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iving an adolescent any gift
but cash is a perilous act.
And giving a book! How
can a book compare to a
computer game or DVD?
Yet some of us feel compelled to try.
In our chaotic teens, books gave our
psyches shape and kept us from
despairing that we were the only
human beings who had faced the pain
we faced, the same confusion, ambi-
tion, lust.
Our daughters and sons might be
drowning, as we were. But they no
longer have the instinct to reach for a
book ro save them.
And who are we to know which vol-
umes they might need? The easiest
solution is to grab one of those nifty
credit cards at the bookstore's register
and hope it won't be squandered onan
Idiots' Guide to the Web.
I am reluctant to make suggestions.
When I was in my teens, our town
librarian introduced me to a woman
who was looking for a novel for her
13-year-old daughter. I didn't need
time to think. "Women in Love, by D.
H. Lawrence," I advised. The grown-
ups gasped and shook their heads
while I stood and tried to guess what
they might object to. "Oh, don't
worry," I assured them. "The women
aren't in love with each other." Today,
the title alone would cause Wome- n in
Love to be banned from many
libraries.
Jews often scorn the Christian right's
intolerance for any book that doesn't
present the world as a wholesome
place and Christians as wholesome
people. But when it comes to books
by Jews, we can be equally as squeam-
ish.
Bad enough that Philip Roth
revealed to the world that Jewish peo-
ple masturbate, cheat on their wives-
and say nasty things about other Jews.
Eileen Pollack, a creative writing pro-
fessor at the University of Michigan and
author of the novel Paradise, New YOrk
(Temple University Press), wrote this
feature foilBooks.com , a book review
site published by Jewish Family Life!
www.JewishFamilycoin.
How dare he expose those secrets ro
Jewish kids! No grown-up in the 1960s
would have given a book by Roth to
any child he loved. Much safer to wrap
and send The Diary of Anne Frank, The
Jewish. Book of Why or a collection of
biographies of Jewish athletes, as if
being Jewish in America had only to
do with planning where to hide in
another Holocaust or refusing to pitch
in the World Series on Yom Kippur.
Any parent who drives a Hebrew
school carpool knows that sixth-
graders today hear and say worse
things about sex and Jews than can be
read in any book by Philip Roth. Yet
Roth's first short story collection,
Goodbye, Columbus, and his first novel,
Portnoy's Complaint, were railed against
for decades from every bimah in
America.
Not until 1993 did I hear a rabbi
admit that if he and his colleagues had
paid more attention to Roth's corn-
plaints, Jewish adolescents wouldn't
have turned to other sources for their
spiritual needs.
Of course there are safer books to
give a Jewish child than Roth's work.
You can't go wrong with solid, middle-
brow novels like The Source by James
Michener or Exodus by Leon Uris.
Chaim Potok's The Chosen allowed
me to see inside the chasidic world,
their gates barred in real life.
And, as a Catskills native, I can't
help but recommend The Big Book of
Jewish Humor. Any child who can't
recite the best routines of Groucho
Marx, WoodY. Allen, Sholem Aleichem
and Lenny Bruce has missed an essen-
tial part of Jewish culture.
But if you are giving a young person
you love a book, why not give the
best? Many of the early works by our
finest Jewish waiters are based on their
childhood years and appeal to teen-age
readers.
Call It Sleep by Henry Roth is the
greatest Jewish American novel — and
the greatest immigrant novel — of
modern times. In 10th grade, I sat riv-
eted by the troubles of David Schearl,
a high-strung Jewish bov growing up
in a-brutal Ne\v York slum in those far-
away years when my father was young.
HOW strange to see Yiddish in a
book, to learn that Jewish families
fought, that Jews were once so poor.