Word: jewes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Intrigued by the Israeli controversy over what is a Jew (TIME, July 28), wily, white-thatched Humorist Harry Hershfield, on a Jerusalem visit, supplied his own definition: "Someone with courage, faith, stamina and a sense of humor." His hoary example? "A philanthropist comes to the Negev and sees this poor rabbi in a shabby synagogue and asks him: 'Rabbi, how much do you make here?' The rabbi says: 'Five dollars a week.' 'But how can you live on that?' asks the philanthropist, and the rabbi answers: 'Lucky thing is that...
...week when the rest of the Middle East was concerned with the question "What is an Arab?", Premier David Ben-Gurion's government faced a worrisome vote of confidence on the question "What is a Jew?" For thousands of years Jews have generally interpreted the Talmud to mean that only the offspring of a Jewish mother can be a Jew, and the orthodox consider the matter settled. But for the last four months the question "What is a Jew?" has been hotly debated in Israel...
...trouble started when Premier David Ben-Gurion's government announced that anyone may claim Jewish nationality, and be called a Jew on his identification card, who declares "in good faith" that he is a Jew and professes no other religion. Children, said the government, could be registered as Jews if both parents wished it, even if the mother was an unconverted gentile...
...best excuse for retelling a myth is to be unfaithful to it. When Joyce reworked the Odyssey, turning Ulysses into the Jew Leopold Bloom and the wine-dark sea into Dublin, the structure came from the past but the sense of it was all in the present-which is the essence of parable. To re-create the past as past is merely archaeology or entertainment, or both. Author Mary (The Last of the Wine) Renault's The King Must Die (a midsummer Book-of-the-Month Club choice) is both, but she is a better literary archaeologist than...
...Left. These notes have all the casual aspect of horror encountered in nightmares. One account records, in the midst of gossip about prices, the story of a baby thrown from a refugee train. Another tells of "benzine poured over a young Jew" and fired. So common was death in the ghetto courtyards that the dead lay unburied, and children were seen at a game of "tickling the corpse...