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hen Shelby Steele was Blacks and Jews (Touchstone ter the war, and their emotional
10, he became the first Books).
reunions with Mr. Schindler be-
black youth to join an
Featuring a new preface and fore his death.
all-white swim team.
epilogue, Broken Alliance traces
Among those profiled are Celi-
Only one member of that team the relationship between blacks na Karp, who today lives in a
— a Jewish boy — invited Shel- and Jews from the early days of community with few Jews, "an
by to his home. They went swim- the civil-rights movement to the airy, hilltop ranch house on more
ming in the back yard
than an acre, with a
and had lunch togeth-
courtyard pool, hum-
er.
mingbird feeders,
Shelby appreciated
2 kumquat and other cit-
the family's "striking
rus trees"; Rena Find-
determination" and en-
er, for whom the pain
joyed the afternoon,
of . the war couldn't be-
"but I was never alto-
,2 gm to compare with
gether comfortable. We
what she suffered
couldn't seem to find
when her daughter
much in common."
died; and Maurice
Today, Shelby Steele
Markheim, wh- 6- - be-
is professor of English
lieves he survived be-
at San Jose State Uni-
cause he adhered to the
versity. He recalls the
principle, "It's not what
Jewish family who in-
you know, it's who you
vited him for lunch as
know."
inspired by "a recogni-
Schindler's Legacy
tion of kinship, a kin-
also features many
ship based on the mark
photos, both contem-
of outsideness. This is
porary and from before
the underlying kinship
the war.
that blacks and Jews in
Another new work
America have always
chronicling the Holo-
shared. And though it Crown Heights: A now-vanished "recognition of kinship based
caust is Hiding to
once inspired a fruitful on the mark of outsideness."
Survive (Clarion) by
cooperation, I believe it
Maxine Rosenberg, in
is now the source of much bitter- present. The epilogue considers which 14 men and women tell
ness between us."
the Crown Heights riot and the what it was like being a child dur-
Mr. Steele's essay is included increased popularity of Nation of ing the war.
in the new Blacks and Jews: Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
Debora Biron was 10 in 1946.
Alliances and Arguments
Mr. Kaufman is a Pulitzer She lived in Kovno, Lithuania,
(Delacorte Press), edited by Paul Prize-winning reporter for the and found her life "turned
Berman.
Wall Street Journal.
around" when the Nazis entered
The anthology includes 19 es-
the city. The family was sent to
says by authors including Henry
elin Karp was standing in a ghetto, then smuggled their
Louis Gates, Leon Wieseltier,
a m, vie theater on May 28, daughter out with a Catholic
Cornel West, Norman Podhoretz
1945 — it was a Deanna woman named Natasha, who
and James Baldwin. Some, like
Durbin film, and the tick- took Debora to live on a farm with
those by Mr. Podhoretz and Mr. et had been a birthday gift — the Karashaka family.
Baldwin, originally were pub- when she chanced to glance in a
was to say I was their cousin
lished in the 1960s. Others are mirror in the lobby.
from the countryside whose
more contemporary, like a piece
"I was absolutely shocked," she mother was sick."
on anti-Semitism and the 1991 said. "I couldn't believe that was
Debora enjoyed playing with
Crown Heights riots by the Vil- me. It made such an impression the family's daughter, Gruzia,
lage Voice's Richard Goldstein.
to see myself looking so gawky though she spent much of her
Topics in the articles cover and scrawny, like a scarecrow." time inside, just in case strangers
everything from civil rights to Is-
Today, Celina Karp Biniaz is passed by.
rael and Zionism, affirmative ac- a retired teacher living in Cali-
"I tried to entertain myself by
tion, segregation and the fornia. She and her parents had drawing and looking at the pic-
Holocaust.
been in Auschwitz during part of ture books Natasha brought for
Paul Berman, also the author the war. They managed to sur- me, but I was lonely," she said. "I
of Debating PC, an anthology on vive thanks to a man named Os- wanted my mother and kept
political correctness, has written kar Schindler.
wondering when she would come
essays and reviews that appeared
Schindler's Legacy: True and take me away from this
in the New Yorker, the New Re- Stories of the List Survivors place."
public and the New York Times. (Plume), by Elinor Brecher, pro-
In the end, Debora's mother
Also new on the subject of files 32 of the men, women and did in fact join her daughter at
blacks and Jews is an updated children Mr. Schindler saved dur- the farm, and the two moved into
version of Jonathan Kaufman's ing the war. They speak of how a bunker near the cellar. They
classic Broken Alliance: The they came to be on the now-fa- survived the war (though Debo-
Turbulent Times Between mous List, their experiences af- ra's father did not) and settled in