In A Moment
IN A MOMENT Israel should recognize the PLO and invite PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat to Jerusalem, says Joseph Alpher, acting head of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University....
...In "One More Curtain Call" (p...
...He holds a bachelor's degree in Greek and Latin from Yeshiva University...
...28), Shaye J.' D. Cohen shows how archaeological evidence may contradict first-century historian Josephus' description of the events of 73 C.E., calling into question the widely accepted accounts of the fortress's last defenders...
...Wohl is currently studying law at American University...
...The next generations, says Ticktin, may speak Yiddish but it won't sound the same...
...He grew up in Washington, D.C., and immigrated in 1964 to Israel where he served as an officer in Israeli Army Intelligence...
...from Columbia University in 1975...
...While serving as rabbi of Congregation Beth El in La Jolla, California, Riemer was instrumental in creating a program for educating converts and integrating them into Jewish life...
...Alpher worked for the Israeli prime minister's office for twelve years, including a three-year stint at Israel's embassy in London...
...In "What Really Happened at Masada...
...See "Borscht Belt Humor Hits Broadway—Yea or Oy Vey...
...The humor of the Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin and Mel Brooks sparked Wohl's interest in comedy at an early age...
...Born in Jerusalem in 1939, Oz moved to Kibbutz Hulda at the age of 14...
...59) that in a few years the Yiddish-English accent that was the trademark for many Jewish political figures of the century will be gone as that generation dies out...
...appeared in September 1987...
...Oz's works have been translated into 18 languages...
...One of the most controversial comedians, according to author Alexander Wohl, is Jackie Mason, a former rabbi who takes his cue from Lenny Bruce and from other veteran Jewish comedians...
...The review includes a selection of poems and illustrations from the book...
...This book, writes Riemer, is a sign of the vitality of Yiddish and Yiddish poetry...
...Yiddish buff Harold Ticktin predicts in this month's On My Mind (p...
...He is the author of Jewish Reflections on Death (Schocken Books, 1976) and co-author of Ethical Wills: A Modem Jewish Treasury (Schocken Books, 1983...
...Did the Romans kill the Jewish defenders of Masada...
...Cohen is the Jack and Miriam Shenk-man Professor of Jewish History and dean of the graduate school at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America...
...Cohen was ordained in 1974 and received his Ph.D...
...Were the zealots of Masada admirable Jews...
...Riemer, rabbi of Beth David Congregation in Miami, is the editor of New Prayers for the High Holidays (Media Judaica), a series of supplementary readings used in many Conservative and Reform synagogues...
...44), from a new novel by Israeli writer Amos Oz, casts an ironic eye on the contradictions within Israeli society...
...Riemer is a member of the National Rabbinic Cabinet of the United Jewish Appeal...
...Jewish humor is making a comeback and has moved from the ethnic enclaves of the Borscht Belt to a wider and largely non-Jewish audience on Broadway...
...Oz explores— through a series of letters—what holds a family and a people together...
...Alpher is the editor of the Encyclopedia of Jewish History (Facts on File, 1986) and Nationalism and Modernity: A Mediterranean Perspective (Praeger, 1986), and co-editor of The ADL Handbook on Israel (ADL, 1987...
...Cohen has a special interest in the life and works of Josephus, a Jewish historian and general of the first century C.E Cohen's most recent book is From the Maccabees to the Mishnah: A Profile of Judaism (Westminster Press, 1987...
...Can the accounts of mass suicide at Masada be wrong...
...Wohl plans to try his hand at comedy writing once his studies are finished...
...Alpher maintains that because of the PLO's inability to unite around a plausible negotiating stance, recognition would weaken the PLO politically, exposing its extremism and intransigence, and would at the same time make clear to the world Israel's readiness to make peace...
...He also explains why contemporaneous Jews feared more than admired the zealots of Masada...
...But is this renewed interest something to rave about...
...He recently became acting head of the Jaffee Center...
...A veteran of the 1967 and 1973 wars, Oz has become active in efforts to reach reconciliation with the Arabs and is a member of Peace Now...
...A former editor of the Boston Jewish Times and former press secretary to Congressman Stephen Solarz (D-N.Y...
...18), Jack Riemer hails the publication of American Yiddish Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology, a collection of works by seven 20th-century American poets who wrote in Yiddish...
...His most recent article for MOMENT, ' 'He Raises the Weak from the Dust and Lifts the Poor Out of the Dirt," appeared in May 1988...
...His field of specialization is the history of the Jews and the development of Judaism in the Greco-Roman period...
...He is the author of 11 highly acclaimed works, including In the Land of Israel (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983), A Perfect Peace (HBJ, 1985) and his most recent novel, from which "Fathers and Lovers" is excerpted, Black Box (HBJ, 1988...
...Oz now lives in Arad...
...See ' 'Why Israel Should Recognize the PLO and Invite Arafat to Jerusalem" (p...
...His most recent article for MOMENT, ' 'Is the De Facto Peace with Jordan a Better Model Than the De Jure Peace with Egypt...
...Fathers and Lovers" (p...
Vol. 13 • July 1988 • No. 5
