Oscar Handlin
The American Jewish Committee long reflected the intellectual and social views of the community in which it had been established in 1906.
Leo Heiman
A detailed account of the Sinai war.
Peter Schmid
An eyewitness account of revolutionary Budapest under Soviet counter-attack.
Henry Brandon
Henry Brandon here puts the question of the fate of the Western Alliance into the larger perspective of developments since the Geneva Summit conference of 1955.
Dan Jacobson
Dan Jacobson discusses the first comprehensive history of the South African Jewish community.
Sidney Hook
Sidney Hook discusses books by Felix Frankfurter and Zechariah Chafee.
Richard Chase
The American proletarian novel of the 1930's has receded so far into history as almost to be lost sight of.
Reader Letters
An extract from the Midrash T'hillim on Creation.
Erwin R. Goodenough
Scholars delving into Jewish graves and synagogues of the Greco-Roman period have found material that points to hitherto little recognized Hellenistic influences
Reader Letters
An exchange between Lillian McCall and readers on her November 1956 review of the memoirs of the Duchess of Windsor.
Reader Letters
H. Stuart Hughes's article “Is the Intellectual Obsolete?” which appeared in our October 1956 number, inquired into the present role and status of the intellectual in American life. The editors of COMMENTARY invited a number of writers to comment on the ideas Professor Hughes advanced.
Reviewed by David Baumgardt
Reviewed by George Lichtheim
Reviewed by Charles H. Nichols
Reviewed by Michael Hamburger
Hans J. Morgenthau
Hans Morgenthau on American foreign policy.
Meir Mindlin
An account from Israel on the Sinai campaign, during and after.
Herbert J. Gans
A study of the effects of new suburban community life on the Jewish community.
Maurice Goldbloom
On the circumstances and importance of the American Communist party national convention in 1957.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
A story.
Robert Graves
The Xuetas are a community of Catholics of relatively unmixed Jewish blood living in Palma on the Spanish island of Majorca.
Theodore Frankel
A case study of Paul Weiss.
Henry Popkin
A description of the liberal "unpolitics" practiced in Hollywood and on Broadway.
Reader Letters
Excerpts from Herman Melville's journal.
William Petersen
William Petersen on John Strachey.
Kenneth E. Bock
An analysis of the West's long theoretical efforts to account for the perplexing differences in culture among mankind.
Reader Letters
Readers react to Alan Benjamin's December 1956 piece, "A Summer Kaddish."
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Maurice Hindus's December 1956 review of "The Letters of Thomas Wolfe."
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Gerald Weales September 1956 piece, "Small-Town Detroit."
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Peter Schmid's January 1957 piece, "Budapest Under Fire."
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Jakob Petuchowski's December 1956 review of Erich Fromm's "The Art of Loving."
Reader Letters
An exchange between Walter Laqueur and readers on his October 1956 piece, "Soviet Policy and Jewish Fate."
Reader Letters
Letters in praise of COMMENTARY.
Reviewed by John H. Lichtblau
Reviewed by Edward N. Saveth
Reviewed by Sidney Liskofsky
Hal Lehrman
Hal Lehrman on the relationship between the U.S. and Israel.
Lucjan Blit
A great, and in the end a sad, chapter of Jewish history is rapidly nearing its close.
Hugh Seton-Watson
The West can and must explain itself to the young generation in the Soviet Union.
Herbert Weiner
A study of Lubovitcher Hasidism.
Ray Alan
The future of Jordan is as potentially explosive an issue as any in the Middle East.
Richard Chase
Richard Chase on recent trends in literature.
Sylvia Rothchild
A story.
Reader Letters
A letter to playwright Jacob Gordin.
Robert Lekachman
"Organization" and the "organization man" are being much heard of since "Fortune" broached these terms several years ago.
Will Herberg
Freud's contribution still remains to be adequately assessed by our time.
