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With Zeal & Energy. Wallenberg went. He arrived in Budapest listed officially as third secretary of the Swedish legation, his luggage bulging with information on Hungarian underground agents and secretly pro-Allied officials of the Hungarian government. Operating with enormous zeal and energy, he persuaded Hungarian officials that if a Jew claimed neutral citizenship he should not be deported until the truth of his claim had been established. This done, he promptly affixed to the homes of some 20,000 such Jews signs that read: "Under the Protection of the Swedish Legation." He rented 32 houses in Budapest in the name...
...sensation of Tanglewood that year (1940). One day a famous actress saw him conduct. "Dahling!" she husked at him later. "I've gone mad about your back muscles. You must come and have dinner with me." Then there were some difficult decisions to make. Serge Alexandrovich Koussevitzky. himself a Jew, and rather sensitive, begged Lennie to change his unglamorous name so that his way to success would not be blocked by antiSemitism. Lennie said: "I'll do it as Bernstein...
Miracles these days are not as widespread as they used to be. But for Catholic-and, to a much lesser degree, for Protestant and Jew-miracles are a fact of faith. How much of a fact and how essential to faith, Hungarian-born Roman-Catholic Author Zsolt Aradi recalls in a new volume on the old subject, The Book of Miracles (Farrar, Straus & Cudahy; $5). Protestants and Jews may believe in miracles as they see fit; Catholics must believe in their existence, but it is not heretical for them to doubt any given miracle except the Immaculate Conception, the Virgin...
...uniform and offstage gunfire, but the plot deals with a day's events in a Jerusalem boarding house-marital intrigue, religious argument, family bickering-and could just as easily have taken place in any Western capital. Two of the tales-Barhash and Hamamah-are about Arabs, not Jews, and reveal a surprising attachment for the way of life of Bedouin and fellahin. Others hold a mirror to contemporary Israeli life: Yehuda Yaari's pastoral The Shepherd and His Dog reflects the sabra's passionate love of his barren land; Jerusalem-born Yehuda Burla writes wittily...
...life has already become something of a legend, encrusted in contradictions. As a Jew, she fulminated against Judaism. As a Christian, she could never bring herself to join any church (she was most drawn to Roman Catholicism). Born of a well-to-do Jewish agnostic family, she was barely five when she refused to eat sugar because French front-line soldiers in World War I were deprived of it. At 14, she dispensed with socks because the children of the poor could not wear them. As a young schoolteacher, she flirted with Marxism. To "understand" the workingman, she took...