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"Who are the Jews and why are they
"My mother wrote this book. It took
still here?" asks anthropologist Melvin
her 44 years," writes Margo Howard in
Konner in Unsettled: An Anthropology
the introduction to A Life in Letters:
of the Jews (Viking; $29.95). The
Ann Landers' Leiters to Her Only Child
author employs the
(Warner Books: $22).
whole sweep of Western
Spanning four decades,
civilization as his canvas,
the heartfelt guidance
a
and places the Jewish
and practical advice in
people on to it as he
the Jewish-born Eppie
4NN LANDERS'
explores their unique
TERS TO HER
Lederer's correspondence
CHILI)
history.
saw her daughter
Drawing on archeo-
through college, mar-
logical findings, census
riage, divorce, mother-
data, religious texts,
hood and a journalistic
diaries, poetry, oral his-
career of her own.
tories and more, the
Eppie wrote Margo
author shows how Jews
from wherever she was,
shaped the world
and shared her behind-
around them — taking
the-scenes moments
ARGO HOWARD
their place among the
with the famous people
artists, philosophers,
she met, as well as her
traders and warriors in
thoughts about her twin
antiquity — and how they have con-
sister, "Popo," better known as "Dear
tinued to make their mark throughout Abby." The letters capture Eppie's
history. He also charts the ways a
sharp-witted take on the world, as well
largely hostile but at times accepting
as her advice on diet, exercise, wed-
world has affected Jewish practice, cul- dings, divorce and growing older.
ture and success.
Margo Howard is the author of the
Dr. Konner, who holds both Ph.D.
"Dear Prudence" column for
and M.D. degrees, teaches anthro-
Slate.com , which is syndicated in
pology, human biology and Jewish
more than 200 newspapers and fea-
studies at Emory University in
tured on NPR.
Atlanta.

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FOR THE ART LOVER

The beautiful coffee-table book Marc
Chagall (Abrams; $60), published in
conjunction with this year's major
Chagall retrospective at the San Francisco
Museum of Modem Art, is
the first full-scale survey in
20 years of one of the 20th
century's most popular
artists.
It features more than
150 full-color illustrations,
including 60 paintings and
80 works on paper that
explore the artist's distinc-
tive approach — one that
combines fantasy, spiritual-
ity and nostalgia with a
modern painting style.
Organized in four sec-
tions, the book includes
an introduction, by co-
author Jean-Michel Foray, director of
the Marc Chagall museum in Nice,
that helps contextualize the Russian-
born Jewish artist's work and an illus-
trated chronology of Chagall's life put
together by co-authors Meret Meyer
Graber, Chagall's granddaughter, and
Jakov Bruk, a research curator at the
Tretiakov Gallery in Moscow.

FOR THE THRILLER SEEKER

Part historical novel, part political
thriller, Marek Halter's latest book,
The Wind of the Khazars (Toby Press;
$19.95), unfolds both in the 10th and
21st centuries.
More than a thou-
sand years ago, the
Khazar kingdom, a
tolerant, advanced
society living between
the Caucasus moun-
tains and the Volga,
converted itself to -
Judaism. When a con-
temporary writer,
Marc Sofer, is given an
ancient Khazarian
coin by a mysterious
visitor, he is drawn
into investigating the
enigma of the Khazars,
who have been totally
effaced from history, and their connec-
tion with a 21st-century terrorist
group calling itself the "New Khazars."
The author, who resides in France,
escaped the Nazis as a child by crawl-
ing through the sewers under the
Warsaw Ghetto; he also is an artist
and human rights activist.

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