Judaism back issues from April 2001:
Psychoanalysis and the problem of evil: Silvano Arieti's Parnas and the Holocaust
Apr 01, 2001; ... In Memory of Odette Sarah Meyers "OF ALL HIS BOOKS, THE PARNAS WAS THE ONE DEAREST to him."' This, from James Arieti speaking at a 1998 symposium honoring the works of his father, the renowned psychoanalyst, Dr. Silvano Arieti (1914-- 1981). But except for his son's personal ...
Antisemitism in post World War II Hungary
Apr 01, 2001; ... WE TEND TO ASSUME THAT THE REVELATION OF THE horrors of the Holocaust, which immediately after the war had made the dreadful consequences of prejudice clear for everyone to see, diminished antisemitism in European and American societies. However this was not the case at all. On the contrary, at ...
Experiencing, explaining, and exploiting the Holocaust
Apr 01, 2001; ... THE NUMBER OF HOLOCAUST MEMOIRS BEING PUBLISHED has increased dramatically in the last few years as more and more survivors feel an urgent obligation to document their wartime experiences as concentration camp inmates, ghetto dwellers, hidden fugitives, partisans, or refugees before they die ....
Bruriah
Apr 01, 2001; ... my ancestress the one woman who is named who speaks in Talmud an actual historical person they say you learned three hundred precepts from three hundred rabbis in a single day a miraculous feat they say when your sons died ...
The curse of the saint
Apr 01, 2001; ... IN THE SUMMER OF 1997, OUR RESEARCH THREESOME reached the village of Tillit in the Dades Valley, on the southern side of the Moroccan Atlas Mountains. My group included Joseph Chetrit, an Israeli scholar of Moroccan origin from Haifa, and Abderrahmane Lakhsassi, a Moroccan Berber scholar from ...
The alphabet of creation: Granite Amit's mystical installations
Apr 01, 2001; ... (Proquest Information and Learning: Foreign text omitted.) I WENT TO VISIT GRANITE AMIT'S STUDIO TURNED gallery on a beautiful sunny June afternoon. A cool lake breeze blew dollops of Midwestern clouds across Chicago's blue sky. Her studio, located on Peoria just off Randolph Street, is ...
Contemporary Jewish-American women's poetry: Marge Piercy and Jacqueline Osherow
Apr 01, 2001; ... THE RECENT PUBLICATION OF TWO NEW COLLECTIONS of poetry, one by Marge Piercy and the other by Jacqueline Osherow, suggests that being a woman, a Jew, and an American poet is possible, however complexly intertwined these competing identities may be. Marge Piercy's The Art of BIessing the Day and ...
Trauma and abstract monotheism: Jewish exile and recovery in the Sixth Century B.C.E.
Apr 01, 2001; ... THE EXILE OF THE JUDEANS IN THE SIXTH CENTURY B.C.E. is often linked to the emergence of Judaism as a universal, exclusively monotheist religion.' However, exile alone cannot account for the revolutionary nature of theJewish acceptance of monotheism. It does not answer central questions relating ...
Chimes
Apr 01, 2001; ... It sounded like chimes. How else would a five-year-old hear an anapestic beat, Aramaic, with an internal rhyme? Kaddish de-rabbanan, a prayer for the dead, an incantation said on the Sabbath and High Holidays. I knew it by heart-- this ...
My Father's Shadow
Apr 01, 2001; ... I am my father's shadow, faint and elliptical on a dusty road. I am the shadow of the grandfather I never knew, except from a photo-gray long coat, thick mustache. I don't speak their languages, their dialects; they crisscrossed so many borders. I ...
Does the Tosefta precede with Mishnah: Halakhah, aggada, & narrative coherence
Apr 01, 2001; ... (Proquest Information and Learning: Foreign Text omitted.) THERE IS A LONG-STANDING ASSUMPTION THAT THE main focus of the ancient rabbinic enterprise was halakhah, and aggadah's philosophical and ethical musings were only a diversion. There is a parallel long-standing assumption that ...
Saul Bellow, Jew
Apr 01, 2001; ... THE JEWISH INTELLECTUAL ESTABLISHMENT HAS NEVER known quite what to do with Saul Bellow. Unlike, say, Philip Roth, whose Jewish identity was always at the core of his persona (from the scandal of Portnoy or even earlier of "The Conversion of the Jews" and "Eli, the Fanatic" to the solid concern ...
Governing Zion from the shores of the Hudson
Apr 01, 2001; ... Baksheesh Diplomacy: Secret Negotiations Between American Jewish Leaders and Arab Officials on the Eve of World War II. By RAFAEL MEDOFF. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2000. Rafael Medoff, one of Zionism's most meticulous and imaginative historians, has written a dazzling narrative, at ...
Bagels with a shmear of culture
Apr 01, 2001; ... Bagels with a Shmear of Culture In Search ofAmerican Jewish Culture. By STEPHEN J. WHITFIELD. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press, 1999. Reviewed by WARREN D. HOFFMAN It is virtually impossible to live in the United States today without running into some instantiation, ...
Comfort food or nourishment?
Apr 01, 2001; ... Comfort Food or Nourishment? Strudel Stories. By JOANNE ROCKLIN. New York: Delacorte Press. 1999. Reviewed by JOEL STREICKER Strudel Stories is abrief work of children's fiction that celebrates the inter-generational transmission of Jewish history, both family and ...
Communications
Apr 01, 2001; ... DEAR EDITOR: As a librarian at the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam I read Judaism with great interest, in order to make its content accessible for the visitors of our library. The article "The Anne Frank Myth" by Dvora Yanow in the Spring 2000 issue calls for a reaction, ...
I Asked My Students...
Apr 01, 2001; ... I asked my students why Samson would, time and again, confide in Delilah when he had, time and again, seen that she was the enemy, when he must have known that she would betray him. Wasn't he stupid, I said. They shook their heads. "I guess he loved her," one said. "He kept hoping she'd change." ...