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...Nazis decreed the establishment of the Warsaw ghetto; 400,000 Jews would be confined in 1.3 sq. mi., roughly the size of New York City's Central Park. The story has been told before--a once thriving Jewish community, the largest outside New York, squeezed incrementally by humiliation, poverty, hunger, cold, starvation, epidemics of typhus and tuberculosis, marauding Nazis who murdered on a free-lance basis, and at last, mass systematic deportations, the hopeless trudge to Umschlagplatz (the transshipment station) at the end of Zamenhof Street, and the trains to "resettlement," which meant to death camps like Treblinka...
...don’t want to anger the new dean into not giving us space,” she says. “But we also want the space to the point that we’d consider hunger strikes, chain ourselves to the building, picket...
...there are other, more troubling similarities. Today’s protesters are the same resume rebels we have seen over the last few years. They are the same guilty middle class suburbanites who hunger for a social cause as grand as the movements their parents joined in college, even if no such cause currently exists. They are the superheroes of non-issues who can smell a distressed janitor or a non-fair-trade cup of coffee from a mile away and can instantly mount an impassioned protest without even thinking...
Born in the Bronx to two drug-addicted parents, Murray recounts a childhood filled with hunger, welfare checks and cocaine dealing...
...hunger to get a piece of the famous and the psychology behind that desire are the substance of her intellectually agile but emotionally lacking follow-up, The Autograph Man (Random House; 347 pages). In it Alex-Li Tandem as a boy develops a fascination with celebrity signatures; in the poignant prologue, his father takes him to a wrestling match and drops dead of a brain tumor as Alex is jockeying to get a famous wrestler's autograph. Before dying, Alex's father gives him a signed pound note as a bet on the match, sealing the psycho-paternal importance...