July/August—2005

Volume LI No. 4

BOOK EXCERPT 2 The Eye of the Storm in the Middle East • Haim Harari 6 An American Heroine and the Exodus of the Ethiopian Jews • Stephen Spector ARTICLE 12 Judeo-Provençal? Yes, Judeo-Provençal • George Jochnowitz ISRAEL 15 Mencken in Palestine • Matt Nesvisky 18 France and the Jewish Heritage in Jerusalem • Elliot A. Green MEMOIR 22 David Bar-Ilan (1930-2003), z”l • Philip E. Miller YIDDISH AND LADINO POETRY 24 In The Book of the Pious — In Seyfer-Khasidim • Troim Katz Handler 24 A Summer Night’s Dream — Suenyo de Medianoche de Enverano • Rebecca Scherer POETRY 5 The Paperweight • John Felstiner 11 Torquemada to the Marranos • Stephen Bluestone 14 Ladino Concert at Spoleto • Davi Walders 17 Granddaughter • Alicia Ostriker 23 That Language • Cherryl Smith 26 The Son of Prophets • Eli Kavon 32 Sometimes I Dream in Yiddish • J. J. Steinfeld 40 At the Bris of My Grandson • Sanford Pinsker 44 When the Messiah Comes • Joel Moskowitz REVIEW ESSAY 25 Aaron Lansky and Saving Yiddish • Howard I. Aronson 27 Sholem Asch Finally Reconsidered • Jeremy A. Dauber ARTS AND LETTERS 29 Canada’s Mordecai Richler and Zionism: “A Man Without Land is Nobody” • Josh Lambert 33 Der Nister and Symbolism in Yiddish Literature • Joseph Sherman FICTION 36 Moral Instruction (Translated from the Yiddish by Joseph Sherman) • Der Nister 41 Pasha: Ruminations of David Aroughetti (Translated from the Ladino by S. M.) • S. Manot BOOK REVIEW 45 Dr. Lowin on the Wonders of Hebrew • Howard Marblestone 47 Seymour Mayne’s Word Sonnets • Ada Jill Schneider