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Issue 4 - Spring 2007 - The Big Issue
Articles
FICTION
MAHMOUD, MOM; MOM, MAHMOUD ....
Shalom Auslander's simple proposal for eradicating anti-Semitism based on shared goals, mutual dreams, and a common disgust with his mother
BY SHALOM AUSLANDER
ESSAY
WHY THINGS BLOW UP
The seductive story of victimhood, and of its equally seductive nemesis: violence
BY GERSHOM GORENBERG
LETTER FROM LONDON
THE VON TRAPPS STRIKE BACK
Looking back to Britain's finest hour ... again
BY JONATHAN FREEDLAND
REFLECTION
REQUIEM FOR MY GRANDFATHER, JAKOV MILNER, ZIONIST
The rabbi spoke of Katyusha rockets; old friends and neighbors debated Israel's war strategy. We had gathered to mourn a man we loved, but another tragedy flickered on the sidelines
BY DAVID BEZMOZGIS
LETTER FROM ISRAEL
TELEVISION WITHOUT PITY
Watching the neighborhood war on Israeli commercial TV
BY ETGAR KERET
Translated by Sondra Silverston
LETTER FROM NEW YORK
THE FAIR AND UNBALANCED TRUTH
Fox News gets one thing right
BY AARON HAMBURGER
CRATE DIGGING
AND YOU SHALL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF OUR VINYL
The People of the Book and the LPs they have loved and lost
BY ROGER BENNETT AND JOSH KUN
REFLECTION
IN THE LAND OF THE ARYANS
A novelist returns to Iran to meet Karl Friedrich and the Last Jewish Tailor of the Grand Bazaar of Tehran
BY SALAR ABDOH
REPORT
THE ENEMY NEXT DOOR
Anti-Semitism in Iran has a checkered past, writes a Jewish author who fled the country 20 years ago. And, Ahmadinejad notwithstanding, it has a bumpy future
BY ROYA HAKAKIAN
ESSAY
PARADISE LOST
The golden age of friendship between Muslims and Jews wasn't all about peace, love, and understanding. It also kept the wheels of Islamic civilization turning. A Muslim refusenik explains how Allah's ambassadors could benefit by treating Jews with dignity
BY IRSHAD MANJI
REPORT
VERGANGENHEITSBEWATIGUNG!
Germans are so obsessed with confronting their collective past that they even have a word for it. Now there's a new generation of immigrants that wants no part of it, and isn't shy about saying so
BY STACY PERMAN
REPORT
JERUSALEM STILL BURNING
The sheer possibilities of the Third World attracted me - as Israel's had eighteen years ago. In Kathmandu last summer, those two loves collided
BY MICHA ODENHEIMER
LETTER FROM EDINBURGH
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE PUNCH LINE
In the world of stand-up comedy, Israel is suddenly a popular subject, and the Holocaust, it turns out, is rather comic
BY JAMIE GLASSMAN
LETTER FROM PARIS
NOTES FROM THE ASYLUM
How the French fell for an anti-Semitic comedian
BY SAMUEL BLUMENFELD
Translated by Charles Phillips
REPORT
THE WADI HADHRAMAUT
Globalization cuts a swath through a Yemeni valley
BY JAMES CONLON
REPORT
DEATH IN JERUSALEM
What happens when a Muslim cemetery meets the Holocaust? Hint: it's not a Hollywood movie
NOGA TARNOPOLSKY
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