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...remarked later that, throughout the audience, she thought of the Christian cross as the symbol under which "Jews were killed for generations." She continued: "I sat and thought to myself, here is the head of the church, sitting face to face with the Jewess from Israel, and he's listening to what I'm saying -about the Jewish people, about their home in Israel, about their rights...
...Golda Meir with a hearty "Hullo, sister," embraced her as her astonished staff members gaped, and, after an 80-minute talk, parted with '"Bye, lovey." During a dinner party, he reportedly told Mrs. Meir that she need not speak so possessively about Palestine because "you are merely a Jewess from Russia who came to Israel via America...
...boiling mad! It's a damn shame that the "no Christmas in Marblehead" edict [Dec. 12] was handed down, and it's also too bad that it had to make the national news scene. As a Jewess, I am embarrassed for others of my religion if they were part of the reason that Christmas celebration was banned. I certainly want my own son to learn about and uphold his religion and its traditions and ideals. But boy-oh-boy. I also want him to know that there are others in this world who believe differently than he does...
...stories translated by Max Hayward for this edition were published in Russia during Babel's lifetime, but only a few even begin to approach the lyrical force of such concentrated conceptions as the widely known The Story of My Dovecot, Lyubka the Cossack and Salt. The Jewess, longest story in the book and presumed to be a fragment of a proposed novel, touches on one of Babel's most forceful and most personal themes-the conflicting needs of a Soviet Jew to retain his traditions and be a correct citizen. The Jewess of the title is a country...
...asks Daughter Nathalie, "did Babel leave The Jewess unfinished?" Was it because, as she suggests, he could not resolve in himself the conflict he hoped to portray in Boris? The slim hope remains that a completed variation of the manuscript may yet be found. The Jewess has never been published in Russia, and it is not difficult to see why. In a nation where anti-Semitism and the assimilation of minorities are sensitive issues, this tale is bound to cause embarrassment. Babel's name may have been rehabilitated, but some of his work remains incorrigible...