The Posen library of Jewish culture and civilization: Volume 9 Catastrophe and rebirth, 1939-1973
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Contents Advisory Boards xxv 1942 Oyneg Shabes Archive, “Guidelines for the Study of the Warsaw Ghetto” 10 Project Staff xxvi Acknowledgments xxvii Introduction to The Posen Library ofjewish Culture and Civilization, by Deborah Dash Moore and James E. Young xxix How to Read This Book xxxvi Introduction to Volume 9, by Samuel D. Kassow and David G. Roskies xxxviii 194Յ Yehuda Even-Shmuel, Midrashim ofRedemption Berakha Habas, Lettersfrom the Ghettos 12 Oskar Rosenfeld, “Encyclopedia of the Łódź Ghetto” 13 Leo W. Schwarz, Memoirs ofMy People through a Thousand Years 15 11 1945 І9З91945 Introduction 1 Anthologies 2 Avraham Levite, “Introduction to the Projected Anthology Auschwitz" 16 Isaac E. Rontch, Jewish Youth at War: Lettersfrom American Soldiers 18 1940 Louis Brunot and Elie Malka, “Judeo-Arabic Proverbs from Fez” 2 Antek Zuckerman and Eliyohu Gutkowski, Suffering and Heroism in the Jewish Past in Light of the Present 3 Cultural, Political, and Religious Thought 19 1941 Corinne Chochem and Muriel Roth, Palestine Dances! 5 Israel Halperin, The Book of Valor 6 Shimon Huberband, “Ghetto Folklore” 7 Samuel Felix Mendelsohn, Let Laughter Ring 9 1940 José Bénech, “Attempt to Explain a Mellah” 1939 Simon Dubnow, “What Should We Do in Hainan’s Times?” 19 Max Horkheimer, “The Jews and Europe” 20 21 1941 Erich Fromm, Escapefrom Freedom 22 Abraham Lewin, “I. M. Weissenberg Memorial” Kurt Lewin, “Self-Hatred amongjews” 25 24
VI CONTENTS YosefYitshak Schneersohn, “First Proclamation: 26 May 1941” 27 Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism 28 1942 Erich Auerbach, “Odysseus’ Scar” 31 Gustawajarecka, “The Last Stage of Deportation Is Death” 32 Horace M. Kallen, “The National Being and the Jewish Community” 33 Zelig Kalmanovitch, “A Diary of the Nazi Ghetto in Vilna” 34 Abba Kovner, “Call to Arms” 36 Israel Milejkowski, “Answer to the Oyneg Shabes Questionnaire” 37 Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, The Holy Fire 39 Stephen S. Wise, “Deliverance Will Come” 40 1943 Nissim ben Shimon, Hitler’s Haggadah 42 Bruno Bettelheim, “Individual and Mass Behavior in Extreme Situations” 44 Umberto Cassuto, “The Israelite Epic” 46 Szymon Draenger, “In Defense of the Natural Response” 47 Lion Feuchtwanger, “The Working Problems of the Writer in Exile” 49 Noah Golinkin, Jerome Lipnick, and M. Bertram Sachs, “Retribution Is Not Enough” 50 Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko, “Letter to the Art Editor of the New York Times” 52 Fiilöp Grünwald, “The Report of the Directorate of the Hungarian National Jewish Museum” 53 Judah L. Magnes, “Toward Peace in Palestine” 54 Yonatan Ratosh, “An Epistle to Hebrew Youth” 56 Emanuel Ringelblum, “Oyneg Shabes Archive” 57 Fishel Schneersohn, “The Spiritual Upheaval in Israel in the Wake of the Holocaust” 59 Zalman Shazar, “The Heritage of 5703” 60 Joseph B. Soloveitchik, HalakhicMan 62 Issachar Shlomo Teichtal, A Joyful Mother of Children 64 Joshua Trachtenberg, The Devil and the Jews: The Medieval Conception ofthe Jew and Its Relation to Modern Antisemitism 65 1944 American Jewish
Committee, “Declaration of Human Rights” 66 Hannah Arendt, “The Jew as Pariah: A Hidden Tradition” 67 Asher Barash, “Parting Words” 68 David Ben-Gurion, “The Imperatives of the Jewish Revolution” 70 Arthur Koestier, “On Disbelieving Atrocities” 71 Isaac Rosenfeld, “The Situation of the Jewish Writer” 73 Gershom Scholem, “Reflections on Modernjewish Studies” 74 1945 Elliot E. Cohen, “An Act of Affirmation” 75 Alberto Gerchunoff, “The Nazi Crematorium in the Movie Houses of Buenos Aires” 76 Hayim Greenberg, “The Universalism of the Chosen People” 78 Abraham Joshua Heschel, “The Eastern European Era injewish History” 79 Life Writing and Reportage 81 1940 Marc Bloch, “The Testamentary Instructions of Marc Bloch” 81 William Goldman, East End My Cradle 82 Raymond-Raoul Lambert, Diary ofa Witness 83 Michael Molho, Traditions and Customs of the Sephardic Jews ofSalónica 85 1941 Leyb Goldin, “Chronicle of a Single Day” 87 Chaim A. Kaplan, Scroll ofAgony 88 Beri Katznelson, My Way to Palestine 89 Peretz Opoczyński, “Goyim in the Ghetto” 90 1942 Moshe Flinker, Diary 92 Herman Kruk, The Last Days ofthejerusahm of Lithuania: Chroniclesfrom the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps 94 Abraham Lewin, A Cup of Tears: A Diary ofthe Warsaw Ghetto 96 Israel Lichtenstein, “Last Testament” 97 Isaac ben Jacob Mamo, “Introduction to Translation of Avraham Mapu’s The Hypocrite into Judeo-Arabic” 97 Yehoshue Perle, “4580” 99 Puah Rakovsky, My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman: Memoirs ofa Zionist Feminist in Poland 100 Josef Zelkowicz, “In These Nightmarish Days” 102 Stefan Zweig, “Universitas Vitae” 103
CONTENTS 1943 Stanisław Adler, “Warsaw, Aryan Side” 104 Gedalyahu Aion, “The Lithuanian Yeshivas” 105 Rachel Auerbach, “Yizkor, 1943” 106 Shloyme Bikl, A Cityful ofJews 107 Robert Borgel, Yellow Star and Swastika: A Story of Servitude 109 Gusta Dawidsohn-Draenger, Justyna’s Diary 110 Sofia Dubnova-Erlich, “Shtetl” 111 Elhanan Elkes, “Last Will and Testament” 113 Paul Ghez, Six Months under the Boot 115 Etty Hillesum, Lettersfrom Westerbork 117 Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police, “History of the Viliampole Jewish Ghetto Police” 119 Baruch Milch, Can Heaven Be Void? 121 Calei Perechodnik, “Letter to Anka” 121 Oskar Rosenfeld, “Chanukah in the Ghetto” 122 Mihail Sebastian, Journal, 1935-1944: The Fascist Years 123 Ephraim E. Urbach, War Journals: Diary ofa Jewish Chaplainfrom Eretz-Israel in the British Army 125 Artur-Shmuel Ziegelboym, “A Letter to the Polish Premier” 127 1940 Deimore Schwartz, “America! America!” 147 Shoshana Shababo, “Dina’s Braids” 148 Chaim Sloves, Haman’s Downfall 150 Boris Yampolski, Country Fair 151 1941 S. Y. Agnon, “From Foe to Friend” 153 Budd Schulberg, What Makes Sammy Run? Bernardo Verbitsky, “It’s Not Easy to Start Living” 156 155 1942 Samuel Eichelbaum, “Nuptial Divorce” 156 Haim Hazaz, “The Sermon” 157 Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française 158 194Յ Der Nister, “Meyer Landshaft” 160 Leah Goldberg, My Friendsfrom Arnon Street 160 Lázaro Liacho, “Blood” 162 Rivke Rubin, “At the Well” 163 Oyzer Warshawsky, “A Contract” 165 1944 1944 Anonymous, “The Tragedy of ist and 2nd June, 1941 in the Capital of Iraq” 128 Anne Frank, The Diary ofa Young Girl 129 Zalmen
Gradowski, “The Czech Transport: A Chronicle of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando” 131 Gonda Redlich, Terezín Diary 133 I. J. Singer, “Of a World That Is No More” 133 1944-1945 Helen Jacobus Apte, Heart ofa Wife: The Diary ofa Southern Jewish Woman 135 1945 Roland Gittelsohn, “Consider Iwo Jima” 137 A. M. Klein, “Reflections on V-E Day” 138 Joseph Messas, “Victory Day in Tlemcen, Algeria” 140 Ernő Szép, The Smell ofHumans: A Memoir of the Holocaust in Hungary 141 Fiction, Drama, and Children’s Literature 144 1939 Sholem Asch, The Nazarene 144 Milton Steinberg, As a Driven Leaf 146 Esther Kreitman, Diamonds 166 Anna Seghers, “Mail to the Promised Land” 168 1945 S. Y. Agnon, Only Yesterday 169 Yekhiel Falikman, “The Only One in the Town” 170 Arthur Laurents, Home of the Brave 172 Arthur Miller, Focus 173 Yosef Rabin, “Trip Home” 175 Isaac Bashevis Singer, “Simple Gimpl” 176 Poetry and Popular Song 178 1940 Nathan Alterman, “The Mole” 178 Mordecai Gebirtig, “Moments of Hope” 179 Carlos Grünberg, “Insult” 179 Charles Reznikoff, “A Short History of Israel, Notes and Glosses” 180 Aaron Zeitlin and Sholem Secunda, “Donna Donna” 180 1941 Yocheved Bat-Miriam, “Hagar” 181 Shulamit Kalugai, “Jezebel” 182 Itzik Manger, “Cain and Abel” 182 Vil
ѴШ CONTENTS Malka Heifetz Tussman, “You’ll Return with God’s Help” 209 Julian Tuwim, “We Polish Jews” 210 1942 Itzik Fefer, “I Am a Jew” 183 Pavel Friedman, “The Butterfly” 184 Zuzanna Ginczanka, “Non omnis moriar” 185 Hirsh Glik, “Silence, and a Starry Night” 185 Shmerke Kaczerginski, “Still, Still” 186 Yosef Kirman, “I Speak to You Openly, My Child” 186 Stanley Kunitz, “Father and Son” 188 Henryka Łazowertówna, “The Little Smuggler” Simkhe-Bunem Shayevitsh, “Lekh-lekho” 189 1945 Ella Amitan, “In the Army” 212 Kadya Molodovsky, “God of Mercy” 212 Jacques Taraboulos, “The Neila” 213 189 ISRAEL (1946-1973) Introduction 215 215 ca. 1942 Leah Rudnitsky, “Birds Are Drowsing” 191 1943 Hillel Bavli, “The Martyrdom of the 93 Beit Ya‘akov Girls” 192 Paul Celan, “Black Flakes” 192 Else Dormitzer, “Census” 193 Jacob Glatstein, “I Have Never Been Here Before” 194 Hirsh Glik, “Never Say” 194 Leah Goldberg, “Nights” 195 Yehuda Karni, “The Month of Rescue” 195 A. M. Klein, “And in That Drowning Instant” 195 Else Lasker-Schiiler, “My Blue Piano” 196 Aaron Leyeles, “The God of Israel” 196 Peretz Markish, “Shards” 197 Yehuda Haim Aaron HaCohen Perahia, “The Third Cry in Anguish in Salonika” 197 Miklós Radnóti, “The Dreadful Angel” 198 Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, “The Farmer and the Cowman” 199 Karl Shapiro, “Lord I Have Seen Too Much” 200 Noah Stern, “In Sand and Water” 200 Abraham Sutzkever, “How?” 201 Abraham Sutzkever, “A Load of Shoes” 201 Władysław Szlengel, “Things” 202 1944 Ion Degen, “As You Die There in Agony, Brother” 203 Jacob Fichman, Corner ofthe Field 204 Yitshak
Katzenelson, Song of the Murdered Jewish People 205 Koro Saloniko, “In Polish Lands” 208 Stefánia Mándy, “Consciousness” 208 Muriel Rukeyser, “Letter to the Front” 209 Hanna Szenes, “Blessed Is the Match” 209 Anthologies 216 1947 Binyamin Tenenbaum, One ofa City and Two ofa Family 216 1949 Dov Sadan, A Bowl ofRaisins, or A Thousand and One Jokes 218 1954 Yitzhak Zuckerman and Moshe Basok, The Book ofthe Ghetto Wars: Between the Walls, in the Gamps, in the Forests 220 1956 Dan Ben-Amotz and Haim Hefer, A Bag ofLies 221 1958 Shlomo Tanai, Azriel Okhmani, and Moshe Shamir, A Generation in the Land 223 1959 S. Y. Agnon, “The Making of This Book” 224 1964 Khone Shmeruk, A Mirror on a Stone: The Poetry and Prose of Twelve Martyred Yiddish Writers in the Soviet Union 225 1972 Dan Ben-Amotz and Netiva Ben-Yehuda, World Dictionary ofHebrew Slang 226 Cultural, Political, and Religious Thought 228 1948 Menachem M. Kasher, The Israel Passover Haggadah 228
CONTENTS Mordecai Nimtsa-bi, Choose Yourselfa Hebrew Name! 229 Provisional Government of the State of Israel, “Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel” 231 1949 Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, “The Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East” 232 Chaim Weizmann, “First Address to the Knesset” 1964 Elie Eliachar and David Ben-Gurion, “Who Is a Sephardi?” 260 1965 Shimon Balias, “Notes to an Old-New Debate” 262 Haim Zeev Hirschberg, A History of the Jews in North Africa 264 234 1950 Barukh Kurzweil, Essays on the Stories ofShai Agnon 235 1951 Yehezkel Kaufmann, “The Bible and Mythological Polytheism” 237 1953 Alexander Uriah Boskowicz, “The Problems of Native Music in Israel” 239 Yeshayahu Leibowitz, “Religious Praxis: The Meaning of Halakhah” 241 1954 Sami Michael, “The Newly Arrived Men of Letters” 242 Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel, “Nationalism and Its Awareness” 244 1971 Amos Elon, “An Open Wound” 267 Yehuda Nini, “Thoughts on the Third Destruction” 269 Gershon Shaked, The New Wave in Hebrew Fiction 270 1972 Amos Oz, “Under This Blazing Light” 272 1973 Amalia Kahana-Carmon, “What Did the War of Independence Do to Its Writers?” 274 Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff, “A Culture Stillborn” 275 1957 Haim Gamzu, Painting and Sculpture in Israel 1967 The First Manifesto of the “Greater Land of Israel Movement” 265 Yitzhak Rabin, “Address upon Receiving the Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy at the Hebrew University ofjerusalem” 266 246 1958 Avraham Abbas, “From Ingathering to Integration” 247 Jacob Katz, Tradition and Crisis: Jewish Society at the End of the Middle Ages 248 Dan
Miron, “Temei Tsiklag: The Artistic Problems of a War Story” 250 Life Writing and Reportage 278 1947 Julius Margolin, A Voyage to the Land ofZe-ka 278 1948 Uri Avnery, 1948. A Soldier’s Tale: The Bloody Road to Jerusalem 279 Dov Sadan, “Three Foundations (Sholem Aleichem and the Yiddish Literary Tradition)” 252 1949 Aryeh Gelblum, “I Was a New Immigrant for a Month: The Aliyah from Yemen and the African Problem” 282 1960 Ben-Zion Dinur, Days of War and Revolution: Memories ofa Way ofLife 254 1952 Amos Kenan, “Dani: In Memoriam” 284 Menahem Shemi, Friends Talking about Jimmy 1961 Gideon Hausner, “Six Million Accusers” 1955 Salman Shina, From Babylonia to Zion 1959 257 1962 Haim Hazaz, “On Literature and the State” 259 1956 Moshe Dayan, “Eulogy for Roi Rotberg” 286 288 285 ЇХ
CONTENTS 1957 Yigael Yadin, The Message of the Scrolls 289 1961 Ka-Tzetnik 135633, “Testimony at the Eichmann Trial” 292 1954 Nissim Aloni, Most Cruel ofAll the Kings 320 Ephraim Kishon, “The Difference” 321 1955 Sami Michael, “The Artist and the Falafel” 1962 Nissim Benjamin Gamlieli, “Yemenite Jews and the Geula Refugee Camp in Aden” 293 1956 Abraham Sutzkever, “Green Aquarium” 1965 Aharon Megged, Hanna Senesh 325 Uri Orlev, The Lead Soldiers 328 Pinhas Sadeh, Life as a Parable 329 Ita Kalish, “Life in a Hasidic Court in Russian Poland toward the End of the 19th and the Early 20th Centuries” 294 1966 Leah Goldberg, “A Letter to the Readers ofMy Friends from Arnon Street''’ 295 1967 Amos Oz, “The Last War or the Third, That Is the Question: A Conversation in Kibbutz Ein Shemer” 296 Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff, “A Letter from Mama Camouna” 298 Fiction, Drama, and Children’s Literature 300 Natan Shaham, “The Battle of the Ink-Drawn Flag” 300 Moshe Shamir, He Walked through the Fields 302 S. Yizhar, “The Prisoner” 305 1949 Yehuda Burla, “Aunt Joya” 307 Yigal Mossinson, In the Negev Plains: A Play in Three Acts 309 Gershon Shofman, “Remove Your Shoes” 311 1950 Yehudit Hendel, “A Common Grave” 312 Aharon Megged, “The Name” 313 Benjamin Tammuz, “Sands of Gold” 315 195Յ Ka-Tzetnik 135633, House ofDolls 317 Moshe Shamir, “The Opening to the Story” 1961 Yehuda Amichai, “Love in Reverse” 1962 Shlomo Kalo, “The Pile” 332 334 336 1964 Shimon Balias, The Ma‘abarah (The Immigrant Transit Camp) 339 1965 Hanoch Bartov, The Brigade 340 1966 Amalia Kahana-Carmon, “The Glass Bell” 1948 318
324 1958 1963 Ehud Ben-Ezer, The Stone Quarry 1968 323 342 1967 Aharon Appelfeld, “The Escape” 344 Naomi Frankel, Saul and Johanna 347 1968 Dan Ben-Amotz, To Remember՛, to Forget Yoram Kaniuk, Adam Resurrected 350 1971 S. Y. Agnon, Shira 352 Haim Gouri, The Crazy Book 348 353 1972 Shulamit Hareven, City ofMany Days 354 Hanoch Levin, Ya’akobi Leidental 357 Amos Oz, My Michael 360 Avraham Raz, Mr. Israel Shefi’s Night of Independence 361 Amnon Shamosh, “A Son of Two Cities” 363 A. B. Yehoshua, “Early in the Summer of 1970” 365
CONTENTS 1973 Lova Eliav, “The Seagull” 1959 Dahlia Ravikovitch, “Clockwork Doll” 366 Poetry and Popular Song 1960 Oded Avisar, “Evening Descends” 385 Yankev Fridman, “God No Longer Speaks” Natan Zach, “One Moment” 386 Shlomo Zamir, “An Old Song” 387 368 1947 Nathan Alterman, “The Silver Platter” Haim Hefer, “Dudu” 368 385 368 386 196Յ Nathan Alterman, “The Cobbler’s Song” 387 Uri Assaf, “Speak to Me with Flowers” 388 1948 Haim Gouri, “Behold, Our Bodies Are Laid Out” 369 Haim Hefer, “We Left Slowly” 369 Rafael Klatchkin, “Have Faith the Day Will Come” 370 1964 Ratson Halevi, “The Voice” 388 1965 1949 Haim Gouri, “The Song of Friendship” 370 Abraham Shlonsky, “The Oath” 370 Abraham Sutzkever, “Deer at the Red Sea” 371 Aharon Almog, “To the Sons Who Were Banished from Their Fathers’ Tables” 389 Nathan Alterman, “The Householder Departs from the City” 389 1950 David Avidan, “The Joke” 1966 Dan Almagor, “Kol Hakavod!” 389 Yona Wallach, “Yonatan” 390 371 1951 Uri Zvi Greenberg, “To God in Europe” 371 Shalom Rada’i, “A Fire Is Kindled within Me” 377 1952 Leah Goldberg, “The Love of Teresa de Meun” 195Յ Amir Gilboa, “Isaac” 379 Haya Vered, “The Zero Hour” 1954 Yehiel Mohar, “Sprinkler Hora” 379 380 1955 Yehuda Amichai, “God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children” 381 Yaakov Oriand, “Song of the Herdsmen” 381 1956 Emanuel Zamir, “A Well in the Field” 1957 Moshe Dor, “Evening of Roses” 382 382 1958 Rukhl Fishman, “The Sun and I” 383 Haim Gouri, “1923-1958” 383 Itzik Manger, “For Years I Wallowed” 384 Naomi Shemer, “Troubadour” 384 378 1967 Abba Kovner, “My Little Sister” 391 Moshe
Sartel, “The Grandfather I Once Had” 391 Naomi Shemer, “Yerushalayim Shel Zahav” 392 Yoram Taharlev, “Ammunition Hill” 392 Zelda, “Each Rose” 393 1968 Yehuda Amichai, “Jerusalem 1967” 394 Ehud Manor, “Next Year” 394 Yakov Rotblit, “Shir Leshalom” (A Song for Peace) 395 Meir Wieseltier, “Daddy and Mommy Went to the Movies, liana Stays Alone in the Armchair Looking at a Gray Book” 395 1970 Haim Be’er, “Transfiguration” 396 Arik Einstein and Shalom Hanoch, “Why Should I Take It to Heart” 397 Dan Pagis, “Twelve Faces of the Emerald” 397 Dan Pagis, “Written in Pencil on a Sealed Box-Car” 398 1971 Dudu Barak, “Flowers in the Rifle Barrel” 399 Xl
XU CONTENTS 197s? Ayin Tur-Malka, “Memorial Service” 399 197Յ Naomi Shemer, “Lu Yehi” 399 Ronny Someck, “Solo Arak” 400 Avot Yeshurun, “The Syrian-African Rift: Six Poems 401 EUROPE (19461973) Introduction 403 1952 André Chouraqui, Between East and West: A History of the Jews ofNorth Africa 426 405 1946 Dovid Diamant, “How We Found the Manuscripts of the Martyred Writers” 405 1947 Michał Borwicz, The Song of the Dying: To the History ofJewish Creativity under the Nazi Occupation 406 Shmerke Kaczerginski, The Song of the Vilna Ghetto 407 1949 Israel Kaplan, Jewish Folk-Expressions under the Nazi Yoke 408 Josef Wulf and Léon Poliakov, The Third Reich and the Jews 410 1962 411 1972 Henri Chemouilli, L’Arche, Dictionary ofFrench Judaism, “North African” 413 Arnold Mandel, L’Arche, Dictionary ofFrench Judaism, “Ashkenaz” 415 André Neher, L’Arche, Dictionary ofFrench Judaism, “Abraham” 416 Cultural, Political, and Religious Thought 418 1956 Siegfried Moses, “Programme for the Leo Baeck Institute ofjews from Germany” 428 Robert Weltsch, “Fool’s Paradise: German Jewry, 19ՅՅ-38” 430 1957 Hermann Levin Goldschmidt, “The Legacy of German Jewry” 431 Friedrich Torberg, “Applause for Anne Frank” 432 Isaac Deutscher, “The Non-Jewish Jew” 434 1961 Anna Langfus, “Conversation with Piotr Rawicz” 435 Aron Vergelis, “Inaugural Issue of Soviet Homeland” 437 1963 Edouard Roditi, “Jewish Artists from North Africa” 438 1964 Louis Jacobs, Principles ofthe Jewish Faith: An Analytical Study 439 1965 Georges Friedmann, The End ofthe Jewish People? 440 1946 Use Aichinger, “A Summons to Mistrust” Leo
Baeck, “The Idea Remains” 419 195Յ Martin Buber, “Genuine Dialogue and the Possibilities of Peace” 427 1958 1955 Moisei Beregovskii, “Jewish Folk Songs” 1948 René Cassin, “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights” 425 403 Anthologies 1947 Samuel Gringauz, “Jewish Destiny as the DPs See It: The Ideology of the Surviving Remnant” 420 Victor Klemperer, The Language of the Third Reich 421 Emmanuel Levinas, Time and the Other 423 418 1966 Jean Améry, “On the Necessity and Impossibility of Being a Jew” 442
CONTENTS Ignaz Maybaum, “European Judaism” 443 George Steiner, “A Kind of Survivor” 445 1967 Raymond Aron, De Gaulle, Israel, and the Jews 446 Jacques Derrida, “Edmond Jabès and the Question of the Book” 448 Jean-François Steiner, Treblinka 450 1956 David Daiches, Two Worlds: An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood 476 1958 Elie Wiesel, Night 477 1962 Albert Memmi, Portrait ofa Jew 478 1968 Zygmunt Bauman, “On Frustrations and Prestidigitators” 451 1969 Boris Kochubiyevsky, “The Case of Boris Kochubiyevsky” 452 Haim Žafrani, Jewish Education in the Land of Islam 454 1970 Elie Kedourie, “The Chatham House Version” 455 Peter Szondi, “Letter to Gershom Scholem” 458 1966 Ilya Ehrenburg, Post-War Years 1945-1954 Shmuel Gordon, “A Soviet Shtetl” 485 Henri Chemouilli, “The Repatriated Ten Years Later” 459 Aleksander Voronel, “The Social Preconditions of the National Awakening of the Jews in the USSR” 460 197Յ Gisèle Halimi, The Women’s Cause 462 Richard Marienstras, “The Jews of the Diaspora, or the Minority Vocation” 463 Adam Michnik, “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors” 466 468 1946 Viktor E. Frankl, “From Death-Camp to Existentialism: A Psychiatrist’s Path to a New Therapy” 468 Primo Levi, If This Is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz) 469 1947 Ruth Gruber, Destination Palestine: The Story of the Haganah Ship Exodus 1947 470 Moyshe Nudelman, “I, the Polish Jew” 473 1949 Leyb Rochman, The Pit and the Trap: A Chronicle of Survival 474 483 1967 Léon Ashkenazi, “Chapters of My Autobiography” 486 1968 Elias Canetti, “A Visit to the Mellah” 1972 Life Writing and Reportage 1963 Natalia Ginzburg, Family
Sayings 480 Artur Sandauer, Family Conflicts 481 488 1969 André Chouraqui, Letter to an Arab Friend 489 Hélène Cixous, Inside 490 Nahum Goldmann, The Autobiography ofNahum Goldmann 492 1970 Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope against Hope: A Memoir 493 1972 Emanuel Litvinoff, “Journey through a Small Planet” 494 Fiction, Drama, and Children’s Literature 497 1946 Arthur Koestier, Thieves in the Night Isaiah Spiegel, “Bread” 498 1947 Béla Zsolt, Nine Suitcases 500 1949 Jiří Weil, Life with a Star 502 1951 Adolf Rudnicki, “Ascension” 503 497 ХШ
