The Harvard Mosaic. A Review of Jewish Thought & Culture. Number 24. Summer 1999

Back issue. The first issue of Mosaic in 1960 was a momentous occassion in the history of the Harvard Jewish community. Mosaic, featured the first American printings of work by Nobel Laureates Isaac Bashevis Singer and Shmuel Yosef Agnon. Under the early direction of Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold and the leadership of then-students Neal Kozodoy of Commentary and Martin Peretz of The New Republic the journal also successfully solicited writing from David Landes, Peter Machinist and others. As a unique intellectual forum, Mosaic, forged its own path amongst the most respected Harvard student publications. Contributors, Letter to Editor from Eli Klein of Jerusalem, From the Outside In, European and American Policy on Oslo by Avi Bell, Finding God in Details, Natural Religion or Religious Nature by Tal Ben-Shachar, Representing Righteousness, Constructing the Rescue of Jews of Denmark by Joshua Neuman, The Power of Pardes (in English and Hebrew) by Michael Rader; Cries in the Dark, A Glimpse, the Hasidic World by Daniel A. Zimmerman, The Coming Revolution in Israeli Defense Force by David Honig, Poetry byMiriam B. Goldstein, Candace Ackerman, Marnie Alexis Friedman, Yehudah Mirsky in Hebrew and English, Jeff Stein; Reviews by Noah Dauber, Joshua Goodman, Benjamin Lebwohl, Moshe Spinowitz. Senior Thesis Abstracts, Mariam B. Goldstein (Taking Up Their Harps on Foreign Soil, The Arabic Desert Ode in Ansalusian Hebrew Poetry), Shalom E. Holtz (Go and Marry Any Man You Please, A Study of Formulaic Antecedents of Rabbinic Writ of Divorce), Dara Horn (Rewriting Redemption: Messianic Experiment in Modern Jewish Literature), Danit Lewin (Constructing Palestine, Holy Land, and Land of Israe,: The Ideology of Tourist Images, 1869-1930), Aviva Preminger (Saving Face, Plastic Surgery and Jewish Identity), Sarah Price (Persecuted Picaro, Holocaust Novel and Picaresque), Tally Zingher. Cover by Paola Tartakoff Three Discrete Minorities Case of Israel's Non-Jewish Citizens in the Labor Market).