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Innocence & Enticement. Born in Bulgaria in 1885 as Julius Mordecai Pincas, the eighth of eleven children of a Spanish Sephardi and his Serbian-Italian wife, he was totally unconcerned with nationality. He Frenchified his name to Pascin, but he was equally at home in Paris, Munich and New York, where he eventually became a U.S. citizen in 1920. Nor did his riotous ways change with his location; everywhere he went, he liked to sponge up wine, Pernod and brandy, painted with 30 or 40 friends carousing about him in his studio. And mostly his subjects and companions were the girls...
...Mordecai Ardon, Yigael Tumarkin, Yosef Zaritsky, also deserve a close look. Eighty works. Through...
Meanwhile, onionskins of identity were being peeled from the captive. He proved to be Mordecai Luk, 31, a Moroccan-born Jew who had immigrated to Israel in 1949, did his army service, married and fathered four children, and took up two professions: carpentry and crime. He has a record of five convictions, on charges ranging from forgery to criminal trespass. In 1961 he slipped out of Israel to Egypt and began an equally unsavory new existence making anti-Israel broadcasts over Radio Cairo...
Much of this activity is the work of one man, Mordecai Makleff, 43, who took over Israel's government-owned Dead Sea Works in 1955, when the neighborhood around Sodom enjoyed a reputation hardly better than when the angels visited Lot. The Works suffered from incompetent management and low morale, and the town, with a population of 1,400, was full of prostitution and hashish addiction. Makleff, who had been made chief of staff of the Israeli armed forces at 32 because of his skill at organization and administration, quickly cleaned up Sodom. He fired most...
...husband from an aggressive jackass. Even the clergy was not immune from attack. After one Baptist preacher denounced him from the pulpit, Saunders discovered and published the fact that the preacher owned the only bawdyhouse in town. Another Independent editorial volley, aimed at an anti-Semitic evangelist named Mordecai Ham, blew down the revivalist's tent...