Alan F. Westin
A new feeling of confidence about civil liberties is in the air, an invigorating sense that we are emerging from a dark alley and can see the familiar, well-lighted streets just ahead. Several related developments have brought this about.
Charles Abrams
An old rule of the common law is that an innkeeper may not arbitrarily refuse a traveler shelter.
Peter Schmid
Outside Hue, the old imperial capital of Annam, stand empty palaces each of which encloses the tomb of an emperor.
James Rorty
The seats in Madison Square Garden were only a little more than half filled on the night of November 29 when the McCarthyites of the New York metropolitan area rallied to the defense of their hero, three days before he was formally censured by his Senatorial colleagues.
Morris Freedman
In the current exodus from the Big City to suburbia, Queens, the most extensive of New York's five boroughs, constitutes a midway spot.
Sylvia Rothchild
A Story.
Charles Reznikoff
A traveler attended divine service at New York's Shearith Israel in September, 1744, and described his visit as follows: “I went in the morning . . . to the Jews' sinagogue where was an assembly of about 50 of the seed of Abraham chanting and singing their doleful hymns, (they had 4 great wax candles lighted, as large as a man's arm, round the sanctuary where was contained the ark of the covenant and Aaron's rod), dressed in robes of white silk.
William Poster
We were playing “countries” when Albert first showed his face around the block, and were too engrossed to pay him much mind.
Jacob Joseph of
The relation between the Zaddikim—the saints—and the people, of less exalted spirituality, is often a source of ethical and religious questioning.
James Baldwin
Hollywood's peculiar ability to milk, so to speak, the cow and the goat at the same time—and then to peddle the results as ginger ale—has seldom produced anything more arresting than the present production of Carmen Jones.
G. L. Arnold
We are becoming familiar with the political contours of postwar Germany, or at any rate with the dominant outlook of the Federal Republic. Are we equally attentive to what goes on under the surface?
Reader Letters
An exchange over the November 1954 piece, "The Community and I."
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Evelyn Rossman's November 1954 piece, "The Community and I."
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Morris Freedman's July and august 1954 articles.
Reader Letters
Letters in response to the December 1954 letter "Freudianism and Mrs. McCall."
Reader Letters
Letters in response to "Adventure in Freedom: First Chapter," from the September 1954 issue.
Reader Letters
Letters in response to "Class and Opportunity in Europe and in the U.S.," from the December 1954 issue.
Reader Letters
An exchange between Hal Lehrman and readers on his June 1954 piece, "American Policy and Arab-Israeli Peace."
Reviewed by Solomon F. Bloom
It is the Jewish tradition to treat death soberly.
Reviewed by Isa Kapp
If one judged by the once rambunctious voice of the radical movement, or the dry wrenching tone of of a writer like Delmore Schwartz, one would imagine that the children of first-generation immigrants to New York City had, on the whole, taken extreme stands against family.
Reviewed by Henry Bamford Parkes
Moris Coren was working intermittently during the later years of his life on a general history of American thought, but did not complete more than a disjointed series of notes.
Reviewed by Sidney Alexander
"I'll write whatever I damn please, whenever I damn please and as I damn please and it'll be good if the authentic spirit of change is in it." So William Carlos Williams announced with a whoop at the beginning of his long career and he's kept at it ever since.
Reviewed by Granville Hicks
In the agitation for social change that sprang up in America between 1830 and 1850, New England was one of the principal centers, the site of some of the best-known Utopian experiments, the home of some of the most respected spokesmen for the movement and also of some of its wildest visionaries.
G. F. Hudson
It is always helpful when people take the trouble to define the words they use in political controversy, and Soviet propaganda has been at pains to explain what we should understand by “peaceful co-existence.”
Lionel Trilling
In our culture it is not the common habit to read the books of a century ago.
Constantine Cavafy
A Poem.
Charles Abrams
Every day a few hundred Puerto Ricans can be seen at the San Juan airport waiting to get on planes for New York.
James Rorty
Because the House Committee on Un-American Activities failed to give the notorious American neo-Nazi James A. Madole and the violently anti-Semitic Conde McGinley a chance to be heard before releasing its “Preliminary Report on Neo-Fascist and Hate Groups,” it has been reprobated by liberals in general and by a number of Jewish agencies in particular as unfair and un-American.
Fritz Stern
It is difficult to think of Germany dispassionately, and on my way there last spring I found that I still felt intensely what I had tried so hard to overcome.
