Midstream- A Monthly Jewish Review

May/June 2001 Volume XXXXVII No. 4
editorÕs note Leo Haber
ARTICLE
Online Feature: What Went Wrong With Oslo? Dan Margalit
ÒStrategic BalanceÓ in the Middle East: An Injurious Concept Louis RenŽ Beres
ESSAY
A Jew in Rome: Christian Antisemitism and the Holocaust (Part 2) Richard S. Ellis
MEMOIR
Warum Varon? Benno Weiser Varon
One Passover in Odessa: A Memoir Emil A. Draitser
RELIGION
Keeping the Torah Before Sinai David Saks
MIDRASH
Blended Families: Sympathizing with Sarah David J. Zucker
TOPIC: TWO VIEWS ON FREUD
FreudÕs Hypothesis that the Jews Killed Moses Robert L. Lippman
Freud and the ÒMurderÓ of Moses Philip Stern
ISRAEL
The War of Attrition David Rodman
The Best Response Rebecca Sugar
ARTS AND LETTERS
An Interview with Naomi Ragen Jenny Weil
The Merchant of Venice and ShylockÕs ÒChristian ProblemÓ Jack D. Spiro
FICTION
Smart in Everything Marcia Slatkin
POETRY
Confluence David E. Blum
Peninnah Janet Ruth Heller
Dad, The Psychiatrist Harris B. Gardner
Me as Ken Been
Cain Jeff Friedman
Untitled Miriam Chaikin
This, My Incarnation Alyssa A. Lappen
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
The Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Islam for Jews, by Khalid Dur‡n Nissim Rejwan
Are We One? Jewish Identity in the United States and Israel, by Jerold S. Auerbach Edward Alexander
Diary of an Adulterous Woman: Including an ABC Directory that offers alphabetical tidbits and surprises, by Curt Leviant Doris Zames Fleischer
The Guilds of Ottoman Jerusalem, by Amnon Cohen N.B. Argaman
Bruno Walter: A World Elsewhere, by Erik Ryding and Rebecca Pechefsky George Jochnowitz
StalinÕs Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, edited with an introduction by Joshua Rubenstein and Vladimir P. Naumov Arnold Ages
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Eugene J. Fisher, Edwin M. Ellman, William Nicholls