
article,  "New  Light  on  the 
Ghetti  of  Venice,"  appeared 
in  the  Shlomo  Simonsohn 
Jubilee  Volume:  Studies  on 
the  History  of  the  Jews  in  the 
Middle  Ages  and 
Renaissance  Period. 

Joseph  Reimer,  M.A.  '70 

associate  professor  in  the 
Homstein  Program,  prepared 
a  paper,  "Where  School  and 
Synagogue  are  Joined,"  for 
the  Consultation  for  the 
Experiment  in 
Congregational  Education 
sponsored  by  Hebrew  Union 
College,  Los  Angeles.  His 
article,  "Between  Parents  and 
Principal:  Social  Drama  in  a 
Synagogue  School,"  appeared 


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in  Contemporary  Jewry  and 
he  contributed  a  portrait  of 
best  practice  in  the 
supplementary  school  to  the 
Best  Practices  Project  of  the 
Council  for  Initiatives  in 
Jewish  Education. 

Jehuda  Reinharz, 
Ph.D.  '72 

provost  and  senior  vice 
president  for  academic  affairs 
and  Richard  Korct  Professor 
of  Modern  Jewish  History, 
was  elected  fellow  of  the 
Royal  Historical  Society  of 
England  and  fellow  of  the 
American  Academy  for 
Jewish  Research.  He  was 
invited  to  serve  on  the 
Academic  Council  of  the  Leo 
Baeck  Institute  and  was 
appointed  to  the  editorial 
advisory  boards  of  Jewish 
History  and  Jewish  Studies 
Quarterly.  He  also  delivered 
lectures  in  Munich  and 
Jerusalem  and  presented  the 
Chaim  Weizmann  Lecture  in 
the  Humanities  on 
"Statecraft  as  the  Art  of  the 
Possible"  at  the  Weizmann 
Institute  of  Science.  The 
lecture  was  issued  as  a 
special  publication  of  the 
Institute. 

Bernard  Reisman, 
Ph.D.  '70 

Klutznick  Professor  of 
Contemporary  Jewish 
Studies  and  director, 
Homstein  Program,  worked 
with  leaders  of  Jewish 
communities  in  Brazil  and 
Alaska  on  building 
community  cohesion, 
establishing  Jewish  social 
services  and  enhancing 
religious  life.  His  work  in 
Brazil  was  concentrated  in 
Sao  Paulo,  home  to  46,000 
Jews,  and  in  Alaska  in  the 
Jewish  communities  of 
Anchorage,  Fairbanks, 
Juneau  and  Ketcliikan. 

Myron  Rosenblum 

Charles  A.  Breskin  Professor 
of  Chemistry,  delivered  an 
invited  seminar  talk  on  "The 


Synthesis  and  Properties  of 
Polymeric  Stacked  Face-to- 
Face  Metallocenes"  at 
Northeastern  University, 
Boston. 

Jonathan  D.  Sarna  '75, 
M.A.  '75 

Joseph  H.  and  Belle  R.  Braun 
Professor  of  American  Jewish 
History,  delivered  the 
opening  paper,  "Revitalizing 
Jewish  Peoplehood  in 
America,"  at  the  Wilstein 
Institute  Colloquium;  and 
the  opening  paper, 
"Envisioning  Israel:  The 
Changing  Ideals  and  Images 
of  North  American  Jews,"  at 
the  Ben-Gurion  University 
conference. 

Stephen  J.  Whitfield, 
Ph.D.  '72 

Max  Richter  Professor  of 
American  Civilization, 
presented  papers  at 
conferences  at  the  University 
of  Pittsburgh  and  at  Ben- 
Gurion  University  in  Beer- 
Sheva,  Israel.  He  published 
his  essay,  "The  Cultural 
Cold  War  as  History,"  in  the 
Virginia  Quarterly  Review. 

Harry  Zohn 

professor  of  German, 
delivered  a  "Wiener 
Vorlesung"  at  the  Vienna 
City  Hall.  He  has  published 
three  articles  in  the 
Encyclopedia  of  World 
Literature  in  the  20th 
Century  and  one  each  in  Inn 
(Innsbruck),  Pataphysics 
(Melbourne)  and  Jiidische 
Kulturwoche  (Vienna). 

Irving  K.  Zola 

Mortimer  Gryzmish 
Professor  of  Human 
Relations,  was  named  the 
1993  recipient  of  the  Lee- 
Founders  Award  of  the 
Society  for  the  Study  of 
Social  Problems.  This  award 
is  made  in  recognition  of 
significant  achievements  in 
the  study  of  ethnic  and/or 
racial  conflict  and  social 
movements,  and  the  role  of 
mass  media  as  related  to 
social  problems,  to  provide 
understanding  and  insight  for 
practical  applications. 


As  a  Fellow  of  Brandeis 
University,  I  enjoyed  reading 
your  Summer  1993  issue  of 
the  Brandeis  Review.  I 
especially  enjoyed  reading 
the  article  about  how 
Brandeis  awarded  George 
Bums,  the  wonderful 
entertainer  and  author,  an 
Honorary  Doctor  of  Humane 
Letters,  in  Los  Angles,  last 
lune.  The  article  then  said, 
"This  was  the  first  occasion 
where  the  University  has 
presented  an  honorary  degree 
off  campus." 

In  1980,  my  late  father-in- 
law,  Rubin  Epstein,  then  a 
Trustee  of  Brandeis 
University,  was  awarded  an 
honorary  degree  at  the  New 
England  Deaconess  Hospital. 
He  was  unfortunately  ill 
with  kidney  failure,  and 
therefore  unable  to  receive 
his  honorary  degree  at  the 
University.  Dr.  Abram 
Sachar  and  Henry  Foster, 
then  chairman  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees,  awarded  him 
this  degree  at  a  ceremony  at 
the  hospital,  something 
neither  he,  nor  any  other 
members  of  the  family,  have 
ever  forgotten.  Since  he  beat 
George  Burns  by  12  years,  I 
have  to  presume  that  his 
honorary  degree  was  actually 
the  first  ever  presented  by 
the  University  off  campus. 

I  am  sure  Ruby  would  be 
delighted  today,  if  he  knew 
that  the  illustrious  George 
Bums  followed  in  his 
footsteps  at  Brandeis 
University. 

Herbert  Carver 

Fellow  of  the  University 

Yarmouthport, 

Massachusetts 


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Correction 

In  the  summer  issue  of  the 
Brandeis  Review.  Shulamit 
Reinharz's  class  numerals 
should  have  read  M.A.  '69, 
Ph.D.  77. 


48  Brandeis  Review 


Alumni 


Expanding  Influence 
Through  Strategic 
Alliances 


Women  have  made 
extraordmary  gains  in 
leadership  roles  in  business 
and  government  over  the  last 
decade.  If  the  trend 
contmues,  American  life,  not 
only  in  the  workplace,  but  in 
society  itself,  will  undergo  a 
substantial  transformation. 
The  advances  were  made 
possible  through  a  variety  of 
efforts,  some  of  them 
pioneered  by  women 
executives  who  sensed  the 
heady  possibilities  a  couple 
of  decades  ago,  and  set 
themselves  to  work  as  agents 
of  change. 

The  diversity  of  lifestyles 
and  mindstyles  in  our  society 
is  dramatically  different  than 
the  decade  in  which  both 
Playboy  and  I  were  bom — 
the  1950s.  At  the  time. 


Norman  Rockwell's  vision  of 
the  family  was  Dad  as  sole 
breadwinner  and  Mom  at 
home  raising  a  couple  of 
children.  Eighty-five  percent 
of  Americans  lived 
accordingly,  while  today, 
only  10  percent  of  Americans 
live  in  that  family  unit.  In 
the  workforce,  the  changes 
are  equally  dramatic.  By  the 
year  2000,  white  males  will 
be  a  minority  in  California — 
a  state  where  today  more 
than  70  languages  are 
spoken. 

This  new  order  means  that 
we'll  have  to  change  our 
attitudes,  habits  and 
institutions.  And  this  much 
change  means  the  future  will 


Christie  Hefner,  who  joined 
Playboy  in  1975,  is  chair  and 
chief  executive  officer  of 
Playboy  Enterprises.  Inc.. 
overseeing  policy, 
management  and  strategy  in 
all  areas  of  the  $215  million 
international  publishing  and 
entertainment  company. 
Prior  to  her  election  to  both 
posts  in  November  1988.  she 
was  vice  chair,  president  and 
chief  operating  officer.  At 
Brandeis.  she  was  elected  to 
Phi  Beta  Kappa  in  her  junior 
year  and  graduated  summa 
cum  laude  with  a  major  in 
English,  and  then  worked  as 
a  journalist  for  a  year. 
During  her  tenure  as 
president  and  in  her  current 
capacity.  Hefner  has 


restructured  operations, 
eliminated  unprofitable 
businesses  and  initiated 
successful  expansion  in 
publishing  and 
entertainment.  She  has  been 
instrumental  in  expanding 
Playboy's  influence 
worldwide  by  forming 
strategic  alliances  with 
international  partners. 

Hefner  is  active  in  a  number 
of  not-for-profit  and  political 
organizations.  She  was  the 
first  woman  elected  to  the 
Chicago  chapter  of  the 
Young  Presidents' 
Organization,  and  currently 


serves  on  numerous  boards 
including  the  American 
Civil  Liberties  Union  of 
Illinois,  the  Magazine 
Publishers  Association,  The 
Nation  Institute  and  the 
National  Council  on  Crime 
and  Delinquency.  In  fuly 
1990,  the  International 
Platform  Association 
presented  Hefner  with  the 
Eleanor  Roosevelt  Award  for 
her  commitment  to  human 
rights  and  civil  liberties  m 
the  tradition  of  the  former 
first  lady.  She  was  inducted 
into  the  Women's  Business 
Development  Center  Hall  of 
Fame  in  1 991  for  opening 
doors,  paving  roads,  building 
opportunities  and  providing 
inspiration  for  all  women 
entrepreneurs.  She  recently 
received  the  1993  Will 


Rogers  Memorial  Award 
from  the  Beverly  Hills 
Chamber  of  Commerce  and 
Civic  Association  for  her 
contributions  to  publishing 
and  entertainment  and  her 
dedication  to  preserving  the 
principles  of  freedom  and 
democracy. 

Hefner  is  a  life  member  of 
the  Brandeis  National 
Women's  Committee  and 
was  elected  a  President's 
Councilor  in  1978.  She  was 
elected  to  the  Board  of 
Trustees  in  1991  and  now 
also  serves  on  the  Executive 
Committee  and  as  the  chair 
of  the  Budget  and  Finance 
Committee. 


49  Fall  1993 


shown  here  is  Christie  Hefner 
speaking  to  the  Brandeis 
University  Women's  Network 
on  campus  in  April 


be  a  time  ot  uncertainty.  But 
for  some,  particularly 
women,  it  will  be  an  age  of 
discovery  and  freedom.  In 
such  an  environment, 
networks,  teams  and 
coalitions  will  have  more 
influence  and  power  than 
traditional  hierarchical 
institutions.  Even  business 
strategy  itself  is  moving 
away  from  the  merger  and 
acquisition  focus  of  the 
1980s  to  strategic  alliances, 
both  domestically  and 
internationally. 

