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November 8, 2001
The Vatican and the Shoah
Kertzer, author of \”The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara,\” the story of the 1858 shocking kidnapping of a 6-year-old Italian Jewish boy from his family by police acting under orders from the Vatican, says he was moved to write this book after the 1998 publication of \”We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah,\” a report on the Roman Catholic Church and the Holocaust.
Anxiety about Jewish Literature
As long as the Jewish people lives, it will generate a living culture, and as long as that culture values the written word, Jews will write books.
Safe and Sound ‘Haven’
In the middle of 1944, nearly 1,000 Jewish refugees were plucked from war-torn Europe and transported to the United States, where they spent the next 18 months interned at a former Army post in Oswego, N.Y.
Love Amid Scuds
Filmmaker Arik Kaplun saw babies everywhere when he moved back to Israel nine months after the Persian Gulf War. \”It was a demographic explosion,\” says the Moscow-born director, who did the math and figured there\’d been nooky in the sealed rooms. \”I assumed that quite a lot of people had had that experience.\”
Wayward Son
\”Shadows of Sin\” began when Orthodox mystery author Rochelle Krich was chilled by a verse in Deuteronomy after the Columbine High School shootings in 1999.\n\nThe passage described the \”wayward and rebellious\” son, who is condemned to death for crimes of theft, drunkenness and gluttony.
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