September/October — 2008 Volume LIV No. 5 ISRAEL AT SIXTY 2 Reminiscences and Reflections: Part Three Harold Brackman (Marian Anderson), David Saks, Kenneth Libo 5 On the Old and the New Antisemitism in the 60th Year of Israel’s Independence • Tzipi Livni 7 The Forgotten Oppression of Jews Under Islam and in the Land of Israel • Elliott Green 12 An American Novelist in Israel: It Has Come To Pass, by James T. Farrell • Marek Breiger AMERICAN HISTORY: SOME JEWISH CONTRIBUTIONS 15 Emma Lazarus: Mother of Exiles • Harriet L. Parmet 20 The Dybbuk and George Gershwin • Cecil Bloom 23 Sergeant Cohen’s War: A Memoir of Victory, Liberation, and Loss • Eli Kavon REVIEW ESSAY 26 Saving the Jews of the Soviet Union (a review of a book by Henry Feingold) • Peter Golden 29 The History of Jews and Baseball (a review of a book by Burton A. Boxerman) • Jack Fischel FICTION 31 Bridges — Part I: David is Waiting at the Bridge • Leo Haber POETRY 14 When I Learned What it Meant • Marge Piercy 22 White Iris • Charles Adés Fishman 25 Sandy Koufax, Baseball’s Jewish Star • Leo Haber 28 Saturday Morning in Las Cruces • Sandra Eisdorfer 42 Lifting the Torah • Steven Sher 45 Leaping is Permitted on Shabbos • I. Century BOOKS AND AUTHORS 43 A Portrait of the Zionist Dream (a review of a book by S. Yizhar) • Joel Streicker 46 New (but Not Improved) Face of Antisemitism (a review of a book by Walter Laqueur) • Eugene Veklerov