Michael Shaw
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John Blumenthal:
Hello, John. We may have one degree of Lee Eisenberg separation? I flourished to splendid creative heights (at least in the catalog/essay world) while we were both at Lands' End. Being on the noirish side, I would probably find "Hardboiled Dicks" hard to put down. Wait, that didn't come out right. Good to meet you, digitally at least.
John Blumenthal
Hi Michael--NIce to meet you too. Yes, I knew Lee at Esquire. If I understand you correctly, you and Lee knew each other at Land's End? You mean the clothing company with mostly flannel shirts? What did Lee do there? I'm guessing this was before Esquire. As for Hardboiled Dicks, it was really just a spoof of detective novels.
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Herbert Ausubel
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John Blumenthal:
MY career has been medicine since my graduation from Harvard Medical School 65 years ago. But I have always had a second passion: to carry on my father's struggle for the survival of the Jewish people. He was an accomplished writer in Vienna. Have you read my books: "Flower of God" and "Malka's French Soldier"? They are the first of my 6 book series titled "The Other Guests: Chronicles of a People."
Herbert Ausubel
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John Blumenthal:
If you will, read my book. which are available on Amazon.,com, let me know . In "Malka's French Soldier", Eugene de Pallant, a colonel in Napoleon's cavalry, asks Malka's father why Malka's family had risked their lives to save a French Catholic. Malka's father responds that the Talmud teaches Jews that "To save one life is to save the world entire." How many people today would risk their lives to save a stranger?
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