How to define what is \”Jewish\” provides endless fodder for debate in post-Holocaust, post-communist Europe. Is there, as the concept of allosemitism implies, a \”certain Jewish something\” that sets Jews apart?
Excerpt from \”More Money Than God: Living a Rich Life Without Losing Your Soul,\” by Steven Z. Leder
A few years ago, I was called to see an extremely famous and wealthy movie director. He was a friend of a friend, and he was in the hospital. We were strangers, this dying old man and I. Entering his room, I noticed amid the monitors, tubes, and fluorescent lights of the sterile ICU, there was only one solitary breath of humanity tacked up on the wall — one small black-and-white photograph, some sixty years old, of a young couple in their twenties holding hands on a park bench.
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