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and he talks about
tXTRAORDINARY
Jewish communities
he discovers. Ney
TRAVa
Elias (1844-1897, an
explorer who covered
areas of Asia not pre-
viously seen by any
European of his time)
has a mystical
approach to his
Judaism.
"Unlike travelers
who have gone to
places to change the
religion of people they
discover or to conquer
them, these [explor-
ers] didn't need to
[alter] the environ-
ment. They express
that the conditions
were difficult but the
need to know what's
beyond the next
mountain overcomes.
The common person-
ality characteristic is
humility."
Garfinkel originally
set out to discover
whether
Christopher
Columbus was
Jewish. While the
Jay Garfinkel:
documentation
"When I read about
showed he was not,
an explorer discovering
the author did learn
something for the first time,
that three of
I share the tremendous joy"
Columbus' crew on
that 1492 voyage
were Jewish.
"I began asking
about other explor-
ers, and I came up with
Garfinkel hopes that his book,
a bunch of names," says Garfinkel,
through descriptions of the tough
who turned to the resources of the
physical rigors explorers face, helps
Library of Congress, Jewish encyclope-
break Jewish stereotypes. He spotlights
dias and bibliographies. "One name
stories of volcano investigation,
led to other names."
dinosaur fossil digs and big-game
Emil Bessels (1847-1888), discussed
hunting.
in the book for his efforts to reach the
The author also wants to show how
North Pole, also is the subject of a
Jewish explorers came up with ways
Garfinkel film in production. Polaris
that made adventure travel more

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Doomed in an Arctic Sea
Expedition
delves into the politics involved in this
adventurer's travel goals.
Over the past 25 years, Garfinkel
has served as executive producer at
KYW Westinghouse Television, senior
producer at WABC-TV and vice presi-
dent of the NBC Television Network.
From 1985-1988, he directed the
Voice of America's television produc-
tion bureau. He also exhibits photo-
graphs of his travel adventures and
now has a series at the National Press
Club in Washington, D.C.

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accessible to everyone. For example, he
says, Jews established mercantile
routes.
Garfinkel's research and travels have
helped firm up his religious faith.
"My family has always been tradi-
tional in religion, and that hasn't
changed because of the travel,"
Garfinkel says. "But we have changed
spiritually. It's heightened our spiritual
consciousness as far as nature is con-
cerned, and it's synthesized with our
traditional approach to Judaism." tifi

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