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January, 1962The Question of Civil Defense-A DebateIn the hope of contributing to a clarification of the whole question of civil defense by bringing into focus the precise points of disagreement between the two main contending positions, we... City Problems & Jewish ResponsibilitiesTHE AMERICAN CITY is distinguished among big cities by virtue of the fact that the different ethnic elements making it up are very often of approximately equal size. London and Paris and... The Sacco-Vanzetti Case ReconsideredIN THE SEVEN YEARS of their ordeal, from their arrest on May 5, 1920, to their execution on August 23, 1927, Sacco and Vanzetti grew in spiritual stature. They had their inevitable setbacks;... Two MemoirsThe two pieces below (translated from the Yiddish by Channah Kleinerman) are accounts of actual incidents which IsAAC BASHEVIS SINGER remembers from his childhood in Warsaw. His father was a rabbi... The Trouble With KennedyON SEPTEMBER 30 of last year, the eminent French sociologist and columnist Raymond Aron addressed in Le Figaro an open letter to President Kennedy. This letter is both a moving and an... Two Views of “Judgment At Nuremberg”
"JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG" Judgment at Nuremberg, a three-hour film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer and written by Abby Mann, opened last month and has already provoked more heated... Samuel and AgagThe following piece (translated from the German by Maurice Friedman) will be included among the autobiographical fragments in The Philosophy of Martin Buber, edited by Dr. Friedman and Paul... Soviet Jews; American OrthodoxyDe-Stalinization or Re-Stalinization? When Khrushchev expelled Stalin from his tomb, after the last congress of the Soviet Communist party, most of us were amused. I was too, until a friend... The Children of Sanchez, by Oscar LewisTHIS BOOK is altogether superb. Professor Lewis does what he undertakes to do dra- matically yet unobtrusively, and with a de- gree of taste and craftsmanship that is un- likely to be fully... The Idea of the Jewish State, by Ben HalpernMR. HALPERN'S treatise sets out to be, not a history of the Zionist movement, or even of Zionist thought, but an analysis, as the word goes, of certain Zionist notions in terms of what "social... No Further West, by Dan JacobsonFOR A VARIETY of reasons, perhaps, Americans are far from being as sensitive or as vulnerable as they once were to the opinions and verdicts of literate visitors. We may be intrigued by what... Education and Attitude Change-The Effect of Schooling on Prejudice Against Minority Groups, by Charles Herbert StemberMOST AMERICANS look upon education as a kind of secular magic: allegedly it can cure most social ills if it is only applied in sufficiently large doses. Not too surprisingly then, many... The Faith of a Heretic, by Walter KaufmannWALTER KAUFMANN'S latest book, The Faith of a Heretic, rests upon two terms much too casually defined by him. Scrutinizing the dictionary definition of "heresy," Professor Kaufmann peels off... The Struggle for Algeria, by Joseph KraftTHE ALGERIAN wAR has passed its seventh anniversary and is approaching a savage climax. After vast concessions from France and minor ones from the nationalists of the FLN an agreed settlement... February, 1962The American Left and CubaNOW THAT CUBA has become a member of the Soviet bloc and Fidel Castro has proclaimed that he has for some time been a dedicated "Marxist-Leninist," the response of the American left to the... Writing for the MoviesDEAR EDITORS: Thank you for your kind letter and compliments. Yes, your hunch was right, I would like very much to tell about the problems and values I've encountered, writing for the movies... Does Communal Education Work? The Case of the Kibbutz
