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From the point of view of a social anthropologist, this book seeks to explain the meaning,of this unique city to the Christ- ians, Jews and Moslems who live there and to other millions around the world who cherish it. Samuel Hellman, who first visited Jerusalem 20 years ago, lived nearly half of the last six years there. He explored its spirit, wandered its streets and quarters and met its residents. "Jerusalem must be under- stood as a tapestry in time," he writes in the prologue to the book. "Woven into its present is an unforgettable past, and intertwined with both is an idealized future." The book is beautifully written with a lyri- cal prose. "The World of Sholom Aleichem" by Maurice Samuel, Atheneum Pub- lishers. The legendary Yiddish writer Sholom Aleichem re- flected in his stories the inter- nal world of Russian Jewry 50, 60 and 70 years ago, a world that long since disappeared. Considered the greatest of Jewish humorists and among the world's best, he was not only part of Russian Jewry, the author of this book asserts, but was "Russian Jewry itself. It is hard to think of him as a `writer.' He was the common people in utterance." Samuel presents the world of Russian Jewry through the characters and heroes in Sholom Aleichem stories, as well as the life of Sholom Aleichem himself. The book is an important literary and sociological work. "The Story of The Synagogue" by Geoffrey Wigoder, Harper and Row. A remarkably beautiful YOUR CAR IN ISRAEL - eldon MIZMUMEENN apl -nimn FROM " PER WEER U NARM MIL EAGE • r- co ,... E 'n 7 ..aszweamseta*** 4 are..k;:Mt,ii;•;z2 Special low prices it For reservation and through . - -.. ELDAN prepayment RESERVATION CENTER 6 U.S.A. 212-6296090 < 1-800-533-8778 q u 1 .• c., . K BEN OuR:ON INTERNATIONAL RPOR 7 Moorman's Travel is a preferred agency of American Airlines. 64 FRIDAY, SEPT, 18, 1987 HERTZELtYA TIBERIAS TEL AVIV BEER SHEBA JERUSALEM NETANYA HAIFA EILAT ASHKELON book, with 34 color and 200 black-and-white illustrations and photographs. It traces the history of the synagogue and its role in shaping and preserv- ing the Jewish people. The book, produced in con- junction with the Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv, surveys the synagogue from the time it began — apparently during the Babylonian exile in the Sixth Century B.C.E. — through the various periods in Europe, Asia and 20th Century synagogues around the world. The story of the synagogue as told in this book is, in many ways, the story of the Jewish people. It sheds light on Judaism's survival despite un- believable odds. "My Friend, The Enemy" by Uri Avnery, Lawrence Hill and Co. Uri Avnery, Israeli jour- nalist and advocate of Palesti- nian rights, believes that Is- rael should negotiate with the Palestine Liberation Organ- ization and its leader, Yasir Arafat, and accept an indepen- dent Palestinian state alongside Israel. In this book Avnery provides an accounts of the efforts he and his political friends under- took to advance the peace ef- forts, including his meeting with Arafat in Beirut in the height of Israel's war in Leba- non in 1982. Claims Avnery: "We are dealing here (the Mideast con- flict) with an historical proc- ess. Both sides are prisoners of their history, of their traumas. The Jews with their long his- tory of persecution, their memories of the Holocaust, their ensuing craving for abso- lute security, their unresolved relationship to Gentiles, and their own religion, find it as difficult to face reality ration- ally as do the Palestinians with their grievances, humiliations, and fathomless feeling of the injustice done to them." "The Guide to Everything in New York" by Nancy David and Joy Levitt, Adama Books. New York, probably the most Jewish city outside Is- rael, finally has a guide to lead the confused and bewildered in the maze of its Jewish events, institutions, organizations, stores and restaurants. The authors focused only on the Borough of Manhattan "in order to maintain a manage- able size," suggesting that the reader "look at the number of Jewish organizations in Man- hattan alone, and you'll know why." The guide offers information and selective looks at all as- pects of Jewish life and its re- sources in the city. The book is