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Singularly, the mother comes
near to embrace, as she can, the
realm beyond the wire fence. This,
a fleeting gesture, yet fills the mo-
ment with a presence that endures
in the artifact and in the viewer's
mind. Present to her child, the
mother's final name is Comforter;
her legacy, the dilemma of com-
passion and the struggle to touch
the other side.

In Mother of the Wire

Fence: Inside and Outside the
Holocaust (Westminster John

Knox Press), Karl Plank consid-
ers such questions as: Is it possi-
ble to empathize fully with the
victims of the Holocaust? Can
those who approach the Holo-
caust in the aftermath ever know
it in a way that does not trivial-
ize its horror? With what lan-
guage can we speak of such an
event without betraying its
meaning?
In his analysis, Mr. Plank, as-
sociate professor of religion at
Davidson College in Davidson,
N.C., reviews works by Primo
Levi, David Grossman and Dan
Pagis. He concludes with four of
his own poems, including "Memo-
rial" which reads, in part:

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...the women saw no body:
these dead were to leave no
trace
as fires burned in the high
wind.
Pines were planted in the place
where the camp once stood.
They plowed
it under as if to disguise
the ground of Sobibor and
its blackened skies.

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Good man, return to the emp-
ty chamber
where life became death and
words, lies.
Set a marker of stones and re-
member
that here you once saw the
smoke rise.

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The book features
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Odets' Awake and
Paddy
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Chayefsky's The Tenth
Man and Elmer Ricke's

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In her introduc-
tion to the book,
Ms. Schiff says
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call the 'competing impulses: the
urge to integrate into modern
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Dorothy Seaman, Not Chopped
Liver features fleishig recipes for
everything from appetizers to
veal to leftovers (yes, there's ac-
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suggested fortunes with Judaic
sources (Rashi: "Obeying out of
love is better than obeying out of
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Not Chopped Liver! features
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n a photograph taken in the
Lodz Ghetto, the camera cap-
tures the back of a boy, about
10 years old, the yellow star
on his right shoulder. He is about
to be deported.
Inside the ghetto, behind the
fence, is his mother. She is on her
knees, straining to speak to her
child.
The mother does not weep or
scream, but author Karl Plank
finds the position of her hands
most revealing: they cling to the
fence, as if drawing it — and her
child who is destined for death —
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