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A
camel driver is directed to
make love to his wife at
least once every 30 days
(the leniency apparently
due to the fact that he'll be gone
from home for so long). A typical
worker, on the other hand, is ob-
ligated to be with his wife at least
twice a week.
This sage advice was not
pulled from the pages of a Play-
boy column. It comes right out of
the Talmud.
In Heavenly Sex (New York
University Press), Dr. Ruth Wes-
theimer (who else?) writes about
sexuality in Jewish tradition,
finding it "much more progres-
sive in many regards than one
might think."
She begins her book by telling
about "some of the most arousing
women the world has ever
known": the matriarch Sarah,
King David's wife Abigail, and
Queen Esther. The Bible — full
of sensual stories?
"In the beginning was the
word, and the word was sex," Dr.
Ruth says. "From the first chap-
ters of the Book of Genesis, God's
introduction to humanity, it is ap-
parent that here is a theology
spanning from the dawn of his-
tory that accounts for psycholo-
gy, sexology, and human passion.
The Bible, the story of how men
and women first came to know
God, and the Talmud, the can-
onized commentary on the Bible,
is also the story of how men and
women came to know each oth-
er."
Co-written with Jewish Week
Associate Editor Jonathan Mark,
Heavenly Sex features chapters
on dreams of sex, weddings and
the mikvah.
F
ans of fiction will want to
take a look at a new book
by much-loved author Stan-
ley Elkin.
Mr. Elkin, whose earlier works
include Criers and Kibitzers, The
Magic Kingdom and The Fran-
chiser, recently completed a novel
about a Russian-Jewish immi-
grant whose life is remarkably
ordinary.
Mrs. Ted Bliss (Hyperion) is
the story of a woman who enjoys
television and coffee and dessert.
After her husband, Ted, dies,
Mrs. Bliss moves to Florida
where she is courted by three cu-
rious men from South America.
Publishers Weekly reports,
"Countless retirees in America
— Jewish and otherwise — will
recognize themselves and people
they know in Dorothy Bliss."
Look for plenty of familiar
scenes and nostalgia, too, in
"sick and forgetful," and Caro-
line's grandfather would spend
Rosh Hashanah afternoons with
her. "They'd sit together by her
bedroom window, where for so
many years she had spent Sat-
urday afternoons reading her
Siddur. Now he read aloud to her
the prayer that asks God not to
forget you in your old age. My
grandmother understood very lit-
tle by that time, but nevertheless
she wept."
F
our new books are certain
to delight younger children, (
beginning with The Mia-
mi Giant (HarperCollins)
by Arthur Yorinks and with art
by Maurice Sendak.
As The Miami Giant begins,
Giuseppe Gaiweeni is on his way
to look for China. He arrives, in-
stead, in Miami. Here, he meets
the Mishbookers, a family of
dancing giants who "led a simple,
primitive life. They ate. They
slept. They went bowling."
Giuseppe introduces the Mish-
bookers to such treasures as a
telescope and ice tea, while they
teach him about "comfortable
beach chairs."
In the end, Giuseppe brings
Joe the giant to Paris, then back
home before Giuseppe himself
heads off to "discover Boca."
Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah!
(Kar-Ben Copies) is a nice little
book for little hands (it's print-
Stanley Elkin: An ordinary,
extraordinary life.
Growing Up Jewish in Amer-
ica (Harcourt Brace), by Myrna
Katz Frommer and Harvey
Frommer, which is filled with
anecdotes and adventures from
20th-century Jewish life in Amer-
ica. The authors have collected
100 oral histories, ranging from
a 22-year-old to a 100-year-old
and covering virtually every as-
pect of American Jewish life, from
Brooklyn to Mitchell, S.D.
Sam Popkin of Toledo, Ohio,
remembered gambling halls
owned by Jews with names like
Frisco Lew and Alcatraz. "Lots of
them also ran legitimate busi-
nesses and had nice families.
They'd come into the synagogues
from time to time, and always
they made big donations."
Alan Lelchuk spoke
of his father, an im-
migrant from Russia
who "arrived in 1918
and spent the rest of
his life trying to get
back ... He would take
me on his lap and
draw pictures of the
house and stables his
family had owned."
He loved soccer and
hated baseball, and
never got over his
pain when his boy be-
came a real American.
Iry Saposnik re-
membered his heroes,
Danny Kaye and
Steve Lawrence,
while Roz Starr spoke
of pledges she heard Harvey and Myrna Katz
at the synagogue: "Co-
hen's Butcher Shop is pleased to ed on thick board, with no pages
pledge chai times two and a half to tear) illustrating the famous
for the best flanken around," and "Let's have a party, we'll all dance
"Gordon's Glatt Dairy, with all the hora" song. Pictures show
the special foods you need for children and friendly animals
your holiday table, happily lighting a menorah, dancing and
pledges twenty-five dollars."
baking latkes.
Caroline Katz Mount recalled
The Feather-Bed Journey
how her grandmother went T eg- (Albert Whitman) by Paula Feder
ularly to Shabbat and High rlol- is the story of a girl, her grand-
iday services. Then she became mother and a "warm feather