Word: russian-jewish
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...version of passive resistance. Perhaps his naivety was as huge as his talent. He believed that Hollywood moguls would give a black actor (any actor) final cut, and that Stalinism was not slavery but liberation. Through three decades of Soviet tyranny (including the murder of one of his Russian-Jewish friends), he remained faithful to the U.S.S.R. And here his charm failed him. He could sell sand to Saharans, but he couldn't peddle Stalin to America. Widely popular in the early 40s, he was a pariah by 1950, denied a passport until 1958, spurned by mainstream black groups, forgotten...
...CAME INTO MY INHERITANCE No memoir about caring for elderly parents is quite like this one, a piercingly funny book without a joke in it. Dorothy Gallagher opens with the sickroom of Bella and Izzy, her Russian-Jewish mother and father, then takes their stories backward in time through the chapters of the American immigrant experience. No filial whining, just keen observations and a steady affection...
...Came Into My Inheritance No memoir about caring for elderly parents is quite like this one, a piercingly funny book without a joke in it. Dorothy Gallagher opens with the sickroom of Bella and Izzy, her Russian-Jewish mother and father, then takes their stories backward in time through the chapters of the American immigrant experience. No filial whining, just keen observations and a steady affection...
...funny book, and there's not a joke in it. In the first chapter of How I Came Into My Inheritance and Other True Stories (Random House; 187 pages; $22.95), she drags us straight into the sick room from hell. She is looking after Bella and Izzy, her failing Russian-Jewish parents. She muddles through with such wryness and tenderness and, finally, wisdom that it will make you ache for another chance to tend your own parents...
Ahmed Sarhane, the fired Vitrolles guard, has found another way to respond: the French justice system. He is taking the National Front to court on three separate charges: attempted murder, defamation (Catherine Megret, herself the granddaughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants, referred to him on TV as a "delinquent") and illegal firing. Sarhane is asking $100,000 in damages and severance pay but says he doesn't really care about the money. "I want them convicted, even if they only have to pay one symbolic franc," says Sarhane, a muscular former karate instructor. "People have to know what they...