Peter Meyer
ON NOVEMBER 20, 1952, a shudder of horror and apprehension ran through the civilized world such as it had not felt since the night of another November, in 1938, when the synagogues of Germany were...
Herbert Luethy
"EUROPE," an idea presumably talked to death some time ago, has LI finally found the beginning of a physical realization in the "Black Land" of the coke piles and blast ovens east and west of...
Lawrence Bloomgarden
THERE is a well-known joke about the boxer who rushes out of his corner at the opening bell only to run into a barrage of punches that leaves him weak and staggering. At the end of the...
Hans Joachim Schoeps
WE JEWS of the mid-20th century live today in what might be called a post-Jewish situation. That is to say, the reality of each day's living is such that it is no longer possible for most of us...
C. Berkeley Cooke
ON MAY 24, 1951, while glancing through the business pages of the New York Times, I came upon the following box inserted among the financial advertisements: WANTED Man with banking...
Ashur Baizer
WE WERE sitting around the dining-room table in Reb Kiva's V V house; Reb Kiva, my father, and I. My mother, Reb Kiva's oldest daughter, had gone out to visit a friend in the neighborhood,...
Sidney Hook
THE Smith Act, and the judicial decisions on its constitutionality, are among the most discussed, and unread, of modern official documents. In brief, the Smith Act makes it unlawful for any...
Charles Reznikoff
IT IS somewhat of a surprise to a plain Ashkenazic Jew, reading David de Sola Pool's new book about early Jewish settlers in New York, to learn how early the Jews from Central Europe...
Babette Deutsch
WHO, above, prepares an austere fiesta? None. It is carpets of cloud unrolling prove The heavens desire dancing. Clearly they also Require grey, for all wear grey. In an enormous Hush the...
Helen Ratnoff Plotz
A LONG time ago, when I was the Doctor's daughter in the Russian Jewish community of Brooklyn, the doctor was at the very top of the tree. The wealth of the "allrightnik," the learning of the...
Franz Rosenzweig
IN THE fall of 1913, Franz Rosenzweig gave up his plan to embrace Christianity and decided to remain a Jew. There followed a year of intensive Jewish studies in Berlin. At the outbreak of...
A. A. Davidson
WHISKEY? No, don't try the whiskey here. This is just a small place, there is seldom anyone comes here who would want a good whiskey. A cognac, perhaps. No? Well, I must think. I am sure you...
J. Glenn Gray
Responsible philosophies of history have declared that preoccupation with the training of the young may well be the most accurate index of a nation's level of civilization. By that token, the...
Reviewed by Hal Lehrman
SHLOMO BARER's account of the fabulous transplantation by air of 50,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel in 1949 and 1950-the now famous "Operation Magic Carpet"-has authority and dignity, and is...
Reviewed by Ruth Glazer
IN 1941 the Jewish Cook Book was first published and for nearly a decade it monopolized the American market as the only complete volume of its kind. Its tone was a combination of stern...
Reviewed by Oliver Snyder
DR. WILLIAMS' novels are rarely mentioned in either private or public discussions of American writing; after an ephemeral appearance in the book reviews at the time of their publication, they...
Reviewed by Everett C. Hughes
"I AM no prophet but an American extrovert addicted to the notion that an idea is fertile only when married to action." It is a good thing it was COMMENTARY, and not one of the' academic...
Reviewed by R. F. Tannenbaum
NORMALLY, business is business, but in Hitler's abnormal Reich, business was murder. Five years ago the directors of the I. G. FarbenIndustrie, the huge vertical trust that dominated the...
Peter Meyer
IT IS a rare Cassandra that is up to the job these days. At least in the predicting of totalitarian horrors. Things always turn out worse than the gloomiest pessimist would have expected. The...
Norbert Muhlen
AN HOUR after the American military train to West Germany left West Berlin it was brought to an unscheduled halt. We were at a small station, somewhere in Soviet Germany. Although it was dark...
