July/August 2003

Volume XXXXIX No. 5

ISRAEL 2 Spanish-Jewish Reconciliation: Israel’s 38-year Struggle to Establish Diplomatic Relations with Spain • Norman Berdichevsky ESSAY 7 Ladino Lives • George Jochnowitz LADINO AND YIDDISH POETRY 9 Una Kantiga Por Tesabeav (A Song For Tisha B’Av) • Rebecca Scherer 9 Es Razon De Alavar (It Is fitting To Praise) • Rebecca Scherer 10 Lomir Zikh Tsekrign! (Let’s Have A Quarrel!) • Troim Katz Handler 11 About Isaac Bashevis Singer (Veygn Yitskhok Basheyvis Zinger) • Leo Haber ARTS AND LETTERS 12 Sephardic Song • Judith R. Cohen 17 Choosing to be Chosen: The Jewish Literary Imagination in America • Carole S. Kessner 22 Stories with a Vocation: An Appreciation of Ayzik-Meir Dik • Joseph Sherman FICTION 27 Two Tales About Dreams • Ayzik Meir Dik REVIEW ESSAY 29 Yehuda Halevi and the Poetry of the Judeo-Arabic Age • Raymond P. Scheindlin 32 Jews and Latinos — Exploring Common History and Culture • Dana Evan Kaplan 36 Going Out on a Limb: Joha • Jane Mushabac MEMOIR 39 How Queen Victoria Caused A Scandal In Vapnyarka • Bettyanne Gray 41 Ritual and Remembrance • Diane Cole 43 Hakhmatova • Jacob Spivack POETRY 6 Minha Querida • Ada Jill Schneider 21 A Word or Two (Pantoum) • Yala Korwin 26 Yiddish: A Word Sonnet • Seymour Mayne 28 Jewish Lesson • I. Century 35 Scrimshaw • Ada Jill Schneider 38 Your Grandmother’s Gevalt! • Henry M. Seiden 40 My Greenhorn • Lou Barrett 45 Cemetery Visit (Villanelle) • Harris Gardner 45 The Jewish Cemetery • Amy Farranto BOOKS AND AUTHORS 46 Heretics or Daughters of Israel? The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile, by Ren้e Levine Melammed • Randall C. Belinfante