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...shock of theological doubt: How could God be a force for good if such an unwarranted horror could be visited on one of his own ministers? For a year Kushner wrestled with the question in writing. The result, published in 1981, was When Bad Things Happen to Good People (Schocken Books; $10.95). It is an odd book-part classical theology, part cracker-barrel, self-help philosophy. But when an excerpt appeared in Redbook in the October 1981 issue, it made the author a national figure. Kushner, 47, the rabbi of Temple Israel in Natick, Mass., remembers the turning point well...
...Nazis to make a sacrifice of this kind, and the position of the Jews was not that of a ritual victim." Still, the term has entered the world's vocabulary (der Holocaust has been naturalized in German), and survivors themselves employ it. The Holocaust Library, distributed by Schocken Books, for instance, is a nonprofit publishing enterprise created and managed by refugees. Most of the titles belong to the literature of testimony-The Holocaust Kingdom by Alexander Donat (361 pages; $8.95, paperback) typically records the last days of the Warsaw ghetto and the will of a child to appeal...
...BOOK OF WOMEN POETS FROM ANTIQUITY TO NOW Edited by Aliki Barnstone & Willis Barnstone; Schocken; 612 pages...
LETTERS TO FRIENDS, FAMILY AND EDITORS by Franz Kafka; translated by Richard and Clara Winston. Schocken; 509 pages...
Magnified 615 times with the scanning electron microscope, the body of a carpenter bee resembles a forest in a nightmare. At 13,818 times, a crack in an eggshell is a mysterious view of a devastating earthquake. In Magnifications (Schocken; 119 pages; $24.95), Photographer David Scharf takes the reader on a visual adventure into microspace. The images are beyond normal senses, but through the microscope Scharf puts the reader eyeball to eyeball with tiny insects like the Feathery Midge (in life about 2 mm. long) and allows us to make contact with beautiful, intriguing, minute parts of plants and minerals...