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Birmingham's 'Auerbach': Echoes from Generations

There is a fortune to be
divided, and the third gen-
eration forms a frequently
identified family split by
jealousy, and greed.
That's how "The Auer-
bach Will" (Little, Brown

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is intrigue in the selfish-
ness, and the quest for for-
tune has old echoes: from
people who stem from the
East and rise to power
Westward by mingling with
— marrying into — the so-
cially different who believe
themselves to be superior.
The intermingling is the
result of the serious studies
made by the novel's author,

Stephen Birmingham, who
has gained a reputation for
having delved deep into the
activities and social
standards of Jewish com-
munitiess with differing
ideologies.
Birmingham comes to
his theme well prepared.
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came from Germany, and
portrayed their rise so-
cially, their affluence.
They emerged as a power
in society, with all the
attendant family squab-
bles.
"The Auerbach Will" is
its continuum. It is fiction,
not history. Yet, the con-
flicts that had marked
Russian-Polish and Ger-
man Jewish animosities are
in evidence here, and the
experiences in Jewish
communities are'reflected.
Esther Litsky is the pre-
dominant personality in
this novel. Her Eastern
European father wanted
her to marry a rabbi. In-
stead she married into the
prominent German Jewish
Auerbach family. It is as
Essie Auerbach that she
dominates and retains the
major role in this novel's
theme of discord in the pur-
suant . generations, the
battles over the wealth of
the Auerbachs, the greed
that pervades.
Among the contending
factions there had been bit-
terness and prejudicial
views between those who
stemmed from the East as
contrasted by the West. For
many the treatment of it
was like a mixed marriage
when a Litsky was joined in
wedlock with an Auerbach.
Essie soon became the
ruler over the family for
tune and the novel com-
mences with a descrip-
tion of the feud over the
will. It took three genera-
tions to develop the crav-
ing for splitting the in-
heritance.
The entire cast of char-
acters is an exciting combi-
nation of schemers affected
by the greed caused by the
accumulated wealth.
In this account of three
generations, there are lov-
ers and also dilletantes.
Essie herself is enmeshed in
secrecy that is revealed as
the novel's theme develops.

pathy.
Stephen Birmingham
published his first novel,
"Young Mr. Keefe," in 1958
and his second, "Barbara
Greer," in 1959. Since that
time, the author has con-
centrated on non-fiction,

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Among the Auerbach
offspring brought to life in
Birmingham's novel is Es-
sie's daughter Joan, who is
voraciously pursuing a slice
of the family fortune in
order to keep her crumbling
newspaper afloat. Joan's
brother, Josh, is cast in the
role of the "special son,"
constantly winning the ap-
proval and admiration of his
mother.

Two other children,
Mogie and Babette, form
the balance of the Auer-
bach family. Mogie is the
effete son who has, much
to his mother's chagrin,
married a former Radio
City Music Hall Rockette.
Babette is one of Palm
Beach's leading hostes-
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Birmingham's deft han-
dling of the fabric of family
life and the shifting pat-
terns of triumph and
tragedy produces a drama-
tic narrative in this, his
sixth novel. As the story's
protagonist, Essie is shaped
in a manner guaranteed to
evoke the reader's sym-

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