Reader Letters
Letters in response to February 1957's "Herman Melville in Jerusalem."
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Morton White's letter in the January 1957 issue.
Reader Letters
An exchange between Oscar Handlin and readers on his January 1957 piece, "The American Jewish Committee."
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Robert Graves's February 1957 piece, "'A Dead Branch on the Tree of Israel.'"
Reader Letters
Letters in response to the January 1957 exchange on the Duke of Windsor.
Reviewed by Jakob J. Petuchowski
Reviewed by Clement Greenberg
Reviewed by H. R. Trevor-Roper
Reviewed by Leslie A. Fiedler
Robert Langbaum
The moral dimension of the Middle Eastern crisis has loomed large in this country, raising the general question of the relation of morality and politics in a most concrete form.
Max Beloff
The moral dimension of the Middle Eastern crisis has loomed large in Great Britain, raising the general question of the relation of morality and politics.
Herbert Weiner
An investigation of the movement's "inner mystic meaning."
Walter Z. Laqueur
Arab nationalism is a loudly trumpeted phrase today--what does it mean, how real is it?
David Daiches
A discussion of the difference between British and American education.
Walter Kaufmann
A critical analysis of Toynbee's approach to religion, and particularly his attitude toward Judaism.
H. R. Trevor-Roper
Another mystery of Nazi times.
Reader Letters
A selection from "Louis Marshall: Champion of Liberty," two volumes of his papers and addresses.
Jakob J. Petuchowski
The Book of Psalms came up for fresh discussion at a recent conference in Ohio.
Walter Goodman
In a lighter vein, this department offers an informal case study of social science in the advertising field.
Reader Letters
An exchange between Sidney Liskofsky and readers on his February 1957 reviews of "The Refuge and the World Community," by John G. Stoessinger.
Reader Letters
A letter by Norman Thomas on his book review in this issue.
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Sidney Hook's January 1957 piece, "Liberalism and the Law."
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Herbert Weiner's March 1957 piece "The Lubovitcher Movement: I."
Reviewed by Algene Ballif
Reviewed by Norman Thomas
Reviewed by Herbert Howarth
Reviewed by George Lichtheim
Hal Lavine
An examination of the changing political complexions of Republicans and Democrats on Capitol hill.
Solomon F. Bloom
An interpretation of Hitler's character and mentality.
Adolf Leschnitzer
Commemorative words for Leo Baeck.
Erich Unger
In our own age, Jewish religious thought has been virtually moribund--with fateful consequences for modern Judaism.
William Schack
How far did bias figure in the denial of permits to a number of suburban Jewish congregations seeking to establish quarters for worship?
G. F. Hudson
Khrushchev's speech to the 20th Congress revealed how strong a motive Stalin's closest associated had for getting rid of him.
Zev Tronik
Israel's immigrants, wherever they may come from, inevitably bring the aura of their old homelands into the new.
Gerda L. Cohen
Israel's immigrants, wherever they may come from, inevitably bring the aura of their old homelands into the new.
G. S. Fraser
The work being done by the younger generation of American poets today has struck many readers as overly preoccupied with problems of form, while lacking in vitality.
Louis Marshall
An address from Lewis Marshall to the 22nd council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, given on January 19, 1911 in New York City.
Peter Schmid
How to account for the striking change in the character of Japan's youth?
Morroe Berger
How did modern social science influence the Supreme Court's decision declaring segregation in public schools unconstitutional?
Reader Letters
An exchange between Herbert J. Gans and readers on his February 1957 piece, "Progress of a Suburban Jewish Community."
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Hugh Seton-Watson's March 1957 piece, "Program for a European Settlement."
Reader Letters
An exchange between William Petersen and readers on his February 1957 piece, "John Strachey Twenty Years After."
Letters in response to Will Herberg's March 1957 piece, "Freud, Religion, and Social Reality."
Reader Letters
Letters in response to the March 1957 "Cedars of Lebanon" piece.
