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helplessness, inaccuracy and wishful
thinking."

Crazy From the Heart

By David Lee Roth; Hyperion; $23.95

The former Van Halen rock star
has packed this memoir with tales of
his childhood, his tours with the band
and his personal wanderlust — which
has led him from the American
Heartland to the Himalayas. "If all the
world's a stage," Roth once joked,
"then I want better lighting."

The Moses Mystery

By Gag Greenberg; Birch Lane Press;
$24.95.

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The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi

By Jacqueline Park; Simon 6- Schuster;
$25.

From the historical letters from a
mother to a son, Park has re-created
Renaissance Florence in her novel of
romance and intrigue. The main char-
acter Grazia dei Rossi is the heiress of
a wealthy Jewish family who finds her-
self torn between Jew and Christian,
love and duty.

NONFICTION

Dear Ernest & Julio

By Fred Grimes; St. Martin's Press;
$10.95.

Laid off as a factory worker, Grimes
(actually journalist David Freed)
decides to search for the "extraordi-
nary" job in this extraordinary job
hunt. Turned away as Calvin Klein
fashion model, rebuffed as Barbara
Eden's errand boy and frustrated as
bodyguard for the Clintons' cat, the
author shares his zany experiences —
rejection letters and all.

The Myth of Rescue

By William D. Rubinstein, New York
Routledge, $25.

In a provocative look at the
Holocaust, Rubinstein, a Jewish histo-
rian, argues that the Allies could not,
in fact, have saved Europe's Jews.
During the war, he writes, plans to
rescue Jews suffered from "bankruptcy,

For those who have questioned the
stories of Genesis and Exodus,
Greenberg offers new answers. The
first Israelites, he argues, were
Egyptians, not Semites, and descended
from the followers of Akhenaten, not
the three Patriarchs. Moses was Chief
Priest of Pharaoh
Akhenaten's
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monotheistic revolu-
tion, and Moses'
failed coup of
Rameses I later
caused the Exodus.
Sure to be controver-
sial, Greenberg's theo-
ries have received
some praise from pro-
fessors at Rutgers and
elsewhere. And as the

New York Times

remarks, "Greenberg
seems to delight in a
game of scholarly
`gotcha.'"

The Death of Death

Maida Heatter's Cakes; Maida
Heatter's Cookies; Maida Heatter's
Pies & Tarts

By Maida Heatter; Cader Books;
$22.95; $21.95; $19.95.

More sumptuous secrets from the
"doyenne of desserts, sultana of
sweets," who has again delighted her
subjects. The new cookbooks include
more recipes with more unlikely tips
— to add black pepper to cake, for
example. Heatter, an 84-year-old
baker now living in Miami Beach, still
has the following of a royal court —
indeed, she recently served her famous
hot fudge to a group of 1,500.

Where She Came From

By Helen Epstein; Little, Brown, and
Company; $24.95.

DEATH

Winner of the National Jewish
Book Award, this landmark work re-
examines the Jewish attitude toward
the afterlife. Judaism seems to say little .
about the subject of life after death —
but Gillman argues that Jewish sources
point so strongly to the afterlife that
they have caused, in effect, the "death
of death." Gillman, chair of the
department of Jewish philosophy at
the Jewish Theological Seminary, tack-
les in his book the issues of bodily res-
urrection and spiritual immortality.
Once uncertain about resurrection,
Gillman notes, many Jewish scholars

—Ann Jillian

today are again endorsing the concept.

Retracing the stories of her mother,
grandmother and great-grandmother,
Epstein ventures
G 'LIMAN into the lives of
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Czech Jews in the
generations leading
up to the Holocaust
— and through the
concentration
camps themselves.
From the questions
of assimilation-or-
tradition before the
war to the issues of
desperate survival in
the camps, Epstein
, penetrates into the
Resurrection and Immortality
decisions facing the
in Jewish Thought
Jews of Central
Europe, from the
perspective of a
1990s American.

By Neil Gillman;
Jewish Lights Publishing; $23.95.

"YES, THERE IS
LIFE AFTER
BREAST CANCER.
AND THAT'S THE
WHOLE POINT:'

A lot of women are so afraid of
breast cancer they don't want to
hear about it.
And that's what frightens me.
Because those women won't
practice breast self-examination
regularly.
Those women, particularly
those over 35, won't ask their doc-
tor about a mammogram.
Yet that's what's required for
breast cancer to be detected
early. When the cure rate is 90%.
And when there's a good chance
it won't involve the loss of a
breast.
But no matter what it involves,
take it from someone who's been
through it all.
Life is just too wonderful to
give up on. And, as I found out,
you don't have to give up on any
of it. Not work, not play, not even
romance.
Oh, there is one thing, though.
You do have to give up being
afraid to take care of yourself.

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AMERICAN
CANCER
SOC ETY I

Get,a checkup. Life is worth it.

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How Good Do We Have to Be?

By Harold S. Kushner, Back Bay Books,
$10.95.
The author of When Bad Things
Happen to Good People hopes his read-

ers will accept imperfection as they
tangle through life's difficulties. God
does not demand perfection, he
argues, and adding forgiveness and
acceptance to life will fend off guilt
and disappointment. In this way, life
can be more rewarding and less punc-
tured by anger and depression.

— Compiled by Owen Alterman

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