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Midstream Index 2009 — Volume LV ISSUE PAGE Antisemitism and Zionism IMne moriam WISTRICH, ROBERT: Some _ Reflections on HABER, LEO: Rabbi Dr. Emanuel Rackman (1910- 2008),z7 7 1 24 Contemporary Antisemitism 4 18 HABER, LEO: Joseph Sherman z”7 2 17 Arts & Letters and Zionism Israel BLOOM, CECIL: Israel Zangwill(1864-1926): English BEN-MEIR, ALON: Obama's Peace Offensive 48 Novelist of the Ghetto and Early Zionist 4 25 CHERTOK, HAIM: Tel Aviv at 100: Forever Young 4 2 Biblical Text GILFIX, DAVIDJ .: What Really Happened in Gaza? 4 11 LEVIANT, CURT: Purim Shpiet A Literary Review of the Fabulous Megillat Esther 2 37 Israel at Sixty: A S osium in Jerusalem AUERBACH, JEROLD: Are Settlements Illegal? 24 Biblical Archeology BLOOM, CECIL: On Balfour and His Declaration 2 7 STERN, PHILIP: The Mesha Inscription and the Bible 2 40 CARNER, TALIA: The Maccabiah’s Ripple Effect 2 12 Book Review CHERTOK, HAIM: Facing Tomorrow 1 7 AGES, ARNOLD: Candide’s Naysayer in Lively Modern HADDAD, HESKEL M.: The First Chag Ha‘atzma’ut in Dress (a review of a book by George Jochnowitz) 1 39 Baghdad—May 14, 1948 22 BOWMAN, STEVEN: _ Blessed Memories; Cursed ROSENTEUR, PHYLLIS: The First Chag Ha‘atzma‘ut in Memories (a review of a book by Zvi Ankori) 3 45 Baghdad—May 14, 1948 22 FISCHEL, JACK: Politics Versus Religion (a review of a book by Michael Burleigh) 1 41 Israel And the Middle East JOCHNOWITZ, GEORGE: Old Left, New Left, MENDES, PHILIP: The Strange Phenomenon Secular Left (a review of ab ook by Lawrence Bush) 4 44 of Jewish Anti-Zionism: Is it a Contradiction in LEVIANT, CURT: Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Double-Sided Terms? The Australian Experience 3 10 Life (a review of ab ook by Florence Noiville) 3 43 PINSKER, DARREN: President Obama’s Cairo RIEMER, JACK: Revisionist Israeli Historian Surprises Speech and the Reset Button 3 2 Us (a review of a book by Benny Morris) 4 42 RALPH SANDERS: The Poison of History; The STREICKER, JOEL: Jewish American Immigrant Doctrines of “Jihad” and “Stages” 1 12 Fiction Continued: The Contemporary Russian Story SILVERMAN, YONATAN: How Israel Won the (a review of a book by Ellen Litman) 1 44 War Against the Suicide Bombers 3 5 Editorial SPECTOR, STEPHEN: “I Will Bless Those Who Bless You” 313 HABER,LEO: So Whom did Midstream Suppor: for President? Financial Meltdown; Terror in Mumbai; Gaza Rockets; Jewish Diaspora Cultures Changes at Midsteam and an Appeal to Readers 1 2 JOCHNOWITZ, GEORGE: Wrestling with God: Fear Fiction and Fearlessness in Jewish Languages 3 26 EPSTEIN, LAWRENCEJ .: Children of the Dust 3 40 ewish Diaspora Cultures: Yiddish GOLDREICH, GLORIA: Batya 2 29 PITOCK, TODD: Elegy for a Yiddish Scholar: Joseph HABER, LEO: Pres and the Jewish Pushkin 4 36 Sherman, z”/, 1944-2009 3 29 SUFFES, SUSAN: Look Away a Little Bit 1 36 Jewish Diaspora Cultures: Arts & Letters Honor Roll of Contributors DOROT, RUTH: Artist and Magician: Marc Chagall and Honor Roll of