May/June — 2007

Volume LIII No. 3

ESSAYS IN HONOR OF ISRAEL’S 59th YEAR OF INDEPENDENCE 02 Some Basic Issues of the Zionist/Post-Zionist Controversy • Yoav Gelber 09 A Short History of the Secret Hashemite-Zionist Talks: 1921-1951 • Ronen Yitzhak ARTICLE 13 The Jews as the West’s Canary • Henry Delfiner ISRAEL 15 Talpiot’s Tels and Turrets: A Look At My Old Neighborhood • Michael Zimmerman 21 Stephen Theodore Norman—The Last Descendant of Theodor Herzl • Jerry Klinger 25 Intersection: Of Hearts, Minds, Pedestrians, and a Finger • Hal Klopper 29 My “Jerusalem Syndrome” (Translated from the Hebrew by Zehava Lerech) • Elisha Porat ARTS AND LETTERS 31 Abba Kovner: Music is the Meaning (Translated from the Hebrew by Alan Sacks and Shirley Kaufman) • Elisha Porat 32 Yudl Rosenberg: Rabbi and Writer of Hebrew Fiction • Curt Leviant FICTION 32 The Wondrous and Famous Story Known as “The Daughter’s Misfortune” (Translated from the Hebrew by Curt Leviant) • Yudl Rosenberg 39 Restaurant Budapest • Ruth Glick REVIEW ESSAY 43 Maimon Agonistes (On Menachem Kellner’s Maimonides’ Confrontation with Mysticism) • Haim Chertok 46 An Israeli and a Canadian Poet: Nuggets of Jewish Sensibility (On books of poetry by Yakov Azriel and Seymour Mayne) • Ada Jill Schneider POETRY FROM ISRAEL 12 The Promised Land • Dina Yehuda 24 Three Colors (Translated from the Hebrew by Seymour Mayne) • Elisha Porat 28 Tzelophchad and His Daughters • Yakov Azriel 42 I Came to Join the Women • Rochelle Mass