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'The Lost and Found Project' Highlights Struggles of Russian Jewish Immigrants

In connection with the play, the Jewish Community Center's Janice Charach Gallery hosts "Let My People GO!", an art exhibition and sale.

A performance that shares the story of Russian Jewish immigrants opens June 8 at The Berman Center for the Performing Arts in West Bloomfield.

“We have to carry on whatever we’re being passed,” said Anna Zicer, head of a theater group that performs The Lost and Found Project. “We end up carrying all these stories.”

The play aims to reconnect Russian Jews with their history, so they can better understand themselves, through the work of 10 Jewish actors born in the Soviet Union in the 1970s who are on as search for their own family histories. During the process, actors participate in a series of improvisation workshops and experimental theater movement sessions.

The play is among programs supported by the Russian American Foundation, which showcases the interest and understanding of the Russian heritage.

Tickets for the June 8 at 7 p.m. and June 9 at 1 p.m. performances can be purchased by phone, 248-661-1900, or at www.theberman.org. 

In connection with the performance, the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit's Janice Charach Gallery will present "Let My People GO!” The Soviet Jewry Movement 1967-1989"  an exhibition and sale, June 9-July 25. It features the exclusive Midwest engagement of a collection of posters, photographs and film clips on loan from the Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv, as well as portraits from Detroit's Russian-Jewish community, lectures, performances , a Russian Tea Room party and more. 

The exhibit, which opens to the general public at 1 p.m. on June 9, depicts a heroic chapter in Jewish history, especially metro Detroit history. It tells the struggle by and on behalf of Soviet Jews to immigrate to Israel, and the sacrifices they made to assert their identity and gain religious freedom.

Source: The Berman Center for the Performing Arts press release


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