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Articles by Judith Baumel
The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism
Review By – July 15, 2024 In this compact book, Marjorie Feld, a professor of history at Babson College, provides an overview of perspectives that are critical of Zionism. While billed as a history, Feld’s study covers only the first one hundred years of anti-Zionist critique, beginning in the 1880s (before the first official Zionist conference) and extending to the 1980s. A “coda” brings us to the post – October 7 crisis. Feld has a twofold thesis.
May 2022 Poetry Feature
New poems from our contributors AKWE AMOSU, JUDITH BAUMEL, and ELIZABETH METZGER Table of Contents: Akwe Amosu | New citizen Judith Baumel | Irij Elizabeth Metzger | Talking to Jean about Love | Talking to Jean about Love II New citizen By Akwe Amosu Photo by Akwe Amosu For three chill days in March windows of a train became my eyes taking in the harsh truth of the prairie.
On the Imperfections of the Perfect Nanny by Khalid Lyamlahy
I have barely read any critical pieces on Leïla Slimani’s novel Chanson douce (Gallimard, 2016), winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2016. The best-seller came out just this month in the UK and the US under two distinct titles: Lullaby (Faber, 2018) for the British edition and The Perfect Nanny (Penguin, 2018) for the American one.
On Home and Migration: Two Poems, by Brenda Delfino
Photo collage courtesy of the author El Matador after Argentina’s World Cup Victory in 1978 La Patriacomes dressed in multiple costumes, during the “Dirty War” it wore the colors of the flag, came in the shape of a man carrying the nation’s emblem over his heart, trotting gloriously into the stadium filled with white and blue confetti falling down like holy water sanctifying the ground.
Vandalism by Judith Baumel
My sheep was the dragonand my dragon the sheep.Neither was happy in the yearhe was born. The detective walked the edgeof parkway, the gold buttonon his lapel flaming in the sun,and nothing was there. The letters were neat and careful,though they misspelled Zionism.The swastikas were balanced and well shaped.The glass walls of the childrens classroom were blotted with those redand black marksand the sun came mottled throughthe paper wed taped to cover.
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