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Former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Benjamin Netanyahu receives
confidential U.N. files on Nazis, including Josef Goebbels.

Bureau" in Los Angeles: "Two
weeks have gone by since you
moved to California and I haven't
heard from you. Please let me
know if you're dead or alive. How
can you make me worry like
this?" It has drawings of a cute,
little teddy bear.
The second is from Sheldon,
who advises Mom, "I'm 31 years
old and you're sucking the life out
of me." The letter is signed "Your
ex-son" and features a drawing
of a vampire.
Mr. Bobrick is a Chicago na-
Ideas Caine to him as if of their
own accord." He spoke of things tive who has written for such tele-
that mattered deeply to him, chief vision shows as "The Andy
among them social injustice. Griffith Show" and "Get Smart."
Since his listeners' problems, Ms. Stein is from Wisconsin; she
needs, and worries were his own, recently completed her first play,

dren, Joseph sat smoking and
writing his diary, which the au-
thor calls "a huge self-deception
that one might call tragic if he
had not contributed so decisive-
ly to a catastrophe that engulfed
first Germany, then Europe, then
the world." Later, Magda and
Joseph took cyanide and their
bodies were burned.)
Early on in his career, Mr.
Reuth writes, Goebbels became
convinced he was an outstanding
speaker.

and he knew how to articulate
their frustrations and longings,
he found he had a ready-made
audience for his analysis of the
"soulless materialistic world," the
"madhouse of Bolshevists and
Jews." He took pains to make sure
that every last person could fol-
low. He knew how to lead his au-
diences to certain "inescapable
conclusions" and then mobilize
them.
am's mother hates Julie.
She hated Sam's first wife,
too. She hates every butch-
er in Chicago. She's ready
for a movie on her life and would
like Barbra Streisand to star.
The happy adventures of Sam
(thinly, oh so thinly, disguised as
"Sheldon") and his mother and
Julie can be found in Sheldon
and Mrs. Levine: An Excruci-
ating Correspondence (Price
Stern Sloan), a collection of let-
ters in parody — compiled by
Sam Bobrick and Julie Stein.
The letters actually look like
letters — some can be pulled out
of envelopes, some are written on
cards stuck right in the book. The
first is from Mom, to Sheldon
Levine at the "Missing Persons

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The Year of the Bridesmaid,
which, she says, "has been ex-
tremely well received, especially
by my mother."
or years, nobody knew that
Joe Papp was Jewish. Then
he got in a fight with the
New York Board of Rabbis.
The issue was his decision to pro-
duce, in Central Park, The Mer-
chant of Venice.
Today, the late Mr. Papp is re-
membered as founder of the New
York Shakespeare Festival, the
man who launched Hair and A
Chorus Line, and one of the most
innovative theater leaders in the
country.
In Joe Papp: An American
Life, (little, Brown and Co.), He-
len Epstein traces the life of the
American icon who was born to
East European immigrants.
Among the events she chron-
icles are Mr. Papp's 1958 ap-
pearance before the House
Committee on Un-American Ac-
tivities (he refused to name
names); his relationships with his
four wives and five children; his
childhood during the Depression.
Ms. Epstein also is the author
of Children of the Holocaust. El

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