Reviewed by Gordon A. Craig
Reviewed by Aleph V. Sherman
Reviewed by Peter Jacobsohn
Reviewed by Milton R. Konvitz
Reviewed by Daniel J. Boorstin
Hans J. Morgenthau
The U.S. and Great Britain are stripping their conventional defense establishments so as to make it impossible for them to fight anything but an atomic war.
Lawrence Bloomgarden
Medical education--considerable improvement alongside looming problems.
George Lichtheim
The Eisenhower Doctrine got its first trial in the recent Jordanian crisis, and seemed to produce results.
Isaac Rosenfeld
Still in revision at the time of his death, an essay on Chicago by Isaac Rosenfeld.
Walter Z. Laqueur
Israel in the spring of 1957 is in a state of crisis, by nothing could be further from the truth than the notion that her existence is in jeopardy.
Cecil Roth
Cecil Roth on collecting miscellaneous Jewish "junk."
Bruce Jay Friedman
A story.
Leon Poliakov
A survey of anti-Semitism in Western Europe and behind the Iron Curtain.
Dachine Rainer
Reflections on being a Jew.
Reader Letters
Excerpts from the letters of Jacob H. Schiff.
Stanley Edgar Hyman
A layman's view of the Dead Seas Scrolls.
Reader Letters
An exchange between Robert Lekachman and readers on his March 1957 review of William Whyte's "Organization Men."
Reader Letters
Praise from a reader for COMMENTARY.
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Leslie Fielder's March 1957 review of V.S. Pritchett's "The Sailor, Sense of Humor, and Other Stories."
Reviewed by Robert Graves
Reviewed by Paul Kecskemeti
Reviewed by Lillian Blumberg McCall
Reviewed by Norman Birnbaum
J. L. Talmon
We stand on the threshold of a new era in Jewish and world history, in which it becomes a spiritual task of some urgency to assess the Jewish ingredient in Western civilization.
Keith Kyle
With the administration pressing its civil rights bill in Congress, a focus now on the Souther Negro voter.
Joel Carmichael
For most Westerners the traditional religious world of Islam, despite the postwar upsurge of the Orient, still remains an enigma.
Paul and Percival Goodman
After Emancipation, Jews rose to prominence in the arts, sciences, and professions, but it was not until the last decade that the question of what could be called Jewish architecture began to be raised in earnest.
G. L. Arnold
The Kremlin's de-Stalinization campaign was brought to a bloody close by the Hungarian revolution, and since then we have witnessed an attempt by Russian leaders to "re-Stalinize" the Communist parties.
Jocelyn Davey
"Ah, the great Spanish philosopher Mai-mo-nides."
Isa Kapp
An informal report on Washington, D.C.
Reader Letters
Various teachings from Lubavitcher Rebbes.
David Daiches
An appraisal of Lionel Trilling.
Emmanuel G. Mesthene
Pragmatism and logical positivism reconciled.
Reader Letters
An exchange between William Schack and readers on his May 1957 article, "Zoning Boards, Synagogues, and Bias."
Reader Letters
Letters in response to a June 1957 letter on Walter Kaufman's April 1957 piece on Toynbee.
Reader Letters
An exchange between Robert Lekachman and readers on his March 1957 review of William H. Whyte's "The Organization Man."
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Herbert Weiner's March and April 1957 articles on the Lubovitcher movement.
Reviewed by Kenneth E. Bock
Reviewed by Oscar Handlin
Bertram D. Wolfe
Observations on change and permanency in the Soviet totalitarian system.
Richard Lowenthal
What does the Khrushchev purge imply and forebode about the ultimate fate of Soviet Russian despotism?
Samuel Lubell
An appraisal of the depth of Southern opposition to desegregation.
Milton Klonsky
Reflections on a boyhood diary.
Ray Alan
A discussion of the emergence of the anti-Nasser bloc.
