munity for his role in ending the
Bosnian war, he received awards for
his efforts from the Anti-Defamation
League and the World Jewish Con-
gress.
According to friends, Holbrooke's
Jewishness has not played a role in
either his career or private life.
In newspaper interviews, he has
pointed to his third wife, Kati Mar-
ton, as the interesting "Jewish story"
While working on a book about
Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplo-
mat stationed in Budapest who saved
Jews during the.war, Marton traveled
to her native Hungary from where her
parents had fled during the 1950s
Communist takeover. It was there that
an old friend of her mother's told her
that Wallenberg had came too late for
Marton's grandparents.
It was the first time that she had
heard about her Jewish roots. Like
Madeleine Albright's parents, Marton's
family hid their Jewish identity when
they came to the United States.
When Albright found out about
her own Jewish family history last
year, she is said to have turned to
Marton for advice and support.
Although Holbrooke has not writ-
ten extensively on the Middle East, in
his latest book, To End a War, he
wrote about the impact the assassina-
tion of Yitzhak Rabin, which came
during the Dayton peace talks, had on
the parties to those talks.
Rabin "had been murdered because
he had been willing to consider a
compromise for peace. The reaction of
the Balkan presidents was cold-blood-
ed and self-centered; this showed, each
said separately, what personal risks
they were taking for peace," Hol-
brooke wrote.
"None expressed sorrow for Rabin
or the Israeli people or concern for the
peace process. The only Bosnian who
seemed stricken was the ambassador to
the United States, Sven Alkalaj, who
was from an ancient and distinguished
Sephardic Jewish family from Saraje-
vo."
Alkalaj left Ohio immediately to
represent Bosnia at Rabin's funeral,
Holbrooke wrote.
Praising Rabin, Holbrooke wrote,
"The contrast between Rabin and the
Balkan leaders could not have been
more evident than it was in the fol-
lowing days as we watched the funeral
on television and simultaneously
struggled to find a way forward in the
Balkans." ❑

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