TODAY, WHEN THERE exists such widespread dissatisfaction with our educational system, a radically different one might be expected to hold great interest for us-especially one thriving among... The Problem of South Viet NamWHILE LAOS and then Berlin and then Katanga have been dominating the front pages in recent months, a situation of equally critical proportions has been building up in South Viet Nam, where... Books for Jewish ChildrenON A JUNE afternoon in 1819 -so we are informed in a recent historical biography written for Jewish children-a young man with the unabashedly Semitic name of Alfred Mordecai presented himself... The Study of Man: Sidney Hook as PhilosopherIN AN AGE of analysis, philosophy like everything else has become so technical that its relevance to the conduct of life is obscured even to professional philosophers themselves. And in an age... Chagall's WindowsTHE TWELVE stained-glass windows designed by Marc Chagall for the synagogue of the Hadassah Medical Center at the Hebrew University are being dedicated this month in their permanent setting in... Foreign Policy & the American MindWILLIAM APPLEMAN WILLIAMs-professor of history at the University of Wisconsin and the author, most recently, of The Contours of American His- tory-here comments on ROBERT A. NISBET'S "Foreign... The Death & Life of Great American Cities, by Jane JacobsAMERICAN INTELLECTUALS have begun to rediscover the city. Not since the days of the muckrakers has there been so much interest in local politics and in the "physical" features of the... The Wild Goats of Ein Gedi, by Herbert WeinerWHEN THEODOR HERZL first jotted down the notes for his Judenstaat, he envisioned Europe's Jews voyaging to the Promised Land by communities, each guided by its own rabbi. "Our Jewish faith is... The Origins of the Second World War, by A. J. P. TaylorIT WAS INEVITABLE that sooner or later some historian should produce a serious apologia for Hitler. This has now arrived, but not from Germany, where the aftermath of the Third Reich is still... March, 1962Tariffs, the Kennedy Administration, and American PoliticsWe are suffering from the intolerable competition of a foreign rival . . . in a condition so far superior to our own for the production of light, that he absolutely inundates our national market... Bernard Malamud's Fiction: The Old Life & the NewI WOULD SAY THAT Bernard Malamud has been a writer almost unique in our time. He has found the objects and idiom and viewpoint that allow him to see the will directly and portray its... The Community of Scholars, 1962THE RELATION between school Jand society has always been uneasy. The community of students and teachers is an instrument of society, but it is also a constituent member of society and has its... A Fund-Raiser Comes to NorthrupLAST WINTER, a billboard was L erected on the lawn of the Conservative temple in Northrup. "The Need Is Great," it proclaimed. "The Time Is Now! Give Generously to Your Jewish Community !" The... Earth—A StoryHOW COULD A FARMER, deH scended from generations of farmers, speak so enthusiastically of the earth? Shortly after Marceli's arrival in New York, my aunt, related to him through his wife,... The Ordeal of Sir Lewis Namier: The Man, the Historian, the JewI WAS PRIVILEGED to know the great historian Sir Lewis Namier, and to enjoy his friendship for some twelve years before he died in 1960. The more I got to know this strange combination of... Love and PowerTHE PROPOSITION that power and love are organically connected, growing as they do from the same root of loneliness, must appear to the modem mind paradoxical, if not outright absurd. For... Perfidy, by Ben HechtWITH EACH PASSING YEAR, the bureaucratically organized murder by the Nazis of six million Jews, because they were Jews, becomes increasingly harder to understand. The gigantic proportions of... The Old Men at the Zoo, by Angus WilsonTHE STORY WHICH Angus Wilson has to tell in his new novel is not very nice. In the opening pages a keeper at the London Zoo dies after being kicked in the testicles by a giraffe, and after that... Sovietish Heimland No. 1PHILOLOGISTS TELL US that the Diaspora Jews did not have a single, common language of their own, but many languages, borrowed from the Gentile peoples among whom they lived. The Jews adapted... Culture and Social Character, edited by Seymour Martin Lipset and Leo LowenthalAs PRACTICALLY everyone must know by now, David Riesman's sociological study, The Lonely Crowd, argued that the American national character was undergoing a change. The book described this... Europe and America, by Solomon F. Bloom"MODERN HISTORY," Lord Acton wrote, "tells how the last four hundred years have modified the medieval conditions of life and thought." For the historian of Europe there is wisdom in this... April, 1962The New EuropeIN 1945, when the dust of battle cleared, Europe's former eminence in world affairs was found to be among the casualties