XVI CONTENTS 1945 Miklós Adler, Home! Home? 581 Alfred Eisenstaedt, V-J Day at Times Square, August H, mö 581 Yevgeny Khaldei, Budapest Ghetto 582 Abel Pann, And G-d Remembered Rachel. And She Conceived, and Bore a Son 582 Moses Reinblatt, Dismantling Bent Props 583 Saul Steinberg, Untitled, New Yorker, February 3, 1945 Erwin Blumenfeld, Vogue, January 1,1950, cover 596 Chaim Gliksberg, Portrait ofltzik Manger 596 Zédé Schulmann, Membres de la Communautéjuive d’Ifrane 597 Unknown Artist, East End, London 597 ca. 1950 Grete Stern, Sueño No. 1: “Artículos eléctricos para el hogar” 598 19501951 583 Morris Topchevsky, Leaflets (Double V) 584 Dolfi Trost, Entopic Graphomania 584 Georg Ehrlich, The Young Lovers, Festival Garden, London, UK 598 1946 Adolph Gottlieb, Voyager’s Return 1951 Percival Goodman, B’nai Israel (Millburn, New Jersey) 599 Louis Stettner, Coming to America 599 Yosef Zaritsky, Yehiam (Life in a Kibbutz) 600 585 1947 Sid Grossman, Coney Island 585 Saul Leiter, Deborah at Tante Esther’s 586 Rebecca Lepkoff, Midtown Manhattan 586 Lippy Lipshitz, Moses Breaking the Tablets of Law 587 Yohanan Simon, Hashomer Hatzair Poster to Honor the 30th Anniversary of the October Revolution 587 Raphael Soyer, Imaginary Wall in My Studio 588 Erika Stone, Lower Eastside Façade 588 1948 Robert Capa, Troops Marching, Israel 589 Vivian Cherry, Untitled (Group ofBoys and Swastika) 589 Marcel Janeo, Nocturne (Death ofa Soldier) 590 Arthur Kolnik, Illustration to Y. L. Peretz’s A gilgl fun a nign 590 Jerome Liebling, May Day, Union Square, New York City 591 Margaret Michaelis-Sachs,
Self-Portrait, Parramatta River, Sydney 591 Nathan Rapoport, Warsaw Ghetto Memorial (Warsaw, Poland) 592 1949 Lee Krasner, Untitled 593 Barnett Newman, Abraham 593 Chana Orloff, Sculpture ofBen-Gurion 594 ca. 1949 Emmanuel Mané-Katz, Orchestra 594 1950 Henryk Berlewi, Chair with Red Matter 595 Fernand Bidon, Femmes marocaines 595 1951- 1952 Herbert Ferber, And the Bush Was Not Consumed 600 1952 Aharon Kahana, The Binding ofIsaac 601 Henry Vaiensi, Symphonie Vitale бої 1952- 1954 Lucien Hervé, ĽUnitéd’habitation à Nantes-Rezé 602 1953 Lucienne Bloch, Temple Emanuel Sanctuary Wall (Grand Rapids, Michigan) 602 Harvey Kurtzman, “Superduperman,” Mad #4 603 Mark Markov-Grinberg, Stone Flower Fountain, Moscow 603 Ruth Schloss, In the Ma‘obarah 604 Elbert Weinberg, Ritual Figure 604 Ossip Zadkine, De verwoeste stad (“The Destroyed City”), 1953, Plein 1940, Rotterdam 605 1953- 1954 Frank Auerbach, E. 0. W Nude 605 1954 Boris Carmi, Nahal Oz 606 André Kertész, Washington Square in the Snow, January 9,1934 боб Moses Soyer, Dancers Resting 607 Rudi Weissenstein, Nahalat Binyamin Street, Tel Aviv 607 1955 Leonard Baskin, The Strabismic Jew 608
CONTENTS Cornell Capa, Hebrew Lesson, Brooklyn, New York 608 Robert Frank, Yom Kippur, East River, New York City 609 Morris Lapidus, Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida. Over Pool to Hotel. Florida, Miami Beach 610 ca. 1955 David Goldblatt, Arriving Family, King George Street, Johannesburg 610 1955-1956 Mordechai Ardon, For the Fallen: Triptych 611 1956 William Klein, Summer Evening, Via di Monserrato, Rome 611 René Shapshak, Bust ofFormer President Harry S. Truman 612 1957 Helen Frankenthaler, Jacob ’s Ladder 613 Paul Goldman, David Ben-Gurion Standing on His Head (Sharon Hotel Beach, Herzliya) 613 Ben Shahn, Alphabet of Creation 614 1958 Jean-Michel Atlan, La Kahena 614 Sonia Delaunay, Rythme coloré 615 Jules Feiffer, Sick, Sick, Sick, comic strip, The Village Voice 615 Al Hirschfeld, Leonard Bernstein 616 Morris Louis, Tzadik 616 1959 Endre Bálint, Homesickness 617 Arnold Belkin, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 617 Mathias Goeritz, Message Number 7B, Ecclesiastes VII: 6 618 René Gościnny, Astérix le Gaulois, no. 1, cover 618 Dan Pagis, The Egg That Disguised Itself 619 Early 1960s Amiram Erev, Social Housing Blocks in Upper Nazareth 619 1960 Ziva Armoni and Hanan Hebron, The National and University Library 620 Anatoly Kaplan, Pakhar’ (Ploughman) 620 Gertrud Natzler and Otto Natzler, Apple Green Reduction Fired Glaze with Melt Fissures, Earthenware 621 Ori Reisman, Carob Tree Boulevard 621 Paul Schützer, Israeli Beatniks, Night Club Aviva Uri, Landscape II 622 ca. i960 Siona Shimshi, Torah Ark Curtain 622 623 1961 Saul Bass, Exodus 623 Aryeh Elhanani, Hall ofRemembrance at
Yad Vashem 624 William Żorach, Spirit of the Sea, Library Square Park, City ofBath, Maine 625 ca. 1961 Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, B’nai Or Prayer Shawl 625 1962 Marc Chagall, Benjamin, One of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, Stained-Glass Window, Hadassah Medical Centre, Jerusalem 626 David Hillman, Stained-Glass Window, Central Synagogue, Portland Street, London 627 Roy Lichtenstein, Masterpiece 628 Avigdor Stematsky, Etude 628 1962-1970 Yehezkel Streichman, Fig Tree in Studio Window 629 1963 Moshe Castel, Poesie de Canaan, I 629 Bruce Davidson, Construction of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge 630 Mikhail Grohman, Tomb of an Israeli Soldier I 630 Arnold Newman, Arnold Krupp 631 Gedulą Ogen, The Gathering ofIsrael, Kibbutz Galuyot 631 1964 Pedro Friedeberg, “Insist on yourself. .”from the Series Great Ideas of Western Man 632 Louise Nevelson, Homage to the Six Million 632 Fanny Rabel, La Ronda en el tiempo 633 Miriam Schapiro, Shrine II 633 1965 Leon Golub, Gigantomachy I 634 Alfred Mansfeld, Israel Museum 634 Larry Rivers, The History of the Russian Revolution: From Marx to Mayakovsky 635 XVII
xviii CONTENTS Unknown Artist, Abraham Joshua Heschel Marching with Martin Luther King Jr., in Selma, Alabama, March 21, 1969 635 Dan Reisinger, “Let My People Go”poster 646 Garry Winogrand, Mew York City, Three Women 1965-1966 Annelise Albers, Six Prayers Audrey Flack, Farb Family Portrait 636 1965-1968 Batia Lichansky, Holocaust and Rebirth (Kibbutz Mezer Sereni, Israel) 636 1965-1972 George Segal, The Costume Party 637 1966 Al Сарр, “Chickensouperman”from L’il Abner 637 Nahum Gutman, Mosaic Wall with History of Tel Aviv, Migdal Shalom (Shalom Tower) 638 Howard Kanovitz, Lunch at Rainer’s 638 Elaine Lustig Cohen, Primary Structures, cover 639 1967 Sorel Etrog, Survivors Are Mot Heroes 639 David Rubinger, Paratroopers at the Western Wall, June 7,1967 640 Tim (Louis Mitelberg), “Le peoplejuif. surde lui-même et dominateur.(“The Jews, a People Sure ofItselfand Domineering,.” Charles de Gaulle) 640 1967- 1972 Martha Rosier, Red Stripe Kitchen 641 1969-1970 647 1960s Dorothy Bohm, Latina, Southern Italy ca. 1960s Saul Borisov, Adam and Eve 648 648 1970 Samuel Bak, Houses in an Imaginary Landscape 649 Micha Bar-Am, Golda Meir 649 Judy Chicago, Exhibition Announcement, Jack Glenn Gallery, Artforum, October 1970 650 Moses Feigin, Beauty 650 Leon Levinstein, Handball Players, Houston Street, MY 651 Unknown Artist, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt Kneels in Front ofthe Jewish Heroes Monument Paying Tribute to Jews Killed by the Mazis during the 1949 Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, December 7,1970 651 1971 Dmitry Borisovitch Lion, Portrait ofa Man Nancy Spero, Codex Artaud
VII 652 1971- 2000 Erik Bulatov, Red Horizon 1972 Shlomo Dreizner, The Liberation ofJerusalem 641 Hersh (Grigory) Inger, Illustration to Sholem Aleichem, “The Haunted Tailor” 642 Boris Penson, The Artist behind Bars (Self-Portrait) 642 Oscar Rabin, Moscow Evening 643 Gus Schuettler, Daniel Cohn-Bendit Jumping the Police Barricade 643 André François, Sheep Readers, Le nouvel observateur, cover 653 Shmuel Katz, Leah Goldberg, Dira le-haskir, cover 654 Vadim Sidur, The Formula of Grief 654 Yigael Tumarkin, Jordan Valley Memorial Monument 655 Yaacov Agam, Double Metamorphosis III (Counterpoint and Sequence) 644 1969 Raffi Lavie, Untitled 644 Emanuele Luzzati, Golem, Teatro La Pergola, Firenze 645 Joshua Neustein and Georgette Batlle, Boots, Gallery House, Jerusalem 645 Lea Nikel, Untitled 646 652 653 1968 1968- 1969 647 1972- 1973 R. B. Kitaj, The Autumn of Central Paris (After Walter Benjamin) 655 Undated Alfred Bernheim, Portrait ofHannah Arendt 656 Moshe Gross, Laying the Pipes ofthe Mational Water Carrierfrom the Sea of Galilee to the Megev 657 Adam Muszka, Leaving Cheder 657 Leonardo Nierman, Solar Flame 658 Anna Ticho, Landscape ofJerusalem 658
CONTENTS DIVERSE DIASPORAS (19461973) Introduction 659 659 Anthologies 661 1951 Leybl Shiter, “What Is a Pinkes?” 1971 Ruth R. Wisse, The Schlemiel as Modern Hero 661 1955 Pinkes Varške (The Chronicle of Warsaw), A Memorial and a Witness 662 197Յ Arnnon Netser, Anthology ofPersian Songsfrom the Creations ofIranian Jewry 663 686 1947 Avrom Teytlboym, Warsaw Courtyards 686 1948 Jacques Lazarus, “To My Tunisian Friends” 688 689 1961 Mordecai Richler, “Their Canada and Mine” 1953 Joseph Messas, “The Teaching of Torah to Women” 666 691 1962 Melekh Ravitch, “My First Day in the Twentieth Century” 693 1957 Raymond Bénichou, Jewish Writings 668 Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized 670 Ronald Segal and Dan Jacobson, “Apartheid and South African Jewry: An Exchange” 671 1969 Yaacov Hasson, “Iquitos: The Jewish Soul in the Amazon, Notes of a Voyager” 694 1970 Larry Zolf, “Boil Me No Melting Pots, Dream Me No Dreams” 695 1958 Carlos de Nesry, Moroccan Jews in Their Hour of Decision 673 1971 Chaim Sacks, “Sweets from Sixpence” 1959 Paul Sebag, The Hara of Tunis: The Evolution ofa North-African Ghetto 674 697 Fiction, Drama, and Children’s Literature 699 1963 Jacques Lazarus, “Beyond the Test” 676 W. Gunther Plaut, The Rise ofReform Judaism 677 Pablo Schvartzman, “Noé Yarcho, Physician to the Jewish Gauchos” 678 680 684 1956 Yankev Botoshanski, “A Kol Nidre Service at the Gęsia Street Cemetery” 690 1950 Iraqi Zionist Underground, “A Call to the Jewish Community” 666 1968 León Rozitchner, To Be a Jew Life Writing and Reportage 1949 Sasson Shalom Dallal, “Last Letter” Cultural,
Political, and Religious Thought 666 1964 Marcel Bénabou, “Jews and Arabs in Morocco” 1969 Emil L. Fackenheim, “The Commanding Voice of Auschwitz” 681 Samuel Tarnopolsky, HalfofNothing 683 680 1946 Zvi Kolitz, “Yossel Rakover’s Appeal to God” 1947 Irma Ychou, The Bensatd Family 699 700 1948 Shalom Darwish, “A Convoy from the Village” 1949 Ted Allan, “Lies My Father Told Me” 704 701 XIX
XX CONTENTS 1967 Humberto Costantini, “Don luda” 1950 Claude Benady, Out ofPlay, the Dead 706 Elisa Chimenti, “The Cadi and the Jewish Merchant” 707 1969 Lázaro Liacho, On the Gutting Edge ofLife 741 Alejandra Pizarnik, “The Dead and the Rain” 742 1951 A. M. Klein, The Second Scroll 70B 195Յ Jean Daniel, The Mistake or the Second Life ofSylvain Regard 709 Abraham josef Dubelman, “The Faith Healer” 711 Albert Memmi, The Pillar ofSalt 712 1954 Samuel Pecar, Tales ofKleinville 713 1955 Meir Basri, “The Elementary School Teacher” 714 Salomón Brainsky, “Temptation” 715 Salomón Zytner, “The Bar Mitzvah Speech” 717 1956 Samuel Rawet, The Prophet and Other Stories Adele Wiseman, The Sacrifice 720 1957 David Viñas, An Everyday God 7x8 1958 Elisa Chimenti, At the Heart ofthe Harem 723 Danjacobson, “The Zulu and the Zeide” 724 1971 Marcos Ricardo Barnatán, The Labyrinth ofZion 744 Isidoro Blaisten, “Misery in Aries” 744 Alicia Steimberg, Musicians and Watchmakers 745 Mario Szichman, “Jews in the Promised Land” 746 1972 Eugenia Calny, Clara at Dawn 747 Alberto Dines, Gan I? 747 Eliezer Levin, Bom Retiro, or The Ghildhood Neighborhood 748 Chava Rosenfarb, The Tree ofLife: A Novel about Life in the Lodz Ghetto 750 Moacyr Scliar, A War Has No “Good End” 752 Poetry and Popular Song 1959 Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship ofDuddy Kravitz 725 Abraham Weisbaum, “Yente Tinifotsky” 727 1962 Natalio Budasoff, “Yoine Bird” 1970 Diego Viga, “The Stutterer’s Suicide and the Psychiatrist’s Dream” 743 1973 Clarice Lispector, The Stream ofLife 754 Jack Ludwig, A Woman ofHer Age 756 Esther Seligson,
Dreams Older Than Memory 721 1960 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, “A Birthday in London” 740 757 758 1948 Blanche Bendahan, “Bull” 758 Olga Kirsch, “Nostalgia” 758 729 731 1963 Isaac Chocrón, Ferocious Animals 732 Leonard Cohen, The Favourite Game 733 Osvaldo Dragún, “And They Told Us We Were Immortal” 735 1964 José Chudnovsky, “The Old Notebook” 737 Elisa Lerner, In the Vast Silence ofManhattan 738 1955 César Tiempo, “Paraphrase” 759 1956 Irving Layton, “On Seeing the Statuettes ofEzekiel and Jeremiah in the Church of Notre Dame” 759 1957 Sadia Lévy, “Prélude,” Abishag 760 i960 Phyllis Gotlieb, “This One’s On Me” 760 1962 Nissim Ezekiel, “Jewish Wedding in Bombay” Rokhl Korn, “On the Other Side of the Poem” 761 762
CONTENTS 1963 Saul Bellow, Great Jewish Short Stories 781 Uriel Weinreich, “Mapping a Culture” 781 1963 Jeanne Benguigui, “Song of Exile” 763 1966 Miriam Waddington, “Second Generation” 764 Lucy S. Dawidowicz, The Golden Tradition: Jewish Life and Thought in Eastern Europe 783 1968 Leonard Cohen, “The Story of Isaac” 764 197Յ The Jewish Catalog 1969 Max Guedj, “Quai Blériot” 765 1970 Albert Bensoussan, “Isbilia” 784 Cultural, Political, and Religious Thought 786 765 1973 Eli Mandel, “Day of Atonement: Standing” 1967 1946 766 Joshua Loth Liebman, Peace ofMind 786 1948 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (1946-1973) 767 Introduction 767 Anthologies 768 1947 Nahum N. Glatzer, The Language ofFaith: Selected Jewish Prayers 768 Marie Syrkin, Blessed Is the Match: The Story ofJewish Resistance 768 1949 David P. Boder, I Did Not Interview the Dead 769 Louis Finkelstein, The Jews, Their History, Culture, and Religion 771 Leo W. Schwarz, The Root and the Bough: The Epic of an Enduring People 774 195Յ Irving Howe and Eliezer Greenberg, A Treasury of Yiddish Stories 775 1955 Harold U. Ribalow, Mid-Century: An Anthology of Jewish Life and Culture in Our Times 777 1959 Isaac Rivkind, Jewish Money in Everyday Life, Cultural History and Folklore: A Lexicological Study 778 1961 Yudl Mark and Judah A. Joffe, The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language 779 Mordecai M. Kaplan, The Future of the American Jew 786 Simon Rawidowicz, “Israel: The Ever-Dying People” 788 Abram L. Sachar, “Brandeis University: The Pledge” 790 1949 Leslie A. Fiedler, “What Can We Do about Fagin? The Jew-Villain in Western
Tradition” 791 Sidney Hook, “Reflections on the Jewish Question” 792 Harold Rosenberg, “Does the Jew Exist? Sartre’s Morality Play about Anti-Semitism” 793 1950 Theodor Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, DanielJ. Levinson, and Nevitt Sanford, “List of Interview Questions Pertaining to Jews” 795 Robert Gordiš, The Challenge Facing Modern Jewish Scholarship 796 Max Horkheimer and Samuel H. Flowerman, Studies in Prejudice 798 Abraham Tabachnik, “Tradition and Revolt in Yiddish Poetry” 799 Lionel Trilling, “Wordsworth and the Rabbis” 800 1951 Ruth Gay, “The Jewish Object: A Shopper’s Report” 801 Abraham Joshua Heschel, “The Hiding God” 1952 Leo Strauss, Persecution and the Art of Writing 803 804 XXI
XXII CONTENTS Mark Zborowski and Elizabeth Herzog, Life Is with People: The Jewish Little-Town ofEastern Europe 806 195Յ Trude Weiss-Rosmarin, “America Is Not Babylonia” 807 1954 Joseph B. Soloveitchik, “Responsum on Orthodox Judaism in America” 809 1955 Harry L. Golden, “Jew and Gentile in the New South” 810 Will Herberg, Protestant—Catholic—Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology 812 Abraham Menes, “The East Side: Matrix of the Jewish Labor Movement” 813 Marshall Sklare, Conservative Judaism: An American Religious Movement 814 Lionel Trilling, “Isaac Babel, Introduction to Collected Stories” 815 1956 Nahum N. Glatzer, “The Frankfort Lehrhaus” 816 Nathan Glazer, “The Jewish Revival in America, II: Its Religious Side” 817 1959 Hannah Arendt, “Reflections on Little Rock” 819 Eliezer Berkovits, God, Man, and History 820 1961 Aleksander Hertz, The Jews in Polish Culture 821 1962 Betty Alschuler, “Notes from the American Revolution” 822 Salo W. Baron, “Can American Jewry Be Culturally Creative?” 824 Arthur A. Cohen, The Natural and the Supernatural Jew: An Historical and Theological Introduction 825 Abraham Joshua Heschel, Heavenly Torah: As Refracted through the Generations 826 Saul Lieberman, Hellenism in Jewish Palestine 828 1963 Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality ofEvil 828 Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique 829 Joachim Prinz, “America Must Not Remain Silent” 831 1964 Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, “Toward an ‘Order of B’nai Or’: A Program for a Jewish Liturgical Brotherhood” 832 1965 Judah Goldin, “Of Change and Adaptation in Judaism” 833
Joseph B. Soloveitchik, The Lonely Man ofFaith 834 1966 Gerson D. Cohen, “The Blessing of Assimilation in Jewish History” 835 Moshe Greenberg, “The Biblical Grounding of Human Value” 836 Richard L. Rubenstein, “Symposium on Jewish Belief’ 838 Nahum M. Sarna, Understanding Genesis 840 Elie Wiesel, The Jews ofSilence: A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry 840 1967 Shalom Spiegel, “Amos vs. Amaziah” 841 Isadore Twersky, “The Shulhan ‘Aruk: Enduring Code ofJewish Law” 843 Max Weinreich, “The Reality ofjewishness vs. the Ghetto Myth” 845 1968 Robert Alter, “Jewish Dreams and Nightmares” 846 Arthur Green, “Havurat Shalom: Draft of a Covenant” 848 Arthur Hertzberg, The French Enlightenment and the Jews 849 1969 Irving Howe, “The New York Intellectuals” 850 Harry Orlinsky, Notes on the New Translation of the Torah 851 M. J. Rosenberg, “To Uncle Tom and Other Such Jews” 852 1970 Cynthia Ozick, “Toward a New Yiddish” 853 1971 Rachel Adler, “The Jew Who Wasn’t There” 854 Jacob Neusner, There We Sat Down: Talmudic Judaism in the Making 855 James A. Sleeper, The New Jews 856 1972 Ezrat Nashim, “Jewish Women Call for Change” 858
CONTENTS Fiction, Drama, and Children’s Literature 890 1973 The Jewish Catalog, “Kashrut” 859 Susan Sontag, “Photography” 859 Arthur Waskow, “How to Bring Mashiah” Life Writing and Reportage 1946 Sholem Asch, East River 890 Isaac Rosenfeld, Passagefrom Home Jo Sinclair, Wasteland 892 860 862 1946 Leon Sciaky, Farewell to Salónica: City at the Crossroads 862 1947 H. Leivick, With the Saving Remnant 1947 Laura Z. Hobson, Gentleman’s Agreement 893 Maurice Schwartz, Shylock and His Daughter 894 863 1949 Ephraim Lisitzky, In the Grip of Cross-Currents 864 Judd L. Teller, “Goyim” 866 Jehiel Isaiah Trunk, Poland: Memoirs and Scenes 868 1950 Anzia Yezierska, Red Ribbon on a White Horse 870 1951 Alfred Kazin, “The Kitchen” 871 David de Sola Pool, My Spiritual Autobiography 872 874 1957 Howard Fast, The Naked God: The Writer and the Communist Party 876 1958 A. M. Rosenthal, “There Is No News from Auschwitz” 878 1950 Hortense Calisher, “Old Stock” 901 Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Family Moskat 898 902 Chaim Grade, “My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner” 903 195Յ Saul Bellow, The Adventures ofAugie March Sylvia Regan, The Fifth Season 905 1972 882 1973 Heda Margolius Kovaly, Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague ід4і-ід68 885 904 1954 Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, The Diary of Anne Frank 907 Clifford Odets, The Flowering Peach 908 1956 Meyer Levin, Compulsion 881 Joseph Buloff, From the Old Marketplace Hortense Calisher, Herself 884 1949 Paul Goodman, “A Memorial Synagogue” Arthur Miller, Death ofa Salesman 899 1955 Herman Wouk, Marjorie Morningstar 1959 Raphael Lemkin, Totally
Unofficial: The Autobiography ofRaphael Lemkin 879 1967 Norman Podhoretz, Making It 1948 Howard Fast, My Glorious Brothers 896 Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead 897 1951 195Յ 1954 Ben Hecht, A Child of the Century 873 Reuven Iceland, At Goodman and Levine’s 891 909 910 1958 Samuel Nathaniel Behrman, The Cold Wind and the Warm 911 Bernard Malamud, “The Last Mohican” 913 Leon Uris, Exodus 914 1959 Paddy Chayefsky, The Tenth Man 915 Grace Paley, “The Loudest Voice” 917 Philip Roth, “Eli, the Fanatic” 919 1961 Joseph Heller, Catch-22 920 ХХШ
XXIV CONTENTS 923 1956 Jacob Glatstein, “Sunday Shtetl” 924 1957 Allen Grossman, “I Am in Babylon Dying” 1962 Herb Gardner, A Thousand Clowns 1963 Bernard Malamud, “The Jewbird” 1964 Saul Bellow, Herzog 925 Bel Kaufman, Up the Down Staircase 925 Joseph Stein, Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock, Fiddler on the Roof 927 1966 Cynthia Ozick, “The Pagan Rabbi” 929 Maurice Sendak, “Among the Wild Things” [A Review by Nat HentoflJ 930 941 1959 Allen Ginsberg, “Kaddish: Hymmnn” 941 942 1960 Chaim Grade, “Elegy for the Soviet Yiddish Writers” 943 1962 Reyzl Zychlinsky, “Everything Will Remember” 1969 Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler’s Planet 933 Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint 933 1965 Bob Dylan, “Like a Rolling Stone” 945 John Hollander, “The Ninth ofAb” 946 George Oppen, “Psalm” 947 Gabriel Preil, “New York: February 1965” 948 Malka Heifetz Tussman, “Water Without Sound” 948 1970 Blume Lempel, “Even the Heavens Tell Lies” 934 Neil Simon, The Prisoner ofSecond Avenue 935 1968 Anthony Hecht, “Rites and Ceremonies” Carl Rakosi, “Meditation” 950 1972 1971 Linda Pastan, “Passover” 1967 Chaim Potok, The Chosen 932 Herbert Gold, My Last Two Thousand Years Poetry and Popular Song 1946 938 1947 Aaron Zeitlin, “To Be a Jew” 938 1948 David Ignatow, “Europe and America” Howard Nemerov, “Nicodemus” Louis Zukofsky, ‘“A’-ւշ” 940 939 Film Selections Credits 1954 Karl Shapiro, “The Alphabet” 938 197Յ Anna Frąjlich, “Acclimatization” 954 Isaac Goldemberg, “Jews in Hell” 954 José Kozer, “Grandfather Is Facing Death” Marge Piercy, “To Be of Use” 955 Musical Selections 1950 951 1972 Maxine Kumin, “Woodchucks” 952