Francis Golffing
THE study of people's attitudes to Hitler before he came to power and, in some degree, during the early days of his regime, is a study in misconceptions. Almost everybody has sinned here,...
Grace Goldin
"SHABBOS!" Reuben Saberski sighed, stretching his small feet out on the ottoman after dinner. "To think the goyim don't even know what day it is!" That was in August, in Stillwater Falls, when...
Ray Alan
CROSSING the Srian frontier anywhere is always a little hazardous. True, it is only near the Huleh armistice line that one risks being shot at; but Syria's relations with her Arab League...
Eli Siegel
MAY His great name Be mighty and holy In the world His will has made. May this be with speed, And in a near time. Amen. May His kingdom Come to be In your life, your days, And in the...
I. D. Berkowitz
ONE warm spring day, on my first visit to Jerusalem, I decided to make an automobile trip to the Dead Sea. My hotelkeeper recommended a private chauffeur well known in the city as a good...
Allan Temko
THIS is a scene of the Dark Ages: when Rome had fallen for more than a century, and the rich province of Gaul was once again a wilderness ruled by wild Frankish tyrants; when all France was a...
David Riesman
"IDLE" curiosity about themselves, like alcoholic excess, is something that American Jews in the past have not felt able to afford. They feared inquisitiveness from their enemies; and over...
S. T. Hecht
WHEN Jake Hammer died he sure made us trouble. Naturally, you'll ask how could Jake make trouble if he was dead? That's precisely the point. Among our Jewish people, it appears, you shouldn't...
Reader Letters
ON THE long Sabbath afternoons of summer, it is customary to read in the synagogue a chapter of the Mishnah tractate popularly called The Sayings of the Fathers (Pirke Aboth). Dating back to...
Steven Marcus
WYNDHAM LEWIS's The Revenge for Love, written in 1937 and now published in this country for the first time, is a satirical exposure of Stalinist society in England at the time of the...
Chemjo Vinaver
THOUGH it has lately become fashionable to find fault with things in Israel, in the field of music it is still the accepted thing for the visitor to come, to listen, and-to praise. But perhaps...
I. L. Peretz
POPULAR images are rarely entirely wrong; and if the mass media and the popular mind today see the social scientist as a man with pencil and pad in hand, buttonholing hapless citizens on the...
Reviewed by Granville Hicks
PROFESSOR GOLDMAN has given us a full-scale account of what has been variously known as reformism and liberalism and progressivism in America, from the gentlemanly revolt of the Liberal...
Reviewed by Morris Freedman
THIS most recent collection of S. J. Perelman's essays, though small like all of his volumes, makes, as usual, exasperatingly slow reading. On each page you have to plow through a syntax and...
Reviewed by George N. Shuster
WHY should anybody wish to read about a scholarly but relatively obscure member of the Dalberg family who is known as Lord Acton? His reputation rests primarily on his editorship of a voluminous...
Reviewed by Oliver Snyder
THE publication of this book by Morris Ernst and David Loth probably marks a new phase in the fight against Communism: the full-lengthif somewhat belated-attempt by liberals themselves to...
Reviewed by Robert Weltsch
HARRY SACHER and Norman Bentwich are both prominent English Zionists of long standing, and either might have been expected to offer us that intimate and yet realistically detached account of...
George Lichtheim
IT IS now three months since the antiJewish campaign in the Soviet orbit got under way with the Prague "trial," and a month since it spread from the circumference to the center of Stalin's...
Granville Hicks
THE voting began early. A friend of mine, candidate for a local office, told me that there were at least a dozen persons in line when he arrived at the town hall soon after 6 A.M. By noon some...
Theodor Gaster
INCREASINGLY, the traditional Yizkor or Memorial Service tends to cast a spell upon the minds and sentiments of Jews in Western countries. A dubious gain, some consider it: for example, Israel...
Marcia Nardi
How the rich move softly through their injustices Softly as the uncut grasses on summer noons They moveThat tinkle? It's their cocktail glasses, That sound of hatchet blows? I do not...
