Infinite Poetry
The poet who believes all poetry is political.
Who is Yehuda Amichai?
1066 Granada Massacre, The First Crusade, The Spanish Expulsion, The Holocaust
What is Jewish persecution?
War maps on the wall, a bookcase, a desk with papers, pencils, supplies, and a radio.
What does Reuven's room look like?
The law of Moses recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures.
What is the Torah?
What Reuven releases from the web.
What is a fly?
A distinctive feature of dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition.
What is a motif?
History, culture, progress, and empathy
Why study Judaism?
The unusual way Reb Saunders has raised Danny.
What is in silence?
The language used by Jewish people in central and eastern Europe before the Holocaust.
The event direct before Reuven and Danny begin to speak again.
What is the creation of Israel?
A cold, public place of history and information.
What is the museum?
The year modern Israel was founded.
What is 1945?
Danny's first reaction when he goes to the hospital to see Reuven.
What is apologetic?
The body of Jewish civil and ceremonial law and legend; comprised of several volumes written in the 5th century.
What is the Talmud?
The mail in which Danny must intercept.
What are letters from graduate schools?
When two things are placed close together but have a contrasting effect.
What is juxtaposition?
This sect is often known for their strict observance of traditional Jewish law and rituals.
What is Orthodox Judaism?
A former grocery story with the bottom half of the windows curtained off.
What is Mr. Malter's synagogue?
The holy day of rest for Jews.
What is Shabbat?
The reason Mr. Malter is kept from going to Palestine.
What is his illness?
Just as in identity, there is a constant unfolding and evolving encounter with poetry, which goes on without end.
What is the theme?
The dispersion of Jewish people beyond Israel throughout history.
What is diaspora?
What is Zionism?
Meaning "teacher."
What is a rabbi?
How Reb Saunders reactions to Danny's after-graduation plans.
What is accepting?