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Jerome Weidman's 'My Father Sits in Dark' Is Skillful Collection of Short Stories
Jerome Weidman emerges as
the master story-teller in his
new book, published by Random
House under the title " 'My
Father Sits in the Dark' and
Other Selected Stories."
There are 49 short stori
this book, and an enlig
introduction which is
biographical explan
story-teller's appr
art.
The title story
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It is the 34th in the book. It
also is one of th
the entire
. Apparently
the at
raphical element in
t
ry has induced Weidman
use it as the title of the col-
lection.
In simple terms, we ar told
how the father sit i th dar
and thin Whe
ht is
turne
be
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lishe
sitting in
rk.
simple
explai
"I c 't think
light on." What is he
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g about? Father r •
o son: "Nothing sp •
Weidman
on a van--
ety of
In its totality,
an excellent set of
s ort stories. They are enter-
taining and many are thought-
provoking.
There are some with Jewish
angles, like the one entitled
"Chutzbah." What a pity that
this eminent author is so little
informed Jewishly that even
"chutzpah" is misspelled. But
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s a very goo
e. It the neighbor: "You murderer!
As stated, Weidman's "My
essive y ng You couldn't bear - to see her
man who succeeds
'eryt zg happy! You gave her a kinne- Father Sits in the Dark" is a
he does. He is not et al, ut horrah! You killed her!" The splendid collection of short
he always emerges "clean" ut innocently accused moved -a stories. They will provide most
enjoyable reading, proving the
of all his deals. Even his f
er, week later.
skill of the eminent author.
who w•
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comment: "A finer jung! He's
all right, that boy. He's got
chutzbah!"
Then there is the story
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Another story worth men-
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that an eminent writer should
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The term deriveS from three
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Yiddish and Hebrew, that "no
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has accepted the corruption.
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