(Reviewer: Chuck Volpe, Vol. 65, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2010) Anthony Julius first entered the public arena as Princess Diana’s lawyer, testimony in itself to his professional acumen and his ability to transcend royal social constraints. But it was his representation of Deborah Lipstadt
(Reviewer: Gary Selikow, Vol. 65, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2010) In this book Jamie Glazov, managing editor of Front Page magazine, deals with the strong support for totalitarian states and terrorist organizations by left wing radicals from the 1920s until today. The author would
(Author: Charlotte Cohen, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2010) Each Jewish festival seems to give expression to a particular aspect of human experience. As Rosh Hashanah deals with renewal and rebirth, and Yom Kippur with remorse and remission, so the underlying message of Passover is one
(Author: Mike Berger, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2010) I make no demands that others share this vision, though I know that it is widely shared, only that they desist from actively working for its demise. My ethnic identity must also share emotional and intellectual
(Author: Saul Issroff, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2010) Sarah Glueck acquired world-wide prominence during the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902. At the time, she was employed as the postmistress in the village of Lady Grey in the Cape Province, near the Lesotho border. She defied an
(Author: Simon Berg, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2010) One of the most significant outcomes of Dead Sea Scrolls research over a period of approximately forty years was that many of the biblical scrolls that were found differed in content, length and wording from
(Reviewer: David Saks, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2010) The young Lorna Borkum, only child of a middle class, liberal-leaning Johannesburg Jewish couple, grew up with a keen sense of the injustices that were being inflicted on black South Africans. As a university student in
(Reviewer: Estelle Sher, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2010) Leo Zeitlin – Chamber Music is an informative, fascinating and superbly detailed study of Leo Zeitlin (1884-1930), a superbly talented composer, arranger, violinist, violist, conductor, impresario and teacher. It not only gives us the story of
Azila, Suzanne Belling, Charlotte Cohen, Ben Krengel, John Yarbrough On a best friend’s aliyah You did not leave our world Forever But for good. Not our own, not our love, But the altruism of ascent. Climbing From the sandpit, Where we made castles on the
(Author: Cedric Ginsberg, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2010) It is now almost a year since the untimely passing of Joseph Sherman, scholar, translator, lover of Yiddish, raconteur. In 2001, he left South Africa to take up the position of Woolf Corob Professor of Yiddish