While  I  have  seen  highly 
autocratic  women  managers 
and  very  nurturing  men 
managers,  women  managers 
are  considered,  generally,  to 
be  more  humanistic  and 
involving,  and  what  are 
considered  traditional  female 
personality  traits,  such  as  the 
ability  to  build  a  consensus 


and  encourage  participation, 
are  now  much  in  demand.  I 
personally  believe  that  these 
traits  are  as  much 
generational  as  they  are 
gender-related.  Regardless, 
these  characteristics  will 
have  an  impact  on  how 
organizations  manage  an 
increasingly  diverse 
workplace,  which  must 
allow  opportunities  for 
women  and  also  people  of 
different  ethnic  backgrounds, 
cultures  and  family 
relationships. 

When  thinking  about  the 
future  of  business,  it's 
important  to  adjust  one's 
perception  away  from  large 
corporations  to  small  and 
medium-sized  businesses, 
the  sector  where  the  real 
growth  in  sales  and  jobs  is 
being  created.  Companies 
experiencing  fast  growth  and 
rapid  change  are  the  types  of 
organizations  most 
hospitable  to  nontraditional 
management  styles,  and  they 
are  also,  not  coincidentally, 
the  best  at  providing 
opportunities  for  women.  In 
fact,  based  on  1992  figures, 
the  five  million  plus  women- 
owned  businesses  now 
represent  more  jobs  than  the 
Fortune  500.  If  you  consider 
that  women-owned 
businesses  is  one  of  the 
fastest  growing  segments  of 
the  United  States  economy, 
and  that  small-to-medium- 
sized  growth  businesses  will 
become  the  fast  growing 
companies  of  the  future,  then 


you  begin  to  understand  the 
inroads  that  women  are 
making.  The  Small  Business 
Administration  underscores 
this  progress  by  predicting 
that  women  will  own  40  to 
50  percent  of  small 
businesses  by  the  year  2000. 

Women  are  not  only 
contributing  dramatically  as 
entrepreneurs,  but  also  in 
redefining  business 
relationships  with 
employees,  driving  home  the 
realization  that  a  balance 
must  be  struck  between 
work  and  family,  an 
equilibrium  that  both 
women  and  men  who  parent 
must  find.  At  Playboy 
Enterprises,  where  almost  50 
percent  of  our  managers  are 
women  and  35  percent  have 
children,  we  have  very 
successful  flex  time,  flex 
benefits  and  permanent  part- 
time  work  status  programs. 

The  networking  and 
partnership  modes  that  have 
been  key  to  women's 
business  success  are  also 
relevant  to  the  recent 
achievements  of  women  m 
politics.  Qualities  that  many 
people  want  to  see  in  the 
leaders  of  the  future  match 
characteristics  typically 
associated  with  women's 
leadership  style:  openness, 
trust,  compassion, 
understanding.  Indeed,  in  a 
U.S.  News  and  World  Report 
poll  published  last  April,  a 
stunning  61  percent  of  those 
surveyed  thought  the 
country  would  be  governed 
better  if  more  women  held 
political  office;  that's  up 
from  only  28  percent  in 
1984.  In  the  recently 
published  Megatrends  for 
Women,  by  Patricia 
Aberdeen  and  John  Neshitt, 


the  authors  predict  that 
women  will  hold  at  least  35 
percent  of  the  governorships 
in  the  United  States  by  2008, 
and  that  a  woman  will  be 
elected  president  by  2002. 

We  know  from  the  1992 
election  that  women  can 
represent  significant  power 
since  they  compose  54 
percent  of  the  electorate. 
There  is  a  gender  gap 
between  the  ways  men  and 
women  vote.  The  final 
adjusted  poll  results  show 
that  Bill  Clinton  received  45 
percent  of  women's  votes, 
compared  with  41  percent  of 
men's  votes.  Moreover,  Voter 
Research  &  Surveys'  figures 
reported  in  The  New  York 
Times  showed  the  gender  gap 
was  particularly  pronounced 
among  younger  voters,  with 

48  percent  of  women  18  to 
29  years  old,  compared  with 
only  38  percent  of  men  the 
same  age,  voting  for  the 
Democratic  ticket.  Similarly, 

49  percent  of  female  college 
graduates  compared  with 
only  40  percent  of  male 
college  graduates  voted  for 
Clinton.  The  fact  that 
younger,  better  educated  and 
employed  women  were 
major  contributors  to  the 
gender  gap  suggests  that  their 
influence  will  grow. 

All  of  this  new-found  power 
and  opportunity  in  politics 
did  not  happen  in  a  vacuum. 
Years  of  preparation, 
including  pioneering  races  in 
the  1970s  and  the  launching 
of  EMILY'S  List  (EMILY  is  an 
acronym  for  Early  Money  Is 
Like  Yeast:  it  makes  the 


50  Brandeis  Review 


dough  rise),  have  paid  off.  By 
pinpointing  one  of  the  major 
hurdles  for  women 
candidates — the  lack  of  early 
money — EMILY's  List  was 
founded  by  a  group  of  us  in 
the  mid-1980s  to  provide 
that  key  support  early  on  in  a 
number  of  races.  In  1992, 
EMILY'S  List  was  the  single 
largest  donor  to  political 
races,  giving  over  $6  million 
to  pro-choice  Democratic 
women  candidates. 

I've  been  involved  in  starting 
three  women's  networks  in 
addition  to  EMILY'S  List. 
Two  years  ago  a  group  of 
activist  women  in  Chicago 
formed  the  Women's  Issues 
Network  (WIN)  to  work  on 
progressive  political  issues 
together.  Our  first  project 
was  a  documentary  film  and 
a  series  of  leadership 
briefings  on  RU486,  which 
helped  to  raise  awareness 
about  this  example  of  science 
being  held  hostage  to  the 
politics  of  the  right-to-lifers. 

In  1979  I  was  one  of  a  group 
of  women  in  Chicago  who 
formed  The  Chicago 
Network  to  bring  together 


women  of  prominence  from 
a  wide  variety  of  interests, 
including  academics, 
religion,  the  military,  arts, 
professions,  business  and  the 
media  to  share  experiences 
and  to  support  each  other. 
Today,  there  are  almost  200 
women  in  The  Chicago 
Network,  and  we,  along  with 
a  handful  of  women's 
networks  in  other  cities, 
formed  an  alliance  10  years 
ago  to  create  the 
International  Women's 
Forum,  which  now  consists 
of  37  forums  in  13  countries. 

In  1982  I  was  also  one  of  20 
women  who  founded  The 
Committee  of  200.  In  fact. 
Playboy  Enterprises  put  up 
the  seed  money  to  do  the 
research  that  identified  over 
200  successful  female 
entrepreneurs  and  invited 
them  to  each  give  $1,000  to 
be  used  as  seed  money  to 
rejuvenate  the  National 


Association  of  Women 
Business  Owners  and  to 
finance  a  single  conference 
for  the  women  to  meet 
each  other. 

The  power  that  was 
unleashed  by  those  women 
at  their  first  meeting  in  Los 
Angeles  took  on  a  life  of  its 
own,  and  now  The 
Committee  of  200  has  over 
240  members  who  run 
multimilhon  dollar 
companies,  including  over  a 
dozen  women's  companies 
with  sales  over  $100  million. 
As  the  members  of  both  The 
Chicago  Network  and  The 
Committee  of  200  have 
gained  confidence  and  power, 
the  groups  have  become 
more  outward  looking, 
setting  up  foundation, 
scholarship  and  mentoring 
programs. 

All  in  all,  women  have  made 
great  strides  during  the  last 
several  decades.  Individual 
leadership  has  been 
demonstrated  repeatedly  by 
extraordinary 
accomplishments  in  all 
segments  of  society, 
including  finance,  media, 
politics  and  law.  Early  efforts 
by  the  new  administration  in 
Washington,  including  some 
key  appointments,  should 
provide  women  with 
additional  inspiration  to 
forge  ahead.  Networking  has 
moved  from  women's-only 
groups  to  a  more  effective 
way  of  "doing  business." 
Working  together  and 
utilizing  our  strengths, 
women  will  shape  and  direct 
the  future,  not  only  for 
our  daughters,  but  our  sons 
as  well. 


Christie  Hefner  '74 


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Homecoming, 
Reunion,  Wien 
Alumni  Celebrate 
on  Campus 


New  England  foliage  nearing 
its  peak  sparked  the 
atmosphere  during  a  full 
weekend  of  celebrations  for 
Homecoming,  the  Reunion 
classes  of  1973,  1978,  1983 
and  1988  and  a  special  35th 
Anniversary  celebration  of 
the  founding  of  the  Wien 
International  Scholarship 
Program. 

The  weekend  marked  the 
first  time  that  Reunion  was 
held  in  the  fall,  allowing 
alumni  the  opportunity  of 
auditing  classes  and  mingling 
with  students  and  faculty  in 
a  way  that  has  not  been 
possible  during  the 
traditional  Reunions  that 
competed  with 
Commencement.  It  also 


marked  the  first  time  that 
Homecoming  programs  were 
designed  for  students  and 
alumni  to  attend  such  events 
as  a  showing  of  Dave,  a 
"Decadance"  featuring 
music  of  decades  from  the 
sixties  to  the  nineties,  a  crew 
exhibition  on  the  Charles 
River,  a  comedy  cabaret,  a 
rugby  game,  a  Homecoming 
barbecue  and  men's  and 
women's  soccer  games 
against  both  the  University 
of  Chicago  and  Washington 
University,  Jim  Herbst  '94,  a 
member  of  the  Student 
Alumni  Association,  said, 
"The  weekend  provided  so 
many  opportunities  to  tell 
alumni  about  life  at  Brandeis 


Reunion  Gift  leadership 
present  University  President 
Samuel  O.  Thier  a  check  for 
$155,217,  representing  the 
total  funds  raised  by  the 
Classes  of  1973,  1978,  1983 
and  1988.  Shown  with 
President  Thier  are,  left  to 
right,  Robin  Sherman  '83, 
Stephen  Harris  '83.  fan 
Solomon  '73,  Albert 


Spevak  '73,  Mitchel 
Appelbaum  '88,  10th 
Reunion  Program  cochairs 
Laura  Rotenberg  '83  and 
David  Levine  '83  and  Bruce 
B.  Litwer  '61,  president  of 
the  Alumni  Association. 
Not  shown  are  Renee 
Heyman  Nachbar  '78  and 
Susan  Tevelow  Feinstein  '88 


today  and  work  out  with 
them  at  the  Gosman  Sports 
and  Convocation  Center, 
which  most  of  them  had 
never  seen." 

The  weekend  provided  a 
blend  of  intellectual,  social 
and  both  participatory  and 
spectator  athletic 
opportunities.  Reunion 
classes  heard  Provost  and 
Senior  Vice  President  for 
Academic  Affairs  Jehuda 
Reinharz,  Ph.D.  '72  describe 
the  new  Brandeis  curriculum 
and  comment  on  many  of 
the  new  faculty 
appointments,  and  joined  the 
Wien  international  scholars 
for  a  stirring  keynote  address 
by  Dimitrij  Rupel,  Ph.D.  '76, 
former  foreign  minister  of 
Slovenia  and  now  member  of 
the  Slovenian  parliament  and 
chair  of  the  Culture, 
Education  and  Sports 
Committee  for  the  now- 
independent  republic  in  the 
former  Yugoslavia.  Alumni 
and  faculty  authors  were 
honored  at  a  reception  where 
authors  talked  about  and 
displayed  their  works. 

