| January 19, 2006 Web Wire Editor's Note |
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| Written by Alicia Oltuski | |||||
| Wednesday, 18 January 2006 | |||||
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Dates, Times, and Neverending Stories In this issue, we have a life changing reception of Dara Horn’s new novel, a column on Jewish online dating, and an anticipation of Yeshiva University’s upcoming trip to Germany. We were a little late with this issue and timing is what I’d like to talk about in the context of our third article. On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. A little over a year later, there was talk of a national holiday: Reunification. November 9 coincides with the original pronouncement of Germany’s Weimar Republic. It was perfect. Only one thing; November 9 happened to be the date that Jewish Germany went up in flames and shattered glass, the pogroms of Kristallnacht in 1938. The community would not have this. What to do? Germany was united, people wanted something to show for it, and the date would be all off? In the end, they moved the date to October 3 (as in October 3, 1990, the day on which reunification was finished). For better or for worse, Jewish Germany has entered a new era, one that is not yet wholly defined, one that will not be for a while. Talia’s reporting is important; it is a step towards documenting something we are in the midst of. Perhaps a change that started with the national holiday fifteen years ago. Time is of the essence in this issue. Jayme Herschkopf writes about an author whose narrative consciousness spans generations and Jon Hofer considers dates of a different kind. I would like to praise the writers of my Web Wire edition for their honesty, humor, and a deep sense of reportage.
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