Summer — 2010 Volume LVI No. 3 ZIONISM 2 A Concise History of the Zionist Congress from 1897 to 2006 • Cecil Bloom ISRAEL: CURRENT ISSUES 7 Building in Jerusalem: Myths and Realities • Shalom Freedman 10 On Hebron: History and Ideology (A review essay on a book by Jerold Auerbach) • Arnold Ages ISRAEL: YISHUV HISTORY 12 Orde Wingate: Famed Teacher of the Israeli Military • Ralph Sanders JEWISH HISTORY 15 From Charlemagne to Charles de Gaulle: The Fateful Shaping Force of Jew Hatred on French Jewry—Part II • Samuel M. Ehrenhalt SHOAH 20 Return to Prague: The Presence of the Past • Robert Melson JUDAISM 25 Judaism’s Pursuit of Justice • Gilbert S. Rosenthal MIDRASH 31 Abraham’s Failed Test • Curt Leviant GREAT JEWISH TEXTS 33 To Speak or not to Speak—Muteness/Silence in Biblical, Hasidic, Yiddish, Holocaust, and Hebrew Literature • Harriet L. Parmet FICTION 38 The Bargain • Leo Haber POETRY 9 A Ladino Poem: Rodeos De Mundo • Rebecca Scherer 30 (English Version): Not What You Expected • Rebecca Scherer 47 Kiddush in Sonnetry with Shmuel Hanagid and Hillel Halkin • Yehuda Khaver BOOK REVIEW 44 Yehuda Halevi, Premier Poet and “Zionist” in a Not-So Golden Age (a review of a book by Hillel Halkin) • Edward Alexander 46 Anne Frank Reconsidered (a review of a book by Francine Prose) • Gabriel Motola