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The Truth About Lotty

Amy Sara Clark December 12, 2002

Fans of Sara Paretsky\’s V.I. Warshawski detective novels are used to following the hard-edged but soft-hearted Chicago private investigator unravel interlocking stories of white-collar crime and corruption.

While there\’s plenty of crime and corruption in \”Total Recall\” (Dell, $7.99) the V.I. Warshawski novel recently released in paperback, there\’s also something new: the story of Lotty Herschel\’s flight from Austria on the eve of the war. Lotty was a young Jewish child living in Vienna when Hitler rose to power. At 9, she fled to London through the Kindertransport — the British rescue mission that saved thousands of Jewish children just before war broke out. She is now haunted by memories of her family that died, and does her best to suppress them.

A Dose of Wisdom to Combat Illness

Rabbi Jack Riemer November 14, 2002

This is a book for those who are or who some day may be ill, which is another way of saying for everyone. It contains wisdom culled out of ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary Jewish literature that is intended for the patient, the caregiver and the physician.

The Feiler Phenomenon

David Klinghoffer November 7, 2002

Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths\” by Bruce Feiler (William Morrow & Co, $23.95).

Like the stock market, belief in the Bible as a record of past events goes up and down. Such belief is now skidding toward a low point. While the sobriety and detachment of professional scholarship may numb us into forgetting that anything crucial is at stake in Scripture\’s historical accuracy, let\’s not forget.

The Bigger Picture

Michael Berenbaum November 7, 2002

\”The Holocaust: A History\” Debórah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, $27.95).

There is great modesty — appropriate to the subject and to the stage of our knowledge — in the title of this work: \”The Holocaust: A History.\” Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan Van Pelt recognize that with a subject so complex there are many ways of writing the history of the Holocaust — they have chosen but one way — but their choice is certainly defensible and comprehensive. Their history of the Holocaust is not only worthy of note; it is worthy of the subject.

Turning a New Page

Michael Aushenker November 7, 2002

When is a city\’s Jewish book festival not actually located in that city? When it\’s based in Los Angeles.

Jews’ Winning Words

Sandee Brawarsky November 7, 2002

Nobody remembers whether the Torah has ever won a book award before.

Eat, Read and Meet Gary

Journal Staff November 7, 2002

The following events are part of The Jewish Federation of the San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys\’ Jewish Book Festival.

Storybook Chance

Andrea Adelson October 31, 2002

The trophy-hunting editor\’s instructions were explicit: before leaving, take your handbag into the restroom and snag a napkin with a vice presidential seal.

Robin Preiss Glasser, a former ballet dancer forced by injuries into a second career as an illustrator, was first intent on pocketing a job during an August 2001 trip to Washington, D.C. Simon & Schuster\’s children\’s unit was hiring an illustrator for \”America, a Patriotic Primer,\” but not without the assent of its author, Lynne Cheney, wife of the vice president, Dick Cheney. Nervously quaking alongside the publishers\’ emissaries at a lunch \”audience\” in the vice presidential residence, Glasser managed to establish a rapport with Mrs. Cheney, who consented to the pairing.

Shedding Some Light

Amy Klein October 31, 2002

\”Everything Is Illuminated\” by Jonathan Safran Foer (Houghton Mifflin, $24).

Jonathan Safran Foer\’s new book, \”Everything Is Illuminated\” has garnered rave reviews everywhere, from The New York Times to Esquire, with front jacket quotes by Russell Banks, Nathan Englander and mentor Joyce Carol Oates; it has even been optioned for a movie by actor Liev Schrieber\’s prodction company.

Spinning a Jewish Web

Sharon Schatz Rosenthal October 24, 2002

Sylvia Rouss, who teaches at Stephen S. Wise Temple, is the author of the popular \”Sammy Spider\” series, which are widely used in Jewish schools around the country.

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