Word: sauls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NONFICTION: Blood of Spain, Ronald Fraser ∙ I Love: The Story of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lili Brik, Ann & Samuel Charters ∙ The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff ∙ The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas The Neoconservatives, Peter Steinfels ∙ The White Album, Joan Didion ∙ When Memory Comes, Saul Friedlander
...Blood of Spain, Ronald Eraser ∙I Love: The Story of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lili Brik, Ann and Samuel Charters ∙The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas ∙The Neoconservatives, Peter Steinfels ∙The White Album, Joan Didion ∙When Memory Comes, Saul Friedlander
WHEN MEMORY COMES by Saul Friedländer Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 186 pages...
...memoir that stirs these thoughts is muted in its anguish. The author, Saul Friedländer, 46, now an Israeli historian, was a child of seven in Czechoslovakia at the outset of the war. His parents were nonpracticing Jews, and the religion that Pavel, as he was called, knew most about as a boy was the Roman Catholicism of his beloved governess Vlasta. It was this happenstance, perhaps, that made it possible for him to endure the enormous change in his life that occurred when he was ten. The family fled to France in 1939, but by the summer...
...Arab land unrelated to Israel's security needs," the letter read, "and which presumes to occupy permanently a region populated by 750,-000 Palestinian Arabs, we find morally unacceptable, and perilous for the democratic character of the Jewish state." Among those who signed were Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Saul Bellow, Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein, and Jerome B. Wiesner, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...