Jewish Quarterly, Volume 64, Issue 1 (2017)

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Poems

Poetry
Since we're not young
Adrienne Rich
Page: 6
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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Editor’s Note

Editorial
Editor’s Note
Rachel Shabi Editor
Page: 7
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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Dispatches

Article
The Gallery of Missing Husbands
Josie Glausiusz
Pages: 8-9
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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Israel’s Mizrahi Moment
Revital Madar
Page: 10
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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Muslim-Jewish ties against Trump
Corey Saylor
Page: 11
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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The Resilience Issue

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Revolt against the Rootless
The charge of rootless cosmopolitanism is exceptionally adaptable in the age of Brexit and Trump —but what's so ‘suspect’ about Muslims, Jews, migrants and citizens of nowhere in such a climate? And why are nationalists so set against complexity?
Aleksandar Hemon
Pages: 12-16
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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Poems

Poetry
Prospective Immigrants Please Note
Adrienne Rich
Page: 17
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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The Resilience Issue

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Thinking without Banisters
For Hannah Arendt it was the inability to think that sealed the connection between thoughtlessness and modern evil. Which is why, she insisted, resilience begins in our heads
Lyndsey Stonebridge
Pages: 18-21
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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Lie of the Land
Since it captured the Palestinian West Bank after the 1967 war, Israel has kept the land and its people under military occupation, building and expanding settlements, while controlling and curtailing Palestinian life, from work and housing, to the movement of people and goods. This is a tiny snapshot of how this has changed the landscape
Pages: 22-27
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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The Militant Democracy
Germany, with its horrific past, may be uniquely equipped to deal with the rise of far right populism. How does this country see the confrontation between freedom and tyranny across the West—and the fightback now required?
Fabian Wolff
Pages: 28-31
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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Poems

Poetry
My Grandmother’s Blue Bowl
Sharon H. Nelson
Page: 32
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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The Resilience Issue

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Jewish Joke’s on You
As US satirists take aim at the Trump administration, much of the humour seems kind of Jewish. Judy Batalion breaks it down
Judy Batalion
Pages: 33-35
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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A Minyen Yidn
Trina Robbins
Pages: 36-41
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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Revue: Previews

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Spring Stages
Matt Wolf
Pages: 44-45
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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Spring Movies
Julia Wagner
Pages: 46-47
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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Spring Music
David Lasserson
Pages: 48-49
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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Spring Art
Julia Weiner
Pages: 50-51
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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Poems

Poetry
Outgoing Message
Sue Rose
Page: 52
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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Books

Book Review
My Own Words
Jennifer Weisberg
Page: 54
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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Nine Love Letters
David Herman
Page: 55
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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Nothing But A Circus: Misadventures Among the Powerful
Simon Kuper
Page: 56
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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Book Review
The Marriage Plot: Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature
Richa Dwor
Page: 57
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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Mind Control
Rosine Perelberg
Pages: 58-59
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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1915 Diary of S. An-sky / A Russian Jewish Writer at the Eastern Front
David Mazower
Page: 60
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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Book Review
Moses: A Human Life
Brian Klug
Page: 61
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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Book Review
Cultivating Wisdom
Edward Luper
Pages: 62-63
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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Book Review
Adrienne Rich Collected Poems 1950-2012
Jenni Calder
Page: 64
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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Book Review
The Shaykh of Shaykhs: Mithqal al-Fayiz and Tribal Leadership in Modern Jordan
Tancred Bradshaw
Page: 65
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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The Disappearance of Émile Zola: Love, Literature and the Dreyfus Case
Lydia Syson
Page: 66
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life
Mark Glanville
Page: 67
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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Jewish Book News

Book Review
Jewish Book News
Stephen Massil
Pages: 68-69
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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Farewell

Obituary
Farewell
Lawrence Joffe
Pages: 70-72
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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Reflections

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Why action matters
Jonathan Wittenberg
Page: 74
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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