Nathan Glazer
It seems to have become a custom among American Jews for the larger congregations to publish books to mark the celebration of their fiftieth, seventy-fifth, or hundredth birthday.
Spencer Brown
Published in 1946, George Orwell's Animal Farm remains to this day, in my opinion, the best of anti-Communist books.
Ruth Glazer
I am hoping one day to confound the Hooper people when they call me by telling them that I'm listening to WEVD. Of course, this will only be so if it is Friday.
Moritz D. Oppenheim
From the memoirs of Moritz Daniel Oppenheim.
Jacob Neusner
Zionism was originally a movement to revive the Jewish people; today, one might say, Zionism is chiefly a movement to revive Zionism.
Daniel Bell
During the early truce talks in Korea, American negotiators, headed by Admiral Joy, were equipped with a slim book which they used (almost like a manual on bridge strategy) to assess Communist tactics.
Reader Letters
Letters to the editor.
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Charles Abrams's January 1955 piece, "...Only the Very Best Christian Clientele."
Reader Letters
Letters in response to James Rorty's January 1955 piece, "What Price McCarthy Now?"
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Charles Reznikoff's "A Gallery of Jewish Colonial Worthies."
Reader Letters
Letters in response to David Baumgardt's November 1954 piece, "Maimonides: Religion as Poetic Truth."
Reader Letters
Letters to the editor.
Reader Letters
Letters to the editor.
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Dan Jacobson's October 1954 piece, "The Break."
Reviewed by Judd L. Teller
Dr. Judah L. Magnes's years were spent in purposeful endeavors dedicated to the Jewish commonweal, and in the pursuit of several careers each of which brought him the esteem of his fellows, the companionship of learned and sensitive minds, and, in his younger years, the adulation of multitudes.
Reviewed by Isa Kapp
Though there is a lot of triviality and breathless sparkle in this novel about civilian life during World War II, To Wake in the Morning does at times convey, better than a more artful or apocalyptic book might, the reaction to the war of a largely apolitical American public.
Reviewed by Paul Kecskemeti
Until recently, no aspect of Soviet Communism was as little known and criticized as its actual (as against professed) racial and ethnic policies.
Reviewed by Gerald Weales
In the last line of Sunset and Evening Star, Sean O'Casey offers a toast to life—rather to Life, for he has been capitalizing that word since he first started to write plays in Dublin more than thirty years ago.
Reviewed by Gerson D. Cohen
In 1832 the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn announced an essay contest on the subject: “An inquiry into those sources of the Koran or Mohammedan laws which are to be traced back to Judaism.”
Warner Bloomberg Jr.
How much human feeling, what abilities can a man retain in his thirtieth year who has made needle points or filed toothed wheels twelve hours every day from his early childhood, living all the while under the conditions forced upon the . . . proletarian?
F. R. Allemann
Talking to visitors from abroad about their impressions of Germany and reading the reports of foreign correspondents, one is struck most of all by the mistrust revealed.
Hal Lehrman
Year after year since 1945, it has become increasingly evident that American Jewish fund-raising policies have influence far beyond the limits of the community and the borders of the United States—and that American Jewry's vast philanthropic responsibility to Jews elsewhere profoundly affects the patterns and direction of Jewish communal life here at home.
G. F. Hudson
Sir Winston Churchill once said that the rulers of the Soviet Union do not want war, but they want the fruits of war.
L. Wallerstein
A 16th-century anecdote relates that Francis I of France, suffering from a lingering illness, asked the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, to send him his Jewish physician.
James Baldwin
On the 19th of December, in 1949, when I had been living in Paris for a little over a year, I was arrested as a receiver of stolen goods and spent eight days in prison.
Richard Chase
Most people seem to agree, one hundred years after its first publication, that Leaves of Grass is a somewhat baffling production.
Charles Reznikoff
A Story.
Walter Goodman
Today about 75,000 Jews live in Williamsburg. Nobody can be sure exactly how many, what with all the moving going on.
Mendele Mocher Seforim
Selections from a Yiddish classic.
Toby Shafter
Each city in Israel has its own special holiday.
Bertram D. Wolfe
Edward Hallett Carr's three-volume work The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923 impresses us by its massiveness, by the author's audacity in tackling so overpowering a subject, and by his unerring sense of which Bolshevik utterances and decrees reflect significant turning points in their policies—or in their public accounts of their policies.
Reader Letters
An exchange between Morris Freedman and readers on his January 1955 piece, "New Jewish Community in Formation."
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Spencer Brown's February 1955 piece, "Strange Doings at 'Animal Farm.'"
