Melvin J. Lasky
IN THE light of all that was to happen during the great purge of 936-I938, it is interesting to note that Stalin himself had earlier said: "A policy of chopping off heads is fraught with great...
Irwin Stark
On a weekday afternoon last August, the rabbi of the Orthodox Central Hebrew Congregation of Indianapolis stood surveying a group of young white men and women of college age who were at work building a modest five-room house in an Indianapolis slum.
Maurice Goldbloom
The vegetable man was of course somewhat amused by my stumbling pidgin Greek, but he was also pleased—particularly because he could speak no English.
Philip Rieff
George Saintsbury thought not only that Disraeli “founded a remarkable school of fiction,” but that his politics were as romantic as his fiction.
Zelda Popkin
Since 1914, when I first went to work on a daily newspaper, I have done innumerable interviews.
Harry Gersh
It was about two-thirty in the afternoon of a warm Saturday a couple of months ago when the FBI came to our house.
Hans Meyerhoff
This happened in Washington, D.C., on September 15, 1948, when I was looking for a room.
Ben Lappin
On Wednesday afternoons, when the stores in the small towns of Ontario are closed down and the businessmen come into Toronto on their buying trips, one is likely to find several out-of-town shopkeepers milling about the office of Mr. Joshua Simon, editor and publisher of the Canader Shtimme, or The Voice, as the name reads on the English page.
Lev Shestov
The partition: A naturalist once arranged the following experiment: a glass receptacle was filled with water and divided into two compartments by a glass partition.
Leslie A. Fiedler
On the face of it, the Moses of Sholem Asch seems to fit easily into the category of that hybrid which is the current historical-religious novel.
Don J. Hager
Until a few years ago, a book on race was more likely to deal with politics than biology.
Reviewed by David Daiches
Reviewed by George Z. Goldberg
Reviewed by William Poster
Reviewed by Paul Kecskemeti
Reviewed by H. R. Trevor-Roper
Edward N. Saveth
One evening last June, a Mrs. Julius Y. Talmadge, at a meeting of the Georgia State Board of Education, denounced Frank Magruder's American Government as unfit for use as a social studies textbook, because it “advocates strengthening the United Nations Charter.
Norbert Muhlen
In the Franconian town of Aschaffenburg an empty lot has been transformed into a little park.
Herbert Luthy
In the first months after the collapse of the Third Reich, Allied and neutral journalists often reported a sentiment voiced by the Germans or written on the walls of ruined cities: “It is a disgrace to be German!”
Hal Lehrman
From Morocco eastward to India, from Turkish Anatolia southward to Yemen and Aden on the farthest tip of the Arabian peninsula, well over 300,000 so-called “Oriental” Jews have migrated to Israel.
Howard O. Sackler
A Poem.
Robert Bendiner
When President Truman went through the country four years ago denouncing the “do-nothing, good-for-nothing 80th Congress,” he was hardly setting a fresh pattern for a country in which Congress-baiting is a venerated pastime, going back to the dawn of the Republic and open to everyone from the Chief Executive down.
Theodor Gaster
If the batlan is passing from our midst, as many allege, so much the worse for us all.
Granville Hicks
In the spring of 1931, just as it was becoming apparent to all but a few diehards that prosperity was not around the corner, there appeared The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, possibly the most influential book of the 1930's.
Prudencio de Pereda
A Story.
Shlomo Katz
The small narrow room overhanging the stairway used to be a bedroom.
Franz Rosenzweig
Today, the Freies Jüdisches Lehrhaus opens its doors to carry on the series of Jewish adult education courses which were held here during the past winter and summer.
Nathan Glick
Before the French Revolution, wars were usually conducted by professional armies whose interests were those of any working group: high wages, low hours, and job security.
Nathan Glazer
In one respect, at least, the American Jews are not very different from the Israeli Jews who contemptuously dismiss them as assimilated goyim.
Reviewed by Milton Himmelfarb
Reviewed by Robert Weltsch
Reviewed by C. Hartley Grattan
G. F. Hudson
THE massacre of Katyn is quite unique among the famous atrocities mew was committed by the French Catholics, of history in that there is doubt by or that the massacre of Chios was the work whom...
