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...Middle East" ("Choosing Sides, Making Friends," Feb. 11) and her characterization of Israel as a theocracy, not a democracy, is ill-informed and false. As proof of the undemocratic nature of Israel, Kawar offers the example of the Law of Return, Israel's policy of guaranteeing citizenship to any Jew wishing to immigrate. How this leads her to conclude that Israel is a theocracy, defined as a government by officials regarded as divinely inspired, is puzzling...
...begin until the late 19th century. When Bernard Berenson wrote the monograph that defined Lotto's oeuvre in 1895, he caused a scandal by throwing out scores of pseudo-Lottos. Collectors, particularly ducal ones in Britain, were enraged by the high-handedness with which this young, upstart American Jew downgraded their swans to ducks, but the fact was that Berenson was 90% right in his Lotto reattributions. From this point the critical overhaul of Lotto slowly began...
...house of a "courageous acquaintance," where they sweated out the pogroms of 1944. He saw his father return from the labor camps on the Eastern front, a proud, garrulous man shriveled by typhoid fever and chilled by pneumonia. Boys at school mocked him: before the war as a Jew, after the war because his father was a businessman (a dairyman, but that was enough). In his government file the boy was already an "enemy of the classes." He wasn't going to wait for the Soviets...
...taught himself business and accounting--everything he needed to know to run a small dairy service. Grove's mother, a spare, lovely woman, raised him in their two-room 19th century apartment. From an early age Grove was marked as the son of a capitalist and as a Jew. His parents hoped that with hard work he could overcome the prejudices...
...calls it World War II. Grove won't discuss his life in Budapest during the war. And though he travels the world, he hasn't returned to the city and swears he has "no interest in going back." He recently ran into billionaire George Soros, who was also a Jew living in Budapest in 1941. Soros has called the years the most important of his life. Grove calls Soros "totally different from me in that respect." The time, he insists, hasn't marked him. But late at night, over Scotch and sushi--Grove is partial to eel--the stories slip...