In Poland Again by Maurice Friedberg I had long hesitated to return for a visit to Poland, though it is the land of my birth and…
Varieties of Yiddish Verse-In English by Maurice Friedberg Un vu bizt du geven . . .?--"And where were you when we needed you?"--asks a plaintive old Yiddish song.…
American Jews and Israel – A Symposium by Lionel Abel, Robert Alter, Daniel Bell, Eric M. Breindel, Joel Carmichael, Paul Cowan, Werner J. Dannhauser, Midge Decter, Maurice Friedberg, Murray Friedman, Nathan Glazer, Irving Greenberg, Ben Halpern, Mark Helprin, Milton Himmelfarb, Erich Isaac, Rael Isaac, H. J. Kaplan, Hilton Kramer, Edward N. Luttwak, Michael A. Meyer, Jacob Neusner, William Phillips, Daniel.Pipes, Richard Pipes, Dennis Prager, Earl Raab, Eugene V. Rostow, Jonathan D. Sarna, Peter Shaw, Seymour Siegel, David Singer, Max Singer, Steven L. Spiegel, Roger Starr and Marie Syrkin Never, perhaps, has criticism of the state of Israel by American Jews been so open, so widespread, and so bitter…
Utopia in Power: The History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Present, by Mikhail Heller and Aleksandr M. Nekrich by Maurice Friedberg This magisterial volume, a collaborative effort by two emigre Soviet scholars now residing in Western Europe, may well become, as…
Letters from Prison and Other Essays, by Adam Michnik by Maurice Friedberg A strange country, Poland. A Soviet satellite state whose current dictator, Wojciech Jaruzelski, cannot, we are told, forgive an American…
The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto 1941-1944, edited by Lucjan Dobroszycki by Maurice Friedberg Three literary works, written in as many languages, have attempted to evoke the outward atmosphere of near-normalcy that was the…
The Jews of East Central Europe Between the World Wars, by Ezra Mendelsohn; From a Ruined Garden: The Memorial Books of Polish J by Maurice Friedberg Ezra Mendelsohn's new study is a solid, intelligent analysis of a Jewish community which, on the eve of World War…
Andropov: New Challenge to the West, by Arnold Beichman and Mikhail S. Bernstam by Maurice Friedberg Yuri Andropov's accession to power in the wake of Leonid Brezhnev's death on November 10, 1982, has understandably resulted in…
The Jews of Warsaw 1939-1943, by Yisrael Gutman; Courier from Warsaw, by Jan Nowak by Maurice Friedberg January 1983 marked half-a-century since Hitler's advent to power. Forty years ago in April, Hitler's tanks and artillery were called…
Kolyma Tales, by Varlam Shalamov; Graphite, by Varlam Shalamov by Maurice Friedberg To all appearances, the man who died last January in the obscurity of a Moscow old-age home was a minor…
Prophecy and Politics: Socialism, Nationalism, and the Russian Jews, 1862-1917, by Jonathan Frankel by Maurice Friedberg The modern history of European Jews begins with their emancipation in the wake of the French Revolution of 1789. By…
Russia’s Failed Revolutions: From the Decembrists to the Dissidents, by Adam B. Ulam; The Rise of the Gulag: Intellectual Origin by Maurice Friedberg As Adam B. Ulam acknowledges in his preface to Russsia's Failed Revolutions, "This book does not purport to be a…
