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Canadian Writer Mordecai Richler (The Apprenticeship of Buddy Kravitz) is known for witty portraits of his native land, most recently in his book Home Sweet Home. Here he takes a typically affectionate look at his country's elections...
HOME SWEET HOME by Mordecai Richler; Knopf; 291 pages...
...this has done nothing to discourage Novelist Mordecai Richler (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Joshua Then and Now). His 14th book, aptly subtitled My Canadian Album, is a mordant, witty brief for the defense of his homeland. As evidence, the Montreal native offers a series of diverse impressions of Canada's past imperfect and present tense. He lunches with Pierre Trudeau, and remembers an earlier Prime Minister, the gnomic William Lyon Mackenzie King, who "nightly for 22 years sat by his crystal ball, beneath an illuminated portrait of his mum, and rapped with her spirit, seeking guidance...
...photographs and clippings, the mementos of happy times a half-century ago. From across the room a bulky man offered a greeting: "Do you remember me?" For a long moment Kraber stared, searching his mental archives, but the name eluded him. Softly the other man identified himself as Mordecai Gorelik. Kraber cried out, "Max!" and they fell into a hug that, they reckoned, embraced some 40 bygone years...
...DIED. Mordecai Kaplan, 102, founder of the Jewish Reconstructionist movement, which sees Judaism as an evolving civilization and not just as a religion; in New York City. A professor at Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary (1909-63), Kaplan was Orthodox by upbringing, but came to believe that Judaism is a synthesis of religion, race and culture. The practical effect of this view was to see the synagogue as a center for Jewish communal life that stressed the humanistic rather than the solely religious aspects of heritage. Kaplan's ideas were viewed as a divisive force by many Orthodox...