Midstream- A Monthly Jewish Review



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