G. F. Hudson
In January 1946, James Forrestal sent to Walter Lippman some notes he had made on relations between the United States and the Soviet Union with a covering letter.
Jeremiah Ben-Jacob
Two different concepts struggle today for ascendancy in Israeli foreign policy: the “citadel” and the “global.”
Harold Lavine
After two decades of uninterrupted power, occupancy of the White House had become for the Democrats not merely a habit but a natural right.
Dillard Stokes
The present program to establish security in our government, to end spying and sabotage by Russian agents in the public service, has at least one great merit.
R. Brasch
Covering one's head in a synagogue is old Jewish tradition.
Gerard H. Wilk
Just before the West German elections of September 6 a workman came to our apartment to make repairs.
Judd L. Teller
Israeli Laborites used to tell you: “Berl alone could have restrained him, because not even he dared dispute Berl's authority too often.”
Charles Gaines
"Remus to Society" and "Vapor Song."
Harold U. Ribalow
This is about a seven-year-old little girl, my daughter Reena, who attends a modern yeshiva, or parochial school, in New York City.
I. L. Peretz
The town square. An ordinary day, neither a market day nor a day of the fair, a day of drowsy small activity.
Steven Marcus
The Complete Works of O. Henry consist of two volumes totaling 271 stories and 1,700 pages.
Frank Fisher
One question about city planning must have come to the mind of anyone who has fingered the magnificent volumes in which the proposals of planners are generally presented.
Reviewed by Herbert B. Ehrmann
Reviewed by Solomon B. Freehof
Reviewed by Heinz Politzer
A. H. Raskin
Twenty-one years have gone by since the passage of the National Industrial Recovery Act gave unions an affirmative legal base on which to build their membership and economic strength.
Cecil Roth
All of us in England, as elsewhere, welcome the news of plans to celebrate the tercentenary of the settlement of Jews in what is now the United States.
Robert Gorham Davis
In September, as a way of celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America held a large conference to inquire into the state of American morals.
Herbert Luethy
Is the abomination that was Adolf Hitler ripe for the judgment of history?
G. L. Arnold
Throughout the greater part of the world, the chief political issue today is whether Communists or non-Communists will direct those revolutionary movements of backward countries which have for their aim a radical break with the pre-industrial past.
David Gutmann
I first met Mr. Dolin when we were both placed in the same car of a gigantic “Welcome Stevenson” motorcade which crawled through the streets of Chicago for five hours, on a day just before the close of the 1952 Presidential campaign.
Judd L. Teller
It fell to Berl Katznelson, still a very young man when Gordon died, to codify the diverse doctrines of Syrian, Borochov, and Gordon.
Sylvia Rothchild
A Story.
Toby Shafter
‘And how is the duck today?” That was my mother on the telephone, making the same daily inquiry, at exactly the same time of day, of her friend Mrs. Klein.
Reader Letters
Wednesday, October 28th [1840]—Sir David Wilkie, Mr. Pisani and George Samuel dined with us, and at seven afterwards we set out.
Dan Jacobson
I have been reading an article—one of a series—by Miss Rebecca West on the Coronation.
Theodor Gaster
Almost everybody knows by now that Christmas and Easter and many of the saints' days of the Church go back to earlier heathen festivals, and that several of the saints themselves are but Christian transformations of pagan gods and heroes.
Reviewed by Milton Himmelfarb
Reviewed by William Poster
Reviewed by Jacob B. Agus
Reviewed by Stanley Edgar Hyman
Reviewed by Nathan Glazer
Reviewed by Michael Wyschogrod
Harry Gersh
Looking back, we can see that our generation was a generation on the move.
Peter Meyer
As the years of the cold war lengthen, America grows weary and peevish with the demands made upon her energy, steadfastness, and capacity for sacrifice.
Spencer Brown
That there is a battle raging in American education is clear to everybody.
Ray Alan
Bagdad has a strangely insubstantial air.
Herbert Weiner
"Son of man," wrote Abraham Isaac Kuk in one of his rhapsodic bursts of prose, "let not names, words, phrases, and letters swallow your soul.