of the Second World War. Instead of the familiar "concert of powers,"... The Radical Right & the Rise of the Fundamentalist MinorityEARLY IN FEBRUARY of this year a group of leading Protestant ministers and laymen in Dallas, Texas, were invited to form the core of a local chapter of "Christian Citizen," a new national... From My Father's CourtroomLike "A Gruesome Question" and "Strange Merchandise," which appeared in our January issue, the two pieces below (translated from the Yiddish by Channah Kleinerman and taken from the volume Mein... Notes on the American PressWHAT KILLED the American press? Prickly irascibility. Whose prickly irascibility? Its own. Like every catechism this one has its limits: the press isn't dead yet, and in any event irascibility,... The Two IsraelsRIOTING SUDDENLY broke out in Haifa's Wadi Salib quarter three summers ago when its inhabitants-many of them Moroccan immigrants-raced through Haifa's business section and smashed the... The Study of Man: The 20th Century in Its PhilosophyTHE EARLIEST NEWSREELS that I have seen date from the beginning of this century. There are scenes of the European capitals: people walking about the streets of Paris in old-fashioned... Living TheaterEVER SINCE Jack Gelber's The Connection, damned by the New York newspaper critics, stayed on the boards to win their praise, the Living Theatre, which staged the play, has gone from success to... Turmoil at Jews' CollegeTHE PAST FEW WEEKS have seen a major rumpus in the Anglo-Jewish community. Internal disputes in the community rarely attract the attention of the general press, but this one has been covered... The Stories of Delmore SchwartzTHERE IS NO DOUBT that Delmore Schwartz's first book of stories, The World Is a Wedding, was a considerable, though not popular, success. This may have surprised even the author, who was... The Gray Areas of American CitiesTHE DEBATE over the creation of a Department of Urban Affairs may finally focus the country's attention upon those vast "gray" areas that now pocket our urban landscape. Beginning generally... The Destruction of the European Jews, by Raul HilbergTHIS IS A forbidding book. It is nearly 800 pages long. The pages are double-columned. It has nearly a hundred statistical tables. It is written in an austere style, without literary grace or... Africa: The Politics of Independence, by Immanuel Wallerstein"THEY MAKE THINGS far more complicated than they are," complained an Ambassador from one of the more militant African nations recently; he was speaking of both the West and the East. "They... Joy to Levine! by Norma Stahl Rosen, and Notes from a Dark Street, by Edward AdlerTHESE TWO NOVELS are set in New York, and their main characters are Jewish and are physically maimed, in different degrees; otherwise they have little in common. Mrs. Rosen's story is of the... Children of the Gilded Ghetto, by Judith R. Kramer and Seymour LeventmanOUR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT American Jewish life would be much the poorer if not for the fact that an occasional graduate student writes his dissertation on a Jewish topic. These dissertations rarely... The Concept of Jacksonian Democracy: New York as a Test Case, by Lee BensonLEE BENSON IS A sociological gadfly who for some years has been probing the soft and vulnerable places in the body of American historical writing. In earlier works he explored Frederick... May, 1962Vietnam-Another Korea?THE INVOLVEMENT OF THE United States in the Vietnamese war poses acutely two fundamental issues with which American foreign policy has tried to come to terms elsewhere, and which it is... Yiddish: Past, Present, and PerfectON HEARING THAT the first volume of an unabridged ten-volume Yiddish dictionary has just been published, people ask, "Today?" Their skepticism reflects the common knowledge that Yiddish has... What to Do About AdvertisingALTHOUGH BY NATURE as visible as can be, and God knows, audible enough, advertising remains shrouded in the mists of myth and controversy. Not even the amount expended is certain: it depends... Isaac Rosenfeld: The Human Use of Literature"THAT WHICH DIES ACQUIRES a life of its own." The statement, made by Isaac Rosenfeld himself in one of his stories, describes what has happened since the evening of July 12, 1956, when he... An Apprenticeship—A StoryIT WAS ONLY FOR three or four years that David Palling and