Judaism articles from March 2001

Judaism archives from March 2001

Psychoanalysis and the Problem of Evil: Silvano Arieti's Parnas and the Holocaust.(analysis)
March 22, 2001... In Memory of Odette Sarah Meyers "OF ALL HIS BOOKS, THE PARNAS WAS THE ONE DEAREST to him." [1] This, from James Arieti speaking at a 1998 symposium honoring the works of his father, the renowned psychoanalyst, Dr. Silvano Arieti...

Antisemitism in Post World War II Hungary.(violence, riots; Communist Party policy)
March 22, 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....

Experiencing Explaining, and Exploiting the Holocaust.(chronicles by survivors)(Column)
March 22, 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...

The Curse of the Saint.
March 22, 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...

The Alphabet of Creation: Granite Amit's Mystical Installations.
March 22, 2001... 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 in a...

Contemporary Jewish-American Women's Poetry: Marge Piercy and Jacqueline Osherow.(Review)
March 22, 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...

Trauma and Abstract Monotheism: Jewish Exile and Recovery in the Sixth Century B.C.E.
March 22, 2001... THE EXILE OF THE JUDEANS IN THE SIXTH CENTURY B.C.E. is often linked to the emergence ofJudaism as a universal, e xclusively monotheist religion. [1] However, exile alone cannot account for the revolutionary nature of the Jewish acceptance...

Does the Tosefta Precede the Mishnah: Halakhah, Aggada, & Narrative Coherence.
March 22, 2001... 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 the primary...

Saul Bellow, Jew.(new biography)
March 22, 2001... THE JEWISH INTELLECTUAL ESTABLISHMENT HAS NEVER known quite what to do with Saul Bellow. Unlike, say, Philip Roth, whoseJewish identity was always at the core of his persona (from the scandal of Portnoy or even earlier of "The Conversion of...

Governing Zion from the Shores of the Hudson.(Review)
March 22, 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...

Bagels with a Shmear of Culture.(In Search of American Jewish Culture)(Review)
March 22, 2001... In Search of American Jewish Culture. By STEPHEN J. WHITFIELD. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press, 1999. It is virtually impossible to live in the United States today without running into some instantiation, either subtle or explicit,...

Comfort Food or Nourishment?(Strudel Stories)(Review)
March 22, 2001... Strudel Stories. By JOANNE ROCKLIN. New York: Delacorte Press. 1999. Strudel Storiesis abriefwork of children's fiction that celebrates the inter-generational transmission of Jewish history, both family and collective, through...

Communications.(Review)
March 22, 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...

I Asked My Students. . .(Poem)
March 22, 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...

Bruriah.(Poem)
March 22, 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 you forestalled the...

Chimes.(Poem)
March 22, 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 heartthis...

My Father's Shadow.(Poem)
March 22, 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...

Cain Sits.(Poem)
March 22, 2001... Cain sits. His knife is in his wits, and his life regrets. The sun sets and he leaves the beach; sand clings to his conscience, and the salt tang spells-- bloodthe sky's stil smeared with it--and his small hut, and narrow bedwalls of...