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PAGE 32RH THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE October 3, 1986
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Reveries of o childhood
Continued from page 31RH.
read Nabokov’s “Pale Fire” or
Joyce’s“Finnigan’s Wake.” I knew
all about cyclical patterns and re
petitive structures. Each fall we
started Genesis again, creating the
world anew, getting the apple to
Eve, dispatching Abel, helping all
those pairs of animals up the gang
plank before the rain started. We
hardly ever found out anything
that happened afterward, except
for poor Isaac who had a close call.
Now, every Rosh Hashana when
the Torah Portion, the Akeda, the
story of the binding of Isaac, is
read, I am automatically turned
into a little boy again, sitting close
to that coal stove, silently ponder
ing Isaac's fate.
Years afterward when I set
about selecting a writer whose work
I wanted to analyze for my Ph.D.
dissertation in English literature, I
was attracted to Wilfred Owen, the
World War 1 poet who brilliantly
articulated his protest against war
in a handful of poems of which
one, “The Parable of the Old Men
and the Young,” involves a retell
ing of the Akeda:
So Abram rose, and clave the wood,
and went.
And look the fire with him. and a
knife.
A nd as they sojourned both of them
together,
Isaac the first-born spake and said,
Mv Father.
Behold the preparations, fire and
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But where the lamb for this burnt-
offering?
Then Abram bound the youth with
belts and straps.
And budded parapets and trenches
there.
And stretched for the knife to slay his
son.
When lo! an angel called him out of
heaven.
Saving, l av not thv hand on the lad.
Neither do anything to him. Behold.
A ram, caught in a thicket by its
horns:
Offer the Ram of Pride instead of
him.
But the old man would not so. but
slew his son. —
And half the seed of Europe, one by
one.
with a singular emphasis upon cre
ation and renewal. Consequently,
I’ve never felt suspended as a Jew
in America despite my having been
in my youth one of a very tiny
community surrounded by vast
numbers of non-Jews. Reading
David Daiches’ “Between Two
Worlds" many years ago, J found
myself unable to relate totally to
his experience of being suspended
as a Jew in Scotland. Neither can I
presently take too seriously the
title of Herman Wouk’s recently
published novel, “Inside, Outside,”
because the religious and secular
linkage of the New Year with the
school year has always precluded
any need to dwell on personal alien
ation. Having to choose between
“In the never-ending cyclical pattern of
the coming of the New Year, Wilfred
Owen returns on Rosh Hashana to my
thoughts too.”
In the never-ending cyclical
pattern of the coming of the New
Year, Wilfred Owen returns on
Rosh Hashana to my thoughts,
too. He died a young man, his
great promise only partly fulfilled,
on the Western Front in the autumn
of 1918 just days before the Great
War ended.
Writing my dissertation on
Wilfred Owen catapulted me into
my career in academe. I had long
been familiar with its rhythm of
cyclical renewal, with classes re
suming every fall. The celebration
of Rosh Hashana and the begin
ning of the new school year were to
me not merely contiguous happen
ings, they soon became synonym
ous. Over time, they have emerged
into a single cyclical experience
the inside and the outside is not in
my view a necessary undertaking.
I’m not compelled to do it. The
older generations of my family, I
know, had to do it because their
origins were in Eastern Europe and
America was an enormous adjust
ment for them. But growing up
Jewish in a little Southern country
town was somehow for me a syn
thesizing experience.
Of course, those older genera
tions, the great-uncles, the uncles,
my parents and most of the cousins
I have mentioned here have all
passed to their rewards. But one of
the sustaining pleasures for me this
Rosh Hashana will be to recall
those past celebrations of the New
Year, of creation and renewal, I
shared with them so longago. Tra
dition tells us that
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