Word: jew
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...practice, that often means lower admission requirements for blacks, Spanish-surnamed Americans and, especially in California, Asians. Clancy, who married a Los Angeles public defender last year, believes her disadvantaged background fits the special-program criteria. A Russian-born Jew whose parents were imprisoned in concentration camps, she immigrated only seven years ago to the U.S., where her impoverished family had to accept public assistance. Despite serious problems with English and the necessity of holding a part-time job, she managed an A+ average at U.C.L.A. and was placed at the top of one of the Davis medical school waiting...
Adler is Jewish, and a Jew in this rural, tribal and fiercely Christian heartland is a wanderer indeed. There were Jews in Savannah well before the turn of the 19th century - George Washington's letter of good wishes to the city's Jewish congregation dated 1789 is the book's epi- graph - but most of those Adler meets feel that they remain in Georgia on the most precarious kind of sufferance. Their prudent rabbi has eliminated Hebrew from most of the ritual, and their new temple, Adler notes wryly, lacks only a cross to make it indistinguishable...
...novel is Seth's tenacity in holding to this view. He suffers the slights and cruelties that might be expected as he works his way up from dry-goods clerk to successful lawyer. But Adler's faith in America is severely tested when he defends a young Jew accused of murder. The victim is a 14-year-old Christian girl, and the defendant is the plant manager of a new soft-drink firm that strongly resembles Coca-Cola in its formative years. Deep and violent prejudice shows itself as angry crowds clog Savannah streets during the trial. Here...
...long courtroom section, which might be a novel in itself, requires a new narrator, Adler's daughter. A concluding chapter introduces a contemporary Adler descendant who hastily ties the book to the present. The author makes no pronouncements about why Christian tribalism periodically festers with hatred of Jews. He merely holds to his story of an American Jew who believed, despite agonizing evidence to the contrary, that this hatred was an aberration, and not a basic part of his country's character. Kluger's novel makes this point with an impressive measure of good sense and strength...
...Even though it's based on his real-life relationship with co-star Diane Keaton, Woody Allen's latest--and arguably best--film is far more than cinema a clef. Allen's sensitive, sometimes painfully realistic portrait of a failed love affair between a neurotic but lovable New York Jew and a flaky midwestern WASP marks a generally successful departure in thematic approach; "Annie Hall" hoes much farther in exploring human relationships than any of Allen's previous films. Still, the best moments in the film are the deliberate send-ups in which Allen unleashes his scathing wit against such...