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turned to one of the leading urn (which he labels the "Holo-
artists of the time. Henri caust cult's" central "shrine,") to
Toulouse-Lautrec accepted the Elie Wiesel, the cult's "high
author's offer to illustrate his priest."
"His blessing is sought for
book. The result is a series of
drawings and posters showing every Holocaust museum and
obese, rather stupid looking men, memorial," Rabbi Goldberg
all of whom have large, hooked writes. "Whether his name ap-
pears on a letterhead or whether
noses.
The Jew in Text (Thames he himself appears at a dedica-
and Hudson) is an account of the tion, any effort to consecrate a site
history of the image of Jews in lit- as a Holocaust memorial is al-
erature, art and film. Edited by most unthinkable without at
Linda Nochlin and Tamar Garb, least his tacit approval. And like
it features essays by critics in- his predecessors in the Temple of
cluding Carol Ockman, Romy old, Wiesel has found that being
Golan and Bryan Cheyette. High Priest is not without its ben-
Among their subjects: works by efits. Lionized by Jews and non-
Dickens, Proust, Sargent, Joyce Jews alike, he can command
five-figure fees for his speaking
and Sartre.
Especially haunting are im- engagements, to which he has
ages ofJews created by artists in been known to fly by private
France. (Admittedly, France nev- plane."
er was a bastion of
love for Judaism, but,
after all, the country
was for many months
at war with Hitler.) A
1941 exhibit in
France, for example,
featured a grotesque
sculpture — the artist
called it the "generic
head of a Jew" —
with a massive nose
and thick, grimacing
lips. It's painful to
contrast this with a
lovely sculpture of a
woman uplifting a
child; its title, "France
Liberating Itself from
the Jews."
Also included is an
analysis of one of the
mj;st famous books
/about a Jew, written
by a gentile: Joyce's
Ulysses.
Also new for liter-
ature aficionados
is Marrano As
Metaphor (Colum-
bia University Press)
by Elaine Marks. Elie Wiesel: "High priest of the 'Holocaust cult."
This scholarly work
The result of indulging in the
examines images of Jews in
French writing. Chapters focus "Holocaust cult," Rabbi Goldberg
on the use of the term "Jewish warns, is the creation of a new,
literature" (is it "necessarily horrible image ofJews. No longer
derogatory and anti-Semitic?" are they God's chosen people, but
the author asks), on images of instead a beleaguered nation,
Queen Esther, and on French lit- empty of positive images of faith,
erature's response to the Holo- who manage barely to survive de-
spite God.
caust.
Also new on history and Jew-
he word is survival. The
question is, will we, as a ish image is Recovered Roots
(Chicago University Press), Yael
Jewish community?
Why Should Jews Zerubavel's examination of Is-
Survive? (Oxford University rael's national tradition.
In what ways, she asks, did
Press), by Michael Goldberg, dis-
cusses this question in the face of early Jewish settlers interpret
the most terrible event in recent and use the Bar Kokhba revolt
Jewish history, the Holocaust. and the defense of Masada? How
His conclusion: the so-called do different political groups in-
"Holocaust cult," those whose en- terpret Jewish history, and what
tire identities are shaped by the does this mean for Israeli identi-
war, are destroying the Jewish ty? Does anyone have a moral
claim to the past?
community.
Ms. Zerubavel is associate
Rabbi Goldberg, of Congrega-
tion B'nai Tikvah in Los Ange- professor of modern Hebrew
les, takes issue with everything literature and culture at the Uni-
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