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They're the sort of Jews
we're not overly fond - of:
rich—but philanthropic only
toward themselves; cultured
—in all but Jewish culture;
urbane — but frankly anti-
Semitic.
This is the Coggan family
as it gathers for the opening
of shiva week in Chaim Ber-
mant's new novel. "The Last
Supper" (St. Martin's Press).
Oddly enough (for shiva is
one of those ethnic traditions
for which the Coggans would
not - appear to have any use),
the complete the period of
shiva for Tanya Coggazi-
Koch. While so doing, they
begin the often painful re-
counting of a family's his-
tory, from pre-revolutionary
Russia to contemporary Eng-
land.
They appear unfeeling, un-
concerned for the wretched
conditions of their fellow
Jews. Recalls Tanya's bro-
ther Alexei, the kibutznik
who rejected his privileged
station in Russia to make'
aliya:
"Do you remember that
visit I made to London short-
ly before the war and you in-
vited me to a great family
jamboree?"
"It wasn't a jamboree but
a seder and I didn't invite
you, you came." (This from
the aristocratic brother Lu-
do).
"It was in 1936 wasn't it?
—or '37? Hitler had recently
reoccupied the Rhineland,
Jews were persecuted in Ger-
many, in Poland, in Roma-
nia. There were riots in Pal-
estine but none of this en-
tered your conversation. It
was cousin this and aunt that
and who was expecting and
who had brought forth, who

was poorly and who had died
and tales of nannies long
ago. The exchange was half
in Russian, half in English,
with occasional intrusions of
French and German, and if 1
shut my eyes I could have
been back in St. Peterburgh.
I didn't even have to shut
my eyes. Tanya was there in
her imperial best. The great
family samovar was still
there, intact and in . use, and
all the family silver . . . "
"What did you want us to
do with the family silver?"
growled Ludo, "beat it into
plough-shares?"
"The whole unreal world
of St. Petersburgh carried
into exile."
"It may have been unreal,"
said Anna, "but it was beau-
tiful. Perhaps all beautiful
things are unreal."
It remains for the second
generation—for Tanya's son
Jim, a teacher in an Amer-
ican college—to expose the
skeletons in the Coggan fam-
ily closet, particularly the in-
congruous marriage of Tan-
ya the dragon to the simple
but wealthy Glasgow Jew,
Sol Koch.
The Last Supper of the the
title refers to the seder which
again draws this far-flung
family together. By then, Jim
has learned a great deal
about his parents, not all of
it savory.
The seder itself provides
the setting for family intro-
spection, but not necessarily
in the traditional sense.
Summing up: A Jewish
Chekhov this novel is not, but
it is an often amusing chron-
icle of a small, if atypical,
part of the great movement
of Jews from the Old Coun-
try. —C.D.

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