July/August — 2007

Volume LIII No. 4

ISRAEL 2 Report from Israel: The Sacred and the Profane in One Small Space • Erel Shalit INTERVIEW 5 Oriana Fallaci: Writer and Fighter Historic Interviews with Golda Meir and Sharon Inter Alia • Yonatan Silverman YIDDISH CULTURE: LANGUAGE 9 From Yiddish to English: The Humor of It All • Kenneth Libo YIDDISH CULTURE: LITERATURE 12 A Genealogy of Yiddish Women Writers • Faith Jones 16 Naturalism and Itsik Meir Weissenberg (1878-1938) • Joseph Sherman YIDDISH CULTURE: FICTION 17 A Debt (Translated from the Yiddish by Joseph Sherman) • I.M. Weissenberg 23 A Farloyrene Mamelooshn (A Lost Mother Tongue) • Leo Haber YIDDISH CULTURE: MEMOIR 26 The City of Volochisk (Translated from the Yiddish by Harold Spivack) • Jacob Spivack YIDDISH CULTURE: BOOKS AND AUTHORS 29 The Yiddish Kvetch: Relating Language to Culture (On Michael Wex’s Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods) • George Jochnowitz 31 The Three Tamen of Chelm: Cousins of the Three Stooges? (On Leo Shatin’s Simple Wisdom; Modern Tales From Chelm) • Jack Fischel RELIGION AND HISTORY 33 Psalm 137—The Babylonian Exile: Pieces of the Puzzle • Philip Stern 37 Tisha B’Av Meditation: Bar Kokhba: Rebel Hero or Failed Messiah? • Eli Kavon MUSIC: THREE JEWISH DIASPORA CULTURES 39 Three Jewish Composers: An Ashkenazic, Sephardic, and Provençal Trio • Cecil Bloom LADINO POETRY, YIDDISH AND HEBREW-RELATED POETRY 15 On the Sea • Stephen Bluestone 25 And Music • Yehuda Khaver 28 The Bronx (Translated from the Yiddish by Nomi Zuckerman) • Israel Jacob Schwartz 30 Words • Morris Moskowitz 32 Oy • Jehanne Dubrow 36 Syempre Tus Murayas Estan Delantre De Mi: (Your Walls Are Continually Before Me) • Rebecca Scherer 47 Noah’s Wife • Yakov Azriel ESSAY 46 The “Pui” Factor • Ferida Wolff