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Autobiographer and Israeli journalist Yossi Klein Halevi was raised on the rim of Borough Park, a section of Brooklyn then heavily populated with deeply religious Holocaust survivors and their American-born children. His father, who came from a small Hungarian village, escaped the death camps by fleeing into the forest, where he hid for a year in a 4-ft.-deep hole. Even as a successful candy wholesaler in the U.S., he felt hunted and angry, especially at the "Nice Irvings," his term for America's assimilated Jews who laughed at Borscht Belt humor and turned, as he said...
...passionate heart of the book remains the early Brooklyn years, with its accounts of fractious religious sects, wonder rabbis, drug pushers in yarmulkes selling "jointelehs," and the Jewish Press warning of a holocaust of assimilation while it supports a fund drive to circumcise Jews secretly in Russia. Why does Halevi's Borough Park jump with life while his Jerusalem seems strangely sedate? The answer can be found partly in a pithy line he wrote about his father's generation: "Where you came from is more important than where...
...success "Atlantic City" (1980), starring Burt Lancaster as an aging hood, and 1981's "My Dinner with Andre", in which two friends wrestle over the earthly, the transcendent, and some painfully nouvelle cuisine. Malle called "Au Revoir Les Enfants" (1988), an autobiographical account of Jewish children hiding from the Holocaust at a French Catholic School, "the one film I would like to be remembered for." Candice Bergen, his widow, accompanied his body to France for burial...
...lunatic fringe, it must repudiate the ideological assumptions that motivated me as a young extremist and that animate the Israeli far right today--especially the notion that the Jews are a friendless people, opposed by the entire world. And it must re-examine the consequences of centralizing the Holocaust in Jewish identity. Both Dr. Baruch Goldstein, the Hebron mass murderer, and Yigal Amir emerged from politically right-wing "religious Zionism"--the community in which I was raised and which, perhaps more than any other, has absorbed the Holocaust into its world view. Mainstream right-wing leaders must tell their followers...
Those places which still engage in "ethnic cleansing" are the areas of the world where there is still much tribal tension which transcends reason. The United States is a reasonable country. The Holocaust will never happen again, unless we are so blinded by isolationism to let it happen. And slavery and segregation of different races will never happen again. We have learned from history, so there is no need to dwell...