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departure from today's diet gurus who
focus almost exclusively on counting
calories and exercise. Roth does sug-
gest exercise but not as a means to
controlling weight, rather as a way to
experience the present and appreciate
the body one does have.
She also gives permission to find
pleasure in activities other than food,
some of which have become taboo for
strong women," such as "retail thera-
py," or the activity formerly known as

Superman To The Rescue

As part of the ongoing series
"Superman: The Man of Steel" (July
1998), the comic book hero goes back
in time and contends with the
Holocaust. But, ironically, the comic
never mentions the word "Jew."
Instead, said a DC Comics spokes-
woman, the Jewish characters are
identifiable by their yarmulkes and
their names — such as Moishe and
Baruch of the Warsaw
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Ghetto.
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The story refers to
"genocide" and Hitler's
"final solution," but
avoids what could be an
ethnic slur or negative
stereotype. The words
"Catholic" and "German"
were also banned. "The
editors didn't want kids to
read this, then go to the
playground and say, You
dirty Kraut,'" said DC
spokeswoman Martha
Thomases.
The Anti-Defamation
League said the omission
was not malicious, but
was insulting to the vic-
tims. "You can't ignore
their identity" said
Kenneth Jacobson of the
ADL. "These people were
victimized because of their
identity."
The comic, which
appears to be historically
accurate, portrays the des-
perate and deadly situa-
tion of the Jews, including
forced labor, starvation,
murders by the SS and mass graves.
shopping.
Resistance leader Mordechai
The best parts of the book are the
Anielewicz also makes an appearance.
anecdotes of the women she has met
Superman — the creation of two
while lecturing and the accounts of
Jewish teens from Cleveland, Jerry
their struggles. Written in conversa-
Siegel and Joe Shuster — debuted in
tional style, the reader meets, gets to
June 1938.
know and empathizes with these
Editors at DC Comics, a division of
women in just a few short pages.
Time Warner Entertainment, apolo-
The one drawback to Roth's 50
gized for the omission after a story
mini-essays is they tend to ramble in
appeared in New York's Jewish Week
redundancy. Sometimes she delves so
and the New York Post. Jenette Kahn,
deeply into the cycle of emotions,
DC's president and editor-in-chief, told
without offering any tangible exam-
the New York Post the omission "was a
ples, that it reads like an esoteric psy-
lapse. It was a mistake. I'm sorry"
chology.
Kahn said she hadn't noticed'the
Despite the more abstract portions,
omission when reading the story
Pull Up a Chair is a refreshing departure because the victims were obviously
from the typical guilt-inducing diet lit-
Jewish, and were "portrayed not only
erature. Readers will love Roth for this
as victims, but as people of courage
frank and inspirational approach.
and conviction."

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