Full Description
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.
Contents
Part 1 London: time parts memory, Arnold Wesker; a Jew in England, Emanuel Litvinoff; Rudolf Rocker - mentor of the Jewish anarchists, Joseph Leftwich; to T.S. Eliot, Emanuel Litvinoff; a handful of earth, Wolf Mankowitz; voices in the tunnel, Harold Pinter; two poems, A.N. Stenel; the singer of Whitechapel, Josef Herman; standing still - still standing, Sylvia Paskin and Jane Liddell-King; genocide is a cheese sandwich, Sonja Linden; the arrival and departure of Adam and Eve at Dover, Dannie Abse; the Golem of Golders Green, Jonathan Treitel; a Palestinian in Golders Green, Ghada Karmi. Part 2 Community: the curiousness of Anglo-Jews, Frederic Raphael; the English country cottage, Ruth Fainlight; Chaim Superman encounters a Jewish intellectual, Barnet Litvinoff; the Yom Kippur swimming gala, Alexander Flinder; our destiny in whose hands?, Jonathan Freedland; trying to be Jewish, Michael Rosen; the non-Jewish Jewish female cartoonists and other confusions, Corinne Pearlman. Part 3 Vanished worlds: the Tyre-Cairo letters, Liz Cashdan; a complaint against the times, Yehuda Abravanel; Sol, A.C. Jacobs; the legend of the wandering Jew, Hyam Maccoby; in the Warsaw ghetto - summer 1941, Rafael Scharf; Janusz Korczak, Emanuel Ringelblum; 50 Jews and a dead cat, Yuri Suhl; a letter I wrote in 1945, Vera Elyashiv; homage to Salonika, Mark Mazower; the dancing bear, Frederick Goldman; three poems, Nelly Sachs; father, Jew, poet, Shimon Markish; a mirror on a stone..., Peretz Markish; two poems, Lotte Kramer; because of that war, James E. Young; the white Jews of Cochin, Ron Taylor. (Part contents).