Rupel  and  Marshall 
Herskovitz  '73,  well-known 
TV  and  movie  writer, 
director  and  producer  of 
"thirtysomething,"  were 


presented  with  Alumni 
Achievement  Awards  by 
President  Thier.  Other 
Reunion  awards  were 
presented  to  a  number  of 
individuals,  and  the  Student 
Alumni  Association 
presented  Pride  Awards  to 
honor  alumni  in  each 
Reunion  class  whose 
accomplishments  instill 
particular  pride.  Pride  Award 
recipients  were  Dr.  Lee 
Brooks  '73,  a  Cleveland 
specialist  in  pediatric  sleep 
disorders  and  Sudden  Infant 
Death  Syndrome;  Marc 
Draisen  '78,  Massachusetts 
state  representative  and 
candidate  for  lieutenant 
governor;  Jennifer  Casolo  '83, 
former  church  worker  and 
peace  activist  in  Central 


Wien  alumnus  Dimitrij 
Rupel,  Ph.D.  '76  answers  a 
student's  question  after 
receiving  his  1993  Alumni 
Achievement  Award 


52  Brandeis  Review 


Alumni  Achievement  Award 
recipient  Marshall 
Herskovitz  73  speaks  to 
students  about  careers 
in  the  film  and  'TV  industry 


Alumni  Honored 
at  Founders'  Day 
Weekend 


America,-  and  David 
Roscnblum  '88,  an  attorney 
with  the  Equal  Employment 
Opportunity  Commission  m 
Philadelphia. 

Meals  ranged  from  casual 
outdoor  barbecues  to  more 
formal  dinner  dances  at 
nearby  hotels.  The  Wicn 
Anniversary  included  a  Board 
of  Overseers  meeting, 
attended  by  current  Wien 
scholars  and  alumni,  and  was 
capped  by  a  special  dinner  at 
the  home  of  President  and 
Mrs.  Samuel  O.  Thier. 


Wien  alumni  Janet  Mattel  '65, 
Adriano  Arcelo  '63  and 
Masaoki  Nagahama  '61 
celebrate  the  35th  anniversary 
of  the  Wien  International 
Scholarship  Program 


Right.  Marc  Draisen  '78, 
Jennifer  Casolo  '83,  David 
Rosenblum  '88  and  Lee 
Brooks  '73  received  Student 
Pride  Awards  from  the 
Student  Alumni  Association 
in  recognition  of  their 
professional  achievements 


Above.  Stanley  Porter,  Jr.  '96 
presents  a  gift  sweatshirt  to 
Juan  Marcehno  '78  of  the 
Securities  and  Exchange 
Commission,  who  addressed 
a  group  of  students  and 
alumni  at  a  Minority 
Alumni  Network  Luncheon 
at  the  Intercultural  Center 


Below  right,  Donald 
Lessem  '73.  founder  of  the 
Dinosaur  Society 
and  consultant  to  the  film 
Jurassic  Park,  explains 
saurian  theory  to  interested 
parties  of  all  ages  at  the 
Reunion  Family  Brunch 


Alumni  Association  and 
Alumni  Leadership  Awards 
were  presented  by  President 
Samuel  O.  Thier  at  a  special 
recognition  ceremony  prior 
to  the  Founders'  Day  Dinner. 
Morry  Stein  'uS8  received  the 
Service  to  Association  Award 
and  Jeffrey  Shapiro  '84 
received  the  Young 
Leadership  Award. 
Recognized  for  their  long- 
term  exemplary  leadership 
were  Rena  Blumberg  '36  and 
J.  Victor  Samuels  '63,  both  of 
whom  recently  concluded 
temis  of  service  as  Trustees 
and  Chairs  of  the  Fellows, 
[eannette  Lerman  '69,  vice 
president  of  corporate 
communications  for  Time 
Warner,  was  honored  at  the 
Founders'  Day  Dinner 
with  an  Alumni 
Achievement  Award. 


53  Fall  1993 


Class  Notes 


'56 


'74 


Leona  Feldman  Curhan,  Class 
Correspondent,  6  Tide  Winds 
Terrace,  Marblehead,  MA  01945 

Norma  Rajeck  Matder's  first  novel. 
An  Eye  for  Dark  Phiccs,  was 
published  in  (uly.  Formerly  a 
singer  of  avant  garde  music, 
specializing  in  improvisation,  she 
performed  in  New  York  and  the 
Midwest  until  1980  when  she 
began  writing.  Her  fiction  and 
nonfiction  works  have  appeared  in 
The  Georgia  Review,  and  a  story, 
"Out  of  Sight,  Out  of  Mind," 
appeared  in  the  summer  issue  of 
The  Gettysburg  Review. 

'58 

Allan  W.  Drachman,  Class 
Correspondent,  115  Mayo  Road, 
Wellesley,  MA  02181 

Carol  Shanis  Feskin  is  a  sales 
representative  for  Staples,  Inc.,  and 
director  for  Communications 
Resource  Center.  She  also  writes, 
has  two  grown  daughters  and  says 
the  bottom  line  is  that  she  has  a 
great  life. 

'62 

Ann  Lcder  Sharon,  Class 
Correspondent,  13890  Ravenwood 
Drive,  Saratoga,  CA  95070 

Judith  Giatzer  Wechsler  is  chair  of 
the  art  and  art  history  departments 
and  National  Endowment  for  the 
Humanities  Professor  of  Art 
History  at  Tufts  University.  She 
published  an  article  on  "The 
Illustrations  of  Samuel  Beckett," 
which  appeared  in  the  summer  Art 
Journal,  and  an  essay  that  was 
included  in  the  Metropolitan 
Museum  of  Art  catalog  Daumier 
Drawings.  Previously,  she 
produced  and  directed  13  films  on 
art,  most  recently  on  Jasper  Johns 
and  Aaron  Siskind. 

'63 

Miriam  Osier  Hyman,  Class 
Correspondent,  140  East  72nd 
Street,  Apt.  16B,  New  York,  NY 
10021. 

Constance  Berke  Boykan  is 

executive  director  of  The  Alumni 
and  Friends  of  LaGuardia  High 
School  of  Music  and  Art  and 
Performing  Arts. 

'65 

Anita  |.  Blau  received  the  Women 
on  the  Move  Award  from  the 
Albuquerque,  NM,  YWCA  for  her 
leadership  in  education  and 
community  activism.  In  addition 
to  teaching  language  arts  and 
social  studies  at  Albuquerque  High 
School,  she  is  a  member  of  the 
Albuquerque  Citizen  Advisory 
Group,  a  task  force  dealing  with 


Anita  f.  Blau 

community  block  grants,  and  the 
public  schools'  EEO  Advisory 
Council.  She  is  a  member  of  the 
board  of  directors  of  Healing  the 
Children,  the  Rotary  Club  of  Rio 
Rancho,  New  Mexico  Odyssey  of 
the  Mind  and  the  Good  Shepherd 
Center,  a  homeless  shelter.  She 
also  sponsors  the  Interact  Club,  a 
community  service  organization 
for  teenagers  dedicated  to  helping 
the  needv  of  Albuquerque. 

'68 

Jay  R.  Kaufman,  Class 
Correspondent,  One  Childs  Road, 
Lexington,  MA  02 173 

Alex  Barkas  is  a  partner  in  Kleiner, 
Perkins,  Caufield  &.  Byers,  a 
venture  company  that  begins  and 
invests  in  new  health  care 
companies.  He  says  he  enjoys 
helping  other  people  convert 
leading-edge  science  into 
commercial  opportunities  much 
more  than  he  ever  liked  to  work  in 
the  lab.  His  wife,  Lynda  Wijcik,  is 
a  consultant  on  technology  and 
market  issues  in  biotechnology, 
pharmaceuticals  and  diagnostics. 
Aloysius  B.  Cuyjet,  M.D.  was 
appointed  chief  of  medicine  at 
United  Hospitals  Medical  Center 
in  Newark,  NJ.  He  and  his  wife, 
Beverly  Granger,  D.D.S.,  reside  in 
Glen  Cove,  NY.  Nancy  Federman 
Kaplan  was  appointed  director  of 
the  Midrasha  College  of  Jewish 
Studies,  the  adult  education  arm  of 
the  metropolitan  Detroit  Agency 
for  lewish  Education.  She  is  also 
an  adult  and  family  education 
consultant  to  the  Hillel  Day 
School  of  Metropolitan  Detroit. 
She  and  her  thyroidologist 
husband,  Mike,  16-year-old  son, 
Dan,  and  12-year-old  daughter. 


Nancy  f.  Kaplan 

Amy,  moved  from  Boston  to 
Detroit  in  1988.  Klari  Neuwelt 
formed  her  own  law  firm  in  New 
York  City,  concentrating  in 
securities,  class  actions  and  other 
complex  litigation.  Bernard  Rous 
is  associate  director  of  publications 
at  the  Association  for  Computing 
Machinery  in  New  York  City 
where  he  manages  the  transition 
from  global  communications  based 
on  paper  to  electronic  network 
access  and  the  distribution  of 
digital  information.  He  lives  in 
Teaneck,  NJ,  with  his  wife.  Sue 
Grand,  a  clinical  psychologist,  and 
"five  cats,  no  kids."  Gila  Brand 
Svirsky  lives  in  Jerusalem  where 
she  works  as  a  translator  and  a 
consultant  to  foundations  that 
make  grants  in  Israel.  Most  of  her 
time  goes  to  peace  and  human 
rights  work:  she  is  chair  of 
B'Tselem  (human  rights  in  the 
occupied  territories),  editor  of  the 
Women  in  Black  newsletter  and  an 
active  member  of  the  board  of  the 
Adam  Institute  for  Peace  and 
Democracy.  She  is  also  active  in 
feminist  and  gay  rights 
organizations.  Svirsky  has  two 
daughters  and  lives  with  her 
partner  of  seven  years. 


'69 


Rachel  Robin  McCallister  received 
the  Les  Mason  Award,  the  highest 
honor  given  to  a  Publicist  Guild  of 
America  member  for  career 
achievements  that  reflect  the 
motion  picture  and  television 
profession's  highest  standards. 

'72 

Marc  L.  Eisenstock,  Class 
Correspondent,  Plastics  Unlimited 
Inc.,  80  Winter  Street,  Worcester, 
MA  01604 

Aaron  Spechler  is  managing 
partner  of  a  CPA  firm  in  Santa 
Barbara,  and  recently  earned  a 
master's  degree  in  taxation. 

'73 

Amy  E.  Golahny,  Ph.D.  is  an 
associate  professor  of  art  and  art 
department  chair  at  Lycoming 
College,  in  Williamsport,  PA. 


Elizabeth  Sarason  Pfau,  Class 
Correspondent,  80  Monadnock 
Road,  Chestnut  Hill,  MA  02167 

Joel  Fiedler,  M.D.  is  secretary- 
treasurer  of  the  board  of  directors 
of  Garden  State  Medical  Group, 
the  largest  physician-run 
multispecialty  group  in  New 
Jersey.  He  is  also  on  the  executive 
committee  of  the  New  Jersey 
Allergy  Society  and  is  interim 
director  of  the  Pediatric  Asthma 
Clinic  at  Cooper  Hospital,  a  major 
teaching  affiliate  of  Robert  Wood 
Medical  School. 

