No 55 Spring 2007

editorial | contents

News
3 Canadian Challenge
4 Iran
5 Competition winners, 60 Years - What a State!
Features
6 No green light for occupation
Caroline Lucas explains the Green Party's policy on Israel/Palestine
7 The real lessons of 1917
Michael Heiser shows how the Bund's idea of national cultural autonomy can address issues of minorities today
10 The Jewish Workers Bund and the Jewish state
Historical documents
11 Women of worth
Avirama Golan uncovers new forms of exploitation in Israel's high tech industries
12 The other side of the road
Julia Bard and David Rosenberg interview Mike Marqusee about his new book
16 How the East was won
David Rosenberg remembers the Rock Against Racism carnival of 1978 and pays tribute to an anti-fascist fighter
18 Shabby treatment
John Eversley looks at how the health service receives refugee doctors and patients
22 Missing words
Laurent Mignon describes the struggle for recognition of progressives Jewish writers in Turkey
24 Klezmer confusion
Jacob Bard-Rosenberg takes issue with the claims of klezmer
Poetry
18 Pesach has come to the ghetto again
reviews
26 Israel's Holocaust & the Politics of Nationhood; East End to Soho
28 Dockers and Detectives; The Yiddish PolicemanÕs Union
29 Mano Suave CD
30 On the Shelf
Regulars
5 Wisewords; Change the World
20 Letters
21 From where I'm standing
31 Dybbuk's diary

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