November/December 2003

Volume XXXXIX No. 7

EDITORIAL 2 Milton R. Konvitz, z”l • Leo Haber SPEECH: Two speeches given at Auschwitz, June 23-24, 2003 4 Auschwitz Must Be Preserved • Michael Berenbaum 6 Auschwitz-Birkenau: A Sacred Zone of Inviolability • Kalman Sultanik ESSAY 9 On Being Back: A Ludwigshafen Journal • Herta Newman TOPIC 13 The Jews of Italy • George Jochnowitz 16 Judaism and Islam in Yemen: A Case Study in Historical and Cultural Interaction • Ephraim Isaac 19 Reflections on a South African Tragedy: The “Lynching” of Percy Yutar • David Saks MEMOIR 21 How I Failed My Motherland: A Memoir • Emil A. Draitser FICTION 25 The Deathwatcher • Carol Lipson REVIEW ESSAY 28 Some of the Best Jewish Writing of Last Year • Arnold Ages 31 The Holocaust at Fifty: Old and New Questions • Paul B. Miller POETRY 8 Feine Linnen (Kristallnacht Day, 2000) • Michael H. Levin 12 Letter “A” in a Twentieth-Century Glossary • Yehuda Khaver 15 Hallowed Hanukkiyyah • Barbara Hantman 20 A Little Poverty • Liz Rosenberg 27 Lekh Lekha (Genesis, 12-17) • Esther Cameron 30 Confession • Sharon Jo Portnoff 33 Changing Seasons (Kristallnacht November 9, 1938) • Lou Barrett 36 You Walked In Nineveh • Charles Fishman 44 Teacher’s View • Rena Lee BOOKS AND AUTHORS 34 It Takes A Dream: The Story of Hadassah, by Marlin Levin; abridged by Esther Kustanowitz • Gloria Goldreich 37 For Solo Violin: A Jewish Childhood in Fascist Italy, by Aldo Zargani, translated by Marina Harrs • Yala Korwin 39 Port Jews: Jewish Communities in Cosmopolitan Maritime Trading Centers, 1550-1950, edited by David Cesarani • Haim Chertok 41 Our Legacy: The CIS Synagogues, Past and Present, by Michael Beizer • Donna Wosk LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 43 Rabbi Howard A. Cohen, Daniel Gordis, Heskel M. Haddad, M.D., Leonard Applebaum, Bernard Arshenovitz 45 MIDSTREAM INDEX 2003 — VOLUME XXXX1X