'75 

Michael  L.  Leshin  was  elected  vice 
president  of  the  Massachusetts 
Council  on  Family  Mediation  and 
was  appointed  chair  of  the  family 
law  section  of  the  Boston  Bar 
Association  for  1993-94.  He  is  a 
divorce  mediator  and  family  law 
attorney  at  Hemenway  &  Barnes 
in  Boston.  Joseph  A.  Reiman  is 
chair  and  chief  executive  officer  of 
The  Joey  Reiman  Agency,  whose 
clients  include  General  Tire,  GTE, 


[oseph  A.  Reiman 

Days  Inns,  RJR/Nabisco,  Turner 
Network  Television  and  more. 
The  agency  spearheaded  Atlanta's 
successful  bid  for  the  1996 
Olympic  Games  and  has 
dominated  the  Atlanta  advertising 
market,  winning  Best  of  Show  in 
each  of  the  last  four  years'  Altanta 
Addy  Award  competition.  It  has 
also  won  over  300  awards  in 
national  and  international 
competitions.  Reiman  authored 
The  Original  Success  Handbook, 
now  in  its  second  printing. 
Reiman's  philanthropy  includes 
ORFun,  a  nonprofit  organization 
he  founded  to  raise  money  for 
emotionally  battered  children.  He 
also  sits  on  the  board  of  directors 
of  CampFire  Boys  and  Girls,  the 
Cystic  Fibrosis  Foundation  and 
The  American  Red  Cross.  Reiman 


54  Brandeis  Review 


News  Notes 


IS  happily  married  to  Cynthia 
Good,  news  anchor  for  Atlanta's 
television  station,  WAGA.  Lauren 
Stiller  Rikleen  is  chair  of 
environmental  practice  and  a 
partner  in  the  law  firm  of 
Bowditch  &  Dewey.  She  was 
selected  to  receive  the 
Toastmasters'  International 
Communication  and  Leadership 
Award  for  her  "outstanding 
commitment  and  service  to  her 
community  through 
communication  and  leadership." 
In  addition  to  her  professional 
accomplishments,  she  is  a  founder 
of  MetroWest  Harvest,  a  surplus 
food  distribution  organization,  and 
serves  on  numerous  boards  of 
nonprofit  organizations. 

'76 

Beth  Pearlman  Rotenberg,  Class 
Correspondent,  2743  Dean 
Tarkway,  Minneapolis,  MN  55416 

Liane  Kupferberg-Carter  enjoys 
raising  her  two  sons  and  is  a  free- 
lance writer  whose  articles  have 
appeared  m  Child  Magazine. 
Glamour  and  Newsday. 
Linda  S.  Sher,  M.D.,  assistant 
director  of  liver  transplants  in  the 
Department  of  Surgery  at  Cedars- 
Sinai  Hospital  in  Los  Angeles, 
lives  in  Beverly  Hills  with  her 
husband,  Barry  Cynowieg,  and 
daughter,  Jessica,  age  4. 

'78 

Valeric  Troyansky,  Class 
Correspondent,  210  West  89th 
Street  #6C,  New  York,  NY  10024 

Carol  Kaplan  Breitner  is  a  self- 
employed,  part-time  tax  attorney 
who  has  earned  her  black  belt  in 
the  Korean  martial  art  of  tae  kwon 
do.  She  studies  and  teaches  at  the 
Ihoon  Rhee  Institute  of  Tae  Kwon 
Do  in  Annandale,  VA,  and  lives  in 
Falls  Church,  VA,  with  her 
husband  and  two  children.  Marta 
F.  Kauffman  won  a  CableAce 
Award  from  the  National 
Academy  of  Cable  Programming 
for  her  writing  of  "Peter's  Sake," 
an  episode  of  "Dream  On,"  an 
HBc3  comedy.  Neil  |.  Kressel 
published  articles  in  American 
journal  of  Sociology, 
Contemporary  Psychology, 
Political  Psychology  and 
Midstream.  His  wife  is  editor  in 
chief  of  the  Fordham  Law  Review. 
Sarah  A.  Siegel  was  appointed  as 
the  attorney  for  the  city  of 
Clayton,  MO,  and  also  works  as  an 
associate  with  Suelthaus  & 
Kaplan,  P.C.  Siegel  earned  her  law 
degree  from  the  University  of 
Washington  and  is  a  member  of 
the  Missouri  Bar  Association,  the 
Bar  Association  of  Metropolitan  St. 


Saiah  A.  Siegel 

Louis,  the  Women  Lawyers 
Association  and  the  National 
Association  of  Housing  and 
Redevelopment. 

'79 

Ruth  Strauss  Fleischmann,  Class 
Correspondent,  8  Angler  Road, 
Lexington,  MA  02 173 

David  M.  Adlerstein  is  the  editor 
of  The  Bellville  Star,  a  small 
newspaper  serving  the  villages  of 
Bellville  and  Butler,  OH.  Linda  R. 
Alpert  works  as  a  litigation 
attorney  and  lives  in  New  York 
with  her  husband,  Mark,  and  sons, 
Jeffrey  and  Daniel.  Pamela  K. 
Anderson  is  regional  director  of 
the  Peace  Corps  in  Chicago,  where 
she  is  responsible  for  development 
and  implementation  strategies  in 
the  states  of  Illinois  and  Indiana. 
She  completed  her  master's  degree 
in  management  from 
Northwestern  University  in  1984 
and  was  elected  a  member  of  the 
National  Black  M.B.A.  Association 
board  of  directors.  Rachel  Frydman 
Brem  is  director  of  breast  imaging 
at  St.  Joseph's  Hospital.  She 
completed  her  graduate  studies  at 
Columbia  University  School  of 
Medicine  and  did  her  radiology 
residency  at  Johns  Hopkins.  Her 
husband,  Henry,  is  a  full  professor 
of  neurosurgery  and  director  of 
neurosurgical  oncology  at  Johns 
Hopkins.  They  have  three 
daughters,  Andrea,  age  10,  and 
twins,  Alisat  and  Sarah,  age  7. 
John  D.  Berke  is  an  attorney  for 
the  FDIC.  He  and  his  wife  have  a 
newborn  daughter,  Alexandra. 
Drew  Alan  Brodsky,  IH.D.  joined 
the  Cape  Cod  Anesthesia 
Associates  in  Hyannis,  MA.  Jeff 
Burman  is  married  to  Tsilah 
Soloman  Burman  '80,  has  a 
daughter,  Zipporah  Rose,  and  is 
working  on  a  screenplav  based  on 
the  life  of  Eugene  Debs.  William  L. 
Buttenwieser,  a  pilot  with  a 


et)rporate  flight  department  in 
White  Plains,  NY,  says  he  really 
enioys  seeing  the  world  from 
41,000  feet.  He  and  his  wife,  Lisa, 
have  two  daughters.  Brian  R. 
Cantor  fonned  an  art  collecting 
business.  Gallery  613,  in  Santa 
Monica,  CA,  that  specializes  in 
modem  and  contemporary  works 
on  paper  by  top  international 
artists  Howard  B.  Cetel,  D.D.S. 
and  his  wife,  Rosanne  Levinson 
Cetel  '80,  have  two  children,  Jason 
and  Steve.  Cetel  says  that  spending 
time  with  his  family  is  his  biggest 
|oy.  Steven  Cooper,  M.D.,  is  in 
full-time  practice  of  internal 
medicme  and  pediatrics.  He  and 
his  wife,  Linda,  have  two  children, 
Jackie  and  Ben  Deborah  Shalowitz 
Cowans  is  an  associate  editor  at 
Business  Insurance,  a  weekly 
business  magazine  published  by 
Cram  Communications  in 
Chicago.  She  and  her  consultant 
husband,  Bruce,  have  two  children, 
Deena  Shira  and  Aaron  Isaac. 
David  L.  Crane  won  a  CableAce 
Award  from  the  National 
Academy  of  Cable  Programming 
for  his  writing  of  "Peter's  Sake," 
an  episode  of  "Dream  On,"  an 
HBO  comedy.  Erika  Wapner 
Degens  is  involved  in  volunteer 
work  in  video  production  and 
editing.  She  and  her  husband, 
Sebastian  Degens  '80,  live  in 
Portland  with  their  two  children. 
William  H.  Diamond  is  a  founding 
partner  of  Decampo,  Diamond  & 
Ash,  a  New  York  City  law  firm 
specializing  in  complex 
commercial  real  estate  and 
corporate  transactions.  Marci  B. 
Dickman  is  director  of  educational 
services  for  the  Board  of  lewish 
Education  of  Baltimore,  Inc.  She 
and  her  husband,  Ralph  Schwartz, 
have  three  children  and  live  in 
Randallstown,  MD.  Mohammad  A. 
Faisal  is  in  private  practice  in 
gastroenterology  in  Florida  and 
was  elected  a  fellow  of  the 
American  College  of 
Gastroenterology.  He  and  his  wife, 
Punam,  have  three  children, 
Fahim,  Farzana  and  Farha.  Bruce  J. 
Fingeret  works  for  an 
entertainment  and  merchandising 
company  that  represents  such  acts 
as  The  Rolling  Stones,  Guns  and 
Roses,  Grateful  Dead,  Harry 
Connick,  Jr.  and  Paul  McCartney. 
He  and  his  wife,  Rubi  Finkelstein 
Fingeret  '81,  live  in  Guttenherg, 
NJ.  with  their  son,  Samuel.  Alan  E. 
Garfield  is  an  associate  professor  of 
law  at  Widener  University  in 
Delaware.  He  and  his  wife,  Phyllis 
Rubin,  have  a  1 -year-old  daughter, 
Hannah  Catharyn  Blumberg 
Gildesgame  is  administrator  of 
radiology  and  radiation  oncology  at 
Children's  Hospital,  Boston,  and 
the  mother  of  three  children, 
Sophie  Rose,  age  1,  Jesse,  age  3, 


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Class 

Brandeis  Parent(s) 

