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assortment of four to eight
variously sized children
gathered around it to hear
discussed, for the umteenth
time by whichever mother
whose turn it was to teach,
the opening chapters of
Genesis. Decades before I
ever heard of Bruno or Vico
or any of the philosophical
theorists of cyclical history,
or had read Nabokov's Pale
Fire or Joyce's Finnegan's
Wake, I knew all about cycli-
cal patterns and repetitive
structures. Each fall we
started Genesis again, creat-
ing the world anew, getting
the apple to Eve, dispatching
Abel, helping all those pairs
of animals up the gangplank
before the rain started. We
hardly ever found out any-
thing that happened after-
ward, except for poor Isaac
who had a close call. Now,
every Rosh Hashanah when
the Akeda — the story of the
binding of Isaac — is read, I
am automatically turned into
a little boy again, sitting
close to that coal stove, si-
lently pondering Isaac's fate.
Years afterward when I set
about selecting a writer
whose work I wanted to
analyze for my PhD disserta-
tion in English literature, I
was attracted to Wilfred
Owen, the World War I poet
who brilliantly articulated
his protest against war in a
handful of peoms of which
one, "The Parable of the Old
Men and the Young," in-
volved a retelling of the
Akeda.
Writing my dissertation on
Wilfred Owen catapulted me
into my career in academe. I
had long been familiar with
its rhythm of cyclical re-
newal, with classes resuming
every fall. The celebration of
Rosh Hashanah and the be-
ginning of the new school
year were to me not merely
contiguous happenings, they
soon became synonymous.
Over time, they have
emerged into a single cyclical
experience with a singular
emphasis upon creation and
renewal. Consequently, I've
never felt suspended as a Jew
in America despite my hav-
ing been in my youth one of a
very tiny community sur-
rounded by vast numbers of
non-Jews. Reading David
Daiches' Between Two Worlds
many years ago, I found my-
self unable to relate totally to
his experience of being sus-
pended as a Jew in Scotland.
Neither can I presently take
too seriously the title of
Herman Wouk's recently pub-
lished novel, Inside, Outside,
because the religious and
secular linkage of the New
Year with the school year has
always precluded any need to
dwell on personal alienation.
Having to choose between the
inside and the outside is not
in my view a necessary un-
dertaking. I'm not compelled
to do it. The older genera-
tions of my family, I know,
had to do it because their
origins were in Eastern
Europe and America was an
enormous adjustment for
them. But growing up Jewish
Rosh Hashanah
and the new
school year soon
became
synonymous
in a little Southern country
town was somehow for me a
synthesizing experience.
Of course, those older gen-
erations have all passed to
their rewards But one of the
sustaining pleasures for me
this Rosh Hashanah will be
to recall those past celebra-
tions of the New Year, of cre-
ation and renewal, I shared
with them so long ago. Tradi-
tion tells us that ...
NEWS Im"•••1
Naamat Against
Judge Bork's
Nomination
New York — American Af-
fairs chairwomen in 500
Naamat clubs across the na-
tion were asked "to involve
all club members" in an effort
to prevent the appointment of
Judge Robert H. Bork to the
United States Supreme
Court. This followed the
unanimous decision by
delegates attending the
organization's recent national
convention in Los Angeles to
oppose the nomination
because it "could jeopardize
some of our basic freedoms, as
well as the progress
American women have made
in the last thirty years
towards achieving equal
rights."
Israeli Cricket
Team Tours U.S.
New York (JTA) — The
Israeli cricket team (yes,
there is one) was scheduled to
arrive for its first U.S. visit
last week for a match with
the American All-Stars
Cricket Team of Brooklyn,
N.Y.
According to Berth Smith,
president of International
Cricket Matches Inc., which
owns the American team, the
Israelis will play against the
All-Stars in St. John Univer-
sity in Queens.
Smith said that he decided
to invite the Israeli cricket
team to the U.S. after he
watched its 11-member play
in the world cricket competi-
tions in previous years in
London and Australia.