Peter Meyer
ON JUNE 28, 1951, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, brought to the attention of the American public a question discussed up to then by...
Lionel Trilling
GEORGE ORWELL'S Homage to Catalonia is one of the important documents of our time. It is a very modest book-it seems to say the least that can be said on a subject of great magnitude. But in...
Irving Kristol
Heard ye not lately of a man That went beside his witt, And naked through the citty rann Wrapt in a frantique fitt? THE above tantalizing bit of 7 thcentury verse was quoted recently...
Edwin Samuel
I READ with deep interest Tosca Fyvel's memoir of Orde Wingate in COMMENTARY [February 95I ] , in which he mentions Wingate's role in devising what later became famous as "commando...
Will Herberg
ON NOVEMBER 8, 1951, the Cornell Daily Sun, the student paper, ran a long editorial noting the inadequacy of instruction in religion at Cornell and demanding of the administration...
Ernest Stock
IN ISRAEL today, as in no other country, the old dictum might well be changed to read, "Show me your press, and I will tell you what you are." First of all, in the churning melting pot that is...
Sylvia Rothchild
IF ANYONE had told Simon Halpern a year ago that he would soon spend every day sitting on a park bench instead of in front of a sewing machine, he would surely have laughed. "What will I do...
David Ignatow
HE WAS harmless, but this torn-at-the-knee-and-elbow character, bearded, rough hat pulled down over the eyes, his soiled clothes bag slung upon his back-he was itinerary; standing still for one...
Harry Gersh
WHEN my Uncle Itzig was cornered in an argument he had one final answer: Who knows what's right? But actually he did. If he didn't, Tante, his wife, let him know immediately. According to the...
Hugo Bergmann
IN HEBREW the term for martyrdom is kiddush ha-Shem, which means literally "sanctification of the Name," as mystical experience is referred to as "the unification of the Name." On the surface,...
Robert S. Warshow
I am not one of those who responded strongly to Death of a Salesman when it was presented on the stage.
Morton Clurman
Almost forty years ago an agricultural economist, George F. Warren, wrote: “The questions whether our soil is exhausted and how we are to be fed in the future, are constantly being discussed in newspapers and magazines.”
Reviewed by Richard H. S.
Reviewed by Nahum N. Glatzer
Reviewed by Hannah Arendt
Reviewed by Robert Langbaum
Samuel Lubell
If a drama reporter were to make a political tour of the South today, he might sum up his findings in these terms: “The cast is set, the actors are memorizing their parts, and only the last act has to be written.”
Theodor Gaster
It is a traditional Jewish custom to read the Song of Songs on the Sabbath of the Passover festival, and every year, when the custom is dutifully observed, a number of attendant questions rise like ghosts from unquiet graves.
Herrymon Maurer
Mice, as every enlightened American knows, are regularly pregnant with mountains.
Sidney Hertzberg
It is probably intellectual snobbery to suggest that the trouble with American foreign policy has been that the men who make it do not read books, especially books written by foreigners.
S. L. Blumenson
In the late 1890's and the early years of this century the meeting place of the Yiddish theatrical world was Schreiber's Saloon.
Andre Prudhommeaux
Homer expressed the rather revolting notion that the wars and ills of mankind are the raw material of poetry and, consequently, of that poetic pleasure which is the supreme delight of the gods.
Herbert Parzen
A legend has been created by the spiritual leaders of what is the largest section of American Jewry—made up of those who came here in the second great wave of immigration, or their descendants.
Hans W. Rosenhaupt
A Story.
Judd L. Teller
We, in the line of that great traveler of yesteryear, Benjamin of Tudela, blessed be his memory, live in a land rediscovered by Jews several centuries after its first discovery by the intrepid Columbus.
Reader Letters
This English version of the Song of Songs is from the Jewish Publication Society's edition of The Holy Scriptures (1917).
Gerard H. Wilk
“And he [Joshua] said in the sight of Israel: ‘Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon’” (Josh. 10:12).