Adrienne Rich, “Diving into the Wreck” 938 Jacob Glatstein, “WithoutJews” 937 957 961 965 Index of Authors and Artists 941 948 1009 952 955 945
Contents Advisory Boards xxv 1942 Oyneg Shabes Archive, “Guidelines for the Study of the Warsaw Ghetto” 10 Project Staff xxvi Acknowledgments xxvii Introduction to The Posen Library ofjewish Culture and Civilization, by Deborah Dash Moore and James E. Young xxix How to Read This Book xxxvi Introduction to Volume 9, by Samuel D. Kassow and David G. Roskies xxxviii 194Յ Yehuda Even-Shmuel, Midrashim ofRedemption Berakha Habas, Lettersfrom the Ghettos 12 Oskar Rosenfeld, “Encyclopedia of the Łódź Ghetto” 13 Leo W. Schwarz, Memoirs ofMy People through a Thousand Years 15 11 1945 І9З91945 Introduction 1 Anthologies 2 Avraham Levite, “Introduction to the Projected Anthology Auschwitz" 16 Isaac E. Rontch, Jewish Youth at War: Lettersfrom American Soldiers 18 1940 Louis Brunot and Elie Malka, “Judeo-Arabic Proverbs from Fez” 2 Antek Zuckerman and Eliyohu Gutkowski, Suffering and Heroism in the Jewish Past in Light of the Present 3 Cultural, Political, and Religious Thought 19 1941 Corinne Chochem and Muriel Roth, Palestine Dances! 5 Israel Halperin, The Book of Valor 6 Shimon Huberband, “Ghetto Folklore” 7 Samuel Felix Mendelsohn, Let Laughter Ring 9 1940 José Bénech, “Attempt to Explain a Mellah” 1939 Simon Dubnow, “What Should We Do in Hainan’s Times?” 19 Max Horkheimer, “The Jews and Europe” 20 21 1941 Erich Fromm, Escapefrom Freedom 22 Abraham Lewin, “I. M. Weissenberg Memorial” Kurt Lewin, “Self-Hatred amongjews” 25 24
VI CONTENTS YosefYitshak Schneersohn, “First Proclamation: 26 May 1941” 27 Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism 28 1942 Erich Auerbach, “Odysseus’ Scar” 31 Gustawajarecka, “The Last Stage of Deportation Is Death” 32 Horace M. Kallen, “The National Being and the Jewish Community” 33 Zelig Kalmanovitch, “A Diary of the Nazi Ghetto in Vilna” 34 Abba Kovner, “Call to Arms” 36 Israel Milejkowski, “Answer to the Oyneg Shabes Questionnaire” 37 Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, The Holy Fire 39 Stephen S. Wise, “Deliverance Will Come” 40 1943 Nissim ben Shimon, Hitler’s Haggadah 42 Bruno Bettelheim, “Individual and Mass Behavior in Extreme Situations” 44 Umberto Cassuto, “The Israelite Epic” 46 Szymon Draenger, “In Defense of the Natural Response” 47 Lion Feuchtwanger, “The Working Problems of the Writer in Exile” 49 Noah Golinkin, Jerome Lipnick, and M. Bertram Sachs, “Retribution Is Not Enough” 50 Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko, “Letter to the Art Editor of the New York Times” 52 Fiilöp Grünwald, “The Report of the Directorate of the Hungarian National Jewish Museum” 53 Judah L. Magnes, “Toward Peace in Palestine” 54 Yonatan Ratosh, “An Epistle to Hebrew Youth” 56 Emanuel Ringelblum, “Oyneg Shabes Archive” 57 Fishel Schneersohn, “The Spiritual Upheaval in Israel in the Wake of the Holocaust” 59 Zalman Shazar, “The Heritage of 5703” 60 Joseph B. Soloveitchik, HalakhicMan 62 Issachar Shlomo Teichtal, A Joyful Mother of Children 64 Joshua Trachtenberg, The Devil and the Jews: The Medieval Conception ofthe Jew and Its Relation to Modern Antisemitism 65 1944 American Jewish
Committee, “Declaration of Human Rights” 66 Hannah Arendt, “The Jew as Pariah: A Hidden Tradition” 67 Asher Barash, “Parting Words” 68 David Ben-Gurion, “The Imperatives of the Jewish Revolution” 70 Arthur Koestier, “On Disbelieving Atrocities” 71 Isaac Rosenfeld, “The Situation of the Jewish Writer” 73 Gershom Scholem, “Reflections on Modernjewish Studies” 74 1945 Elliot E. Cohen, “An Act of Affirmation” 75 Alberto Gerchunoff, “The Nazi Crematorium in the Movie Houses of Buenos Aires” 76 Hayim Greenberg, “The Universalism of the Chosen People” 78 Abraham Joshua Heschel, “The Eastern European Era injewish History” 79 Life Writing and Reportage 81 1940 Marc Bloch, “The Testamentary Instructions of Marc Bloch” 81 William Goldman, East End My Cradle 82 Raymond-Raoul Lambert, Diary ofa Witness 83 Michael Molho, Traditions and Customs of the Sephardic Jews ofSalónica 85 1941 Leyb Goldin, “Chronicle of a Single Day” 87 Chaim A. Kaplan, Scroll ofAgony 88 Beri Katznelson, My Way to Palestine 89 Peretz Opoczyński, “Goyim in the Ghetto” 90 1942 Moshe Flinker, Diary 92 Herman Kruk, The Last Days ofthejerusahm of Lithuania: Chroniclesfrom the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps 94 Abraham Lewin, A Cup of Tears: A Diary ofthe Warsaw Ghetto 96 Israel Lichtenstein, “Last Testament” 97 Isaac ben Jacob Mamo, “Introduction to Translation of Avraham Mapu’s The Hypocrite into Judeo-Arabic” 97 Yehoshue Perle, “4580” 99 Puah Rakovsky, My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman: Memoirs ofa Zionist Feminist in Poland 100 Josef Zelkowicz, “In These Nightmarish Days” 102 Stefan Zweig, “Universitas Vitae” 103
CONTENTS 1943 Stanisław Adler, “Warsaw, Aryan Side” 104 Gedalyahu Aion, “The Lithuanian Yeshivas” 105 Rachel Auerbach, “Yizkor, 1943” 106 Shloyme Bikl, A Cityful ofJews 107 Robert Borgel, Yellow Star and Swastika: A Story of Servitude 109 Gusta Dawidsohn-Draenger, Justyna’s Diary 110 Sofia Dubnova-Erlich, “Shtetl” 111 Elhanan Elkes, “Last Will and Testament” 113 Paul Ghez, Six Months under the Boot 115 Etty Hillesum, Lettersfrom Westerbork 117 Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police, “History of the Viliampole Jewish Ghetto Police” 119 Baruch Milch, Can Heaven Be Void? 121 Calei Perechodnik, “Letter to Anka” 121 Oskar Rosenfeld, “Chanukah in the Ghetto” 122 Mihail Sebastian, Journal, 1935-1944: The Fascist Years 123 Ephraim E. Urbach, War Journals: Diary ofa Jewish Chaplainfrom Eretz-Israel in the British Army 125 Artur-Shmuel Ziegelboym, “A Letter to the Polish Premier” 127 1940 Deimore Schwartz, “America! America!” 147 Shoshana Shababo, “Dina’s Braids” 148 Chaim Sloves, Haman’s Downfall 150 Boris Yampolski, Country Fair 151 1941 S. Y. Agnon, “From Foe to Friend” 153 Budd Schulberg, What Makes Sammy Run? Bernardo Verbitsky, “It’s Not Easy to Start Living” 156 155 1942 Samuel Eichelbaum, “Nuptial Divorce” 156 Haim Hazaz, “The Sermon” 157 Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française 158 194Յ Der Nister, “Meyer Landshaft” 160 Leah Goldberg, My Friendsfrom Arnon Street 160 Lázaro Liacho, “Blood” 162 Rivke Rubin, “At the Well” 163 Oyzer Warshawsky, “A Contract” 165 1944 1944 Anonymous, “The Tragedy of ist and 2nd June, 1941 in the Capital of Iraq” 128 Anne Frank, The Diary ofa Young Girl 129 Zalmen
Gradowski, “The Czech Transport: A Chronicle of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando” 131 Gonda Redlich, Terezín Diary 133 I. J. Singer, “Of a World That Is No More” 133 1944-1945 Helen Jacobus Apte, Heart ofa Wife: The Diary ofa Southern Jewish Woman 135 1945 Roland Gittelsohn, “Consider Iwo Jima” 137 A. M. Klein, “Reflections on V-E Day” 138 Joseph Messas, “Victory Day in Tlemcen, Algeria” 140 Ernő Szép, The Smell ofHumans: A Memoir of the Holocaust in Hungary 141 Fiction, Drama, and Children’s Literature 144 1939 Sholem Asch, The Nazarene 144 Milton Steinberg, As a Driven Leaf 146 Esther Kreitman, Diamonds 166 Anna Seghers, “Mail to the Promised Land” 168 1945 S. Y. Agnon, Only Yesterday 169 Yekhiel Falikman, “The Only One in the Town” 170 Arthur Laurents, Home of the Brave 172 Arthur Miller, Focus 173 Yosef Rabin, “Trip Home” 175 Isaac Bashevis Singer, “Simple Gimpl” 176 Poetry and Popular Song 178 1940 Nathan Alterman, “The Mole” 178 Mordecai Gebirtig, “Moments of Hope” 179 Carlos Grünberg, “Insult” 179 Charles Reznikoff, “A Short History of Israel, Notes and Glosses” 180 Aaron Zeitlin and Sholem Secunda, “Donna Donna” 180 1941 Yocheved Bat-Miriam, “Hagar” 181 Shulamit Kalugai, “Jezebel” 182 Itzik Manger, “Cain and Abel” 182 Vil
ѴШ CONTENTS Malka Heifetz Tussman, “You’ll Return with God’s Help” 209 Julian Tuwim, “We Polish Jews” 210 1942 Itzik Fefer, “I Am a Jew” 183 Pavel Friedman, “The Butterfly” 184 Zuzanna Ginczanka, “Non omnis moriar” 185 Hirsh Glik, “Silence, and a Starry Night” 185 Shmerke Kaczerginski, “Still, Still” 186 Yosef Kirman, “I Speak to You Openly, My Child” 186 Stanley Kunitz, “Father and Son” 188 Henryka Łazowertówna, “The Little Smuggler” Simkhe-Bunem Shayevitsh, “Lekh-lekho” 189 1945 Ella Amitan, “In the Army” 212 Kadya Molodovsky, “God of Mercy” 212 Jacques Taraboulos, “The Neila” 213 189 ISRAEL (1946-1973) Introduction 215 215 ca. 1942 Leah Rudnitsky, “Birds Are Drowsing” 191 1943 Hillel Bavli, “The Martyrdom of the 93 Beit Ya‘akov Girls” 192 Paul Celan, “Black Flakes” 192 Else Dormitzer, “Census” 193 Jacob Glatstein, “I Have Never Been Here Before” 194 Hirsh Glik, “Never Say” 194 Leah Goldberg, “Nights” 195 Yehuda Karni, “The Month of Rescue” 195 A. M. Klein, “And in That Drowning Instant” 195 Else Lasker-Schiiler, “My Blue Piano” 196 Aaron Leyeles, “The God of Israel” 196 Peretz Markish, “Shards” 197 Yehuda Haim Aaron HaCohen Perahia, “The Third Cry in Anguish in Salonika” 197 Miklós Radnóti, “The Dreadful Angel” 198 Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, “The Farmer and the Cowman” 199 Karl Shapiro, “Lord I Have Seen Too Much” 200 Noah Stern, “In Sand and Water” 200 Abraham Sutzkever, “How?” 201 Abraham Sutzkever, “A Load of Shoes” 201 Władysław Szlengel, “Things” 202 1944 Ion Degen, “As You Die There in Agony, Brother” 203 Jacob Fichman, Corner ofthe Field 204 Yitshak
Katzenelson, Song of the Murdered Jewish People 205 Koro Saloniko, “In Polish Lands” 208 Stefánia Mándy, “Consciousness” 208 Muriel Rukeyser, “Letter to the Front” 209 Hanna Szenes, “Blessed Is the Match” 209 Anthologies 216 1947 Binyamin Tenenbaum, One ofa City and Two ofa Family 216 1949 Dov Sadan, A Bowl ofRaisins, or A Thousand and One Jokes 218 1954 Yitzhak Zuckerman and Moshe Basok, The Book ofthe Ghetto Wars: Between the Walls, in the Gamps, in the Forests 220 1956 Dan Ben-Amotz and Haim Hefer, A Bag ofLies 221 1958 Shlomo Tanai, Azriel Okhmani, and Moshe Shamir, A Generation in the Land 223 1959 S. Y. Agnon, “The Making of This Book” 224 1964 Khone Shmeruk, A Mirror on a Stone: The Poetry and Prose of Twelve Martyred Yiddish Writers in the Soviet Union 225 1972 Dan Ben-Amotz and Netiva Ben-Yehuda, World Dictionary ofHebrew Slang 226 Cultural, Political, and Religious Thought 228 1948 Menachem M. Kasher, The Israel Passover Haggadah 228
CONTENTS Mordecai Nimtsa-bi, Choose Yourselfa Hebrew Name! 229 Provisional Government of the State of Israel, “Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel” 231 1949 Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, “The Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East” 232 Chaim Weizmann, “First Address to the Knesset” 1964 Elie Eliachar and David Ben-Gurion, “Who Is a Sephardi?” 260 1965 Shimon Balias, “Notes to an Old-New Debate” 262 Haim Zeev Hirschberg, A History of the Jews in North Africa 264 234 1950 Barukh Kurzweil, Essays on the Stories ofShai Agnon 235 1951 Yehezkel Kaufmann, “The Bible and Mythological Polytheism” 237 1953 Alexander Uriah Boskowicz, “The Problems of Native Music in Israel” 239 Yeshayahu Leibowitz, “Religious Praxis: The Meaning of Halakhah” 241 1954 Sami Michael, “The Newly Arrived Men of Letters” 242 Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel, “Nationalism and Its Awareness” 244 1971 Amos Elon, “An Open Wound” 267 Yehuda Nini, “Thoughts on the Third Destruction” 269 Gershon Shaked, The New Wave in Hebrew Fiction 270 1972 Amos Oz, “Under This Blazing Light” 272 1973 Amalia Kahana-Carmon, “What Did the War of Independence Do to Its Writers?” 274 Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff, “A Culture Stillborn” 275 1957 Haim Gamzu, Painting and Sculpture in Israel 1967 The First Manifesto of the “Greater Land of Israel Movement” 265 Yitzhak Rabin, “Address upon Receiving the Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy at the Hebrew University ofjerusalem” 266 246 1958 Avraham Abbas, “From Ingathering to Integration” 247 Jacob Katz, Tradition and Crisis: Jewish Society at the End of the Middle Ages 248 Dan
Miron, “Temei Tsiklag: The Artistic Problems of a War Story” 250 Life Writing and Reportage 278 1947 Julius Margolin, A Voyage to the Land ofZe-ka 278 1948 Uri Avnery, 1948. A Soldier’s Tale: The Bloody Road to Jerusalem 279 Dov Sadan, “Three Foundations (Sholem Aleichem and the Yiddish Literary Tradition)” 252 1949 Aryeh Gelblum, “I Was a New Immigrant for a Month: The Aliyah from Yemen and the African Problem” 282 1960 Ben-Zion Dinur, Days of War and Revolution: Memories ofa Way ofLife 254 1952 Amos Kenan, “Dani: In Memoriam” 284 Menahem Shemi, Friends Talking about Jimmy 1961 Gideon Hausner, “Six Million Accusers” 1955 Salman Shina, From Babylonia to Zion 1959 257 1962 Haim Hazaz, “On Literature and the State” 259 1956 Moshe Dayan, “Eulogy for Roi Rotberg” 286 288 285 ЇХ
CONTENTS 1957 Yigael Yadin, The Message of the Scrolls 289 1961 Ka-Tzetnik 135633, “Testimony at the Eichmann Trial” 292 1954 Nissim Aloni, Most Cruel ofAll the Kings 320 Ephraim Kishon, “The Difference” 321 1955 Sami Michael, “The Artist and the Falafel” 1962 Nissim Benjamin Gamlieli, “Yemenite Jews and the Geula Refugee Camp in Aden” 293 1956 Abraham Sutzkever, “Green Aquarium” 1965 Aharon Megged, Hanna Senesh 325 Uri Orlev, The Lead Soldiers 328 Pinhas Sadeh, Life as a Parable 329 Ita Kalish, “Life in a Hasidic Court in Russian Poland toward the End of the 19th and the Early 20th Centuries” 294 1966 Leah Goldberg, “A Letter to the Readers ofMy Friends from Arnon Street''’ 295 1967 Amos Oz, “The Last War or the Third, That Is the Question: A Conversation in Kibbutz Ein Shemer” 296 Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff, “A Letter from Mama Camouna” 298 Fiction, Drama, and Children’s Literature 300 Natan Shaham, “The Battle of the Ink-Drawn Flag” 300 Moshe Shamir, He Walked through the Fields 302 S. Yizhar, “The Prisoner” 305 1949 Yehuda Burla, “Aunt Joya” 307 Yigal Mossinson, In the Negev Plains: A Play in Three Acts 309 Gershon Shofman, “Remove Your Shoes” 311 1950 Yehudit Hendel, “A Common Grave” 312 Aharon Megged, “The Name” 313 Benjamin Tammuz, “Sands of Gold” 315 195Յ Ka-Tzetnik 135633, House ofDolls 317 Moshe Shamir, “The Opening to the Story” 1961 Yehuda Amichai, “Love in Reverse” 1962 Shlomo Kalo, “The Pile” 332 334 336 1964 Shimon Balias, The Ma‘abarah (The Immigrant Transit Camp) 339 1965 Hanoch Bartov, The Brigade 340 1966 Amalia Kahana-Carmon, “The Glass Bell” 1948 318
324 1958 1963 Ehud Ben-Ezer, The Stone Quarry 1968 323 342 1967 Aharon Appelfeld, “The Escape” 344 Naomi Frankel, Saul and Johanna 347 1968 Dan Ben-Amotz, To Remember՛, to Forget Yoram Kaniuk, Adam Resurrected 350 1971 S. Y. Agnon, Shira 352 Haim Gouri, The Crazy Book 348 353 1972 Shulamit Hareven, City ofMany Days 354 Hanoch Levin, Ya’akobi Leidental 357 Amos Oz, My Michael 360 Avraham Raz, Mr. Israel Shefi’s Night of Independence 361 Amnon Shamosh, “A Son of Two Cities” 363 A. B. Yehoshua, “Early in the Summer of 1970” 365
CONTENTS 1973 Lova Eliav, “The Seagull” 1959 Dahlia Ravikovitch, “Clockwork Doll” 366 Poetry and Popular Song 1960 Oded Avisar, “Evening Descends” 385 Yankev Fridman, “God No Longer Speaks” Natan Zach, “One Moment” 386 Shlomo Zamir, “An Old Song” 387 368 1947 Nathan Alterman, “The Silver Platter” Haim Hefer, “Dudu” 368 385 368 386 196Յ Nathan Alterman, “The Cobbler’s Song” 387 Uri Assaf, “Speak to Me with Flowers” 388 1948 Haim Gouri, “Behold, Our Bodies Are Laid Out” 369 Haim Hefer, “We Left Slowly” 369 Rafael Klatchkin, “Have Faith the Day Will Come” 370 1964 Ratson Halevi, “The Voice” 388 1965 1949 Haim Gouri, “The Song of Friendship” 370 Abraham Shlonsky, “The Oath” 370 Abraham Sutzkever, “Deer at the Red Sea” 371 Aharon Almog, “To the Sons Who Were Banished from Their Fathers’ Tables” 389 Nathan Alterman, “The Householder Departs from the City” 389 1950 David Avidan, “The Joke” 1966 Dan Almagor, “Kol Hakavod!” 389 Yona Wallach, “Yonatan” 390 371 1951 Uri Zvi Greenberg, “To God in Europe” 371 Shalom Rada’i, “A Fire Is Kindled within Me” 377 1952 Leah Goldberg, “The Love of Teresa de Meun” 195Յ Amir Gilboa, “Isaac” 379 Haya Vered, “The Zero Hour” 1954 Yehiel Mohar, “Sprinkler Hora” 379 380 1955 Yehuda Amichai, “God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children” 381 Yaakov Oriand, “Song of the Herdsmen” 381 1956 Emanuel Zamir, “A Well in the Field” 1957 Moshe Dor, “Evening of Roses” 382 382 1958 Rukhl Fishman, “The Sun and I” 383 Haim Gouri, “1923-1958” 383 Itzik Manger, “For Years I Wallowed” 384 Naomi Shemer, “Troubadour” 384 378 1967 Abba Kovner, “My Little Sister” 391 Moshe
Sartel, “The Grandfather I Once Had” 391 Naomi Shemer, “Yerushalayim Shel Zahav” 392 Yoram Taharlev, “Ammunition Hill” 392 Zelda, “Each Rose” 393 1968 Yehuda Amichai, “Jerusalem 1967” 394 Ehud Manor, “Next Year” 394 Yakov Rotblit, “Shir Leshalom” (A Song for Peace) 395 Meir Wieseltier, “Daddy and Mommy Went to the Movies, liana Stays Alone in the Armchair Looking at a Gray Book” 395 1970 Haim Be’er, “Transfiguration” 396 Arik Einstein and Shalom Hanoch, “Why Should I Take It to Heart” 397 Dan Pagis, “Twelve Faces of the Emerald” 397 Dan Pagis, “Written in Pencil on a Sealed Box-Car” 398 1971 Dudu Barak, “Flowers in the Rifle Barrel” 399 Xl
XU CONTENTS 197s? Ayin Tur-Malka, “Memorial Service” 399 197Յ Naomi Shemer, “Lu Yehi” 399 Ronny Someck, “Solo Arak” 400 Avot Yeshurun, “The Syrian-African Rift: Six Poems 401 EUROPE (19461973) Introduction 403 1952 André Chouraqui, Between East and West: A History of the Jews ofNorth Africa 426 405 1946 Dovid Diamant, “How We Found the Manuscripts of the Martyred Writers” 405 1947 Michał Borwicz, The Song of the Dying: To the History ofJewish Creativity under the Nazi Occupation 406 Shmerke Kaczerginski, The Song of the Vilna Ghetto 407 1949 Israel Kaplan, Jewish Folk-Expressions under the Nazi Yoke 408 Josef Wulf and Léon Poliakov, The Third Reich and the Jews 410 1962 411 1972 Henri Chemouilli, L’Arche, Dictionary ofFrench Judaism, “North African” 413 Arnold Mandel, L’Arche, Dictionary ofFrench Judaism, “Ashkenaz” 415 André Neher, L’Arche, Dictionary ofFrench Judaism, “Abraham” 416 Cultural, Political, and Religious Thought 418 1956 Siegfried Moses, “Programme for the Leo Baeck Institute ofjews from Germany” 428 Robert Weltsch, “Fool’s Paradise: German Jewry, 19ՅՅ-38” 430 1957 Hermann Levin Goldschmidt, “The Legacy of German Jewry” 431 Friedrich Torberg, “Applause for Anne Frank” 432 Isaac Deutscher, “The Non-Jewish Jew” 434 1961 Anna Langfus, “Conversation with Piotr Rawicz” 435 Aron Vergelis, “Inaugural Issue of Soviet Homeland” 437 1963 Edouard Roditi, “Jewish Artists from North Africa” 438 1964 Louis Jacobs, Principles ofthe Jewish Faith: An Analytical Study 439 1965 Georges Friedmann, The End ofthe Jewish People? 440 1946 Use Aichinger, “A Summons to Mistrust” Leo
Baeck, “The Idea Remains” 419 195Յ Martin Buber, “Genuine Dialogue and the Possibilities of Peace” 427 1958 1955 Moisei Beregovskii, “Jewish Folk Songs” 1948 René Cassin, “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights” 425 403 Anthologies 1947 Samuel Gringauz, “Jewish Destiny as the DPs See It: The Ideology of the Surviving Remnant” 420 Victor Klemperer, The Language of the Third Reich 421 Emmanuel Levinas, Time and the Other 423 418 1966 Jean Améry, “On the Necessity and Impossibility of Being a Jew” 442
CONTENTS Ignaz Maybaum, “European Judaism” 443 George Steiner, “A Kind of Survivor” 445 1967 Raymond Aron, De Gaulle, Israel, and the Jews 446 Jacques Derrida, “Edmond Jabès and the Question of the Book” 448 Jean-François Steiner, Treblinka 450 1956 David Daiches, Two Worlds: An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood 476 1958 Elie Wiesel, Night 477 1962 Albert Memmi, Portrait ofa Jew 478 1968 Zygmunt Bauman, “On Frustrations and Prestidigitators” 451 1969 Boris Kochubiyevsky, “The Case of Boris Kochubiyevsky” 452 Haim Žafrani, Jewish Education in the Land of Islam 454 1970 Elie Kedourie, “The Chatham House Version” 455 Peter Szondi, “Letter to Gershom Scholem” 458 1966 Ilya Ehrenburg, Post-War Years 1945-1954 Shmuel Gordon, “A Soviet Shtetl” 485 Henri Chemouilli, “The Repatriated Ten Years Later” 459 Aleksander Voronel, “The Social Preconditions of the National Awakening of the Jews in the USSR” 460 197Յ Gisèle Halimi, The Women’s Cause 462 Richard Marienstras, “The Jews of the Diaspora, or the Minority Vocation” 463 Adam Michnik, “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors” 466 468 1946 Viktor E. Frankl, “From Death-Camp to Existentialism: A Psychiatrist’s Path to a New Therapy” 468 Primo Levi, If This Is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz) 469 1947 Ruth Gruber, Destination Palestine: The Story of the Haganah Ship Exodus 1947 470 Moyshe Nudelman, “I, the Polish Jew” 473 1949 Leyb Rochman, The Pit and the Trap: A Chronicle of Survival 474 483 1967 Léon Ashkenazi, “Chapters of My Autobiography” 486 1968 Elias Canetti, “A Visit to the Mellah” 1972 Life Writing and Reportage 1963 Natalia Ginzburg, Family
Sayings 480 Artur Sandauer, Family Conflicts 481 488 1969 André Chouraqui, Letter to an Arab Friend 489 Hélène Cixous, Inside 490 Nahum Goldmann, The Autobiography ofNahum Goldmann 492 1970 Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope against Hope: A Memoir 493 1972 Emanuel Litvinoff, “Journey through a Small Planet” 494 Fiction, Drama, and Children’s Literature 497 1946 Arthur Koestier, Thieves in the Night Isaiah Spiegel, “Bread” 498 1947 Béla Zsolt, Nine Suitcases 500 1949 Jiří Weil, Life with a Star 502 1951 Adolf Rudnicki, “Ascension” 503 497 ХШ