Stanley Edgar Hyman
We are too enlightened these days to admit that we want a picture or a poem (or even a novel) to tell us a story, but non-fiction remains an enclave where the reader is still Caliph.
William Phillips
Every period has an ideal—and a scapegoat which it holds responsible for the failure to attain its ideal.
Donald Paneth
Irving Berg who lives in Great Neck, Long Island.
Reader Letters
Dearest Friend! Our correspondence has been interrupted long enough.
Nathan Glazer
The authoritarian personality, published in 1950 as part of the Studies in Prejudice series sponsored by the American Jewish Committee, stands as one of the most ambitious efforts of modern American social science.
Reviewed by Judd L. Teller
Reviewed by H. Stuart Hughes
Reviewed by Milton Hindus
Reviewed by Robert E. Fitch
Reviewed by Solomon F. Bloom
Hal Lehrman
Fresh outbreaks on the Israeli-Arab borders make close and cordial relations between Israel and the West more imperative than ever.
James Rorty
The tumult and the shouting had died by the time I got to Norwalk.
Leslie A. Fiedler
It is difficult really to believe in Passover in Rome.
Norman Thomas
I think President Eisenhower's Message to Congress on the State of the Union (January 8, 1954) is a historic document.
Theodor Gaster
Throughout the ages, the Prayerbook has occupied a central position in Jewish life.
Spencer Brown
When the headmaster tells a joke, all the boys laugh.
G. F. Hudson
Only nine years have passed since the Yalta conference, but already it seems an enormously long time ago.
Sydney H. Kasper
When I saw Sam Stone in Chicago recently he asked me how my mother was, and when I told him she had died several months ago he stared at me for a moment and then said softly, “She was the sharpest businesswoman I ever met.”
Reader Letters
If a man sees that sufferings are coming upon him, let him examine his deeds, for it is written: Let us search out and try our ways, and return unto the Lord.
Midge Decter
All through the performance of The World of Sholom Aleichem, I had the most disturbing sensation of being reminded of something.
Franz Borkenau
Among the most urgent problems faced by the free world today is to find out what is really going on inside the USSR, and particularly the Kremlin.
Reviewed by H. Stuart Hughes
Reviewed by Judd L. Teller
Reviewed by Lillian Blumberg McCall
Reviewed by William Poster
Reviewed by Herbert R. Northrup
Reviewed by Charles Reznikoff
A. H. Raskin
“Prosperity is just around the corner.”
Herbert Luethy
In August 1952, in the rudest, remotest corner of Provence, a whole family of English tourists was murdered, and the solution of the crime was blocked for over a year by the local and family solidarity of the murderer's neighbors.
Robert E. Fitch
Certainly it is a vital question whether the relations between Jews and Christians are to be determined chiefly by what divides them, or by what unites them.
Allan Temko
To the Middle Age no subject of conversation was more fascinating than the Lord.
Albert Rosenfeld
Historian France V. Scholes of the University of New Mexico reports that, way back in the 1660's one of the early Spanish territorial governors, the lusty Don Bernardo López de Mendizábal, was accused of being a Jew.
Nathan Glazer
There has been a series of battles over American foreign policy in recent years.
Ernest Stock
Returning to Israel after a lapse of a few years, one finds a toddler grown into a boy.
Morris Freedman
Kosher, once bought exclusively by Jews and only during Jewish holiday seasons, seems on the way to becoming as popular as the cola drinks.
Reader Letters
All names and titles, Hebrew or non-Hebrew, reveal but a small and dim spark of the hidden light toward which the soul really yearns and to which it calls out, “God.”
Judd L. Teller
In the current intensive revival of interest in Jewish history and culture, there has too often been a tendency to accept as authentic anything that comes along labelled “Jewish.”
Immanuel Lewy
As historical religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam each finds the source and witness of its validity in what it holds to be a divine revelation, handed down to succeeding generations in certain sacred documents, or Scriptures.
Reviewed by Oscar Handlin
Reviewed by David Baumgardt
Reviewed by Alfred Werner
Sidney Hertzberg
The frustration of Franco-American efforts in Indo-China has confirmed a suspicion growing for some time now that U.S. foreign policy simply isn't working.
