Articles kept in cuttings book

TITLE/DATE	PUBLICATION	COMMENTS	PAYMENT
BALDUR MADE HISTORY 25/9/1941	EGYPTIAN GAZETTE	WESTERN DESERT PAGE	50 PIASTRES (10/-)
DESERT ENGLISH 10/10/1941	EGYPTIAN GAZETTE	WESTERN DESERT PAGE	50 PIASTRES (10/-)
WINTER DRAWERS ON c. November 1941	EGYPTIAN GAZETTE	WESTERN DESERT PAGE	50 PIASTRES (10/-)
I MISSED THE BRIDE 11/09/1943	TRIPOLI TIMES	“I presume that… I asked for payment”	NO PAYMENT
YIDDISH – THREAT OF ITS “RAPID DISAPPEARANCE”  18/04/1947	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE		£3-3-0
THE HEBREW OF THE BIBLE 12/09/1947	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE		£3-3-0
The Hebrew of The Mishna 20/08/1948	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE		£4-4-0
THE OLD TESTAMENT AS LITERATURE August 1949	THE JEWISH MONTHLY	“I returned the cheque, but the JM re-returned it…”	£2-2-0
MODERN HEBREW AND MR KOESTLER 16/12/1949	ZIONIST REVIEW		£3-3-0
YOUNG ZIONISTS NEVER DIE! 30/12/1949	ZIONIST REVIEW		£3-3-0
HEBREW UNLIMITED 06/01/1950	ZIONIST REVIEW	PLUS EXPENSES	£2-2-0
HEINE THE JEW July 1950	THE JEWISH MONTHLY	editor advised that he received several  letters expressing admiration for article	£2-2-0
ANGLO-JEWRY AND MODERN HEBREW 01/09/1950	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE		£6-0-0
I SHOULD LIVE SO! 22/06/1951	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	note added re sub-editing	£5-5-0
THE ANGLO-JEWISH HERITAGE 14/09/1951	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	ink corrections added where printed article deviated from his typescript	£4-4-0
MACHMANSHIP 19/10/1951	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	follow-up letters in 9/11/51 issue	£6-6-0
MEMOIRS OF A JEWISH MOTHER 16/11/1951	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE		£6-6-0
SHADCHANSHIP 29/02/1952	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE		£6-6-0
OFFN PRIPPETCHEK 27/06/1952	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE		£7-7-0
THE KOL NIDREI PRAYER 26/09/1952	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE		£5-5-0
THE HEBREW-ARAMAIC ELEMENTS IN THE YIDDISH LANGUAGE 01/05/1953	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	follow-up letters in subsequent issues	£8-8-0
THE YOUNG TCHERNICHOVSKI 25/09/1953	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE		£5-5-0
LONDON’S LIBRARIES OF JEWISH INTEREST 08/01/1954	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	“much cut”	£5-5-0
SHOCKLING IN THE BALANCE 09/04/1954	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE		£5-5-0
WHAT IS A YIDDISHISM? 28/05/1954	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE		£4-4-0
HEINREICH HEINE: Two Studies of His Thought and Feeling by William Rose  06/04/1956	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	BOOK REVIEW (W Rose reviewed HH book trans. by JW in 3/8/56 JC)	£5-5-0
SOME YIDDISH LOCUTIONS Summer 1956	THE JEWISH QUARTERLY	note re JC review of JQ quoting this article	£2-2-0
OTHER PEOPLE’S VINEYARDS Literary Essays by D Daiches Autumn 1956	THE JEWISH QUARTERLY	BOOK REVIEW “mangled editorially”	£1-1-0
PROFESSOR’S POET Heinrich Heine by E Butler 18/01/1957	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	BOOK REVIEW	£2-2-0
TRAGEDY OF HEINE Heinreich Heine: A Biographical Anthology Ed. H Bieber 07/06/1957	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	BOOK REVIEW	£2-2-0
YIDDISH HUMOUR Handbook of Jewish Words and Expressions by C Hawkins 22/11/1957	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	“My heading was Huz Bizioniss? (…the allusion too recondite…)”	£1-11-6
WHO IS A JEW? A Reply to Mr. Ben-Gurion 15/05/1959	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	second prize in Essay Competition	£26-5-0
LETTER TO A BAAL SIMCHA 04/03/1960	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	note about article and sketches by Edith Witriol	£5-5-0
