Charles S. Weinblatt
Charles S. Weinblatt was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1952. He is a retired University of Toledo administrator. Weinblatt is the author of “Jacob’s Courage” and “Job Seeking Skills for Students.” His biography appears in the Marquis Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in American Education. Weinblatt was a frequent Toledo television news guest, providing business, economic and labor-management insight. He received the 2004 Douglas Frasier Swift Award.
Weinblatt writes novels, short stories and published articles. He lives in Ohio.
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Dear Mr. Weinblatt,
I write in the hope of interesting you in reviewing my book, “Rasputin and The Jews: A Reversal of History”. As summarized on Amazon, “This book is a well-documented account of Rasputin as a healer, equal rights activist and man of God, and why he was so vilified by the aristocracy that their vicious rumors became accepted as history. For nearly a century, Grigory Rasputin, spiritual advisor to Russia’s last Tsar and Tsarina, has been unjustly maligned simply because history is written by the politically powerful and not by the common man. A wealth of evidence shows that Rasputin was discredited by a fanatically anti-Semitic Russian society, for advocating equal rights for the severely oppressed Jewish population, as well as for promoting peace in a pro-war era. Testimony by his friends and enemies, from all social strata, provides a picture of a spiritual man who hated bigotry, inequity and violence. The author is the great-great niece of Aron Simanovitch, Rasputin’s Jewish secretary.”
I’ve spent 12 years of substantiating research on the assertion that Rasputin was poorly depicted because of his humanitarian efforts. The book also includes chapters on The Pale of Settlement and the laws restricting the lives of Russian Jews.
The link to my Amazon page shows a number of good reviews, as well as those in The Baltimore Jewish Times, The Jewish Literary Review, The Los Angeles Jewish Journal and the Jewish Russian Telegraph. The book is also included in the libraries of The Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
Thank you for your time.
Most Sincerely,
Delin Colón
“Rasputin and The Jews: A Reversal of History”
Amazon.com: Rasputin and The Jews: A Reversal of History (9781461027751): Delin Colón: Books
Comment by Delin Colon — August 23, 2011 @ 5:46 pm
Hi Delin. Thanks for writing. I replied to you by e-mail, as well as posting it here.
Your book, Rasputin and The Jews: A Reversal of History sounds very interesting. I would be happy to review it. However, please understand that I review books for The New York Journal of Books and I’m currently stacked up. I could probably get to your book in about two months. If that time frame is OK, please either mail me a review copy (postal address is in the e-mail), or send it to me as an e-book. I could also accept a PDF file or a Word document, assuming those files have been edited as appears in the final print version.
Thanks again for contacting me. I look forward to reading your book. Good luck with it.
Best,
Chuck
Comment by cweinblatt — August 23, 2011 @ 7:57 pm
Hello, Mr. Weinblatt,
I hope this note finds you and yours hale and hearty. I am writing again to seek permission to publish one of your essays in TheBluegrassSpecial.com. In this case, it’s “Why We Exist,” for our upcoming June issue.
This past week I lost a friend, who happened to have affected many lives in a positive way. If you watch sports at all you may have heard of his passing–Wayman Tisdale, the former pro basketball star, Olympic gold medalist, three-time All-American at my alma mater, the University of Oklahoma, and a superb jazz bassist with a dozen albums to his credit. I profiled him in our July 2008 issue on the occasion of the release of his latest album, but we are linked both by music, basketball and a shared hometown, Tulsa, where we were both high school basketball stars, both went on to play at OU (alas, my collegiate career ended halfway through my freshman season, when I came down with tendinitis in both knees, but Wayman more than made up for his fellow Tulsan’s truncated service to the team) and both gravitated to music early, he as a musician, yours truly as a journalist/author. I don’t want to make his obituary in the next issue too personal, because I’m not sure that would serve our readers, but in contemplating Wayman’s fruitful life I kept returning to the kind of questions you pose in “Why We Exist.” I’ve listed for you many of Wayman’s professional achievements, but the real story of Wayman Tisdale is his life-affirming presence in the lives of everyone whose path he crossed, his generosity, his warmth, his unswerving moral center and the values he stood for and embodied. He more than fulfills the mandates of your final paragraph in “Why We Exist.” So it was in reading your essay that I found the key to understanding the loss of my friend and to answering the larger questions left by the snuffing out of a young life. I would like to share this with our readers, and I will again provide a link to your website and to Amazon for the purchase of “Jacob’s Courage.” I’ve been remiss in not adding your site to our Links page, too, but I will do that with this issue.
I look forward to your response and thank you again for your comforting words in a dark hour.
Best regards,
David McGee
Comment by David McGee — May 17, 2009 @ 7:49 pm
Dear Mr. Weinblatt,
I would like permission to reprint your essay, “The Meaning of Passover,” in the April issue of TheBluegrassSpecial.com. This may, on the surface, sound like an odd place for your writing to appear, but we have a section called The Gospel Set that is designed to explore matters of faith and belief as expressed in music. In April, the month of Easter, we are publishing an excerpt from one of our Contributing Editor’s books, “Holiday and Holy Nights: Celebrating Twelve Seasonal Festival Of the Christian Year,” specifically about the Easter celebration in the Christian world (more historical in nature, this passage), and I found in your essay exactly what I was looking for to honor the month of Passover as well–something philosophical in nature that connects the occasion to a greater purpose, as you so eloquently summarize in your final paragraph. In this case, it was even more than I had expected, in that you also connect both Easter and Passover in the greater purpose of your appeal.
However, time is of the essence: we launch the April issue tomorrow night. Assuming you receive this in time, please let me know if you will permit this reprint. If I don’t hear from you, I will publish it, and hope for the best. If you object, well, this being Internet publishing, we can take it down immediately. But I think you’ll see that in the context of our content, it will be treated with dignity. Further, I’ll provide a link to your book, Jacob’s Courage: A Holocaust Love Story, so that our readers can go to Amazon and purchase it if they’re so inspired. I will also provide a link to your website.
Thank you for your consideration in this matter. I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
David McGee
Founder/Publisher/Editor
TheBluegrassSpecial.com
P.S. Here’s a link to a story we did in The Gospel Set this past July, concerning Jeremiah Lockwood and the Sway Machinery. A gifted young man, Jeremiah is the grandson of a noted early 20th Century rabbi in New York, and in his musical pursuits with the Sway Machinery, he is fusing cantorial music to a bruising rock ‘n’ roll beat, and good things are happening for him. Here’s a link; you might find this interesting.
http://thebluegrassspecial.com/archive/june08/gospelsetjune08.php
Comment by David McGee — March 30, 2009 @ 7:43 pm
Permission granted. Please drop me a line showing when and where it will appear at csw1@sev.org.
Chuck
Comment by cweinblatt — April 16, 2009 @ 9:10 pm