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...GUIDE FOR THE BEDEVILLED - Ben Hecht-Scribners...
...When Ben Hecht was six years old his aunt, Tante Chasha, took him to see a Yiddish play in which the hero was falsely charged with stealing a diamond bracelet...
...Guide far the Bedevilled Author Hecht (Erik Dorn, Gargoyles, Afternoons in Chicago) has followed Tante Chasha's advice. It is one of the most ferocious attacks on anti-Semitism ever written-and the first to be written by a Jew of Ben Hecht's literary conspicuousness...
...Author Hecht begins by explaining that, as a boy (he was raised in New York City and Racine, Wis.), he didn't know that anti-Semitism existed. His Russian-Jewish father was a passionately Americanized Elk, Knight of Pythias, Mason, Modern Woodsman and Loyal Moose. Later he met Jewish writers. But, like himself, they were "Semites far away from Semitism . . . whose only synagogue was Broadway." When he became famous, Ben was outraged if friends mentioned antiSemitism. "I said that it was not Jews who were being discriminated against but obviously individuals too ill-favored for social appeal." Ben filled...
...Pogroms, Mr. Hecht? But a few years ago a "famous lady" buttonholed Ben, begged him to tell her what it was about Jews that made people persecute them. "Only a Jew can speak on this subject," she explained. Ben was shocked. He had never imagined that the famous lady thought of him as a Jew. Suddenly he became race conscious, began to study Jewish history, resolved to write a book. "My mission was to write of Jews with love and of their enemies with hatred...