Word: ghettoes
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...several weeks last fall and was approved by Metropolitan Editor Bob Woodward, who helped win a Pulitzer for the Post with his Watergate reporting. When "Jimmy's World" appeared, many Post reporters were incredulous. Most suspicious were Cooke's fellow blacks, who felt that her depiction of ghetto life rang false...
Life and a late marriage take her ultimately to Kiev. She is there in 1941 when the Germans invade and order all Jews to board trains for Palestine. Half Jewish, Lisa accepts this opportunity to get her Jewish stepson out of the ghetto. Their true destination is a ravine that will serve as a mass grave. Their end is ghastly...
...idea of Christianity is also suspect because the church, while an instrument of salvation, is also an instrument of social containment, a taming device. The idea of home is elusive and treacherous, with one's home being traced either to a ghetto or to a Southern plantation or, as in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon (1977), into the past, where there are more dreams than roots. Is the U.S. itself home? That is no easy problem for a people from whom much of the country's bounty has been withheld, yet who are far more native...
...employ it. The Holocaust Library, distributed by Schocken Books, for instance, is a nonprofit publishing enterprise created and managed by refugees. Most of the titles belong to the literature of testimony-The Holocaust Kingdom by Alexander Donat (361 pages; $8.95, paperback) typically records the last days of the Warsaw ghetto and the will of a child to appeal the world's sentence of death. The Politics of Rescue by Henry L. Feingold (416 pages; $7.95, paperback) revives the long-dormant question: How could the democracies of the West refuse to admit people whose need for sanctuary was a matter...
...economic oppression of the ghetto has created a vast reserve of wasted talent. There are street hustlers, criminals and a lot of plain working folk who would be at Harvard or a similar school if they had been given a chance. Considering the apparent lack of commitment to the struggles of our brothers and sisters in the slums, I wonder if we really believe that anything we face here can even compare to their day-to-day hardships. And if we think it does, can there be any other explanation than that we feel we are somehow more important...