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Art And American Jewry,
A New Look At Christianity,
And The Boat Of Shoes
(Just North of 8 Mile)
A
mong the friends of
of Roman power on the history of
a young Jewish im-
Christianity.
migrant named
Emma were Tur-
eir is a man who follows
genev, Emerson and
his dreams no matter
Browning.
where they lead him —
She was the author of
and they do lead him
many works, including
A TRfASIMY Qf ART
into strange, mystical places.
Songs of a Semite and By
In The Shoemaker's Tale
AND LITTRATURE
the Waters of Babylon. But
(Zephyr Press), Mark Ari tells the
Emma's most enduring
story of a young boy in the 18th
words are contained on a
century whose life is marked by
statue.
a curious series of comings and
"Bring me your hun-
goings.
gry," begins the Emma
His parents are murdered in a
Lazarus poem inscribed
pogrom in Warsaw. His 12-year-
on the Statue of Liberty.
old sister, Yetta, becomes his
Lazarus, one of thou-
guardian, but then quickly elopes.
sands of U.S. Jews whose
Meir's Uncle Mottle and his wife
artistic contributions
Flanka agree to take in the boy,
helped form the unique
who quickly learns of his aunt's
patchwork that has be-
passion for cleaning and of the
come the culture of Amer-
mystical being who demanded of
ican life, is featured in the
Earth: Judaic Treasures of the Li- her, "Boil."
new The Jews in America brary of Congress.
Meir becomes engaged, then
(Hugh Lauter Levin Associates,
leaves town to seek the wisdom
Inc.), a 384-page book chronicling
of the Baal Shem Tov. Along the
uthor Norman
the art and literature of Ameri-
Beck believes that "even way he meets up with such cu-
can Jewry.
inspired people sometimes rious characters as the clay man
The anthology contains both
yield to the evil im-
black-and-white and color illus- pulse of wanting to put
trations of art work by Raphael one's boot to someone
Soyer, Ben Shahn and Larry else's neck."
Rivers, among others. There are
Among those who did
documents and letters from the some booting, he says,
Colonial period to the present, were early Christians
and writings by such authors as frustrated by their inabil-
Bernard Malamud, Isaac Bashe- ity to convert the Jews.
vis Singer and Cynthia Ozick.
Their response: lash out
Among the unusual treasures at their own Jewish her-
in The Jews in America: a 1644 itage, a move that has, in
report noting the existence of a many ways, helped define
Jewish community in South Christianity ever since.
America (said to be one of the lost
In Mature Christian-
tribes); Isaac Mayer Wise's early ity in the 21st Century
call for a greater role for women (co-published by the
in the synagogue; and impas- American Interfaith In-
sioned letters, charting the chal- stitute and Crossroad
lenges and struggles of building Publishers ), Profess or
a new life in America, that im- Beck says that teaching
migrants wrote to the Jewish contempt for Judaism is Mark Ari writes of an usual shoemaker.
Daily Forward.
"not essential to Chris-
Among the art pieces in the tianity. Actually, it is very detri- of Pupekle, Sarah the charming
book are a photo of Shabbat can- mental to Christianity. Inspired candle maker's daughter from
dlesticks•from the 18th century people put the hateful teaching Lvov, a man certain he's invisi-
and Theresa Bernstein's 1923 of contempt into the New Testa- ble and a fishmonger who will an-
painting of a meeting of Zionists ment documents and inspired swer any question, for the price
in New York.
of a fish.
people can remove it."
The Jews in America was edit-
Meanwhile, Uncle Mottle and
Professor Beck offers a new
ed by Rabbi Abraham Karp, pro- analysis of the books of the New his new wife have transformed
fessor emeritus of Jewish studies Testament, arguing that anti- into a tree and Meir himself has
at the University of Rochester Semitism was not the belief or become a shoemaker who decides
and professor of American Jew- practice of leading early Chris- to build a boat of his customers'
ish history and bibliography at tians like Paul, or even of Jesus shoes.
the Jewish Theological Seminary himself.
"You tread water, trying to
of America. Past president of the
He further seeks to offer a dif- keep your head above the surface,
American Jewish Historical So- ferent interpretation of the New and take hold of whatever drifts
ciety, Rabbi Karp also is the au- Testament's anti-Jewish re- by," Meir says of his life.
thor of From the Ends of the marks, and traces the influence
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