I were close friends; but when I look back now it sometimes seems that we shared our entire boyhoods. Season runs into season in the... The Gifted Student and His EnemiesONE OF THE MOST heavily emphasized themes in current discussions of education in the United States is the search for potential excellence. In the past we have tended to equate academic... The Study of Man: The Science of Thought ControlTHE EVENTS OF the past thirty years have created a kind of monstrous laboratory for the study of the enslavement of the human ego. The Moscow Trials confronted us with the spectacle of a man... Algerian Jews, and Other MattersTwo Cities Algeria, now that it is about to become independent, has much in common with Central and Eastern Europe in the years before and after the 1914 war-the dissolution of empire,... The New FrontierSeymour E. Harris: In two COMMENTARY articles of last year, Oscar Gass, that able and persuasive New Dealer and former economic adviser to Secretary Morgenthau, has delivered a very... Sinclair Lewis: An American Life, by Mark SchorerTWENTY-FIVE YEARS from now Sinclair Lewis may be remembered as the man whose Nobel Prize speech officially confirmed international awareness of an American, as distinct from an English,... The Jew in a Gentile World, edited by Arnold A. RogowIN AN ARTICLE published many years ago, I venturesomely suggested the gathering together of what I called (with intended irony) a "Treasury of Anti-Semitism," which might prove therapeutic for... Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City, by Robert A. DahlA FEW YEARS AGO, in a much discussed study of power in a major Southern city, Community Power Structure, Floyd Hunter found that a small and unified group of top businessmen constituted the... Hitler's Secret Book, with Introduction by Telford TaylorTHAT HITLER HAD written an unpublished sequel to Mein Kampf, concerned mainly with foreign policy, was known from two sources before the discovery of the typescript now published. In a valuable... Courage to Change: An Introduction to the Life and Thought of Reinhold Niebuhr, by June BinghamEARLY IN HER BOOK, Mrs. Bingham remarks that Reinhold Niebuhr does not know how to cope with the praise of his students. "He genuinely does not like," she tells us, "overpraise or adulation."... June, 1962Science, Literature & Culture: A Comment on the Leavis-Snow ControversyF. R. LEAVIS, who is widely regarded as England's most important literary critic, recently launched a violent attack on C. P. SNOW, and in particular on Snow's famous description of the split... The Ineffectuality of Some Intelligent PeopleWhen we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is. When we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. -Goethe AT THEIR MEETING in 1960,... Gentile Zionism & the Balfour DeclarationTHE BALFOUR DECLARATION was issued on November 2, 1917, and took the curious form of a letter from the British Foreign Secretary, Arthur James Balfour, to Lord Rothschild. The text is as... The New American CinemaThe intention of the makers of this film was to create a situation whereby one might comply with James Agee's tender request: "The films I most eagerly look forward to will not be documentaries... The Cold War & the African StatesLISTS OF DIPLOMATIC missions in the new African states make fascinating and somewhat disturbing reading. There are Nationalist (but not Communist) Chinese embassies in the Cameroons... Eulogy for an American BoyTHE RABBI, a large moon-faced man with bifocals and only the smallest of beards, announced, "Please rise, the entire congregation." While he prayed in swift sonorous Hebrew, ushers passed... Gertrude SteinTHERE USED TO be something known to all readers as "Steinese." Steinese was the peculiar literary idiom invented by Gertrude Stein around 1910 and made familiar to a large American public by... A Jew's American DilemmaIN ORDER TO understand some of the problems which I, as a Jew, face or feel in America today, I find it helpful to think of the stretch of time from 1890 to 1945 as one moment in the history... As Europe Stands ByAs A EUROPEAN, whenever I read that "the West" ought to understand this-or-that aspect of Soviet policy, or be aware of this-orthat danger, or be ready to seize such-andsuch an... The Image: or What Happened to the American Dream, by Daniel J. BoorstinALL SOCIAL SCIENCE assumes that men