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...would a Jew feel if there were signs all over the Yard for a group whose anagram was KIKE? Probably similar to being in Nazi Germany. Or, if an African-American was surrounded by signs saying NIGGER? Probably similar to being in Alabama...
Louis Begley's first novel, Wartime Lies, drew on his childhood as a Polish Jew who escaped the Nazi death camps by living as a Gentile. Assimilating to survive is quite different from assimilating to succeed. Begley did both. After the war, he emigrated to the U.S., went to Harvard and prospered as a Manhattan lawyer before turning to fiction. The Man Who Was Late follows his first book by less than two years, suggesting that Begley, nearing 60, has undertaken a literary career with some urgency...
...guilt of the survivor is a familiar psychological construct. That observation could be applied to the novel, but would not do justice to Begley's imagination and authority as a writer. Ben's feelings about his escape from the Holocaust and his transformation into an affluent non-Jewish Jew in America are complex and ironic. He is too intelligent to misinterpret his problem but too emotionally bottled up to solve it. Begley shares some of his resume with Ben, but he has not written an autobiography. The Man Who Was Late is a what-if novel -- specifically, What...
Suicidal profligacy was the least of the owners' sins. The Cincinnati Reds' Marge Schott scrambled to apologize for slurs against "Jew bastards" and "million-dollar niggers." (Jesse Jackson called the phrases "shots heard around the world" and promised further protests.) The moguls also voted to try renegotiating the players' union contract, though a spring lockout would cripple already ailing attendance. In a horrifying climax, Florida Marlins president Carl Barger suffered an aneurysm during the owners' final meeting and died a few hours later...
However, I was shocked, horrified and absolutely enraged at one particular sentence. He said, "No self-respecting Jew would romp around in that idiotic outfit and give away all that stuff for free," implying that Jews are miserly...