Nathan Glazer
I feel strongly about labelling products for what they are. Poison should be labelled as poison; treason should be labelled as treason; truth should be labelled as truth; lies should be...
Aleph V. Sherman
THE Prague trial meant the "day of disillusion" for most of the adherents of Mapam in the Ain Harod settlement-so much so that the later news from Moscow of the arrest of the...
Robert S. Warshow
ONE of the things that have been said of The Crucible, Arthur Miller's new play about the Salem witchcraft trials, is that we must not be misled by its obvious contemporary relevance: it is...
Emanuel Litvinoff
WHEN I was nine years old my stepuncle Harry brought his new wife to tea and I had my first close-up of a mixed marriage and a Frenchwoman all at the same time. It was, perhaps, the Frenchwoman...
Nathan Asch
THE game by now was about three years old, and they all loved it. All of them were veterans of the last war, except the butcher, who was a veteran of the first war; and they had started...
Shlomo Katz
MY FATHER was always an old man. My earliest recollections of him go back almost forty years, and even then his long beard was streaked with gray. Now his beard is entirely white. He is...
Shlomo Yitzhaki
IN THE spring a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of love. Even the Rabbis understood this and they prescribed the Song of Songs for public reading on Passover. Breathing the spirit of spring...
Nathan Glick
HAPLIN'S Limelight celebrates old fashions. In terms of craft, it invokes the English music-hall comedy style on which Chaplin was nurtured as a boy, and the silent film slapstick that made...
Moshe Greenberg
A FRIEND of mine was recently faced with the following challenge to the critical methods of present-day Bible study: "If your beloved had sent you a letter, would you set about scrutinizing the...
Reviewed by Reinhold Niebuhr
THIS book is a belated and therefore doubly welcome introduction to American readers of the thought and life of one of the two Jewish religious thinkers who have profoundly affected the...
Reviewed by Philip Taft
LABOR leaders are not the best biographical material. Lacking the intellectual vices of selfquestioning doubt or excessive introspection, their lives can usually be read in the...
Reviewed by Joseph Wood Krutch
ACCORDING to the translator and editor, these thirteen stories are literally the oldest in the world. Five are Babylonian, five Hittite, and three Canaanite. All were found written in cuneiform...
Reviewed by Will Herberg
IN less than a hundred pages, supplemented with seventy pages of notes, documents, and sources, Waldemar Gurian, professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame and editor of the...
Reviewed by Norman Podhoretz
THE fact that a book touches something deep in us is no guarantee that it will be a good book; but the trouble with serious contemporary fiction in general is its neglect of the ordinary...
Daniel J. Boorstin
THE marvelous success and vitality of American institutions is equaled by the amazing poverty and inarticulateness of our theorizing about politics. No nation has ever believed more...
George Lichtheim
STALIN'S disappearance from the scene he has so long dominated is the kind of event to which the term "end of an epoch" can be applied without overmuch exaggeration, and that for reasons...
Barbara Guest
THE world of my youth is ending. Famous people are dying every day. Gertrude Lawrence, And now it is Stalin. The last one will be Winston Churchill, And after that probably, My...
G. F. Hudson
FROM time to time in history philosophers rediscover certain facts about human nature which have always been known, but have been for a while, owing to some special circumstances or fashion...
Arnold Jacob Wolf
ACHANUKAH party in the Allied forces' Tokyo Chapel Center is pretty much like any other anywhere. The Jewish community invites the servicemen stationed in central Honshu and the...
Ernst Simon
THE late Jan Huizinga, famous Dutch cultural historian, characterized the latter part of the Middle Ages in this way: "Life was so infused with religion that, at any given moment, the...
A. H. Raskin
EVEN before the Eisenhower sweep, signs were plentiful that American unions faced the unpleasant necessity of reevaluating their basic functions and thinking through their relationship with...
Marvin Elkoff
A MOMENT before, her chirping, scurrying voice had called the meeting to order with: "All right, Comrades and kiddies, to work we must go!" And now she was reading the agenda, noting that the...
