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...will remain so even if that is unacceptable to some." Strange words, coming from the man who is now one of the highest-ranking officials of the Catholic Church in France. Indeed, the Pope's choice for Archbishop of Paris, Jean-Marie Lustiger, 54, French-born son of Polish-Jewish Holocaust victims (his mother died at Auschwitz), created quite a stir when announced last week. Lustiger's credentials are, however, impeccably orthodox. Though he wore a Star of David throughout the Nazi occupation of France, Lustiger turned to Catholicism as a very young child, formally converting and changing...
Highlighting the coming week will not be the appearance of writer and storyteller, Isaac Bashevis Singer, not the recent winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Thus, The Swedish Academy of Letters did not cite the author for his "impassioned narrative art which, with its roots in a Polish-Jewish tradition, brings universal human conditions to life," adding that current comparisons of Singer's work to that of Russian author Leo Tolstoy have absolutely no validity...
...Swedish Academy of Letters cited the 74-year-old Polish-born novelist and short-story writer, a naturalized American citizen, for his "impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish tradition, brings universal human conditions to life...
...Cubans and the British in Palestine turned away refugee ships. The Australians, when asked if they would offer the Jews a haven, replied: "As we have no racial problem, we are not desirous of importing one." There were exceptions, but all too true, says Morse, was the epitaph that Polish-Jewish Poet Itzhak Katznelson wrote in his diary before he was gassed at Auschwitz: "Sure enough, the nations did not interfere, nor did they protest, nor shake their heads, nor did they warn the murderers, never a murmur...
...MANOR, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. In this tragicomic account of the changes that rack a Victorian Polish-Jewish family, a popular Yiddish storyteller demonstrates that he has the credentials of a major novelist...