(Author: Bernard Katz, Vol. 65, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2010) Feature image: The Sarah Sylvia Company in Cabaret Singers, 1950. Left to right: Bernard Berman, Sarah Sylvia, Pinie Goldstein, Chayele Rosenthal, Harry Ariel Max Weinreich, the greatest Yiddish scholar of his generation, was in Finland
(Author: Alan Jacobs, Vol. 65, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2010) Solomon built the first Temple in Jerusalem in about 950 BCE. During his reign, there is no mention of any innovations in the sphere of music. Rather, he adhered to the established order to the
(Author: Dr. Azila Talit Reisenberger, Vol. 65, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2010) In his article ‘What’s God got to do with it? Atheism and Religious Practice’, published in the journal Ratio, XIX, December 2006, the philosopher Professor David Benatar argues that the conventional wisdom
(Author: Gloria Sandak-Lewin, Vol. 65, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2010) The opening chapters of (the Book of Genesis) describe the creation of the world, declaring it to be “the work of One Almighty Beneficent God”1. They are, arguably, the greatest in Western literature, although
(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: 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
(Author: Joseph Sherman, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2020/First published in Jewish Affairs, Summer 1994) Truth shall spring out of the earth: and righteousness shall look down from heaven. On such assurances of God’s justice, a leitmotif of the Psalms, was the faith of Eastern
(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 66, No. 1, Pesach 2011) Feature image: Engraved silver salver presented to Bertha Solomon, MP, in the collection of the SAJBD – Cape Despite the losses incurred through the centuries from pogroms, persecutions, book burnings and looting, Jews have always
(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