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What kind of intellects have Americans developed? Are they so afraid of the private religious or nonreligious convictions of political candidates that they are blinded to the fact that certain rights and controls are still guaranteed? Do they really think that if a Jew became President all American males would have to be circumcised? Or that if a Hindu became President all American cows would be declared sacred...
...Last of the Just, by Andre Schwarz-Bart. A panoramic, quasi-epic novel of Jewish suffering, from medieval pogroms to Nazi crematories, in which the descriptions of martyrdom are eloquent and touching, and answers to the question "What is a Jew?" are largely existential...
...recent meeting, the HDC voted to submit Shakespeare's "Tempest" and Marlowe's "Jew of Malta" for consideration by the Loeb Advisory Committee. If the Committee turns either of the plays down, the HDC will seek to produce it at another theater...
...Last of the Just, by Andre Schwarz-Bart. A panoramic, quasi-epic novel of Jewish suffering from medieval pogroms to Nazi crematories, in which the descriptions of martyrdom are eloquent and touching, and answers to the question, "What is a Jew?" are largely existential...
...marriage Memmi describes is "mixed." The hero-narrator is a Tunisian Jew studying medicine in Paris. Marie is a young Alsatian student from a Catholic family. At first the very difference in their backgrounds acts as a spur to their love. When Marie learns that he wants to return to Tunisia to practice among his people, she readily agrees to go with him. But in Tunisia they are met by her husband's family, a noisy, colorful clan she was wholly unprepared for. Their food seems outlandish, their curiosity rude. After the long drawn-out, seemingly crude Passover celebration...