H. Schmidt
In the Israel of today, a burned-out armored car, a Crusaders' castle, a Bronze Age fortification, a cave of Paleolithic man—all these may be found along the same mountain trail.
Reviewed by Francis Golffing
Reviewed by Isaac Rosenfeld
Reviewed by George Lichtheim
G. F. Hudson
Human actions in history often seem to resemble the behavior of a child who starts to operate some complicated, high-powered machine without any idea of what he is doing.
Anne Frank
July 8—It seems as if years have passed since Sunday [July 5]. At three o'clock someone rang the front doorbell. I was lying in the sun-shine on the verandah lazily reading a book, so I didn't hear it.
Stephen Kemp Bailey and Howard D. Samuel
It was a morning in mid-August 1951, and Washington had been enjoying surprisingly cool weather.
Theodor Gaster
Judaism has always insisted that its God is a God of history as well as of nature.
Barnet Litvinoff
Together with the cruel recognition of Britain's lost political and economic ascendancy, there has been in the past year or so a growing compensating awareness of what the nation still possesses and still might produce.
Mark Alexander
Not altogether unexpectedly, recent events in Persia, Egypt, Syria, and elsewhere have advertised the Middle East as one of the major troubled areas of the world.
Sylvia Rothchild
A Story.
LeGarde S. Doughty
A Poem.
Norman Bentwich
The convoy goes up once a fortnight from the College of Terra Sancta, one of the temporary habitations of the displaced Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the Jewish area, to the Hadassah Hospital and the Hill of Scopus.
Morris Freedman
“In America, candy was too serious,” Stephen Klein told me.
Reader Letters
In the summer of 1947, a Bedouin in search of his lost goat stumbled into a cave near the Dead Sea and came up with what may prove to be one of the great archeological discoveries of the century, in the shape of eleven Hebrew scrolls of the pre-Christian era.
Nathan Glick
Postwar anti-Communist films like The Iron Curtain, The Red Danube, and I Was a Communist for the FBI proved to be opportunistic celluloid pamphlets.
Nathan Glazer
The uniqueness of America is nowhere more apparent than in the fact that the college-educated group, which in most countries of the Western world is the elite, is here a mass.
Reviewed by William A. Irwin
Reviewed by Leslie A. Fiedler
Reviewed by H. R. Trevor-Roper
Reviewed by Herbert Howarth
The first fifty pages of Unambo almost defeat the good will which is inspired by the name of Max Brod.
Reviewed by Heinz Politzer
Raymond Aron
The less freedom of choice we have in a situation, the more tempted we are to indulge in exercises of intellectual evasion.
Boris Meissner
Let there be no doubt about it: in the Soviet Union, final decisions rest with the Vojd (Russian for Führer) alone.
Anne Frank
Editorial Note: Here we conclude the diary of Anne Frank, which we began in our last month's issue.
Emanuel Rackman
Can there ever be anything new in Orthodoxy? Does not Orthodoxy believe that what was, should always be?
Ray Alan
There was the suddent pregnant hush that falls over most Arab gatherings when Israel is mentioned.
Manny Farber
Somebody once told me, no doubt inaccurately, that lady golfers in the Victorian era used a certain gimmick that went by the name of “Gimp.”
A. A. Davidson
Maury Nissim was a small, trim, dark-blond fellow whom I knew slightly in France before I went to Israel.
Irwin Ross
The British Labor party, it is fair to say, suffers from the exhaustion that often comes with success.
S. T. Hecht
As Chairman of the Rabbinical Committee, an honor no one else had wanted, I rose to report on my reconnoiterings in New Jersey for a rabbi (we were without one).
Simone ben Isaac
Whatsoever People and nation dedicated its memory to sempiternity, aspired thereto by Arms or Learning.
Spencer Brown
An examination of Herman Wouk's Pulitzer Prize novel, The Caine Mutiny.
Moshe Decter
Apparently, nothing less than its recent bloody extinction could bring the existence of the shtetl—“the Jewish little town of Eastern Europe”—to the attention of American social scientists.
