Return of the White Whale

The author employs a narrative scheme as does the Matrix the novel Moby Dick. The story cruises through the present and the historic plight of the Jews and intermittingly brings Melville's Sea-saga with the mad Capt. Ahab his first mate Starbuck and others in the crew: the narrator Ishmael his friend the harpooner former head-hunter Queequeg and Ahab's guru-confidant Fedallah the Parsee mystic who tells Ahab a prophetic riddle that could match the three witches conundrum in Shakespeare's Macbeth. It features twenty mini-bios of Righteous Jews their contribution to mankind in past and present along with histories of famous Jewish dynasties. There are instances of the author's personal experiences such as excerpts from journals kept when he toured Israel in 1979 led by Prof. Menahem Mansoor with a group of University of Wisconsin Alumni. Also he tells of how childhood traumas were compounded from media influences and in time cites chilling anti-Semitic expressions while in the US Navy. He a Christian lauds his paternal grandfather though he had died a generation before the author's birth. He had been a Nothern Civil War veteran the Fire Chief of Bethlehim PA and a Jewish Imigrant from Bavaria. It is not enunciated but Capt. Ahab his ship the Pequod his world could represent the static mind-set of insane unconsumated revenge launching harpoons at this perceived enemy. But on encountering Moby Dick he is thwarted scattered then annihilated. World-wide Jews are a tiny lot and getting smaller. For Jews extinction won't come from disturbing a sea-giant entirely but from abandoning tradition in favor of Reform PC & ACLU Absorbtion and Lethargy. On top of all that in the wings are massive emerging eastern populations with energy and innate abilities that equal or surpass Jews. You shall be left few in numbers whereas you were as the stars in heaven in multitude (Deut. 28: 62).