Our shrimp flew 1,972
miles to join you
for lunch.
dramas in their unabridged English
translation that commemorate that
travesty They all have been performed
in theaters throughout Europe. Still,
as Whyte warns his readers, "Beware,
it can happen again."
The Shtetl That Was
By Ralph Jaffe; Vantage Press; $19.95.
Ruvin Jaffe grew up in Kavarskas,
Lithuania, and now, as Ralph Jaffe, he
returns. Only years before the Holo-
caust, Jaffe emigrated to the United
States alone, as a teenager. Now, 50-
odd years later, he's written this book
to recapture the sights, sounds and
smells of the shtetl of his childhood.
In the book's conclusion, Jaffe shares
his thoughts as he
travels back to the
shtetl after so long.
Building Wisdom's
House
By Bonnie Menes
Kahn, Rabbi Stephen
S. Pearce, Father John
P Schlegel and Bishop
William E. Swing;
Addison-Wesley; $20.
OK, a rabbi, a
priest, and a minister
... write a book to
answer the religious right. With values
like compassion and community, the
Jew, the Catholic, the Episcopalian
(and the sociologist) counter the "fun-
damentalist fringe." Their "metaphori-
cal journey" leads the authors to the
idea of a "triangle of care" for the
he was teaching in return for per-
mission to audit his class.
Singer's response, by way of a job
offer, led her to become his "transla-
tor ... surrogate daughter, assistant
editor and ultimately pupil," enabling
her to write this, her first book.
Encouraged by Singer to create her
own stolies, Telushkin has also
become a nationally known story-
teller. "Ultimately," she says, `‘what I
would love is to travel with my sto-
ries." Telushkin harbors a "mission to
revive the short story," to write her
own "deep, fictional, short novels," in
English, formatted much like Singer's
earliest serialized stories that were
published in Yiddish newspapers.
Telushkin talks of years dedicated
to Singer and of receiving knowl-
edge and encouragement and self-
confidence from him. But she
responds to recent contacts by
Singer's publisher, and a current
needy: religious charities, community
"and, yes, the federal government." It
also leads them to what Mario Cuomo
calls "something that we need more
than a balanced budget."
The Hider of History
By John Lukacs; Alfred A. Knopf $26
The real Hitler of history may not
be the Hitler of the biographies, says
Lukacs in this new book. Instead of
studying Hitler directly, Lukacs instead
looks into the more than 100 biogra-
phies written of him in the 50 years
since the war. By understanding the
biases of the biographers, Lukacs
believes that he can better understand
and reclaim the real "Hitler of history."
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Wise Words
By Jessica Gribetz; William
Morrow Company; $13.
It reads like a combination
quote-book and group of read-
ings for some creative syna-
gogue service, as Gribetz finds
"Jewish thoughts and stories
through the ages." On women,
life, Israel, family, death, art,
and so many other topics, Wise
Words offers its Jewish insights
from the Bible to the 20th cen-
tury. Then, oddly, its inside flap quotes
Sholem Aleichem: "A wise word is not
a substitute for a piece of herring."
Compiled by Owen Alterman
—
offer to produce a play of her book,
by asking, "Do I want to make my
life an Isaac 13ashevis Singer career?
Should I be accepted because of my
attachment to a famous person?"
Now, she says, she is looking for-
ward to "the journey to discover the
other person waiting deep inside" her
soul. A strong, driven, enthusiastic
woman, we will hear more from
Dvorah Telushkin, author, storyteller
and certainly a master of her own
dreams. 0
Editor's Note: Rabbi Joseph
Telushkin, the husband of Dvorah
Telushkin and a successful author
in his own right (his latest is "Bib-
lical Literacy"), will speak on
"Words That Hurt, Words. That
Heal" as part of the JCC Encore
Series at 7p.m. Sunday, April 19,
at the Kahn JCC in West Bloom-
field.
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