Midstream- A Monthly Jewish Review

November/December 2002 Volume XXXXVIII No. 7
ARTICLE
2 “For Your Freedom and Ours”:
A Polish Response to Israel-Bashing • Laurence Weinbaum
HISTORY
4 The Socialist International and the Rise of Yasir Arafat • Henry Delfiner
TOPIC
9 Kristallnacht • Vivian Jeanette Kaplan
12 A Brief Memoir of a House, Germany, and Prejudice by Jews • J. R. Goldberg
ESSAY
16 The Blessed Human Race • George Jochnowitz
18 Fears and Celebrations • Louis René Beres
20 Equality, Elitism, and Judaism • Mordecai Roshwald
22 Sigmund Freud Avoids His Double, Theodor Herzl • Robert L. Lippman
ARTS AND LETTERS
25 Celan, the Poet of Painful Yahrzeit • Marge Piercy

FICTION
28 The Man Who Strayed and The One Who Could Not See • Yehuda Yaari
POETRY
8 Yehuda ha-Maccabi • Yehuda Khaver
15 Self Image • Rena Lee
27 Crushed: Chapter One—A Prose Poem • Liz Rosenberg


BOOKS AND AUTHORS
37 Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws
and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military, by Bryan Mark Rigg • David Rodman
38 Reinterpreting Revelation and Tradition: Jews and Christians
in Conversation, eds. John T. Pawlikowski, Hayim Goren Perelmuter • Gilbert S. Rosenthal
39 Yiddish: A Nation of Words, by Miriam Weinstein • Jack Fischel
41 Jews and Medicine: An Epic Saga, by Frank Heynick • Steven G. Friedman
42 Divided Souls: Converts from Judaism in Germany 1500-1750,
by Elisheva Carlebach • Arnold Ages


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
44 Pierre Ferrand, Helen Freedman, Joel G. Magid, Allen Bodner, David N. Schwartz


45 MIDSTREAM INDEX 2002—VOLUME XXXXVIII