Sublime

Ann Bedford Ulanov

unresolved traumas of our own lives and those of our ancestral lines.

post-Holocaust Yiddish literature, which according to David Roskies is built on two pillars: utopian faith and collective lamentation.

‘But on balance I think you must never take land away from a people. A people’s land has a mystique. You can go and possibly order them about for a bit, perhaps introduce some new ideas, build a few good buildings, but then in the end you must go away and die in Cheltenham.’ Iris sighed. ‘And that, of course, is exactly what we did.’

Since it is now clear that a certain amount of stability is necessary for cultural vibrancy, the question to be asked is: how can this stability be provided, and by what agencies?

cold-blooded need for control.