Judaism articles from January 2002

Judaism archives from January 2002

From the editor.
January 1, 2002... I have been reading Aviva Gottlieb Zornberg's The Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodus with increasing pleasure and amazement. Putting the insights of midrash and contemporary critical theory into dialogue, she has articulated an...

How old is the Haggadah?
January 1, 2002... THE ORIGINS OF THE SEDER AND THE HAGGADAH HAVE long been a subject of interest. According to the Bible, ever since the Israelites made their escape from Egypt in the middle of the night, following their first paschal meal, Passover has been...

Byron's Passovers and Nathan's melodies.(Lord Byron and Isaac Nathan)
January 1, 2002... THIS IS THE STORY OF THE MUSICIAN, ISAAC NATHAN, and his connections with two Passovers, one in the year 701 before the common era, the other in 1816 of this era. Isaac Nathan (1) was born in Canterbury in 1792, the son of Menahem Mona, a...

Gen 1:1.(Poem)
January 1, 2002... When Gods were beginning to make the alphabet of heaven and earth the wind ruffled the black waters and the earth had no name or form. We make impossible requests of fundamental texts searching in a vowel that...

Keter the Crown Known as Nothing.(Poem)
January 1, 2002... Crowns float on the leather spines of the thick s'forim, Hebrew books in the rabbi's basement, Boro Park. His library stacked from foot to crown, books north, south, east, west. The walls lean in, a nightmare of law ...

Fire/Men.
January 1, 2002... Human Sacrifice In the second week of September of the year 2001, altars to a god who loves human sacrifice were erected in Lower Manhattan and Northern Virginia and a massive burnt offering took place. Though no one has claimed...

Holocaust, Storytelling, Memory, Identity: David Grossman in California; See Under: LOVE: A personal view.
January 1, 2002... Keynote Address for the San Francisco Symposium "The Future o the Holocaust; Story-Telling, Memory, Identity," Sunday, February 25, 2001, and 'Reading Holocaust Literature: David Grossman and Contemporary Writing, "Friday, February 23,2001,...

Creating Wasserman: The quest for a new Holocaust story in David Grossman's See Under: Love.
January 1, 2002... SEE UNDER: LOVE IS THE STORY OF SHLOMO (MOMIK) Neuman, a child of Holocaust survivors. Growing up in Jerusalem of the 1950s, he is surrounded by the silence and the madness of the survivors and becomes obsessed with the mysteries of the world...

The future of the Holocaust: Storytelling, oppression, and identity; See under: "apocalypse".
January 1, 2002... THIS PAPER WAS CONCEIVED WITHIN A NARRATIVE FRAME that I will call the "peace process." It is being delivered in another frame, one so unstable that we haven't yet agreed on a name for it. The following is my own contribution to the search for...

The Holocaust as vicarious past: Restoring the voices of memory to history.
January 1, 2002... Some people want to forget where they've been; other people want to remember where they've never been. Eli Cohen and Gila Almagor, from their film, Under the Domim Tree HOW IS A POST-HOLOCAUST GENERATION OF ARTISTS supposed "to...

B'reshit.
January 1, 2002... ONCE UPON A TIME THE HIGHWAYS OF CALIFORNIA were punctuated with Roadside Attractions, whimsical buildings that turned function into form. Hungry motorists could snap up hot dogs from a construction that resembled what it sold, pedestrians...

Dear God.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... A new baby born last night smelling of roses coming through the thorns into the shining light Lehagid baboker hasdecha veemunatcha baleilot tov lehodot la'Shem. FELICE KAHN ZISKEN, a translator and...

Almost Spring.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... light bringing the wing of the dove - white and the wing of the white - dove on the Wall above into line of vision. FELICE KAHN ZISKEN, a translator and poet, made aliya from New York to Jerusalem in...

Zum Andenken!(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Der Lieber Oma, Zum Andenken! Fanny n. Natan April 1939 Your lilting handwriting on back a black-and-white photograph of you and your beloved son. Zum Andenken! In Washington Heights you are a presence ...

Sephardic Jews in Cuba. (From all their Habitations).
January 1, 2002... THE ARRIVAL OF SEPHARDIC JEWS IN CUBA ON THE EVE OF World War I was part of a larger emigration from the Middle East to the American continent. This migratory movement, caused by the decline and disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, was most...

Habad's dead Messiah. (Current Theological Writing).(Column)(Review)
January 1, 2002... ON A SIMHAT TORAH EVE ABOUT THIRTY YEARS AGO I brought a brilliant young woman journalist from a Marxist kibbutz in Israel to Crown Heights to witness Habad's celebration of the joyous holiday of Simhat Torah. There were several thousand...

Nietzsche's prophecy. (Reviews).(Review)
January 1, 2002... Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography. by rudiger safranski. Translated by shelley frisch new york: w.w. Norton, 2001. According to Rudiger Safranski, Friedrich Nietzsche's latest biographer, the preeminent philosopher of the nineteenth...

New Holocaust curriculum in Israel.(Shoah and Memory)
January 1, 2002... Shoah and Memory. By YISRAEL GUTMAN. Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center, 1999. Hebrew. The well-known Holocaust historian Professor Yisrael Gutman has published a new textbook for Israeli high school students, Shoah and Memory. Shoah and...

Facing an environmental crisis. (Reviews).(Review)
January 1, 2002... Judaism and Environmental Ethics: A Reader. MARTIN D. YAFFE, ed. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2001. When a well-known scholar and wellread environmentalist criticizes the assumption that humans exist to play "the conqueror role" and...

Angelic escapades. (Reviews).(Review)
January 1, 2002... Moses and the Angels. By ILEENE SMITH SOBEL (paintings by Mark Podwal). New York: Delacorte Press. 1999. Moses and the Angels is a unique, yet ultimately unsatisfying, children's book. The author splices fantasmagorical stories of angels...

Communications.
January 1, 2002... DEAR EDITOR, I thought readers of this journal should know the following. Albert Speer wrote: "What he loved about fire was not the Promethean aspect, but its destructive force...fire itself, literally and directly, stirred a profound...