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Two-Gun Cohen
By Daniel S. Levy; St. Martin's Press;
$29.95.
First — Orthodox Jew growing up
in London's East End. Next — petty
criminal roaming western Canada.
Then — key leader in Sun Yat-sen's
China. The here-and-there life of
Morris "Two-Gun" Cohen had its
above-average share of adventure and
comes alive in this new biography.
Daniel S. Levy, a Time magazine
reporter, brings
his reader into
this most
unusual of Jew-
ish biographies.
He even sued
the CIA
(twice!) for
TWO-GUN
documents.
COHEN
Hidden
History of the
Kovno Ghetto
From the Unit-
ed States Holo-
caust Memorial
Museum; $40.
Holocaust records, photographs,
letters and diaries are collected here
from the 37,000 Jews of Kovno,
Lithuania. German armies conquered
the Baltic states in December 1941,
and in the following three years the

irst-time Israeli novelist
Dorit Rabinyan pushes the
envelope of writing accept-
ability with her new novel,
Persian Brides (George Braziller Pub-
lisher; $22.50).
The text, translated from the
Hebrew (by Yael Lotan), is filled with
loud sexual overtones and graphic
details of domestic violence.
Set at the turn of the century, this
is the story of two young girls, Flora,
15, and Nazie, 11, and the commu-
nity in which they live.
Surrounded by superstitions
decades old, the social mores of a
time that expects young girls to wed
and produce sons, plagues and a
harsh lifestyle, the girls are tortured

Jews of Kovno suffered the horrors of
the Nazis. For the first time in 50
years, the many individual accounts
from Kovno are found in one volume.

Jewish Women in America
From the Jewish Theological Seminary;
$250.
JTS publishes the first-ever encyclo-
pedia on the topic. The two-volume set
reviews the mark of Jewish women on
fields from education to business to
politics to the Jewish community itself.
One of the two co-editors, Yale profes-
sor Paula Hyman is fittingly a former
faculty member at the Seminary.

M.JEWISH

WOMEN

AND 7 ,tE

AMERICAN

CENTURY

JOYCE ANTLER

The Journey Home
By Joyce Antler; Simon er Schuster;
$27.50.
Antler dives into the lives of the
Jewish woman activists who have
helped to shape the 20th century.
Defying the caricatures of the Jewish
princess and Jewish mother, Jewish
women have been at the center of
every significant social movement of
our era. At the same time, Jewish
women have struggled as members of
two "outsider" groups. Antler, a Bran-
deis professor, brings us the stories of
Emma Goldman, Sophie Tucker,
Gertrude Stein and others.

with every imaginable punishment.
Attacked religiously, physically,
sexually, psychologically and socio-
logically Flora and Nazie do not
have a chance to enjoy, let alone suc-
ceed, in even the simplest of life
experiences.
Written with almost too many
adjectives and metaphorS, though
producing a very visual effect, Persian
Brides often loses the action and plot
line, focusing, instead, on the horri-
ble visual imagery.
I would not recommend this
book to young people or anyone
with a low tolerance for violence and
the slightest sensitivity toward chil-
dren.

— Reviewed by Diana Kathryn Wolfe