RR
We are all waiting to hear from your pen your story of service to the USA, if
you have one?
Stan WW11 Merchant Marine Vet.
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From: Ron Ristad <ristad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: sparkscoffee <sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Fri, Mar 17, 2017 3:28 pm
Subject: [sparkscoffee] Re: ELMER BENDINER: MOTHER IS LILLIAN SCHWARTZ BENDINER
Stan,
Jews are great story tellers. That is something to be proud of. It only becomes
a problem when you confuse fantasy with reality.
-RR
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Sent: Mar 17, 2017 2:16 PM
To: sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [sparkscoffee] Re: ELMER BENDINER: MOTHER IS LILLIAN SCHWARTZ BENDINER
RR & everyone else
Seems you are right, Elmer was Jewish but is that something to be ashamed of?
Did you notice his WW11 service record? How about telling everyone your service
record if you have one?
Charlie dug the below up
Below is some biographical info on Elmer Bendiner. His parents were William and
Lillian Bendiner. Mrs. Bendiner's maiden name was Schwartz. Elmer was raised
Jewish.
Following, please see the info that I found via the Internet.
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Elmer Bendiner (Feb. 11, 1916 - Sept. 16, 2001)[citation needed] was a notable
American writer and journalist.
Bendiner was born in Pittsburgh to William Bendiner, a businessman, and Lillian
(maiden name Schwartz). His brother was Robert Bendiner. Growing up Jewish in
an Appalachian environment where the Ku Klux Klan was influential and "Jews,
Catholics, and the very few blacks on the outskirts of town ... served as
ritualistic enemies" helped shape him.[1] He attended City College of New York
from 1932 to 1935, then met Esther Shapiro, an editorial assistant, while he
was working for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle; they were married in 1941, shortly
before the U.S. entered World War II. During the war, Bendiner served as a B-17
Flying Fortress navigator, receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air
Medal with three oak leaf clusters, and the Purple Heart.
After the war, he worked for Esquire, then for a series of medical
publications, and wrote a number of books. Among his better-known works are The
Rise and Fall of Paradise (a history of al-Andalus), A Time for Angels: A
Tragicomic History of the League of Nations, The Bowery Man, The Virgin
Diplomats, Biographical Dictionary of Medicine (cowritten with his daughter
Jessica), and The Fall of Fortresses.
Stan the proud Jew
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