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a new biography called
Streisand: Her Life (Crown
Publishers, Inc.).
No doubt you're dropping this
column just to run out and get it
(we know how you rabid
Streisand fans are). But just in
case it's past midnight and you
can't find a single store open, here
are a few tidbits to tide you over.
Did you know:
*Barbra was originally Bar-
bara; she changed the spelling in
1960.
*Barbra made her first record
in 1955, when she was 13 years
old. She sang "You'll Never Know"
and "Zing! Went the Strings of My
Heart."
*Barbra was fired only once in
her life from an entertainment job
— while working in 1961 in Win-
nipeg.
*Barbra had an affair with
Elvis Presley in 1969.
*Barbra's biggest-selling album
was the 1980 "Guilty," featuring
the multitalented Bee Gees.
*Barbra earned almost $10
million for two concerts she per-
formed in 1993 in Las Vegas, She
decided to do the shows because
of "cash-flow problems." (You
know what it's like to try and get
by on only millions a year!)

he way many people see it,
Theodor Herzl is the be-all
and end-all of Zionism.
Yet in fact Zionism is a
concept that has been shaped,
molded and redefined by hun-
dreds of Jewish and gentile fig-
ures throughout history. Today,
finding a definitive definition of
Zionism among Jews (Do all real
Zionists necessarily live in Is-
rael? Should Zionism be seen as
an expression of God's presence
in history, or is it in direct con-
tradiction to Jewish law? Is Zion-
ism purely a social, or
ideological, or religious move-
ment?) is about as simple as
finding a Jewish mother who
does not think her son is perfect.
In The Zionist Identity
(Brandeis University Press/Uni-
versity Press of New England),
Gideon Shimoni offers an ex-
tensive analysis of Zionism.
Chapters consider the social ori-
gins of Zionism; the ideological
base and development of mod-
ern Zionism; labor, national-re-
ligious and revisionist Zionism;
and Zionism and secular Jewish
identity.
The book also includes profiles
of men and women who didn't
just speak Zionist ideology, but
dedicated their lives to it. Among
them: David Gordon, who made
aliyah when he was 48, and
Chaim Arlosoroff, one of the
Zionist movement's leading stars
before his murder at age 34.
Mr. Shimoni is associate pro-
fessor in the Hebrew Universi-
ty of Jerusalem's department of
contemporary Jewry.
Another new collection on
Zionism is Jehuda Reinharz' and

Anita Shapira's Essential Pa-
pers on Zionism (New York
University Press). Comprising
essays by scholars and authors
(most of them Israeli), this work
traces the Zionist movement
from its roots to the establish-
ment of the state. Chapters con-
sider such diverse topics as early
German Zionism, the "Ameri-
canization of Zionism," the re-
vival of Hebrew, and the Zionist
movement and Arabs.
In a chapter on some of the
earliest visionaries, author Ja-
cob Katz profiles a collection of
dedicated, fascinating charac-
ters who dreamed of (some kind
of) a Jewish state. Rabbi Kalish-
er urged one of the Rothschild
family to buy the entire land of
Israel from the Ottoman leader
Mohammed Ali (no relation to
the boxer). Moses Hess was a
secular Jew who envisioned a
"spiritual revival" in Israel. Rab-
bi Alkalai went to England in
1852 in an effort to gain support
for his concept of a Jewish state;
he found it, all right, but not
among Jews. Their concern was
finding acceptance among gen-
eral British society. However,
British Christians, who saw the
return ofJews to Zion as part of
a biblical plan, were more than
_ eager to lend their support to the
Zionist rabbi.
Jehuda Reinharz is professor
of modern Jewish history and
president of Brandeis Universi-
ty. Anita Shapira is professor of
Jewish history and dean of the
faculty of humanities at Tel Aviv
University.

utside his office door is a
video camera, and guests
always must identify them-
selves before gaining entry.
With daily hate calls, and mail ad-
dressed to Saujude ("Jewish pig"),
Simon Wiesenthal takes no
chances.
In The Wiesenthal File
(Eerdmans), Alan Levy offers an
insightful portrait of the Nazi
hunter, the man who pursued
such infamous villains as Josef
Mengele, Franz Stangl (com-
mandant of killing centers in So-
bibor and Treblinka) and Hermine
Braunstein Ryan of Majdanek.
He begins with the birth of Szy-
mon Wiesenthal, born in 1908 in
Buczacz, Galicia. Among his ear-
liest memories was the way his
family regularly placed a cup for
Elijah at the Seder table. It always
appeared to Szymon that the
Prophet never came because the
cup remained full. But his grand-
mother set him straight: "He
doesn't drink more than a tear."
Mr. Wiesenthal began hunting
Nazis, whom he refers to as "pol-
lution," in 1947. Since then, he has
brought some 1,200 of them to tri-
al. It also was Mr. Wiesenthal who
tipped off Israeli authorities to the
whereabouts of Adolf Eichmann.

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