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The Golden Land: The Story of Jewish Irninigration to America by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin (Harmony Books) has neither. It is always dan- gerous to leave such informa- tional vacuums, which review- ers, like me, will jump to fill. With that in mind, I declare this book to be a coffee-table book, with lots of pictures, cutesy pullouts (more on that later) and little text. At $29.95 for 29 pages, it must rank as one of the most- expensive volumes since Gutenberg ush- ered in the age of printing, and put all those scribes out of business. Telushkin, the author, begins by not- ing that only three days after Spain's pious rulers King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella expelled their 200,000 Jewish subjects in 1492, Columbus set sail for India. Instead, he and his three ships and crew (90 members — five of whom were Mararmos or secret Jews) arrived in the New World, part of which, the United States, '`would come to house the largest, most prosperous and most successful Jewish community in Diaspora history" This illustrates, the rabbi writes, "that at the time of greatest catastro- phes, God's deliverance is already being prepared." The book's last two pages deal with "What Made the 'Golden Land' Truly Golden." While there has been anti- Semitism in America, Telushkin con-