XVI CONTENTS 1945 Miklós Adler, Home! Home? 581 Alfred Eisenstaedt, V-J Day at Times Square, August H, mö 581 Yevgeny Khaldei, Budapest Ghetto 582 Abel Pann, And G-d Remembered Rachel. And She Conceived, and Bore a Son 582 Moses Reinblatt, Dismantling Bent Props 583 Saul Steinberg, Untitled, New Yorker, February 3, 1945 Erwin Blumenfeld, Vogue, January 1,1950, cover 596 Chaim Gliksberg, Portrait ofltzik Manger 596 Zédé Schulmann, Membres de la Communautéjuive d’Ifrane 597 Unknown Artist, East End, London 597 ca. 1950 Grete Stern, Sueño No. 1: “Artículos eléctricos para el hogar” 598 19501951 583 Morris Topchevsky, Leaflets (Double V) 584 Dolfi Trost, Entopic Graphomania 584 Georg Ehrlich, The Young Lovers, Festival Garden, London, UK 598 1946 Adolph Gottlieb, Voyager’s Return 1951 Percival Goodman, B’nai Israel (Millburn, New Jersey) 599 Louis Stettner, Coming to America 599 Yosef Zaritsky, Yehiam (Life in a Kibbutz) 600 585 1947 Sid Grossman, Coney Island 585 Saul Leiter, Deborah at Tante Esther’s 586 Rebecca Lepkoff, Midtown Manhattan 586 Lippy Lipshitz, Moses Breaking the Tablets of Law 587 Yohanan Simon, Hashomer Hatzair Poster to Honor the 30th Anniversary of the October Revolution 587 Raphael Soyer, Imaginary Wall in My Studio 588 Erika Stone, Lower Eastside Façade 588 1948 Robert Capa, Troops Marching, Israel 589 Vivian Cherry, Untitled (Group ofBoys and Swastika) 589 Marcel Janeo, Nocturne (Death ofa Soldier) 590 Arthur Kolnik, Illustration to Y. L. Peretz’s A gilgl fun a nign 590 Jerome Liebling, May Day, Union Square, New York City 591 Margaret Michaelis-Sachs,
Self-Portrait, Parramatta River, Sydney 591 Nathan Rapoport, Warsaw Ghetto Memorial (Warsaw, Poland) 592 1949 Lee Krasner, Untitled 593 Barnett Newman, Abraham 593 Chana Orloff, Sculpture ofBen-Gurion 594 ca. 1949 Emmanuel Mané-Katz, Orchestra 594 1950 Henryk Berlewi, Chair with Red Matter 595 Fernand Bidon, Femmes marocaines 595 1951- 1952 Herbert Ferber, And the Bush Was Not Consumed 600 1952 Aharon Kahana, The Binding ofIsaac 601 Henry Vaiensi, Symphonie Vitale бої 1952- 1954 Lucien Hervé, ĽUnitéd’habitation à Nantes-Rezé 602 1953 Lucienne Bloch, Temple Emanuel Sanctuary Wall (Grand Rapids, Michigan) 602 Harvey Kurtzman, “Superduperman,” Mad #4 603 Mark Markov-Grinberg, Stone Flower Fountain, Moscow 603 Ruth Schloss, In the Ma‘obarah 604 Elbert Weinberg, Ritual Figure 604 Ossip Zadkine, De verwoeste stad (“The Destroyed City”), 1953, Plein 1940, Rotterdam 605 1953- 1954 Frank Auerbach, E. 0. W Nude 605 1954 Boris Carmi, Nahal Oz 606 André Kertész, Washington Square in the Snow, January 9,1934 боб Moses Soyer, Dancers Resting 607 Rudi Weissenstein, Nahalat Binyamin Street, Tel Aviv 607 1955 Leonard Baskin, The Strabismic Jew 608
CONTENTS Cornell Capa, Hebrew Lesson, Brooklyn, New York 608 Robert Frank, Yom Kippur, East River, New York City 609 Morris Lapidus, Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida. Over Pool to Hotel. Florida, Miami Beach 610 ca. 1955 David Goldblatt, Arriving Family, King George Street, Johannesburg 610 1955-1956 Mordechai Ardon, For the Fallen: Triptych 611 1956 William Klein, Summer Evening, Via di Monserrato, Rome 611 René Shapshak, Bust ofFormer President Harry S. Truman 612 1957 Helen Frankenthaler, Jacob ’s Ladder 613 Paul Goldman, David Ben-Gurion Standing on His Head (Sharon Hotel Beach, Herzliya) 613 Ben Shahn, Alphabet of Creation 614 1958 Jean-Michel Atlan, La Kahena 614 Sonia Delaunay, Rythme coloré 615 Jules Feiffer, Sick, Sick, Sick, comic strip, The Village Voice 615 Al Hirschfeld, Leonard Bernstein 616 Morris Louis, Tzadik 616 1959 Endre Bálint, Homesickness 617 Arnold Belkin, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 617 Mathias Goeritz, Message Number 7B, Ecclesiastes VII: 6 618 René Gościnny, Astérix le Gaulois, no. 1, cover 618 Dan Pagis, The Egg That Disguised Itself 619 Early 1960s Amiram Erev, Social Housing Blocks in Upper Nazareth 619 1960 Ziva Armoni and Hanan Hebron, The National and University Library 620 Anatoly Kaplan, Pakhar’ (Ploughman) 620 Gertrud Natzler and Otto Natzler, Apple Green Reduction Fired Glaze with Melt Fissures, Earthenware 621 Ori Reisman, Carob Tree Boulevard 621 Paul Schützer, Israeli Beatniks, Night Club Aviva Uri, Landscape II 622 ca. i960 Siona Shimshi, Torah Ark Curtain 622 623 1961 Saul Bass, Exodus 623 Aryeh Elhanani, Hall ofRemembrance at
Yad Vashem 624 William Żorach, Spirit of the Sea, Library Square Park, City ofBath, Maine 625 ca. 1961 Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, B’nai Or Prayer Shawl 625 1962 Marc Chagall, Benjamin, One of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, Stained-Glass Window, Hadassah Medical Centre, Jerusalem 626 David Hillman, Stained-Glass Window, Central Synagogue, Portland Street, London 627 Roy Lichtenstein, Masterpiece 628 Avigdor Stematsky, Etude 628 1962-1970 Yehezkel Streichman, Fig Tree in Studio Window 629 1963 Moshe Castel, Poesie de Canaan, I 629 Bruce Davidson, Construction of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge 630 Mikhail Grohman, Tomb of an Israeli Soldier I 630 Arnold Newman, Arnold Krupp 631 Gedulą Ogen, The Gathering ofIsrael, Kibbutz Galuyot 631 1964 Pedro Friedeberg, “Insist on yourself. .”from the Series Great Ideas of Western Man 632 Louise Nevelson, Homage to the Six Million 632 Fanny Rabel, La Ronda en el tiempo 633 Miriam Schapiro, Shrine II 633 1965 Leon Golub, Gigantomachy I 634 Alfred Mansfeld, Israel Museum 634 Larry Rivers, The History of the Russian Revolution: From Marx to Mayakovsky 635 XVII
xviii CONTENTS Unknown Artist, Abraham Joshua Heschel Marching with Martin Luther King Jr., in Selma, Alabama, March 21, 1969 635 Dan Reisinger, “Let My People Go”poster 646 Garry Winogrand, Mew York City, Three Women 1965-1966 Annelise Albers, Six Prayers Audrey Flack, Farb Family Portrait 636 1965-1968 Batia Lichansky, Holocaust and Rebirth (Kibbutz Mezer Sereni, Israel) 636 1965-1972 George Segal, The Costume Party 637 1966 Al Сарр, “Chickensouperman”from L’il Abner 637 Nahum Gutman, Mosaic Wall with History of Tel Aviv, Migdal Shalom (Shalom Tower) 638 Howard Kanovitz, Lunch at Rainer’s 638 Elaine Lustig Cohen, Primary Structures, cover 639 1967 Sorel Etrog, Survivors Are Mot Heroes 639 David Rubinger, Paratroopers at the Western Wall, June 7,1967 640 Tim (Louis Mitelberg), “Le peoplejuif. surde lui-même et dominateur.(“The Jews, a People Sure ofItselfand Domineering,.” Charles de Gaulle) 640 1967- 1972 Martha Rosier, Red Stripe Kitchen 641 1969-1970 647 1960s Dorothy Bohm, Latina, Southern Italy ca. 1960s Saul Borisov, Adam and Eve 648 648 1970 Samuel Bak, Houses in an Imaginary Landscape 649 Micha Bar-Am, Golda Meir 649 Judy Chicago, Exhibition Announcement, Jack Glenn Gallery, Artforum, October 1970 650 Moses Feigin, Beauty 650 Leon Levinstein, Handball Players, Houston Street, MY 651 Unknown Artist, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt Kneels in Front ofthe Jewish Heroes Monument Paying Tribute to Jews Killed by the Mazis during the 1949 Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, December 7,1970 651 1971 Dmitry Borisovitch Lion, Portrait ofa Man Nancy Spero, Codex Artaud
VII 652 1971- 2000 Erik Bulatov, Red Horizon 1972 Shlomo Dreizner, The Liberation ofJerusalem 641 Hersh (Grigory) Inger, Illustration to Sholem Aleichem, “The Haunted Tailor” 642 Boris Penson, The Artist behind Bars (Self-Portrait) 642 Oscar Rabin, Moscow Evening 643 Gus Schuettler, Daniel Cohn-Bendit Jumping the Police Barricade 643 André François, Sheep Readers, Le nouvel observateur, cover 653 Shmuel Katz, Leah Goldberg, Dira le-haskir, cover 654 Vadim Sidur, The Formula of Grief 654 Yigael Tumarkin, Jordan Valley Memorial Monument 655 Yaacov Agam, Double Metamorphosis III (Counterpoint and Sequence) 644 1969 Raffi Lavie, Untitled 644 Emanuele Luzzati, Golem, Teatro La Pergola, Firenze 645 Joshua Neustein and Georgette Batlle, Boots, Gallery House, Jerusalem 645 Lea Nikel, Untitled 646 652 653 1968 1968- 1969 647 1972- 1973 R. B. Kitaj, The Autumn of Central Paris (After Walter Benjamin) 655 Undated Alfred Bernheim, Portrait ofHannah Arendt 656 Moshe Gross, Laying the Pipes ofthe Mational Water Carrierfrom the Sea of Galilee to the Megev 657 Adam Muszka, Leaving Cheder 657 Leonardo Nierman, Solar Flame 658 Anna Ticho, Landscape ofJerusalem 658
CONTENTS DIVERSE DIASPORAS (19461973) Introduction 659 659 Anthologies 661 1951 Leybl Shiter, “What Is a Pinkes?” 1971 Ruth R. Wisse, The Schlemiel as Modern Hero 661 1955 Pinkes Varške (The Chronicle of Warsaw), A Memorial and a Witness 662 197Յ Arnnon Netser, Anthology ofPersian Songsfrom the Creations ofIranian Jewry 663 686 1947 Avrom Teytlboym, Warsaw Courtyards 686 1948 Jacques Lazarus, “To My Tunisian Friends” 688 689 1961 Mordecai Richler, “Their Canada and Mine” 1953 Joseph Messas, “The Teaching of Torah to Women” 666 691 1962 Melekh Ravitch, “My First Day in the Twentieth Century” 693 1957 Raymond Bénichou, Jewish Writings 668 Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized 670 Ronald Segal and Dan Jacobson, “Apartheid and South African Jewry: An Exchange” 671 1969 Yaacov Hasson, “Iquitos: The Jewish Soul in the Amazon, Notes of a Voyager” 694 1970 Larry Zolf, “Boil Me No Melting Pots, Dream Me No Dreams” 695 1958 Carlos de Nesry, Moroccan Jews in Their Hour of Decision 673 1971 Chaim Sacks, “Sweets from Sixpence” 1959 Paul Sebag, The Hara of Tunis: The Evolution ofa North-African Ghetto 674 697 Fiction, Drama, and Children’s Literature 699 1963 Jacques Lazarus, “Beyond the Test” 676 W. Gunther Plaut, The Rise ofReform Judaism 677 Pablo Schvartzman, “Noé Yarcho, Physician to the Jewish Gauchos” 678 680 684 1956 Yankev Botoshanski, “A Kol Nidre Service at the Gęsia Street Cemetery” 690 1950 Iraqi Zionist Underground, “A Call to the Jewish Community” 666 1968 León Rozitchner, To Be a Jew Life Writing and Reportage 1949 Sasson Shalom Dallal, “Last Letter” Cultural,
Political, and Religious Thought 666 1964 Marcel Bénabou, “Jews and Arabs in Morocco” 1969 Emil L. Fackenheim, “The Commanding Voice of Auschwitz” 681 Samuel Tarnopolsky, HalfofNothing 683 680 1946 Zvi Kolitz, “Yossel Rakover’s Appeal to God” 1947 Irma Ychou, The Bensatd Family 699 700 1948 Shalom Darwish, “A Convoy from the Village” 1949 Ted Allan, “Lies My Father Told Me” 704 701 XIX
XX CONTENTS 1967 Humberto Costantini, “Don luda” 1950 Claude Benady, Out ofPlay, the Dead 706 Elisa Chimenti, “The Cadi and the Jewish Merchant” 707 1969 Lázaro Liacho, On the Gutting Edge ofLife 741 Alejandra Pizarnik, “The Dead and the Rain” 742 1951 A. M. Klein, The Second Scroll 70B 195Յ Jean Daniel, The Mistake or the Second Life ofSylvain Regard 709 Abraham josef Dubelman, “The Faith Healer” 711 Albert Memmi, The Pillar ofSalt 712 1954 Samuel Pecar, Tales ofKleinville 713 1955 Meir Basri, “The Elementary School Teacher” 714 Salomón Brainsky, “Temptation” 715 Salomón Zytner, “The Bar Mitzvah Speech” 717 1956 Samuel Rawet, The Prophet and Other Stories Adele Wiseman, The Sacrifice 720 1957 David Viñas, An Everyday God 7x8 1958 Elisa Chimenti, At the Heart ofthe Harem 723 Danjacobson, “The Zulu and the Zeide” 724 1971 Marcos Ricardo Barnatán, The Labyrinth ofZion 744 Isidoro Blaisten, “Misery in Aries” 744 Alicia Steimberg, Musicians and Watchmakers 745 Mario Szichman, “Jews in the Promised Land” 746 1972 Eugenia Calny, Clara at Dawn 747 Alberto Dines, Gan I? 747 Eliezer Levin, Bom Retiro, or The Ghildhood Neighborhood 748 Chava Rosenfarb, The Tree ofLife: A Novel about Life in the Lodz Ghetto 750 Moacyr Scliar, A War Has No “Good End” 752 Poetry and Popular Song 1959 Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship ofDuddy Kravitz 725 Abraham Weisbaum, “Yente Tinifotsky” 727 1962 Natalio Budasoff, “Yoine Bird” 1970 Diego Viga, “The Stutterer’s Suicide and the Psychiatrist’s Dream” 743 1973 Clarice Lispector, The Stream ofLife 754 Jack Ludwig, A Woman ofHer Age 756 Esther Seligson,
Dreams Older Than Memory 721 1960 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, “A Birthday in London” 740 757 758 1948 Blanche Bendahan, “Bull” 758 Olga Kirsch, “Nostalgia” 758 729 731 1963 Isaac Chocrón, Ferocious Animals 732 Leonard Cohen, The Favourite Game 733 Osvaldo Dragún, “And They Told Us We Were Immortal” 735 1964 José Chudnovsky, “The Old Notebook” 737 Elisa Lerner, In the Vast Silence ofManhattan 738 1955 César Tiempo, “Paraphrase” 759 1956 Irving Layton, “On Seeing the Statuettes ofEzekiel and Jeremiah in the Church of Notre Dame” 759 1957 Sadia Lévy, “Prélude,” Abishag 760 i960 Phyllis Gotlieb, “This One’s On Me” 760 1962 Nissim Ezekiel, “Jewish Wedding in Bombay” Rokhl Korn, “On the Other Side of the Poem” 761 762
CONTENTS 1963 Saul Bellow, Great Jewish Short Stories 781 Uriel Weinreich, “Mapping a Culture” 781 1963 Jeanne Benguigui, “Song of Exile” 763 1966 Miriam Waddington, “Second Generation” 764 Lucy S. Dawidowicz, The Golden Tradition: Jewish Life and Thought in Eastern Europe 783 1968 Leonard Cohen, “The Story of Isaac” 764 197Յ The Jewish Catalog 1969 Max Guedj, “Quai Blériot” 765 1970 Albert Bensoussan, “Isbilia” 784 Cultural, Political, and Religious Thought 786 765 1973 Eli Mandel, “Day of Atonement: Standing” 1967 1946 766 Joshua Loth Liebman, Peace ofMind 786 1948 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (1946-1973) 767 Introduction 767 Anthologies 768 1947 Nahum N. Glatzer, The Language ofFaith: Selected Jewish Prayers 768 Marie Syrkin, Blessed Is the Match: The Story ofJewish Resistance 768 1949 David P. Boder, I Did Not Interview the Dead 769 Louis Finkelstein, The Jews, Their History, Culture, and Religion 771 Leo W. Schwarz, The Root and the Bough: The Epic of an Enduring People 774 195Յ Irving Howe and Eliezer Greenberg, A Treasury of Yiddish Stories 775 1955 Harold U. Ribalow, Mid-Century: An Anthology of Jewish Life and Culture in Our Times 777 1959 Isaac Rivkind, Jewish Money in Everyday Life, Cultural History and Folklore: A Lexicological Study 778 1961 Yudl Mark and Judah A. Joffe, The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language 779 Mordecai M. Kaplan, The Future of the American Jew 786 Simon Rawidowicz, “Israel: The Ever-Dying People” 788 Abram L. Sachar, “Brandeis University: The Pledge” 790 1949 Leslie A. Fiedler, “What Can We Do about Fagin? The Jew-Villain in Western
Tradition” 791 Sidney Hook, “Reflections on the Jewish Question” 792 Harold Rosenberg, “Does the Jew Exist? Sartre’s Morality Play about Anti-Semitism” 793 1950 Theodor Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, DanielJ. Levinson, and Nevitt Sanford, “List of Interview Questions Pertaining to Jews” 795 Robert Gordiš, The Challenge Facing Modern Jewish Scholarship 796 Max Horkheimer and Samuel H. Flowerman, Studies in Prejudice 798 Abraham Tabachnik, “Tradition and Revolt in Yiddish Poetry” 799 Lionel Trilling, “Wordsworth and the Rabbis” 800 1951 Ruth Gay, “The Jewish Object: A Shopper’s Report” 801 Abraham Joshua Heschel, “The Hiding God” 1952 Leo Strauss, Persecution and the Art of Writing 803 804 XXI
XXII CONTENTS Mark Zborowski and Elizabeth Herzog, Life Is with People: The Jewish Little-Town ofEastern Europe 806 195Յ Trude Weiss-Rosmarin, “America Is Not Babylonia” 807 1954 Joseph B. Soloveitchik, “Responsum on Orthodox Judaism in America” 809 1955 Harry L. Golden, “Jew and Gentile in the New South” 810 Will Herberg, Protestant—Catholic—Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology 812 Abraham Menes, “The East Side: Matrix of the Jewish Labor Movement” 813 Marshall Sklare, Conservative Judaism: An American Religious Movement 814 Lionel Trilling, “Isaac Babel, Introduction to Collected Stories” 815 1956 Nahum N. Glatzer, “The Frankfort Lehrhaus” 816 Nathan Glazer, “The Jewish Revival in America, II: Its Religious Side” 817 1959 Hannah Arendt, “Reflections on Little Rock” 819 Eliezer Berkovits, God, Man, and History 820 1961 Aleksander Hertz, The Jews in Polish Culture 821 1962 Betty Alschuler, “Notes from the American Revolution” 822 Salo W. Baron, “Can American Jewry Be Culturally Creative?” 824 Arthur A. Cohen, The Natural and the Supernatural Jew: An Historical and Theological Introduction 825 Abraham Joshua Heschel, Heavenly Torah: As Refracted through the Generations 826 Saul Lieberman, Hellenism in Jewish Palestine 828 1963 Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality ofEvil 828 Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique 829 Joachim Prinz, “America Must Not Remain Silent” 831 1964 Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, “Toward an ‘Order of B’nai Or’: A Program for a Jewish Liturgical Brotherhood” 832 1965 Judah Goldin, “Of Change and Adaptation in Judaism” 833
Joseph B. Soloveitchik, The Lonely Man ofFaith 834 1966 Gerson D. Cohen, “The Blessing of Assimilation in Jewish History” 835 Moshe Greenberg, “The Biblical Grounding of Human Value” 836 Richard L. Rubenstein, “Symposium on Jewish Belief’ 838 Nahum M. Sarna, Understanding Genesis 840 Elie Wiesel, The Jews ofSilence: A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry 840 1967 Shalom Spiegel, “Amos vs. Amaziah” 841 Isadore Twersky, “The Shulhan ‘Aruk: Enduring Code ofJewish Law” 843 Max Weinreich, “The Reality ofjewishness vs. the Ghetto Myth” 845 1968 Robert Alter, “Jewish Dreams and Nightmares” 846 Arthur Green, “Havurat Shalom: Draft of a Covenant” 848 Arthur Hertzberg, The French Enlightenment and the Jews 849 1969 Irving Howe, “The New York Intellectuals” 850 Harry Orlinsky, Notes on the New Translation of the Torah 851 M. J. Rosenberg, “To Uncle Tom and Other Such Jews” 852 1970 Cynthia Ozick, “Toward a New Yiddish” 853 1971 Rachel Adler, “The Jew Who Wasn’t There” 854 Jacob Neusner, There We Sat Down: Talmudic Judaism in the Making 855 James A. Sleeper, The New Jews 856 1972 Ezrat Nashim, “Jewish Women Call for Change” 858
CONTENTS Fiction, Drama, and Children’s Literature 890 1973 The Jewish Catalog, “Kashrut” 859 Susan Sontag, “Photography” 859 Arthur Waskow, “How to Bring Mashiah” Life Writing and Reportage 1946 Sholem Asch, East River 890 Isaac Rosenfeld, Passagefrom Home Jo Sinclair, Wasteland 892 860 862 1946 Leon Sciaky, Farewell to Salónica: City at the Crossroads 862 1947 H. Leivick, With the Saving Remnant 1947 Laura Z. Hobson, Gentleman’s Agreement 893 Maurice Schwartz, Shylock and His Daughter 894 863 1949 Ephraim Lisitzky, In the Grip of Cross-Currents 864 Judd L. Teller, “Goyim” 866 Jehiel Isaiah Trunk, Poland: Memoirs and Scenes 868 1950 Anzia Yezierska, Red Ribbon on a White Horse 870 1951 Alfred Kazin, “The Kitchen” 871 David de Sola Pool, My Spiritual Autobiography 872 874 1957 Howard Fast, The Naked God: The Writer and the Communist Party 876 1958 A. M. Rosenthal, “There Is No News from Auschwitz” 878 1950 Hortense Calisher, “Old Stock” 901 Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Family Moskat 898 902 Chaim Grade, “My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner” 903 195Յ Saul Bellow, The Adventures ofAugie March Sylvia Regan, The Fifth Season 905 1972 882 1973 Heda Margolius Kovaly, Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague ід4і-ід68 885 904 1954 Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, The Diary of Anne Frank 907 Clifford Odets, The Flowering Peach 908 1956 Meyer Levin, Compulsion 881 Joseph Buloff, From the Old Marketplace Hortense Calisher, Herself 884 1949 Paul Goodman, “A Memorial Synagogue” Arthur Miller, Death ofa Salesman 899 1955 Herman Wouk, Marjorie Morningstar 1959 Raphael Lemkin, Totally
Unofficial: The Autobiography ofRaphael Lemkin 879 1967 Norman Podhoretz, Making It 1948 Howard Fast, My Glorious Brothers 896 Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead 897 1951 195Յ 1954 Ben Hecht, A Child of the Century 873 Reuven Iceland, At Goodman and Levine’s 891 909 910 1958 Samuel Nathaniel Behrman, The Cold Wind and the Warm 911 Bernard Malamud, “The Last Mohican” 913 Leon Uris, Exodus 914 1959 Paddy Chayefsky, The Tenth Man 915 Grace Paley, “The Loudest Voice” 917 Philip Roth, “Eli, the Fanatic” 919 1961 Joseph Heller, Catch-22 920 ХХШ
XXIV CONTENTS 923 1956 Jacob Glatstein, “Sunday Shtetl” 924 1957 Allen Grossman, “I Am in Babylon Dying” 1962 Herb Gardner, A Thousand Clowns 1963 Bernard Malamud, “The Jewbird” 1964 Saul Bellow, Herzog 925 Bel Kaufman, Up the Down Staircase 925 Joseph Stein, Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock, Fiddler on the Roof 927 1966 Cynthia Ozick, “The Pagan Rabbi” 929 Maurice Sendak, “Among the Wild Things” [A Review by Nat HentoflJ 930 941 1959 Allen Ginsberg, “Kaddish: Hymmnn” 941 942 1960 Chaim Grade, “Elegy for the Soviet Yiddish Writers” 943 1962 Reyzl Zychlinsky, “Everything Will Remember” 1969 Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler’s Planet 933 Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint 933 1965 Bob Dylan, “Like a Rolling Stone” 945 John Hollander, “The Ninth ofAb” 946 George Oppen, “Psalm” 947 Gabriel Preil, “New York: February 1965” 948 Malka Heifetz Tussman, “Water Without Sound” 948 1970 Blume Lempel, “Even the Heavens Tell Lies” 934 Neil Simon, The Prisoner ofSecond Avenue 935 1968 Anthony Hecht, “Rites and Ceremonies” Carl Rakosi, “Meditation” 950 1972 1971 Linda Pastan, “Passover” 1967 Chaim Potok, The Chosen 932 Herbert Gold, My Last Two Thousand Years Poetry and Popular Song 1946 938 1947 Aaron Zeitlin, “To Be a Jew” 938 1948 David Ignatow, “Europe and America” Howard Nemerov, “Nicodemus” Louis Zukofsky, ‘“A’-ւշ” 940 939 Film Selections Credits 1954 Karl Shapiro, “The Alphabet” 938 197Յ Anna Frąjlich, “Acclimatization” 954 Isaac Goldemberg, “Jews in Hell” 954 José Kozer, “Grandfather Is Facing Death” Marge Piercy, “To Be of Use” 955 Musical Selections 1950 951 1972 Maxine Kumin, “Woodchucks” 952
Adrienne Rich, “Diving into the Wreck” 938 Jacob Glatstein, “WithoutJews” 937 957 961 965 Index of Authors and Artists 941 948 1009 952 955 945 |
