February/March 2004

Volume L No. 2

THE NEW AND THE OLD ANTISEMITISM: 2 The Brownshirts of Our Time • Phyllis Chesler 5 The Warped Case for Jew-Hatred: Martin Jay “Explains” how Jews cause Antisemitism • Edward Alexander 9 Much Ado About Nothing? The Academic Boycott of Israel Down Under • Philip Mendes 14 “Christ-Killer” — The Long Shadow of a Blood Libel • Harold Brackman 21 Fighting Antisemitism • Robert S. Wistrich ARTICLE 24 Democracy as a Panacea • Mordecai Roshwald PURIM ESSAY 27 Manger and Megile: A Yiddish Folk Bard Takes on the Book of Esther • Jeremy Dauber 32 Esther, Haman, and History • Mayer Abramowitz FICTION 34 Madame Guralnik • Edith Pearlman REVIEW ESSAY 38 Yehoshua Kenaz’s Army Novel: A Time for Celebration • Daniel Grossberg 40 The New Left and Its New Antisemitism • George Jochnowitz POETRY 8 A Psalm to David, to David a Psalm • Stephen Bluestone 13 Once-Raging River • Yehuda Khaver 23 Abram and Sarai (Genesis 12-17) • Charles Fishman 26 Parallel Lines Never Meet • I. Century 31 The Red Cord • Lou Barrett 33 Off Dizengoff Square, 15 Adar 5751 • Ben-David Seligman 37 Rabbi Joseph Spector • Robert Donald Spector 45 Villanelle: The Rebbe’s Wisdom • Jehanne Dubrow BOOKS AND AUTHORS 42 The Return of Anti-Semitism, by Gabriel Schoenfeld • Jack Fischel 44 Racism: A Short History, by George Fredrickson • Gilbert S. Rosenthal LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 46 Mark Bernheim, Josef Meshorer, Carol Lipson