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...wrote Anton Chekhov to Solomon Rabinovich. The attraction of disciple and master seemed strange at the time: Rabinovich was an obscure Jew who wrote under the name Sholom Aleichem (literally, peace be unto you). Chekhov was a renowned and worldly physician-writer nearing the end of his life...
...room with horror stories. Lucy also rises to the occasion with a Christian-pagan vision rooted in agriculture, bacchanalia and fertility symbols. The reader is left suspended with images of unreachable men locked in "the glory of their martyrdom," and of the Holocaust as multiple Crucifixions in which "every Jew was Jesus." Not since Elaine dined alone has there been a stranger tale of literary New York...
First, there was his religion. Most present day Americans must have trouble appreciating the peculiar horrors of turn-of-the-century Prague for a Jew. "Anti-Semitism," a phrase now used to describe segregated country clubs, meant frenzied riots and accusations of ritual murder. And since the Kafkas were doing their best to assimilate, feeling a meaningful religious identity was (until relatively late in his life) almost impossible for Franz. Second, there was his nationality (German), making him an outsider twice removed while in Prague. And then there was his father. Hayman stresses Kafka's relationship with his father...
DIED. Leopold Leib Trepper, 77, a Polish-born Jew and longtime Communist who in the late 1930s and early 1940s led a 290-member spy network for the Soviet Union that was known to the Germans as the "Red Orchestra"; in Jerusalem. The Nazis smashed the Red Orchestra in 1942-43, and one Hitler aide later estimated that the espionage ring had cost 200,000 German soldiers' lives. At war's end, Trepper was rewarded by the Soviets with a ten-year prison term. Released in 1955, he returned to Poland and was permitted in 1974 to emigrate...
...children to love the beautiful things in the old country, and not to frighten them. "You don't want to start striking out right and left." She waves right and left with her arms; her English rolls in a heavy swell. "You want to make distinctions. A good Jew from a bad Jew. A good Arab from a bad. Also you want to show that life is not all hardship. There is joy here...