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Contents Advisory Boards xxv 1942 Oyneg Shabes Archive, “Guidelines for the Study of the Warsaw Ghetto” 10 Project Staff xxvi Acknowledgments xxvii Introduction to The Posen Library ofjewish Culture and Civilization, by Deborah Dash Moore and James E. Young xxix How to Read This Book xxxvi Introduction to Volume 9, by Samuel D. Kassow and David G. Roskies xxxviii 194Յ Yehuda Even-Shmuel, Midrashim ofRedemption Berakha Habas, Lettersfrom the Ghettos 12 Oskar Rosenfeld, “Encyclopedia of the Łódź Ghetto” 13 Leo W. Schwarz, Memoirs ofMy People through a Thousand Years 15 11 1945 І9З91945 Introduction 1 Anthologies 2 Avraham Levite, “Introduction to the Projected Anthology Auschwitz" 16 Isaac E. Rontch, Jewish Youth at War: Lettersfrom American Soldiers 18 1940 Louis Brunot and Elie Malka, “Judeo-Arabic Proverbs from Fez” 2 Antek Zuckerman and Eliyohu Gutkowski, Suffering and Heroism in the Jewish Past in Light of the Present 3 Cultural, Political, and Religious Thought 19 1941 Corinne Chochem and Muriel Roth, Palestine Dances! 5 Israel Halperin, The Book of Valor 6 Shimon Huberband, “Ghetto Folklore” 7 Samuel Felix Mendelsohn, Let Laughter Ring 9 1940 José Bénech, “Attempt to Explain a Mellah” 1939 Simon Dubnow, “What Should We Do in Hainan’s Times?” 19 Max Horkheimer, “The Jews and Europe” 20 21 1941 Erich Fromm, Escapefrom Freedom 22 Abraham Lewin, “I. M. Weissenberg Memorial” Kurt Lewin, “Self-Hatred amongjews” 25 24
VI CONTENTS YosefYitshak Schneersohn, “First Proclamation: 26 May 1941” 27 Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism 28 1942 Erich Auerbach, “Odysseus’ Scar” 31 Gustawajarecka, “The Last Stage of Deportation Is Death” 32 Horace M. Kallen, “The National Being and the Jewish Community” 33 Zelig Kalmanovitch, “A Diary of the Nazi Ghetto in Vilna” 34 Abba Kovner, “Call to Arms” 36 Israel Milejkowski, “Answer to the Oyneg Shabes Questionnaire” 37 Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, The Holy Fire 39 Stephen S. Wise, “Deliverance Will Come” 40 1943 Nissim ben Shimon, Hitler’s Haggadah 42 Bruno Bettelheim, “Individual and Mass Behavior in Extreme Situations” 44 Umberto Cassuto, “The Israelite Epic” 46 Szymon Draenger, “In Defense of the Natural Response” 47 Lion Feuchtwanger, “The Working Problems of the Writer in Exile” 49 Noah Golinkin, Jerome Lipnick, and M. Bertram Sachs, “Retribution Is Not Enough” 50 Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko, “Letter to the Art Editor of the New York Times” 52 Fiilöp Grünwald, “The Report of the Directorate of the Hungarian National Jewish Museum” 53 Judah L. Magnes, “Toward Peace in Palestine” 54 Yonatan Ratosh, “An Epistle to Hebrew Youth” 56 Emanuel Ringelblum, “Oyneg Shabes Archive” 57 Fishel Schneersohn, “The Spiritual Upheaval in Israel in the Wake of the Holocaust” 59 Zalman Shazar, “The Heritage of 5703” 60 Joseph B. Soloveitchik, HalakhicMan 62 Issachar Shlomo Teichtal, A Joyful Mother of Children 64 Joshua Trachtenberg, The Devil and the Jews: The Medieval Conception ofthe Jew and Its Relation to Modern Antisemitism 65 1944 American Jewish
Committee, “Declaration of Human Rights” 66 Hannah Arendt, “The Jew as Pariah: A Hidden Tradition” 67 Asher Barash, “Parting Words” 68 David Ben-Gurion, “The Imperatives of the Jewish Revolution” 70 Arthur Koestier, “On Disbelieving Atrocities” 71 Isaac Rosenfeld, “The Situation of the Jewish Writer” 73 Gershom Scholem, “Reflections on Modernjewish Studies” 74 1945 Elliot E. Cohen, “An Act of Affirmation” 75 Alberto Gerchunoff, “The Nazi Crematorium in the Movie Houses of Buenos Aires” 76 Hayim Greenberg, “The Universalism of the Chosen People” 78 Abraham Joshua Heschel, “The Eastern European Era injewish History” 79 Life Writing and Reportage 81 1940 Marc Bloch, “The Testamentary Instructions of Marc Bloch” 81 William Goldman, East End My Cradle 82 Raymond-Raoul Lambert, Diary ofa Witness 83 Michael Molho, Traditions and Customs of the Sephardic Jews ofSalónica 85 1941 Leyb Goldin, “Chronicle of a Single Day” 87 Chaim A. Kaplan, Scroll ofAgony 88 Beri Katznelson, My Way to Palestine 89 Peretz Opoczyński, “Goyim in the Ghetto” 90 1942 Moshe Flinker, Diary 92 Herman Kruk, The Last Days ofthejerusahm of Lithuania: Chroniclesfrom the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps 94 Abraham Lewin, A Cup of Tears: A Diary ofthe Warsaw Ghetto 96 Israel Lichtenstein, “Last Testament” 97 Isaac ben Jacob Mamo, “Introduction to Translation of Avraham Mapu’s The Hypocrite into Judeo-Arabic” 97 Yehoshue Perle, “4580” 99 Puah Rakovsky, My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman: Memoirs ofa Zionist Feminist in Poland 100 Josef Zelkowicz, “In These Nightmarish Days” 102 Stefan Zweig, “Universitas Vitae” 103
CONTENTS 1943 Stanisław Adler, “Warsaw, Aryan Side” 104 Gedalyahu Aion, “The Lithuanian Yeshivas” 105 Rachel Auerbach, “Yizkor, 1943” 106 Shloyme Bikl, A Cityful ofJews 107 Robert Borgel, Yellow Star and Swastika: A Story of Servitude 109 Gusta Dawidsohn-Draenger, Justyna’s Diary 110 Sofia Dubnova-Erlich, “Shtetl” 111 Elhanan Elkes, “Last Will and Testament” 113 Paul Ghez, Six Months under the Boot 115 Etty Hillesum, Lettersfrom Westerbork 117 Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police, “History of the Viliampole Jewish Ghetto Police” 119 Baruch Milch, Can Heaven Be Void? 121 Calei Perechodnik, “Letter to Anka” 121 Oskar Rosenfeld, “Chanukah in the Ghetto” 122 Mihail Sebastian, Journal, 1935-1944: The Fascist Years 123 Ephraim E. Urbach, War Journals: Diary ofa Jewish Chaplainfrom Eretz-Israel in the British Army 125 Artur-Shmuel Ziegelboym, “A Letter to the Polish Premier” 127 1940 Deimore Schwartz, “America! America!” 147 Shoshana Shababo, “Dina’s Braids” 148 Chaim Sloves, Haman’s Downfall 150 Boris Yampolski, Country Fair 151 1941 S. Y. Agnon, “From Foe to Friend” 153 Budd Schulberg, What Makes Sammy Run? Bernardo Verbitsky, “It’s Not Easy to Start Living” 156 155 1942 Samuel Eichelbaum, “Nuptial Divorce” 156 Haim Hazaz, “The Sermon” 157 Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française 158 194Յ Der Nister, “Meyer Landshaft” 160 Leah Goldberg, My Friendsfrom Arnon Street 160 Lázaro Liacho, “Blood” 162 Rivke Rubin, “At the Well” 163 Oyzer Warshawsky, “A Contract” 165 1944 1944 Anonymous, “The Tragedy of ist and 2nd June, 1941 in the Capital of Iraq” 128 Anne Frank, The Diary ofa Young Girl 129 Zalmen
Gradowski, “The Czech Transport: A Chronicle of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando” 131 Gonda Redlich, Terezín Diary 133 I. J. Singer, “Of a World That Is No More” 133 1944-1945 Helen Jacobus Apte, Heart ofa Wife: The Diary ofa Southern Jewish Woman 135 1945 Roland Gittelsohn, “Consider Iwo Jima” 137 A. M. Klein, “Reflections on V-E Day” 138 Joseph Messas, “Victory Day in Tlemcen, Algeria” 140 Ernő Szép, The Smell ofHumans: A Memoir of the Holocaust in Hungary 141 Fiction, Drama, and Children’s Literature 144 1939 Sholem Asch, The Nazarene 144 Milton Steinberg, As a Driven Leaf 146 Esther Kreitman, Diamonds 166 Anna Seghers, “Mail to the Promised Land” 168 1945 S. Y. Agnon, Only Yesterday 169 Yekhiel Falikman, “The Only One in the Town” 170 Arthur Laurents, Home of the Brave 172 Arthur Miller, Focus 173 Yosef Rabin, “Trip Home” 175 Isaac Bashevis Singer, “Simple Gimpl” 176 Poetry and Popular Song 178 1940 Nathan Alterman, “The Mole” 178 Mordecai Gebirtig, “Moments of Hope” 179 Carlos Grünberg, “Insult” 179 Charles Reznikoff, “A Short History of Israel, Notes and Glosses” 180 Aaron Zeitlin and Sholem Secunda, “Donna Donna” 180 1941 Yocheved Bat-Miriam, “Hagar” 181 Shulamit Kalugai, “Jezebel” 182 Itzik Manger, “Cain and Abel” 182 Vil
ѴШ CONTENTS Malka Heifetz Tussman, “You’ll Return with God’s Help” 209 Julian Tuwim, “We Polish Jews” 210 1942 Itzik Fefer, “I Am a Jew” 183 Pavel Friedman, “The Butterfly” 184 Zuzanna Ginczanka, “Non omnis moriar” 185 Hirsh Glik, “Silence, and a Starry Night” 185 Shmerke Kaczerginski, “Still, Still” 186 Yosef Kirman, “I Speak to You Openly, My Child” 186 Stanley Kunitz, “Father and Son” 188 Henryka Łazowertówna, “The Little Smuggler” Simkhe-Bunem Shayevitsh, “Lekh-lekho” 189 1945 Ella Amitan, “In the Army” 212 Kadya Molodovsky, “God of Mercy” 212 Jacques Taraboulos, “The Neila” 213 189 ISRAEL (1946-1973) Introduction 215 215 ca. 1942 Leah Rudnitsky, “Birds Are Drowsing” 191 1943 Hillel Bavli, “The Martyrdom of the 93 Beit Ya‘akov Girls” 192 Paul Celan, “Black Flakes” 192 Else Dormitzer, “Census” 193 Jacob Glatstein, “I Have Never Been Here Before” 194 Hirsh Glik, “Never Say” 194 Leah Goldberg, “Nights” 195 Yehuda Karni, “The Month of Rescue” 195 A. M. Klein, “And in That Drowning Instant” 195 Else Lasker-Schiiler, “My Blue Piano” 196 Aaron Leyeles, “The God of Israel” 196 Peretz Markish, “Shards” 197 Yehuda Haim Aaron HaCohen Perahia, “The Third Cry in Anguish in Salonika” 197 Miklós Radnóti, “The Dreadful Angel” 198 Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, “The Farmer and the Cowman” 199 Karl Shapiro, “Lord I Have Seen Too Much” 200 Noah Stern, “In Sand and Water” 200 Abraham Sutzkever, “How?” 201 Abraham Sutzkever, “A Load of Shoes” 201 Władysław Szlengel, “Things” 202 1944 Ion Degen, “As You Die There in Agony, Brother” 203 Jacob Fichman, Corner ofthe Field 204 Yitshak
Katzenelson, Song of the Murdered Jewish People 205 Koro Saloniko, “In Polish Lands” 208 Stefánia Mándy, “Consciousness” 208 Muriel Rukeyser, “Letter to the Front” 209 Hanna Szenes, “Blessed Is the Match” 209 Anthologies 216 1947 Binyamin Tenenbaum, One ofa City and Two ofa Family 216 1949 Dov Sadan, A Bowl ofRaisins, or A Thousand and One Jokes 218 1954 Yitzhak Zuckerman and Moshe Basok, The Book ofthe Ghetto Wars: Between the Walls, in the Gamps, in the Forests 220 1956 Dan Ben-Amotz and Haim Hefer, A Bag ofLies 221 1958 Shlomo Tanai, Azriel Okhmani, and Moshe Shamir, A Generation in the Land 223 1959 S. Y. Agnon, “The Making of This Book” 224 1964 Khone Shmeruk, A Mirror on a Stone: The Poetry and Prose of Twelve Martyred Yiddish Writers in the Soviet Union 225 1972 Dan Ben-Amotz and Netiva Ben-Yehuda, World Dictionary ofHebrew Slang 226 Cultural, Political, and Religious Thought 228 1948 Menachem M. Kasher, The Israel Passover Haggadah 228
CONTENTS Mordecai Nimtsa-bi, Choose Yourselfa Hebrew Name! 229 Provisional Government of the State of Israel, “Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel” 231 1949 Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, “The Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East” 232 Chaim Weizmann, “First Address to the Knesset” 1964 Elie Eliachar and David Ben-Gurion, “Who Is a Sephardi?” 260 1965 Shimon Balias, “Notes to an Old-New Debate” 262 Haim Zeev Hirschberg, A History of the Jews in North Africa 264 234 1950 Barukh Kurzweil, Essays on the Stories ofShai Agnon 235 1951 Yehezkel Kaufmann, “The Bible and Mythological Polytheism” 237 1953 Alexander Uriah Boskowicz, “The Problems of Native Music in Israel” 239 Yeshayahu Leibowitz, “Religious Praxis: The Meaning of Halakhah” 241 1954 Sami Michael, “The Newly Arrived Men of Letters” 242 Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel, “Nationalism and Its Awareness” 244 1971 Amos Elon, “An Open Wound” 267 Yehuda Nini, “Thoughts on the Third Destruction” 269 Gershon Shaked, The New Wave in Hebrew Fiction 270 1972 Amos Oz, “Under This Blazing Light” 272 1973 Amalia Kahana-Carmon, “What Did the War of Independence Do to Its Writers?” 274 Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff, “A Culture Stillborn” 275 1957 Haim Gamzu, Painting and Sculpture in Israel 1967 The First Manifesto of the “Greater Land of Israel Movement” 265 Yitzhak Rabin, “Address upon Receiving the Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy at the Hebrew University ofjerusalem” 266 246 1958 Avraham Abbas, “From Ingathering to Integration” 247 Jacob Katz, Tradition and Crisis: Jewish Society at the End of the Middle Ages 248 Dan
Miron, “Temei Tsiklag: The Artistic Problems of a War Story” 250 Life Writing and Reportage 278 1947 Julius Margolin, A Voyage to the Land ofZe-ka 278 1948 Uri Avnery, 1948. A Soldier’s Tale: The Bloody Road to Jerusalem 279 Dov Sadan, “Three Foundations (Sholem Aleichem and the Yiddish Literary Tradition)” 252 1949 Aryeh Gelblum, “I Was a New Immigrant for a Month: The Aliyah from Yemen and the African Problem” 282 1960 Ben-Zion Dinur, Days of War and Revolution: Memories ofa Way ofLife 254 1952 Amos Kenan, “Dani: In Memoriam” 284 Menahem Shemi, Friends Talking about Jimmy 1961 Gideon Hausner, “Six Million Accusers” 1955 Salman Shina, From Babylonia to Zion 1959 257 1962 Haim Hazaz, “On Literature and the State” 259 1956 Moshe Dayan, “Eulogy for Roi Rotberg” 286 288 285 ЇХ
CONTENTS 1957 Yigael Yadin, The Message of the Scrolls 289 1961 Ka-Tzetnik 135633, “Testimony at the Eichmann Trial” 292 1954 Nissim Aloni, Most Cruel ofAll the Kings 320 Ephraim Kishon, “The Difference” 321 1955 Sami Michael, “The Artist and the Falafel” 1962 Nissim Benjamin Gamlieli, “Yemenite Jews and the Geula Refugee Camp in Aden” 293 1956 Abraham Sutzkever, “Green Aquarium” 1965 Aharon Megged, Hanna Senesh 325 Uri Orlev, The Lead Soldiers 328 Pinhas Sadeh, Life as a Parable 329 Ita Kalish, “Life in a Hasidic Court in Russian Poland toward the End of the 19th and the Early 20th Centuries” 294 1966 Leah Goldberg, “A Letter to the Readers ofMy Friends from Arnon Street''’ 295 1967 Amos Oz, “The Last War or the Third, That Is the Question: A Conversation in Kibbutz Ein Shemer” 296 Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff, “A Letter from Mama Camouna” 298 Fiction, Drama, and Children’s Literature 300 Natan Shaham, “The Battle of the Ink-Drawn Flag” 300 Moshe Shamir, He Walked through the Fields 302 S. Yizhar, “The Prisoner” 305 1949 Yehuda Burla, “Aunt Joya” 307 Yigal Mossinson, In the Negev Plains: A Play in Three Acts 309 Gershon Shofman, “Remove Your Shoes” 311 1950 Yehudit Hendel, “A Common Grave” 312 Aharon Megged, “The Name” 313 Benjamin Tammuz, “Sands of Gold” 315 195Յ Ka-Tzetnik 135633, House ofDolls 317 Moshe Shamir, “The Opening to the Story” 1961 Yehuda Amichai, “Love in Reverse” 1962 Shlomo Kalo, “The Pile” 332 334 336 1964 Shimon Balias, The Ma‘abarah (The Immigrant Transit Camp) 339 1965 Hanoch Bartov, The Brigade 340 1966 Amalia Kahana-Carmon, “The Glass Bell” 1948 318
324 1958 1963 Ehud Ben-Ezer, The Stone Quarry 1968 323 342 1967 Aharon Appelfeld, “The Escape” 344 Naomi Frankel, Saul and Johanna 347 1968 Dan Ben-Amotz, To Remember՛, to Forget Yoram Kaniuk, Adam Resurrected 350 1971 S. Y. Agnon, Shira 352 Haim Gouri, The Crazy Book 348 353 1972 Shulamit Hareven, City ofMany Days 354 Hanoch Levin, Ya’akobi Leidental 357 Amos Oz, My Michael 360 Avraham Raz, Mr. Israel Shefi’s Night of Independence 361 Amnon Shamosh, “A Son of Two Cities” 363 A. B. Yehoshua, “Early in the Summer of 1970” 365
CONTENTS 1973 Lova Eliav, “The Seagull” 1959 Dahlia Ravikovitch, “Clockwork Doll” 366 Poetry and Popular Song 1960 Oded Avisar, “Evening Descends” 385 Yankev Fridman, “God No Longer Speaks” Natan Zach, “One Moment” 386 Shlomo Zamir, “An Old Song” 387 368 1947 Nathan Alterman, “The Silver Platter” Haim Hefer, “Dudu” 368 385 368 386 196Յ Nathan Alterman, “The Cobbler’s Song” 387 Uri Assaf, “Speak to Me with Flowers” 388 1948 Haim Gouri, “Behold, Our Bodies Are Laid Out” 369 Haim Hefer, “We Left Slowly” 369 Rafael Klatchkin, “Have Faith the Day Will Come” 370 1964 Ratson Halevi, “The Voice” 388 1965 1949 Haim Gouri, “The Song of Friendship” 370 Abraham Shlonsky, “The Oath” 370 Abraham Sutzkever, “Deer at the Red Sea” 371 Aharon Almog, “To the Sons Who Were Banished from Their Fathers’ Tables” 389 Nathan Alterman, “The Householder Departs from the City” 389 1950 David Avidan, “The Joke” 1966 Dan Almagor, “Kol Hakavod!” 389 Yona Wallach, “Yonatan” 390 371 1951 Uri Zvi Greenberg, “To God in Europe” 371 Shalom Rada’i, “A Fire Is Kindled within Me” 377 1952 Leah Goldberg, “The Love of Teresa de Meun” 195Յ Amir Gilboa, “Isaac” 379 Haya Vered, “The Zero Hour” 1954 Yehiel Mohar, “Sprinkler Hora” 379 380 1955 Yehuda Amichai, “God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children” 381 Yaakov Oriand, “Song of the Herdsmen” 381 1956 Emanuel Zamir, “A Well in the Field” 1957 Moshe Dor, “Evening of Roses” 382 382 1958 Rukhl Fishman, “The Sun and I” 383 Haim Gouri, “1923-1958” 383 Itzik Manger, “For Years I Wallowed” 384 Naomi Shemer, “Troubadour” 384 378 1967 Abba Kovner, “My Little Sister” 391 Moshe
Sartel, “The Grandfather I Once Had” 391 Naomi Shemer, “Yerushalayim Shel Zahav” 392 Yoram Taharlev, “Ammunition Hill” 392 Zelda, “Each Rose” 393 1968 Yehuda Amichai, “Jerusalem 1967” 394 Ehud Manor, “Next Year” 394 Yakov Rotblit, “Shir Leshalom” (A Song for Peace) 395 Meir Wieseltier, “Daddy and Mommy Went to the Movies, liana Stays Alone in the Armchair Looking at a Gray Book” 395 1970 Haim Be’er, “Transfiguration” 396 Arik Einstein and Shalom Hanoch, “Why Should I Take It to Heart” 397 Dan Pagis, “Twelve Faces of the Emerald” 397 Dan Pagis, “Written in Pencil on a Sealed Box-Car” 398 1971 Dudu Barak, “Flowers in the Rifle Barrel” 399 Xl
XU CONTENTS 197s? Ayin Tur-Malka, “Memorial Service” 399 197Յ Naomi Shemer, “Lu Yehi” 399 Ronny Someck, “Solo Arak” 400 Avot Yeshurun, “The Syrian-African Rift: Six Poems 401 EUROPE (19461973) Introduction 403 1952 André Chouraqui, Between East and West: A History of the Jews ofNorth Africa 426 405 1946 Dovid Diamant, “How We Found the Manuscripts of the Martyred Writers” 405 1947 Michał Borwicz, The Song of the Dying: To the History ofJewish Creativity under the Nazi Occupation 406 Shmerke Kaczerginski, The Song of the Vilna Ghetto 407 1949 Israel Kaplan, Jewish Folk-Expressions under the Nazi Yoke 408 Josef Wulf and Léon Poliakov, The Third Reich and the Jews 410 1962 411 1972 Henri Chemouilli, L’Arche, Dictionary ofFrench Judaism, “North African” 413 Arnold Mandel, L’Arche, Dictionary ofFrench Judaism, “Ashkenaz” 415 André Neher, L’Arche, Dictionary ofFrench Judaism, “Abraham” 416 Cultural, Political, and Religious Thought 418 1956 Siegfried Moses, “Programme for the Leo Baeck Institute ofjews from Germany” 428 Robert Weltsch, “Fool’s Paradise: German Jewry, 19ՅՅ-38” 430 1957 Hermann Levin Goldschmidt, “The Legacy of German Jewry” 431 Friedrich Torberg, “Applause for Anne Frank” 432 Isaac Deutscher, “The Non-Jewish Jew” 434 1961 Anna Langfus, “Conversation with Piotr Rawicz” 435 Aron Vergelis, “Inaugural Issue of Soviet Homeland” 437 1963 Edouard Roditi, “Jewish Artists from North Africa” 438 1964 Louis Jacobs, Principles ofthe Jewish Faith: An Analytical Study 439 1965 Georges Friedmann, The End ofthe Jewish People? 440 1946 Use Aichinger, “A Summons to Mistrust” Leo
Baeck, “The Idea Remains” 419 195Յ Martin Buber, “Genuine Dialogue and the Possibilities of Peace” 427 1958 1955 Moisei Beregovskii, “Jewish Folk Songs” 1948 René Cassin, “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights” 425 403 Anthologies 1947 Samuel Gringauz, “Jewish Destiny as the DPs See It: The Ideology of the Surviving Remnant” 420 Victor Klemperer, The Language of the Third Reich 421 Emmanuel Levinas, Time and the Other 423 418 1966 Jean Améry, “On the Necessity and Impossibility of Being a Jew” 442
CONTENTS Ignaz Maybaum, “European Judaism” 443 George Steiner, “A Kind of Survivor” 445 1967 Raymond Aron, De Gaulle, Israel, and the Jews 446 Jacques Derrida, “Edmond Jabès and the Question of the Book” 448 Jean-François Steiner, Treblinka 450 1956 David Daiches, Two Worlds: An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood 476 1958 Elie Wiesel, Night 477 1962 Albert Memmi, Portrait ofa Jew 478 1968 Zygmunt Bauman, “On Frustrations and Prestidigitators” 451 1969 Boris Kochubiyevsky, “The Case of Boris Kochubiyevsky” 452 Haim Žafrani, Jewish Education in the Land of Islam 454 1970 Elie Kedourie, “The Chatham House Version” 455 Peter Szondi, “Letter to Gershom Scholem” 458 1966 Ilya Ehrenburg, Post-War Years 1945-1954 Shmuel Gordon, “A Soviet Shtetl” 485 Henri Chemouilli, “The Repatriated Ten Years Later” 459 Aleksander Voronel, “The Social Preconditions of the National Awakening of the Jews in the USSR” 460 197Յ Gisèle Halimi, The Women’s Cause 462 Richard Marienstras, “The Jews of the Diaspora, or the Minority Vocation” 463 Adam Michnik, “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors” 466 468 1946 Viktor E. Frankl, “From Death-Camp to Existentialism: A Psychiatrist’s Path to a New Therapy” 468 Primo Levi, If This Is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz) 469 1947 Ruth Gruber, Destination Palestine: The Story of the Haganah Ship Exodus 1947 470 Moyshe Nudelman, “I, the Polish Jew” 473 1949 Leyb Rochman, The Pit and the Trap: A Chronicle of Survival 474 483 1967 Léon Ashkenazi, “Chapters of My Autobiography” 486 1968 Elias Canetti, “A Visit to the Mellah” 1972 Life Writing and Reportage 1963 Natalia Ginzburg, Family
Sayings 480 Artur Sandauer, Family Conflicts 481 488 1969 André Chouraqui, Letter to an Arab Friend 489 Hélène Cixous, Inside 490 Nahum Goldmann, The Autobiography ofNahum Goldmann 492 1970 Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope against Hope: A Memoir 493 1972 Emanuel Litvinoff, “Journey through a Small Planet” 494 Fiction, Drama, and Children’s Literature 497 1946 Arthur Koestier, Thieves in the Night Isaiah Spiegel, “Bread” 498 1947 Béla Zsolt, Nine Suitcases 500 1949 Jiří Weil, Life with a Star 502 1951 Adolf Rudnicki, “Ascension” 503 497 ХШ
