Beyond Sambation : Selected Essays and Editorials 1928-1955 (Collected Works of A. M. Klein).

Intro -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- BIOGRAPHICAL CHRONOLOGY -- 1928: Notes on Cultural Zionism -- 1929: The Hebrew University -- Our Language -- The Modern Maccabee -- 1930: Messiah in Our Days -- 1931: But My Own Garden I Kept Not -- Theodor Herzl -- 1932: Zionism - Our National Will-to-Live -- The Twin Racketeers of Journalism -- The German Elections -- 1937: Balfour! Thou Shouldst Be Living at This Hour -- 1938: Vandal and Victim -- Le Devoir Sees Its Duty -- The Mahatma and the Jewish Question -- The Feast of Lights -- Mr. H.G. Wells: Crystal-Gazer -- Conquest à la Carte -- 1939: War: The Evolution of a Menagerie -- Pope Pius XI -- Little Red Riding Houde -- Of Him Whom We Envy -- Stalin: The Man of Flexible Steel -- The White Paper -- Rejoice, Ye Bulls of Bashan -- 'Luftmenschen' and 'Wassermenschen' -- A Modest Proposal -- Comrade Hitler and Fuehrer Stalin: Heil Tovarisch -- The Issue Is Clear! -- The Fuehrer's Fury -- 'He Sent a Letter to His Lover' -- No Concealed Assets -- Polish Jewry -- 1940: M. Jean-Charles Harvey and Pan-Americanism -- Jewish Writers in Poland -- Crocodile Tears -- The Brenner Rendez-Vous -- The Shadows Move -- Sermons in Bombs -- The Bluebirds -- Shadow and Substance -- Vladimir Jabotinsky -- Of Wine and Water -- Einstein and God -- Sermons and Stones -- The Isles of Greece -- A Finger of God -- The Balcony Warrior -- 1941: A Strange Apologist -- A Splendid Precedent -- A Nazi Boast -- Immortal Speech -- Dove Conquers All -- Samuel Bronfman -- And in the Spring a Young Man's Fancy ... -- The Journalist in Chains -- And It Was at Midnight -- The Son of Belial -- The Russian Pooh-Bah -- Mr. George Bernard Shaw and His World -- The End of the Honeymoon -- The Party Line -- Arma Virumque Cano -- Letter to Benito Mussolini -- Sic Semper Tyrannis -- The New Year.

He Is Not Alone! -- Hess Won't Eat -- 'That Jewish War' -- Weizmann's Plea and Protest -- Max Nordau: A Tribune to His People -- Notes on a 'Court Jew' -- The Sun Comes Up Like Thunder ... -- 1942: Rabbi Steinberg's Four Principles -- Report from Warsaw -- The Long Voyage Home - The S.S. Struma -- A Great Talmudist - Rabbi Pinchas Hirschprung Interviewed -- The Fifth Column on Parade! -- The S.E.P. Mounts Again -- The Plebiscite -- A Symphony of Three Cities: Vichy - Delhi - Tokio -- Non-Violent and Non-Co-Operative Resistance -- The Appeal of the Yeshivoth -- Your Picture in the Paper -- Remember Lidice! -- The Mystery of the Mislaid Conscience -- Shall Never the Twain Meet? -- The Jewish Unitarian -- Advertising Declares War -- The Canadian Jewish Daily Eagle: Thirty-Five Years of Creative Journalism -- An American Tragedy -- The Jew behind the Times -- The New Order: Murder and Ransom -- Drapeau Holds an Inquest -- The Slaughter of the Children -- 1943: The Politics of Gesticulation -- Willkie on Idolatry -- The Dark Decade -- Will the World Accept the Challenge? -- Erlich and Alter -- The City of Chelm -- The Bermuda Conference -- The Warsaw Ghetto -- Quebec City Gets Another Park -- Lessing 'Lackland' Rosenwald -- The Feast of Tabernacles -- The Mosley Affair -- The Perfect Man -- 1944: In Memoriam: Rabbi Levi Yitschok of Berditchev -- Deep in the Heart of Texas -- Pierre van Paassen: The Remembering Friend -- The Last Jew of Danzig -- Of the Purim to Be -- The Feast of Passover -- The Three-Fold Exile -- The Eleventh Commandment -- Incendiary Antisemitism -- Cherbourg -- Of Lowly Things -- Where's Adolf ? -- The Smoke of a Pistol -- Weizmann at Seventy -- The Tactics of Race-Hatred -- 1945: In Memory of Martyr and Hero -- Israel Rabinovitch (On the Occasion of His Fiftieth Birthday) -- On the Writing of Obituaries -- Reflections on V-E Day.