Peter Schmid
Khrushchev's visit to Prague underlines the importance of Czechoslovakia, one of Russia's most docile satellites.
Jakob J. Petuchowski
Useful as the phrase "Judeo-Christian tradition" is in referring to common religious ground, we must not lose sight of Judaism's uniqueness.
Bahya ibn Pakuda
Excerpts from the writings of Bahya Ibn Pakuda.
Stuart Hampshire
A discussion of social science.
Reader Letters
An exchange between Solomon Bloom and readers on his May 1957 piece, "The Peasant Caesar."
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Dachine Rainer's June 1957 piece, "To Be a Jew."
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Hans J. Morgenthau's June 1957 piece, "Atomic Force and Foreign Policy."
Reader Letters
An exchange between Walter Laqueur and readers on his June 1957 piece, "Israel Back to Normal."
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Léon Poliakov's June 1957 article, "European Anti-Semitism East and West."
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Cecil Roth's June 1957 piece, "The Art and Craft of Jewish Collecting."
Reviewed by Robert Langbaum
Reviewed by Maurice S. Friedman
Reviewed by Maurice Goldbloom
Reviewed by Robert E. Fitch
Reviewed by William Poster
Walter Z. Laqueur
Does the emergence of the anti-Nasser bloc of Arab states strengthen the possibility of an Arab-Israeli settlement?
Hal Lehrman
A discussion of the Arab refugees.
Max Beloff
An examination of the confused assumptions behind anti-colonialist sentiment in American foreign policy.
William Schack
The Neiman-Marcus specialty store of Dallas is one of Texas's more fabulous institutions.
J. A. Lukacs
Looking at the uprising in Budapest in a broad historical perspective.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
A story.
Hans Meyerhoff
Drawing on the French-Jewish writer's private notebooks, an attempt to account for his strong religious anti-Semitism.
Lala Kaufman
An intimate portrait of the great Yiddish writer.
Bahya ibn Pakuda
From the introduction to Bahya ibn Pakuda's "Duties of the Heart."
Herbert Weiner
How to characterize the special quality of America's most successful Christian evangelist.
Isabel de Madariaga
A report on the Oxford Conference on Changes in Soviet Society.
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Samuel Lubell's August 1957 article, "Racial War in the South."
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Milton Klonsky's August 1957 article, "Annus Mirabilis: 1932."
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Oscar Handlin's July 1957 review of "An Intimate Journal of the Dreyfus Case."
Reviewed by C. Vann Woodward
Reviewed by Dennis H. Wrong
Reviewed by Franz M. Oppenheimer
Reviewed by Edouard Roditi
Reviewed by Lillian Blumberg McCall
C. Vann Woodward
When the President put his signature to the first Civil Rights Act since 1875, another step in the Second Reconstruction was completed.
George Lichtheim
Berlin--once the focus of the cold war, but now a considerably quieter place.
Edward N. Saveth
The revival of interest in the Adams family centers around Henry.
Lucjan Blit
Perhaps the most astonishing development in the post-Stalin Soviet empire is the precarious independence which Gomulka has been able to secure for Poland.
Cecil Roth
Scholars have generally agreed that the Dead Sea Scrolls are pre-Christian; herewith, historical grounds for dating the Scrolls in the 1st century C.E., after the birth of Christianity.
Maurice Goldbloom
A review of the AJC's multifarious activities in protecting Jewish and human rights in the world.
Gerda Luft
Many thousands of Jews left Poland, and together with refugees from Hungary and Egypt have created a new wave of mass immigration into Israel.
Reader Letters
An excerpt from the Mishnah.
Henry Popkin
A discussion of two films, "Island in the Sun," and "Band of Angels."
Irving Kristol
20th-century America is perhaps the most egalitarian society the civilized world has ever seen, yet nowhere has there been so much brooding over "class."
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Hans Meyerhoff's September 1957 piece, "Contra Simone Weil."