XVI CONTENTS 1945 Miklós Adler, Home! Home? 581 Alfred Eisenstaedt, V-J Day at Times Square, August H, mö 581 Yevgeny Khaldei, Budapest Ghetto 582 Abel Pann, And G-d Remembered Rachel. And She Conceived, and Bore a Son 582 Moses Reinblatt, Dismantling Bent Props 583 Saul Steinberg, Untitled, New Yorker, February 3, 1945 Erwin Blumenfeld, Vogue, January 1,1950, cover 596 Chaim Gliksberg, Portrait ofltzik Manger 596 Zédé Schulmann, Membres de la Communautéjuive d’Ifrane 597 Unknown Artist, East End, London 597 ca. 1950 Grete Stern, Sueño No. 1: “Artículos eléctricos para el hogar” 598 19501951 583 Morris Topchevsky, Leaflets (Double V) 584 Dolfi Trost, Entopic Graphomania 584 Georg Ehrlich, The Young Lovers, Festival Garden, London, UK 598 1946 Adolph Gottlieb, Voyager’s Return 1951 Percival Goodman, B’nai Israel (Millburn, New Jersey) 599 Louis Stettner, Coming to America 599 Yosef Zaritsky, Yehiam (Life in a Kibbutz) 600 585 1947 Sid Grossman, Coney Island 585 Saul Leiter, Deborah at Tante Esther’s 586 Rebecca Lepkoff, Midtown Manhattan 586 Lippy Lipshitz, Moses Breaking the Tablets of Law 587 Yohanan Simon, Hashomer Hatzair Poster to Honor the 30th Anniversary of the October Revolution 587 Raphael Soyer, Imaginary Wall in My Studio 588 Erika Stone, Lower Eastside Façade 588 1948 Robert Capa, Troops Marching, Israel 589 Vivian Cherry, Untitled (Group ofBoys and Swastika) 589 Marcel Janeo, Nocturne (Death ofa Soldier) 590 Arthur Kolnik, Illustration to Y. L. Peretz’s A gilgl fun a nign 590 Jerome Liebling, May Day, Union Square, New York City 591 Margaret Michaelis-Sachs,
Self-Portrait, Parramatta River, Sydney 591 Nathan Rapoport, Warsaw Ghetto Memorial (Warsaw, Poland) 592 1949 Lee Krasner, Untitled 593 Barnett Newman, Abraham 593 Chana Orloff, Sculpture ofBen-Gurion 594 ca. 1949 Emmanuel Mané-Katz, Orchestra 594 1950 Henryk Berlewi, Chair with Red Matter 595 Fernand Bidon, Femmes marocaines 595 1951- 1952 Herbert Ferber, And the Bush Was Not Consumed 600 1952 Aharon Kahana, The Binding ofIsaac 601 Henry Vaiensi, Symphonie Vitale бої 1952- 1954 Lucien Hervé, ĽUnitéd’habitation à Nantes-Rezé 602 1953 Lucienne Bloch, Temple Emanuel Sanctuary Wall (Grand Rapids, Michigan) 602 Harvey Kurtzman, “Superduperman,” Mad #4 603 Mark Markov-Grinberg, Stone Flower Fountain, Moscow 603 Ruth Schloss, In the Ma‘obarah 604 Elbert Weinberg, Ritual Figure 604 Ossip Zadkine, De verwoeste stad (“The Destroyed City”), 1953, Plein 1940, Rotterdam 605 1953- 1954 Frank Auerbach, E. 0. W Nude 605 1954 Boris Carmi, Nahal Oz 606 André Kertész, Washington Square in the Snow, January 9,1934 боб Moses Soyer, Dancers Resting 607 Rudi Weissenstein, Nahalat Binyamin Street, Tel Aviv 607 1955 Leonard Baskin, The Strabismic Jew 608
CONTENTS Cornell Capa, Hebrew Lesson, Brooklyn, New York 608 Robert Frank, Yom Kippur, East River, New York City 609 Morris Lapidus, Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida. Over Pool to Hotel. Florida, Miami Beach 610 ca. 1955 David Goldblatt, Arriving Family, King George Street, Johannesburg 610 1955-1956 Mordechai Ardon, For the Fallen: Triptych 611 1956 William Klein, Summer Evening, Via di Monserrato, Rome 611 René Shapshak, Bust ofFormer President Harry S. Truman 612 1957 Helen Frankenthaler, Jacob ’s Ladder 613 Paul Goldman, David Ben-Gurion Standing on His Head (Sharon Hotel Beach, Herzliya) 613 Ben Shahn, Alphabet of Creation 614 1958 Jean-Michel Atlan, La Kahena 614 Sonia Delaunay, Rythme coloré 615 Jules Feiffer, Sick, Sick, Sick, comic strip, The Village Voice 615 Al Hirschfeld, Leonard Bernstein 616 Morris Louis, Tzadik 616 1959 Endre Bálint, Homesickness 617 Arnold Belkin, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 617 Mathias Goeritz, Message Number 7B, Ecclesiastes VII: 6 618 René Gościnny, Astérix le Gaulois, no. 1, cover 618 Dan Pagis, The Egg That Disguised Itself 619 Early 1960s Amiram Erev, Social Housing Blocks in Upper Nazareth 619 1960 Ziva Armoni and Hanan Hebron, The National and University Library 620 Anatoly Kaplan, Pakhar’ (Ploughman) 620 Gertrud Natzler and Otto Natzler, Apple Green Reduction Fired Glaze with Melt Fissures, Earthenware 621 Ori Reisman, Carob Tree Boulevard 621 Paul Schützer, Israeli Beatniks, Night Club Aviva Uri, Landscape II 622 ca. i960 Siona Shimshi, Torah Ark Curtain 622 623 1961 Saul Bass, Exodus 623 Aryeh Elhanani, Hall ofRemembrance at
Yad Vashem 624 William Żorach, Spirit of the Sea, Library Square Park, City ofBath, Maine 625 ca. 1961 Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, B’nai Or Prayer Shawl 625 1962 Marc Chagall, Benjamin, One of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, Stained-Glass Window, Hadassah Medical Centre, Jerusalem 626 David Hillman, Stained-Glass Window, Central Synagogue, Portland Street, London 627 Roy Lichtenstein, Masterpiece 628 Avigdor Stematsky, Etude 628 1962-1970 Yehezkel Streichman, Fig Tree in Studio Window 629 1963 Moshe Castel, Poesie de Canaan, I 629 Bruce Davidson, Construction of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge 630 Mikhail Grohman, Tomb of an Israeli Soldier I 630 Arnold Newman, Arnold Krupp 631 Gedulą Ogen, The Gathering ofIsrael, Kibbutz Galuyot 631 1964 Pedro Friedeberg, “Insist on yourself. .”from the Series Great Ideas of Western Man 632 Louise Nevelson, Homage to the Six Million 632 Fanny Rabel, La Ronda en el tiempo 633 Miriam Schapiro, Shrine II 633 1965 Leon Golub, Gigantomachy I 634 Alfred Mansfeld, Israel Museum 634 Larry Rivers, The History of the Russian Revolution: From Marx to Mayakovsky 635 XVII
xviii CONTENTS Unknown Artist, Abraham Joshua Heschel Marching with Martin Luther King Jr., in Selma, Alabama, March 21, 1969 635 Dan Reisinger, “Let My People Go”poster 646 Garry Winogrand, Mew York City, Three Women 1965-1966 Annelise Albers, Six Prayers Audrey Flack, Farb Family Portrait 636 1965-1968 Batia Lichansky, Holocaust and Rebirth (Kibbutz Mezer Sereni, Israel) 636 1965-1972 George Segal, The Costume Party 637 1966 Al Сарр, “Chickensouperman”from L’il Abner 637 Nahum Gutman, Mosaic Wall with History of Tel Aviv, Migdal Shalom (Shalom Tower) 638 Howard Kanovitz, Lunch at Rainer’s 638 Elaine Lustig Cohen, Primary Structures, cover 639 1967 Sorel Etrog, Survivors Are Mot Heroes 639 David Rubinger, Paratroopers at the Western Wall, June 7,1967 640 Tim (Louis Mitelberg), “Le peoplejuif. surde lui-même et dominateur.(“The Jews, a People Sure ofItselfand Domineering,.” Charles de Gaulle) 640 1967- 1972 Martha Rosier, Red Stripe Kitchen 641 1969-1970 647 1960s Dorothy Bohm, Latina, Southern Italy ca. 1960s Saul Borisov, Adam and Eve 648 648 1970 Samuel Bak, Houses in an Imaginary Landscape 649 Micha Bar-Am, Golda Meir 649 Judy Chicago, Exhibition Announcement, Jack Glenn Gallery, Artforum, October 1970 650 Moses Feigin, Beauty 650 Leon Levinstein, Handball Players, Houston Street, MY 651 Unknown Artist, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt Kneels in Front ofthe Jewish Heroes Monument Paying Tribute to Jews Killed by the Mazis during the 1949 Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, December 7,1970 651 1971 Dmitry Borisovitch Lion, Portrait ofa Man Nancy Spero, Codex Artaud
VII 652 1971- 2000 Erik Bulatov, Red Horizon 1972 Shlomo Dreizner, The Liberation ofJerusalem 641 Hersh (Grigory) Inger, Illustration to Sholem Aleichem, “The Haunted Tailor” 642 Boris Penson, The Artist behind Bars (Self-Portrait) 642 Oscar Rabin, Moscow Evening 643 Gus Schuettler, Daniel Cohn-Bendit Jumping the Police Barricade 643 André François, Sheep Readers, Le nouvel observateur, cover 653 Shmuel Katz, Leah Goldberg, Dira le-haskir, cover 654 Vadim Sidur, The Formula of Grief 654 Yigael Tumarkin, Jordan Valley Memorial Monument 655 Yaacov Agam, Double Metamorphosis III (Counterpoint and Sequence) 644 1969 Raffi Lavie, Untitled 644 Emanuele Luzzati, Golem, Teatro La Pergola, Firenze 645 Joshua Neustein and Georgette Batlle, Boots, Gallery House, Jerusalem 645 Lea Nikel, Untitled 646 652 653 1968 1968- 1969 647 1972- 1973 R. B. Kitaj, The Autumn of Central Paris (After Walter Benjamin) 655 Undated Alfred Bernheim, Portrait ofHannah Arendt 656 Moshe Gross, Laying the Pipes ofthe Mational Water Carrierfrom the Sea of Galilee to the Megev 657 Adam Muszka, Leaving Cheder 657 Leonardo Nierman, Solar Flame 658 Anna Ticho, Landscape ofJerusalem 658
CONTENTS DIVERSE DIASPORAS (19461973) Introduction 659 659 Anthologies 661 1951 Leybl Shiter, “What Is a Pinkes?” 1971 Ruth R. Wisse, The Schlemiel as Modern Hero 661 1955 Pinkes Varške (The Chronicle of Warsaw), A Memorial and a Witness 662 197Յ Arnnon Netser, Anthology ofPersian Songsfrom the Creations ofIranian Jewry 663 686 1947 Avrom Teytlboym, Warsaw Courtyards 686 1948 Jacques Lazarus, “To My Tunisian Friends” 688 689 1961 Mordecai Richler, “Their Canada and Mine” 1953 Joseph Messas, “The Teaching of Torah to Women” 666 691 1962 Melekh Ravitch, “My First Day in the Twentieth Century” 693 1957 Raymond Bénichou, Jewish Writings 668 Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized 670 Ronald Segal and Dan Jacobson, “Apartheid and South African Jewry: An Exchange” 671 1969 Yaacov Hasson, “Iquitos: The Jewish Soul in the Amazon, Notes of a Voyager” 694 1970 Larry Zolf, “Boil Me No Melting Pots, Dream Me No Dreams” 695 1958 Carlos de Nesry, Moroccan Jews in Their Hour of Decision 673 1971 Chaim Sacks, “Sweets from Sixpence” 1959 Paul Sebag, The Hara of Tunis: The Evolution ofa North-African Ghetto 674 697 Fiction, Drama, and Children’s Literature 699 1963 Jacques Lazarus, “Beyond the Test” 676 W. Gunther Plaut, The Rise ofReform Judaism 677 Pablo Schvartzman, “Noé Yarcho, Physician to the Jewish Gauchos” 678 680 684 1956 Yankev Botoshanski, “A Kol Nidre Service at the Gęsia Street Cemetery” 690 1950 Iraqi Zionist Underground, “A Call to the Jewish Community” 666 1968 León Rozitchner, To Be a Jew Life Writing and Reportage 1949 Sasson Shalom Dallal, “Last Letter” Cultural,
Political, and Religious Thought 666 1964 Marcel Bénabou, “Jews and Arabs in Morocco” 1969 Emil L. Fackenheim, “The Commanding Voice of Auschwitz” 681 Samuel Tarnopolsky, HalfofNothing 683 680 1946 Zvi Kolitz, “Yossel Rakover’s Appeal to God” 1947 Irma Ychou, The Bensatd Family 699 700 1948 Shalom Darwish, “A Convoy from the Village” 1949 Ted Allan, “Lies My Father Told Me” 704 701 XIX
XX CONTENTS 1967 Humberto Costantini, “Don luda” 1950 Claude Benady, Out ofPlay, the Dead 706 Elisa Chimenti, “The Cadi and the Jewish Merchant” 707 1969 Lázaro Liacho, On the Gutting Edge ofLife 741 Alejandra Pizarnik, “The Dead and the Rain” 742 1951 A. M. Klein, The Second Scroll 70B 195Յ Jean Daniel, The Mistake or the Second Life ofSylvain Regard 709 Abraham josef Dubelman, “The Faith Healer” 711 Albert Memmi, The Pillar ofSalt 712 1954 Samuel Pecar, Tales ofKleinville 713 1955 Meir Basri, “The Elementary School Teacher” 714 Salomón Brainsky, “Temptation” 715 Salomón Zytner, “The Bar Mitzvah Speech” 717 1956 Samuel Rawet, The Prophet and Other Stories Adele Wiseman, The Sacrifice 720 1957 David Viñas, An Everyday God 7x8 1958 Elisa Chimenti, At the Heart ofthe Harem 723 Danjacobson, “The Zulu and the Zeide” 724 1971 Marcos Ricardo Barnatán, The Labyrinth ofZion 744 Isidoro Blaisten, “Misery in Aries” 744 Alicia Steimberg, Musicians and Watchmakers 745 Mario Szichman, “Jews in the Promised Land” 746 1972 Eugenia Calny, Clara at Dawn 747 Alberto Dines, Gan I? 747 Eliezer Levin, Bom Retiro, or The Ghildhood Neighborhood 748 Chava Rosenfarb, The Tree ofLife: A Novel about Life in the Lodz Ghetto 750 Moacyr Scliar, A War Has No “Good End” 752 Poetry and Popular Song 1959 Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship ofDuddy Kravitz 725 Abraham Weisbaum, “Yente Tinifotsky” 727 1962 Natalio Budasoff, “Yoine Bird” 1970 Diego Viga, “The Stutterer’s Suicide and the Psychiatrist’s Dream” 743 1973 Clarice Lispector, The Stream ofLife 754 Jack Ludwig, A Woman ofHer Age 756 Esther Seligson,
Dreams Older Than Memory 721 1960 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, “A Birthday in London” 740 757 758 1948 Blanche Bendahan, “Bull” 758 Olga Kirsch, “Nostalgia” 758 729 731 1963 Isaac Chocrón, Ferocious Animals 732 Leonard Cohen, The Favourite Game 733 Osvaldo Dragún, “And They Told Us We Were Immortal” 735 1964 José Chudnovsky, “The Old Notebook” 737 Elisa Lerner, In the Vast Silence ofManhattan 738 1955 César Tiempo, “Paraphrase” 759 1956 Irving Layton, “On Seeing the Statuettes ofEzekiel and Jeremiah in the Church of Notre Dame” 759 1957 Sadia Lévy, “Prélude,” Abishag 760 i960 Phyllis Gotlieb, “This One’s On Me” 760 1962 Nissim Ezekiel, “Jewish Wedding in Bombay” Rokhl Korn, “On the Other Side of the Poem” 761 762
CONTENTS 1963 Saul Bellow, Great Jewish Short Stories 781 Uriel Weinreich, “Mapping a Culture” 781 1963 Jeanne Benguigui, “Song of Exile” 763 1966 Miriam Waddington, “Second Generation” 764 Lucy S. Dawidowicz, The Golden Tradition: Jewish Life and Thought in Eastern Europe 783 1968 Leonard Cohen, “The Story of Isaac” 764 197Յ The Jewish Catalog 1969 Max Guedj, “Quai Blériot” 765 1970 Albert Bensoussan, “Isbilia” 784 Cultural, Political, and Religious Thought 786 765 1973 Eli Mandel, “Day of Atonement: Standing” 1967 1946 766 Joshua Loth Liebman, Peace ofMind 786 1948 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (1946-1973) 767 Introduction 767 Anthologies 768 1947 Nahum N. Glatzer, The Language ofFaith: Selected Jewish Prayers 768 Marie Syrkin, Blessed Is the Match: The Story ofJewish Resistance 768 1949 David P. Boder, I Did Not Interview the Dead 769 Louis Finkelstein, The Jews, Their History, Culture, and Religion 771 Leo W. Schwarz, The Root and the Bough: The Epic of an Enduring People 774 195Յ Irving Howe and Eliezer Greenberg, A Treasury of Yiddish Stories 775 1955 Harold U. Ribalow, Mid-Century: An Anthology of Jewish Life and Culture in Our Times 777 1959 Isaac Rivkind, Jewish Money in Everyday Life, Cultural History and Folklore: A Lexicological Study 778 1961 Yudl Mark and Judah A. Joffe, The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language 779 Mordecai M. Kaplan, The Future of the American Jew 786 Simon Rawidowicz, “Israel: The Ever-Dying People” 788 Abram L. Sachar, “Brandeis University: The Pledge” 790 1949 Leslie A. Fiedler, “What Can We Do about Fagin? The Jew-Villain in Western
Tradition” 791 Sidney Hook, “Reflections on the Jewish Question” 792 Harold Rosenberg, “Does the Jew Exist? Sartre’s Morality Play about Anti-Semitism” 793 1950 Theodor Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, DanielJ. Levinson, and Nevitt Sanford, “List of Interview Questions Pertaining to Jews” 795 Robert Gordiš, The Challenge Facing Modern Jewish Scholarship 796 Max Horkheimer and Samuel H. Flowerman, Studies in Prejudice 798 Abraham Tabachnik, “Tradition and Revolt in Yiddish Poetry” 799 Lionel Trilling, “Wordsworth and the Rabbis” 800 1951 Ruth Gay, “The Jewish Object: A Shopper’s Report” 801 Abraham Joshua Heschel, “The Hiding God” 1952 Leo Strauss, Persecution and the Art of Writing 803 804 XXI
XXII CONTENTS Mark Zborowski and Elizabeth Herzog, Life Is with People: The Jewish Little-Town ofEastern Europe 806 195Յ Trude Weiss-Rosmarin, “America Is Not Babylonia” 807 1954 Joseph B. Soloveitchik, “Responsum on Orthodox Judaism in America” 809 1955 Harry L. Golden, “Jew and Gentile in the New South” 810 Will Herberg, Protestant—Catholic—Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology 812 Abraham Menes, “The East Side: Matrix of the Jewish Labor Movement” 813 Marshall Sklare, Conservative Judaism: An American Religious Movement 814 Lionel Trilling, “Isaac Babel, Introduction to Collected Stories” 815 1956 Nahum N. Glatzer, “The Frankfort Lehrhaus” 816 Nathan Glazer, “The Jewish Revival in America, II: Its Religious Side” 817 1959 Hannah Arendt, “Reflections on Little Rock” 819 Eliezer Berkovits, God, Man, and History 820 1961 Aleksander Hertz, The Jews in Polish Culture 821 1962 Betty Alschuler, “Notes from the American Revolution” 822 Salo W. Baron, “Can American Jewry Be Culturally Creative?” 824 Arthur A. Cohen, The Natural and the Supernatural Jew: An Historical and Theological Introduction 825 Abraham Joshua Heschel, Heavenly Torah: As Refracted through the Generations 826 Saul Lieberman, Hellenism in Jewish Palestine 828 1963 Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality ofEvil 828 Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique 829 Joachim Prinz, “America Must Not Remain Silent” 831 1964 Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, “Toward an ‘Order of B’nai Or’: A Program for a Jewish Liturgical Brotherhood” 832 1965 Judah Goldin, “Of Change and Adaptation in Judaism” 833
Joseph B. Soloveitchik, The Lonely Man ofFaith 834 1966 Gerson D. Cohen, “The Blessing of Assimilation in Jewish History” 835 Moshe Greenberg, “The Biblical Grounding of Human Value” 836 Richard L. Rubenstein, “Symposium on Jewish Belief’ 838 Nahum M. Sarna, Understanding Genesis 840 Elie Wiesel, The Jews ofSilence: A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry 840 1967 Shalom Spiegel, “Amos vs. Amaziah” 841 Isadore Twersky, “The Shulhan ‘Aruk: Enduring Code ofJewish Law” 843 Max Weinreich, “The Reality ofjewishness vs. the Ghetto Myth” 845 1968 Robert Alter, “Jewish Dreams and Nightmares” 846 Arthur Green, “Havurat Shalom: Draft of a Covenant” 848 Arthur Hertzberg, The French Enlightenment and the Jews 849 1969 Irving Howe, “The New York Intellectuals” 850 Harry Orlinsky, Notes on the New Translation of the Torah 851 M. J. Rosenberg, “To Uncle Tom and Other Such Jews” 852 1970 Cynthia Ozick, “Toward a New Yiddish” 853 1971 Rachel Adler, “The Jew Who Wasn’t There” 854 Jacob Neusner, There We Sat Down: Talmudic Judaism in the Making 855 James A. Sleeper, The New Jews 856 1972 Ezrat Nashim, “Jewish Women Call for Change” 858
CONTENTS Fiction, Drama, and Children’s Literature 890 1973 The Jewish Catalog, “Kashrut” 859 Susan Sontag, “Photography” 859 Arthur Waskow, “How to Bring Mashiah” Life Writing and Reportage 1946 Sholem Asch, East River 890 Isaac Rosenfeld, Passagefrom Home Jo Sinclair, Wasteland 892 860 862 1946 Leon Sciaky, Farewell to Salónica: City at the Crossroads 862 1947 H. Leivick, With the Saving Remnant 1947 Laura Z. Hobson, Gentleman’s Agreement 893 Maurice Schwartz, Shylock and His Daughter 894 863 1949 Ephraim Lisitzky, In the Grip of Cross-Currents 864 Judd L. Teller, “Goyim” 866 Jehiel Isaiah Trunk, Poland: Memoirs and Scenes 868 1950 Anzia Yezierska, Red Ribbon on a White Horse 870 1951 Alfred Kazin, “The Kitchen” 871 David de Sola Pool, My Spiritual Autobiography 872 874 1957 Howard Fast, The Naked God: The Writer and the Communist Party 876 1958 A. M. Rosenthal, “There Is No News from Auschwitz” 878 1950 Hortense Calisher, “Old Stock” 901 Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Family Moskat 898 902 Chaim Grade, “My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner” 903 195Յ Saul Bellow, The Adventures ofAugie March Sylvia Regan, The Fifth Season 905 1972 882 1973 Heda Margolius Kovaly, Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague ід4і-ід68 885 904 1954 Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, The Diary of Anne Frank 907 Clifford Odets, The Flowering Peach 908 1956 Meyer Levin, Compulsion 881 Joseph Buloff, From the Old Marketplace Hortense Calisher, Herself 884 1949 Paul Goodman, “A Memorial Synagogue” Arthur Miller, Death ofa Salesman 899 1955 Herman Wouk, Marjorie Morningstar 1959 Raphael Lemkin, Totally
Unofficial: The Autobiography ofRaphael Lemkin 879 1967 Norman Podhoretz, Making It 1948 Howard Fast, My Glorious Brothers 896 Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead 897 1951 195Յ 1954 Ben Hecht, A Child of the Century 873 Reuven Iceland, At Goodman and Levine’s 891 909 910 1958 Samuel Nathaniel Behrman, The Cold Wind and the Warm 911 Bernard Malamud, “The Last Mohican” 913 Leon Uris, Exodus 914 1959 Paddy Chayefsky, The Tenth Man 915 Grace Paley, “The Loudest Voice” 917 Philip Roth, “Eli, the Fanatic” 919 1961 Joseph Heller, Catch-22 920 ХХШ
XXIV CONTENTS 923 1956 Jacob Glatstein, “Sunday Shtetl” 924 1957 Allen Grossman, “I Am in Babylon Dying” 1962 Herb Gardner, A Thousand Clowns 1963 Bernard Malamud, “The Jewbird” 1964 Saul Bellow, Herzog 925 Bel Kaufman, Up the Down Staircase 925 Joseph Stein, Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock, Fiddler on the Roof 927 1966 Cynthia Ozick, “The Pagan Rabbi” 929 Maurice Sendak, “Among the Wild Things” [A Review by Nat HentoflJ 930 941 1959 Allen Ginsberg, “Kaddish: Hymmnn” 941 942 1960 Chaim Grade, “Elegy for the Soviet Yiddish Writers” 943 1962 Reyzl Zychlinsky, “Everything Will Remember” 1969 Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler’s Planet 933 Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint 933 1965 Bob Dylan, “Like a Rolling Stone” 945 John Hollander, “The Ninth ofAb” 946 George Oppen, “Psalm” 947 Gabriel Preil, “New York: February 1965” 948 Malka Heifetz Tussman, “Water Without Sound” 948 1970 Blume Lempel, “Even the Heavens Tell Lies” 934 Neil Simon, The Prisoner ofSecond Avenue 935 1968 Anthony Hecht, “Rites and Ceremonies” Carl Rakosi, “Meditation” 950 1972 1971 Linda Pastan, “Passover” 1967 Chaim Potok, The Chosen 932 Herbert Gold, My Last Two Thousand Years Poetry and Popular Song 1946 938 1947 Aaron Zeitlin, “To Be a Jew” 938 1948 David Ignatow, “Europe and America” Howard Nemerov, “Nicodemus” Louis Zukofsky, ‘“A’-ւշ” 940 939 Film Selections Credits 1954 Karl Shapiro, “The Alphabet” 938 197Յ Anna Frąjlich, “Acclimatization” 954 Isaac Goldemberg, “Jews in Hell” 954 José Kozer, “Grandfather Is Facing Death” Marge Piercy, “To Be of Use” 955 Musical Selections 1950 951 1972 Maxine Kumin, “Woodchucks” 952
Adrienne Rich, “Diving into the Wreck” 938 Jacob Glatstein, “WithoutJews” 937 957 961 965 Index of Authors and Artists 941 948 1009 952 955 945
