Judaism articles from September 2002

Judaism archives from September 2002

Antisemitism, anti-Israelism, anti-Americanism.
September 22, 2002... IF HISTORY IS OUR TEACHER, WE CAN EXPECT THAT THE pain of events emanating from Iraq and the Middle East will increasingly be laid at the feet of Israel. That dangerous game has renewed an old debate: which comes first, hatred of Jews or hatred...

Reclaiming the postmodern Jew.
September 22, 2002... What Is at Stake for Postmodern Jewry? Modernity lost its supremacy as our societal ideology in the latter period of the twentieth century. Begun with the Scientific Revolution, propounded in the Enlightenment, and finally enthroned on the...

R. Abraham Saba of Spain, in Portugal, 1407. .(Poem)
September 22, 2002... R. Abraham Saba of Spain, in Portugal, 1407 Now Portugal too has changed. In Guimares, the town crier said all books and phylacteries must be turned over at the Lisbon synagogue on pain of death. ...

After the Night Train. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 2002... After the Night Train You slept all day in the hotel with fever and chills. The sun's dark coin balanced on my eyes. In the old quarter, past the synagogue-museum, the buildings resembled...

Heroic poetry and revolutionary prophecy: Russian symbolists translate the Hebrew poets.
September 22, 2002... To the memory of my father, Mordkho Nachtajler, who grew up in pre-war Lublin, Poland, loved the Hebrew poets passionately, and knew them by heart THE NATIONAL RE-AWAKENING PRODUCED BY THE MODERN Hebrew poetry of Bialik and Tchernikhovsky...

A journey through imagination and memory: my parents and I, between the cross and the star.(Column)
September 22, 2002... MY EARLIEST MEMORIES GO BACK TO ONE PARTICULAR scene: the balcony of our house in the Simon Bolivar neighborhood, one of the older areas of Santiago, in the Nunoa district with its flowering acacias, where the old aristocracy built its earliest...

Your Gods O Israel/bamidbar. .(Poem)
September 22, 2002... Your Gods O Israel/bamidbar Moses on high, his people having danced the dance of wanting to see the god who led them out into the harsh, odd, bright, fearful fatherless, motherless, child forsaking waste-- called...

Farewell to the Jews. .(Poem)
September 22, 2002... Farewell to the Jews Saying goodbye is no easier than unsticking the shadow. If I walk ahead, it drags behind me. The sun is in my eyes. I have carried my part of history in my shoe, pebble sharper than a...

Under Wings. .(Poem)
September 22, 2002... Under Wings To find rest even now, even in this moment I can't wait for sabbath. It has to be now or nothing. To find rest because I need it, I would break glass with my heel. But on a Saturday morning ...

Midrash and the elaboration of Biblical meaning.
September 22, 2002... THE NARRATIVE IN THE BOOK OF KINGS THAT DESCRIBES Solomon's judgment in the case of the living baby claimed by two prostitutes is a midrashic comment on the division of the monarchy in ancient Israel--it can also be seen as a parable....

Stopping by the Inn. .(Poem)
September 22, 2002... Stopping by the Inn after Moses Ibn Ezra For some reason, the thought of stopping by To visit them suddenly came to me. I thought of the place as a wayside inn Where I could lie down, find temporary Peace for my...

The Jewish Angel.(Poem)
September 22, 2002... The Jewish Angel To have seen the place you're standing As if through a huge central eye The drafting tools beneath its gaze The assembled proof of work done At noisy various angles That has settled into silence...

Soloveitchik and Levinas: pathways to the other.(Biography)
September 22, 2002... EMMANUEL LEVINAS AND RABBI JOSEPH B. SOLOVEITCHIK, (1) among the greatest Jewish philosophers of the twentieth century, hailed from the same section of northern Europe, the Polish/Lithuanian Pale, then part of the Russian empire. Both stemmed...

Double diaspora: English writers in Israel.
September 22, 2002... THE ENGLISH WRITERS IN ISRAEL, LONG ISOLATED AND alienated from the creators of the flourishing Hebrew literature and developing Hebrew culture, responded to this situation in the past in one of five ways: They transferred to Hebrew (Reuven Ben...

The Venetian Ghetto and modern Jewish identity. (From All Their Habitations).
September 22, 2002... For my father A VISITOR TO THE JEWISH GHETTO OF VENICE WILL notice two markers--signs that confirm its identity. The first is the Holocaust memorial, composed of seven cast-bronze plates on a red brick wall surmounted by barbed wire. (It...

American Jewish theology. (Current Theological Writing).(Column)
September 22, 2002... AMERICA HAS REPRESENTED TO MANY GENERATIONS OF immigrants the possibility of freedom--freedom from oppression, both governmental and clerical, freedom to make one's decisions unhindered by others' laws or by the imposition of merely customary...

A New Hebrew Bible: the Aleppo Codex.(Keter Yerushalayim/Jerusalem Crown: The Bible of the Hebrew)(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Keter Yerushalayim/Jerusalem Crown: The Bible of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Jerusalem: N. Ben-Zvi Printing Enterprises Ltd., 2000. Companion Volume. Contributions by Menahem Ben-Sasson, Nahum Ben-Zvi, Mordechai Glatzer, Thomas J....

Literary Criticism as Anything But Literary Criticism.(Imagining Each Other: Blacks and Jews in Contemporary American Literature)(Facing Black and Jew: Literature as Public Space in Twentieth-Century America)(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Imagining Each Other: Blacks and Jews in Contemporary American Literature. By ETHAN GOFFMAN. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. Facing Black and Jew: Literature as Public Space in Twentieth-Century America. By ADAM ZACHARY...

Jewish Thought in a Century of Crisis.(Interim Judaism:Jewish Thought in a Century of Crisis)(Beyond Auschwitz: Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought in America)(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Interim Judaism:Jewish Thought in a Century of Crisis. By MICHAEL L. MORGAN. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. Beyond Auschwitz: Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought in America. By MICHAEL L. MORGAN. New York: Oxford University Press,...

Rescuing the History of Rescued Children.(Rescuing the Children: A Holocaust Memoir)(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Rescuing the Children: A Holocaust Memoir. By VIVETTE SAMUEL. Translation and Introduction by CHARLES B. PAUL. Foreword by ELIE WIESEL. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. It is a rare book in which the translator's own story...

The Finkelstein Phenomenon: Reflections on the Exploitation of Anti-Jewish Bigotry.(The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering)(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering. By NORMAN C. FINKELSTEIN. New York: Verso, 2001. Norman G. Finkelstein has emerged as the most popular Jew in the history of antisemitism. Celebrated by neo-Nazi...

Scouting.(The Scout explores human mortality)(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The Scout. By STEVEN PLAUT. Jerusalem/ New York: Gefen, 2002. Steven Plaut, professor of economics at Haifa University known to addicts of the internet as Israel's Jonathan Swift for his savage political satire, shines forth in The Scout as...

Communications.(Letter to the Editor)
September 22, 2002... DEAR EDITOR In an article entitled "The Engendered Shema: Sarah-Echoes in the Name of Israel" (Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought, Summer, 2000), Elizabeth Wyner Mark presented arguments in support of the hypothesis...