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Indianapolis Mayor
Stephen Goldsmith and
New York Mayor
Rudolph Guliani.

NONFICTION
The Future Once Hap-
pened Here: New York,
D.C., L.A. and the Fate
of America's Big Cities
By Fred Siegel; The Free
Press; $24.
The Future Once Hap-
pened Here traces the fate
of New York, Washing-
ton D.C. and Los Ange-
les from the 1960s to the
present. Siegel, a profes-
sor of history at the
Cooper Union for the
Arts and Sciences,
describes how liberals have dominated
in each of these cities as a result of
rioting by black residents.
He blames the growth of the wel-
fare system for the explosion of crime
and government expansion, which
ultimately drove taxes so high, private
industries could not survive. Siegel's
viewpoints have been applauded by
many in the public eye, including

Judaism and Modern
Man: An Interpretation
of Jewish Religion
By Will Herberg; Jewish
Lights Publishing;
$18.95.
Written by one of the
world's greatest theolo-
gians, Judaism and Mod-
ern Man explores the
ways in which the Jewish
religion relates to our society, and to
us as individuals, and how we can
draw this knowledge into our everyday
lives. This reprint of the 1951 classic
includes a new forward Dr. Neil
Gilman, chair of the department of
Jewish philosophy at the Jewish Theo-
logical Seminary of America.

MAMMOGRAMS,

English
By Geza Vermes; Allen Lane/The Pen-
guin Press; $39.95.
Through the years, editors have
been accused of delaying publication
of the complete scrolls, and of cover-
ing up texts that were supposedly
"detrimental to Jewish and Christian
beliefs." •
Fifty years after the initial discovery
of the scrolls, Vermes, a retired profes-
sor of Jewish studies at Oxford and
the director of the Oxford Forum for
Qumran Research, brings us a trans-
lated publication. One-quarter of the
texts, the biblical writings, are not
translated and do not appear.
This work is not a translation of
every fragment, says Vermes in his
preface, but of "all the texts sufficient-
ly well preserved to be understandable
in English."

Iff

Banjo Eyes: Eddie Can-
tor and the Birth of
Modern Stardom, by Herbert G.
Goldman (Oxford University Press;
$35), will probably recognize the
entertainer's name
but not his face.
Although Can-
tor remains the
only American
entertainer to be
"successively ... the
biggest star on
Broadway, in the
movies and on
radio," says the
author, "he has
C■ fdie Camior .
become the most for-
t2 s
gotten star of the
20th century."
Goldman begins
this phenomenally
well-researched biography in Belarus
with the 1834 birth of Cantor's
grandmother and goes on to
describe her subsequent raising of

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poor,
her deceased daughter's son
hungry Israel Iskowitz, fighting and
stealing food on New York's Lower
East Side.
Upon the discovery of his talent
for slapstick and mime, Israel
becomes Eddie Cantor, a Broadway
star with his own television
and radio shows, 16 feature
films and over 100 musical
recordings.
Banjo Eyes, so named for
Cantor's final stage show, is
filled with extensive inter-
views, starting with the
entertainer's childhood
\ friends and ending with
his great- grandchildren.
Most of us don't realize
\ that songs like "If You
Knew Susie", "Yes Sir,
That's My Baby";
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"Makin' Woopee,"
"Sonny Boy", "Ain't She Sweet," and
"Baby Face" were made famous by
Eddie Cantor.
Goldman discusses why a man
who brought laughter to millions
during the Depression, who became

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a "member of the family" to millions
of Americans and was "the best-
known and most highly paid. per-
former of the mid-1930's," is not as
well remembered as his peers,
George Burns, Fanny Brice and
Jimmy Durante.
Blamed are the lack of opportuni-
ties to view Cantor's movies, caused
in part by his use of black face and
humorous depictions of homosexuals;
the fact that his TV shows are not in
syndication; and the change in what
the public considers entertaining.
Goldman gives us more than a
mere reminder of a wonderful per-
former. He also gives insight into
Eddie Cantor, the family man;
Eddie Cantor, the founder of the
March of Dimes; Eddie Cantor, the
man deeply involved in the political
and social causes of his day as an ally
of FDR and Truman; and Eddie
Cantor, the "vociferous supporter"
and fund-raiser of millions for the
State of Israel.

— Reviewed by
Shelli Liebman Dorfman

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