PSYCHOLOGIST-ENTERTAINER How to Live With Yourself by M Banks 09/06/1961	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	BOOK REVIEW	not noted
ENFANT PERDU Heine, The Tragic Satirist by S Prawer 25/08/1961	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	BOOK REVIEW “approx. the first third of my “copy”!	not noted
POLISH RUSSIAN ELEMENTS IN YIDDISH 16/02/1962	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	noted as reprint (?)	£11-11-0
THE OTHER GERMANY From Gottsched to Hebbel by G Mason 13/04/1962	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	BOOK REVIEW  various corrections/errors noted	£3-3-0
IN OLD VIENNA Karl Kraus…by H Kohn 12/10/1962	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	BOOK REVIEW	£5-0-0
BEYOND REALISM Blood From the Sky by P Rawicz 15/05/1964	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	BOOK REVIEW	£3-13-6
MOTHERS AND SONS Vertical and Horizontal by L Ross/ Because I was Flesh by E Dahlberg 22/05/1964	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	BOOK REVIEW	£4-4-0
MASSACRE IN MAYENCE Belmarsh by C Davis  18/09/1964	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	BOOK REVIEW – not in cuttings book	£3-13-6
BOY FROM ORPHANAGE The Woman From Bessarabia by M Levinson 06/11/1964	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	BOOK REVIEW	£4-4-0
A WANDERING TAILOR The Stormy Life of Laz Roitshvantz by I Ehrenburg 12/03/1965	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	BOOK REVIEW	£7-7-0
MILK FOR THE MIKVA Valley of Exile by I Olbracht 27/08/1965	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	BOOK REVIEW	£6-6-0
WHAT’S IN A NAME? 05/11/1965	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE		£12-0-0
HIGH JINKS IN INDIA Clown on Fire by A Judah 03/12/1965	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	BOOK REVIEW	£3-3-0
YIDDISH HUMOUR Royte Pomerantsen, or How to Laugh in Yiddish ed. I Olsvanger 11/03/1966	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	BOOK REVIEW	£4-0-0
A VANISHED WORLD Dvinsk: Its Rise and Decline by Y Flior 25/03/1966	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	BOOK REVIEW	£4-0-0
NOTHING BUT A POET Heine by M Spann 31/03/1967	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	BOOK REVIEW “commissioned May 6th 1966!”	not noted
A TRAGIC LANGUAGE Voices From The Yiddish eds. I Howe and E Greenberg 24/03/1972	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	BOOK REVIEW comment about article’s genesis	not noted
LID OFF HASMONEAN 04/11/1977	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	lengthy comment about background to article	not noted
WOMEN DON’T COUNT 29/09/1978	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE		£30.00
TORAH – NEW LIGHT FOR OLD 27/10/1978	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	“…title changed, and large chunks hacked out…”	not noted
A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO SHULMANSHIP 09/11/1979	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE		£30.00
J AND NON-J VOCAB 29/02/1980	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	lengthy comment about background to article	£30.00
ADVANCED SHULMANSHIP 07/11/1980	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	“probably my feeblest effort of all time…”	£40.00
YIDDISH AND GERMAN Autumn 1981	THE INCORPORATED LINGUIST	also long letter in Spring 1982 issue	not noted
NAMING NAMES 31/01/1986	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE		not noted
CAN’T WOMEN MAKE UP A MINYAN? 05/09/1986	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE		not noted
CELEBRATING THE SABBATH IN GOURMET STYLE 13/01/1989	THE JEWISH CHRONICLE	lengthy comment about background to article. Follow-up letters in subsequent issues	£50.00

 

Lid Off Hasmonean

This article has already been referred to in connection with Journal entries relating to Hasmonean.

