Judaism articles from September 2000

Judaism archives from September 2000

Covenant and Community.
September 22, 2000... I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples; and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face. As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with...

A Witness to the Existence of God: Music in the Work of Abraham J. Heschel.
September 22, 2000... ABRAHAM HESCHEL [1] BEGAN TEACHING AT NEW YORK'S Jewish Theological Seminary in 1945. A short time later he married Sylvia Straus, a pianist whom he had already met in Cincinnati. Sylvia Straus, "a sensible, religious woman," had studied...

A Yad for My Friend Yehuda.(Yehuda Amichai)
September 22, 2000... AT JERUSALEM'S SAFRA SQUARE ON SEPTEMBER 24TH, WE went to say Shalom Haver to yet another general, Yehuda Amichai, the reluctant poet laureate of Israel, felled by cancer, "the chief of staff in the war to liberate Hebrew literature," Yossi...

Angels on the Ladder.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. (Genesis 28:12) Lying alone in an open field, a stone under his head, Jacob dreams...

Rabbi Akiba's Crowns: Postmodern Discourse and the Cost of Rabbinic Reading.
September 22, 2000... The past carries with it a temporal index by which it is referred to redemption. There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every generation that preceded us, we have been...

Heart of Redemption.(Poem)
September 22, 2000... The death of one relation begins another As Joseph weeps when his brothers insist Their acts should be forgiven, said father. The brothers weep and fall before a throne. And Joseph knew, Fear not, for am I in the place of God?...

"Joe and Paul" and Other Yiddish-American Varieties.
September 22, 2000... The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more. (Wordsworth) You thought things would never change. You'd hang Out on the corner, go to the movies with your friends, grow up, get married, go over to your...

Jewish Resistance in Holland: Group Westerweel and Hachshara.
September 22, 2000... IN THE THIRTIES THERE WAS AN INFLUX OF GERMAN Jewish immigrants into the Netherlands and this stream intensified after Kristallnacht on November 9, 1938. Among these immigrants were many young people and even children who were separated from...

A. D. Gordon: "Tolstoy in Palestine".(Poem)
September 22, 2000... Like Tolstoy, you longed to connect your life to the soil. You turned your back on property, family, the high culture of Russia- to live with peasants, to work the vineyards and orange groves of Rishon Le-Zion. Your...

On Not Introducing George Segal.
September 22, 2000... I MISSED MY CHANCE TO MEET THE LATE AMERICAN sculptor George Segal. [1] The request to introduce him came on short notice, and I couldn't get there. After all, I comforted myself, George Segal needs no introduction. His ghostly plaster...

Reunited with Our Ancient Faith: Practicing Judaism in Uganda.
September 22, 2000... SEVERAL YEARS AGO MATTHEW MEYER WENT TO TOM Kippur services at Nairobi Hebrew Congregation in Nairobi, Kenya. He sat next to the lone black man in the congregation, made up of about 25 European, American, and Israeli Jews. Meyer asked the young...

Franz Rosenzweig and Religious Music.
September 22, 2000... IT IS ALMOST LUDICROUS TO THINK OF THE GREAT FRANZ Rosenzweig as a mere reviewer of phonograph records. The author of the masterpiece "Star of Redemption" can hardly be conceived of as a journeyman music critic for a semi-popular magazine. But...

Reflections on Peter Novick's Holocaust in American Life: Two Perspectives.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Holocaust in American Life. By PETER NOVICK. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Numbering in the millions, the victims died as the consequence of a deliberate state policy rather than as subjects of the caprice of nature or as the...

Searching For Dora Bruder.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Dora Bruder. By PATRICK MODIANO. Translated by JOANNA KILMARTIN. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1999. As the generation that lived through the Shoah nears its end, the need to document the losses becomes ever more urgent. The...

Felix Nussbaum and the Art of Resistance.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Felix Nussbaum: Art Defamed, Art in Exile, Art in Resistance. KARL GEORG EASTER, ed. Translated by EILEEN MARTIN. Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press. 1997. "Keep this safe--It's my whole life," C'est toute ma vie, Charlotte Salomon said,...

The Last Great Yiddish Novel?(Review)
September 22, 2000... Bociany and Of Lodz and Love. By CHAVA ROSENFARB, translated by the author. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000. Bociany and Of Lodz and Love are two linked novels that together recreate the life and times of Polish Jewry in a shtetl...

Communications.
September 22, 2000... DEAR EDITOR: As a long-time member of the American Jewish Congress, and one who knew Rabbi Stephen Wise quite well (my wife and I were both delegates of the World Jewish Congress Meeting in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1948, at which time I...