December 2001

Volume XXXXVII No. 8

2 The Demise of the Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission • Robert S. Wistrich 5 Jews, Blacks, and the Roots of Racism • David Brion Davis MEMOIR 8 Remembering Mr. Eastmond • Bernard Werner TOPIC 10 Jews from Arab Lands • Daniel Mandel 14 Varieties of Alienation • Nissim Rejwan ISRAEL 16 Zionism and the Environment • Manfred Gerstenfeld LITERARY ESSAY 20 Creative Freedom and the Party Line: The Case of Dovid Bergelson • Joseph Sherman FICTION 24 Hershl Toker • Dovid Bergelson RELIGION 30 Challenging Lubavitch’s New Messianic Claims • Lippman Bodoff 35 Chanukah, a Common Heritage • Michael A. Zimmerman POETRY 4 Tunis • Richard H. Fox 7 Leah at the New Moon • Lou Barrett 9 Anomalies • Barbara Schweitzer 19 The Apple of Your Mother’s Eye • Michael S. Glaser 23 Unripe Fruit • Leo Haber 34 Ruth the Moabite Speaks • Yala Korwin 38 Tzimtzum • Morton Manilla 44 Hobbled • Sandy Supowit BOOKS AND AUTHORS 39 Home Lands: Portraits of The New Jewish Diaspora, by Larry Tye • Gilbert S. Rosenthal 41 Fundamental Rights: History of a Constitutional Doctrine, by Milton R. Konvitz • Melvin I. Urofsky 43 Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems, by Bernard Lewis • Arnold Ages LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 45 Edward Alexander, Evan Winer, Alan Kohn, Phyllis Rosenhaft INDEX 46 Midstream Index 2001—Volume XXXXVII