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Beth Jacob Minyan plans annual golf tournament June 1

Temple Beth Jacob Minyan's annual golf tournament will take place at 11 a.m. Sunday, June 1 at Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course, 1875 Embarcadero Road.

A dinner dance will follow at 6 p.m. at the synagogue, 1550 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City.

Cost for both is $80 per person. For dinner and dancing only, cost is $30 per person, $50 per couple. For information, call Joe Aknin, (415) 368-7822.

Author awarded $50,000 for bio of poet

"Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew," a critical biography by John Felstiner, who teaches English and Jewish studies at Stanford University, is the 1997 winner of the annual Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin.

Administered by the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, the $50,000 award is the world's largest annual cash prize for literary criticism.

Celan was a German-speaking East European Jew whose writing after World War II exposes the wounds of Nazi destruction. Born in Romania, the poet lost his parents to Nazi deportation, endured forced labor and Soviet occupation during the war and then went into exile in Paris.

Felstiner received the award recently in Iowa City.