Reviewed by George Becker
Reviewed by Lucy S. Dawidowicz
Oscar Handlin
The passage of the McCarran-Walter Bill has frustrated five years of effort to reform our immigration laws.
Robert Langbaum
Readers of COMMENTARY will remember the article last year in which David Daiches, son of a Scottish Orthodox rabbi and, at the time, professor of literature at Cornell, assailed American Judaism for having “quietly abolished” from its practice everything distinctively Jewish.
George Lichtheim
The leaders of the British Labor party have reason to feel thankful these days that the preferential primary is no part of Britain's political usage.
Jessie S. Bloom
Our home was in Windsor Terrace on the banks of the Grand Canal, opposite Portobello Barracks
Alan F. Westin
Once, so a Spanish legend tells us, there grew in the forest a vine so strong that no animal could break it.
Lucy S. Dawidowicz
There is something about Communist demonology that gives it a special power over large areas of the modern mind, and which insures that a vigorously conducted Communist propaganda campaign, no matter how flagrantly at variance with plain facts, will get some sort of hearing.
Henry Popkin
In Auden and Isherwood's play The Dog Beneath the Skin, a modern knight-errant bound upon a sacred quest encounters a sinister financier named Grabstein.
Nathan Halper and Benjamin Mandelker
One paid two cents. The other had to pay three. The whole thing became a contest.
Elijah Basyatchi
It was estimated that in 1942 about one hundred Karaite families were living in the United States—a remnant of a once flourishing Jewish “heresy.”
Herbert Luethy
This May, Paris was the scene of an international festival held under the auspices of the Congress for Cultural Freedom.
Richard H. S.
Why have the social sciences progressed so little during the last hundred years?
Reviewed by Nathan Glazer
Samuel Lubell's The Future of American Politics is, in this reviewer's opinion, the best book yet written on American politics of the last twenty years.
Reviewed by Morroe Berger
Reviewed by Heinz Politzer
Sherry Mangan
The Jewish communities of Bolivia, founded in flight from Hitlerian anti-Semitism, are less than twenty years old, yet the chill wind of fear of a new anti-Semitism has already passed over them.
J. Glenn Gray
Modern educators can hardly be blamed for feeling that they must close ranks.
Franz Borkenau
Much has been said and written during the past year about the possibility of a falling out between Moscow and Peking.
Hilde Walter
A second flare-up of what has become known as the “Harlan Case” occurred in Germany this past January, when Veit Harlan's second postwar film, Hanna Amman, had its first showings.
Isaac Rosenfeld
I had long avoided because I imagined it was a badly-written account of immigrants and sweatshops in a genre which was intolerably stale by now.
Mark Alexander
A stock phrase of official Zionist propaganda until recently was: “There are no Communists in Jewish Palestine.”
J. Alvin Kugelmass
Many Jews in the United States like neither their names nor their faces, and many take surgical steps to have them corrected.
Lee J. Levinger
About twenty years ago I attended a family reunion of a group of my father's cousins in a little town in the Middle West where I had lived as a child.
S. An-sky
Far, far away, across the sea, in England, lived Reb Moses Montefiore.
Sam Levenson
Henry Popkin laments the fact that hypersensitive people in considerable numbers have protested so vehemently against Jewish dialect humor that as a result it has had to go into hiding.
Peter Gradenwitz
At the height of the New York season there are about twenty-five plays and musicals on Broadway; in an average week, there will be at least twenty concerts; about fifteen first-run films are being shown; there is opera and ballet.
Nicolas Spulber
“Make statistics class-conscious and party-conscious!”
Reviewed by George N. Shuster
Reviewed by Eduard Heimann
Reviewed by Richard Chase
Reviewed by Emil L. Fackenheim
Reviewed by Francis Golffing
Oscar Handlin
SPEEDING down in taxis from their Loop or near-Loop hotels to the convention Amphitheater, and especially under a prevailing westerly wind, most delegates were aware that they were coming...