do not fully understand the reasons why they act as they do. It presupposes that the explanations we give for our actions often cloak rather than reveal... On the Trial of Jesus, by Paul WinterTHE THEME WITH which this book deals is not merely of academic interest: few events have had more momentous consequences than the trial of Jesus of Nazareth. And this is true not only for... The Social Basis of American Communism, by Nathan GlazerWHAT SOCIAL GROUPS contributed the most members to the American Communist party from its beginnings in the early 20's to its decline in the mid-50's? What accounts for the unequal... Les Controverses des Statuts deARE HUMAN BEINGS to be drawn together by an allegiance to shared principles or are they to be kept apart forever by race and blood? The parliamentary systems of the West have affirmed the... Radical Innocence: Studies in the Contemporary American Novel, by Ihab HassanTHE IMPULSE BEHIND Ihab Hassan's ambitious study of the younger American writers is admirable, but the book he has written about this generation of novelists is in many ways unsatisfying. Mr.... Boys in White: Student Culture in Medical School, by Howard S. Becker & OthersBOYS IN WHITE is an exceptionally interesting sociological study of the highest technical quality. The authors have undertaken to study medical education as medical students actually... July, 1962The New American LiberalismWHAT IS THE condition of libW eralism in the United States today? There are many far more competent than I am to describe the American scene and far worthier to pass judgment on the... Man, Work & the Automated FeastAUTOMATION IS SAID to have ancient beginnings. To be sure, the technology from which it stems goes back several centuries, at least. Automatic devices in the middle 18th century included a... Israeli Writers & Their ProblemsEvery country is endowed with a characteristic feature by which you can easily identify it. Russia has its steppes, Italy has its gondolas. But what is the distinctive feature of this... West Germany TodayIT TAKES ONLY AN hour and a half for the plane to carry one from London to West Germany: time enough for an adjustment to one's usual perspective. Britain and Germany are partners in NATO and... This Way for the GasTADEUSZ BOROWSKI, regarded in Poland as one of their best contemporary writers, spent several years as a political prisoner in Nazi concentration camps and afterward published a number of... Who Is Fagin?FAGIN is back in the news. The English musical play, Oliver!, which is scheduled to open in New York next season, will almost certainly stir up the same kind of protest from various... The Perils of Political EmpiricismAMERICAN FOREIGN policy has in the past suffered from one major defect: the belief that a great power could somehow escape the risks and liabilities of foreign policy. It could escape... Rabbinical Responsa in the USSRIN THE SPRING OF 1960, a friend of mine, an American who made frequent trips to the Soviet Union, entrusted to me a curious sheaf of Hebrew manuscripts. Several months later, I personally... Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories, by John UpdikeUPDIKE WRITES VERY well; he can handle long and complicated syntax with nonchalant grace; he is always johnny-on-the-spot with the sharp image, the sensual observation, the neat, immediate... My Life in Court, by Louis NizerNO MATTER HOW much the nine out of ten lawyers who never go to court may deny it, and no matter what legal entrancements they may find to occupy themselves meanwhile, the pure, true, and... Altneuland, by Theodor HerzlTHEODOR HERZL'S UTOPIAN novel, Altneuland, first addressed to the Diaspora in 1902, was recently reissued in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Herzl's birth. As literature it has... The Muckrakers, 1902-1912, Edited by Arthur & Lila WeinbergIT HAS BEEN argued that the uniqueness of the "Progressive Era" as a time of muckraking has been somewhat overplayed. It might even be said, as Daniel Aaron believes, that the literature of... Education & the Working Class, by Brian Jackson and Dennis MarsdenANYONE LIVING IN England cannot fail to have noticed that, in the postwar period of increased social mobility, interest in social differences and their manifestations has become more and not... Works and Days and Other Poems, by Irving FeldmanIRVING FELDMAN BELONGS neither to