May/June—2005

Volume LI No. 3

GUEST EDITORIAL 2 Personal Reflections on Pope John Paul II • Arthur Schneier ISRAEL 4 Theodor Herzl: The Diaries Reconsidered • Ariel Feldestein 9 Criticizing Israel • Arthur Cohn SHOAH 11 Cadaver Worlds • William F. S. Miles 14 Watermarks: Hakoah Vienna on Film • Leonard Quart HONOR ROLL 15 Third List of Contributors to Midstream REVIEW ESSAY 16 Cynthia Ozick’s Glimmering World • Janet Burstein 20 Philip Roth’s Return in The Plot Against America • Herta Newman 23 Amos Oz’s Most Emotionally Rich Book • Shalom Freedman 26 Shulamith Hareven’s Peace Politics • Yael S. Feldman 31 Shulamith Hareven’s The Miracle Hater • Alicia Ostriker 35 Michael Chabon’s Manipulated Final Solution • Julia Braun Kessler 37 Zvi Ankori’s Zionist Tale • Steven Bowman 40 Zelda’s Poetry, Marcia Falk’s Translation • Ada Jill Schneider FICTION 42 Loyalties • Moshe Dann POETRY 3 Albert Einstein on the Violin • Leo Haber 8 In Netanya, Above the Cliff • Elisha Porat 10 Dust of Jerusalem • Charles Fishman 13 The Desert Generation • Yehuda Khaver 22 Only September • Davi Walders 30 The Tree of Life • Chayym Zeldis 39 To The Poet Shin Shalom • Reuven Ben-Yosef 41 The Problem With Language • Kate Friedberg 47 Song of Songs • Julia Watts Belser