George Gershwin's Music by Kurt List Much has been written about George Gershwin; but almost nothing about his music. Version after version of his life appears,…
Cedars of Lebanon: XVII. The Kingdom of God by Hermann Cohen THIS ESSAY by Hermann Cohen is the seventeenth in the series of "Cedars of Lebanon," which was initiated by COMMENTARY'S…
Crossroads of Two Continents, by Feliks Gross by MORTON BARR When this book was published, some six months ago, its basic thesis—for all its logic and sanity—was a dead issue.…
Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville by Ludwig Marcuse What Europeans have said about America and what Americans have said about Europe is at times mere verbiage, and at…
Encounter in Edinburgh by Alfred Kazin All this began one Saturday afternoon in Edinburgh, some weeks after the war ended in Europe, when I walked out…
Four Novels by Commentary Bk The Journey Home. by Zelda Popkin. New York, J. B. Lippincott Co., 1945. 224 pp. $2.50. The Lonely Steeple. by…
From the American Scene: Portrait of a Labor Leader by Ben B. Seligman The strenuous life does not seem to have left its mark on David Gordin. A Webster panatella, half of which…
George Gershwin’s Music by Kurt List Much has been written about George Gershwin; but almost nothing about his music. Version after version of his life appears,…
Jews in the Post-War World, by Max Gottschalk and Abraham G. Duker by Koppel S. Pinson Of all peoples who have passed through the tragic destiny of Nazi rule none has suffered more than the Jewish…
Marc Chagall, edited with an introduction by Lionello Venturi by Milton Klonshy Marc Chagall has been associated so intimately with the culture of Eastern Jewry that his work can be regarded by…
Must the Jews Quit Europe? by Zachariah Shuster Out of the question “What next?” posed by the last years of the Third Reich and the events following its…
Nobel’s Prizes and the Atom Bomb by Hertha Pauli Peace by the threat of scientific destruction is a fairly new idea, but older than H. G. Wells who got…
Pillar of Salt by Louis Berg My Aunt Pia, my father's sister, died at the age of seventy-eight, surviving her husband by twenty years. Three weeks…
The Crisis of the Individual: Will Civilization Survive Technics? by Reinhold Niebuhr THE editors of COMMENTARY recently invited a number of the leading men of thought in America and Europe to address…
The Facts of Life, by Paul Goodman by James Grossman A gifted, spoiled child has certain magnificent charms which are denied to all good children, just as he has certain…
The Month in History by Sidney Hertzberg Within a few months after the end of the most destructive war in history, realists talked casually about the possibility…
The Moyne Case: A Tragic History by Gerold Frank Eliahu Hakim and Eliahu Bet-Zouri are figures in a tragic history. The two Jewish youths—the one 18, the other 22—who…
The Neurologist’s Point of View, by I. S. Wechsler by Paul Goodman This collection of papers of the last twenty years, by the clinical professor of neurology at Columbia University, breathes a…
The Study of Man by Nathan Glazer Sociologists are finally heeding the injunction, “Physician, heal thyself.” After having subjected social strata ranging from hoboes to the Four…
The Truth About Reconstructionism by Mordecai M. Kaplan Both the philosophy and program of reconstructionism have evidently proved challenging.
The Wisdom of Israel, edited by Lewis Browne by Erich Kahler Authors and the public love anthologies, and the market is flooded with them year in and year out. To put…