Child's  Name 

Date 

1974 

Steven  Gerber 

Joely  Bess 

February  9,  1993 

1975 

Michael  L.  Leshin 

Rachel  Arielle 

February  7,  1993 

1976 

Liane  Kupferberg 
Carter 

Michael  Gabriel 

July  16,  1992 

Michael  Letchinger 

Riva 

October  15,  1992 

and  Michele  Pollak 

Roy  M.  Levinson 

liana  Beth 

April  9,  1993 

1978 

Andrea 
Rogow-Kowaz 

Ruth  May 

May  14,  1993 

1979 

Miriam  Siegel 
Klepner 

Julia  Lauren 

April  18,  1993 

1980 

Laura  Moskowitz 
Greenstein 

David 

June  29,  1992 

1981 

Alane  Brown 

Kathcrine  Thcssaly 

March  13,  1993 

Elizabeth  Waxman 

Micah  Reuven 

April  18,  1993 

Gordis 

Scott  G.  Schiller  and 

Aaron  Luke  Morgan 

April  21,  1993 

Carole  Bowman 

Schiller  '82 

1982 

David  Arons 

Joshua  Bcniamin 

May  15,  1993 

Julie  Kaplan 

Corey  Lee 

FebuaryS,  1993 

Eric  Pomerantz  and 

Elana  Beth 

April  7,  1992 

Sally  Michael-Pomerantz  '83 

1983 

Jamie  Diament 

Benjamin  Dylan 

April  2,  1993 

Golub 

Zachary  Adin 

Rose  Anne  Nadel 

Paul  Joshua 

June  23,  1992 

1984 

Naomi  L.  Kirshner 
and  David  Tracer 

Marya  Evelyn  Tracer 

April  6,  1993 

Maria  Figman-Pinsker 

Jamie 

April  12,  1993 

and  Neil  Pinsker 

Arielle 

February  14,  1990 

1985 

Mark  Blumenthal 

Jessica 

November  18,  1992 

Lauren  Schwartz 

Gabrielle  Jade 

April  29,  1993 

Lynfield 

1986 

Steffanie  Sabbaj 

Gabriel 

March  20,  1993 

Judith  Shanok 

Shira  Davina 

May  15,  1991 

Kaili  Shoshana 

October  7,  1992 

1987 

Susan  Frost  Byrnes 

Victoria 

January  26,  1993 

Robert  Meltzer  and 

Mancl  Hannah 

May  25,  1993 

Sharon  Camm  '88 

Alan  N.  Kay  and 

Rachel  Lynn 

April  23,  1993 

Heidi  S.  Kay 

Diane  Lederman 

Samantha  Michaela 

August  27,  1992 

Sharon 

1989 

Jeffrey  Gladstone 

Rebecca  Wynne 

March  20,  1993 

and  Emma,  age  5.  Ruth  B. 
Goldberg  is  in  a  part-time  private 
practice  in  clinical  psychology, 
specializing  in  problems  of  anxious 
and  depressed  children.  She  has 
tJiree  children,  Daniel,  Leila  and 
Joshua.  Arthur  Hagler  is  director  of 
program  administration  with 
Caroline  and  Joseph  S.  Gruss  Life 
Monument  Funds,  Inc.  He  and  his 
wife,  Carol,  have  three  children, 
Michelle,  Daniel  and  Jonathan. 
Sheila  Maynard  Hampton,  director 
of  Trinity  Christian  Academy  and 
owner  and  instructor  of  a  Kumno 
Mathematix  franchise  in 
Huntsville,  AL,  has  been  selected 
as  a  distinguished  educator  in 
Who's  Who  in  American  Teachers. 
David  Handmaker  works  with 
Standard  Chartered,  a  British-based 
company  conducting  most  of  its 
business  in  Asia,  Africa  and  the 
Indian  subcontinent.  He  manages  a 
team  that  is  spread  across  Asia, 


from  Tokyo  to  Jakarta.  His  wife, 
Karen,  has  a  consulting  firm, 
advising  health  care  business  on 
general  marketing  and 
management.  They  live  in  Hong 
Kong  with  their  three  children. 
Brian  G.  Hart  is  a  litigation 
associate  at  Chadboume  &  Park  in 
New  York,  and  traveled  to 
Tashkent  University  as  a  Fulbright 
scholar  to  teach  environmental 
law.  He  and  his  wife,  Karen 
Schwartz  Hart  '81,  have  two 
children,  Robert  and  Julia.  Ellen 
Holt  is  a  graduate  student  in  the 
sports  management  program  at  the 
University  of  Massachusetts  at 
Amherst.  Before  joining  the 
school,  she  worked  for  various 
Broadway  shows  as  company 


manager.  Mark  E.  Horowitz,  M.D. 

practices  family  medicine  in 
Manhattan.  He  and  his  wife, 
Dorrine  Veca,  have  two  children, 
Steffan,  age  5,  and  Jane,  age  3. 
Mahbubul  A.  Khandaker  is  doing 
research  in  nuclear  physics, 
studying  the  fundamental 
structure  of  the  nuclet)n.  Simon 
Kipersztok  is  an  assistant  professor 
in  the  division  of  reproductive 
endocrinology  and  infertility, 
department  of  obstetrics  and 
gynecology,  at  the  University  of 
Florida  in  Gainesville.  He  and  his 
wife,  Micki  Kantrowitz,  M.D., 
have  three  children,  Amy,  age  7, 
Lisa,  age  5  and  Billy,  age  4.  Joan  E. 
Klein  started  her  own  home  day 
care  business.  She  graduated  from 
Boston  University  School  of  Law 
in  1987  and  practiced  at  a  large 
firm  until  1991.  She  and  her 
husband,  Stewart  M.  Fishman  , 
who  attended  Brandeis  from  1975- 
77,  adopted  two  children,  Mollie 
Rose  and  Anna  Miriam.  Evan  J. 
Krame  is  cofounder  and  cochair  of 
the  Pro  Bono  Legal  Services 
Committee  for  the  International 
Association  of  Jewish  Lawyers  and 
Jurists  in  Washington,  D.C.  He 
was  named  to  the  national  board  of 
the  American  Zionist  Movement 
this  year  and  elected  president  of 
the  Brandeis  district  of  the  Zionist 
Organization  of  America  in  1992. 
David  J.  Kramer  is  codirector  of 
the  liver  transplant  ICU  service  at 
Presbyterian  LJniversity  Hospital 
in  Pittsburgh,  and  assistant 
professor  of  anesthesiokigy, 
medicine  and  surgery.  He  and  his 
wife,  Wendy  Philips  Kramer  '80, 
have  three  children.  John  D. 
Kupper  works  for  Axelrod  &. 
Associates,  a  Chicago-based 
democratic  political  media 
consulting  firm.  He  and  his  wife, 
Janet,  have  a  2-year-old  daughter, 
Sara.  Rion  B.  Kweller  has  a  private 
practice  in  clinical  psychology, 
specializing  in  psychotherapy  for 
men  wht)  were  sexually  abused  as 
children.  He  is  also  program 
director  of  New  York  City's 
Niagara  County  adult  outpatient 
mental  health  clinics.  He  and  his 
wife,  Julie,  have  two  sons, 
Benjamin  and  Matthew.  Richard 
A.  Lehrman  is  a  civil  litigation 
attorney.  He  formerly  worked  with 
the  United  States  House  of 
Representatives  Committee  on 
Rules  and  The  Select  Committee 
on  Aging.  His  wife.  Sheila  Duffy,  is 
starting  her  own  video  production 
company.  They  have  one  child, 
Jonathan.  David  A.  Leibowitz  is 
working  on  his  first  novel,  Wahmg 
for  ihe  Electrician,  and  is  happily 
married  to  his  wife,  Lori.  Naomi 
Leitner  is  working  for  the  district 
attorney  in  Tel  Aviv,  Israel.  She 
and  her  hustiand,  Talmi,  have 
three  children,  Noga,  Jonathan  and 


Maya.  Joshua  Levin,  D.D.S.  is 
practicing  orthodontics  in  New 
York  on  the  Upper  West  Side.  He 
travels  frequently  to  Pans  and  St. 
Barts,  and  is  looking  forward  to  his 
15th  Reunion  from  Brandeis  in 
1994.  Marjorie  Reiter  Levine  is 
administrator  of  the  divisions  of 
cardiology  and  endoscopy  at 
University  Hospital,  SUNY  at 
Stony  Brook.  She  sings  with 
several  choruses,  including  annual 
stints  at  Carnegie  Hall,  and  is 
active  in  the  Alumni  Admissions 
Council  and  the  Hiatt  Shadow 
Program.  She  is  married  to  Steven 
E.  Levine,  a  paralegal  in  the 
Superior  Court  of  Phoenix,  AZ. 
David  H.  Lichter  practices 
complex  commercial  litigation  and 
white-collar  criminal  defense.  He 
was  graduated  from  Georgetown 
Law  School  in  1982,  clerked  for  a 
federal  district  court  judge  in 
Jacksonville,  FL,  and  subsequently 
served  as  an  assistant  United 
States  attorney  for  four  and  a  half 
years.  He  and  his  wife,  Mayra,  who 
is  a  former  federal  prosecuter,  have 
two  daughters,  Jessica,  age  4,  and 
Joanna,  age  2.  Nancy  B.  Lubell, 
Ph.D.,  IS  a  clinical  psychologist  in 
private  practice  m  Hartsdale,  NY, 
and  senior  clinic  director  of 
Westchester  Jewish  Community 
Services,  a  private  mental  health 
and  social  service  agency.  She  is 
married  to  Richard  Goldstein,  a 
writer  and  editor  at  The  New  York 
Times.  David  C.  Martin,  M.D.  is  a 
partner  in  a  pediatric  practice.  He 
and  his  wife,  Mary  Jo,  have  two 
sons.  Joan  Laine  Merlis  is  starting 
her  own  business  in  money 
management,  after  retiring  from 
her  position  as  a  stock  analyst  for 
Salomon  Brothers.  Her  husband, 
Scott  F.  Merlis  '77,  is  an  industry 
analyst  at  Morgan  Stanley.  They 
have  two  daughters,  liana,  age  5, 
and  Danielle,  age  2.  David  J. 
Miklowitz  IS  an  assistant  professor 
of  psychology  at  the  University  of 
Colorado  at  Boulder.  He  and  his 
wife,  Lisa  Goehler,  have  a  2-ycar- 
old  daughter,  Ariana.  Larry  Miller, 
marketing  and  creative  director  at 
WQCD-FM  in  New  York,  is 
enrolled  in  the  Executive  Masters 
in  Business  Administration 
(M.B.A.I  Program  at  Columbia 
University  Business  School.  He 
and  his  wife,  Kathy  Chazen,  have  a 
1 -year-old  son,  Zachary.  Seth  D. 
Moldoff  left  Citicorp  in  September 
of  1992  to  join  the  Australian 
Industry  Development 
Corporation  in  Australia.  He  and 
his  wife.  Donna,  have  three 
children,  David,  Phillip  and 
Joshua,  and  enjoy  traveling  around 
Australia.  Diane  Nahabedian  is 


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director  of  communications  for  the 
Burbank  Hospital  Health  System, 
overseeing  pubhc  relations  for  a 
home  care  company,  a  long  term 
care  center,  a  birth  center  and  a 
child  development  center. 
Nahabedian  received  her  master's 
degree  from  Boston  University's 
College  of  Communications  in 
1988,  and  last  January  married 
Paul  J.  Carroll,  president  and 
founder  of  the  Paren  Company. 
Di;)ne  B.  Packer  was  a  marketing 
manager  for  Pfizer  in  New  York. 
She  and  her  husband,  Paul 
Griesmer,  have  a  newborn  son, 
Bennett  Paul  Sander  J.  Paul,  M.D. 
is  in  private  practice  in 
metropolitan  Detroit.  He  was 
graduated  from  medical  school  at 
the  University  of  Michigan  in 
1983,  and  completed  both  his 
residency  in  internal  medicine  and 
a  fellowship  in  endocrinology  and 
metabolism  Cynthia  Peele  is 
director  of  benefits  at  the  Health 
Insurance  Plan  (HIP)  of  Greater 
New  York.  She  previously  held  the 
position  of  assistant  director  of 
marketing  and  customer  service  in 
HIP  and  received  an  MB.A.  from 
Manhattan  College  in  1985.  Stacy 
Rothaus  Poritzky  resigned  from 
her  position  as  marketing  director 
for  Gillette  to  become  the  full- 
time  mother  of  her  son,  )ustin. 
Scott  M.  Reiner  is  working  for  the 
Commonwealth  of  Virginia, 
managing  substance  abuse 
programs  for  the  luvemlc  justice 
system.  He  and  his  wife  have  a 
daughter,  Alexandra.  Wendy  L. 
Robinson  is  director  of  education 
at  Temple  Israel,  Minneapolis, 
MN.  She  was  married  to  Ruven 
Schwartz  in  August,  and  plans  to 
move  on  to  other  kinds  of 
employment.  Amy  Leavitt 
Rothschild  is  the  vice  president 
responsible  for  new  business 
development  for  the  private 
banking  division  of  Chemical  Bank 
Corp.  She  and  her  husband, 
Ronald,  have  two  children, 
Michael,  age  S,  and  David,  age  3. 
Stephen  A.  Rubin  is  an 
international  banking  officer  at 
Bank  Leumi,  Miami  Beach,  FL.  He 
and  his  wife,  Susan,  have  two 
children,  Yonaton,  age  9,  and 
Racheli,  age  4.  Gayle  L. 
Schechtman  is  a  music  teacher, 
actress  and  writer.  She  earned  her 
master's  degree  in  theater  and  lives 
in  the  Berkshircs.  David  A. 
Schlesinger  is  a  systems  analyst  for 
Lotus  Development  Corporation 
and  received  a  master's  degree  in 
computer  science  from  Boston 
University  in  1985.  He  and  his 
wife,  Jane,  have  two  sons,  Scott 
and  Eric.  Robert  J.  Schuckit  is  a 
partner  in  the  trial  department  of  a 
law  firm  in  Indianapolis,  IN,  and 
was  previously  a  partner  in  a  law 
firm  in  Chicago.  He  is  happily 


