Midstream- A Monthly Jewish Review

May/June 2003 Volume XXXXIX No. 4
ISRAEL
Two E-Mail Communications:
2 Take Off That Mask • Daniel Gordis
5 A Letter From Israel • Gary Ratner

7 Rabbi Elli Horovitz and Dinah Horovitz, z”l • Gerry Segal Teitelbaum
ARTICLE
9 On the “the” in “the Jews”:
or, From Grammar to Antisemitism • Berel Lang
12 The Jew of Malta and the New Face of Antisemitism in France • Tela C. Zasloff
16 German, Communist, and Philosemite:
The Remarkable Case of Paul Merker • Philip Mendes
HISTORY
19 “Un Momentito, Seρor”: The 20 Seconds That Made History • Julian Schvindlerman
23 Volunteers, Six-Days Plus • Michael A. Zimmerman
ARTS AND LETTERS
28 An Introduction to Modern Israeli Literature • Daniel Grossberg
32 Standing Guard Over Irving Howe:
or, Good Causes Attract Bad Advocates • Edward Alexander
FICTION
35 Finchley Cowboys • Mordechai Beck
POETRY
6 Shiv’ah • Rena Siegel Yechieli
8 Ruth • Martin Itzkowitz
11 Shabbos, Central Park • I. Century
15 Tailed Sonnet For A Jerusalem Alley Cat • Ben-David Seligman
18 His Words • Yala Korwin
27 Three Poems: Stone Snowy Mounds; The Fragrance of Mignonette;
A Short Farewell Letter • Elisha Porat
34 How To Call A Home Run • Shel Krakofsky
42 The Language of Loss • Madeleine Beckman
47 Before I Took Up This Journey • Joshua November

BOOKS AND AUTHORS
39 If a Place Can Make You Cry: Dispatches
from an Anxious State, by Daniel Gordis • Joel Streicker
41 Classical Liberalism & the Jewish Tradition, by Edward Alexander • Arnold Ages
43 One People, Two Worlds: A Reform Rabbi and an Orthodox Rabbi Explore the
Issues that Divide Them, by Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch & Rabbi Yosef Reinman • Mayer Abramowitz
45 In The Path of God: Islam and Political Power, by Daniel Pipes • Alyssa A. Lappen
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR