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knowledge that animals like
them shared the same cruel flesh
we did, breathed the same vile
air. But that was the part that
made it easy. We knew we were
looking at God."
"How could you tell?"
"Because God is made in the
image of man. We met Him a
long time ago, in Spain and Rome
and Egypt, and more genteel
spots. We saw Him in a topcoat
and derby ducking into White-
hall. And we saw Him in Wash-
ington, too. The truth is, He is
everywhere, but only we can rec-
ognize Him, because we are old
friends. We know His story."
"Can ..."
"Of course I can introduce Him
to you. And now, my good fellow,
prepare to meet your maker, for
those who enter the Holy of
Holies are condemned to burn. I

told you. I told you, there are two
inviolate realms."
That was it, that was what he
had turned the videotape on in
order to hear. That was the les-
son for which he risked his own
immolation in order to learn.
"What are they?" he screamed at
the tape, as the flames kissed his
feet, and cracked his knees that
were as immovable as if they
were lashed to a stake.
Although the screen itself had
begun to melt with the intensity
of the heat, the image was calm.
"I told you. One is memory."
"And the other — the other,
please! The other!"
The lady answered,
„E

Copyright (c) 1995 by Melvin Jules
Bukiet. From the book While the Mes-
siah Tarries. Reprinted with permis-
sion from Harcourt Brace & Co., New
York, N.Y.

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he obsessed Holocaust re- minyaned Congregation Ansche
searcher. The rabbi deal- Chesed, "one of the pillars of pro-
ing with the devil. The gressive Judaism." He also
New Jersey lawyer furtively teaches writing just north of
buying war footage of Himmler New York City at Sarah
killing his barnyard pets. Where - Lawrence.
Almost anything is fair game
do these images come from in
Melvin Jules Bukiet's new book for subjects, he says, except "I
feel very ambi-
of stories, While the
valent about turn-
Messiah Tarries?
"My wife claims
ing atrocity into
narrative. I draw
I grew up in a
the lines chrono-
shtetl, though it
logically before
happened to be in
1939 and after
New York City —
1945. So I get at
Far Rockaway —
those years back-
in the midst of a
wards and for-
community of sur-
wards and squeeze
vivors," Mr. Bukiet
Melvin Jules Bukiet: "I
the
middle."
says.
write urban fiction. It's
He considers his
For Mr. Bukiet impossible to write a good
story about trees."
stories "Theo- (as in
(pronounced bu-
theological) fiction.
KET), talking on
the phone from his Upper West In the way that sacred language
Side New York apartment, the is different from common lan-
list of major cities includes guage, so I think this skewed re-
Rome, Paris, Moscow and Pros- alism is different from more
zowice. Proszowice? The little traditional forms of realism." It
Polish town outside Krakow bubbles up from "Jews' lack of
that his father came from. The grounding in the world, the Jew
41-year-old writer says he got as cosmopolitan wanderer."
"If I were banned from New
most of his Jewish knowledge
York," Mr. Bukiet says, "I'd
at the dinner table.
. The parameters of his Upper probably go to a Baltimore or a
West Side shtetl include Tikkun Philadelphia — some sort of
magazine, where he's fiction aging Northeast city."
editor, his kids' one-teacher
—Array Stone
Hebrew school, and the many-
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