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countries, Soros is not interested in
supporting Israel, since he believes
that the "zeal of pro-Israel Zionists"
is "unappealingly chauvinistic." He
does not respond to solicitations
from Jewish organizations.
Quite the opposite of Kaufman's
easy-to-read and fascinating
George Soros on Globalization
(Public Affairs Books; $20), Soros'
own book dealing with globaliza-
tion, is dull and dense.
His aim is to improve global capi-
talism, and as one who has made a
great fortune in international finan-
cial markets, he has a justifiable
claim, which he unabashedly makes,
to special expertise.

orn in 1930 in Budapest
to an upper middle-class
Jewish family named
Schwartz, George Soros
lived through World War II with its
German and Russian occupation of
Hungary. The family managed to
survive by changing its name to
Soros and passing as non-Jews.
Soon after the war ended, Soros
moved to London, where he supported
himself by menial jobs while attending
the London School of Economics.
Nine years later, in 1956, Soros
arrived in New York and
started an enormously suc-
cessful Wall Street career that
made him one of the World's
richest men. As his fortune
grew into the billions, he
became more and more
involved in personal philan-
thropy, setting up a network
of foundations that has spent
$425 million annually in the
past five years.
The exciting story of Soros'
life, his achievements and his
efforts to produce open soci-
George Soros: "The only man in the United
eties through a monumental
one-man foreign aid program States who has his own foreign policy and can
implement it."
are set forth in Michael T.
Kaufman's well-written biog-
However, his presentation is
raphy Soros: The Life and Times of a
replete with confusing acronyms and
Messianic Billionaire (Knopf, $27.50).
The author honed his writing skills with technical jargon that bewilders
by working at the New York Times for readers who are not fully versed in
almost four decades as a reporter, for- global economics. He analyzes world
trade institutions and makes propos-
eign correspondent, columnist and
als to improve their functioning. He
editor. He devoted the last five years
argues vigorously for international
to writing this book, interviewing
cooperation and for a global open
more than 100 people, most notably
society, especially after Sept. 11.
Soros himself, who cooperated fully
But readers who want to under-
and urged others to provide informa-
stand Soros' ideas will do better to
tion. Soros' second wife, Susan, his
concentrate on Kaufman's biography
oldest son, Robert, and his brother
than on Soros' own literary effort.
Paul were especially helpful.
Kaufman has told a gripping tale, and
Although Soros had a bar mitzvah
in 1943, he wears his Jewishness light- he has told it exceedingly well. I
ly. His first wife was not Jewish and
his mother, whom Soros called "a typ-
Soros: The Life and Times of a j
ical Jewish anti-Semite," converted to
Messianic Millionaire is avail-
Catholicism. Oldest son Robert "grew
able through www.jewish.co m .
up without any religious identity."
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