Contributors to Midstream 2 28 Isaac Bashevis-Singer 3 34 Index Midstream — Fall 2009 Midstream Index 2009 — Volume LV ISSUE PAGE Antisemitism and Zionism IMne moriam WISTRICH, ROBERT: Some _ Reflections on HABER, LEO: Rabbi Dr. Emanuel Rackman (1910- 2008),z7 7 1 24 Contemporary Antisemitism 4 18 HABER, LEO: Joseph Sherman z”7 2 17 Arts & Letters and Zionism Israel BLOOM, CECIL: Israel Zangwill(1864-1926): English BEN-MEIR, ALON: Obama's Peace Offensive 48 Novelist of the Ghetto and Early Zionist 4 25 CHERTOK, HAIM: Tel Aviv at 100: Forever Young 4 2 Biblical Text GILFIX, DAVIDJ .: What Really Happened in Gaza? 4 11 LEVIANT, CURT: Purim Shpiet A Literary Review of the Fabulous Megillat Esther 2 37 Israel at Sixty: A S osium in Jerusalem AUERBACH, JEROLD: Are Settlements Illegal? 24 Biblical Archeology BLOOM, CECIL: On Balfour and His Declaration 2 7 STERN, PHILIP: The Mesha Inscription and the Bible 2 40 CARNER, TALIA: The Maccabiah’s Ripple Effect 2 12 Book Review CHERTOK, HAIM: Facing Tomorrow 1 7 AGES, ARNOLD: Candide’s Naysayer in Lively Modern HADDAD, HESKEL M.: The First Chag Ha‘atzma’ut in Dress (a review of a book by George Jochnowitz) 1 39 Baghdad—May 14, 1948 22 BOWMAN, STEVEN: _ Blessed Memories; Cursed ROSENTEUR, PHYLLIS: The First Chag Ha‘atzma‘ut in Memories (a review of a book by Zvi Ankori) 3 45 Baghdad—May 14, 1948 22 FISCHEL, JACK: Politics Versus Religion (a review of a book by Michael Burleigh) 1 41 Israel And the Middle East JOCHNOWITZ, GEORGE: Old Left, New Left, MENDES, PHILIP: The Strange Phenomenon Secular Left (a review of ab ook by Lawrence Bush) 4 44 of Jewish Anti-Zionism: Is it a Contradiction in LEVIANT, CURT: Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Double-Sided Terms? The Australian Experience 3 10 Life (a review of ab ook by Florence Noiville) 3 43 PINSKER, DARREN: President Obama’s Cairo RIEMER, JACK: Revisionist Israeli Historian Surprises Speech and the Reset Button 3 2 Us (a review of a book by Benny Morris) 4 42 RALPH SANDERS: The Poison of History; The STREICKER, JOEL: Jewish American Immigrant Doctrines of “Jihad” and “Stages” 1 12 Fiction Continued: The Contemporary Russian Story SILVERMAN, YONATAN: How Israel Won the (a review of a book by Ellen Litman) 1 44 War Against the Suicide Bombers 3 5 Editorial SPECTOR, STEPHEN: “I Will Bless Those Who Bless You” 313 HABER,LEO: So Whom did Midstream Suppor: for President? Financial Meltdown; Terror in Mumbai; Gaza Rockets; Jewish Diaspora Cultures Changes at Midsteam and an Appeal to Readers 1 2 JOCHNOWITZ, GEORGE: Wrestling with God: Fear Fiction and Fearlessness in Jewish Languages 3 26 EPSTEIN, LAWRENCEJ .: Children of the Dust 3 40 ewish Diaspora Cultures: Yiddish GOLDREICH, GLORIA: Batya 2 29 PITOCK, TODD: Elegy for a Yiddish Scholar: Joseph HABER, LEO: Pres and the Jewish Pushkin 4 36 Sherman, z”/, 1944-2009 3 29 SUFFES, SUSAN: Look Away a Little Bit 1 36 Jewish Diaspora Cultures: Arts & Letters Honor Roll of Contributors DOROT, RUTH: Artist and Magician: