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Blumenthal's formative years were spent in Nazi Germany and then Imperial Japan. His parents were nonpracticing Jews, while he is a baptized Presbyterian. His father, who owned a women's clothing shop, was hauled off to Buchenwald in 1938 and was released only after the four-member family, including Sister Stephanie, agreed to leave the country. They booked passage to Shanghai. In his teens, Blumenthal became a streetwise Shanghai kid, but when the Japanese occupied the city, he and his family were herded into a compound, where inmates suffered disease and starvation. Blumenthal emerged from the confinement...
...Testament rather as if he were writing a memoir about beloved but salty grandfathers and great-uncles from the East Side. Certainly Moses and Cain and Abel and even Adam seem as pungently real to him as the Jews he knew as a child in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. In returning to the first Diaspora, the first murder, the first exile, Author Wiesel appears at last to have found a meaning, if not an excuse for the Holocaust he has borne witness to so brilliantly and compulsively in haunted books like One Generation After and in plays like Zalmen...
Once, in a certain country, there lived a great sage named Bruno Bettelheim. Rich in experience, wise beyond his 72 years, Dr. Bettelheim had survived the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald to become the most celebrated child psychologist of his time. He had written of autism in infants and prejudice in adults, of social change and mental unbalance, and each book had become a classic. Now he turned his searching intelligence upon a rich and neglected topic: the fairy tale...
...Blatty's lurid prose or of bad National Enquirer exposes; alternately, without warning, Martin produces rather alarming dialogues between exorcist and spirit that touch at the heart of modern evil. This is the strength of Hostage to the Devil; it offers an insight into the evil not only of Buchenwald and My Lai but also into the more personal evil of everyday life. Whether you believe in possession and the devil or not, Martin presents a chilling look at people stripped of their humanity...
...Ford Administration may be less favorably inclined toward Israel than its predecessors. In big ads in the New York Times and the New York Post, the local chapter of the United Jewish Appeal has warned Jews that "the price of silence was the Warsaw ghetto. Bergen-Belsen. Auschwitz. Dachau. Buchenwald...