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The Forgotten Victims,
And Food For Thought

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ident of the Reconstructionist
Rabbinical College in Philadel-
Your Word Is Fire: The Ha- phia and as associate professor
sidic Masters On Contempla- of religious studies at the Uni-
tive Prayer (Jewish versity of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Holtz is associate profes-
Lights) is a reprint of
a popular work in sor for the Jewish Theological
which Arthur Green Seminary's department of edu-
and Barry Holtz con- cation.
he American government,
sider the power of
it seems, forgot not only
prayer, man's search
Jews from Eastern Europe
for God and personal
during World War II but
growth.
Hasidism, which many of its own citizens.
American-Israeli Cooperative
began in the late
18th century, placed Enterprise Executive Director
a new emphasis on Mitchell Bard, a frequent con-
the nature of one's tributor to The Jewish News,
relationship with writes of these abandoned souls
God. Hasidic masters in his new Forgotten Victims:
viewed prayer as the The Abandonment of Amer-
center of spiritual un- icans in Hitler's Camps (West-
derstanding. In Your view).
Among his revelations:
WOrd Is Fire, Mr.
*Americans were in death
Holtz and Dr. Green
organize the original camps including Auschwitz,
advice, parables and Buchenwald and Dachau.
*Americans were in the War-
explanations from
the teachings of saw Ghetto.
*Thousands of Americans
these masters into a
manual for prayer. were placed in internment
Topics include the camps.
Amos Oz
*U.S. Jewish soldiers some-
loss of spirituality
rael's path in the world, consid- and questions about man's pur- times were segregated from their
comrades in POW camps.
ered starting a political pose in life.
He also writes that:
Dr. Green has served as pres-
movement, written a few books
The U.S. military in-
that critics thought might
creased the probability
lead to something more.
of captured Jews being
But Fima has actual-
identified by stamping
ly done very little. And
their dog tags with an
now here he is, in his ear-
`H' for Hebrew. This
ly 50s, standing in his
was ostensibly done so
small apartment on a
the correct chaplain
rainy morning.
could
be called if a
(Har-
Fima
So begins
solider was wounded or
court, Brace & Co.), the
killed. One former POW
latest novel by Israeli au-
said this religious iden-
thor Amos Oz, whose pre-
tification system was
vious works include The
useless since each bat-
Hill of Evil Counsel and

ima is a man who does
nothing.
He has spent many
hours contemplating Is-

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An outspoken liberal
and political activist, Mr.
Oz in his new book uses
humor to consider the life
of Fima and others like
him — the men and
women who have big
dreams but do nothing
about them.
Mr. Oz was born in
Jerusalem in 1939. A vet-
eran of the 1967 and 1973
wars, he lives in Arad.
ike potato chips
with no fat, or a
late-night broadcast
without an in-

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f course gefilte
fish is Jewish.
Of course pesto
is not.
But why, why, why?
John Cooper consid-
ers this perplexing
question in Eat and Be

Edited and Translated with a New Introduction by

Arthur Green & Barry W. Holtz

Satisfied: A Social
History of Jewish
Food (Jason Aronson

Inc.').
Mr. Cooper, a native
of London and a Jew-
ish culinary history ex-

