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...example, "Isabella" is about the "camp language" of Auschwitz. Isabella understands it no more than her French or Hungarian fellow prisoners. The words are German and so is she. But the words stand for ideas that "not even God can understand." Gas chambers. Extermination. Yet Isabella survives. "Suffering doesn't kill you," she sings, "only death...
...ugly headboard") to bewilderingly lifeless porn. The author's mind seems to have been softened by too many hours in a Malibu Jacuzzi. As if searching for a new definition of vulgarity, Jong writes that hostile criticism of her first novel makes her think of "Jews gassed at Auschwitz." (Actually, Fear of Flying was extravagantly overpraised.) She also contrives to turn the tragic suicide of Poet Anne Sexton (named "Jeannie" in the book) into a kind of posthumous blurb for herself...
...Sixth Avenues in New York, known in the city as the diamond district, is just about the single most Jewish street imaginable, Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Boulevard not excepted. How does the idea of the world's most wanted Nazi war criminal, the notorious "White Angel" of Auschwitz, strolling down this street, stopping into stores and having his diamonds appraised, appeal to you? Suppose you then discovered that he had extracted these diamonds from doomed Jews in return for granting them their freedom, and then had dispatched them to their deaths. And what if you also knew that this...
...would think that after Dachau, Auschwitz, Manson and the Gulag, the desire of man to kill, maim and torture [Aug. 16] would have been satisfied. Obviously not. The truth has displayed the most horrifying fact of our civilization. Man is still a prisoner of the warped instincts of his mind. No triumph of medicine, culture or knowledge can wipe out that reality...
...edge of the ravine and machine-gunned them. Children were thrown into the ravine alive. The team halted only long enough to shovel sand over each layer of bodies. When the job was done 36 hours later, 33,771 Jews had perished-a record of efficiency unsurpassed even at Auschwitz. By the time the Germans were driven from Kiev in 1943, 100,000 to 200,000 Jews and non-Jews had been murdered at Babi...