Lid off Hasmonean was published in The Jewish Chronicle, dated 4th November 1977 and under that date he added to his cuttings book:

Twelve years since the last feature article in the J.C; 5½ years since my last review in the J.C. In the meantime I had submitted an article – Jewish Forenames – which was accepted, but which I then asked them not to publish because, or rather unless, they printed G-d, which they declined to do.

I also submitted, unsuccessfully, two articles “lifted” from my (unpublished) book on Yiddish, and more recently an article on “Neologisms in Modern Hebrew” which, too, was rejected by the Features Editor Meir Persoff.

My title for the attached article was Hasmo, I wrote Hasmonean Secondary School (not Grammar) and the parenthesis about my retirement was added by the J.C. sub – good (I had mentioned the fact of my retirement in a covering letter).

Both this article and the one on Jewish forenames are mentioned in Part V of The Witriol Dairies as featured on melchettmike’s blog.

Sketches by Edith, Words by Joseph

“The Spring Bride”, a 24 page supplement published with The Jewish Chronicle of March 4, 1960 included Letter to a Baal Simcha by my father.

In his cuttings book he added a note:

13/3/59.  I was asked to do “an article in lighter vein” on “Mechutanship” or “On Being a Mechutan” for a J.C. “Brides and Homes” supplement. This was the best I could do. The best thing I can say in favour is that the whole process from insemination to parturition [did my very recent birth influence his choice of metaphor!?] took only a week or so; the actual writing of the first draft only a few hours. Edith’s sketches, too, took only an hour or so; though rejected for publication they stay here [i.e. in his cuttings book] to testify to a happy collaboration.

My mother’s sketches for the wedding article

Under the chuppah

At the reception

Rein in your M.C.

In 1951, my father had written an article on Machmanship for The JC. Clearly the paper by now had him down as Anglo-Jewry’s Stephen Potter.

 

Who is a Jew?

Here is the link to the article  Who is a Jew? published in The Jewish Chronicle, 15th May 1959.

From my father’s Journal dated 3rd May:

I gained second prize – 25 guineas – in the J.C. Essay Competition. They rang up for me to give them some dope, and a photograph, for their “Incidentally” column. Rather depressing to think this is the nearest to fame I shall ever get. The essay itself was a feeble affair; the lucid analysis, firm grasp of all the problems raised, are conspicuously absent. A few Hebrew and Yiddish phrases and – perhaps it is not unfair to say – a general readability – gained it the prize, I suppose.

He told The Jewish Chronicle’s diarist that, at present,

my translation work and eleven-week-old son, Philip Israel, occupy all my time.

The diary piece also referred to his many “scholarly and witty articles” for the paper and that he was involved in the Ajex out-door speaking campaign sponsored by the Defence Committee of The Board of Deputies.

Twenty-one years later, in what I think was his sole appearance in The Times Letters To The Editor page, he gave a terse rejoinder to a letter from Leo Abse, both published under the heading of Who is a Jew?

The winner of The Jewish Chronicle competition, incidentally, was Rabbi Ira Eisenstein a major figure in the Reconstructionist movement of American Judaism.

The Young Tchernichovski

Published in The Jewish Chronicle of September 25, 1953, this article, on The Young Tchernichovski,  by my father is an example of his erudition and philological expertise.

The Israeli “hymn” referred to in the article is still part of the Israeli dancing repertoire usually, dafka, in an instrumental version. Just as dafkaesque, Rav Youtube’s seemingly unique video for this Zionist anthem (albeit with its “universalist aspirations”) features an Arab-Jewish choir. Dayan Google also led me to this version of the song which however schmaltzy is somewhat more appropriate.

As mentioned before, for technical reasons –  foremost of which being my technical inexpertise – the link is to a pdf file which may require some manipulation (zooming etc) in order to read satisfactorily.