Allan Temko
“Ha-ir hagedolah—that great city!” wrote that great traveler, Benjamin of Tudela, nearly eight hundred years ago.
Hal Lehrman
During a recent visit to Israel this writer spent an evening with a group of army commanders.
Arthur Mann
A chapter of Jewish religious history in America.
Dillard Stokes
The true nature of Social Security in our country is almost unknown to the taxpayers who maintain and rely on it.
Judy Shepard
Since my husband and I returned to Jerusalem from the United States after an absence of two years, we have had three housemaids named Esther.
Jack Luria
We live beyond experiences, but we do not always oudive them.
Saul Gottlieb
I wonder if you thought, when you were young and bobbed your hair and smoked, that living would be easy and babies fun and time a slow progression of qualities of happiness, each deeper than the last; the past a gray expanse of desert you danced through to blue waters where the playful waves dashed back an image of your self upon you, new combinations breaking up the patterns of the serious individual.
Reader Letters
Two Judeo-Spanish Versions of the Event LnDmo is the archaic written idiom of the Spanish-speaking Jews; in it are found translations of the Bible, of liturgy, and of didactic works, and even some of the original ethical texts.
Shimon Wincelberg
The American Jewish family portrait emerging season after season out of the lukewarm crucible of the Creative Writing class, and from there sometimes into print, has by now become as rigidly typed as the Four Sons of the Haggadah.
Robert S. Warshow
My son Paul, who is eleven years old, belongs to the E.C. Fan-Addict Club, a synthetic organization set up as a promotional device by the Entertaining Comics Group, publishers of Mad ("Takes Calculated to Drive you MAD—Humor in a Jugular Vein"), Panic ("This is No Comic Book, This is PANIC—Humor in a Varicose Vein"), Tales from the Crypt, the Vault of Horror, Weird Science—Fantasy, Shock SuspenStories, Crime SuspenStories ("Jolting Tales of Tension in the E.C. Tradition"), and, I imagine, various other such periodicals.
Reviewed by Irving Kristol
Reviewed by Herbert J. Gans
Reviewed by Otto Friedrich
Reviewed by Alan F. Westin
Peter Meyer
In late April of this year, a weird treason trial took place in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, which deserved more than the few lines it got in a late city edition of the metropolitan newspapers.
Alan F. Westin
On sale at a Cambridge, Massachusetts, newsstand is a handsome booklet entitled McCarthy on Trial.
Robert L. Lindsey
It was surprising to me that Ernst Simon's article “Are We Israelis Still Jews?” (in Commentary of April 1953) evoked so little response in this country.
Judd L. Teller
Three deaths in recent years have special and sad relevance for Yiddish letters in America.
Harold Lavine
There were twenty-one who stayed behind,- twenty-one GI's, captives of the Reds, who chose to remain with the Reds rather than come home.
Alfred Werner
“I am waiting for other collectors, but I am hardly besieged with demands! I see that we are far from being understood—quite far—even by our friends.”
Morris Freedman
A guest at Grossinger's recognized an Israeli statesman walking into the dining room.
David Nieto
Look at the soul of man, and regard its workings, and you will see great and wonderful things.
William Schack
Khamishia, a quintet of short films wholly made in Israel, with English dialogue and narration, opened in New York early in May.
Celia Stopnicka Rosenthal
Fifty-five miles from Warsaw in central Poland, the town of Stoczek numbered around 4,000 inhabitants in the period between the two world wars.
Reviewed by Gerson D. Cohen
Reviewed by Robert E. Fitch
Reviewed by Robert S. Brustein
Benno Weiser
A woman from London told me of a visit that a British WIZO group paid to Israel's first prime minister.
Lillian Blumberg McCall
“A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother,” wrote Sigmund Freud, “keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror, that confidence of success that frequently induces real success.”
Carroll Kilpatrick
As the Republican party goes into the 1954 Congressional campaigna campaign that may be decisive in Republican history-it is the division within the party rather than the Democratic opposition that is the chief concern of the Republican administration.
Hal Lehrman
Casablanca: Alarm sirens were wailing regularly the last time I was here, just over ten years ago.
