 To be a Jew in the twentieth century Is to be offered a gift. If you refuse, Wishing to be invisible, you choose Death of the spirit, the stone insanity. Accepting, take full life. Full agonies: Your evening deep in labyrinthine blood Of those who resist,...  The Jewish Wedding Now - Page 22by Anita Diamant - 2007 - 246 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | June Sochen - Jewish women - 1981 - 178 pages
...culture? Muriel Rukeyser, in a poem entitled "To Be a Jew in the Twentieth Century," has put it thus: To be a Jew in the twentieth century Is to be offered a gift. If you refuse, Wishing to be invisible, you choose Death of the spirit, the stone insanity.3 Rukeyser's... | |
 | Melanie Kaye Kantrowitz, Irena Klepfisz - Religion - 1989 - 366 pages
...a just Israeli society. This work must be done on both continents. For Irena Klepfisz who pushed me To be a Jew in the twentieth century Is to be offered a gift. . . . —Muriel Rukeyser, "Letter to the Front, VII," 1944 So, Melanie, what's with all the Jewish?... | |
 | Jacob Neusner - Religion - 1991 - 500 pages
...about American Judaism in the past quarter century than I do from the names one usually contends with: To be a Jew in the twentieth century Is to be offered a gift. If you refuse, Wishing to be invisible, you choose Death of the spirit, the stone insanity. Accepting,... | |
 | Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky, Shelley Fisher Fishkin - Jewish college teachers - 1996 - 524 pages
...experience. Editing this volume has brought wonderful rewards. The poet Muriel Rukeyser once wrote, "To be a Jew in the twentieth century / Is to be offered a gift. If you refuse, / Wishing to be invisible, you choose / Death of the spirit."9 Visibility, we editors... | |
 | John D. Rayner - Jewish sermons, English - 1998 - 212 pages
...Twentieth Century Shavuot and Kabbalat Torah, 2 June 1968 1 here is a poem by Muriel Rukeyser which begins: 'To be a Jew in the twentieth century is to be offered a gift' (from Letter to the Front, quoted in Service of the Heart, ULPS, 1967, p. 261). Kabbalat Torah (or... | |
 | Arthur Michael Saltzman - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 260 pages
...must confront a lesson (offered below in the context of prayer) that the modern Jew always lives with: To be a Jew in the twentieth century Is to be offered a gift. If you refuse, Wishing to be invisible, you choose Death of the spirit, the stone insanity. Accepting,... | |
 | Jules Chametzky - Fiction - 2001 - 1264 pages
...and see that startled face. 1939 From Letter to the Front 7. [TO BE A JEW IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY] To be a Jew in the twentieth century Is to be offered a gift. If you refuse, Wishing to be invisible, you choose Death of the spirit, the stone insanity. Accepting,... | |
 | Susan Gubar - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 270 pages
...of Jewish lives in her own time, Muriel Rukeyser mourned the double bind posed by European history: To be a Jew in the twentieth century Is to be offered a gift. If you refuse, Wishing to be invisible, you choose Death of the spirit, the stone insanity. Accepting,... | |
 | Herb Galewitz - Humor - 2001 - 68 pages
...Sleep without a pillow or allow yourself a flat one only. This wards off extra chins. HELENA RUBINSTEIN To be a Jew in the twentieth century Is to be offered a gift. If you refuse, Wishing to be invisible, you choose Death of the spirit, the stone insanity. MURIEl.... | |
 | Suzanne Ferguson - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 376 pages
...the previous generation would ever have proclaimed, as Rukeyser did at the peak of the Nazi genocide, "To be a Jew in the twentieth century / Is to be offered a gift" ("Letter to the Front"), or written with such sympathetic intelligence as Berryman about The Diary... | |
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