Mark Alexander
RUMORS in Israel for months and weeks had the Slansky trial starting so many times before it actually did that it came almost as an anticlimax. Many Jews appeared to be among the accused,...
Morris Freedman
MY MOTHER, who came to America when she was about sixteen, always talked of the home she ran away from on the border of Russia as a kind of sprawling, Chekhovian establishment. She gave the...
MosEs son of Maimon, called Maimonides or Maimuni and also Rambam, born in Cordova, Spain, in 1135, was the greatest Jewish philosopher of the Middle Ages and a renowned physician. He is the...
M. K. Wankowicz
THE road from Jerusalem down to the ancient Hebrew city of Shechem or Shem, now the town of Nablus (an Arabicized form of its Greek name, Neapolis, or "new city"), is beautiful and wild,...
Nathan Glazer
THE fact that Americans are alsoand in many cases, primarily-Germans, Italians, Poles, Jews, etc. is taken with deadly seriousness by the general mass of Americans, but tends rather to be...
Reader Letters and Reader Letters
Reviewed by Paul Kecskemeti
SOCIALISM has been preached and practiced in America under many guises. First there was the vogue of small model communities-like Oneida, New Harmony, Brook Farm-set up in the wilderness, and...
Reviewed by Hal Lehrman
"How old is she?" Socrates asked a parent complaining about his daughter's disposition. "Four," said the father. "Alas," said the philosopher, "she's too old to change." Hans Habe, who tells...
Reviewed by Edward N. Saveth
As Benjamin P. Thomas's biography of Lincoln continues week after week on the New York Times best-seller list, it may well set in motion a new trend in the writing of American historical...
Reviewed by Marcia E. Allentuck
THE modern parallel to Aycha, the Book of Lamentations, has come to be known by the Yiddish term Churb'n-Literatur. The phrase is correct but inadequate. This literature does not deal with...
Reviewed by Isa Kapp
IF WE look back at Henry James's ironic and affectionate portrait of The American, we find a hero surprisingly like Carl Sandburg: a restless man who covered a great deal of ground, had few...
Robert Bendiner
SPECULATION about the political future of American liberalism in the next few years realistically begins, if it does not end, with the outlook for the Democratic party. Any suggestion that...
Franz Borkenau
THE manner of the latest shift on anti-Semitism by the Soviet regime seems to confirm what a few close observers had alerted opinion to even prior to the Prague trial-that the key to the...
Marvin Solomon
I AM suspicious of snap decisions. So, I can never make up my mind. Unfortunately, I always see the two sides to Every question-and both at once. Unkind As it may seem, it saves me from...
Arthur Hertzberg
THE present resurgence of interest in Jewish education, the increased funds available, the undoubted improvement in educational techniques, the rise in enrollments-however encouraging...
Dan Jacobson
IT IS a curious fact that we have in recent literature introspection on practically everything that people could possibly introspect about. We know why people become Communists, and why...
Maurice Goldbloom
EVERY day thousands of Belgrade's citizens file through the offices of the United States Information Service to get copies of the Serbo-Croat edition of its news bulletins. The only patrons of...
G. F. Hudson
SINCE Bertrand Russell in 1948 gave the first Reith Lectures over the BBC under the title "Authority and the Individual," these broadcast lectures have become almost a national institution...
Alfred Werner
IN ITALY there exists an odd legal provision concerning the seizure of a debtor's property; whatever else the officers of the law may impound, they cannot touch a bed in which a woman has...
Jacob Twersky
I WAS four years old when I came down with scarlet fever and complications. For a long time I lay dazed, and then my mind began to clear and I was afraid I had the measles again. For whenever...
Charles Reznikoff
VISITORS did not think well of the early Bostonians. One of them in 1699 described the place as follows: "The buildings, like their women . . . neat and handsome. And their streets, like...
