Volume 38, Number 11 · June 13, 1991
A Matter of Life and Death
By Janet Malcolm
Wartime Lies
by Louis Begley
Knopf, 198 pp., $19.00
Early in this chilling novel about a Jewish boy named Maciek and his aunt Tania, who survive the Nazi years in Poland by acquiring false Aryan papers, the question of the child's circumcised penis is raised. As the narrator dryly points out, Jewish women could represent themselves as Aryans easily enough, but
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