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Manhattan, with $20 in her pocket, she
got into the glitz and glam of the city
with her new journalism job. She was
dating the "perfect" man and living with
him in a gorgeous apartment in the
West Village. When she finds out her
boyfriend is cheating on her, everything
comes crashing down, and she finds
herself with no place to call home. Enter
Craigslist and an Orthodox Chabad
rabbi named Cosmo living by himself
in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The nine
months Rebecca spent living with this
jujitsu-practicing rabbi, who spoke
six languages and worked in a copy
shop, are chronicled in her memoir,
Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde
(Putnam). Cosmo and Rebecca teach
each other faith and bring meaning into
their lives as they become good friends
(and nothing more), discover they have
more in common than they thought,
and introduce each other to new experi-
ences that leave them both changed.
Elissa Altman's memoir, Poor Man's
Feast (Chronicle Books), centers on the
author, a Jewish cookbook writer/edi-
tor in New York, and her discovery of
simple living. Altman was raised to love
the fancy, especially fancy food, and as a
child ate at an assortment of fancy res-
taurants. This filters into her adult life
as she serves dinner guests "rare birds"
and buys eight timbale molds just so she
can cook "tall" food. Her view on fancy
changes, though, when she meets Susan,
a woman who revels in simple living
and simple dining. Susan and Elissa
teach each other about what it means to
love, with 26 different recipes scattered
along the way for the reader to enjoy.
He's sung with Ray Charles and
Luciano Pavarotti, written songs with
Bob Dylan and Lady Gaga, has a star
on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, sold
more than 53 million albums and won
two Grammys for Best Male Pop Vocal
Performance. Michael Bolton pens
his story in The Soul of it All (Center
Street) — sharing stories about hitch-
hiking cross-country on Route 66 at 14
years old, playing guitar for food money
in '60s hippie-era Greenwich Village and
finding worldwide success.
If you love (or are positively terrified
by) The Exorcist, or can't get enough
of films like The French Connection,
Cruising and Killer Joe, then The
Friedkin Connection (Harper), a
memoir by the films' director, William
Friedkin, covering his entire career thus
far, may be the captivating read you're
looking for. Friedkin is the son of Jewish
immigrants from Ukraine.
Helga Weiss was 15 when she and her
family were sent to Auschwitz. Greeted
on the train platform by the infamous
Josef Mengele himself, she thought
quickly, told a simple lie and made her-
self old enough to work. She is one of

the few children to survive Auschwitz.
Previously, during three years spent
with her family at Terezin, she kept
a diary, chronicling both horror and
joy; it was retrieved by her uncle after
the war. Weiss' story is told in Helga's
Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life
in a Concentration Camp (Norton),
translated into English for the first time.
Today, Weiss is an artist in Prague and
lives in the apartment where she was
born.
In Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli
and Me (Knopf), Patricia Volk, who
memorably wrote about growing up
in her New York restaurant family in
Stuffed, links the lives of her glamor-
ous restaurant-worker mother, Audrey
Morgen Volk, with that of fashion
designer Elsa Schiaparelli, and recounts
how they inspired her own ideas about
personal style and womanhood.
"One evening in May 1948, my moth-
er went to a party in New York with her
first husband and left it with her second,
my father; writes Alexander Stile
in The Force of Things: A Marriage
in War and Peace (Farrar, Straus and
Giroux). His memoir follows two fami-
lies — his father was an Italian journal-
ist descended from Russian Jews, and
his mother, an American Midwesterner
— across the 20th century, taking them
across revolution, war, fascism and
racial persecution, until they collide at
mid-century. His parents' immediate
attraction and tumultuous marriage is
part of a much larger story: the mass
migration of Jews from fascist-dominat-
ed Europe in the 1930s and 1940s.
Eve Ensler, the creator of The
Vagina Monologues, was diagnosed
with advanced uterine cancer in 2010.
After the grueling treatment, she found
that she had undergone a transforma-
tion. Ensler documents this journey
in her book In the Body of the World
(Metropolitan Books). Throughout the
course of her battle with cancer, she was
forced to face her past, both battling her
demons and repairing relationships. Her
ultimate goal though, is to help fix the
problems in our world, and to get others
to join.

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Nicole Goodman recently graduated from
Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School in
Bloomfield Hills and will be beginning her
freshman year this fall at Tufts University
in Medford, Mass. She loves to read, and
some of her favorite books include, but
are not limited to, Pride and Prejudice by
Jane Austen, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott
Fitzgerald, the Harry Potter series by J.K.
Rowling, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak,
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and The
Fault in Our Stars by John Green.

Arts Editor Gail Zimmerman
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