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The novelist, 62, grew up in a
Jewish neighborhood in
Brooklyn, where his family
read the Daily Forward and
hen Aaron Elkins
attended synagogue on the
visited Austria's
High Holy Days. They
Altaussee salt mine
maintained the
in 1997, he
parameters of
was struck that nobody
kashrut at home,
mentioned that the mine
but his mother
once housed millions of
would occasionally
dollars of art looted by
sneak him out to a
the Nazis.
luncheonette
They tell you all
where they would
about.salt and they
eat "bacon and
don't say a word
tomato sandwiches
about the fact that
and not let m}rdad
this N vas where Hitler
know about it."
stored his pictures.
Though Elkins
That this history dis-
was only 10 in
appeared is just not
1945, he remembers
right," says the
his parents talking
Carmel, Calif, writer.
about the war and the
In Loot (William
family members who
Morrow; $24),
were killed in concen-
Elkins' latest thriller,
tration camps. The
he imagines what
experience left his
might have hap-
parents with a linger-
pened if a truck of
ing fear, Elkins says.
stolen art had dis-
• "They'd seen
appeared and turned
this happen before.
up years later in
They didn't believe in
the hands of
this business of it
the Russian
Aaron Elkins: The can't happen here.'
mafia.
Edgar Award-winning The Shoah] is
Loot's pro-
author
of "Old Bones," "A something I feel I
tagonist is an art histori-
Glancing
Light"
and "Twenty was always meant to
an and former Boston
Blue Devils" has written a page write about."
museum curator named
turner about. what happens
In Loot, Revere
Benjamin Revere, an
when valuable stolen artwork is
wrestles with his
assimilated Jew more
resold decades later.
own feelings about
comfortable with ham
the Shoah when he
and pepperoni pizza than
meets
Erhard
Haftmann,
a Nazi who
synagogue. Like his character, Elkins
had been in charge of cataloguing
said he, too, promptly left Hebrew
Hitler's art collection:
school after his bar mitzvah and oblit-
"An unrepentant Nazi, a true
erated his religious education.
believer; it seemed fantastic. Naturally
I'd known that such people still exist-
Sarah Horowitz writes for the Jewish
ed, but I hadn't really known it, if -you
Bulletin of Northern California.

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