Robert Gordis
IF RENAN is to be believed, the Book of Ecclesiastes is the most charming book ever written by a Jew. For twenty centuries it has exerted a profound fascination upon readers. This, in...
Ray Alan
EVERY self-respecting Moslem town possesses a cannon which is fired daily at sunset during the month of Ramadan. Sundown brings to an end the strict abstinence from food, drink (even water),...
Pamela Melnikoff
DEATH came to Pharaoh's Egypt with the spring. Years afterwards, the first warm, lingering day Still made his people mourn, remembering How April snatched their first-born sons away. Death came...
Hugh Seton-Watson
IT IS a commonplace that the Hapsburg Empire fell because its rulers could not satisfy the conflicting claims of its nationalities. It is less widely known that the Soviet Union is a...
Reviewed by Norman Thomas
THE sum total of James Burnham's philosophy puzzles me. I have never been able to see how his famous Managerial Revolution, predestined by history, fits into his later exposition of power...
Reviewed by Theodor Gaster
MOST people take it for granted that the teachings of the Old Testament are one of the prime foundations of Western religion and ethics; yet there are few who would be able to set down on...
Reviewed by Martin Greenberg
IN SETTING out to write his autobiography, of which this is the first volume, Arthur Koestler first retrospectively cast his "secular horoscope" -i.e., he looked up the issue of the London Times...
Reviewed by Gertrude Himmelfarb
ONE of the famous exhibits in the 19th century's showcase of infant prodigies is the fouryear-old Macaulay who, when asked how he was feeling after having been scalded, replied: "Thank you,...
Reviewed by Oscar Handlin
THIS collection of essays evokes immediate surprise. After all, moderation and good sense are not what we have come to expect of intellectuals writing about America. The last few decades of...
Reviewed by H. L. Trefousse
IN HIS latest book, Sir Lewis Namier continues the critical examination of the memoirs of German statesmen and generals that he began in his Europe in Decay two years ago. He contends that we...
Alan F. Westin
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt, and the profoundest wisdom is to know...
Sol Stein
IN THE beginning God, in seven days The earth and such Then nothing. A giant wombed In the South Atlantic Thrust his face Through surface glass Howled defiant Words at water Water...
Nicolas Baudy
BETWEEN seven and eight o'clock on the morning of February 3, 1953, Robert Finaly, aged eleven, and his brother Gerald, aged ten, were carried out by unknown persons from the College of Saint...
Clement Greenberg
T.S. ELIOT'S most recent book on a non-literary subject, Notes Towards the Definition of Culture, proceeds largely on the assumption, familiar by now, that our culture is in decline. The...
Michel Fougeres
MY ARRIVAL was all I could have wished it to be; even the bad weather, which delayed our ship several hours so that we approached the port at low tide, proved advantageous, for we had to await...
Judd L. Teller
IN RECENT years Israel has been experiencing something of a religious renascence. The clamorous political demands and strident propaganda of the Religious Bloc have obscured the fact...
George Lichtheim
NOTHING illustrates better the prevailing temper of Europe this spring than the fact that conservatism has once more become the dominant mood of electorates and governments. In Britain, the...
William Schack
TWENTY-FIVE years ago there were about fifty artists in Jewish Palestine, in a total population of 150,000. Of these fifty, discounting a few popular sentimental painters, two had already...
Dan Jacobson
MY BROTHER and I kept homing pigeons for many years. We had a hok at the bottom of the back yard, and were members of the Lyndhurst Junior Homing Pigeon Society. We used to send our birds...
Ruth Field Iglehart
ALTHOUGH I grew up in New York and dutifully completed the prescribed stages of its public school system, much of my early education took place in other and less familiar surroundings....
Theodor Gaster
THE Aramaic poem Akdamuth is one of the most famous elements of the traditional morning service on the first day of the Feast of Weeks. It is chanted by the cantor before the reading of the...
Nathan Glick
THE story of Israel seems, on the surface, a natural for Hollywood. It is, after all, an epic of pioneers, and the folklore of pioneering has been a staple of American films for nearly...
