European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The rabbis wife and controversial author by Nan Robertson new York Silvia ten Renbaum is 49 years the daughter of thoroughly assimilated and no observant jews who Flea Kil lers Germany in settled in new and Scro horrified to see her wind up marrying an East european let alone a she has been a rabbis wife for 26 years and is Mother to three Coll Geage now she has written a no holds barred first called the rabbis about a year in the life of a Long Island Tennenbaum and her think it is As much or More a comment on american Suburbia As it is on a jewish com and it has caused a hurry in the ushing William Morrow to company beat out live other pub Lishers with an extraordinary Advance to this unknown author the first printing hefty copies the initial advertising budget la a negative grounds Ellis charges that the Book is Antisemitic have come from among the Adverse comments Are these in vitriolic letter to Morrow the Wile is an intolerably Antisemitic and it will not have shelf space in any of my stores Silvia Tennenbaum hates jews and All things especially the Rabbinate it is an insult to american it will Appeal to nazis and to a handful of self Haling jews and to anti semites every where who Teek justification for their i found the rabbis Wile an offensive piece of i have Cut my initial order of 200 to 100 in i fed the Book is highly the charac Erot the rabbis wife was even the rabbis behaviour was highly fiction it May Bat Lloyd a bearded Man of so who left the Nate a year ago to begin test said it is True to he 1c you italic told be truth nobody would believe it its too in his wife called her Book a kind of cart de Caput a cry of the we both came very a realistically to the whole in the end it was disillusionment with Long Island sub Urbia said poisons jewish is totally deliberately designed to shut out the reality of american you Ovett see you dont see old there Are no you live in your the son of an unemployed Cigar maker in was graduated from he jewish Theo logical Seminary of America in his wire is a graduate of where she majored in an history and look one course in Short Story the stepdaughter of William she met Tann Enbom at an Al Beethoven concert of the Busch quartet at Columbia and we fell in love at be next of be Budapest Quarter they married in the Tennen aunts said they loved their first assign ment in Lynchburg a town of with a real jewish Community of 100 close knit and the intellectual enrichment of three colleges in the it was a Good place to begin marriage and have Tennenbaum their three sons 23 21 and born everybody knew the Tennenbaum they understood the South is tolerant of the seven affectionately recalled Yean in Lynchburg were followed by what Tennenbaum called one miserable year in then the leadership of a congregation in which tired us rabbi after nine increasingly difficult years and Vork to left eight years in cold Spring with a lion that Tennenbaum the Tennen Baurns were involved in the Earick years of he civil rights movement in the sooth and in the Tennenbaum was jailed in m in be became involved in toe Nam War movement and helped organise concerned about like her fictitious Rachel Tennenbaum spoke and demonstrated for civil tis peace in like she has been a i nut since and in certain a misfit a l rabbis wife fascinated by creative the outspoken and too often i put my Root in St with my beliefs about Polki social racism and the finally i found 3 myself looking Down into a Large Hole or in comprehend a lot of women literally atrophy in the if they were forced to they would have been Good the dog Napper and other bits of Black Marble from Joseph Wambaugh by John Leonard new York times somebody should get a grip on Joseph Wam Baugh with one and slap him Back into shape with the he ought not to be allowed to be in the be looked As though he might be gaining on the Young Dostoevsky human beings were in the and los Angeles cops had pitched their tent to a septic tank the us be now Calls it and everybody was either going to drawn or eat his after too Many battered children and severed the soul itself became a mean there was nothing cute about the the has been turned into a mind ten just As Raymond Qian Lerf Lota goad was turned into a mindless writers Are not to be trusted with their own especially of los Angela god i a jealous and cameras an his Wambaugh int the Vio Lence in his navels is not gratuitous it in the the architecture and the Ether and the of his what was interesting about the Choirboy was that it had scoured itself of Streak of ii was but Clem no the Block Marble in both Lenti Moui us our Yean old and after a Remus the is la be bit partner Aba probably ate bit he is transferred to burglary and paired up wih twice divorced Street smart Natalie Kelso who knows he is a suspects he is a Doper and believes him to be together they track Down a dog Napper who snatched a 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