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Bertram Wolfe's "The Durability of Soviet Despotism," and Richard Lowenthal's "The Permanent Revolution Is On Again," both of which appeared in the August 1957 issue.
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Lillian McCall's September 1957 review of Edna Ferber's "One Basket."
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Peter Schmid's August 1957 article," Czechoslovakia: The Careful Satellite."
Reviewed by Lucy S. Dawidowicz
Reviewed by Charles H. Nichols
Reviewed by Milton Himmelfarb
Reviewed by John H. Lichtblau
Reviewed by Edwin Fogelman
Evelyn N. Rossman
First-hand observations of the Judaism of the modern American suburb.
Oscar Handlin
A challenge to the moderate approach to the question of Negro rights.
Paul Kecskemeti
On the first anniversary of the Hungarian tragedy, a gauge of the shock of the events to intellectuals behind the Iron Curtain.
Andras Magyar Hubert
A poem.
Walter Z. Laqueur
Syria's acceptance of Soviet arms and economic aid has revived the argument around the relation of Arab nationalism to Soviet Communism.
A. V. Sherman
A consideration of the social origins of Nasser's regime.
Ronald M. Segal and Dan Jacobson
An exchange between Ronald Segal and Dan Jacobson on Mr. Jacobson's January 1957 article, "The Jews of South Africa."
Manny Farber
Howard Hawks and Raoul Walsh have made the most significant contribution to cinematic art in modern times.
Peter Gradenwitz
A consideration of the work of Arnold Schoenberg, regarded by many as the father of modern music.
Philip Roth
A memoir of high school days.
Reader Letters
Chapters three through nine of the Testament of Joseph.
Kathleen Nott
A British critic views the American philosopher scene.
Reader Letters
An exchange between Irving Kristol and readers on his October 1957 piece, "Class and Sociology."
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Isaac Bashevis Singer's September 1957 story, "The Gentleman from Cracow."
Reader Letters
An exchange between J.A. Lukacs and readers on his September 1957 article, "Lessons of the Hungarian Revolution."
Reviewed by Hans Meyerhoff
Reviewed by C. Vann Woodward
Reviewed by H. Stuart Hughes
Reviewed by Wallace Markfield
Dan Jacobson
A group of young writers in San Francisco, led by Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, has attracted much attention lately.
Denis Healey
The current arms race in the Middle East, with its repercussions on relations among the Arab states, as well as between the Arabs and Israel, is here scrutinized.
Ray Alan
The Eisenhower Doctrine seems to have been the chief casualty of the recent turmoil brought about by Russian and Syrian charges against Turkey and by the resulting war scare.
James Brown
How much currency do Christian religious textbooks give to inaccurate or misleading ideas about Jews and Jewish history?
Peter Schmid
A report on little-known Bulgaria.
Bernard D. Weinryb
What is the true story of Eastern European Jews?
G. F. Hudson
Norman Cohn's "The Pursuit of the Millennium" finds illuminating parallels between aspects of modern totalitarianism and religious-political movements of the later Middle Ages.
Philip Rahv
What is peculiarly American about American literature?
Hermann Broch
A poem from one of the lyrical sections in Herman Broch's last novel, "Die Schuldlosen."
Arnold M. Rose
A review of myths about American history with regard to race relations.
Reader Letters
An exchange between readers and Lucy Dawidowicz on her October 1957 review of Elmer Berger's "Judaism or Jewish Nationalism--the Alternative to Zionism."
Reader Letters
Letters in response to Werner Cohn's September 1957 review of Donald R. McNeil's "The Fight for Fluoridation."
Reader Letters
An exchange between readers and Cecil Roth on his October 1957 article, "A New Solution to the Mystery of the Scrolls."
Reviewed by A. V. Sherman
Reviewed by Chemjo Vinaver
Reviewed by Raymond Rosenthal
Reviewed by Alfred Werner
Reviewed by Dennis H. Wrong
1957
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