July/August — 2006

Volume LII No. 4

ARTS AND LETTERS: YIDDISH 02 Isaac Bashevis Singer: an Unpublished Story • Faith Jones 05 Isaac Bashevis Singer: a Bibliography • Roberta Saltzman 07 “What balm for the heart...?” The Yiddish Poetry of David Fram (1903-1988) • Joseph Sherman 12 The Life and Poetry of Itzik Manger Revisited • Bettyanne Gray ARTICLE 16 Constructions of the Kielce Pogrom • Robert L. Cohn RELIGION AND HISTORY 22 A Tisha B’Av Meditation: Yohanan Ben Zakkai: Yavneh’s Lost Hero • Eli Kavon 24 On the Holiness of Jerusalem in Judaism and Islam • Yonatan Silverman MEMOIR 26 A European Chazan at an American Bar Mitzvah • Jacob Spivack CONTEMPORARY LADINO POETRY 28 Estas Son Las Leyes De Pureza I Enkonic • Rebecca Scherer 28 Es Ke Ay La Vida Despues Del Dezayuno? • Rebecca Scherer 29 El Trokamyento A la Memoria De Mi Padre, Ke Murio 3.27.1995: Ke Deskanse En Pas • Rebecca Scherer JEWISH DIASPORA CULTURES 30 Judeo-Italian, Primo Levi’s Grandmother Tongue • George Jochnowitz 33 Homero Aridjis’s Picaresque Novel: A Mexican Non-Jew Writes About Spain’s Expulsion of the Jews • Jane Mushabac MUSIC 36 The Jewish Music of Osvaldo Golijov • Curt Leviant POETRY 21 A Poem Without Rhymes (translated from the Yiddish by Nomi Zuckerman) • Israel Jacob Schwartz 25 A Kvitl • I. Century 27 Fifty Torah Scrolls (translated from the Yiddish by Nomi Zuckerman) • Israel Jacob Schwartz 32 On Listening to Golijov’s Yiddishbbuk • Si Wakesburg 35 Inheritance (translated from the Yiddish by Nomi Zuckerman) • Israel Jacob Schwartz FICTION 39 Bontche the Second • Leo Haber BOOKS AND AUTHORS 46 Medieval Life in a Modern Context • David Schonberg