Forwarded by Izzy Cohen From: Kalman <kalkap strudel aol.com> Date: July 4, 2016 To: George Rosenwald <gcro strudel umich.edu> Subject: Elie
Dear George, Elie Wiesel wrote a blurb for my late mother's autobiography *Russian Nightmares, American Dreams <https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Nightmares-American-Dreams-Saposnik/dp/0934623805?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0>* published by Solomon Press. I remember my meetings with him warmly. I was on sabbatical at Harvard in 1977-78 and I came into his office at Boston University to show him two manuscripts and ask his advice and help in getting them published: my living mother's (above) and my late father's unfinished translation of a beautiful novel from the Dutch *Jesus and Menachem <https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Menachem-Historical-Second-Temple/dp/1620327015>* by Siegfried van Praag, placing Yeshua in the Jewish context of his day. Wiesel warmly took the two manuscripts and asked me to come back in two weeks. I will never forget his words when I returned: He greeted me with one of the warmest smiles I had ever encountered and asked me to sit down. He reached out and put his hand on my shoulder and said gently: " Take care of mama, Jesus can wait." I wound up taking care of both. Dave Gutmann interviewed my mom on videotape filmed by my friend, film- maker Shuli Eshel. And I met Herman van Praag who was Chair of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein, who was Siegfried's uncle and was able to get the translation finished and got it published in 2012. I kept in touch with Elie through the years and my mother met him too on several occasions. He was a wonderful man. Feel free to circulate this story. Kal On Jul 2, 2016, at 5:13 PM, George Rosenwald <gcro strudel umich.edu> wrote: <goog_798577461> http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/02/world/elie-wiesel-dies/index.html = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = You can see Dr. Kalman Kaplan's CV and bio at http://www.psych.uic.edu/154-about-us/directory/faculty/184-kalman-j-kaplan-ph-d http://www.spertus.edu/people/faculty/kalman-kaplan I edited Dr. Kaplan's play, *Oedipus in Jerusalem*, which was recently published by Wipf and Stock. *http://www.freelists.org/post/etni/Oedipus-in-Jerusalem-a-play-by-Dr-Kalman-J-Kaplan <http://www.freelists.org/post/etni/Oedipus-in-Jerusalem-a-play-by-Dr-Kalman-J-Kaplan>* Israel A Cohen cohen.izzy strudel gmail.com
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