Saul Tchernichovsky

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction xi
4. Acknowledgments xxv
5. Biographical Chronology xxvii
6. 1. Jewish Literature And Culture
7. Koheleth. Review Of Koheleth: The Man And The Book 3
8. Baal Shem In Modern Dress. Review Of Lyric 6
9. White Magic. Review Of The Zohar In Moslem And Christian Spain 10
10. Chaim Nachman Bialik 13
11. Music Hath Charm. Review Of Jewish Music And Other Essays On Musical Topics 19
12. The Art Of The Passover Haggadah 23
13. The Last Of The Badchanim - Shloime Shmulevitz 26
14. Saadyah Gaon 29
15. Bialik Thou Shouldst Be Living At This Hour 32
16. Saul Tchernichovsky 36
17. The Thirteenth Apostle? 37
18. Palestine Moving-Pictures 40
19. Had Not Thy Torah Been My Delight ... Review Of From The Nazi Vale Of Tears 41
20. Some Praise The Lord - Some Pass The Ammunition. Review Of The Sabbath Prayer Book Published By The Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation 42
21. The Snows Of Yesteryear. Review Of My Lexicon 46
22. The Poetry Which Is Prayer. Review Of Líder Un Loiben 49
23. An Encyclopedic Work. Review Of The Mishna 52
24. 'Apples Of Gold In Pictures Of Silver' Review Of Milan Dikduki ('Lexicon Of Hebrew Homonyms') 54
25. The Snows Of Yesteryear. Review Of Burning Lights 57
26. Look On This Picture And On This ... Review Of A Palestine Picture Book And Polish Jews: A Pictorial Record 60
27. Only Half the Language of Faith. Review of The Language of Faith: Selected Jewish Prayers 63
28. Baedeker: Kasrilevke. Review of Inside Kasrilevke 67
29. The Dybbuk. Text of a Trans-Canada Radio Talk 70
30. A Chassidic Anthology. Review of Tales of the Hasidim: The Later Masters 74
31. Melech Grafstein's Sholom Aleichem. Review of A Sholom Aleichem Panorama 77
32. Poet of a World Passed By. Review of Sefer Yiddish 79
33. The Art of Hertz Grosbard 81
34. Poems of Yehoash. Review of Poems of Yehoash 83
35. Of Hebrew. Calligraphy Review of The Israel Art Haggadah 85
36. In Memoriam: J.I. Segal 87
37. 2. Jewish Folk Culture
38. Jewish Folk-Songs 93
39. Of Hebrew Humor 99
40. On Translating the Yiddish Folk-Song 109
41. The Yiddish Proverb 112
42. 3. The Bible
43. The Bible as Literature 125
44. The Gesture of the Bible 131
45. The Bible Manuscripts 133
46. The Bible's Archetypical Poet 143
47. 4. Literature And The Arts
48. From The McGill Daily 151
49. Proletarian Poetry 161
50. National Anthems 163
51. Queen Mab and Mickey Mouse 166
52. Annotation on Shapiro's Essay on Rime 169
53. A Definition of Poetry? A Reply to a Request 177
54. Sha! Sha! Shostakovitch! 181
55. Marginalia 182
56. Book Reviewing, in Seven Easy Lessons 193
57. The Usurper 195
58. In Memoriam: Alexander Bercovitch 198
59. The Case of Jascha Heifetz 199
60. 5. Canadian Literature
61. Mortal Coils. Review Of The Shrouding 203
62. The Decencies Had Perished With The Stukas'. Review Of Dunkirk 205
63. The Poetry Of A.J.M. Smith. Review Of News Of The Phoenix 209
64. New Writers Series, No. 1. Review Of Here And Now 212
65. Writing In Canada. A Reply To A Questionnaire 216
66. 6. American, European, And English Literature
67. A Curse on Columbus. Review of Jews Without Money 225
68. The Jew in English Poetry 226
69. Robinson Jeffers - Poet-Fascist? Review of Be Angry at the Sun 232
70. Is This the Jew the Authors Drew? 235
71. The Heart of Europe. Review of Heart of Europe 238
72. Maimonides in Hollywood. Review of A Guide for the Bedevilled 241
73. Grand Invective. Review of The Tempering of Russia 244
74. Those Who Should Have Been Ours 246
75. Rilke and His Translators. Review of Thirty-one Poems 251
76. Departure and Arrival Review of Thieves in the Night 255
77. Knut Hamsun 258
78. Isaak Babel Review of Benya Krik, the Gangster, and Other Stories 259
79. That Rank Picture 262
80. Cantabile. Review of The Cantos of Ezra Pound 264
81. Of Jewish Existentialism. Review of Antisémite and Jew 266
82. T.S. Eliot and the Nobel Prize 268
83. Hemlock and Marijuana. Review of In the Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces 275
84. Old Ez and His Blankets 278
85. The Masked Yeats Review of Yeats: The Man and the Masks, The Golden Nightingale and The Permanence of Yeats 282
86. Homage to Ludwig Lewisohn 284
87. 7. James Joyce's Ulysses
88. The Oxen of the Sun 289
89. The Black Panther. A Study in Technique 326
90. A Shout in the Street. An Analysis of the Second Chapter of Joyce's Ulysses 342
91. Textual Notes and Emendations 367
92. Notes 377
93. Index 415