the camp of academic poets-though he is on a college faculty-nor to the clamoring throngs who propose hysteria and free association as ingredients of art.... August, 1962Can the Alliance for Progress Work?RECENTLY I ATTENDED a meeting of liberals and socialists called together to discuss the Alliance for Progress. The question being argued was just what, in the long run, would be... Scholars Convene in JerusalemLAST SUMMER a World Congress of Jewish Studies was held at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the third since 1947. About 14 sections, covering Archeology to Yiddish Language and Literature,... The Anatomy of “Playboy”AT FIRST GLANCE, the magazines-Gent, Dude, Nugget, Playboy, and the rest-seem about as remarkable as bananas in a fruit store. The widely publicized key feature is a foldout naked babe. The... American Pragmatism Reconsidered: I. Charles Sanders PeirceTHE TIME IS long past since Charles Peirce somewhat querulously complained that he was a philosopher of whom "the critics have never found anything good to say." In fact, even as applied to... On the Mountain—A StoryTASCA THE LAWYER came to the Mauro house a few weeks before Election Day. Mrs. Mauro, drowsy on her sunny porch of October, did not react to his importance as she might have; her reveries had... The Jewish Need for TheologyTHE CHRISTIAN, particularly the Protestant, often thinks of religion as the ability to affirm a creed, a given content of belief, as well as the life, individual and communal, which... Grandeur and Misery of Guerrilla WarfareMY TITLE PARAPHRASES that of Clemenceau's war memoirs. It is intended to suggest the central ambiguity of guerrilla fighting-its combination of petty and even squalid means with a level of... Edmund Wilson's Civil WarONE OF THE figures treated by Edmund Wilson in his Patriotic Gore* is Francis Grierson. As a child, Grierson, whose real name was Jesse Shepherd, had lived in a log cabin in Sangamon County,... Deaths for the Ladies (and other disasters), by Norman Mailerthe one great thing about norman (man) is that he doesn't repearepearepearepeat himself said the cricricricricritic I WAS GOING to let it go at that, as Time did, but then I thought of a... Political Justice, by Otto KirchheimerBEGINNING WITH THE succinct observation that "Every political regime has its foes or in due time creates them," Professor Otto Kirchheimer of Columbia University and the New School for Social... Judaism as a Philosophy: The Philosophy of Abraham Bar Hiyya, by Leon StitskinAN INTEREST AND importance that it might otherwise not have had is given to this work by the "imprimatur" it bears of the Yeshiva University-the first time the school has chosen to extend such... Public Opinion and American Democracy, by V. O. Key Jr.How DO POLITICAL SYSTEMS work? In trying to answer this question, the exponents of classic political theory, from Aristotle to Montesquieu, looked at the global, institutional features of... Young Germany 1900-1960, by Walter Z. LaqueurThe world's rotten bones tremble with fear of the Red War. We did away with terror, that was our triumph. Onward we'll march, let everything fall in ruins. Today Germany is ours-tomorrow... David Knudsen, by George P. ElliottTHIS IS A luminous and important novel that deserves much better than the perfunctory or hostile reviews that it received when it was published six months ago and the virtual silence that has... September, 1962The Paper EconomyIn time, immutable rules of conduct enforced under progressively changing conditions should logically result in a muddle. -Thorstein Veblen HERE ARE IMMENSE changes under way in our social... The Jewish Future in AlgeriaIt has generally been assumed, both by the great majority of Algerian Jews themselves and their co-religionists in other countries, that there can be no safe future for the Jews in the new... What Happened in the 30'sFOR THE LAST two decades Almost everyone has been trying to forget what happened in the 30's; now, suddenly, everyone is trying to remember. Ideas that had been written off are back in... Yentl the Yeshiva Boy A StoryAFTER HER FATHER' S death, Yentl had no reason to remain in Yanev. She was all alone in the house. To be sure, lodgers were willing to move in and pay rent; and the marriage brokers flocked to... School Prayers & the Founding FathersWHAT WAS THE original inWtention of the First Amendment's