Judaism articles from September 1994

Judaism archives from September 1994

An anatomy of Black anti-semitism.
September 22, 1994... IN AN UNUSUAL GESTURE, THE RADICAL JOURNALIST I. F. Stone invoked solidarity with American Jews when he advised this segment of his readership in 1968 "to swallow a few insults from overwrought blacks" who were espousing anti-Semitism. He...

Glimpsing Golus in the Golden Land: Jews and multiculturalism in America.
September 22, 1994... Israel is bewildered; They have now become among the nations Like an unwanted vessel, Like a lonely wild ass. Hosea 8:8-9 THAT JEWS IN THE UNITED STATES EXPERIENCE A different kind of diaspora than their ancestors did at any time during the...

Elegy for my father's generation. (poem)
September 22, 1994... I The route across George Washington Bridge down a maze of cliff-lined highway is tortured and long. The cousins leaning forward in the limo chatter like harpies determined to take my mind elsewhere but the hearse 10 feet ahead (he was 5...

The symbolism of the sukkah.
September 22, 1994... THE SUKKAH STANDS OUT AMONG ALL MITZVOT. IT IS the only commandment that involves a ritual dwelling. One is totally surrounded by the mitzvah for an extended period of time. For seven days, eating, sleeping, reading, relaxing, studying and almost...

The Jews are my Tahiti: R.B. Kitaj and the subject of his paintings. (Jewish painter) (Interview)
September 22, 1994... An Interview with Commentary IN 1891 GAUGUIN QUIT THE QUOTIDIAN, CROSSED the equator, and set up shop in the South Seas. Sitting on a sofa in his Chelsea studio Kitaj, the painter, says: "The Jews are my Tahiti." Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in...

Sarah's silence: a newly discovered commentary on Genesis 22 by Rashi's sister.
September 22, 1994... Introduced and Presented with Additional Commentary THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY ON THE BIBLICAL story known as "the binding of Isaac," which is published here for the first time, was recently discovered in the geniza of the old synagogue in...

Ma Oz? (poem)
September 22, 1994... Uncle Leo ventured past us to the land beyond the first verse. Singing deep into Ma Oz Tzur in the den he passed us Judaism. He passed us childhood gifts Germany, a short stop in France, England, Panama, or Shanghai, past strangers. He took...

The cycle of names. (poem)
September 22, 1994... I. In my luggage I carried dirt. The dry dust risen in the heat clung to my pants to my hands and feet to my mind. Not gold, Jerusalem dust of languages of smells of centuries. II. I carried dust in my luggage. Mud from my...

Germany's vanishing Holocaust monuments.
September 22, 1994... A NOTORIOUS NAZI LEADER ONCE SAID THAT WHEN he heard the word "culture" he reached for his gun. Now when good Germans hear the word "Nazi" they invariably reach for their culture. It is almost as if the only guarantee against the return of this...

Translation as reversion: Paul Celan's Jerusalem poems.
September 22, 1994... IN 1933, THREATENED BY NAZISM, AN AUNT WHO had lived with Paul Celan's family during his childhood emigrated to Palestine. That year the boy also was Bar Mitzvah, and shortly afterward wrote to her about anti-Semitism in his school. He closed...

Jolson, the Jazz Singer and the Jewish mother: or how my Yiddishe momme became my mammy.
September 22, 1994... Russian-Jewish immigrants came from the shtetls and ghettos out to Hollywood.... In this magical place that had no relationship to any reality they had ever seen before in their lives, or that anyone else had ever seen, they decided to create...