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Tess Slesinger, and for their literary
influence, like Delmore Schwartz and
Arthur Miller, came to the fore. The
fourth section, "Achievement and
Ambivalence: 1945-1973" underscores
a time when Jewish identity could still
be problematic and the defining work
of writers like Bernard Malamud,
Philip Roth and Saul Bellow.
Finally, in "Wandering and Return:
Literature Since 1973," writers from
across the spectrum of contemporary
literature and thought highlight the
diversity of Jewish voices writing in
America today — from Adrienne
Rich, E.L. Doctorow and Harold
Bloom to Art Spiegelman, Melvin
Jules Bukiet and Allegra Goodman.
The anthology is edited by Jules
Chametzky of the University of
Massachusetts-Amherst; John Feltsiner
of Stanford University; Hilene
Flanzbaum of Butler University and
Katherine Hellerstein of the University
of Pennsylvania.
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Abe Frajndlich's portraiture choreo-
graphs one," writes Phoebe Hoban in
the introduction to Abe Frajndlich:
Portraits (Prestel; $39.95). "The
images in this book are not so much
reflections of their subjects as reflec-
tions on them: loaded, but often
humorous, studies of subjects engaged
in a kind of photographic pan-
tomime."
Thanks to his images of many
famous cultural figures — from
Dennis Hopper to Leo Castelli to
Cindy Sherman — the Cleveland-
born Frajndlich quickly made a name
for himself as the artists' photographer.
Browsing through his work in this vol-
ume is like looking at a "Who's Who"
of Jewish pop culture.
Architects Frank Gehry, Peter
Eisenman and Daniel Liebeskind;
Holocaust writer Elie Wiesel and poet
Allen Ginsberg; directors Woody
Allen, Billy Wilder and Milos Forman;
photographer Arnold Newman; artists
Leon Golub and Roy Lichtenstein;
fashion designer Calvin Klein and
musician Leonard Cohen are among
the subjects who speak to the viewer
in symbolic ways — sometimes
humorous, always unexpected.
In one photograph, taken after a
rainy night in Florida, the late Isaac
Bashevis Singer hovers like an appari-
tion in Miami Beach, his face shaded
in sunglasses, his body shaded by an
umbrella, Rorshach-like blots on the
wall behind him. "The rain stains on
the wall vaguely refer to a golem — a
mythic creature in Yiddish folklore
that plays a role in many of Singer's
stories," says Frajndlich of this portrait.
"Each subject, each stranger becomes
a seduction," says Frajndlich of his
impressive gallery of icons. "As a photog-
rapher you are asked to interpret an
artist you have met only through his [or
her] work. ... You must get your subjects
to trust you. They must feel comfortable
enough to be totally vulnerable."
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The year 2000 marks the millennium
anniversary of Yiddish, and Leon H.
Gildin's You Can't Do Business (Or Most
Anything Else) Without Yiddish
(Hippocrene Books; $17.50) provides a
lighthearted crash course (or refresher)
filled with definitions of popular Yiddish
words, jokes, cartoons and the author's
own humorous comments and observa-
dons on the language that was both a
religious and secular force in Jewish life
in America for close to 100 years.
According to Gildin, if there ever
were a universal language, Yiddish
would have to be near the top of the
list. "Moving from country to country,
whether by choice or compulsion,
Yiddish accompanied the traveler," he
writes. "When a thousand or more
miles from home, when a Jew heard a
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tongue, he knew he was among lands-
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what was once a meaningful and famil-
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become aware of how much Yiddish
they see in their daily newspapers, mag-
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Gildin, a New York lawyer who has
worked in the entertainment industry as
counsel to actors, writers and composers
and a theatrical producer, resides in
Sedona, Arizona. The book's illustrator,
Paul Peter Porges, is a cartoonist and
humorist whose works have appeared in
The New Yorker and MAD magazine.
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Although Meyer Schapiro is known
primarily as an influential art critic and
art historian, he was also an artist in his
own right. The creative world of this
Renaissance man is revealed in Meyer