From the American Scene: The Way It Is in Bogota by Jacob Glatstein You're traveling from New York, so I'll try to give you a slight description of what it's like where I…
The Study of Man: Prejudice and Capitalist Exploitation by Oscar Handlin In the brief period of the past quarter-century we have seen a tragic succession of horrors—Smyrna to Auschwitz to Nagasaki—challenge…
A “Liberal Gentile” Looks at Himself:One Man’s Nuremberg Trial by George Weltner It is almost two years now since Goering committed suicide in Nuremberg.
Daniel Fuchs: Escape from Williamsburg:The Fate of Talent in America by Irving Howe Only a handful of devotees still remember the three novels Daniel Fuchs wrote in the mid-30's.
Democratic Education for New York:Equal Opportunity Through a State University System by Edward N. Saveth A combination of diligent effort by alert citizens' groups with some happy accidents of politics has yielded a state university…
Salzburg: Seminar in the Ruins:A Report on the European State of Mind by Alfred Kazin For six weeks I lived with some hundred and thirty Europeans and Americans in a “castle” just out of Salzburg,…
The Month in History by Maurice Goldbloom On Friday, June II—four weeks after the proclamation of the State of Israel—peace of a sort descended on Palestine for…
Tomorrow’s Jew in the Making:New Forces Reshape a Centuries-Old Ideal by Ernst Simon If one traces Jewish educational ideals back to the source documents of the Tannaitic period at the beginning of the…
Troubled Iraq: Keystone of the Middle East:Disorder and Discontent Threaten Anglo-American Aims by Jon Kimche Oil is to Iraq what sex-appeal is to a woman; without it Iraq would have little attraction for the outside…
What Chance for Arab-Jewish Accord?The Basic Issues That Must Be Resolved by Robert Weltsch Eyes are now turned towards the Aegean island of Rhodes, with its medieval Crusaders' fortress, and men ask: will the…
Why Americans Feel Insecure:The Sense of Alienation is Not Exclusively Jewish by Arnold W. Green Many contributors to COMMENTARY have examined what they regard to be the psychological plight of the modem Jew.