The Month in History by Sidney Hertzberg The meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York in the fall of 1946 was the…
The Parlor Terrorists by Nathan Glazer If some of my best friends are right, and the big thing right now is to show that the Jew…
The Study of Man: Adjusting Men to Machines by Daniel Bell The resources of the social sciences are called upon more and more frequently to deal with everyday problems of our…
An Enemy of the People: Anti-Semitism; and The Jewish Problem in the Modern World, by James Parkes by Marie Jahoda
Why the DP’s Can’t Wait by Leo Srole Allied troops sweeping across Germany early in 1945 reacted to Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Auschwitz, with incredulity, revulsion, and fury.
Cedars of Lebanon: Tales of the Hasidim by Martin Buber A hasid who was traveling to Mezbizh in order to spend the Day of Atonement near the Baal Shem was forced…
Yivo Comes to Morningside by Milton R. Konvitz Early last January a letter was found in Brooklyn near a house that had just burned down.
Democracy Needs the Open Door by Oscar Handlin The agonizing difficulty of finding loopholes in existing law through which to draw into this country even a few survivors…
From the American Scene: The Americanism of Adolph S. Ochs by Louis Berg The publication of Gerald Johnson's full-length, heavily documented biography of the late Adolph S. Ochs, “the man who built the…
I Wish they Wouldn’t Do That! by Our Readers Letters on “I Wish They Wouldn't Do That,” from the October Commentary.
Palestine: A Possible Solution by Alvin Johnson Life, Mr. Justice Holmes used to say, is made up mainly of problems that can never be solved.
The Intellectuals and Europe’s Future by Stephen Spender In September of 1946, a meeting of European intellectuals was held in Geneva.
