The Golden Chain Fifty Years of The Jewish Quarterly

by Lehrer, Natasha

• ISBN13: 9780853034810
• ISBN10: 0853034818
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell

Summary

The Golden Chain recalls a great Yiddish idea - die goldene keyt- the handling on the enormous cultural wealth of Jewish tradition from generation to generation. This was the mission of the founding editor of The Jewish Quarterly, Jacob Sonnag, who, as he later recalled, felt called upon to add to the golden chain. For fifty years The Jewish Quarterly has published the finest Jewish writing from around the world. Today it remains true to its founding ideals of cultural pluralism and open debate about the many issues of interest and concern to Jews in Britain and internationally. The Golden Chain brings together the finest writing to have been published in The Jewish Quarterly since it began. It focuses on central themes of London, community, Vanished Worlds, literature and Israel.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Tune Parts Memory	p. 19
A Jew in England	p. 21
Rudolf Rocker: mentor of the Jewish Anarchists	p. 28
To T. S. Eliot	p. 33
A Handful of Earth	p. 35
Voices in the Tunnel	p. 37
Two poems	p. 38
The Singer of Whitechapel	p. 39
Standing Still: Still Standing	p. 40
Genocide is a Cheese Sandwich	p. 45
The Arrival and Departure of Adam and Eve at Dover	p. 51
The Golem of Golders Green	p. 52
A Palestinian in Golders Green	p. 56
The Curiousness of Anglo-Jews	p. 63
The English Country Cottage	p. 69
Chaim Superman encounters a Jewish Intellectual	p. 71
The Yom Kippur Swimming Gala	p. 76
Our destiny in whose hands?	p. 80
Trying to be Jewish	p. 86
The non-Jewish Jewish female cartoonist and Other Confusions	p. 89
The Tyre-Cairo Letters	p. 93
A Compliant against the times	p. 98
Sol	p. 107
The Legend of the Wandering Jew	p. 107
In the Warsaw Ghetto: Summer 1941	p. 114
Janusz Korczak	p. 121
50 Jews and a dead cat	p. 123
A letter I wrote in 1945	p. 125
Homage to Salonika	p. 130
The Dancing Bear	p. 135
Three poems	p. 139
Father, Jew, Poet	p. 141
A Mirror on a Stone ...	p. 146
Two poems	p. 147
Because of that War	p. 148
The White Jews of Cochin	p. 153
The road to myself	p. 157
Vay iz mir - Who'd be a Jewish writer?	p. 159
Delmore Schwartz and Me: literary rediscovery	p. 170
Edmond Jabes: a translator's tribute	p. 176
A conversation with Adrienne Rich	p. 179
Picturing Sylvester	p. 186
Back from the Draft Board	p. 197
Jewish Woman	p. 203
Three poems	p. 204
The anniversary	p. 206
In a Cold Season	p. 209
The man who would never write like Balzac	p. 213
Operation	p. 220
Teaching Noga the Hebrew alphabet	p. 221
Shalom Bomb	p. 222
New Year	p. 223
A Life: Sacha Rabinovitch (1910-96)	p. 224
The Blood of the Lamb	p. 229
Kaddish	p. 232
In the Month of Tammuz	p. 233
'Yes, Madam'	p. 234
Religious Quarter	p. 237
The Last Romantics	p. 237
The Key to Judah's Camp	p. 243
Kapparah, or the Last Chorale	p. 248
Home, Imagination an Malice	p. 248
The El-Al Prawn	p. 256
Israel at Fifty	p. 257
The Hope	p. 264
A Sense of Place	p. ä
A Tour to the Heart of Darkness	p. 272
Shylock in the Promised Land	p. 276
Anybody who knows anything about washing socks in Jerusalem knows	p. 281
Contributors	p. 283
Acknowledgements	p. 287
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