who have just one dream: to bring that understanding and peace
their family over from Nazi Ger- are attainable.
many.
"Alfon's and Helen's lives were
The novel begins in 1967 as permanently, everlastingly trans-
Evan has a heart attack, then formed by what they experienced
moves back to the 1930s and ear- as teen-agers and young adults
ly 1940s before coming to its end in the mid-20th century," the
in the present. Throughout the book begins. "Out of their expe-
story, three generations of the riences grew an obsession to
family must face the question of warn the world — This can hap-
how it is possible to keep loved pen again."
ones safe when the world is out
And finally, a little something
of control.
for the feminist in the family: She
While the Messiah Tarries Who Dwells Within ((Harper-
(Harcourt Brace) by Melvin Jules Collins) by Lynn Gottlieb.
Bukiet is a collection of nine short
Drawing on the influences of
stories that combine history, fa- Jewish feminist, ecological and
ble, theology and myth. There are Native American sources, Rabbi
con artists from Moscow, a Gottlieb offers "a renewed Ju-
strange woman looking for a jew- daism" that offers visions of bib-
el in Manhattan, a library that lical women as role models for
catalogues human evil and Jewish women today, presents a
"Himmler's Chickens," the tale of Jewish law based on the concepts
a German refugee hawking a of ecology, and directs Jewish po-
home movie of Heinrich Himm- litical efforts toward establishing
ler.
"a culture of peace."
It was a three-by-five index
Rabbi Gottlieb is co-founder of
card, worried at the edges, with Congregation Nahalat Shalom in
thin black ink letters that shifted Albuquerque, N.M. ❑
midcard from capital to small as
the writer ran out of space for his
urgent communication, the story
begins.
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A native of New York, Mr.
Bukiet also is the author of Sto-
ries of an Imaginary Childhood
and Sandman's Dust. He teach-
es at Sarah Lawrence College.
Rabbi Aaron Bergman served as
Last Dance at the Hotel installing officer during the re-
Kempinski: Creating a Life in cent installation of the new ex-
the Shadow of History (Uni- ecutive board of Congregation
versity Press of New England) by Beth Abraham Hillel Moses
Robin Hirsch is a memoir of one Men's Club.
man's journey to connect with the
Incoming president is Howard
past.
I. Wallach. Mr. Wallach, who is
Mr. Hirsch was born in an attorney, has been an active
London to German Jews who member of the congregation for
escaped the Holocaust. In Last eight years. He is serving in his
Dance, he considers his unusu- second year of a three-year term
al past, both his own life and "a as a trustee of the synagogue. In
larger life which was once whole, the past, he has also chaired
but which was deracinated, dec- many committees. Mr. Wallach
imated, and scattered across the serves as the synagogue parlia-
globe."
mentarian. As a member of the
Holocaust survivors, he finds, men's club, he has served as first
often are filled with "despair, si- vice president, second vice pres-
lence, anger, a reciprocal violence, ident and as a trustee. He also
a reverence or an appetite for life, is serving as treasurer for the
and on occasion, inirabile dictu, Jewish Community Council.
a sense of humor." Mr. Hirsch
Also serving on the commit-
himself uses such a mixture of tee is first vice president: Mark
feelings as he writes of the cos- Segal; second vice president:
tume ball at Berlin's Hotel Scott Cranis; treasurer: Ara
Kempinski, where his parents Rubyan; financial secretary:
met, and of his own son's brit.
Gerald Eizen; recording secre-
A new Holocaust work for tary: Robert Rosenthal; corre-
young readers, Parallel Jour- sponding secretary: Israel
neys (Atheneum), by Eleanor Idelson. Elected to a two-year
Ayer, is the true story of Alfons, term as a trustee are: Alan
a member of the Hitler Youth, Kideckel, Norman Rotenberg,
and a Jewish girl named Helen. Kenneth Stern and Richard
The two meet four decades af- Warsh. Elected to a one-year
ter the war when they find they term as a trustee are: Howard
are traveling the same path. Achtman, Marc Beals, Harry
Their goal: to teach youth today Friend and Joel Ben Moche.
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