Marc Chagall and Honor Roll of Contributors to Midstream 2 28 Isaac Bashevis-Singer 3 34 Index Midstream — Fall 2009 ish Histo RUSKIN, STEFANIE: Questions 2 36 KAVON,ELI: Abraham Geiger and Abraham Isaac Kook: SCHERER, REBECCA: A Ladino Poem: La Kondja De Messianism’s Return to History 1 19 Sukkot (Sukkot Flower) 3 20 SUNGOLOWSKY, JOSEPH: Joseph Sinzheim, President of SCHERER, REBECCA: A Ladino Poem: Maase Avot Napoleon’s Sanhedrin and the First Chief Rabbi of France | 16 Siman Abanim (The Deeds of the Fathers are a Model for the Children) 3 44 Letters to the Editor STERN, SARAH: The Kotel Tunnels 39 Ed Colker, Charles S. Berdiansky, Tsvi Bisk, Rabbi Israel WALDERS, DAVI: Michelangelo’s Moses 3 47 Zoberman, Harold Ticktin, Stanley Nash, Phyllis WALKER, SUE: And Is It Still A Matter of Law? 4 20 Chesler, Norman Meyerson, Irina Shuchat 1 46 YEHUDA, DINA: Tree of Life 2 39 Laraine Fergenson, George Jochnowitz 2 47 ZOBERMAN, ISRAEL: Candles 4 35 Midrash Religion and Zionism KAPLAN, LOUIS: “Love Your Fellow as Yourself” 1 28 PIES, RONALD: Eschatological Protectionism: Saving Memoir Jews for the End of Days 4 21 ROSENTHAL, ABIGAIL: Tales of Rav Tsair 2 43 Review Essay Memoir: Jewish-American Experience MUSHABAC, JANE: A Remarkable First Novel: Who ALTER, ESTI: A Name is Born 4 35 Deserves to be the New Rosh Yeshiva? (a review of a novel by Marc Angel) 1 31 BAUMEL-SCHWARTZ, JUDY TYDOR: Jewish Memories ROSENTHAL, GILBERT: “The Catholic Church and of the Wild West 1958-1959 429 the Jewish People” (a review of a book edited by Philip Poetry Cunningham etal.) 1 33 BARRETT, LOU: Seder 22 1 Shoah BARRETT, LOU: Certitudes 4 34 GUTMANN, DAVID: The Flies Also Wish to Live — An BRESLER, KEN: Shabbat Soccer 1 45 “Aliyah Bet” Memoir 2 20 BRODSKY, LOUIS DANIEL: Tonight, You Sleep 1 40 KORWIN, YALA: The Righteous Gentile 2 18 JOCHNOWTIZ, COHEN, ELIAZ: Hear, O Lord 3 25 GEORGE: The Universality of ERNST, MYRON: Brooklyn: The Brighton Beach AntisemitisM 2 14 Subway Line, 1944 4 28 Shoah Arts & Letters FISHMAN, CHARLES ADES: A Gypsy Boy In Ravensbriick 111 FISHMAN, JACK: Wistrich on Germany, Austria, and the Jews 2 22 FISHMAN, CHARLES ADES: The Voyeurs 2 19 HABER, LEO: Felix Mendelssohn’s Father and Moses NEWMAN, HERTA: Gunter Grass’s Mea Culpa 1 26 Mendelssohn’s Son 2 11 NEWMAN, HERTA: Tova Reich, My Holocaust 2 24 HABER, LEO: Kaddish in Memory of Allen Ginsberg 3 42 QUART, LEONARD: Wajda, Samson and the Jews 2 26 KHAVER, YEHUDA: “A Hammer That Would Break Shoah: Theology Upa Stone” 34 JANOVSKY, PETER: Gifts from a Spiritual Ancestor: A KHAVER, YEHUDA: David Dying 4 43 Holocaust Memoir 3 21] LIEBERMAN, LEO: Shifrah and Puah 2 3 Shoah: Theology LIEBERMAN, LEO: Orpah 2 46 LIEBERMAN, LEO: Bathsheba 4 4] KAVON, ELI: A Tisha Be’Av Meditation: Jerusalem, Auschwitz, and Confronting the Covenant 3 18 NEUGEBORENJ,AY : Morning Prayer 1 15 NOVEMBER, YEHOSHUA: Climbing 1 6 Writers’ Guidelines PIERCY, MARGE: Drydock 3 33 Guidelines For Writers as of January 2009 1 25 Index Midstream — Fall 2009