married  and  enjoys  the  good  life  in 
the  country.  Serena  B.  Shapiro  is 
working  at  Hospice  of  Cambridge 
as  a  social  worker.  She  enjoys  life 
with  her  lifetime  partner, 
Nechama  Katz  '81.  Margaret  Shea 
is  an  attorney  in  Springfield,  MA, 
specializing  in  workers' 
compensation  law.  She  married 
Mark  Albano,  another  attorney,  in 
1992.  Evie  Kintzer  Shorey  is  an 
attorney  with  WGBH-Channel  2 
Boston,  part  of  the  Public 
Broadcasting  System.  She  and  her 
Frontline  production  manager 
husband,  Harold  Shorey,  have  two 
children,  Plana,  age  3,  and  Sabrina, 
age  9  months.  Jeremy  I.  Silverline 
IS  an  assistant  attorney  general  in 
Boston  assigned  to  the  public 
integrity  division  of  the  criminal 
bureau.  Previously  he  was  an 
assistant  district  attorney  in 
Bristol  County,  MA.  He  keeps  in 
shape  by  running  and  riding  his 
bicycle  against  the  wind.  Stephen 
A.  Solovy  !s  an  art  dealer  whose 
gallery,  Stephen  Solovy  Fme  Art, 
specializes  in  20th-century  modem 
and  contemporary  masters.  He  also 
established  The  Stephen  Solovy 
Art  Foundation,  a  nonprofit 
foundation  that  collects 
contemporary  British  paintings. 
The  collection  is  on  long-term 
loan  to  the  Haggerty  Museum  of 
Art  in  Milwaukee.  David  A. 
Strumpf,  a  pulmonary  specialist, 
merged  his  firm  with  another 
organization,  forming  an  eight- 
person  group  m  Albany  and  Troy. 
He  and  his  wife,  Rosemary,  have 
2'/:-year-old  triplets,  Emily, 
Rebecca  and  Lauren,  Gregg  B. 
Sulkin  has  been  married  to  his 
wife,  Paula,  since  19S8.  They  have 
two  sons,  Matthew,  2'/'  years  old, 
and  Alex,  6  months  old.  Martin 
Wayne  is  vice  president  and 
director  of  North  American 
Trading  for  A.I.G.  Financial 
Products  Corporation.  He  has  two 
children,  (ustin,  age  3,  and  Jessica, 
age  2.  David  S.  Wean  is  a 
consulting  actuary  with  John 
Hancock  Mutual  Life  in  Boston. 
He  was  named  a  fellow  of  the 
Society  of  Actuaries,  an 
international  educational,  research 
and  professional  membership 
organization  for  actuaries  in  life 
and  health  insurance,  investments, 
pensions  and  employee  benefits. 
His  wife,  Cynthia  A.  Zabin,  is  a 
policy  and  technical  writer  for  the 
Department  of  Public  Welfare. 
They  each  work  three  days  at  their 
jobs,  sharing  the  care  of  their  two 
children,  Julia  and  Emily.  Betty  J. 
Wytias  received  her  J.D.  from  New 
York  University  Law  School  in 
May.  She  and  her  husband,  Robert 
Sobel,  have  a  son,  Will,  Loren 


Kabat  Yellin,  M.D.  is  director  of 
pediatric  outpatient  services  at 
Holy  Name  Hospital  in  Teaneck, 
NJ-  She  attended  medical  school  at 
SUNY,  Stony  Brook,  and 
completed  her  pediatric  residency 
at  the  Schneider  Children's 
Hospital  of  Long  Island  Jewish 
Medical  Center.  She  and  her 
husband,  Stanley,  have  two 
children,  Gregory  Steven  and  liana 
Robin.  Allison  S.  Zaum  and  her 
husband,  Ed  Roche,  enjoyed  a  two- 
month  tour  of  the  South  Pacific, 
where  they  visited  the  Kingdom  of 
Tonga,  New  Zealand,  the  Cook 
Islands  and  Fiji.  She  is  in  charge  of 
corporate  industrial  hygiene 
programs  at  Syntex. 

'80 

Lisa  Gelfand,  Class  Correspondent, 
19  Winchester  Street  #404, 
Brooklme,  MA  02146 

Janet  S.  Domenitz,  executive 
director  of  MASSPIRG,  also  serves 
on  the  executive  committee  of  the 
board  of  Common  Cause  of 
Massachusetts,  on  the  bc.ird  of  the 


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1 

]anei  S.  Dumemtz 

Consumer  Federation  of  America 
and  on  the  advisory  board  of  Green 
Corps  Laura  Moskowitz 
Greenstein  was  promoted  to 
manager  of  Georgette  Klinger 
Salon,  Palm  Beach,  FL-  She  and  her 
husband,  Daniel,  live  in  Boca 
Raton  with  their  son,  David.  Lee  S. 
Polansky  received  her  M.A.  in 
history  from  Emory  University  in 
May.  Bryan  Shea  held  an 
exhibition,  "Views,  Spaces,  People, 
&  Places,"  including  his  oil 
paintings  and  portraits  in  West 
Concord,  MA,  in  April.  His 
paintings  hang  at  Brandeis,  Bentley 
College  and  in  private  collections. 

'81 

Matthew  B.  Hills,  Class 
Correspondent,  25  Hobart  Road, 
Newton  Center,  MA  02159 

Alane  Susan  Brown  is  an  assistant 
professor  of  psychology  at  Fort 
Lewis  College,  in  Durango,  CO. 


Ellen  Cohen,  Class  Correspondent, 
1 1  7,?K  Mayfield  Avenue  #111, 
Los  Angeles,  CA  90049 

(ulie  Kaplan  is  associate  director  of 
the  Hofstra  University  Marine  Lab 
m  New  York  City.  Warten  M. 
Levenson,  a  guitarist,  earned  his 
master's  degree  in  music  from  the 
New  England  Conservatory  of 
Music  in  May.  Lisa  Burke  Simon 
teaches  economics  at  Cuesta 
Community  College,  operates  her 
own  bookkeeping  business  and 
serves  on  her  synagogue's  board  of 
directors.  She  also  enjoys  spending 
time  with  her  husband,  Ivan,  and 
2-year-old,  Benjamin,  in  San  Luis 
Obispo,  CA  Seth  A.  Stabinsky 
received  a  fellowship  in 
gynecological  endoscopy  from 
Stanford  University.  He  and  his 
wife,  Cathy,  live  in  Palo  Alto  and 
would  love  to  hear  from  his 
California-based  classmates. 

'83 

Eileen  Isbitts  Weiss,  456  9th  Street 
#30,  Hoboken,  NJ  07030 

Robert  D.  Aufrichtig,  D.D  S. 

opened  his  own  general  family 
dental  practice  in  Mount  Kisco, 
NY,  after  completing  a  fellowship 
at  the  Albert  Emstein  College  of 
Medicine  in  pediatric  dentistry.  He 
lives  m  Chappaqua,  NY,  with  his 
wife,  Marcy  Rothman  Aufrichtig 
SS,  .ind  his  year-old  son,  loshua. 
[amie  Diament  Golub,  D.M.D.  and 
her  husband,  |on  Golub,  D.M.D., 
share  an  orthodontic  practice  in 
Fort  Lee,  N]. 

'84 

Marcia  Book,  Class  Correspondent, 
211  East  18th  Street  #S-G,  New 
York,  NY  10003 

Hayley  Wiseman  Aione  was 

graduated  as  valedictorian  from 
Lawrence  Memorial  Hospital 
School  of  Nursing  in  January  1993. 
She  received  six  awards  for 


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'85 


'87 


academic  excellence  and  also  her 
R.N   license.  Maria  Figman- 
Pinsker  is  a  self-employed  attorney 
and  lives  in  Livingston,  Nl,  with 
her  husband,  Neil  G.  Pinsker,  a 
consultant  with  Arthur  Andersen, 
P.C.  Since  moving  back  to  the 
United  States  from  Hong  Kong, 
where  they  had  been  since  1990, 
Wendi  Zelkin  Rosenstein  and  her 
husband,  Rick,  have  been  living  in 
Minneapolis,  where  their 
international  sourcing  company, 
RC  International,  is  thriving. 
Andrew  D.  Sherman  was 
appointed  vice  president  of  The 
Segal  Company,  a  consulting  firm 
that  concentrates  on  employee 
benefit  and  compensation 
programs. 


Regina  Medina  was  selected  to  be 
a  Knight-Ridder  news  intern  in  a 
competitive  nationwide 
competition.  She  is  based  at  The 
Philadelphia  Inquirer  for  the  first 
of  two  Knight-Ridder  newpaper 
assignments.  Previously,  during 
the  coups  in  Venezuela,  she 
reported  for  an  English-language 
newspaper  m  Caracas. 

'86 

Illyse  Shindler  Habbe,  Class 
Correspondent,  89  Turner  Street, 
Brighton,  MA  02135 

Michael  J.  Gruber  is  pursuing  a 
master's  degree  in  human  services 
management  at  the  Heller  School. 
Phyllis  Hiller  was  graduated  from 
Hahnemann  University  School  of 
Medicine.  She  will  complete  her 
residency  in  family  practice  at  the 
University  of  Massachusetts 
Coordinated  Programs,  in 
Worcester.  Jonathan  (|ay)  Kerness 
was  promoted  to  account 


executive  for  Leo  Burnett 
Advertising  in  Chicago. 
Previously,  he  received  an  M.B.A. 
from  the  Harvard  Business  School. 
His  wife,  Elisabeth  Escovitz 
Kerness  '87  was  graduated  from 
medical  school  and  is  a  resident  in 
emergency  medicine  at 
Northwestern  University  Hospital. 
Jeffrey  S.  Orkin  completed  his 
rabbinical  degree  at  Rabbi  Isaac 
Elchanan  Theological  Seminary  of 
Yeshiva  University  and  he  finished 
his  third  year  as  an  assistant  rabbi 
at  the  Jewish  Home  for  the  Elderly 
in  Fairfield,  CT.  Steffanie  Sabbaj 
has  been  working  on  her  Ph.D. 
dissertation  in  immunt)logy  from 
Ohio  State  University.  She  and  her 
husband,  Barry  Spieler,  an 
assistant  professor  of  mathematics 
at  Vanderbilt  University,  live  in 
Nashville  with  their  son,  Gabriel. 


