No comments about Edith and Winnifred Eaton: CHINATOWN MISSIONS AND JAPANESE ROMANCES (Asian American Experience).

1 comments about Samurai of Vishogrod: The Notebook of Jacob Marateck.

1. THE NEW LEADER (Elie Wiesel) "You will read it in a wonderment mixed with the anguish that only the reading of certain old, simple but upsetting legends can inspire -- Everything happens to him. Jacob Marateck is irresistible."

   LOS ANGELES TIMES (Robert Kirsch) "Because of Jacob Marateck, a part of the world he knew will never die ... the wry ironic humor, the sharp sense of character and situation. The reader, I hope, will join me in hoping for a sequel."

   WNYC-AM "The book is in the very mainstream of Jewish literature; it helps us to laugh at human foibles...adds another chapter to the bittersweet human comedy."

   THE PHILADELPHIA BULLETIN "...tells more about life in Eastern Europe than any history text."

   THE JEWISH POST AND OPINION (Rabbi Samuel Silver) "...searingly graphic ... a little masterpiece"

   JERUSALEM POST "Laughter will come easily enough, but the reader will nevertheless find it remarkable that the author would amuse us while suffering the most wretched circumstances conceivable."

   LITERARY JOURNAL (Arthur Kurzweil) "His book is filled with humor, wisdom, religiosity, strength and pride."

   THE REVIEW OF BOOKS AND RELIGION (Edmund Fuller) "Jacob Marateck is a happy discovery, thoroughly worth knowing."

   THE CULTURAL WATCHDOG NEWSLETTER (Louis Ehrenkrantz) "As history, it is revealing. As literature, it is penetrating. But above all, it is humorous, in a sad way."

   ISRAEL TODAY (Yehuda Lev) "Marateck's adventures in Warsaw, his shtetl, and finally with the Czarist armies in Manchuria, fighting in the Russo-Japanese war, are priceless... The book adds another chapter to the bittersweet human comedy."

   THE JEWISH CHRONICLE OF PITTSBURGH "You cry with him as he describes his adventures on the battlefield of Manchuria. It is men like Jacob who, through the centuries, have provided the Jew with the ammunition to withstand the physical danger of extermination. Shimon and Anita Wincelberg have done a tremendous service."

   BOOKLIST "Brings the bureaucratic humbling and slapstick horrors of the [Russo-Japanese] War into focus."

No comments about The life of Yosh Tashiro.(Young Historians)(Biography): An article from: Manitoba History.

No comments about Teaching in Wartime China: A Photo-Memoir, 1937-1939.

No comments about Mastering Japanese.

No comments about Mongoose hekka: An autobiography.

No comments about Noma of Japan, The Nine Magazines of Kodansha Being The Autobiography of a Japanese Publisher.

1 comments about Following the Brush: An American Encounter with Classical Japanese Culture.

1. In this collection of essays, John Elder, a professor at Middlebury College in Vermont, explores his observations from a sabbatical in Kyoto, Japan. He discusses everything from Japanese calligraphy to haiku to Zen to whalemeat, and even for the uninitiated, he makes these aspects of Japanese culture accessible. His observations carry some real depth, too: he looks well beyond a tourist's superficial awe, well beyond an academic's obsession with paradigm. In these essays Elder discovers what it is about bonsai trees, for example, that makes them uniquely Japanese, and he is able to articulate what their prevalence says about Japan's relationship to nature. Without idealizing Japan, he leaves the reader with a greatly deepened understanding of a distinctly eastern view toward the natural world, and perhaps provides us--both Japanese and American--with new ways of seeing our human relationship to the environment. This is an ambitious book, and a highly successful one. I recommend it enthusiastically!

2 comments about Seiji Ozawa (Contemporary Asian Americans).

1. I suggest this book for 3rd to 4th grade. It is pitifuly easy. I do find it very imformational with a timeline, bibliography, glossary, and index in the back. It does also have a short paragraph on the back. Otherwise, it was mildly boring.



2. I think this book is pitifuly easy. It does have a good timeline, bibliography ext. in the back. It is imformational, but also very boring. I thought the only interesting part was about his childhood.

2 comments about Songs My Mother Taught Me: Stories, Plays, and Memoir.

1. Yamauchi is a great example for Asian women to follow. Her plays are always an inspiration. Since I saw And the Soul Shall Dance on stage, I've become a fan of hers.



2. This book is alright. I did enjoy reading it somewhat even though the stories all seemed to be the same after a while. Although it paints a clear picture of Japanese-Americna struggles, most stories end with the predictable outcome. I did not like the ending of most of the stories. Furthermore, I am unhappy with the skewing of the plays "And the Soul Shall Dance" and "The Music Lesson" by the short stories similar to them. "Shirley Temple Hotcha-cha" is the best story in the book, offering a different end for Japanese-American women.