Morton Clurman
AMONG the problems of our age, that of prejudice is not the least complex. In its action and reactions, a web is woven in which we are all caught. Like it or not, where a set of attitudes toward...
Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis
MR. VIERECK'S indispensable book might also be subtitled: "The Cold War Debater's Manual," or "Guide to Correct Thinking on All Fundamental Questions." It takes its pattern from the...
Reviewed by Sylvia Rothchild
IN THE MORNING LIGHT. By CHARLES ANGOFF. Beechhurst. 736 pp. $4.50. Reviewed by SYLVIA ROTHCHILD IN THE MORNINGT LIGHT is the second of Charles Angoff's books about the Polansky family,...
Reviewed by Ralph Marcus
ONE of my donnish professors used to say that when good German theories die they go to Oxford. He was probably thinking of humanistic studies. Of German theories in social science it would be...
Reviewed by Daniel J. Boorstin
AT LEAST since the 18th century, when Crivecoeur came here from France and asked, What is an American? students of our culture have looked for the characteristically American. This quest has...
Reviewed by Irving Howe
EACH time another posthumous book by Orwell appears one is depressed at remembering that it has been stitched together from strav remnants; and then, impressed at how well those remnants keep....
Hans Kohn
Our time is dominated by a feeling of unprecedented crisis involving every aspect of political, social, and intellectual life.
Harold Lavine
Hardly anyone still likes Ike, except the voters.
Hal Lehrman
This is the mid-point in the fundraising year.
William Phillips
Since the defeat of Hitler, there has been a worldwide contest to choose the new Enemy Number One, and the finalists are now Russia and America.
Thomas B. Brumbaugh
A Poem.
Richard Goldhurst
When we reached high school age, my mother wanted to finance our education at a Catholic prep school.
Paul Willen
The developments since Stalin's death have made it abundantly clear that Malenkov's immediate installation as Premier did not settle—as so many thought it would—the question of the “succession,” so hotly discussed at the time.
Clement Greenberg
High, highbrow, genteel, academic (in the original sense), or aulic culture is now pursued by a relatively small number of people most of whom come from the middle classes.
Donald Paneth
McCaffrey's Bar & Grill is a little neighborhood bar, on a street corner, where people gather to drink, and chatter, and watch television. In the street, a neon blinks on and off, cars, buses, and trucks pass swiftly, and men loiter restlessly on the corner.
Aime Palliere
It Is difficult for me to conceive the state of mind of a young Israelite of our country.
Lucy S. Dawidowicz
In the last few years Jews have turned up in the most unlikely places—as a colonel in the Chinese army, as Miss America, as toreador in the bull-ring.
H. L. Ginsberg
In the summer of 1947, some Bedouins of the Wilderness of Judah (the arid eastern slope of the hill country of Judah that descends to the Dead Sea) chanced upon a grotto near a ruin by the name of Khirbet Qumran, lying south from the northwest corner of the Dead Sea.
Reviewed by Robert E. Fitch
Reviewed by George Lichtheim
J. K. Galbraith
Our folklore has long held that the difference between the political left and right in the United States—I am not here concerned with the pathological extremes—lies at least partly in the approach to reality.
John McCormick
West Berlin on Wednesday morning, June 17, was seething with every manner of rumor, report, information which had the tinny clank of falseness, and still other information which rang true but seemed utterly impossible.
Milton Himmelfarb
"They order this matter better in France.”
James Rorty
Stalin had died, and the scramble for the succession was on.
Schlomo Riemer
One of the most important aims of Zionism was to reduce the dependence of Jewish communities on a surrounding Gentile world.
Norman Podhoretz
Thirty years ago, in an essay which sought to account for certain peculiar qualities in metaphysical poetry, T. S. Eliot suggested that a “dissociation of sensibility” took place in the 17th century as the result of the breakup of the medieval world and the growing influence of the new physics.
Robert Pick
My Friend G. had been waiting for me at the station.
