Spring — 2011 Volume LVII No. 2 SHOAH 2 Transferring Memory: The Task of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors • Menachem Rosensaft ISRAEL, THE JEWS, AND THE MIDDLE EAST 8 The “Arab Spring”: Democratic Promise or Threat? • Eric Rozenman 12 The War Against the Jews Goes On • Edward I. Koch 14 The 1941 Farhud (pogrom) and the Ethnic Cleansing of Jews from the Modern Iraq • Philip Mendes 17 A Light Unto the Nations—And two nice ladies at a felafel stand • Ralph Dobrin ZIONISM AND ANTI-ZIONISM 20 Franz Kafka’s Zionism • Cecil Bloom 24 Ben-Gurion, the Klausenberger Rebbe, and the Year I Left Torah Vodaath • Philip Fishman REVIEW ESSAY 30 Music and Reconciliation: Gilbert Levine, a Jewish Conductor—and the Pope • George Jochnowitz BIBLICAL HISTORY 32 Political Power and the Prophet: Ahab, Elijah, and Naboth’s Vineyard • Eli Kavon POETRY 7 Motek • Charles Adés Fishman 11 About Poetry • Sherry Horowitz 13 Triangle Fire • Lou Barrett 16 For Freedom’s Sake • Israel Zoberman 23 Midnight in Budapest • Breindel Lieba Kasher 29 What Job Might Have Said • Joe Freeman 42 The Unanswered Prayer Then and Now • Leo Haber FICTION 38 Friends • Gloria Goldreich BOOK REVIEWS 43 David Grossman’s Long March (a review of a novel by David Grossman) • Ira Gold 45 Ashamed Jews: The Finkler Question (a review of a novel by Howard Jacobson) • Edward Alexander