Spring — 2010 Volume LVI No. 2 JEWISH HISTORY 2 From Charlemagne to Charles de Gaulle: The Fateful Shaping Force of Jew Hatred on French Jewry—Part I • Samuel M. Ehrenhalt ISRAEL 11 Hayyim Nachman Bialik’s 1909 visit to the Land of Israel and its Chronicler Ya’akov Ya’ari Poleskin • Yonatan Silverman 15 The Miraculous Revival of Hebrew It Couldn’t Happen—But It Did! • George Jochnowitz ZIONISM 19 Sir Mark Sykes: A Convert to Zion • Cecil Bloom 23 Zionism in Black and White—Part II: 1948-2010 • Harold Brackman SHOAH 29 My Cousin Primo Levi: A Personal Portrait • Andrew Viterbi 31 Untangling John Demjanjuk • Mark Kaufman AMERICAN JEWISH LIFE: ARTS & LETTERS 35 Remembering Leon Uris • Jack Fischel BIBLICAL TEXTS 38 An Analysis of the Two Versions of the Ten Commandments • Samuel A. Weiss POETRY 18 Eliezer Ben-Yehuda in Jerusalem • Leo Haber 37 We Fled... • Yala Korwin 41 Bubbe is Gone • Sandra K. Strauss 45 A Legacy • Charles Adés Fishman FICTION 42 Jedem das Seine • Matthew Hupert BOOK REVIEW 46 Passover in the Animal World for Children—and Yiddish Too! (a review of a book by Leslie Kimmelman) • Yehudit Freund