Morris Freedman
One of my mother' idols when I was about fifteen was a refugee European actress named Shulamith Vishnak.
Theodor Gaster
On each of the Jewish festivals and Holy Days —and likewise on many Sabbaths—the traditional services of the synagogue are embellished or tricked out by special poetic compositions known as piyyutim.
Leo Steinberg
In a showcase at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York hangs the jawbone of an ass—“like the one Samson used against the Philistines,” said the press release.
Daniel Lerner
A PERENNIAL problem of government concerns the relation between men of knowledge and men of power in the shaping of social policy. The best-known answer of classical antiquity-never,...
Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis
Reviewed by Aleph V. Sherman
Reviewed by Oscar Handlin
Reviewed by Jacob Sloan
These letters are disappointing.
G. F. Hudson
If, as Clausewitz said, war is the pursuit of policy by other means, it follows that the end of a war means a return to the methods of diplomacy, but under new conditions resulting from the ordeal by battle.
Maurice Samuel
The whole disturbing complex of spiritual problems which has emerged for world Jewry with the creation of the Jewish state presented itself to me in sharpest focus in a memorable experience during my last long visit to Israel in the summer of 1952.
Maurice Goldbloom
At various times in the past twenty years, liberals have been overcome with a sense of apprehension lest the United States again fall into the hands of the forces of reaction, all social gains be destroyed or at least undermined, and our traditional freedoms be snatched away.
Ernst Simon
Thus begins the book of Jonah, which we will draw upon when, several hours from now, we shall be reading the customary passage from the prophets at afternoon service.
F. R. Leavis
D.H. Lawrence's would have been the commentary to have on The Great Books of the Western World.
David Ben Gurion and Simon A. Dolgin
An exchange of letters between Israel's Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion, and a Los Angeles rabbi, Simon Golgin.
Henry Popkin
We are on the threshold of a new Broadway season, but there seems little reason to expect that it will depart in any fundamental way from the pattern of the past season.
Sylvia Rothchild
While searching for some old books in our attic, one afternoon, I found a crumbling prayer book, loosely wrapped in brown paper.
Theodor Gaster
Yom Kippur is more than a Day of Atonement on which individuals purge their sins by the threefold process of introspection, confession, and regeneration.
Norman Podhoretz
Sholom Aleichem's The Adventures of Mattel the Cantor's Son is the comic Odyssey of a Jewish family traveling from Kassrilovka to New York in the early years of the 20th century.
H. L. Trefousse
One of the gravest dangers faced by democratic elements in Germany in 1945 was the possible revival of a Hitler myth.
Reviewed by Nathan Glazer
Reviewed by Paul Kecskemeti
Reviewed by Bogdan Raditsa
Reviewed by Stanley Edgar Hyman
Reviewed by Joseph Kerman
No other figure in the history of the arts has had a traumatic effect like that of Richard Wagner.
Reviewed by Morris Freedman
Max Beer
In Geneva from 1920 to 1939, I had the opportunity of watching the realization and development of the centuries-old dream of a League of Nations.
Maurice Samuel
Two sets of forces play upon American and Israeli Jewries, one driving them apart, the other pulling them together.
Spencer Brown
Joseph Pulitzer, the story goes, once wrote a beautiful editorial on Christmas.
Julius Margolin
“All of Israel are responsible for one another.” So the ancient rabbis taught.
Alexander Isbakh
On the 25th of February, 1917, I was thirteen years old.
Meyer Levin
Remember that Jewish boy in the Fannie Hurst era, that sensitive son of the unworldly Talmudist?
Alvin Johnson
“Nouveau Riche”—what a world of contempt lies in that phrase!
Dannie Abse
June the first was our day of peace.
S. T. Hecht
At a Men's Club meeting a fortnight or so before our Holy Days, I had occasion to inquire after Gittleson our shammes and learned that the poor fellow was sick.
Simon M. Dubnow
It is not my purpose here to develop any new theory upon a theme to which not a little study has already been devoted, but merely to express a view, which may, I believe, lead to certain definite conclusions.