Crimes and Punishment -- Rescue or Kidnapping? -- The Secret Weapon of the Supermen -- The Jews of Europe -- The Post-War Period Begins -- The Patria -- The Judicial Process -- Le Canada and 'This Hatred' -- 1946: Exodus and Numbers -- The Pleas Begin -- Arms, and the Spy -- The United Palestine Appeal -- The Herrenvolk -- An Anniversary -- The Labor Party, Mr. Bevin, and Palestine -- The Disappearing Mufti -- In Defence of the Atom -- A Fitting Memorial -- When Is Kidnapping Legal? -- The Attempt on the House of David -- Literature at Latrun -- The New Year -- The Nuremberg Trial -- A Reply To Dr. I.M. Rabinowitch -- The Nobel Prize -- The Japanese Deportations -- Witnesses of Jehovah -- 1947: Science and Savagery -- Chisels and the Man ... -- The Talmud Torah Campaign -- The World's Conscience -- England and the Bible -- The Feast of Passover -- Hamlet without Hamlet -- The Octogenarian -- Two Kinds of Justice -- Dr. Magnes and the Bi-National State -- Exodus 1947 -- Irgun, and the Reign of Terror -- The New Judaea -- 1948: Gandhi's Fast -- The Death of Gandhi -- In Memoriam: Leib Yaffe -- Life and Eternity -- The Capture of Haifa -- The New Jewish State -- 'The Dangers of Divided Loyalty' -- Unnecessary Polemic ... -- And into the Scandinavian -- A Lady with a Lamp -- Religion in Palestine -- Canadian Recognition of Israel -- Declaration of Human Rights -- 1949: Pharaoh in Reverse -- The Dangers of Success -- The New Haggadah -- Of Hebrew Names -- Of Jewish Culture -- Notebook of a Journey -- If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem ... -- Uncle Tom's Cabin -- 1950: Of Reynard the Fuchs -- The Confessions -- The Books but Not the People -- The Notorious Restrictive Clause -- 1951: The Hurried Amnesties -- Education in Israel -- Varieties of Genocide -- The Feast of Purim -- The Pit and the Pendulum -- Joseph and His Brethren -- The Council for Judaism, Inc.

What! No Drama? -- Shevuoth -- The Shadow of the Mushroom -- Peace with Germany -- The Arab Refugees -- Buber's Prize -- 1952: German Reparations -- Without the Prince of Denmark -- Israel and Germany -- A Fable -- Of Armorial Bearings -- The Day of Atonement -- The Case of Regina O'Hara -- The Golems of Prague -- The Feast of Chanukah -- 1953: Stalin Purges Doctors! -- Soviet Antisemitism: The Beginning of the End -- The Decline and Fall of the Gibbons -- Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, Long May She Reign! -- Herzl and Bialik -- Statistics for Heaven -- Sir Wilfrid Laurier -- The Changing Middle East -- Where the Cap Fits -- 1954: Gibraltar and Suez -- Israel Abolishes Capital Punishment -- Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly? -- Einstein: His Eternal Verities and His Relative Conveniences -- 1955: Gaza and Good Neighborhood -- Sir Winston Churchill -- Albert Einstein -- The Power of the Slogan -- From a Position of Strength -- In Praise of the Diaspora (An Undelivered Memorial Address) -- TEXTUAL EMENDATIONS -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Klein's journalism relates frequently, in both substance and language, to his poems and fiction, and thus provides a context for the study of his creative writing. It also reveals aspects of his personality, values, and commitments, contributing to our understanding and appreciation of one of Canada's foremost writers.

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