To an audience accustomed to earnest
reconstructions of the lost worlds of the shtetl and the Lower East Side, Reichek's sinister rendering of the next stop on the Jewish American journey was audacious.
1491: New Revelations
of the Americas Before Columbus Charles C. Mann; Alfred A. Knopf, $ 30 In a poignant
reconstruction of paradise
lost, Mann marshals compelling evidence that the «New
World» was an advanced, thriving, and crowded place before Columbus and his disease - bearing ilk swept through it like a scythe.