Herbert R. Northrup
The result of the fight over civil rights at both conventions was a platform which seems to half-satisfy most of the proponents as well as most of the opponents of a strong FEPC.
Peter Meyer
When Rudolf Slansky, the Secretary General of the Communist party of Czechoslovakia, was removed from his post in September 1951, and arrested on charges of treason ten weeks later, many people wondered if this was the beginning of a general purge of Jews in the satellite countries.
Elliot E. Cohen
The misunderstanding of the United States by Europeans is an old story: indeed it has been the small change of trans-Atlantic conversation for three generations.
Eleanor K. Felder
Soon I suppose another child will ask my son that simple question all children ask, “What are you?” I don't know yet what my son will answer.
Jon Kimche
The first time I met Ben Gurion he was studying Greek and reading Thucydides; that was ten years ago.
Sidney Hook
John Dewey is dead.
S. T. Hecht
When the richest man, the big personality, the primum mobile of the community takes it into his head, unexpectedly it would seem, to move out of town, the repercussions are bound to be wide.
Reader Letters
The book of Jonah is read in its entirety during the afternoon service on the day of Yom Kippur, as the Haftorah, the prophetic reading, appended to the reading of the Law.
Irving Howe
We live in a time when the literature most valued by serious people is likely to be intense, recalcitrant, and extreme.
Abraham Kaplan
A troubling question for those of us committed to the widest application of intelligence in the study and solution of the problems of men is whether a general understanding of the social sciences will be possible much longer.
Reviewed by Irving Kristol
Reviewed by Arthur Hertzberg
Reviewed by Edward N. Saveth
Reviewed by R. F. Tannenbaum
Hal Lehrman
THE balm of sovereignty, and four years of physical co-existence, have worked a natural but nonetheless wonderful change in relations between the government of the United States and...
Theodor Gaster
OF THE three seasonal festivals which punctuate the Jewish year, the Feast of Succoth (or Booths) has suffered most from the conditions of modern life and, for all the tenacity of...
Louis Berg
THE air waves have been jittery since the appearance in 1950 of a paperbound booklet, Red Channels, a "Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television," published by three former...
Hans J. Morgenthau
SINCE the prophets of the Old Testament read the warnings of God in the catastrophes of history, men have tried to discover what history can teach them. As Oedipus and Perseus once sought...
Nathan Perlmutter
IN THE Milwaukee Auditorium, at the nadir of the depression, in 1936, twenty-two-year-old Kenneth Goff, a rebellious WPA worker from the rural side of the tracks in Delevan, Wisconsin,...
Seymour Krim
OPEN the pages of any of our literary magazines, look at the Contributors' Notes column, and the chances are good that you will find at least three out of the twelve contributors identified...
Gerold Frank
ON A sultry day in July of 1937 my wife and I arrived in Lodz, charged with the duty of finding my grandmother's sister Surah. It was now a little before noon; the train for Prague (we...
Sylvia Rothchild
THE ringing woke Estelle at ten o'clock on Sunday morning. She stumbled half asleep to the door but found no one there. The ringing continued and she hurried to the phone that was hidden under...
Charles Reznikoff
I Thou shalt eat bread with salt and thou shalt drink water by measure, and on the ground shalt thou sleep and thou shalt live a life of trouble.... The Mishnah, Aboth 6:4. SALMON and red...
Milton Klonsky
IT'S no use trying to blame or to justify the mortal taste, so long ago, that passed over Morton and Mortimer, Marvin and Melvin, and fixed, irrevocably, on Milton as just right, a name which...
Reader Letters
ONCE upon a time people-not philosophers of course-used to imagine there was a thing called the soul that enabled one to find meaning in life, and value and direction in the world. The "soul"...
Spencer Brown
A cold St. Agnes eve it was-so cold that the owl with all its feathers shivered, so cold that the old Beadsman's fingers were numb as he told his rosary and said his prayers. Passing by the...
Dennis H. Wrong
THE public opinion pollers are not the only professional group of social scientists who have in recent years been exposed as false prophets. Although their mishaps have been less publicized...
