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...later the wife of Publisher and Oilman Charles Marsh. Their affair began in 1938, after Alice, then 26, met the tall, jug-eared Congressman, then 29, during a party at Longlea, her regal Virginia estate. He arranged a visa extension at her request for Conductor Erich Leinsdorf, an Austrian Jew fleeing the Nazis. The relationship continued until the 1960s, when Alice grew angry at L.B.J.'s conduct of the Viet...
...HEARS A LOT these days--may be one always has--about the mild psychological disorder, the discomfort with atavistic overtones, referred to as Jewish guilt Saddled with the stereotypes of the Jewish Mother and the Jewish American Princess. Jews in America are almost expected to feel ambivalent about their heritage. On the one hand, there is the insecurity of knowing what happened to one's roots in Poland or Russia or Germany. On the other is the desire to take full advantage of a wondrous new world--thus breaking the last link in an ancestral chain--to produce the strange...
...activism and roving journalism, which were punctuated rather than shaped by his new insights into the past. On an impulsive trip to Israel for kibbutz work, he learned Hebrew, took the name Saul Cohen for convenience's sake, and gradually shed his Choate-instilled self-image as a wimpish Jew-boy. Researching a long Voice feature called "Jews Without Money, Revisited," he spent months in a Lower East Side housing project in New York City, satisfying a growing obsession under the guise of reporting; the same exploration brought him into contact with the Chasidic rabbi Joseph Singer, who became...
Such an outlook on American life often angers the American Jew who feels fully and securely American; more frequently, he labels it paranoia. But the warning also resonates undeniably for those whose ancestors have fled homelands, and not only in the distant past. Having set up such resonances in all their disturbing intensity. Cowan's book calms and inspires by reminding the Jew of his other, always retrievable world--where, once he has entered, he is no longer an outsider but an active, essential link in an endless chain...
MORREAU SEEMS INTENT ON sprinkling dark, meaningful images throughout the plot's progress. Radio bulletins and brief conversations about war interrupt the film's flow. And the morose, seductive presence of a Jewish interloper in the village too obviously suggests the eventual fate of his people. The Jew, a young and handsome doctor from Paris, enters everyone's life. He has an affair with Marie's mother and entrances the young Marie. (At least Morreau had the common sense not to let the film become but another variation of the Pretty Baby theme...