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Hamutal, the heroine of A Man and a
Woman and a Man (Persea Books;
$24.95), by acclaimed Israeli writer
Savyon Liebricht, has two demanding
daughters, a mother with Alzheimer's
disease, and a husband who shrugs off
problems with a joke.
When her mother, a Holocaust sur-
vivor whose bitterness colored
Hamutal's childhood, is confined to a
nursing home, the heroine becomes
involved with a son of another patient.
A sensitive evocation of what it
means to be a mother, a daughter and a
lover, this "sandwich generation" novel
was translated by Marsha Pomerantz.
In Allan Appel's Club Revelation (Coffee
House Press; $14.95 pb), the precarious-
ly balanced lives of three intermarried
New York couples threaten to become -
unraveled when a young Southern evan-
gelist opens a restaurant on the ground
floor of their apartment building.
This religious comedy of manners
pits the three middle-aged Jewish hus-
bands against the good-looking young
Southerner, who seems destined to
enlist their Christian-born wives in his
secret mission to convert New York
City's entire West Side.
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A pair of noted Jewish writers, novelist
Anne Bernays and biographer Justin
Kaplan, collaborate in the joint mem-
oir Back Then: Two Lives in 1950s
New York (William Morrow; $25.95).
Partners in life as well as literature, the
two hobnobbed with celebrities such as
actresses Marlene Dietrich and Marilyn
Monroe, poet Edith Sitwell and novelist
William Faulkner in a golden era they
describe as so far removed from today
that "we could almost as well be writing
about the era of Theodore Roosevelt and
the Gibson Girls."
It's a daunting idea — summarizing
5,000 years of Jewish history in 460
pages (including index) — but historian
Martin Gilbert gives it a try in Letters
To Aunt Fori (Schocken Books; $26).
In 1998, Gilbert learned that his 91-
year-old friend, "Aunt Fori" Nehru,
whom he'd met 40 years earlier in
India, was actually born a Hungarian
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Jew. The letters he wrote to her
explaining their joint heritage form a
chatty, anecdote-filled summary of
Jewish history and beliefs.
Gilbert, knighted by Queen
Elizabeth in 1995, is the official biog-
rapher of Winston Churchill and has
written 17 books of nonfiction on
Jewish themes.
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Rich Cohen, author of the coming-of-
age memoir Lake Effect (Alfred A.
Knopf; $23), is best known for
debunking the myth ofthe Jew as pas-
sive victim in his earlier works, Tough
Jews and The Avengers.
Here, he looks inward, with bitter-
sweet memories of his boyhood on
Chicago's North Shore and the best
friend who shared the good and bad of
those irreplaceable times.
Cohen, whose work has appeared in
the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Harper's
Magazine and other publications, is
now a contributing editor at Rolling
Stone magazine.
In You're Only As Good As Your Next
One: 100 Great Films, 100 Good
Films and 100 for Which I Should Be
Shot (Pocketbook Hardcover; $27),
Mike Medavoy, who produced such
classics as One Flew Over The Cuckoo's
Nest, Rocky and Platoon, reveals the
"terrifying business" of making movies.
Written with Josh Young, this
unsparing memoir chronicles
Medavoy's rocky rise from the mail-
room at Universal Studios to the
chairman's office at Sony's TriStar
Pictures to the founding of Phoenix
Pictures — and everything in between.
To the long list of books charting a
young man's coming to terms with his
father, add Neil Steinberg's Don't Give
Up The Ship (Ballantine Books; $22.95).
Steinberg, a columnist for the Chicago
Sun-Times, decided to accompany his
father on a six-week ocean voyage on a
replica of the ship on which the elder
Steinberg had served in the mid-'50s.
Although they never spent a day
without arguing, the two did reach a
rapprochement of sorts as the Empire
State VI steamed into the harbor of
Naples. As his father put it, "It was, in
retrospect, a wonderful thing." ❑
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