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...When B?ll's wife Sophie?an Austrian Jew whose parents were victims of the Nazi death camps?falls ill, her dying designs for her husband's salvation lead to an eleventh-hour revelation, bringing B?ll and Amai together. B?ll looks to Amai to redeem him for what he's done, what he's made. And when Amai sees through B?ll's facade to his depressed, almost somnolent state, she recognizes a shadowy reflection of kyodatsu, "the condition of despair and exhaustion" that possessed the Japanese after the war, and begins to comprehend the price he paid for victory...
...brought up an egalitarian Jew,” said Sasha G. Weiss ’05. “To me it is very natural that women should have just the same role [as men] in ceremonies...
Psychiatrists like Barak had to fight more than just a bad diagnosis made decades ago. They were up against a Zionist ideology that saw Holocaust victims as weaklings who had gone "like sheep to the slaughter" - unlike the strong "new Jew" Israel's founders hoped to create. Holocaust survivors were treated with contempt in their new country. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion struck a reparations deal with West Germany in 1953 for DM 3 billion, then worth around $700 million. Israel agreed to give the money to survivors already in Israel; Germany would pay for those who arrived...
...second marriage, to socialite-journalist Ellin Mackay (she wrote for a new magazine called The New Yorker), earned more headlines: the Lower East Side Jew marrying the Upper East Side Catholic, with her father bitterly opposed to the union. It was the first big showbiz-society merger. F. Scott Fitzgerald, in a retrospective piece on the early 20s, noted that at that time "society and the native arts had not yet mingled - Ellin Mackay was not yet married to Irving Berlin." The two wed in 1926 and honeymooned abroad. The Social Register refused to mention the couple's return...
...Anathema to snooty WASPs, Berlin was the anthemist of Christian holy days ("White Christmas," "Easter Parade") and had a lot to do with turning them into secular holidays. The wandering Jew had embraced middle-America in his songs and his life, agreeing that his and Ellin's three daughters should be raised as Protestants. Whatever temptations celebrity and chorines might offer, Berlin was a doting and apparently faithful husband for 62 years; Ellin died in 1988, he a year later. Yet, when their first child Irving Jr., died after only 25 days - on Christmas - some of Ellin's friends supposedly...