Vanessa  B.  Newman,  Class 
Correspondent,  45  East  End 
Avenue,  Apt.  5H,  New  York,  NY 
10028 

Heidi  Halpern  Kay  and  Alan  N. 

Kay  are  celebrating  the  arrival  of 
their  second  child,  Rachel  Lynn. 
Brother  Joshua,  now  17  months,  is 
just  realizing  that  although  he  is 
king  of  the  castle,  there  is  now  a 
queen!  The  whole  family  is 
completing  their  migration  south 
to  Palm  Harbor,  PL,  where  they 
plan  to  enjoy  the  outdoors  and  not 
get  eaten  by  the  alligators  in  their 
back  yard.  Lisa  Lederman  Littman, 
M.D.  has  moved  to  Rhode  Island 
to  complete  her  residency  in 
obstetrics  and  gynecology  at 
Women  and  Infants  Hospital  of 
Rhode  Island.  Her  husband, 
Michael,  is  working  on  his  Ph.D. 
in  computer  science.  Louise  Gross 
Reynolds  was  graduated  from 


Brandeis 
Summer  Odyssey 


Not  just  another 
summer 


Not  just  another 
program 


a  program  for 

high  school  students 


Remember  when  you  were  in  high 
school?  You  were  bright  with  a  lot  on 
your  mind.  The  prospect  of  making 
important  decisions  loomed  large. 
Wouldn't  it  have  been  helpful  to  enjoy  a 
summer  with  equally  bright,  motivated 
peers  learning  about  things  that 
mattered  to  you  in  a  safe  and  enjoyable 
environment? 


Please  send  more 
information  on  Brandeis 
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Marriages 


Hahiifmann  University  School  of 
Medicuif  and  will  complete  a 
family  practice  residency  at  the 
Fairfax  Family  Practice  Center  in 
Falls  Church,  VA. 

'88 

Susan  Tevelow  Fcinstein,  Class 
Correspondent,  6830  Meadow  Oak 
Drive,  Bldg  #7,  Columbus,  OH 
43235 

Michelle  Sonier  Dyson  received  an 
M.S.W.  from  the  Boston 
University  School  of  Social  Work 
in  1992  and  is  employed  as  an 
adolescent  therapist.  She  and  her 
husband,  James  Dyson,  jr.,  are 
living  m  Waltham,  MA.  Marci 
Weiser  Gelb  is  workmg  m  Boston 
as  an  attorney  for  an  employment 
and  busmess  litigation  firm.  Aaron 
M.  Greenberg  was  graduated  with 
a  master's  in  social  work  from  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania.  Last 
year,  he  took  over  as  regional 
director  of  the  Philadelphia  B'nai 
B'rith  Youth  Organization.  Amy  L. 
Memis  was  ordained  a  rabbi  by  the 
Hebrew  Union  College,  Jewish 
Institute  of  Religion,  in  May.  In 
July,  she  assumed  her  post  as 
assistant  rabbi  at  B'nai  |ehoshua 
Beth  Elohim  in  Glenview,  IL. 
Kenneth  A.  Osherow  received  his 
M.B.A.  from  Northeastern 
University  Sami  Plotkin  is 
working  on  her  thesis  for  an 
M.F.A.  in  film  at  Columbia 
University.  Alan  S.  Waitze  was 
graduated  from  Hahnemann 
University  School  of  Medicme, 
and  will  complete  his  residency  in 
neurosurgery  at  the  Emory 
University  School  of  Medicine  in 
Atlanta. 


'89 


Karen  L.  Gitten,  Class 
Correspondent,  35  Crosby  Road, 
2nd  Floor,  Newton,  MA  02167 

Robert  Bernstone  is  working  in 
equity  derivatives  for  Morgan 
Stanley  and  is  attending  New  York 
University  Business  School  part- 
time.  David  Blatteis  was  graduated 
from  American  University  Law 
School.  He  joined  the  firm  of 
Tompkins,  McGuire,  and 
Wacfienfeld  after  working  for  the 
assignment  ludge  in  Essex  County, 
NJ.  Miles  S.  Crakow  worked  for 
the  Christian  Science  Monitor 
cable  channel  in  Boston  before 
moving  to  Los  Angeles.  He  lives 
with  his  partner  of  three  years, 
Carl  White,  and  hopes  to  start  a 
writing  career.  Theresa  Ducharme 
received  her  master's  degree  in 


occupational  therapy  from  Boston 
University,  and  is  now  working  at 
the  New  England  Rehabilitation 
Hospital,  in  Woburn,  MA,  as  an 
occupational  therapist  on  the 
oncology  unit  David  Feldbaum  is 
a  general  surgery  resident  at 
Montefiore  Medical  Center/Albert 
Einstein  College  of  Medicine, 
Bronx,  New  York.  He  lives  in 
Westchester  with  his  wife,  Carrie, 
and  was  glad  to  see  his  fellow 
classmates  and  BEMCO  alumni  at 
his  wedding.  Sarah  C.  Gelbach  was 
graduated  from  the  Hahnemann 
University  School  of  Medicine  and 
will  complete  a  psychiatry 
residency  at  University  of 
Pennsylvania  Hospital  in 
Philadelphia.  Barbara  |.  Glaser  is  a 
medical  product  software  engineer 
at  Hewlett-Packard,  and  has  won 
HP's  leadership  award  at  their 
annual  technical  women's 
conference.  She  was  graduated 
with  a  master's  in  computer 
science  from  Boston  University's 
part-time/evening  program. 
Matthew  L.  Leraer  received  his 
M.D.  from  Yale  University  School 
of  Medieme  m  New  Haven,  CT, 
and  began  his  residency  in  urologic 
surgery  at  New  York  Hospital's 
Cornell  Medical  Center.  Arthur 
Ollendorff  was  graduated  from 
Northwestern  Medical  School  and 
IS  doing  his  OB/GYN  residency  at 
Prentice  Women's  Hospital/ 
Northwestern  Memorial  Hospital 
in  Chicago.  Michelle  Saidel  was 
graduated  from  the  George 
Washington  University  Schtiol  of 
Medicine  and  will  complete  her 
psychiatry  residency  at 
Georgetown  University  Medical 
Center. 

'90 

Judith  Libhaber,  Class 
Correspondent,  745  North  Shore 
Drive,  Miami  Beach,  FL  33141 

Elana  E.  Cohen  received  a  master's 
degree  in  environmental  studies  at 
the  Yale  School  of  Forestry  and 
Environmental  Studies, 
concentrating  on  environmental 
education  and  education.  She  is 
now  children's  programming 
coordinator  at  the  Massachusetts 
Horticultural  Society.  Jonathan  A. 
Cordish  is  directing  a  short  film. 
Lost  Mojave,  while  in  his  second 
year  at  the  Graduate  Film  Program 
at  the  University  of  Southern 
California.  He  recently  won  the 
U.S.C.  prize  for  best  screenplay  for 
his  independent  feature  film. 
Midnight  Run,  which  he  produced 
while  on  leave  for  a  year.  After 
graduation,  Cordish  moved  to  Los 
Angeles,  where  he  was  executive 
assistant  to  the  producers  of  Point 
Break.  Catl  L.  Finger  received  his 
law  degree  from  Boston  University 
School  of  Law,  and  returned  to  his 
home  in  the  New  York 


Class  Name 


Date 


1979 
1982 
1983 
1984 
1985 


1986 


1988 
1989 


1990 
1991 


Wendy  Robinson  to  Ruven  Schwartz  August  29,  1993 

Manln  Milkman  to  Velvet  Jones  February  26,  1993 

Lois  Kaplan  to  Geoff  Solomon  December  27,  1992 

Wendi  Zellun  to  Rick  Rosenstein  October  28,  1989 

Deanna  M.  Davis  to  July  4,  1 993 
Prince  Edward  Bannister,  Jr. 

Lauren  Schwartz  to  Michael  A.  Lynfield  June  16,  1991 

Sucey  Karlin  to  Alan  Belsky  March  27,  1993 

Michael  J.  Gruber  to  Jennifer  VanderPloeg  October  1 7, 1 993 

Rebecca  Rae  Miller  to  John  Martin  Stem  May  23,  1993 

Judith  Shanok  to  Nathan  Janette  October  19,  1990 

Marsha  S.  Fried  to  Drew  N.  Bamnson  August  22,  1993 

David  Feldbaum  to  Carrie  Rudder  June  13,  1993 

Marc  GeKen  to  Tracy  Love  '91  July  18,  1993 

Elana  Cohen  to  Steven  Schwartz  August  8,  1993 

Charlee  Leimberg  and  Robert  Sterling  February  21,  1993 

Barbara  E.  Schari  to  Adam  M.  Zeldes  March  13,  1993 

Ronald  Ash  to  Jeimifer  Brenner  May  29,  1993 


metropolitan  area  to  practice  law. 
Steven  H.  Levine  completed  his 
first  year  of  the  MBA.  program  at 
Columbia  Business  School. 
Previously,  he  worked  at  Putnam, 
Hayes  &  Bartlett,  an  economic 
consulting  firm  in  Cambridge, 
MA.  Rachel  A.  Rabinowitz  earned 
her  J.D.  from  the  New  York  Law 
School  in  June. 

'91 

Andrea  C.  Kramer,  Class 
Correspondent,  5343  Washington 
Street,  West  Roxbury,  MA  02132 

Robert  A.  Finkel  finished  his 
second  year  at  Cornell  Law  School 
where  he  is  president  of  the  Jewish 
Law  Students'  Association,  and  a 
member  of  the  Cotnell  lournal  of 
Law  and  Public  Policy.  Susan  M. 
Goren  is  a  second  year  graduate 
resident  at  the  University  of 
Georgia,  working  toward  her 
master's  degree  in  higher 
education,  specializing  in  student 
personnel.  She  interned  for  the 
summer  in  the  Office  of  Family 
Housing  at  the  University  of 
Florida.  Jennifer  E.  Kligfeld 
completed  her  second  year  at  the 
Mount  Sinai  School  of  Medicine, 
where  her  fiance  is  an  M.D.  and 
Ph.D.  student.  Tracy  Love  does 
neuropsychological  research  with 
stroke  victims  for  the  Aphasia 
Research  Center  in  Boston  and  is 
beginning  a  Ph.D.  program  in  the 
cognitive  neurosciences  at  the 
University  of  California  at  San 
Diego.  Her  husband.  Marc  A. 


Geffen  '89,  was  graduated  from 
law  school  in  May  1992  and  is  a 
practicing  attorney  with  plans  to 
take  the  California  bar  and  set  up  a 
practice  in  the  San  Diego  area. 
Susannah  R.  Spodek  has  been 
working  a  variety  of  jobs  in  Tokyo, 
including  teaching  English  and 
writing  film  subtitles.  She  would 
love  to  hear  from  her  classmates 
who  visit  Japan,  David  F.  Swirnoff 
works  in  the  human  resources 
department  of  Bally  Manufacturing 
Company  and  Bally's  Health  and 
Tennis  Corporation. 

'92 

Beth  C.  Manes,  Class 
Correspondent,  The  Lawyer's 
Club,  551  S.  State  Street,  Ann 
Arbor,  Ml  48109 

Stacey  Ballis  is  an  English  teacher 
in  the  Chicago  public  schools. 
Marny  Joy  Held  left  a  health  care 
data  marketing  firm  to  enroll  in 
DePaul  Law  School.  She  is  looking 
forward  to  practicing  family  and 
juvenile  law.  Joshua  Peterson  is  a 
graduate  student  in  evolutionary 
biology,  and  is  attempting  to  start 
a  career  in  writing. 

