Midstream- A Monthly Jewish Review

Summer — 2011 Volume LVII No. 3

EDITORIAL: MEMOIR

2 Online Feature:The Tenth Anniversary of 9/11 • Leo Haber

ARTS & LETTERS: SHOAH, YIDDISH, LADINO, HEBREW

6 Online Feature:Anne Frank: Tragedy and Triumph • Jeffrey Meyers

10 Online Feature:A Biographical Note and an Unpublished Interview with Chaim Grade • Curt Leviant

15 The Story of Ladino: From Roots to Branches • Judith Roumani

20 Israeli Films Celebrate Israeli Novels • Ira Gold

ISRAEL AND ZIONISM

23 The Continuing War Against the Jews • Edward I. Koch

25 The Question of Israel’s Foreign Workers • Ralph Sanders

30 An Old Trail, in the Hebron Hills—Exploring The Land of Israel • Michael Zimmerman

32 Why I Am A Zionist • Robert Wolfe

POETRY

5 Erev New Year’s • Marge Piercy

19 Este Modo Es / That’s the Way it Is • Rebecca Scherer

22 The Last Kaddish • Leo Haber

24 Connections • Melvin Wilk

35 Rambam’s First Lament • Henry Rasof

35 Rambam’s Second Lament • Henry Rasof

42 Zikoren • Moshe Morris

45 Crucified Nation • Yehuda Khaver

47 Kimchi • I. Century

FICTION

36 The Rabbi’s Progress • Todd Pitock

BOOK REVIEWS

43 Philip Roth’s New Novel: Newark and its Jews Revisited • Joel Streicker

46 Shoshana

(a review of an autobiography by Shoshana Cardin ) • George Jochnowitz