November/December — 2007

Volume LIII No. 6

SHOAH 2 Remembrance of Kristallnacht; Shared Heritage • Kalman Sultanik ISRAEL AND ZIONISM 5 Hanukkah: The Maccabees in the Zionist Imagination • Eli Kavon 8 Fulfilling Theodor Herzl’s Last Will and Testament • Ariel Feldestein 15 Judaism and Zionism • Robert Goldenberg ARTICLE 18 “Is It 1938 Again?” A View of the Queens College, CUNY, Conference • Abigail Rosenthal MEMOIR 24 The Death March to Buchenwald • John Ranz ARTS & LETTERS 29 “The Shekhinah Rose Where a People Died” Indian Poet Dom Moraes on Israel and Jewish History • Shalom Goldman REVIEW ESSAY 35 Two Notable American-Jewish Poets (a review of poetry books by Charles Fishman and Lou Barrett) • Ada Jill Schneider FICTION 37 The Minyan • Ivan Prashker POETRY 7 Let There Be Light • Dina Yehuda 23 For Ilan Halimi • Charles Fishman 34 About Jackie Mason • Leo Haber 40 Wednesday, November 9, 1938, Berlin • Michael H. Levin BOOKS AND AUTHORS 41 Genre and Genocide (a review of a book by Ephraim Sicher) • Haim Chertok 43 “Lost” Victims of the Holocaust (a review of a book by Daniel Mendelsohn) • Jack Fischel INDEX 45 Midstream Index 2007 — Volume LIII