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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...
With that kind of sorrow-laden past, it is little wonder that these "quintessential strangers," as author Isabel Fonseca calls them, remain wary of all gadje (non-Gypsies.) An American of Hispanic and Hungarian-Jewish parentage who lives in London, Fonseca used her painstakingly acquired knowledge of Romany, the Gypsy language, to gain insight into a scattered nation of 12 million people without a homeland. Bury Me Standing (Knopf; 322 pages; $25) is both a history of the tribe and an account of the author's personal quest to uncover its secrets...
...native of Allentown, Pennsylvania, Jarrett (who is of Hungarian and Scottish-Irish extraction, not African-American, as some have supposed from his appearance) began giving piano recitals in his hometown at the age of seven. He turned down a chance to study in Paris with the late Nadia Boulanger, teacher of three generations of American composers. "It wasn't a casual 'No,'" he recalls. "I was developing a way with music that would be better off minus the labels on everything, minus the descriptions, minus the analysis...
...porter asks Ryder the next morning to look up his daughter Sophie and his grandson Boris in the Hungarian Cafe. When Ryder does so, Sophie tells him about a house she will see tomorrow, in the hope that the three of them can settle down there together. Ryder takes this odd information calmly: "For the fact was, as we had been sitting together, Sophie's face had come to seem steadily more familiar to me, until now I thought I could even remember vaguely some earlier discussions about buying just such a house in the woods...
...Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall, painting the nails on one hand five different colors and signing a poster for Cal Ripken Jr. ("What wonderful blue eyes," she said of her sports co-star last week.) Seles even took the time to comfort Hungarian junior player Edit Pakay, 15, who was crying in the locker room after her defeat...