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Paul Willen's July 1953 piece, "Can Stalin Have a Successor?"
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Alan Westin's January 1955 piece, "Libertarian Precepts and Subversive Realities."
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Charles Abrams's January 1955 piece, "...Only the Very Best Christian Clientele."
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Gerson Cohen's February 1955 review of "Judaism in Islam."
Reviewed by Isaac Rosenfeld
Reviewed by Edward N. Saveth
Reviewed by Sylvia Rothchild
Reviewed by H. L. Trefousse
Reviewed by Leo Steinberg
G. F. Hudson
The treaty of defensive alliance which the United States has concluded with the government of the Republic of China in Taipeh means that for an indefinite time to come—except in the event of a Chinese Communist victory in a war against America—what is called nationalist China will be enabled to survive with American support in the island of Formosa.
Clement Greenberg
Much of the strangeness in Kafka's writing can well be attributed to his neuroses, and beyond them to a personality that remains unique when all the neuroses have been "explained" away.
Reader Letters
Robert Warshow, who had been an editor of Commentary since shortly after its inception, died on March 18, at the age of thirty-seven.
James Rorty
Last November Wolf Ladejinsky, then agricultural attache of the American embassy in Tokyo, flew home to participate in trade conferences with the Japanese economic mission which was at the time in Washington.
Hal Lehrman
The Shoreham Hotel, a favorite Washington convention center for groups seeking the ear of the nation and the nation's government, has never played host to gatherings so dissimilar as the two which held forth, each for a day and a half—the one commencing five hours after the other adjourned—in its meeting halls and dining rooms (the very same ones) during the first weekend of the month of March just passed.
Leo S. Baeck
The 12th century was one of the richest periods in the history of the human spirit—in that age East and West met on the field of knowledge.
Herbert Luethy
"We will outlive Mendes-France," vowed the distillers of Normandy, Maine, and Artois at their convention in Louviers on January 20.
David Raphael Klein
A Story.
Reader Letters
As Translated from the Dead Sea Scrolls Since 1947, scholars have been awaiting publication of the texts of the Dead Sea scrolls that were found in the now famous Qumran caves.
S. T. Hecht
Some years ago I bought what a real estate man in Vermont described as an abandoned farm in the southern part of his state.
Reader Letters
Jewish legend has it that the song the Israelites sang after crossing the Red Sea and seeing Pharaoh's host overwhelmed was "the second of the nine songs that in the course of history Israel sang to their God."
Edouard Roditi
Whether Arab or Berber, Mohammedan or Jewish, many of the intellectuals of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia seem to be doomed, in their political activities as in their literary efforts, to a peculiar kind of frustration.
Will Herberg
The record of America's religious leaders in the struggle against Communism is hardly such as to give satisfaction to those concerned with the role of the churches in the nation's life.
Reviewed by Paul Pickrel
The vigor of Lionel Trilling's criticism arises from the fact that he has been forced to work out an intellectual position that goes against the grain of his own mind.
Reviewed by Morris Freedman
This little volume presents a selection of “success stories” from Fortune magazine.
Reviewed by Manfred Wolfson
Reviewed by George Lichtheim
Reviewed by David de Sola
Harold Lavine
The Eisenhower administration is often portrayed as a band of reckless men determined to wipe out Communism even at the cost of wiping out the human race along with it.
Franz Borkenau
Under title of "The Modern West and the Jews," A. J. Toynbee devotes a subsection of Volume VIII of the last four books of his Study of History to the fate of Jewry under the Nazis and to subsequent developments in Israel.
Morris Freedman
In the past two or three years “Camp Ramah” had been turning up with increasing frequency in conversations about Jewish education.
G. L. Arnold
Is it mere accident that the democratic socialist movement is strongest in just the same geographical area where neutralist sentiment is most widespread?
Norman Podhoretz
The publication of A Treasury of Yiddish Stories seems to me an event of peculiar significance in American Jewish life.
Edwin Samuel
It is not easy to answer the question so often asked of Palestinian old-timers: “What do people like yourself feel about the Arabs in Israel today?”
John Marlowe
Israel was, ostensibly, the aggressor in the Gaza incident.
Ben Lappin
Spadina Avenue, the main street of the needle trades in Toronto, looks very much the same as it did ten, twenty, thirty years ago.
Solomon Alami
March 15,1391, anti-Jewish riots broke out in Seville.
Andrew R. MacAndrew
A communist newspaper, Lenin once said, is a weapon of the Communist party.