Contents Advisory Boards xxv 1942 Oyneg Shabes Archive, “Guidelines for the Study of the Warsaw Ghetto” 10 Project Staff xxvi Acknowledgments xxvii Introduction to The Posen Library ofjewish Culture and Civilization, by Deborah Dash Moore and James E. Young xxix How to Read This Book xxxvi Introduction to Volume 9, by Samuel D. Kassow and David G. Roskies xxxviii 194Յ Yehuda Even-Shmuel, Midrashim ofRedemption Berakha Habas, Lettersfrom the Ghettos 12 Oskar Rosenfeld, “Encyclopedia of the Łódź Ghetto” 13 Leo W. Schwarz, Memoirs ofMy People through a Thousand Years 15 11 1945 І9З91945 Introduction 1 Anthologies 2 Avraham Levite, “Introduction to the Projected Anthology Auschwitz" 16 Isaac E. Rontch, Jewish Youth at War: Lettersfrom American Soldiers 18 1940 Louis Brunot and Elie Malka, “Judeo-Arabic Proverbs from Fez” 2 Antek Zuckerman and Eliyohu Gutkowski, Suffering and Heroism in the Jewish Past in Light of the Present 3 Cultural, Political, and Religious Thought 19 1941 Corinne Chochem and Muriel Roth, Palestine Dances! 5 Israel Halperin, The Book of Valor 6 Shimon Huberband, “Ghetto Folklore” 7 Samuel Felix Mendelsohn, Let Laughter Ring 9 1940 José Bénech, “Attempt to Explain a Mellah” 1939 Simon Dubnow, “What Should We Do in Hainan’s Times?” 19 Max Horkheimer, “The Jews and Europe” 20 21 1941 Erich Fromm, Escapefrom Freedom 22 Abraham Lewin, “I. M. Weissenberg Memorial” Kurt Lewin, “Self-Hatred amongjews” 25 24
VI CONTENTS YosefYitshak Schneersohn, “First Proclamation: 26 May 1941” 27 Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism 28 1942 Erich Auerbach, “Odysseus’ Scar” 31 Gustawajarecka, “The Last Stage of Deportation Is Death” 32 Horace M. Kallen, “The National Being and the Jewish Community” 33 Zelig Kalmanovitch, “A Diary of the Nazi Ghetto in Vilna” 34 Abba Kovner, “Call to Arms” 36 Israel Milejkowski, “Answer to the Oyneg Shabes Questionnaire” 37 Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, The Holy Fire 39 Stephen S. Wise, “Deliverance Will Come” 40 1943 Nissim ben Shimon, Hitler’s Haggadah 42 Bruno Bettelheim, “Individual and Mass Behavior in Extreme Situations” 44 Umberto Cassuto, “The Israelite Epic” 46 Szymon Draenger, “In Defense of the Natural Response” 47 Lion Feuchtwanger, “The Working Problems of the Writer in Exile” 49 Noah Golinkin, Jerome Lipnick, and M. Bertram Sachs, “Retribution Is Not Enough” 50 Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko, “Letter to the Art Editor of the New York Times” 52 Fiilöp Grünwald, “The Report of the Directorate of the Hungarian National Jewish Museum” 53 Judah L. Magnes, “Toward Peace in Palestine” 54 Yonatan Ratosh, “An Epistle to Hebrew Youth” 56 Emanuel Ringelblum, “Oyneg Shabes Archive” 57 Fishel Schneersohn, “The Spiritual Upheaval in Israel in the Wake of the Holocaust” 59 Zalman Shazar, “The Heritage of 5703” 60 Joseph B. Soloveitchik, HalakhicMan 62 Issachar Shlomo Teichtal, A Joyful Mother of Children 64 Joshua Trachtenberg, The Devil and the Jews: The Medieval Conception ofthe Jew and Its Relation to Modern Antisemitism 65 1944 American Jewish
Committee, “Declaration of Human Rights” 66 Hannah Arendt, “The Jew as Pariah: A Hidden Tradition” 67 Asher Barash, “Parting Words” 68 David Ben-Gurion, “The Imperatives of the Jewish Revolution” 70 Arthur Koestier, “On Disbelieving Atrocities” 71 Isaac Rosenfeld, “The Situation of the Jewish Writer” 73 Gershom Scholem, “Reflections on Modernjewish Studies” 74 1945 Elliot E. Cohen, “An Act of Affirmation” 75 Alberto Gerchunoff, “The Nazi Crematorium in the Movie Houses of Buenos Aires” 76 Hayim Greenberg, “The Universalism of the Chosen People” 78 Abraham Joshua Heschel, “The Eastern European Era injewish History” 79 Life Writing and Reportage 81 1940 Marc Bloch, “The Testamentary Instructions of Marc Bloch” 81 William Goldman, East End My Cradle 82 Raymond-Raoul Lambert, Diary ofa Witness 83 Michael Molho, Traditions and Customs of the Sephardic Jews ofSalónica 85 1941 Leyb Goldin, “Chronicle of a Single Day” 87 Chaim A. Kaplan, Scroll ofAgony 88 Beri Katznelson, My Way to Palestine 89 Peretz Opoczyński, “Goyim in the Ghetto” 90 1942 Moshe Flinker, Diary 92 Herman Kruk, The Last Days ofthejerusahm of Lithuania: Chroniclesfrom the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps 94 Abraham Lewin, A Cup of Tears: A Diary ofthe Warsaw Ghetto 96 Israel Lichtenstein, “Last Testament” 97 Isaac ben Jacob Mamo, “Introduction to Translation of Avraham Mapu’s The Hypocrite into Judeo-Arabic” 97 Yehoshue Perle, “4580” 99 Puah Rakovsky, My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman: Memoirs ofa Zionist Feminist in Poland 100 Josef Zelkowicz, “In These Nightmarish Days” 102 Stefan Zweig, “Universitas Vitae” 103
CONTENTS 1943 Stanisław Adler, “Warsaw, Aryan Side” 104 Gedalyahu Aion, “The Lithuanian Yeshivas” 105 Rachel Auerbach, “Yizkor, 1943” 106 Shloyme Bikl, A Cityful ofJews 107 Robert Borgel, Yellow Star and Swastika: A Story of Servitude 109 Gusta Dawidsohn-Draenger, Justyna’s Diary 110 Sofia Dubnova-Erlich, “Shtetl” 111 Elhanan Elkes, “Last Will and Testament” 113 Paul Ghez, Six Months under the Boot 115 Etty Hillesum, Lettersfrom Westerbork 117 Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police, “History of the Viliampole Jewish Ghetto Police” 119 Baruch Milch, Can Heaven Be Void? 121 Calei Perechodnik, “Letter to Anka” 121 Oskar Rosenfeld, “Chanukah in the Ghetto” 122 Mihail Sebastian, Journal, 1935-1944: The Fascist Years 123 Ephraim E. Urbach, War Journals: Diary ofa Jewish Chaplainfrom Eretz-Israel in the British Army 125 Artur-Shmuel Ziegelboym, “A Letter to the Polish Premier” 127 1940 Deimore Schwartz, “America! America!” 147 Shoshana Shababo, “Dina’s Braids” 148 Chaim Sloves, Haman’s Downfall 150 Boris Yampolski, Country Fair 151 1941 S. Y. Agnon, “From Foe to Friend” 153 Budd Schulberg, What Makes Sammy Run? Bernardo Verbitsky, “It’s Not Easy to Start Living” 156 155 1942 Samuel Eichelbaum, “Nuptial Divorce” 156 Haim Hazaz, “The Sermon” 157 Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française 158 194Յ Der Nister, “Meyer Landshaft” 160 Leah Goldberg, My Friendsfrom Arnon Street 160 Lázaro Liacho, “Blood” 162 Rivke Rubin, “At the Well” 163 Oyzer Warshawsky, “A Contract” 165 1944 1944 Anonymous, “The Tragedy of ist and 2nd June, 1941 in the Capital of Iraq” 128 Anne Frank, The Diary ofa Young Girl 129 Zalmen
Gradowski, “The Czech Transport: A Chronicle of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando” 131 Gonda Redlich, Terezín Diary 133 I. J. Singer, “Of a World That Is No More” 133 1944-1945 Helen Jacobus Apte, Heart ofa Wife: The Diary ofa Southern Jewish Woman 135 1945 Roland Gittelsohn, “Consider Iwo Jima” 137 A. M. Klein, “Reflections on V-E Day” 138 Joseph Messas, “Victory Day in Tlemcen, Algeria” 140 Ernő Szép, The Smell ofHumans: A Memoir of the Holocaust in Hungary 141 Fiction, Drama, and Children’s Literature 144 1939 Sholem Asch, The Nazarene 144 Milton Steinberg, As a Driven Leaf 146 Esther Kreitman, Diamonds 166 Anna Seghers, “Mail to the Promised Land” 168 1945 S. Y. Agnon, Only Yesterday 169 Yekhiel Falikman, “The Only One in the Town” 170 Arthur Laurents, Home of the Brave 172 Arthur Miller, Focus 173 Yosef Rabin, “Trip Home” 175 Isaac Bashevis Singer, “Simple Gimpl” 176 Poetry and Popular Song 178 1940 Nathan Alterman, “The Mole” 178 Mordecai Gebirtig, “Moments of Hope” 179 Carlos Grünberg, “Insult” 179 Charles Reznikoff, “A Short History of Israel, Notes and Glosses” 180 Aaron Zeitlin and Sholem Secunda, “Donna Donna” 180 1941 Yocheved Bat-Miriam, “Hagar” 181 Shulamit Kalugai, “Jezebel” 182 Itzik Manger, “Cain and Abel” 182 Vil
ѴШ CONTENTS Malka Heifetz Tussman, “You’ll Return with God’s Help” 209 Julian Tuwim, “We Polish Jews” 210 1942 Itzik Fefer, “I Am a Jew” 183 Pavel Friedman, “The Butterfly” 184 Zuzanna Ginczanka, “Non omnis moriar” 185 Hirsh Glik, “Silence, and a Starry Night” 185 Shmerke Kaczerginski, “Still, Still” 186 Yosef Kirman, “I Speak to You Openly, My Child” 186 Stanley Kunitz, “Father and Son” 188 Henryka Łazowertówna, “The Little Smuggler” Simkhe-Bunem Shayevitsh, “Lekh-lekho” 189 1945 Ella Amitan, “In the Army” 212 Kadya Molodovsky, “God of Mercy” 212 Jacques Taraboulos, “The Neila” 213 189 ISRAEL (1946-1973) Introduction 215 215 ca. 1942 Leah Rudnitsky, “Birds Are Drowsing” 191 1943 Hillel Bavli, “The Martyrdom of the 93 Beit Ya‘akov Girls” 192 Paul Celan, “Black Flakes” 192 Else Dormitzer, “Census” 193 Jacob Glatstein, “I Have Never Been Here Before” 194 Hirsh Glik, “Never Say” 194 Leah Goldberg, “Nights” 195 Yehuda Karni, “The Month of Rescue” 195 A. M. Klein, “And in That Drowning Instant” 195 Else Lasker-Schiiler, “My Blue Piano” 196 Aaron Leyeles, “The God of Israel” 196 Peretz Markish, “Shards” 197 Yehuda Haim Aaron HaCohen Perahia, “The Third Cry in Anguish in Salonika” 197 Miklós Radnóti, “The Dreadful Angel” 198 Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, “The Farmer and the Cowman” 199 Karl Shapiro, “Lord I Have Seen Too Much” 200 Noah Stern, “In Sand and Water” 200 Abraham Sutzkever, “How?” 201 Abraham Sutzkever, “A Load of Shoes” 201 Władysław Szlengel, “Things” 202 1944 Ion Degen, “As You Die There in Agony, Brother” 203 Jacob Fichman, Corner ofthe Field 204 Yitshak
Katzenelson, Song of the Murdered Jewish People 205 Koro Saloniko, “In Polish Lands” 208 Stefánia Mándy, “Consciousness” 208 Muriel Rukeyser, “Letter to the Front” 209 Hanna Szenes, “Blessed Is the Match” 209 Anthologies 216 1947 Binyamin Tenenbaum, One ofa City and Two ofa Family 216 1949 Dov Sadan, A Bowl ofRaisins, or A Thousand and One Jokes 218 1954 Yitzhak Zuckerman and Moshe Basok, The Book ofthe Ghetto Wars: Between the Walls, in the Gamps, in the Forests 220 1956 Dan Ben-Amotz and Haim Hefer, A Bag ofLies 221 1958 Shlomo Tanai, Azriel Okhmani, and Moshe Shamir, A Generation in the Land 223 1959 S. Y. Agnon, “The Making of This Book” 224 1964 Khone Shmeruk, A Mirror on a Stone: The Poetry and Prose of Twelve Martyred Yiddish Writers in the Soviet Union 225 1972 Dan Ben-Amotz and Netiva Ben-Yehuda, World Dictionary ofHebrew Slang 226 Cultural, Political, and Religious Thought 228 1948 Menachem M. Kasher, The Israel Passover Haggadah 228
CONTENTS Mordecai Nimtsa-bi, Choose Yourselfa Hebrew Name! 229 Provisional Government of the State of Israel, “Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel” 231 1949 Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, “The Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East” 232 Chaim Weizmann, “First Address to the Knesset” 1964 Elie Eliachar and David Ben-Gurion, “Who Is a Sephardi?” 260 1965 Shimon Balias, “Notes to an Old-New Debate” 262 Haim Zeev Hirschberg, A History of the Jews in North Africa 264 234 1950 Barukh Kurzweil, Essays on the Stories ofShai Agnon 235 1951 Yehezkel Kaufmann, “The Bible and Mythological Polytheism” 237 1953 Alexander Uriah Boskowicz, “The Problems of Native Music in Israel” 239 Yeshayahu Leibowitz, “Religious Praxis: The Meaning of Halakhah” 241 1954 Sami Michael, “The Newly Arrived Men of Letters” 242 Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel, “Nationalism and Its Awareness” 244 1971 Amos Elon, “An Open Wound” 267 Yehuda Nini, “Thoughts on the Third Destruction” 269 Gershon Shaked, The New Wave in Hebrew Fiction 270 1972 Amos Oz, “Under This Blazing Light” 272 1973 Amalia Kahana-Carmon, “What Did the War of Independence Do to Its Writers?” 274 Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff, “A Culture Stillborn” 275 1957 Haim Gamzu, Painting and Sculpture in Israel 1967 The First Manifesto of the “Greater Land of Israel Movement” 265 Yitzhak Rabin, “Address upon Receiving the Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy at the Hebrew University ofjerusalem” 266 246 1958 Avraham Abbas, “From Ingathering to Integration” 247 Jacob Katz, Tradition and Crisis: Jewish Society at the End of the Middle Ages 248 Dan
Miron, “Temei Tsiklag: The Artistic Problems of a War Story” 250 Life Writing and Reportage 278 1947 Julius Margolin, A Voyage to the Land ofZe-ka 278 1948 Uri Avnery, 1948. A Soldier’s Tale: The Bloody Road to Jerusalem 279 Dov Sadan, “Three Foundations (Sholem Aleichem and the Yiddish Literary Tradition)” 252 1949 Aryeh Gelblum, “I Was a New Immigrant for a Month: The Aliyah from Yemen and the African Problem” 282 1960 Ben-Zion Dinur, Days of War and Revolution: Memories ofa Way ofLife 254 1952 Amos Kenan, “Dani: In Memoriam” 284 Menahem Shemi, Friends Talking about Jimmy 1961 Gideon Hausner, “Six Million Accusers” 1955 Salman Shina, From Babylonia to Zion 1959 257 1962 Haim Hazaz, “On Literature and the State” 259 1956 Moshe Dayan, “Eulogy for Roi Rotberg” 286 288 285 ЇХ
CONTENTS 1957 Yigael Yadin, The Message of the Scrolls 289 1961 Ka-Tzetnik 135633, “Testimony at the Eichmann Trial” 292 1954 Nissim Aloni, Most Cruel ofAll the Kings 320 Ephraim Kishon, “The Difference” 321 1955 Sami Michael, “The Artist and the Falafel” 1962 Nissim Benjamin Gamlieli, “Yemenite Jews and the Geula Refugee Camp in Aden” 293 1956 Abraham Sutzkever, “Green Aquarium” 1965 Aharon Megged, Hanna Senesh 325 Uri Orlev, The Lead Soldiers 328 Pinhas Sadeh, Life as a Parable 329 Ita Kalish, “Life in a Hasidic Court in Russian Poland toward the End of the 19th and the Early 20th Centuries” 294 1966 Leah Goldberg, “A Letter to the Readers ofMy Friends from Arnon Street''’ 295 1967 Amos Oz, “The Last War or the Third, That Is the Question: A Conversation in Kibbutz Ein Shemer” 296 Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff, “A Letter from Mama Camouna” 298 Fiction, Drama, and Children’s Literature 300 Natan Shaham, “The Battle of the Ink-Drawn Flag” 300 Moshe Shamir, He Walked through the Fields 302 S. Yizhar, “The Prisoner” 305 1949 Yehuda Burla, “Aunt Joya” 307 Yigal Mossinson, In the Negev Plains: A Play in Three Acts 309 Gershon Shofman, “Remove Your Shoes” 311 1950 Yehudit Hendel, “A Common Grave” 312 Aharon Megged, “The Name” 313 Benjamin Tammuz, “Sands of Gold” 315 195Յ Ka-Tzetnik 135633, House ofDolls 317 Moshe Shamir, “The Opening to the Story” 1961 Yehuda Amichai, “Love in Reverse” 1962 Shlomo Kalo, “The Pile” 332 334 336 1964 Shimon Balias, The Ma‘abarah (The Immigrant Transit Camp) 339 1965 Hanoch Bartov, The Brigade 340 1966 Amalia Kahana-Carmon, “The Glass Bell” 1948 318
324 1958 1963 Ehud Ben-Ezer, The Stone Quarry 1968 323 342 1967 Aharon Appelfeld, “The Escape” 344 Naomi Frankel, Saul and Johanna 347 1968 Dan Ben-Amotz, To Remember՛, to Forget Yoram Kaniuk, Adam Resurrected 350 1971 S. Y. Agnon, Shira 352 Haim Gouri, The Crazy Book 348 353 1972 Shulamit Hareven, City ofMany Days 354 Hanoch Levin, Ya’akobi Leidental 357 Amos Oz, My Michael 360 Avraham Raz, Mr. Israel Shefi’s Night of Independence 361 Amnon Shamosh, “A Son of Two Cities” 363 A. B. Yehoshua, “Early in the Summer of 1970” 365
CONTENTS 1973 Lova Eliav, “The Seagull” 1959 Dahlia Ravikovitch, “Clockwork Doll” 366 Poetry and Popular Song 1960 Oded Avisar, “Evening Descends” 385 Yankev Fridman, “God No Longer Speaks” Natan Zach, “One Moment” 386 Shlomo Zamir, “An Old Song” 387 368 1947 Nathan Alterman, “The Silver Platter” Haim Hefer, “Dudu” 368 385 368 386 196Յ Nathan Alterman, “The Cobbler’s Song” 387 Uri Assaf, “Speak to Me with Flowers” 388 1948 Haim Gouri, “Behold, Our Bodies Are Laid Out” 369 Haim Hefer, “We Left Slowly” 369 Rafael Klatchkin, “Have Faith the Day Will Come” 370 1964 Ratson Halevi, “The Voice” 388 1965 1949 Haim Gouri, “The Song of Friendship” 370 Abraham Shlonsky, “The Oath” 370 Abraham Sutzkever, “Deer at the Red Sea” 371 Aharon Almog, “To the Sons Who Were Banished from Their Fathers’ Tables” 389 Nathan Alterman, “The Householder Departs from the City” 389 1950 David Avidan, “The Joke” 1966 Dan Almagor, “Kol Hakavod!” 389 Yona Wallach, “Yonatan” 390 371 1951 Uri Zvi Greenberg, “To God in Europe” 371 Shalom Rada’i, “A Fire Is Kindled within Me” 377 1952 Leah Goldberg, “The Love of Teresa de Meun” 195Յ Amir Gilboa, “Isaac” 379 Haya Vered, “The Zero Hour” 1954 Yehiel Mohar, “Sprinkler Hora” 379 380 1955 Yehuda Amichai, “God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children” 381 Yaakov Oriand, “Song of the Herdsmen” 381 1956 Emanuel Zamir, “A Well in the Field” 1957 Moshe Dor, “Evening of Roses” 382 382 1958 Rukhl Fishman, “The Sun and I” 383 Haim Gouri, “1923-1958” 383 Itzik Manger, “For Years I Wallowed” 384 Naomi Shemer, “Troubadour” 384 378 1967 Abba Kovner, “My Little Sister” 391 Moshe
Sartel, “The Grandfather I Once Had” 391 Naomi Shemer, “Yerushalayim Shel Zahav” 392 Yoram Taharlev, “Ammunition Hill” 392 Zelda, “Each Rose” 393 1968 Yehuda Amichai, “Jerusalem 1967” 394 Ehud Manor, “Next Year” 394 Yakov Rotblit, “Shir Leshalom” (A Song for Peace) 395 Meir Wieseltier, “Daddy and Mommy Went to the Movies, liana Stays Alone in the Armchair Looking at a Gray Book” 395 1970 Haim Be’er, “Transfiguration” 396 Arik Einstein and Shalom Hanoch, “Why Should I Take It to Heart” 397 Dan Pagis, “Twelve Faces of the Emerald” 397 Dan Pagis, “Written in Pencil on a Sealed Box-Car” 398 1971 Dudu Barak, “Flowers in the Rifle Barrel” 399 Xl
XU CONTENTS 197s? Ayin Tur-Malka, “Memorial Service” 399 197Յ Naomi Shemer, “Lu Yehi” 399 Ronny Someck, “Solo Arak” 400 Avot Yeshurun, “The Syrian-African Rift: Six Poems 401 EUROPE (19461973) Introduction 403 1952 André Chouraqui, Between East and West: A History of the Jews ofNorth Africa 426 405 1946 Dovid Diamant, “How We Found the Manuscripts of the Martyred Writers” 405 1947 Michał Borwicz, The Song of the Dying: To the History ofJewish Creativity under the Nazi Occupation 406 Shmerke Kaczerginski, The Song of the Vilna Ghetto 407 1949 Israel Kaplan, Jewish Folk-Expressions under the Nazi Yoke 408 Josef Wulf and Léon Poliakov, The Third Reich and the Jews 410 1962 411 1972 Henri Chemouilli, L’Arche, Dictionary ofFrench Judaism, “North African” 413 Arnold Mandel, L’Arche, Dictionary ofFrench Judaism, “Ashkenaz” 415 André Neher, L’Arche, Dictionary ofFrench Judaism, “Abraham” 416 Cultural, Political, and Religious Thought 418 1956 Siegfried Moses, “Programme for the Leo Baeck Institute ofjews from Germany” 428 Robert Weltsch, “Fool’s Paradise: German Jewry, 19ՅՅ-38” 430 1957 Hermann Levin Goldschmidt, “The Legacy of German Jewry” 431 Friedrich Torberg, “Applause for Anne Frank” 432 Isaac Deutscher, “The Non-Jewish Jew” 434 1961 Anna Langfus, “Conversation with Piotr Rawicz” 435 Aron Vergelis, “Inaugural Issue of Soviet Homeland” 437 1963 Edouard Roditi, “Jewish Artists from North Africa” 438 1964 Louis Jacobs, Principles ofthe Jewish Faith: An Analytical Study 439 1965 Georges Friedmann, The End ofthe Jewish People? 440 1946 Use Aichinger, “A Summons to Mistrust” Leo
Baeck, “The Idea Remains” 419 195Յ Martin Buber, “Genuine Dialogue and the Possibilities of Peace” 427 1958 1955 Moisei Beregovskii, “Jewish Folk Songs” 1948 René Cassin, “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights” 425 403 Anthologies 1947 Samuel Gringauz, “Jewish Destiny as the DPs See It: The Ideology of the Surviving Remnant” 420 Victor Klemperer, The Language of the Third Reich 421 Emmanuel Levinas, Time and the Other 423 418 1966 Jean Améry, “On the Necessity and Impossibility of Being a Jew” 442
CONTENTS Ignaz Maybaum, “European Judaism” 443 George Steiner, “A Kind of Survivor” 445 1967 Raymond Aron, De Gaulle, Israel, and the Jews 446 Jacques Derrida, “Edmond Jabès and the Question of the Book” 448 Jean-François Steiner, Treblinka 450 1956 David Daiches, Two Worlds: An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood 476 1958 Elie Wiesel, Night 477 1962 Albert Memmi, Portrait ofa Jew 478 1968 Zygmunt Bauman, “On Frustrations and Prestidigitators” 451 1969 Boris Kochubiyevsky, “The Case of Boris Kochubiyevsky” 452 Haim Žafrani, Jewish Education in the Land of Islam 454 1970 Elie Kedourie, “The Chatham House Version” 455 Peter Szondi, “Letter to Gershom Scholem” 458 1966 Ilya Ehrenburg, Post-War Years 1945-1954 Shmuel Gordon, “A Soviet Shtetl” 485 Henri Chemouilli, “The Repatriated Ten Years Later” 459 Aleksander Voronel, “The Social Preconditions of the National Awakening of the Jews in the USSR” 460 197Յ Gisèle Halimi, The Women’s Cause 462 Richard Marienstras, “The Jews of the Diaspora, or the Minority Vocation” 463 Adam Michnik, “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors” 466 468 1946 Viktor E. Frankl, “From Death-Camp to Existentialism: A Psychiatrist’s Path to a New Therapy” 468 Primo Levi, If This Is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz) 469 1947 Ruth Gruber, Destination Palestine: The Story of the Haganah Ship Exodus 1947 470 Moyshe Nudelman, “I, the Polish Jew” 473 1949 Leyb Rochman, The Pit and the Trap: A Chronicle of Survival 474 483 1967 Léon Ashkenazi, “Chapters of My Autobiography” 486 1968 Elias Canetti, “A Visit to the Mellah” 1972 Life Writing and Reportage 1963 Natalia Ginzburg, Family
Sayings 480 Artur Sandauer, Family Conflicts 481 488 1969 André Chouraqui, Letter to an Arab Friend 489 Hélène Cixous, Inside 490 Nahum Goldmann, The Autobiography ofNahum Goldmann 492 1970 Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope against Hope: A Memoir 493 1972 Emanuel Litvinoff, “Journey through a Small Planet” 494 Fiction, Drama, and Children’s Literature 497 1946 Arthur Koestier, Thieves in the Night Isaiah Spiegel, “Bread” 498 1947 Béla Zsolt, Nine Suitcases 500 1949 Jiří Weil, Life with a Star 502 1951 Adolf Rudnicki, “Ascension” 503 497 ХШ
