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...have been asked when I first felt a sense of racial identity, when I first understood that I belonged to a minority. In those early years, I had no such sense, because on Banana Kelly there was no majority. Everybody was either a Jew, an Italian, a Pole, a Greek, a Puerto Rican or, as we said in those days, a Negro. Racial epithets were hurled around and sometimes led to fistfights. But it was not "You're inferior--I'm better.'' The fighting was more like avenging an insult to your team. Among my boyhood friends were Victor Ramirez...
...served as a faculty member under Marius for two years; a forthwright and sometimes outspoken intellectual, he has always drawn a steady flow of criticsm, and like all of us, he has his faults. As a colleague of Marius, as a sometime critic of the man, and as a Jew, let me be emphatic: anti-Semitism is not one of those faults...
Marius joins the company of notable Jewish intellects, best represented by Hannah Arendt, who enrage the entrenched leaders of Jewish political orthodoxy by pointing out their most dangerous failures to conduct themselves as decent citizens of the world. All Jews are well served by these honest moral criticisms of our leaders, and Peretz would do well as a member of the Harvard faculty, and as a Jew, to broaden his moral vision and admit that when a Jew tortures, when a Jew abducts a citizen from his or her home, when a Jew serves his state through terror, that Jew...
...Masai spiritual leader tells of his nephew who may have been Claudia's lover. A former British army officer describes his romance with Cohn-Casson and her return to Paris during the final months of World War II. Why would an intelligent, worldly Jew deliberately return to Hitler's Europe? While Curtiz is pursuing the answer in Kenya and Tanzania, Letterman is busy in Paris checking out every aspect of a celebrated French actress. She turns out to be a transsexual--just one of the illusions shattered on the hard, polished surface of this novel...
...better. Rich writes, "There isn't a single entertainment executive I've spoken to since Mr. Dole's speech who hasn't echoed Billy Crystal's comment during Dan Quayle's fling with 'Murphy Brown:' 'Every time they say the phrase 'Hollywood elite' you can hear the unspoken word 'Jew.'" Rather than refuting the substance of Quayle's critique, Crystal reaches for the security blanket of the anti-Semitism charge...