In A Moment
IN A MOMENT Two Israeli journalists, prior to the recent violence between Palestinian Arabs and Israeli soldiers on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip, tackled the question, "Is the Occupation...
...42), according to historian Deborah Nodler Rosen, the Marx Brothers win hands down...
...Harris is Washington representative of the American Jewish Committee...
...She has also written Eliezer Ben-Yehuda: The Father of Modem Hebrew (E.P...
...In "The Awakening of Henry Roth—A Generation After Call It Sleep," p. 20, Diane Levenberg interviews the 80-year-old Roth in his trailer home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to mark the publication of his new book, Shifting Landscape (Jewish Publication Society, 1987...
...p. 46, Harris cautions that while Le Pen may not win more than 10 percent of the vote, his role in runoffelec-tions may be substantial...
...The American-born Goell has lived in Israel since early 1948, first residing on a kibbutz and later moving to Jerusalem...
...Chagall's 24 lithographs, created in the 1960s for a limited edition of The Story of the Exodus (Amiel Books, 1966), are now available to the general public in this haggadah...
...A former feature writer for the Allen-town Morning Call in Pennsylvania, Goldfarb is currently writing a book on public sculptures in Allentown...
...Levenberg edited Shifting Landscape when she was an associate editor for the Jewish Publication Society...
...He recently served as national coordinator of the December 1987 rally for Soviet Jewry, which brought 250,000 people to the capital...
...Harris is co-author of The Jokes of Oppression: The Humor of Soviet Jews (Jason Aronson, 1988), and a past contributor to MOMENT (" 'The Elders of Zion' in Tokyo—What Should We Do About Japanese Anti-Semitism...
...Roth's novel, Call It Sleep was first published in 1934 and is regarded as the quintessential portrayal of life on the Lower East Side...
...Pilon is a senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation...
...I am always on the lookout for the role that chance plays in individual lives," she said...
...many of them, reaching old age, are now economically strapped and virtually forgotten...
...p. 36, Drucker describes the hardships these people have experienced in Israel...
...He holds a Ph.D...
...14), with differing conclusions...
...In "What Do We Owe the Righteous Gentiles...
...Levenberg is the author of Out of the Desert (Doubleday, 1980), a book of poems, and her articles have appeared in many Jewish publications, including Present Tense, Midstream and MOMENT...
...While she was researching the material for the biography, Anwar el-Sadat (Child-rens Press, 1986), Rosen was intrigued by the "thread of happenstance" that runs through history...
...IN A MOMENT Two Israeli journalists, prior to the recent violence between Palestinian Arabs and Israeli soldiers on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip, tackled the question, "Is the Occupation Brutalizing Israel...
...Petey and Yotsee and Mario," p. 24, a short story by Henry Roth, is based on Roth's near-drowning in the Harlem River as a little boy...
...Rubenstein co-authored The West Bank Handbook: A Political Lexicon (Westview, 1986...
...Levenberg regards Roth's new book as a spiritual autobiography that exposes the "dybbuks" in his life—the traumas that impeded his writing for so long...
...In "Chagall Paints the Exodus for Passover," p. 26, MOMENT investigates how Marc Chagall's special series depicting the Exodus came to be published in the recently released Haggadah of Passover with illustrations by Marc Chagall (Amiel Books, 1987...
...She is currently associate professor of English at Kutztown University in Kutztown, Pennsylvania...
...During the third World Conference on Birds of Prey last spring in Eilat, Myra Yellin Goldfarb found that political differences among international "birders" vanished when birds became the subject of conversation...
...David A. Harris warns that an anti-Semitic candidate, Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the National Front Party, might distort the upcoming French presidential elections...
...In the second piece, Juliana Geran Pilon examines Kurt Waldheim's anti-Israel legacy at the United Nations...
...The most recent, Celebrating Life: Jewish Rites of Passage (Holiday House, 1984) explains life-cycle celebrations in Judaism...
...Schulweis, rabbi at Temple Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, California, is founder and chairman of the Foundation to Sustain Righteous Christians...
...in political science from Columbia University and has taught Israeli politics at Hebrew University...
...Even the Israeli air force has learned to share the sky with these flyers...
...Yosef Goell, columnist for The Jerusalem Post, Israel's English-language daily, argues that what might be considered a trend in Israeli society toward bru-talization or "vulgarization," is not a result of the occupation but of indigenous factors...
...Dutton, 1987) which was featured in MOMENT'S "New Books for Jewish Children" (December 1987...
...In "Will the Anti-Semitic Right Hold the Swing Votes in France...
...But in ' 'A Lesson in History: Karl Marx or the Marx Brothers...
...This theme also appears in many of her travel and feature articles...
...Her work was published posthumously in a book entitled Psalmist with a Camera (Abbeville Press, 1979...
...He is currently researching journalistic practices in East Jerusalem, and has written about Arab participation in the Jerusalem municipality...
...Saved by three non-Jewish boys from his neighborhood, the young protagonist of this tale learns that ethnic differences become unimportant when one human being reaches out to another...
...Rosen, a biographer of former Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat, describes events in the 20th-century history of Egypt that could have been written as gags for the Marx Brothers...
...Rosen has written two American history textbooks, A Proud Nation (McDougal, Littell and Co., 1983), for junior high school students, and a more complex version of this text for senior high school students...
...Historical events can be interpreted according to the determinism of Karl Marx, on the one hand, or the zany randomness of a Marx Brothers comedy, on the other...
...Drucker is the author of a series of children's books on Jewish holidays...
...In "Of Birds and Barbed Wire," p. 30, Goldfarb, who "birds" as a hobby, reports that Israel's stringent environmental policies create a safe haven for more than 450 species of migrating birds as they travel between the land masses of Europe and Asia...
...Danny Rubenstein, a columnist on Arab affairs for Davar, the newspaper of the Histadrut, Israel's labor union, believes that the very nature of occupation—one people's controlling another—must erode the democratic values of Israeli society...
...Non-Jews who rescued Jews from the terrors of Nazi reign teach us moral lessons, argues Harold M. Schulweis, in a companion piece to Malka Drucker's article on righteous gentiles in Israel...
...November 1987...
...On My Mind," p. 56, offers two opinion pieces this month...
...Some of the photographs accompanying this article were taken by Gail Rubin, an American who made aliyah in 1969...
...Rubenstein has also appeared on many American television programs to comment on the Arabs in Israel...
...As Yom haShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, approaches, Malka Drucker tells the stories of non-Jews who saved Jewish lives during World War II and immigrated to Israel often to escape hostility in their native countries...
...In 1978, while she was photographing Israeli wildlife, Rubin was murdered by terrorists...
Vol. 13 • April 1988 • No. 2
