May/June — 2006

Volume LII No. 3

ARTICLE 2 The New Anti Zionism and the Old Antisemitism: Transformations • Raphael Jospe ISRAEL 10 The 17th Knesset Elections, 2006 • Jonathan Spyer 14 Did It Really Hang on One Vote? The Resolution Establishing the State of Israel • Ariel Feldestein 18 Double Standard Against Terrorism • Arthur Cohn MEMOIR 20 Shavuot in Baghdad 1941 (The Farhod) • Heskel M. Haddad/Phyllis Rosenteur ARTS AND LETTERS: HEBREW POETS 26 Thoughts on an Untranslatable Hebrew Poem In Memory of Reuven Ben-Yosef • Esther Cameron 29 Ana B’Kho’ah In Memory of the Poet Amir Gilbo’a • Elisha Porat POETRY 19 Aaron At Sinai • Leo Haber 25 The First Shavuos • Barbara Hantman 28 In The Israel Museum (translated from the Hebrew by Yehudit Ben-Yosef) • Reuven Ben-Yosef 30 The Young Students (translated from the Hebrew by Cindy Eisner) • Elisha Porat 35 Amen • Liz Rosenberg 41 A Song of Sorrow (translated freely from the Hebrew by Leo Haber) • Rachel 45 Upon My Passing [Acharei Moti] (translated from the Hebrew by Leo Haber) • Chaim Nachman Bialik REVIEW ESSAY: FILM 31 Much Ado About Munich • Herta Newman REVIEW ESSAY: NOVEL 33 Winter of Our Disconnect • Joel Streicker REVIEW ESSAY: MEMOIR 36 Is the World Too Much With Us? • Arthur Sainer REVIEW ESSAY: THEATER 39 Yehoshua Sobol: A Theater in the Prophetic Mode • Joseph Lowin FICTION 42 The Easel • Dalia Rosenfeld BOOKS AND AUTHORS 44 Hayyim Nahman Bialik: The “National Hebrew Poet” • Daniel Grossberg 46 Jabotinsky and the Jewish Right Wing • Henry Delfiner