"This man believed that every human being has the duty to love and assist every other human because that is all we have." -Jonathan Maslow, "The Torrid Zone" Jonathan Maslow (1948-2008) was blessed with a naturalist's eye, an adventurer's longing to travel, and a poet's soul-tender as the night. A prolific journalist and author, Maslow's writing was steeped in and shaped by his love of nature, the ocean in particular. Hailed by friends and colleagues alike for his ferocious intellect and extraordinary talent, Maslow's untimely death at age fifty-nine robbed the world of a truly special voice. To celebrate and commemorate his life and his work, Jonathan's mother, Clara K. Maslow, compiled and edited "Schlepper, " a collection of columns Jonathan originally wrote for the "Herald News" of Passaic, New Jersey. The columns reflect Maslow's interest in politics, social justice, and humanism. Moreover, they reveal his deep passion for sharing the often-ignored stories of regular people. "I like to go to beautiful, unknown places with big problems and listen to the people tell their stories in their own voice," said Maslow. With "Schlepper, " you can now join Maslow on his journeys around the world and discover, through his writing, the humanity we all share.

In 1905, the young and handsome Yalek left Baranovka, Russia, for the United States seeking a new way of life. He would work hard and save enough money to bring his family and his new bride, Riva, to America.

In "Obsessive Memories," author Clara R. Maslow tells the history of two close-knit families, raised in the same culture of intellectual Jews in Russia, who immigrated to the United States in the early 1900s. It is a story of a time of new political thinking and the flight of young families in Eastern Europe seeking to live in a democracy, away from the old czarist regimes, monarchies, and other forms of repressive governments.

With photos included, this memoir shares what it was like growing up as part of a Russian family in Trenton, New Jersey. It focuses on Maslow's father, Yalek, an intelligent man with exceptional talents in creative arts, architectural drawing, and construction. "Obsessive Memories" also explores Maslow's relationship with her father and seeks to find meaning in why he was unable to outwardly express his love for her or her family.

In 1905, the young and handsome Yalek left Baranovka, Russia, for the United States seeking a new way of life. He would work hard and save enough money to bring his family and his new bride, Riva, to America.

In "Obsessive Memories," author Clara R. Maslow tells the history of two close-knit families, raised in the same culture of intellectual Jews in Russia, who immigrated to the United States in the early 1900s. It is a story of a time of new political thinking and the flight of young families in Eastern Europe seeking to live in a democracy, away from the old czarist regimes, monarchies, and other forms of repressive governments.

With photos included, this memoir shares what it was like growing up as part of a Russian family in Trenton, New Jersey. It focuses on Maslow's father, Yalek, an intelligent man with exceptional talents in creative arts, architectural drawing, and construction. "Obsessive Memories" also explores Maslow's relationship with her father and seeks to find meaning in why he was unable to outwardly express his love for her or her family.

"This man believed that every human being has the duty to love and assist every other human because that is all we have." -Jonathan Maslow, "The Torrid Zone" Jonathan Maslow (1948-2008) was blessed with a naturalist's eye, an adventurer's longing to travel, and a poet's soul-tender as the night. A prolific journalist and author, Maslow's writing was steeped in and shaped by his love of nature, the ocean in particular. Hailed by friends and colleagues alike for his ferocious intellect and extraordinary talent, Maslow's untimely death at age fifty-nine robbed the world of a truly special voice. To celebrate and commemorate his life and his work, Jonathan's mother, Clara K. Maslow, compiled and edited "Schlepper, " a collection of columns Jonathan originally wrote for the "Herald News" of Passaic, New Jersey. The columns reflect Maslow's interest in politics, social justice, and humanism. Moreover, they reveal his deep passion for sharing the often-ignored stories of regular people. "I like to go to beautiful, unknown places with big problems and listen to the people tell their stories in their own voice," said Maslow. With "Schlepper, " you can now join Maslow on his journeys around the world and discover, through his writing, the humanity we all share.

Clara Maslow, now age 91, is author of a memoir, The Tapestry of Our Lives Torn With Fear, of her husband as victim of the McCarthy witch hunt of the early 1950's, and its traumatic effect on their lives, the lives of their children, and granddaughter. This is her second book, a collection of poems to eulogize, to remember her love of sixty years; A remarkable man, a man unparalleled as a human being. These poems express spiritedly the pain of loss and longing, and the grief of life and love.

A natural poet, a poet of nature. a poet who thinks with her poems her thoughts lie in the language of poetry. She speaks with strong visual images and stark metaphors. The poems express strongly. sensuously the pain of loss, the loneliness of existence and on to the story of love. Poems that often glide into prose with the passion and intensity that drives it in language that is uniformly solemn and tender. Grief plays a large part in this work with poems that speak softly, strongly and tenderly to the lover that has been taken away.

"There is an echo yet, I can hear it still
of his soft voice,
His caressing voice like a summer breeze
Like the flight of moths in the moonlight
Like the warmth of his breast at night
Like the softness of his lips in the morning
But, who can say, there is only silence now
Only the gentle breeze in the hollows echoing
And the shiny memory of his stately person."
(Loving Bern)

This is a tightly focused collection of poems of yearning, and grief, that penetrate the depth of human gaze, the only place that poetry can enter.

A memoir of Bernard Maslow a remarkable man, who was a victim of the U.S. Army/McCarthy Hearings at Ft. Monmouth, N.J., 1954. And the after effects of the trauma and climate of fear created by McCarthy on our loving family relationships. A memoir of tragic realism, a love story of Bernard and Clara Maslow, and their two loving children caught in the crucible of McCarthyism, that horrible period of history, the time of the Cold War, in the 50's, the period of anti-communism and red-baiting of the Truman Administration, and the full fledged McCarthy witch hunts. It is our struggle with the after effects of the McCarthy witch hunt and the lingering fear that affected out family relationships with our children over our lifetime; now into the third generation with our granddaughter. An ancient 12th c. Florentine tapestry with a highly charged atmosphere. Minds so intellectually gifted, personalities so twisted; Love disoriented, crossed wires of misunderstandings and misinterpretation, relationships on the rocks, shaped by powerful, malevolent historical and social forces.