XVI CONTENTS 1945 Miklós Adler, Home! Home? 581 Alfred Eisenstaedt, V-J Day at Times Square, August H, mö 581 Yevgeny Khaldei, Budapest Ghetto 582 Abel Pann, And G-d Remembered Rachel. And She Conceived, and Bore a Son 582 Moses Reinblatt, Dismantling Bent Props 583 Saul Steinberg, Untitled, New Yorker, February 3, 1945 Erwin Blumenfeld, Vogue, January 1,1950, cover 596 Chaim Gliksberg, Portrait ofltzik Manger 596 Zédé Schulmann, Membres de la Communautéjuive d’Ifrane 597 Unknown Artist, East End, London 597 ca. 1950 Grete Stern, Sueño No. 1: “Artículos eléctricos para el hogar” 598 19501951 583 Morris Topchevsky, Leaflets (Double V) 584 Dolfi Trost, Entopic Graphomania 584 Georg Ehrlich, The Young Lovers, Festival Garden, London, UK 598 1946 Adolph Gottlieb, Voyager’s Return 1951 Percival Goodman, B’nai Israel (Millburn, New Jersey) 599 Louis Stettner, Coming to America 599 Yosef Zaritsky, Yehiam (Life in a Kibbutz) 600 585 1947 Sid Grossman, Coney Island 585 Saul Leiter, Deborah at Tante Esther’s 586 Rebecca Lepkoff, Midtown Manhattan 586 Lippy Lipshitz, Moses Breaking the Tablets of Law 587 Yohanan Simon, Hashomer Hatzair Poster to Honor the 30th Anniversary of the October Revolution 587 Raphael Soyer, Imaginary Wall in My Studio 588 Erika Stone, Lower Eastside Façade 588 1948 Robert Capa, Troops Marching, Israel 589 Vivian Cherry, Untitled (Group ofBoys and Swastika) 589 Marcel Janeo, Nocturne (Death ofa Soldier) 590 Arthur Kolnik, Illustration to Y. L. Peretz’s A gilgl fun a nign 590 Jerome Liebling, May Day, Union Square, New York City 591 Margaret Michaelis-Sachs,
Self-Portrait, Parramatta River, Sydney 591 Nathan Rapoport, Warsaw Ghetto Memorial (Warsaw, Poland) 592 1949 Lee Krasner, Untitled 593 Barnett Newman, Abraham 593 Chana Orloff, Sculpture ofBen-Gurion 594 ca. 1949 Emmanuel Mané-Katz, Orchestra 594 1950 Henryk Berlewi, Chair with Red Matter 595 Fernand Bidon, Femmes marocaines 595 1951- 1952 Herbert Ferber, And the Bush Was Not Consumed 600 1952 Aharon Kahana, The Binding ofIsaac 601 Henry Vaiensi, Symphonie Vitale бої 1952- 1954 Lucien Hervé, ĽUnitéd’habitation à Nantes-Rezé 602 1953 Lucienne Bloch, Temple Emanuel Sanctuary Wall (Grand Rapids, Michigan) 602 Harvey Kurtzman, “Superduperman,” Mad #4 603 Mark Markov-Grinberg, Stone Flower Fountain, Moscow 603 Ruth Schloss, In the Ma‘obarah 604 Elbert Weinberg, Ritual Figure 604 Ossip Zadkine, De verwoeste stad (“The Destroyed City”), 1953, Plein 1940, Rotterdam 605 1953- 1954 Frank Auerbach, E. 0. W Nude 605 1954 Boris Carmi, Nahal Oz 606 André Kertész, Washington Square in the Snow, January 9,1934 боб Moses Soyer, Dancers Resting 607 Rudi Weissenstein, Nahalat Binyamin Street, Tel Aviv 607 1955 Leonard Baskin, The Strabismic Jew 608
CONTENTS Cornell Capa, Hebrew Lesson, Brooklyn, New York 608 Robert Frank, Yom Kippur, East River, New York City 609 Morris Lapidus, Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida. Over Pool to Hotel. Florida, Miami Beach 610 ca. 1955 David Goldblatt, Arriving Family, King George Street, Johannesburg 610 1955-1956 Mordechai Ardon, For the Fallen: Triptych 611 1956 William Klein, Summer Evening, Via di Monserrato, Rome 611 René Shapshak, Bust ofFormer President Harry S. Truman 612 1957 Helen Frankenthaler, Jacob ’s Ladder 613 Paul Goldman, David Ben-Gurion Standing on His Head (Sharon Hotel Beach, Herzliya) 613 Ben Shahn, Alphabet of Creation 614 1958 Jean-Michel Atlan, La Kahena 614 Sonia Delaunay, Rythme coloré 615 Jules Feiffer, Sick, Sick, Sick, comic strip, The Village Voice 615 Al Hirschfeld, Leonard Bernstein 616 Morris Louis, Tzadik 616 1959 Endre Bálint, Homesickness 617 Arnold Belkin, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 617 Mathias Goeritz, Message Number 7B, Ecclesiastes VII: 6 618 René Gościnny, Astérix le Gaulois, no. 1, cover 618 Dan Pagis, The Egg That Disguised Itself 619 Early 1960s Amiram Erev, Social Housing Blocks in Upper Nazareth 619 1960 Ziva Armoni and Hanan Hebron, The National and University Library 620 Anatoly Kaplan, Pakhar’ (Ploughman) 620 Gertrud Natzler and Otto Natzler, Apple Green Reduction Fired Glaze with Melt Fissures, Earthenware 621 Ori Reisman, Carob Tree Boulevard 621 Paul Schützer, Israeli Beatniks, Night Club Aviva Uri, Landscape II 622 ca. i960 Siona Shimshi, Torah Ark Curtain 622 623 1961 Saul Bass, Exodus 623 Aryeh Elhanani, Hall ofRemembrance at
Yad Vashem 624 William Żorach, Spirit of the Sea, Library Square Park, City ofBath, Maine 625 ca. 1961 Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, B’nai Or Prayer Shawl 625 1962 Marc Chagall, Benjamin, One of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, Stained-Glass Window, Hadassah Medical Centre, Jerusalem 626 David Hillman, Stained-Glass Window, Central Synagogue, Portland Street, London 627 Roy Lichtenstein, Masterpiece 628 Avigdor Stematsky, Etude 628 1962-1970 Yehezkel Streichman, Fig Tree in Studio Window 629 1963 Moshe Castel, Poesie de Canaan, I 629 Bruce Davidson, Construction of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge 630 Mikhail Grohman, Tomb of an Israeli Soldier I 630 Arnold Newman, Arnold Krupp 631 Gedulą Ogen, The Gathering ofIsrael, Kibbutz Galuyot 631 1964 Pedro Friedeberg, “Insist on yourself. .”from the Series Great Ideas of Western Man 632 Louise Nevelson, Homage to the Six Million 632 Fanny Rabel, La Ronda en el tiempo 633 Miriam Schapiro, Shrine II 633 1965 Leon Golub, Gigantomachy I 634 Alfred Mansfeld, Israel Museum 634 Larry Rivers, The History of the Russian Revolution: From Marx to Mayakovsky 635 XVII
xviii CONTENTS Unknown Artist, Abraham Joshua Heschel Marching with Martin Luther King Jr., in Selma, Alabama, March 21, 1969 635 Dan Reisinger, “Let My People Go”poster 646 Garry Winogrand, Mew York City, Three Women 1965-1966 Annelise Albers, Six Prayers Audrey Flack, Farb Family Portrait 636 1965-1968 Batia Lichansky, Holocaust and Rebirth (Kibbutz Mezer Sereni, Israel) 636 1965-1972 George Segal, The Costume Party 637 1966 Al Сарр, “Chickensouperman”from L’il Abner 637 Nahum Gutman, Mosaic Wall with History of Tel Aviv, Migdal Shalom (Shalom Tower) 638 Howard Kanovitz, Lunch at Rainer’s 638 Elaine Lustig Cohen, Primary Structures, cover 639 1967 Sorel Etrog, Survivors Are Mot Heroes 639 David Rubinger, Paratroopers at the Western Wall, June 7,1967 640 Tim (Louis Mitelberg), “Le peoplejuif. surde lui-même et dominateur.(“The Jews, a People Sure ofItselfand Domineering,.” Charles de Gaulle) 640 1967- 1972 Martha Rosier, Red Stripe Kitchen 641 1969-1970 647 1960s Dorothy Bohm, Latina, Southern Italy ca. 1960s Saul Borisov, Adam and Eve 648 648 1970 Samuel Bak, Houses in an Imaginary Landscape 649 Micha Bar-Am, Golda Meir 649 Judy Chicago, Exhibition Announcement, Jack Glenn Gallery, Artforum, October 1970 650 Moses Feigin, Beauty 650 Leon Levinstein, Handball Players, Houston Street, MY 651 Unknown Artist, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt Kneels in Front ofthe Jewish Heroes Monument Paying Tribute to Jews Killed by the Mazis during the 1949 Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, December 7,1970 651 1971 Dmitry Borisovitch Lion, Portrait ofa Man Nancy Spero, Codex Artaud
VII 652 1971- 2000 Erik Bulatov, Red Horizon 1972 Shlomo Dreizner, The Liberation ofJerusalem 641 Hersh (Grigory) Inger, Illustration to Sholem Aleichem, “The Haunted Tailor” 642 Boris Penson, The Artist behind Bars (Self-Portrait) 642 Oscar Rabin, Moscow Evening 643 Gus Schuettler, Daniel Cohn-Bendit Jumping the Police Barricade 643 André François, Sheep Readers, Le nouvel observateur, cover 653 Shmuel Katz, Leah Goldberg, Dira le-haskir, cover 654 Vadim Sidur, The Formula of Grief 654 Yigael Tumarkin, Jordan Valley Memorial Monument 655 Yaacov Agam, Double Metamorphosis III (Counterpoint and Sequence) 644 1969 Raffi Lavie, Untitled 644 Emanuele Luzzati, Golem, Teatro La Pergola, Firenze 645 Joshua Neustein and Georgette Batlle, Boots, Gallery House, Jerusalem 645 Lea Nikel, Untitled 646 652 653 1968 1968- 1969 647 1972- 1973 R. B. Kitaj, The Autumn of Central Paris (After Walter Benjamin) 655 Undated Alfred Bernheim, Portrait ofHannah Arendt 656 Moshe Gross, Laying the Pipes ofthe Mational Water Carrierfrom the Sea of Galilee to the Megev 657 Adam Muszka, Leaving Cheder 657 Leonardo Nierman, Solar Flame 658 Anna Ticho, Landscape ofJerusalem 658
CONTENTS DIVERSE DIASPORAS (19461973) Introduction 659 659 Anthologies 661 1951 Leybl Shiter, “What Is a Pinkes?” 1971 Ruth R. Wisse, The Schlemiel as Modern Hero 661 1955 Pinkes Varške (The Chronicle of Warsaw), A Memorial and a Witness 662 197Յ Arnnon Netser, Anthology ofPersian Songsfrom the Creations ofIranian Jewry 663 686 1947 Avrom Teytlboym, Warsaw Courtyards 686 1948 Jacques Lazarus, “To My Tunisian Friends” 688 689 1961 Mordecai Richler, “Their Canada and Mine” 1953 Joseph Messas, “The Teaching of Torah to Women” 666 691 1962 Melekh Ravitch, “My First Day in the Twentieth Century” 693 1957 Raymond Bénichou, Jewish Writings 668 Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized 670 Ronald Segal and Dan Jacobson, “Apartheid and South African Jewry: An Exchange” 671 1969 Yaacov Hasson, “Iquitos: The Jewish Soul in the Amazon, Notes of a Voyager” 694 1970 Larry Zolf, “Boil Me No Melting Pots, Dream Me No Dreams” 695 1958 Carlos de Nesry, Moroccan Jews in Their Hour of Decision 673 1971 Chaim Sacks, “Sweets from Sixpence” 1959 Paul Sebag, The Hara of Tunis: The Evolution ofa North-African Ghetto 674 697 Fiction, Drama, and Children’s Literature 699 1963 Jacques Lazarus, “Beyond the Test” 676 W. Gunther Plaut, The Rise ofReform Judaism 677 Pablo Schvartzman, “Noé Yarcho, Physician to the Jewish Gauchos” 678 680 684 1956 Yankev Botoshanski, “A Kol Nidre Service at the Gęsia Street Cemetery” 690 1950 Iraqi Zionist Underground, “A Call to the Jewish Community” 666 1968 León Rozitchner, To Be a Jew Life Writing and Reportage 1949 Sasson Shalom Dallal, “Last Letter” Cultural,
Political, and Religious Thought 666 1964 Marcel Bénabou, “Jews and Arabs in Morocco” 1969 Emil L. Fackenheim, “The Commanding Voice of Auschwitz” 681 Samuel Tarnopolsky, HalfofNothing 683 680 1946 Zvi Kolitz, “Yossel Rakover’s Appeal to God” 1947 Irma Ychou, The Bensatd Family 699 700 1948 Shalom Darwish, “A Convoy from the Village” 1949 Ted Allan, “Lies My Father Told Me” 704 701 XIX
XX CONTENTS 1967 Humberto Costantini, “Don luda” 1950 Claude Benady, Out ofPlay, the Dead 706 Elisa Chimenti, “The Cadi and the Jewish Merchant” 707 1969 Lázaro Liacho, On the Gutting Edge ofLife 741 Alejandra Pizarnik, “The Dead and the Rain” 742 1951 A. M. Klein, The Second Scroll 70B 195Յ Jean Daniel, The Mistake or the Second Life ofSylvain Regard 709 Abraham josef Dubelman, “The Faith Healer” 711 Albert Memmi, The Pillar ofSalt 712 1954 Samuel Pecar, Tales ofKleinville 713 1955 Meir Basri, “The Elementary School Teacher” 714 Salomón Brainsky, “Temptation” 715 Salomón Zytner, “The Bar Mitzvah Speech” 717 1956 Samuel Rawet, The Prophet and Other Stories Adele Wiseman, The Sacrifice 720 1957 David Viñas, An Everyday God 7x8 1958 Elisa Chimenti, At the Heart ofthe Harem 723 Danjacobson, “The Zulu and the Zeide” 724 1971 Marcos Ricardo Barnatán, The Labyrinth ofZion 744 Isidoro Blaisten, “Misery in Aries” 744 Alicia Steimberg, Musicians and Watchmakers 745 Mario Szichman, “Jews in the Promised Land” 746 1972 Eugenia Calny, Clara at Dawn 747 Alberto Dines, Gan I? 747 Eliezer Levin, Bom Retiro, or The Ghildhood Neighborhood 748 Chava Rosenfarb, The Tree ofLife: A Novel about Life in the Lodz Ghetto 750 Moacyr Scliar, A War Has No “Good End” 752 Poetry and Popular Song 1959 Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship ofDuddy Kravitz 725 Abraham Weisbaum, “Yente Tinifotsky” 727 1962 Natalio Budasoff, “Yoine Bird” 1970 Diego Viga, “The Stutterer’s Suicide and the Psychiatrist’s Dream” 743 1973 Clarice Lispector, The Stream ofLife 754 Jack Ludwig, A Woman ofHer Age 756 Esther Seligson,
Dreams Older Than Memory 721 1960 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, “A Birthday in London” 740 757 758 1948 Blanche Bendahan, “Bull” 758 Olga Kirsch, “Nostalgia” 758 729 731 1963 Isaac Chocrón, Ferocious Animals 732 Leonard Cohen, The Favourite Game 733 Osvaldo Dragún, “And They Told Us We Were Immortal” 735 1964 José Chudnovsky, “The Old Notebook” 737 Elisa Lerner, In the Vast Silence ofManhattan 738 1955 César Tiempo, “Paraphrase” 759 1956 Irving Layton, “On Seeing the Statuettes ofEzekiel and Jeremiah in the Church of Notre Dame” 759 1957 Sadia Lévy, “Prélude,” Abishag 760 i960 Phyllis Gotlieb, “This One’s On Me” 760 1962 Nissim Ezekiel, “Jewish Wedding in Bombay” Rokhl Korn, “On the Other Side of the Poem” 761 762
CONTENTS 1963 Saul Bellow, Great Jewish Short Stories 781 Uriel Weinreich, “Mapping a Culture” 781 1963 Jeanne Benguigui, “Song of Exile” 763 1966 Miriam Waddington, “Second Generation” 764 Lucy S. Dawidowicz, The Golden Tradition: Jewish Life and Thought in Eastern Europe 783 1968 Leonard Cohen, “The Story of Isaac” 764 197Յ The Jewish Catalog 1969 Max Guedj, “Quai Blériot” 765 1970 Albert Bensoussan, “Isbilia” 784 Cultural, Political, and Religious Thought 786 765 1973 Eli Mandel, “Day of Atonement: Standing” 1967 1946 766 Joshua Loth Liebman, Peace ofMind 786 1948 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (1946-1973) 767 Introduction 767 Anthologies 768 1947 Nahum N. Glatzer, The Language ofFaith: Selected Jewish Prayers 768 Marie Syrkin, Blessed Is the Match: The Story ofJewish Resistance 768 1949 David P. Boder, I Did Not Interview the Dead 769 Louis Finkelstein, The Jews, Their History, Culture, and Religion 771 Leo W. Schwarz, The Root and the Bough: The Epic of an Enduring People 774 195Յ Irving Howe and Eliezer Greenberg, A Treasury of Yiddish Stories 775 1955 Harold U. Ribalow, Mid-Century: An Anthology of Jewish Life and Culture in Our Times 777 1959 Isaac Rivkind, Jewish Money in Everyday Life, Cultural History and Folklore: A Lexicological Study 778 1961 Yudl Mark and Judah A. Joffe, The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language 779 Mordecai M. Kaplan, The Future of the American Jew 786 Simon Rawidowicz, “Israel: The Ever-Dying People” 788 Abram L. Sachar, “Brandeis University: The Pledge” 790 1949 Leslie A. Fiedler, “What Can We Do about Fagin? The Jew-Villain in Western
Tradition” 791 Sidney Hook, “Reflections on the Jewish Question” 792 Harold Rosenberg, “Does the Jew Exist? Sartre’s Morality Play about Anti-Semitism” 793 1950 Theodor Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, DanielJ. Levinson, and Nevitt Sanford, “List of Interview Questions Pertaining to Jews” 795 Robert Gordiš, The Challenge Facing Modern Jewish Scholarship 796 Max Horkheimer and Samuel H. Flowerman, Studies in Prejudice 798 Abraham Tabachnik, “Tradition and Revolt in Yiddish Poetry” 799 Lionel Trilling, “Wordsworth and the Rabbis” 800 1951 Ruth Gay, “The Jewish Object: A Shopper’s Report” 801 Abraham Joshua Heschel, “The Hiding God” 1952 Leo Strauss, Persecution and the Art of Writing 803 804 XXI
XXII CONTENTS Mark Zborowski and Elizabeth Herzog, Life Is with People: The Jewish Little-Town ofEastern Europe 806 195Յ Trude Weiss-Rosmarin, “America Is Not Babylonia” 807 1954 Joseph B. Soloveitchik, “Responsum on Orthodox Judaism in America” 809 1955 Harry L. Golden, “Jew and Gentile in the New South” 810 Will Herberg, Protestant—Catholic—Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology 812 Abraham Menes, “The East Side: Matrix of the Jewish Labor Movement” 813 Marshall Sklare, Conservative Judaism: An American Religious Movement 814 Lionel Trilling, “Isaac Babel, Introduction to Collected Stories” 815 1956 Nahum N. Glatzer, “The Frankfort Lehrhaus” 816 Nathan Glazer, “The Jewish Revival in America, II: Its Religious Side” 817 1959 Hannah Arendt, “Reflections on Little Rock” 819 Eliezer Berkovits, God, Man, and History 820 1961 Aleksander Hertz, The Jews in Polish Culture 821 1962 Betty Alschuler, “Notes from the American Revolution” 822 Salo W. Baron, “Can American Jewry Be Culturally Creative?” 824 Arthur A. Cohen, The Natural and the Supernatural Jew: An Historical and Theological Introduction 825 Abraham Joshua Heschel, Heavenly Torah: As Refracted through the Generations 826 Saul Lieberman, Hellenism in Jewish Palestine 828 1963 Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality ofEvil 828 Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique 829 Joachim Prinz, “America Must Not Remain Silent” 831 1964 Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, “Toward an ‘Order of B’nai Or’: A Program for a Jewish Liturgical Brotherhood” 832 1965 Judah Goldin, “Of Change and Adaptation in Judaism” 833
Joseph B. Soloveitchik, The Lonely Man ofFaith 834 1966 Gerson D. Cohen, “The Blessing of Assimilation in Jewish History” 835 Moshe Greenberg, “The Biblical Grounding of Human Value” 836 Richard L. Rubenstein, “Symposium on Jewish Belief’ 838 Nahum M. Sarna, Understanding Genesis 840 Elie Wiesel, The Jews ofSilence: A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry 840 1967 Shalom Spiegel, “Amos vs. Amaziah” 841 Isadore Twersky, “The Shulhan ‘Aruk: Enduring Code ofJewish Law” 843 Max Weinreich, “The Reality ofjewishness vs. the Ghetto Myth” 845 1968 Robert Alter, “Jewish Dreams and Nightmares” 846 Arthur Green, “Havurat Shalom: Draft of a Covenant” 848 Arthur Hertzberg, The French Enlightenment and the Jews 849 1969 Irving Howe, “The New York Intellectuals” 850 Harry Orlinsky, Notes on the New Translation of the Torah 851 M. J. Rosenberg, “To Uncle Tom and Other Such Jews” 852 1970 Cynthia Ozick, “Toward a New Yiddish” 853 1971 Rachel Adler, “The Jew Who Wasn’t There” 854 Jacob Neusner, There We Sat Down: Talmudic Judaism in the Making 855 James A. Sleeper, The New Jews 856 1972 Ezrat Nashim, “Jewish Women Call for Change” 858
CONTENTS Fiction, Drama, and Children’s Literature 890 1973 The Jewish Catalog, “Kashrut” 859 Susan Sontag, “Photography” 859 Arthur Waskow, “How to Bring Mashiah” Life Writing and Reportage 1946 Sholem Asch, East River 890 Isaac Rosenfeld, Passagefrom Home Jo Sinclair, Wasteland 892 860 862 1946 Leon Sciaky, Farewell to Salónica: City at the Crossroads 862 1947 H. Leivick, With the Saving Remnant 1947 Laura Z. Hobson, Gentleman’s Agreement 893 Maurice Schwartz, Shylock and His Daughter 894 863 1949 Ephraim Lisitzky, In the Grip of Cross-Currents 864 Judd L. Teller, “Goyim” 866 Jehiel Isaiah Trunk, Poland: Memoirs and Scenes 868 1950 Anzia Yezierska, Red Ribbon on a White Horse 870 1951 Alfred Kazin, “The Kitchen” 871 David de Sola Pool, My Spiritual Autobiography 872 874 1957 Howard Fast, The Naked God: The Writer and the Communist Party 876 1958 A. M. Rosenthal, “There Is No News from Auschwitz” 878 1950 Hortense Calisher, “Old Stock” 901 Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Family Moskat 898 902 Chaim Grade, “My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner” 903 195Յ Saul Bellow, The Adventures ofAugie March Sylvia Regan, The Fifth Season 905 1972 882 1973 Heda Margolius Kovaly, Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague ід4і-ід68 885 904 1954 Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, The Diary of Anne Frank 907 Clifford Odets, The Flowering Peach 908 1956 Meyer Levin, Compulsion 881 Joseph Buloff, From the Old Marketplace Hortense Calisher, Herself 884 1949 Paul Goodman, “A Memorial Synagogue” Arthur Miller, Death ofa Salesman 899 1955 Herman Wouk, Marjorie Morningstar 1959 Raphael Lemkin, Totally
Unofficial: The Autobiography ofRaphael Lemkin 879 1967 Norman Podhoretz, Making It 1948 Howard Fast, My Glorious Brothers 896 Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead 897 1951 195Յ 1954 Ben Hecht, A Child of the Century 873 Reuven Iceland, At Goodman and Levine’s 891 909 910 1958 Samuel Nathaniel Behrman, The Cold Wind and the Warm 911 Bernard Malamud, “The Last Mohican” 913 Leon Uris, Exodus 914 1959 Paddy Chayefsky, The Tenth Man 915 Grace Paley, “The Loudest Voice” 917 Philip Roth, “Eli, the Fanatic” 919 1961 Joseph Heller, Catch-22 920 ХХШ
XXIV CONTENTS 923 1956 Jacob Glatstein, “Sunday Shtetl” 924 1957 Allen Grossman, “I Am in Babylon Dying” 1962 Herb Gardner, A Thousand Clowns 1963 Bernard Malamud, “The Jewbird” 1964 Saul Bellow, Herzog 925 Bel Kaufman, Up the Down Staircase 925 Joseph Stein, Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock, Fiddler on the Roof 927 1966 Cynthia Ozick, “The Pagan Rabbi” 929 Maurice Sendak, “Among the Wild Things” [A Review by Nat HentoflJ 930 941 1959 Allen Ginsberg, “Kaddish: Hymmnn” 941 942 1960 Chaim Grade, “Elegy for the Soviet Yiddish Writers” 943 1962 Reyzl Zychlinsky, “Everything Will Remember” 1969 Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler’s Planet 933 Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint 933 1965 Bob Dylan, “Like a Rolling Stone” 945 John Hollander, “The Ninth ofAb” 946 George Oppen, “Psalm” 947 Gabriel Preil, “New York: February 1965” 948 Malka Heifetz Tussman, “Water Without Sound” 948 1970 Blume Lempel, “Even the Heavens Tell Lies” 934 Neil Simon, The Prisoner ofSecond Avenue 935 1968 Anthony Hecht, “Rites and Ceremonies” Carl Rakosi, “Meditation” 950 1972 1971 Linda Pastan, “Passover” 1967 Chaim Potok, The Chosen 932 Herbert Gold, My Last Two Thousand Years Poetry and Popular Song 1946 938 1947 Aaron Zeitlin, “To Be a Jew” 938 1948 David Ignatow, “Europe and America” Howard Nemerov, “Nicodemus” Louis Zukofsky, ‘“A’-ւշ” 940 939 Film Selections Credits 1954 Karl Shapiro, “The Alphabet” 938 197Յ Anna Frąjlich, “Acclimatization” 954 Isaac Goldemberg, “Jews in Hell” 954 José Kozer, “Grandfather Is Facing Death” Marge Piercy, “To Be of Use” 955 Musical Selections 1950 951 1972 Maxine Kumin, “Woodchucks” 952
Adrienne Rich, “Diving into the Wreck” 938 Jacob Glatstein, “WithoutJews” 937 957 961 965 Index of Authors and Artists 941 948 1009 952 955 945 |
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