injunction against laws "respecting an establishment of religion"? That question is being asked once again in the wake of the... Franco's Spain & the New EuropeHEADLINES IN the Spanish press H reported cautiously on July 11: "Reorganization of the Spanish government; General Mufioz Grandes named vice-president." Most Anglo-American papers, from the... American Pragmatism Reconsidered: II. William JamesIN THE OPENING chapter of his Pragmatism, William James characterizes his own version of the gospel of pragmatism as a "mediating" philosophy whose principal aim is to reconcile the... Yom Kippur in NinevehREADING THE Torah is the heart of the synagogue service. That, even more than prayer, was what the synagogue was invented for, probably during the Babylonian Exile 2,500 years ago. Reading and... Six Crises, by Richard NixonTHIS IS A book of great if temporary interest, but also of permanent value. It tells us what we always want to know, some of the scuttlebutt about recent events and about some important recent... Jewish Wit, by Theodor ReikIT WOULD BE ironic indeed if Jewish wit had outdistanced its persecutors for centuries, only to succumb in the end to the heavy hand of psychoanalysis. The best thing that can be said of this... The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (November 1961); and Daedalus (Winter 1962)BUSINESS IS BOOMING in the study of youth. Most of the recent books and articles on youth and adolescence have addressed themselves to such practical problems as juvenile delinquency, the... The Reconstruction of American History, edited by John HighamTHIS LOW-PRICED paperback conveniently introduces the general reader to the current shoptalk of American historians. Ten specialists discourse reflectively on such topics as "The Puritan... Letting Go, by Philip RothYOUNG MEN MUST grow up, must lose their illusions about themselves and their circumstances. Set on the anvil of reality, they will have to bear up under an indictment like that made by the... October, 1962“Ship of Fools” & the CriticsWHATEVER THE problems were that kept Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools* from appearing during the past twenty years, it has been leading a charmed life ever since it was published late last... Am I a Traitor?The mass exodus of Jews from Algeria in recent months has raised the crucial question as to whether there can ever again be any significant Jewish life in the new nationalist states of North... The Scarcity MakersAMERICA'S MASSIVE and bountiful corporations are the institutional bedrock of the Paper Economy under which we live, yet their very existence was for many years neglected, if not denied,... Neo-Freudianism & Erich FrommOF ALL THE psychoanalytic theorists who have tried to formulate a system better suited than Freud's to problems of contemporary life, none has been more productive or influential than Erich... What the Russians MeanTHE PREVAILING IMAGE of the Soviet Union and its aims among American publicists and politicians is that of a single-minded international conspiracy, guided step by step by the writings of... Three Generations—A MemoirTHREE GENERATIONS: in each three brothers, one of them a rebel. In the first and third generation he was named Eliezer; in the second, he had missed that name by the space of a day. Each went... American Pragmatism Reconsidered: III. John DeweyIN CLAIMING THAT John Dewey's Art as Experience marks a turning point in the development both of pragmatism and of aesthetics I am aware of enunciating a compound paradox. What on earth can... The Public Happiness, by August HeckscherIF EVERYONE WERE as humane, sweettempered, rational, and liberal-minded as August Heckscher there would have been no need for him to write this book. Paradoxically, these qualities, so... The Welensky Story, by Garry AllighanTHIS NEW biography of Sir Roy Welensky was written "with every possible assistance" from its subject, the Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Sir Roy would be less than... Down There on a Visit, by Christopher IsherwoodDESPITE ALL THAT Christopher Isherwood achieves in his new novel-with its lucid, barely tense prose and its complex structure -Down There on a Visit is a curiously thin and, in a sense, even an... The Amateur Democrat, by James Q. WilsonWHAT SHOULD WE expect of our political parties? Would an ideal Democratic party be simply an