Robert Langbaum
The healthy man, says Carlyle, is he who when asked about his “system” insists that he hasn't any; and it is true enough that many things get noticed only after they have ceased to function properly.
Reviewed by Michael Wyschogrod
The Book of Torts is the eleventh in the Code of Maimonides, the monumental codification of Talmudic law that was the crowning work of that Moses of whom Jewry says, "From Moses to Moses, there was none like Moses."
Reviewed by Henry Bamford Parkes
Reviewed by Vivian Mercier
Reviewed by Chandler Brossard
Reviewed by Alfred Werner
Reviewed by Dennis H. Wrong
Terence Prittie
West Germany, with its fifty million people, is entering upon a new phase in its history, now that it has sovereignty and, with the implementation of the Paris Agreements, the right to arms.
. . . I think I have always had one element of wisdom which is said to be uncommon; I have always known myself.
James Rorty
Traditionally, American libraries have been quiet little sanctuaries, untroubled islands of repose far removed from the swirling tides of political strife.
Lionel Trilling
A good many years ago, in 1929, I chanced to read a book which disturbed me in a way I can still remember.
Constantine Cavafy
A Poem.
G. F. Hudson
It was inevitable that sooner or later an attempt would be made to bring together the various nationalist movements of Asia and Africa on a broad continental basis to balance the regional associations of Europe and the Americas.
Mark Sufrin and Jane Powell
The young Israeli explores his country with the fervor of a lover.
Jack Luria
Summers blazed hot and endless when I was a boy on the East Side of New York during the early 20's.
Jozef Israels
. . . My Curiosity was ever aroused to know what the dwellings here, those great, square stone blocks, looked like inside.
Hilton Kramer
For more than a decade now the names of Hyman Bloom and Jack Levine have been linked in the art world as the special contribution which Boston has made to contemporary painting in this country.
Herbert Luethy
In K. M. Panikkar's own words, his book is “perhaps the first attempt by an Asian student to see and understand European activities in Asia for 450 years.”
Reviewed by Paul Kecskemeti
Reviewed by Leslie A. Fiedler
Reviewed by Milton Himmelfarb
Reviewed by Trumbull Higgins
Reviewed by Jacob Neusner
Oscar Handlin
On the cover of the February, 1955, Atlantic, the artist has skillfully caught the mood of Walter Lippmann's new book.
Benno Weiser
The hitchhiker I picked up on the Arlberg Pass was Viennese, with all the honeyed politeness and eagerness to please of a Viennese.
Norman Macrae
“I'm not going to vote at this election,” said the taxi driver who picked up Lord Woolton, the Conservative party leader, last month in a grimy northern town.
Charles Reznikoff
A Poem.
James Rorty
Many of the American libraries that were harassed by the patriotic societies and local champions of 100-per-cent Americanism on the score of the “Communist propaganda” on their shelves did in fact, for various reasons, possess a considerable accumulation of books by Communist and pro-Communist authors.
Herbert Weiner
The illustrious 19th-century rabbi Israel Salanter once compared religion “to a bird held in the hand. If grasped too tightly it will die—and if held too loosely, it may fly away.”
On the thirteenth day of April, 1816—in the Hebrew calendar, the ninth day of Nesan—Ernestine, daughter of Philip Lichtenstine, gave to her husband, the merchant Abraham Spitz, her first-born son; they named the child Haiman Philip Spitz. . .
Richard Chase
Everyone seems to agree that American culture has always been marked by striking differences, even outright contradictions, of taste and opinion.
Alexander and Lilian Feinsilver
The casual tourist, stopping for a moment as he drives through Colchester-halfway between Hartford and New London, halfway between Norwich and Middletown-sees a typical New England town.
Reader Letters
One day I found Heine in a high mood, greatly delighted by a book . . . in which he had just been reading.
Gerald Weales
It probably wasn't the forty days and forty nights of rain on the Ark roof that seemed long to Noah and his family; it must have been the hundred and fifty days that it took for the waters to go down.
William Petersen
According to the arguments of many of its opponents, the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act of 1952 is not merely bad policy but a kind of freakish accident.
Reviewed by Morris Freedman
Reviewed by Daniel J. Boorstin
Will Herberg
The immigrant who came to this country by the millions in the latter part of the 19th and first part of the 20th centuries was expected sooner or later, either in his own person or through his children, to give up virtually everything he had brought with him from the “old country”—his language, his nationality, his manner of life—and to adopt the ways of his new home.
W. Z. Laqueur
Unnoticed by an outside world very much preoccupied in other quarters, a foreign policy debate of unusual scope has been under way for some months now in Israel.
