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Maple Road
New
grandfather Moise, making
the journey to America, is
To be a Jew in
rolled for his passage money
America is to be an out-
in a Hamburg whorehouse
sider. For Edward
the
night before he is set to
Cohen, that was triply
sail,
and has to work a year
true.
in
a
German
factory to earn
He stood apart from
it back. He finally arrives in
the church picnics and
America and joins his broth-
Christmas parties that
er, Lazar, who has ended up
make up so much of the
in Mississippi for reasons
fabric of gentile life. He
mysterious.
grew up in the 1950s as
"He might have
part of a Jewish family in
heard
that a living
Jackson, Miss., a teenage
Author
Edward
could
be
made,"
Village Voice subscriber
Cohen: A portrait
Cohen writes. "Or
adrift in a Moon Pie
of cultural
perhaps he wasn't
world of football worship
contradiction.
used to, comfort-
and unchallenged race
able
in, a totally
hatred. And, finally, he
Jewish
world.
Romania
was
not a cen-
was a writer, whose keen eye missed
ter
of
Jewish
learning.
It
was
a hinter-
very little and who early on realized
land,
like
Mississippi."
that his unusual upbringing offered
That discomfort with Jewishness
him an opportunity to see life in a
points to a fourth facet of Cohen's dia-
clear, hard light.
mond-like telling of his outsider's life.
"One can hardly hail from two
As
his grandparents make the progres-
more historically losing causes than
sion
from itinerant peddlers to estab-
the South and Judaism," he writes in
lished
businessmen, with a clothing
the introduction to his warm, funny
store
on
Capitol Street, their relation-
and poignant memoir, The Peddler's
ship
with
their own religion becomes
Grandson (University Press of
distant,
strained,
problematic.
Mississippi: $15).
All the assimilating pressures affect-
"Both my cultures have long, tragic
ing non-Orthodox Jews are felt full
pasts, and not one jot of it has been
force in Jackson, where kosher food,
forgotten. If my Jewishness and my
forinstance, is unavailable and arriv-
southernness meant that I would have
ing Jews are led away from their reli-
no home, no resting spot, I would at
gion
by the nose.
least have a singular view of the shore."
"In
Jackson, keeping kosher seemed
The view lingers lovingly on his
as
bizarre
and antiquated as sacrificing
family, but never with the rosy gloss
a goat on a mountain," he writes. "As
that destroys so many memoirs. His
the Hormel sugar-cured bacon sizzled
Local Authors Sought
The Jewish Community Center of
Metropolitan Detroit is seeking local
authors to participate in the 49th
annual Jewish Book Fair, which will
take place Saturday, Nov. 4, through
Sunday, Nov. 12, 2000.
Local authors who are Jewish or
have written a book of Jewish content
are invited to participate in the fourth
local author fair, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 5. Book Fair patrons will
have the opportunity to meet the
authors and purchase autographed
copies of their books.
Books must be published between
November 1999 and November
2000. Deadline for submissions is
Thursday, Aug. 31.
.
For more information, contact
Elaine Schonberger, (248) 661-7648.
Haven' Miniseries
The story of 1,000 Jewish refugees
plucked from Europe in the midst of
World War II and transported to safety
in the United States is being filmed as a
four-hour miniseries for CBS Television.
Haven, based on the book of the
same title by journalist Ruth Gruber,
features Natasha Richardson, Anne
Bancroft, Martin Landau and Hal
Holbrook, and is scheduled for broad-
cast in February.
Gruber, then a young assistant to
U.S. Secretary of the Interior
Harold Ickes, wrangled an assign-
ment to escort the refugees in their