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Before war and revolution changed its face, Shanghai was dominated by foreign fortune-hunters, social climbers, and a glittering array of sinners.
Ted Bernstein, when he was assistant managing editor of The New York Times , published a house organ, “Winners and Sinners,” that offered kudos for the occasional “bright passage” or deft metaphor and cited questionable and nonstandard grammar and usage that appeared in the newspaper.
Shulman aside, you could find one-line descriptions of Goodman's main characters in any half-dozen American-Jewish novels: the rabbi with two sons, one brilliant and prodigal, one duller but more loyal; the Holocaust survivor numbed by his past; the daughters tempted by the twin heresies of feminism and Zionism (Israel is viewed as a nation of faithless sinners by these ultra-Orthodox Jews); the assimilationist Jew who comes to a bad end.
(Publicans and sinners were not people who kept pubs).
During the summers, every city and small town had its revival tent where repentant sinners walked down the aisle, the sawdust trail , to the mourners' bench for prayer and sometimes emotional repentance.