Robert S. Brustein
The publishers of The Saturday Evening Post Stories: 1952 (Random House) tell us that it was produced for no other purpose than to illustrate the “infinite variety” of “one of America's best-loved magazines”—and to entertain.
Hershel Shanks
American Jews have always been keenly interested in their rate of intermarriage, perhaps precisely because it has been such a difficult statistic to come bycoupled with the fact that it is the common assumption that a high rate of intermarriage spells the end of Judaism, and with it the heritage and way of life that Judaism represents.
Reviewed by Norman Podhoretz
Reviewed by Clement Greenberg
Reviewed by Morris Freedman
Reviewed by Herbert J. Gans
Hugh Seton-Watson
The greatest political problem in Europe, which was open at the time of Stalin's death, remains open today.
Warner Bloomberg Jr.
It was a late summer afternoon and the air inside the plant was thick with heat.
Robert S. Warshow
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were not put to death for their opinions, but from their side, clearly, they died for their opinions nevertheless.
Peter Schmid
"Strange,” Frau Blumel confessed to me, when I visited her home in a modest housing development on the outskirts of a great German city, “we used to be much better off, before and during the war."
Moses Hadas
The influence of the Aeneid in shaping European ideas on religion and politics has been incalculably great, and it is the peculiarly Vergilian content of the poem, not the things borrowed from Greek models, that exercised this influence.
Fritz A. Rothschild
“Has the synagogue become the graveyard where prayer is buried? Are we, the spiritual leaders of American Jewry, members of a chevra kadisha [burial society]?”
Steven Marcus
In picking up a novel about Negroes one feels almost as if the writer were starting from scratch—as if he were writing about people who have been deprived of culture and of coherent history.
Donald Paneth
Rockland County, in the southeastern part of New York State, is a suburban region twenty miles from New York City.
Do not think that King Messiah will have to perform signs and wonders, bring anything new into being, revive the dead, or do similar things.
George Ross
A gala night is not an occasion for presenting King Lear, nor is it a time to look for sustained performance.
William Petersen
A popular cliché has it that it is harder nowadays for a young man to get ahead in this country than it was, say, fifty or seventy-five years ago.
Reviewed by Lucy S. Dawidowicz
Reviewed by Norman Podhoretz
Reviewed by Morris Freedman
Granville Hicks
Around our house in upstate New York are lawn and flower gardens and a kitchen garden, but beyond this small area of cultivation the forest has taken over.
Hal Lehrman
Düsseldorf (late August): Fists still swing freely in Germany.
Jacob Taubes
For all the current popularity of the term “Judeo-Christian” tradition, the differences between the Jewish and Christian religions are not at all resolved.
Norman Podhoretz
At least fifty plays are produced on television every week.
Richard Lowenthal
Western observers often fail to notice new trends in Soviet affairs because they crop up in unexpected places.
Benno Weiser
At the height of the excitement over Soviet anti-Semitism, a South American delegate to the UN said to me, “You Jews are really unlucky. First, Hitler persecuted you. Then Stalin. And now to top it off..."
Robert E. Fitch
It was the good fortune of this American republic that its founders were members of an intelligentsia.
Harry L. Golden
It had been an ordeal for both Rabbi Geller and Mr. Morris Witcoff, president of Temple Emanu-El, “The Jewish Reform Congregation of Elizabeth, North Carolina.”
James Grossman
When Lord Jowitt's book, The Strange Case of Alger Hiss, was about to appear in America, the copies that had already been distributed were withdrawn and it was announced that the publication was being delayed.
Nathan Glazer
The various social sciences, like all disciplines possessing an individual history and a corps of specially trained practitioners, ask their own questions, and answer them in their own way.
Howard O. Sackler
A Poem.
Reviewed by Solomon F. Bloom
Reviewed by Martin Greenberg
Reviewed by Henry L. Roberts
Reviewed by Daniel J. Boorstin
Reviewed by S. D. Goitein
1953
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