... The Self Awakened , Unger Roberto Mangabeira , Harvard U. Press , 2007 Buddha is as Buddhadoes , Das Lama Surya , Harper San Francisco , 2007 Take This Bread , Miles Sara , Ballantine Books 2007 Yiddishe Mamas , Winston-Macauley Mamie , Andrews...

... and Nick Bertozzi. Hyperion. Stuck in the Middle, Seventeen Comics from was a prominent left wing Yiddish journal­ ness through much of his life. Splendid art...

... magnetic Yiddish writer, Leib Rochman. byChana Bloch The walls of his house were covered with Autumn House Press, 2009 charcoal drawings of concentration camp R eview by S idra DeKoven E zra h i figures by his adolescent daughter, who...

... immigrants / In the dark Angel Island / Internment cells of San Francisco.” Pinsky includes not only human beings in his search but also disappearing languages and abandoned cities, arts and styles lost to time. His poem, “Improvisation on Yiddish” (Yiddish, the speaker observes, is “Tongue of the dear...

.... The main tion, but was this rooted in a specifically MAPS AND LEGENDS characters were Molly, her Yiddish- Jewish ethic or in a generalized sense of accented husband and uncle, and a good- solidarity that any afflicted...

... of these two Jewish artists. Archmodernist Spiegelman experiments with form, like so many Jewish modernists of the century; he and . . . other artists . . . are as determined to expand the comic genre as Yiddish writers once were to stretch their folkish language to the limits of modern literature. Meanwhile...

...-exilic and post-textilic. Our late elders wrote Russian as well as Yiddish so we are also post-Cyrillic. By the Babylon turnpike we sad down and wept. By the waters of the Gowanus Canal. Everyone an exile, sits at the edge of the East River, or aches for some lost temple, on a turnpike wall...

.... The main tion, but was this rooted in a specifically MAPS AND LEGENDS characters were Molly, her Yiddish- Jewish ethic or in a generalized sense of accented husband and uncle, and a good- solidarity that any afflicted...

... would put me on his lap when I was young, bounce me up and Yet, I was also scared of my father. The harsh treatment he re­ down, and sing the sweet songs of Yiddish and Hebrew that he ceived from his father (because he was unable to read the small let­ had heard as a child. No matter how busy, my...

... a true civil society to evolve in the Jewish State. Overnight, it is true, an intimacy seemed to reemerge within a community that had not lost its nostalgia for a Gemeinschaft in which everyone spoke Yiddish or Judeo-Arabic or Ladino. . . . But if it is to succeed, this new solidarity cannot revert...

... ound mpacton e s c t etruhhi r bumsofJwish f Jew o Yiddish. s m u lb preserve to a s u efforts g ero m tin u n is relen h n u is h d n through a re ltu concerts cu is h ish usic, Jew n m o t lk c a fo p im d n u fo...

... attraction. For Schulman, art blurs the boundaries between cultures and peoples, forging connections across time and space. She takes pride in her Jewish heritage, the Polish and Yiddish of her father and grandfather, the Hebrew liturgy, and the traditions and rituals she grew up with. But she sees no reason...

...ZALMAN KASTEL Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2013 M y mother arrived in San Francisco as a three-year-old in the 1940s. She was overheard saying the word Fierlesher (Yiddish for fire fighter). Her father was told that she must not speak the old language in the new country...

... into Judaism and Yiddish life, and of course his daily battle to transform his acute perceptiveness into sentences that live on the page, Friedländer is particularly keen to bring out some of the more “hidden” aspects of his subject’s experience of himself as a sexual being. Impulses hidden, that is, not from...

... ing: a Graphic Adaptation, and a biogra­ rundown of newspaper collapse, media purchases), taxing advertising, phical picture-hook, The Art of Harvey monopoly-fed profit gouging among the and several other means. Kurtzman. His next comic is entitled Yiddish- moguls...

...-effacing and when we encounter the question on the in­ where/ without my words? There must self-illuminating words. ■ teractive Yiddish stage or in hospital room be words left / to go on searching for the echoes, it doesn’t seem to matter anymore. ones I’ve lost.” Still, words are “the poor Sidra...