Grad 

Susan  Ablon  Cole  |M.A.  '71,  Ph.D. 
'72,  English)  was  appointed  the 
fourth  president  of  Metropolitan 
State  University  of  Minnesota.  She 
has  spent  most  of  her  professional 
life  in  urban  public  institutions  of 
higher  education,  starting  at  the 
City  University  of  New  York, 
Antioch,  and  Rutgers.  She  was  a 
member  of  the  Community  Health 
Care  Policy  Task  Force  at  Robert 
Wood  Johnson  University  Hospital 
and  served  on  the  New  Jersey 
Governor's  Management 


59  Fall  1993 


Susan  Ablon  Cole 

Improvement  Program.  Todd  W. 
Crosset  (B.A.  '85,  Ph.D.  '92, 
history)  is  an  assistant  professor  at 
the  University  of  Massachusetts 
sports  studies  department.  He  was 
a  senior  research  fellow  at  the 
Center  for  the  Study  of  Sport  in 
Society  at  Northeastern 
University,  and  was  the  North 
Atlantic  Conference's  Coach  of  the 
Year  for  women's  swimming  and 
diving  at  Northeastern  University. 
Ruth  F.  Deech  (MA.  '66, 
Hornstein  Program)  is  principal  of 
St.  Anne's  College,  Oxford, 
England.  She  is  active  in  matters 
concerning  women,  divorce,  higher 
education,  careers,  child  care  and 
student  welfare,  and  initiated  the 
first  equal  opportunity  committee 
at  St.  Anne's  College.  Deech  has 
also  been  active  in  committees 
concerned  with  student  health, 
child  care,  freedom  of  speech  and 
sexual  harassment.  Her  interest  in 
family  law  started  during  her 
research  for  the  Law  Commission 
in  London  on  divorce  reform, 
matrimonial  property  and 
illegitimacy.  She  received  her  law 
degree  in  196.S,  followed  by  a 
master's  at  Brandeis.  Karen  Elise 
Fields  (MA  '76,  Ph.D.  '77, 
sociology)  is  a  professor  of  religion 
at  the  University  of  Rochester  and 
founding  director  of  the  Frederick 
Douglass  Institute  for  African  and 
African-American  Studies.  In 
addition,  she  received  a  fellowship 
from  the  Woodrow  Wilson 
International  Center  for  Scholars 
of  the  Smithsonian  Institution  to 
translate  Emile  Durkheim's  Les 
Formes  Elemenlanes  de  la  Vie 
Religieuse.  Previously,  she  was  an 
associate  professor  in  the  sociology 
department  at  Brandeis  University. 
After  22  years,  )onathan  A. 
Freedman  (M.A.  '72,  Ph.D.  '73, 
sociology)  retired  as  director  of 
education  and  training  at 
Hutchings  Psychiatric  Center  in 
Syracuse,  NY  and  has  moved  to 
Atlanta  Sharon  Mintz  Green  (B.A. 
'79,  MA.  'W,  NEIS)  teaches 
Yiddish  literature  and  her 
husband,  Kenneth  H.  Green  (Ph  D. 
'89,  NE|S)  teaches  modern  )ewish 


thought  at  the  University  of 
Toronto,  Canada.  They  have  tfu-ee 
children,  lonathan,  Alexander  and 
Daniel.  Arthur  E.  Green  (B.A.  '61, 
Ph.D.  '75,  NE|S)  will  |oin  Brandeis 
as  Lown  Professor  of  lewish 
Philosophy  m  1994.  Mien-Chie 
Hung  (Ph.D.  '84,  biochemistry) 
received  the  1993  [ohn  P. 
McGovern  Outstanding  Teaching 
Award  at  the  University  of 
Texas— Houston  Graduate  School 
of  Biomedical  Sciences,  where  he 
IS  an  associate  professor  of  virology 
in  the  M.D.  Anderson  Cancer 
Center's  department  of  tumor 
biology.  He  has  also  served  as  a 
guest  professor  at  Xiaman 
University  in  the  People's 
Republic  of  China  and  a 
consultant  to  National  Taiwan 
University  Hospital's  Cancer 
Research  Group.  He  has  authored 
more  than  60  articles,  and  is  a 
member  of  several  professional 
organizations.  Louise  Levesque- 
Lopman  (MA.  '75,  Ph.D.  '77, 
sociology)  works  at  Regis  College, 
and  released  her  most  recent  book, 
Cirtimin.v  Reality:  Phenomenology 
and  Women  s  Experience.  Peter 
Ludes  jM.A.  '75,  Ph.D.  '8.?, 
sociology)  is  a  professor 
("Hochschuldozent")  for  cultural 
and  media  studies  at  the  German 
Universitat-Gesamthochschule- 
Siegen,  teaching  media  planning, 
development  and  consulting.  He 
also  received  a  research  fellowship 
from  Sicgen  University  to  study 
television  news  in  the  United 
States,  the  Federal  Republic  of 
Germany  and  the  German 
Democratic  Republic.  In  addition, 
he  IS  the  author  of  several  works, 
including  From  the  News  to  the 
News  Show:  Television  News  from 
the  I'erspective  of  their  Makers. 
Mihalis  P.  Maliakas  (Ph.D.  '89, 
mathematics)  is  an  assistant 
professor  at  the  University  of 
Arkansas.  Janet  Mancini-BiHson 
jM.A.  '72,  Ph.D.  '76,  sociology), 
assistant  executive  officer  of  the 
American  Sociological  Association 
in  Washington,  D.C.  ,  is  writing  a 
book  concerning  changing  gender 
roles  among  women  in  nine 
cultural  communities  m  Canada. 
Her  other  book.  Cool  Pose: 
Dilemmas  of  Black  Manhood  in 
America,  will  be  reissued  in 
paperback.  She  and  her  husband, 
Norman  London,  who  is  with  the 
Canadian  Embassy,  have  four 
children  and  two  grandchildren. 
Victor  H.  Matthews  (MA.  '73, 
Ph.D.  '77,  NEIS)  IS  a  professor'of 
religious  studies  at  Southwest 
Missouri  State  University.  He 
received  the  SMSU  Foundation 


Victor  E.  Matthews 

Faculty  Achievement  Award  for 
outstanding  scholarship  Ricardo 
A.  Millett  (B.A.  '68,  M.A.  '70  , 
Ph.D.  '74,  Heller  School)  was 
named  director  of  evaluation  at  the 
W.K.  Kellogg  Foundation,  a  private 
Michigan  grant-making 
organization  that  provides  seed 
money  to  "help  people  to  help 
themselves."  Previously  he  was 
senior  vice  president  for  the 
United  Way  of  Massachusetts.  He 
also  serves  on  the  board  of 
overseers  of  the  Heller  School  and 
IS  actively  involved  in  the  Brandeis 
Alumni  Association.  Bemadine 
Foster  Nash  (Ph.D.  '86,  Heller 
School)  was  elected  to  the 
statewide  board  of  directors  of  the 
Massachusetts  Society  for 
Prevention  of  Cruelty  to  Chilchen. 
She  is  also  the  president  and  CEO 
of  WILD-AM  radio,  and  was  the 
administrative  vice  president  and 
president  of  the  WILD  Scholarship 
Foundations  Inc.  Previously  she 
was  an  assistant  professor  at 
Simmims  College  School  of  Social 
Work  and  a  fieldwork  instructor  at 
the  Boston  University  School  of 
Social  Work  Alexandra  Patera 
(M.A.  '91  chemistry)  was 
incorrectly  identified  m  the  Spring 
Brandeis  Review  as  Alexander.  She 
continues  in  the  Brandeis 
chemistry  department  working 
with  Dr.  Thomas  Pochapsky  on 
the  structure  of  a  mutant  of  IL-IB 
protein  by  multidimensumal  NMR 
techniques.  Robert  E.  Pollack 
(Ph.D.  '66,  biology)  received  a 
fellowship  from  the  John  Simon 
Guggenheim  Memorial 
Foundation  to  write  a  book  for  the 
general  public  on  disease,  which 
will  explain  symptoms  in  terms  of 
the  underlying  molecular  events. 
He  IS  also  a  member  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees  of  Brandeis  University 
and  the  New  York  Foundation. 
Bernard  Steinberg  (M.A.  '72, 
Jewish  Communal  Service)  was 
appointed  director  of  the  Harvard 
University  Hillel.  Eugene  M. 
Tobin  (M.A  '70,  Ph.D.  '72,  history) 
was  appointed  acting  president  of 
Hamilton  College.  He  previously 
served  as  dean  of  the  faculty,  and 
as  chair  of  the  history  department 


and  director  of  the  American 
Studies  Program.  Nancy  M. 
Valentine  (Ph.D.  '91,  Heller 
School)  was  named  assistant  chief 
medical  director  for  nursing 
programs  for  the  Department  of 
Veterans  Affairs,  in  Washington, 
DC.  She  has  served  in  the  Army 
Nurse  Corps  Reserves,  cofounded 
the  Nightingale  Treatment 
Program,  published  numerous 
journal  articles,  and  served  in 
many  other  admmistrative 
positions. 

Obituaries 

Cynthia  S.  Jordan,  M.A.  '79,  Ph.D. 
'83,  associate  professor  of  English 
and  adjunct  associate  professor  of 
women's  studies  at  Indiana 
University,  passed  away  on  May 
20,  1993,  in  Bloomington,  IN. 
While  at  Brandeis,  she  received  her 
Ph.D.  in  American  literature  and 
women's  studies  and  received  four 
fellowships.  She  is  survived  by  her 
mother  and  brother.  Word  was 
received  of  the  death  of  Brian 
Kovler  '84,  who  passed  away  on 
May  5,  1993.  He  is  survived  by  his 
parents.  Burton  and  Rowena,  of 
Surfside,  FL. 

In  Remembrance 

Vivien  Tao-Wei  Li  '92  passed  away 
in  Singapore  on  December  1,  1992. 
She  grew  up  in  Singapore,  and 
came  to  the  United  States  to 
attend  Brandeis  in  1988.  She 
graduated  magna  cum  laude  with  a 
degree  in  English.  Vivien  was  an 
extremely  generous  and  intelligent 
young  woman.  She  was  always 
deeply  concerned  about  the 
welfare  of  her  friends,  and  was 
constantly  helping  and  caring  for 
the  people  around  her.  She  was 
also  an  excellent  student  and  a 
talented  writer.  She  was 
continually  exploring  new  places, 
different  cultures,  and  was 
deeply  interested  in  the  work  of 
contemporary  and  classical 
artists.  As  her  friend  I  will  always 
appreciate  the  knowledge  she 
shared  with  me  of  Asia,  her  travels 
and  the  arts.  I  know  that  all 
her  friends  will  miss  her  unique 
and  dynamic  personality. 
Leila  M.  Porter  '92 


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Kay  E.  Stein,  M.A.  72  and  Dr.  Harold  J.  Stein 

/  loved  Brandeis  University  from  the  first  day  I  walked  into  the  Rabb  Graduate  Center.  My  graduate  school 
education  and  warm  experience  in  the  National  Women's  Committee  have  endeared  this  exceptional 
institution  to  me  and  my  husband.  Our  gift  annuity  provides  us  with  secure  income  for  life  and  a  sizable 
tax  deduction.  In  this  way,  I  receive  even  more  and  I  can  give  something  back  to  Brandeis. 

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