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...into a movie. Surprisingly, many of the book's Eire-borne visions work as screedwriter becomes screenwriter and his prose gains the breadth of life. A tavernkeeper, H. C. Earwicker (Martin J. Kelley) sleeps drunkenly dreaming of his wife Anna Livia Plurabelle, his daughter and his two sons Shem and Shaun. In the back ground runs the ballad about Finnegan's Wake, the saga of a laborer who falls off a scaffold, then returns to life when the word whisky is mentioned...
...your explanation of the name Jerusalem, you would find an illuminating reason by reading on a little farther in the Babylonian Talmud you quoted. This is the manner in which our sages put it: Abraham called it Jeruh (Hebrew for awe) and Shem, the son of Noah, called it Salem (for peace or completeness). And the L~d said, "If I call it Jeruh as Abraham did, then the righteous Shem will be insulted, and if I call it Salem as Shem did then the righteous Abraham will be insulted. I will therefore call it as both did -Jerusalem...
...bright as sheet lightning. Israel's new $5,500,000 national museum opened last week to Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Said Premier Levi Eshkol, recalling Noah's sons, "The museum will introduce something of the beauty of Japheth into the tents of Shem." Although the museum hardly has two of everything, it is an ark for art in the Middle East...
...Buber came across a testament of Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, the 18th century's wonder-working Baal Shem Tov (the good master of the divine name) who founded Hasidism. Buber gave up politics and journalism to spend five years studying Hasidic texts, then wrote the first of his ten books that retell the legends and learning of the Hasidic rabbis. During the early '30s, he and the late Rabbi Leo Baeck were the unquestioned leaders of Germany's Jewish community; Buber organized schools, edited anti-Nazi journals, and in "The Question to the Single One" wrote...
...full of flashing colors, amazing fluctuations in volume and, on occasion, blazing speed. Then, after peeling the shredded hair from his bow and shooting the cuffs of his immaculate dress shirt, he launched into the quieter strains of Ernest Bloch's familiar violin war horse Nigun (from Baal Shem), shaping an interpretation that was sweet but not sugary, both poignant and filled with an old world charm...