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...national economy, threats to the body politic, and violators of young boys, Edgeworth decided to take it all back and Harrington." (Prominent Jewish matrons seem to have taken an active hand in helping the process along. Miss Edgeworth received a complaint about her illiberality from an American Jewess which may have occasioned the writing of Harrington, just as Dickens' creation of Riah was helped along by the famous letter from Mrs. Davis.) The "pallor" of Miss Edgeworth's good Jews, like that of the other apologies in English literature--Dickens' Riah, DuMaurier's Leah, and Trollope's Trendelssohn--is explained...
Death Reported. Ana Rabinsohn Pau-ker, 65, longtime Communist matriarch, who as Foreign Minister ran Red Rumania from 1947 until her downgrading to a minor job in 1952; of cancer; in Bucharest. After joining the Communists in 1921, the Bucharest-born Jewess spent 15 years in and out of Rumania and jail before going to the Soviet Union. In 1945, one year after her return to Rumania, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vishinsky visited, noted Mrs. Pauker's power over the incumbent regime, departed purring, "I feel very lighthearted...
...dazed plazas of Mexico, but her eyes blindly stare at aristocratic Polish drawing rooms, the image of Pilsudski, and her 20-year-old son standing in the streets of Warsaw in grim defiance of Nazi soldiery. Hawk-eyed and hawk-beaked, the countess is a Polish Jewess and a refugee, one of the world's involuntary tourists whose heaviest luggage is memory...
...more explosive ground now, she gets so chummy with the Gestapo that they try to set her to spying out the racial history of one of her new friends, a suspected Jewess. The trap, of course, snaps on Eva herself. The next stop is the Auschwitz concentration camp. Nesting at the end of the line for Eva are true love and a family in Israel. From the moment she bounces into view, no reader can doubt that her ending will be upbeat...
...life and love in prewar Egypt so splendidly begun in Justine (TIME, Aug. 26, 1957) and Balthazar (TIME, Aug. 25, 1958). Most of the same characters are still loping through the bedrooms and back alleys of Alexandria: Pursewarden, the slightly mad novelist-diplomat; Justine, the dark-browed, amoral Jewess; Nessim, her millionaire Coptic Christian husband; Darley, the sad-sack Irish schoolteacher; Melissa, the tuberculous Greek dancer. But the protagonist of this new book is a relative newcomer, David Mountolive, who returns to Egypt as British ambassador after having lived there in his youth...