James Rorty
The proprietor of the diner in Middleville heard me trying to telephone Dr. W. and became eagerly helpful.
David Daiches
The Hebrew Bible has been “the Book” to innumerable generations of Jews, and, translated into some other language, to generations of Puritan Christians.
Morris Freedman
Grossinger Hotel and Country Club is one of the fabled resorts in New York's Catskill vacation region.
Reader Letters
R. Simeon Ben Lakish said: God may be likened to a king who had two sons.
Isaac Rosenfeld
What shall our children read? If anyone would like to consult a book on this vexatious problem, he might try Your Child's Reading Today, by Josette Frank.
T. Harry Williams
The historians are pretty well in accord about the nature of such periods and movements as the Revolution, Jeffersonian democracy, the Jacksonian era, and the Progressive movement.
Constantine Cavafy
A Poem.
Reviewed by Leo Steinberg
Reviewed by Steven Marcus
Reviewed by Judd L. Teller
Reviewed by Alexandre Reiter
Reviewed by Charles Reznikoff
Oscar Handlin
In its brief history, the struggling outpost of the Dutch West India Company on the Hudson had already seen many a curious sight.
Solomon F. Bloom
The prowess of the German military elite is one of the potent myths of our time.
Warner Bloomberg Jr.
It's hard to recall specific union meetings if you've been to enough of them.
Emanuel Rackman
The Sabbath, that day of peace, now wages a war for survival. In an advanced technological society, her regulations are considered “dated.”
G. L. Arnold
Towards the close of the interminable Geneva conference someone noticed that the cease-fire in Indo-China had come almost exactly forty years after the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.
Norman Podhoretz
A fable may not be William Faulkner's worst book; one would have to re-read Pylon to make a definitive judgment, and I personally could not face the ordeal.
Hal Lehrman
Marrakesh: An audience with Pasha Thami el Glawi, (he powerful Berber chieftain and France's strongest native champion in Morocco, arranged through the French military.
S. T. Hecht
In the street, under the leafless trees, small fires sent up ropes of blue that spiraled against the late November sunset. Mrs. Parker, our next-door neighbor, was making friendly conversation over the low hedge.
Reader Letters
“Blow the horn at the new moon, at the full moon for our feast-day. For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.” (Ps. 81:4-5.)
Clement Greenberg
Through earlier and more securely placed as a contemporary master, Jacques Lipchitz has not yet enjoyed a boom as concentrated as those which, since the war, have swelled and somewhat inflated the reputations of Henry Moore and Alberto Giacometti.
Robert Lekachman
Because sociology takes as its province the study of the entire society, it all too frequently appears vague, ill-defined, or platitudinous, even wooly, especially in an elementary college course.
Reviewed by Charles Reznikoff
Reviewed by Stanley Edgar Hyman
Reviewed by Heinz Politzer
Reviewed by Judd L. Teller
Herbert Luethy
France this past summer has witnessed something more than a parliamentary crisis and less than a revolution.
Oscar Handlin
In a simpler past the Jews were able to explain themselves as immigrants passing through a melting pot on the way toward being one with other Americans in all but religion.
Hal Lehrman
It is now sixteen months since negotiations began in Vienna for the partial restitution of material things lost under Hitlerism.
Grace Goldin
I sing the Jews of America, all of us more or less tangled up in our Judaism.
Robert E. Fitch
The country is England. The time is about one hundred and fifty years ago. The writer is William Godwin, in the preface to his Political Justice.
Steven Marcus
In the nature of the case, the climbing of Mt. Everest was an extraordinary event.
Shlomo Katz
As he stood by the ice-coated kitchen window, his hands resting on the warm radiator cover, the memory of trains rumbling on the overpass over Kedzie Avenue suddenly invaded Norman's mind.
Moritz D. Oppenheim
We traveled day and night without interruption, changing horses frequently, and only after eight days came to a halt and went to bed, for the first time, at Florence.
Ray Alan
Ten years ago, in Syria and Lebanon, Arab nationalists used to say to British officers and officials: “Get rid of the French for us and you will earn our eternal gratitude..."