Reviewed by David Riesman
THIS is an extraordinary book. It takes up the themes of current discourse about America-the growth of large-scale organization, the problem of "mass culture," the supposed slump in...
Reviewed by Philip Rahv
HEMINGWAY'S new story happily demonstrates his recovery from the distemper that so plainly marked his last novel, Across the River and into the Trees. The artist in him appears to have...
Reviewed by Irving Kristol
"BUT this much I can say about all those who have written and will write saying that they know the nature of the subject which is my most serious interest . . . in my opinion it is impossible...
Reviewed by L. Poliakov
AS IN every other country, there has been in Germany a flood of books dealing with the past war. These two examples tell us'much of the ways in which Germans are seeking to "re- evaluate" their...
Reviewed by Charles Abrams
THE author, a frequent contributor to COMMENTARY and an able sociologist, embodies his 399COMMENTARY faith in "law" as a cure for inequality in this book, sponsored by the American Jewish...
Maurice Goldbloom
ON OCTOBER 15, 1952, Joseph Stalin told the 19th Congress of the Communist party of the Soviet Union that it was now the task of CornIN COMMENTARY'S first issue seven years ago this month,...
L. Poliakov
MORE than a year ago, in May 1951, Swedish Malmi was the scene of a strange congress attended by several dozen people who came from five or six different Western European countries. This...
Herbert Weiner
"FOUR there were who entered pardes-the 'garden' of the esoteric -Ben Azzai, Ben Zoma, Acher, and Akiba. Ben Azzai looked and died. Ben Zoma looked and went mad. Acher became an apostate. Only...
Herbert Luethy
THE history of civilization is also one of colonization-in every sense of that ancient word: settlement, clearing, land reclamation, cultivation, the founding of cities. Colonization is the...
Will Herberg
MORE than once in recent months, Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein has had occasion to note with concern the marked deterioration of Protestant-Catholic relations in this country and to warn Jews...
David Ignatow
EVERY man to his kind of welcome in the world, some by lifting cement barrels, laboring. He looks so stupid doing it, we say. Why not a soft job, pushing a pencil or racketeering: the numbers...
A. A. Davidson
WELL, anyway, that's what he claims," Pinchas said. "But surely not of all the Druzes," I protested. "After all, most of them live in Syria, and there are many in the Lebanon as well." "I...
F. R. Leavis
WHATEVER may be Mr. Van Wyck Brooks' distinctive mark in the contemporary American literary world, the five-volume work that comes to a close with The Confident Years seems to me to be in an...
Sol Stein
I AM a non-believer in surgery's Quick medicine. The sewed-together wound, the stitch In time, the surface scar, is something which You will rarely find this invalid Believing in. My trust's...
Mark Raven
ON December 19, 1951, Ilis Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh paid a state visit to the Bevis Marks Synagogue of the Sephardi ("Spanish and Portuguese") Jews of London, to take part in the...
Samuel S. Cohen
IN ONE of the "shops" I worked in at the start of the 90's I made a real friend, a boy named Brody, who had actually been born in America. For days I could not get over the wonder of...
Reader Letters
ONE tradition relates-the time was at the turn of the 14th century in Spain-that, after the death of the Cabalist Moses ben Shemtob of Leon, two wealthy men called on his widow and asked to see the...
Nathan Asch
THE quotations below, listed by authors alphabetically, are the byproduct of indiscriminate reading. I'm a compulsive reader, the way some people drink, or keep the radio turned on all day....
Harold Norse
TAKING home the Sunday papers, late In the dawn under the stone Looming of abandoned business structures, Past the slumbering airport service, the all Night cafeteria where stray Bits of...
M. L. Hansen
IT WAS the achievement of MARcus LEE HANSEN to have discovered the means of studying significantly the role of immigration in American history. Others had earlier turned their hands to that...
Reviewed by Emil L. Fackenheim
THE Jew of the age which produced Hitler and the State of Israel has almost necessarily a powerful sense of the unity of Jewish destiny. This, in turn, has led him to search for a...
Reviewed by George Lichtheim
BRITISH socialism has long been a stumbling block to European Marxists and American liberals alike. Standing midway between laissezfaire and total planning, critical of capitalism and...
