and her happiness when she discovers
she is pregnant by him. She feels
betrayed by her brothers, who assume
she has been raped by the prince and
murder him in retaliation.
Turning her back on her family,
Dinah makes her way to Egypt, where
alone in a strange land she gives birth
to her lover's son, fulfills herself with
true _friendships and becomes a well-
known midwife.
In writing The Red Tent, author
Anita Diamant embraced the ancient
and still-vital literary form called
midrash. Historically, rabbis used this
highly imaginative form of storytelling
to make sense of the elliptical nature
of the Bible, where the compressed
stories and images are rather like pho-
tographs; they do not explain every-
thing the reader wants or needs to
know.
Although Anita Diamant is best
known for her nonfiction work (The
New Jewish Wedding), in this fresh,
new way of retelling Bible stories, she
just may have opened up a whole new
world for herself and us, too.

— Reviewed by Beverly Mindlin,
Cleveland Jewish News

FIDDLIN' AROUND

Alicia Svigals enters new territory
with her newly released CD Fidl
(Traditional Crossroads), billed as

"the world's first klezmer recording
featuring the violin." Svigals, who's
made four recordings as a member of
the Klezmatics, calls attention to the
instrument that was central to
klezmer music before the Holocaust.
The violinist performs both solo
improvisations and new arrangements
of historical klezmer tunes backed by
accordion, flute, bass and tsimbl, an
Eastern European instrument with a
bell-like sound.
"The idea for this album has been
percolating in me for years," Svigals
told The Jewish Week. She believes the
violin is better suited than the clar-
inet to the emotion-filled klezmer
style.
"The violin has the same range,
the same tone quality as the human
voice," Svigals said. "It has the same
pathos. It's a natural for Jewish
music."
Since klezmer music usually is
associated with the clarinet, Svigals
thinks of her role as "half reviving,
half inventing" a musical style.
"It's an imagining of an old thing,"
the musician said. "We don't really
know what it sounded like."
The CD includes extensive liner
notes on the history of klezmer music
and the klezmer fiddle by ethnomusi-
cologist Walter Feldman.

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