enlargement to national size of New York City's Village Independent Democrats or their reform... Some Recent Jewish BooksSCHOCKEN PAPERBACKS In the past year or two paperback reprints of many first-rate books have been published. I shall list here some of Schocken Books' paperbacks, and in subsequent issues those... November, 1962China and the United StatesWhen you shall these unlucky deeds relate, . . . Nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice. I. War and Revolution, i Chiang Kai-shek and his K regime were swept from the n Asia in 1949... Jewish Resistance to the NazisEVEN AFTER the extermination camps were liberated and the full extent of the Nazi murders began to emerge, the world at first refused to acknowledge that so many millions could have been... The Politics of the Paper EconomyFROM THE early English colonial corporations through the period of railroad building and the growth of Standard Oil et al. to the present era of immense corporate enterprise,... The Future of Jewish GivingJEWisH philanthropy-so high is its reputation-has come to serve as a model for scholars, professional workers, and civic leaders who are concerned with the methods and problems of charitable... Cuba-The Wake of IsolationON DECEMBER 1, 1961, Mr. James Reston wrote in the New York Times that "obviously, the United States would not tolerate a Communist regime in Cuba, no matter how freely elected, if that... Up in MassachusettsEDWARD M. ("TED") KENNEDY is exactly thirty years old. He is a robust politician. A happy face at a street-corner rally, Teddy Kennedy climbs on top of his high truckmounted platform, and with... Pale Fire, by Vladimir NabokovTHE NOVEL is having a hard time. Never mind best seller lists, copy writers, and Sunday book review sections, only one or two works of fiction have been anything like wildly anticipated during... Portrait of a Jew, by Albert MemmiPortrait of a Jew deals with my life as a Jew. I wrote it because I want to un- derstand who I am-as a Jew-and what the fact of being a Jew has meant in my life. Since this demanded a ruthless hon-... Latin America Between the Eagle and the Bear, by Salvador de MadariagaA FIXTURE OF every Latin American university is the near-by caf6 where politicallyminded students and professors gather to talk, organize factions, and settle the issues of the day. Never... Memoirs of a Special Case, by Chaim RaphaelTHERE PROBABLY is a standard recipe for the contemporary Jewish memoir: one part diluted schmaltz, one part youthful rebellion, one part emancipated success; any topping can then be imposed -... Contemporaries, by Alfred KazinI MUST FIRST of all take up an unwarranted and, I think, malicious attack on Alfred Kazin's new book of essays, Contemporaries. The attack, appearing in the guise of a book review in the New... December, 1962The Television ProblemNO BUSINESS institution in our history has ever found itself under such unrelenting and ferocious attack as television. Criticism of the industry, though centered in what is generally... An Appointment with HateSEVENTEEN YEARS after I had left itleft, as we say, forever-I went back to Germany. I returned, last summer, not to exorcise a few aging, probably dated demons, but rather to make a kind of... Europe, De Gaulle & the DeterrentTHE MARRIAGE of convenience that is the Atlantic alliance has been subject to much of the strain and discord common to unions where romance takes a back seat to logic. But after thirteen and a... Integration & the Negro MoodAMERICAN NEGROES have been rediscovering Africa. In doing so, they are not regaining their identity as long-lost Africans but reshaping their identity as Americans. This is a complicated... A Note on Chivalry1. Introduction, With Jokes Jokes. Ha! Ha! I am amongst those willing to become a captive audience (or whatever the singular of the word "audience" is), if only the joke is funny (not unfunny)... Responses & ReactionsMARTIN BUBER'S two-volume collection, Tales of the Hasidim,* has probably had a greater impact on non-Jewish writers-whether theologically inclined or theo- logically indifferent-than any other... The Study of Man: On Talcott ParsonsTALCOTT PARSONS IS, among other things, one of those sociologists who write very badly-I would be tempted to say barbarously if the word were not already so overworked with reference... 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