Israel crisis, perhaps most serious yet. U Thant complied with indecent haste to evacuate U.N. troops. Israeli reserves called up. Nasser blockading Straits of Tiran. U.S &Britain will maintain, by force if necessary, Straits as international waterway. Can only hope Big Powers will indeed take over and that their mere passive confrontation will suffice and […]
Heavy cold, but want to make an effort to capture the moment. Susannah, scrubbed in bed, bawling (but a quiet bawl, for her): I wan-na drink! Forced me to “pay” with her. “Daddy, you know what? You pay with me.” Pay — dancing, going under tunnel (my straddled legs), “horsy” — on my back on […]
Started school, which now finishes 4pm Fridays. I have only one free period, now, on Friday, which makes this the hardest day. We booked in at the “Kadimah” hotel, Stamford Hill, Friday night, en famille, and booked out Saturday night, so we could attend Daniel Sugarman’s bar-mitzvah [Jewish boy’s coming of age] at the New […]
Last day of holidays – it has not been my day. Started my diet. Stripped weight 14st.4½ lb! To think I was once 13st.6lb. To proceed to a curriculum unius diei vitae suae (unius vitae suae diei?) — had to pay £1-6-8 for desk pen repair. Rang up to find out if a seat were […]
To shool [synagogue] this morning and yesterday morning, first two days of Pesach, Cannot summon up much enthusiasm for our celebration of a liberation that took place over three thousand years ago, only to be followed by renewed servitude and periodical slaughter. Can only feel religious in the sense of Svetlana Stalin, whose press conference […]
Mumme Loohshen - An Anatomy of Yiddish, by Joseph Witriol 
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