[EinNYC]

Baruch Dayan Emes ("G-d is the True Judge"). Herman Wouk was a religious Jew. He belonged to the Kesher Israel synagogue in Georgetown. About 40 years ago, when I lived in that area, I went to that synagogue with some friends to recite some prayers preparatory for the High Holy holidays. The synagogue was short on copies of the book containing the prayers and I drew the short straw. I was sitting next to the aisle, toward the back of the ladies' section, minus the means to say the prayers. Suddenly, a man of mature years crouched down and offered to let me share his prayer book. He waited for me to finish the pages before he flipped to the next one. At the end of the service, I thanked him. It was Herman Wouk.

Herman Wouk wrote this guidebook to explain Judaism about 40 years ago:

[Ancesthntr]

I am jealous that you got to meet him, but that incident is (from everything I’ve ever heard about him) very typical of Wouk. He was, above all else, a mensch.

[dfwgator]

The Story of Job from War and Remembrance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwqohkCRylY

Didn’t care for Gielgud’s private life, but he was a heckuva actor.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Thank you for passing that along.

The character I remember most from War and Remembrance is Berel Jastrow, exhuming the mass graves of Jews shot by the Einsatzgruppen and praying over each and every one he lifted from the ground.