Paul Kecskemeti
Ethnic prejudice, intolerance, and discrimination represent a major problem for American democracy.
Reviewed by Milton Himmelfarb
Reviewed by James T. Farrell
Reviewed by Harold Lavine
Evelyn N. Rossman
In Northrup, I have only to open my mouth and someone is sure to ask whether I happen to know any Greenbergs somewhere in the Bronx.
Herbert Luethy
Few conferences in the rather melancholy history of postwar diplomacy have closed with such expressions of universal satisfaction as marked the end of the recent nine-power meeting in London.
James Rorty
Today, if you wish to move in the best anti-Semitic circles and at the same time have hopes of back door entree and financial support from respectable corporation executives and businessmen who are not openly anti-Semitic, you will speak sympathetically of the good, upstanding Jews of B'nai B'rith and the American Jewish Committee, and in the same breath denounce Communists, Zionists, “Khazars,” and the Anti-Defamation League, in approximately that order.
Hal Lehrman
A new and unpleasant season has opened in relations between the United States and Israel, a season of cold climate and angry winds, more dangerous—so Israel believes—than any such season before.
Harold Lavine
With a flourish of trumpets and a ruffle of drums, the administration last January unveiled what it called a new defense policy.
David Baumgardt
The question “How far shall faith, and how far must reason, dominate human life?” has to be answered anew by every generation.
William and Sarah C. Schack
There are two Vilnas.
Reader Letters
The Messianic hope, which originated in Biblical times as hope for a new, triumphant Jewish king, expanded and developed in the course of the centuries until it encompassed the hope for the individual, national, and universal redemption.
Shimon Wincelberg
I remember, as a new immigrant in New York, how delighted I used to be at having a Gentile politician or policeman quite proudly come out with an occasional Yiddish expression.
H. Stuart Hughes
For half a decade now the economic resurgence of Germany and its moral rehabilitation in the eyes of Americans have been established facts.
Reviewed by Michael Wyschogrod
Reviewed by Martin Greenberg
Reviewed by Daniel J. Boorstin
Reviewed by Alfred Werner
Reviewed by Charles Reznikoff
Reviewed by Isaac Rosenfeld
James Rorty
The segregationists were in retreat in Baltimore and Washington when I encountered them: their leader threatened with arrest, their organization in danger of legal dissolution, their rallies “deemphasized” in the news columns of a hostile press.
Israel Knox
What was remarkable about the recent sixty-fifth annual convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (Reform) was the unmistakable manifestation throughout of the close tie between Reform and traditional Judaism.
Franz Borkenau
Since the Communist victory in China, fierce international debate has raged over the correct policy the West should follow toward Mao's regime.
Spencer Brown
When critics dismiss a play as incompetent and yet go out of their way to commend its ideas, we may infer that the ideas represent something vastly important to the critics' readers—or at least to the critics.
Charles Reznikoff
There is no doubt that throughout Western Europe—by the middle of the 17th century—men were tired of the slaughter and waste of the religious wars.
Arnold Mandel
Every Friday afternoon at coffee time listeners to the French radio's Chaine Nationale can hear the sermon of a rabbi, perhaps even a Grand Rabbi, followed by synagogue chants sung by a mixed choir.
James T. Farrell
A Story.
Sylvia Rothchild
The day the Golden Age Club opened at Hecht House, a Jewish community center in Dorchester, six men stood awkwardly in the lobby, fingering their newspapers, waiting for someone to open the door to the lounge.
Reader Letters
After these words the man and the child went through the course of the centuries until they came at last to the time of Adam and Eve.
Melvin Landsberg
While the awkwardness with which they once again confront Christmas is not the most desperate problem faced by American Jews in 1954, it yields to few in complexity.
Seymour Martin Lipset and Natalie Rogoff
The new sociology has in recent years effectively destroyed a number of hallowed myths.
Reviewed by Paul Kecskemeti
Reviewed by G. L. Arnold
After1945 there were two great areas formerly dominated by Britain in which the postwar British government had to come to terms with new political forces: Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
Reviewed by Judd L. Teller
Reviewed by Robert Langbaum
Reviewed by Lucy S. Dawidowicz
1954
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