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FRANK SCHOONMAKER, dealer in imported wines, author (Encyclopedia of Wine, The Wines of Germany), and consultant to Almadén Vineyards...
...pious legend? Not necessarily, says Israeli Botanist Yehuda Feliks. Writing in a monumental new set of reference books called the Encyclopedia Judaica, Feliks identifies Jacob's secret as a keen perception of the laws of heredity. (The peeled branches were just window dressing.) Jacob apparently knew from a dream that the hybrids (white sheep and black goats that carried recessive genes of "spottedness") matured sexually earlier than the pure monochromes in the flock. He mated the hybrids, and their recessive genes emerged to produce a maximum of spotted offspring in each generation. He set aside the pure monochromes, unbred...
Feliks' hypothesis, complete with genetic charts showing the results of the crossbreeding, is one of thousands of examples of the learned, the witty and the arcane that fill the Encyclopedia Judaica, published earlier this year by Israel's Keter Publishing House and just now going on sale (at $500 a set through Macmillan) in the U.S. Sixteen volumes and 12,000 pages long, totaling more than 12 million words, it is the first major Jewish encyclopedia in any language in 65 years. The work was begun during the early 1930s in Germany but became one of the first...
...treatment of the controversial Arab refugee question understandably highlights Israel's position but is not very successful in its attempt to present the other side. There is a half-page on Colorado (for its Jewish community) but no separate entry on Israel's neighbor, Saudi Arabia. The encyclopedia gamely notes Gambler Arnold Rothstein and Gangster Benjamin ("Bugsy") Siegel with crisp, forthright entries, but there is no treatment of Jewish humor beyond Hebrew parody-because, say the editors, they could not find a suitable author...
Like Nixon, Brooke has a strong sense of history. Being the first black President of the United States would rank high in any encyclopedia, but Brooke will have to fight Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, and possibly Sea. Charles H. Percy (R III.) or renegade Democrat John B. Connolly for the 1976 GOP nomination...