(Reviewer: David Saks, Vol. 66, No. 1, Pesach 2011) A controversy currently raging over apparent suggestions in a new biography of Gandhi that he and the German-Jewish architect Herman Kallenbach may have had a homosexual relationship lends an added dimension of interest to these
(Author: Naomi Musiker, Vol. 66, No. 1, Pesach 2011) A newspaper, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, is ‘a daily or weekly publication containing news and articles on current affairs’. This is as opposed to a periodical, which is a ‘magazine or newspaper
(Author: Don Krausz, Vol. 66, No. 1, Pesach 2011) Recently, I lost a close relative, an event that brought back memories of watching the demise of a woman in the Ravensbruck concentration camp (KZ). Ravensbruck, located some 80 km north of Berlin, was established
(Reviewer: David Saks, Vol. 66, No. 1, Pesach 2011) Currently nearing completion is a comprehensive new history of the Jewish community of South West Africa/Namibia. When it appears, hopefully later this year, one of those featuring in it will be the distinguished lawyer, historian
Israel Silberhaft, Peter Austin, Ben Krengel, Bev Moss-Riley Why we cry We cry for the lost moment The excruciating and the endless torment We hold the world in our hand But conventions we cannot bend We yield and bear and conform Dreading the
(Author: Mona Berman, Vol. 66, No. 1, Pesach 2011) The convoluted route through which I discovered the merit and quality of the Yiddish writings of my father, Richard Feldman, was through an article published by Yiddish scholar Astrid Starck in the Jewish Affairs 1995
(Author: Cedric Ginsberg, Vol. 66, No. 1, Pesach 2011) 1) Introductory Essay On a recent visit to Israel, I discovered two unusual Yiddish volumes in a second-hand bookstore in Jerusalem. These intrigued me because they had both been published in the former Soviet Union
(Reviewer: Arlene Segal, Vol. 66, No. 1, Pesach 2011) L’Afrique is a gem of a book that resonates with the mood of the 1960s. It captures the excitement of intuitive art explorations taking place in Johannesburg, at Wits, in studios and schools and in
(Author: Chuck Volpe, Vol. 66, No. 1, Pesach 2011) I wish to approach the matter of the delegitimisation of Israel in a slightly different way. Firstly, the metaphor of ‘a trial’ is an appropriate one to describe the structure of the delegitimisation project –
(Author: Bernard Katz, Vol. 66, No. 1, Pesach 2011) Already in the Talmud, there is a reference to the military strength of ‘Germania’ (or ‘Germamia’) and its threat to the Roman Empire.1 Accompanying the Roman legions manning the German border were the first Jews