Reviewed by Granville Hicks
VERY possibly Miss Buckmaster thinks she has written a realistic novel, but Bread from Heaven comes closer to being a fable. It is a fable with certain characteristically modern ingredients, and...
Reviewed by Alfred Werner
WOLFGANG BORCHERT had little happiness. Born in Hamburg in 1921, he was eight when the depression hit Germany, twelve when the Nazis came to power. Twice he fought as a private with the German...
Reviewed by R. F. Tannenbaum
THE president of Yale, in this reissue of a book first published in 1948, considers from various angles the relation between small-scale agriculture and democratic government, drawing...
Julius Margolin
I. September 1939 WAR seemed unlikely to us in the summer of 1939. Thousands of people with no ties to bind them to Poland were in a position to pull up stakes, but thoughtlessly gave way to...
Theodor Gaster
THOSE of us who have been brought up to believe that the Chanukah light is a brave candle shining in a naughty world are naturally apt to inquire in more critical moments, just how bright is...
Paul Kecskemeti
NOW that we are past our first numbed reactions to the horrors of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, an act of intellect is required. What is the meaning of these horrors? Are they an inevitable...
Oscar Handlin
IN THE heat of national conflict Americans have often found it useful to turn for insight to the lessons of their history. It may equally be valuable for American Jews to do so in the midst...
T. R. Fyvel
THE time was October 1952, the scene the densely packed conference hall of the British Labor party at Morecambe, in Lancashire. The speaker was no other than the former Minister of Health...
Hal Lehrman
HERE in Washington-and in the temples of United Nations brotherhood on New York's East Fortysecond Street-it has become a diplomatic maxim that, like oil and water, the Arabs and Israelis...
Steven Marcus
GENERALLY speaking, there are two kinds of stories being written in America today-Southern stories and Connecticut stories. These are more than geographical divisions: each is a distinct school...
Elaine Gottlieb
WHEN we were quite young, the separation of our mother and father did not strike more deeply at first than the sense of novelty in having two homes, two families. Since we lived with our...
Howard Nemerov
THE broad field darkens, but, still moving round So that they seem to hover off the ground, Children are following a shadowy ball; Shrill, as of birds, their high voices sound. The pale December...
Hamlen Hunt
THE young couple from Worcester walked down to the end of a corridor in the Boston Hotel Statler. Half a dozen Massachusetts Democrats high in the party sat and listened to the...
Hayim ben Isaac
PROBABLY as a result of renewed interest in the work of Martin Buber, the impression has spread that Hasidism is the only modern expression of Jewish mysticism. That this is not so is proved...
Gertrude Himmelfarb
HENRY ADAMS, who made a philosophy and a career out of his selfpublicized failure, was descended from the most illustrious family of "failures" America has ever produced. His...
Daniel Bell
IT IS a striking cultural phenomenon, especially for anyone with a sharp memory of the 30's, that American capitalism has obtained grudging regard and a new theoretical definition from...
Reviewed by Will Herberg
THE addresses delivered by Martin Buber at the campuses he visited in the course of his recent American tour constituted an event of major intellectual significance that will have its...
Reviewed by Daniel J. Boorstin
UNTIL near the beginning of this century, the major works of historical scholarship had been written by "gentlemen" with an avocational interest in history; since then, Mr. Hale Bellot tells...
Reviewed by Irving Howe
ANYONE who knew Sinclair Lewis only through these letters would suppose he was a dreary hack with the soul of a sparrow. True, the book contains mainly business letters to Alfred Harcourt, his...
Reviewed by G. F. Hudson
SOUTH AFRICA is the paradise of the fellowtraveling Marxist-not, of course, to live in, 623 THE RUSSIAN MENACE TO EUROPE by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Now that Stalin and the Soviet...
Reviewed by Seymour Krim
PHILIP HAMBURGER'S profile of J. P. Marquand first appeared in the New Yorker this past summer; in intention at least it was one of the most novel pieces of reporting to be published in that...
1952
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