May 29, 1998 • Page Image 90
…Mixed Media News Alan King becomes a man at his bar mitzvah (1941). For American Jews who found themselves in cities without a rabbi, without a kosher butcher shop, with- out a synagogue to connect them with the greater Jewish community, Jewish life depended on the desire to be Jewish, and family became the dri- ving force that kept the flames of tra- dition lit. Bill Mazer, like many Jews, sees this particularly Jewish way of under- standi...…

















































