The tale of a liberal Jewish
jazz musician from Brooklyn,
who through an unlikely series
of events, ultimately becomes
Richard Nixon's law partner, po-
litical adviser and Watergate
counsel. Garment, the son of im-
migrants, grew up to be one of
the most powerful lawyers in
Washington, and tells his story
in this warm and candid mem-
oir.
For The Hell Of It: The Life
And Times Of Abbie Hoff-
man
By Jonah Raskin; Berkeley:
Univ. of Calif Press; $24.95.
Rock and roll, movements
against injustice, exuberant sex,
Antonin Artaud and the Jewish
dadaism of the Marx brothers,
Sid Caesar and Lenny Bruce:
the life of the Yippie is a study
of the social and political '60s.
Capturing The Moment: The
Sports Photography Of Bar-
ton Silverman
By Barton Silverman; Penguin
Studio; $34.95.
Sports lovers, here's the book
for you: Silverman, a New York
Times sports photographer since
1964, takes the reader on a tour
through the last 30 years of both
professional and nonprofession-
al athletic competition, from the
sublime to the ridiculous.
Lucien's Story
By Aleksandra Kroh; Marlboro
Press !Northwestern Univ. Press;
$39.95 I cloth; $11.95 I paper.
A Jewish boy from Paris spent
18 months in two German con-
centration camps, including
Bergen-Belsen. That childhood
journey is related 50 years later,
as Professor Lucien Duckstein
dictates to Kroh's tape recorder,
inventing moan-words and
scream-words for emotions too
unpronounceable.
Resistance Of The Heart:
Intermarriage And The
Rosenstrasse Protest In Nazi
Germany
By Nathan Stoltzfus; Norton;
$30.
In February of 1993, hundreds
of gentile women hurried to a
building on Berlin's Rosenstrasse
street, where their Jewish hus-
bands had been gathered as part
of the Final Roundup. Stoltzfus
explores an unprecedented ex-
ample of open German resis-
tance to Nazi persecution.
This dynamic biography of the
late Israeli prime minister lends
itself to a description of Israeli
politics, history and diplomacy
and the role of American Jews in
Israeli politics.
— Compiled by
Lynne Konstantin
By Isabelle Maynarch. University of Iowa Press; cloth/$24.95;
paper/$13.95.
laywright and oral historian Maynard introduces us to the tiful younger aunt who married
Isabelle Maynard spins an people and places that made up a Russian Orthodox man prone
to anti-Semitic
enchanting and true-life tale her world. There was Braver-
man,
the
German
Jew
her
slurs when drunk.
REVIEW
of growing up Jewish in pre-
From the awk-
Communist China in China grandmother took in after he
lost
his
entire
family
in
the
Holo-
ward
feelings of im-
Dreams.
pending adolescence to a
Born in 1929, the only child
growing sense of guilt and
of Russian Jewish parents who
confusion over her com-
had fled the Communist Rev-
plete lack of knowledge of
olution, Maynard, along with
her adopted homeland
a large number of other Jew-
and the people inhabiting
ish refugees, grew up in the
it, Maynard recounts in
city of Tientsin on the North
Gr1fl ii4 [Ill Jewisll
intimate detail what it
China Sea. Without passports
was like growing up in a
or another country to take
place where she was
them, Maynard and her fam-
thrice alienated: from the
ily lived in one of the several
Russian community as a
European "concessions" carved
Jew; from the foreign pop-
out of the bustling trading port,
ulation with homes to re-
almost completely removed
turn to; and finally, by
from anything remotely Chi-
choice, from the Chinese
nese.
people themselves.
The Jews of Tientsin, most
Maynard and her fam-
of whom thought of their
ily eventually made it to
adopted home as simply a pit
the United States in 1948,
stop on the way to the United
on the heels of a second
States or Israel, built a thriv-
Communist revolution,
ing and self-sufficient commu-
having endured the
nity complete with their own
Japanese invasion and 25
synagogue, school and social
years of exile.
club. There Maynard went
As Maynard recounts,
about the everyday business of
"I have carried China all
growing up: attending French
my life. I do not claim ac-
lessons, school dances, Hebrew China Dreams tells Isabelle Maynard's story of her
curacy of history, only ac-
unique Jewish community.
school and slumber parties.
curacy of the heart." And
In several short vignettes,
caust; the outgoing blonde-haired for that, she succeeds beautiful-
daughter of an American Em- ly.
Leslie Joseph is a freelance editor
bassy
official, "always talking
and an avocational reader.
- Leslie Joseph
about having fun"; and the beau-
ti
r
"Right now I'm reading
Freud: From Youthful Dream
to Midlife Crisis, by Peter
Newton. I was looking in the
psychology section, and
thought it looked interesting.
I enjoy a good biography, and
my mother grew up in Vien-
na, like Freud, so it has a
background I'm interested
in."
Shalom, Friend: The Life And
Legacy Of Yitzhak Rabin
By the Jerusalem Report staff;
edited by David Horovitz; New-
market; $24.95.
China Dreams: Growing Up Jewish In Tientsin
p
ame: Mel Borin
Residence: West Bloomfield
Occupation: Real Estate
Name: Sharon Silverman
Residence: Waterford
Occupation: Retired Ele
mentary School Teacher
"I'm just starting Chicken
Soup for the Woman's Soul, by
Barbara Canfield. Fourteen
months ago I had surgery and
a friend gave me the first one
Chicken Soup for the Soul. My
friend thought it was a [hu
morj book, but it was actually
very serious, and helpful at the
time of my surgery. So picked
up the Woman's Soul.
"I like it because it has short
little things that you can read
a bit and then put down. You
don't have to go right back to
it."
Name: William Fox
Occupation: Reliability En-
gineer
Residence: Berkley
"Right now I'm reading
Mansfield Park by Jane
Austen. I'm in the middle of
that I haven't finished it yet,
but I like it a lot. There have
been all the different movies
of [Austen's] books made in
the last year or so, and I'd
never read the books. So I've
read Prick and Prejudice and
Persuasion as well."
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