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The Holiday Basics,
Mystical Anti-Semitism
And A Collective Silence

ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR

ndrew Bergman is having embarrassed to admit it."
"You're wrong about that."
sleepless nights.
"Are you afraid?"
The author of the
Filled with black humor and
screenplay for the hit
movie It Could Happen to You (as sharp, often painful dialogue,
well as Blazing Saddles, Soap Sleepless Nights ends on an opti-
Dish and The Freshman), Mr. mistic note as the protagonist
Bergman also is the -author of finds love, marries and has his
the new Sleepless Nights own son, to whom he vows, "I will
(Donald I. Fine, Inc.), the dark protect you forever."
achel C. learned about the
story of a German-Jewish fami-
holidays when she was a
ly haunted by incest, the Holo-
girl in Hebrew school. She
caust and a desperate need for
remembers little of it now.
love.
Brian J. never
knew about the holi-
days to begin with,
and now he is embar-
rassed to ask.
The Jewish Holiday
Home Companion: A
Parent's Guide to
Family Celebration
(Behrman House Inc.)
is an "Everything you
always wanted to
know about the Jew-
ish holidays, but were
afraid to ask" kind of
guide.
The instructions are
basic, covering such
topics as how to put
candles in a
Chanukah menorah,
where to add the new
candle on each night
Andrew Bergman
of the holiday and the
order in which they
After my father's funeral and should be lit. It informs readers
interment at the Fern Cliff ceme- why the shofar is blown on Rosh
tery in Westchester, everyone re- Hashanah and how to shake the
turns to the apartment of my lulav on Suk k ot.

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sister and her husband, Sidney
Mann...
"I'm all alone now," my moth-
er says, pulling me from (her sis-
ter) Hilde.
"You're not all alone."
"You'll come live with me?"
"I can't do that."
"Your room is still beautiful.
The neighborhood hasn't gotten
any worse."
"It has nothing to do with any
of that. I'm thirty-two years old
and it's just something that I can't
see doing."
'What your friends say has
nothing to do with it."
"I'm not talking about my
friends. I'm talking about me, my
judgment."
`What they say. Many of them,
if they had their choice, would live
with their mothers."
"I can't agree with that, but in
any case this is hardly the time..."
"The social pressure. They're

The Jewish Holiday Home
Companion also features holiday

recipes — to be prepared by chil-
dren and parents together — for
latkes, hamantashen and

blintzes. Prayers and brachot,
blessings, are printed in large
type with English translitera-
tions, so that even those with no
knowledge of Hebrew can light
Shabbat candles and make cer-
tain their children can ask the
Four Questions.
ormer Detroiter Linda Brein-
er Milstein is the author of a
new work that offers practi-
cal advice on how to aid those
with serious illnesses.

Giving Comfort: What You
Can do When Someone You
Love is Ill (Viking Penguin) has

hundreds of suggestions on how
to provide emotional support to
loved ones in need. It reflects in
part Ms. Milstein's many years
working as a psychotherapist and
oncology social worker at New
York's Mt. Sinai Hospital.
Ms. Milstein, also the author
of Grandma's Jewelry Box and
Amanda's Perfect Hair, is a grad-
uate of Lahser High School and
the University of Michigan. She
now resides in New York.
atred of outsiders is com-
monplace," writes Joel
Carmichael. "Anti-Semi-
tism is unique."
Mr. Carmichael is the author
of The Satanizing of the Jews:

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Origin and Development of Mys-
tical Anti-Semitism (Fromm In-

ternational), which examines the
history of anti-Semitism as found
in Christian theology.

The disproportionate weight of
the Jews in the world arises from
their key role in the Christian dra-
ma. In the universe framed by
Christian theology, the concepts
of "Jews" and "Christians" have
an undeniable balance that, while
statistically absurd, reflects the
fundamental theme of Chris-
tianity — the world of God and
the world of the Devil. Since the
Jews have not accepted the Chris-
tian God, they have ipso facto
been arrayed alongside the Devil
in Christendom.

Among the topics covered in
Mr. Carmichael's book: the found-
ing of the Christian Church, the
evolution of Jewry in the Christ-
ian world and the role of mysti-
cal anti-Semitism in Nazi
Germany.
aroslaw Rymkiewicz is a
Christian Pole obsessed
with the death of Jews in
Hitler's Poland.
Umschlagplatz, the area of the
Warsaw Ghetto where Jews were
taken for deportation to the death

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