G. L. Arnold
By the beginning of September it will be ten years since the Japanese surrender signalized the failure of Japan's attempt to build an empire in Southern and Eastern Asia.
Cecil Roth
“You must be a Sephardi,” a silly woman once said to my wife. “It's so much more chic.”
Robert Lekachman
It is the enthusiastic custom of economists to label as revolutionary and permanent any important change in our mode of economic organization which endures for as long as five years.
Charles Reznikoff
Gaza of the Philistines was still a great city: the Arabs of the wilderness traded there for pottery and knives; and caravans from Egypt stopped in Gaza because of its many wells of fresh water and the gardens on every side.
Herbert Weiner
Jerusalem: Have been speaking with M.K.'s-Members of the Knesset in the cafeteria of the Knesset building.
William Poster
A Dramatic Monologue.
Reader Letters
In this season of Tisha B'Av, the solemn period of mourning commemorating the destruction of the First and Second Temples, we present three selections from The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan ('Abot de-Rabbi Natan).
Spencer Brown
Troubles in teaching children to read are no new thing.
Nathan Glazer
Ten or twenty years ago, no one could have predicted that the defense of civil liberties would become the complicated problem it is today.
Reviewed by David Baumgardt
Reviewed by George J. Lieber
Reviewed by Robert W. Flint
Reviewed by Henry Bamford Parkes
Reviewed by Alfred Werner
G. F. Hudson
In the British House of Commons debate on the conference “at the summit” the left-wing Labor MP, Konni Zilliacus, declared that the meeting of the heads of governments had achieved an “armistice in the cold war.”
Ernst Simon
The calendar, with its rhythmic division of the year, its beginning and its end, its workdays, rest days and holidays, provides a characteristic expression of the spirit of different religions, cultures, and peoples.
Albert Rosenfeld
Early last June I was having lunch in one of the better restaurants on Albuquerque's Central Avenue with three University of New Mexico students, all of them colored.
A British Observer
Even though its results are still not fully apparent or appreciated, the Consultative Conference of Jewish Organizations, held in London from June 12 to 16 of this year, has already had important effects.
Allan Temko
The spontaneous celebration to which Paris awakened on an August night in 1165 when Philip Augustus—one of the mightiest soldier-kings of the Middle Age—was born, heralded unknowingly another birth as well. It was the first true display of French national devotion, rather than feudal allegiance, to a prince.
Will Herberg
Judaism and Christianity are two religions sharing a common faith.
Edouard Roditi
Among the sixty or more Jewish painters and sculptors who died as victims of Nazi extermination policies and were represented, Otto Freundlich was the only Cubist.
Morris Freedman
Television, the new American living-room pastime, has developed a new type of comedian, or perhaps merely revived an old one: the man who just talks.
Reader Letters
Even if God had asked our Father Abraham for the apple of his eye, he would have given it to Him, and not only the apple of his eye, but his life.
Gerald Weales
Marty, a quiet little movie about an unprepossessing young man who at last finds a girl, as plain and as lonely as he is, with whom he can share his loneliness, has become a commercial and critical success.
Herbert Luethy
In this critique of the “very American” science of sociology, the Swiss historian and political analyst, Herbert Luethy, raises the question of the pertinence of the discipline's statistical methods and laws to the problems presented by European society.
Reviewed by Nathan Glazer
Reviewed by Granville Hicks
Reviewed by Judd L. Teller
Reviewed by Leslie A. Fiedler
Reviewed by Henry F. Graff
George Lichtheim
On July 1, 1955, the Jerusalem Post, Israel's English-language daily, which frequently speaks with the voice of authority, printed a dispatch from its Paris correspondent forecasting closer relations between the Quai d'Orsay and the Israeli government.
James Rorty
“I kind of feel,” said Senator Hubert Humphrey, “that if we amend this act, the Statue of Liberty—the Goddess of Liberty—may get a smile on her face.”
Jakob J. Petuchowski
Some time ago a call for conversions to Judaism was issued from the floor of Reform's Central Conference of American Rabbis. A body of Orthodox rabbis was quick to protest, as might have been expected.
Robert S. Warshow
Six of the famous movies of the Russian Revolution have been shown recently in New York.
William Schack
For half a century Jewish artists have played an important, even a pioneer, role in American art, yet the question whether there is anything specifically Jewish in their work has not been thoroughly explored.
Judd L. Teller
Feeling the strong pressure of Israel to fulfill their Zionist duty and provide immigrants to Israel in substantial numbers, American Zionists have again come down with a case of aliyah fever.
