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August 04, 1978 - Image 31

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1978-08-04

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From Yiddish Notes to a Big Best-Seller:
The Remarkable Memory of an Aged Lady

- Edith Lazebnik is the
heroine of the current liter-
ary season. She wrote a
book in Yiddish and it is
now a best-seller in English.
She told her life story and
that of her family and it
took root.

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Indeed, there is another
heroine on the scene. Sherry
Arden, a William Morrow
Co. vice president, had the
vision of a great book and
recognized its merits even
though it was not in her
language. Thanks to Miss
Arden's keen appreciation
of the uniqueness of the
document, Morrow pub-
lished it. The result: "Such a

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Life" is a best-seller, the
selection of book clubs and
already contracted for as a
paperback for a six-figure
remuneration.
Miss Arden's role must be
noted as much as Edith
Lazebnik's creation. Editors
are confronted daily with
documents, many of which
are not unlike that now
tempting English readers
who are reading with admi-
ration "Such a Life." To
have recognized the merits
of a book which publishers
and readers are now rating
as a gem in the series on the
roots of people is especially
noteworthy.
The dedicaticin reveals
the family links to the
translator. It reads:
"My daughter worked
her fingers to help us
make the English:
Jeanette Bernhard, her
husband and a doctor.
"And I also want to
thank my son Jack for
being so smart and so
helpful."
If ever "memory of an
elephant" was applicable, it
is to Edith Lazebnik. The
uniqueness of her story is
the detailing ofafamily ex-
periences, the recollections
about events nearly a cen-
tury ago and as they re-
flected historical Jewish
events. "Such a Life" is the
story of the Eisenbergs,
from whom the elderly au-
thor stems, and the people
who surrounded them, the
events that threatened
them in a land of bias, the
Russian as well as the
Jewish environments in a
story that is indeed pheno-
menal in the tracing of
roots.

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DIIMER THEATRE
were love affairs in the older its British debut at the Bath
generation's experience, Festival. With them were
and divorce as well. That Valery and Galina Panov,
"Such a Life" should have a the former Leningrad Kirov
record of the events which dancers, who settled in Is-
could be related only from a rael four years ago after
gathering of family episodes world-wide efforts to secure
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passed on from one genera- their emigration.
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tion to another and yet be
The company's first Lon-
recorded so well makes
don appearance was part of
"Such a Life" distinct.
the celebrations of Israel's
There is even infidelity as 30th anniversary.
is evidenced in the various
love affairs recorded in the
author's reminiscences.
These episodes, along
with the business acu-
men of the individualist
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Everything you could
the story of Edith, the
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its heroes emerge here as
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the humans in a life that
matches the 20th Century
author's realism in a fam-
ily chronicle.
The dynamic David
Eisenberg is portrayed here
as the shrewd business
man, the lover, three times
married, the first time as a
Restaurant
13-year-old for a couple of
weeks, his wife having died;
then for a short time to
Tzeepa with whom he had
one daughter, and finally to
Razellah, whom he shared a
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needed for "I must write
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phrase the author used to
excuse herself to work on
her memoirs, brought an
interesting result. A
daughter's dedication as
translator helped.
The publishers could
have added a bit of sen-
sationalism by appending to
By Enjoying Our
the translated work a re-
of
the
author's
production
notes — in Yiddish. That
would have provided a sam-
ple of her Yiddish as well as
glamorized evidence of her
creativity.
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