Andrew Meisels
The Rabbi of Minsk is a small, stout man with a round, almost jolly face. His gray beard flows over onto the blue robe he wears, and a square, four-cornered skullcap rests on the shaggy gray hair of his head.
David Boroff
Alex Marcus is a short, thick-shouldered man in his late forties with an air of jauntiness suggested by his springy step and his sharp garment-center suits.
Else Lasker-Schueler
There is not a Jew who does not think of his parents on this day, the holiest of the year.
Hilton Kramer
On February 22, 1955, six thousand people spent the damp, gray afternoon of Washington's Birthday looking at a photography exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art.
Solomon F. Bloom
What is a book? We cannot hope that it shall aways fulfill John Milton's vision.
Reviewed by Emanuel Rackman
Reviewed by Lewis S. Feuer
Hal Lehrman
In the lexicon of troubled Morocco, there is no such phrase as “an easy solution”—neither to the problem of Moroccan nationalism, as witness the frantic efforts of the French government to hit upon a political arrangement acceptable to both the native Moroccans and the resident French, nor to the smaller but anguishing problem of Moroccan Jewry.
Harry L. Golden
There is very little real anti-Semitism in the South.
Herbert Luethy
The state of frightened pensiveness into which the political thinkers of the West were thrown by Adenauer's trip to Moscow, early in September, does not lack its ludicrous side.
Daniel J. Boorstin
We are slow to notice some of the most important events in recent history simply because they are among the last to be treated in formal historical literature.
Alfred Memmi
At long last we removed the iron bars and came out of our barricaded houses.
George Lichtheim
When the Geneva Conference ended last July in a glow of harmony and mutual satisfaction, cynical observers were heard to comment that now that the menace of world war had been banished, the “little wars” between the powers could commence.
Paul R. Hays
Senator McCarthy seems to have departed the scene pretty permanently and the hysterical cries of “McCarthyism in the saddle” and “dictatorship” are scarcely heard any more.
Benzion C. Kaganoff
For Jews, first names are inevitably something more than convenient labels for identification, mere tags to facilitate human intercourse in a civilized society.
Theodore Frankel
Every Friday the New York Post carries at least fifty advertisements inviting single people under and over twenty-eight years of age to public dances held in hotels and Jewish centers all over town.
Reader Letters
Just as, from the point of view of sense perception, we have no reason to believe that man's soul was in existence before he himself came into being, so we would be inclined to say that with his death, his soul, too, must perish.
Algene Ballif
Those of us who have read and loved Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl might well be interested in the production currently enjoying success at the Cort Theater in an adaptation by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett called simply The Diary of Anne Frank.
H. L. Ginsberg
Both Israel and Jordan have displayed a commendable zeal in seeking, preserving, and publishing the archeological remains within their respective borders.
Reviewed by David Bernstein
Reviewed by Gerson D. Cohen
Reviewed by Nahum N. Glatzer
Reviewed by Gerald Weales
Reviewed by Isaac Rosenfeld
Nathan Glazer
The most striking development of the last fifteen years in American Jewish life has been the “Jewish revival.”
W. Z. Laqueur
By August 1944 the Third Reich was defeated and most everybody knew it—even Hitler, Himmler, and the Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht.
G. F. Hudson
In October of this year London was visited by the “Classic Theater of the People's Republic of China.”
Paul Kecskemeti
It is interesting to notice how the language of politics changes.
David Daiches
I always found it next to impossible to imagine my father as a child.
Maurice Goldbloom
A year has passed since the McCarthy-Army dispute culminated in the Senate's censure of its junior member from Wisconsin.
William Schack
In the last half-dozen years a tremendous number of new Jewish centers, synagogues, and combinations of the two—synagogue-centers—have been built in this country.
Toby Shafter
My favorite dress was beginning to wear out.
Mordecai Tenenbaum
I've not received a letter from you for some time. Let's have a chat. Now.
H. Schmidt
In June of this year the Oxford University Jewish Society invited Professor Arnold Toynbee to speak on the “Jewish Role in History” at the Oxford synagogue.
Herbert Luethy and S. M. Lipset
We believe that the exchange published below on sociology, its national schools, and their methods as applied to the subject of social mobility will be of interest to the layman as well as the specialist. Social mobility is a question whose importance far transcends any scholarly discipline.
Reviewed by Edward N. Saveth
Reviewed by Richard Chase
Reviewed by Ben B. Seligman
1955
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